LEAGUE FOR PEACE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 301, 20 December 1937, Page 12

LEAGUE FOR PEACE.

REPORT OF CAMPAIGN. The usual meeting of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom was held at the Fabian Club. Mrs. Humphreys presiding. A large amount of correspondence from the International Peaee Campaign was received. with news of the campaign throughout the world. At time of writing 81 peace weeks had !■ on held in (Jreat Britain, including such im|»ortant towns as Liverpool. Glasgow. Birmingham. Bradford and Leeds. In man/ of these place* clergy of all denominations were among the speakers. The great Peace Conference in London in OcU>l>er was also des<-ril>ed. A letter from Mrs. Douglas, of Wanganui. who has been on a visit to the I nited States, and visited among other places Swar.thmore College, where tlie memorial library to the late .Tane Adda ms is housed, gave a graphic account of her tour, the conference of the Society of Friend*, and the progress of the peace movement in the States.

A communication from the W.C.T.I". re the quest ion of drinking at flanoes was discussed, the meeting deriding to endorse tlie union's resolution: "In view of numerous re|xirts of evils resulting from drinking at danees the W.I.L.P.F. urges immediate legislation to stop this custom." The City Council's resolution re children on the streets at night was al<o endorsed.

Members were very pleased to hear that Madame do l..i*rt-Yan Rossern. a member of tlie league resident in Geneva, won the first prize (2000 dollars) in the recent New History Society's prize essav world competition* "How can the people of the world achieve universal disarmament!"