LEAGUE FOR PEACE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 224, 22 September 1938, Page 18

LEAGUE FOR PEACE.

DUCHESS' PAMPHLET. REPORTS FROM ABROAD. The usual meeting of the Women's International,, League for Peace and Freedom was held at the Fabian Club, Mrs. Humphreys presiding. In connection with an invitation received from the Christian Pacifist Society, Mrs. Dixon, who had attended the meeting, supplied information as to its recent activities, particularly the organising of Professor Harlow's peace meetings. General appreciation of the professor's addresses was expressed, and it was decided that all the local peace societies be circularised of the date of his next meeting.

In response to a request from Geneva, it was agreed that the question of the equal status of women in New Zealand be discussed at the next meeting and all necessary information supplied.

Miss Colebrook read a summary of tho Duchess of Hamilton's pamphlet on "Peace." The last section, dealing with the responsibility of the individual towards achieving world peace, the speaker declared, should he read in its entirety. This was most comprehensive and forceful, taking as its theme that pacifists must belie the adjective "passive,* that their name unfortunately suggests to most hearers, by beituri aggressively active. First, by a personal! reform that their attitude to their own problems should be indicative of go<y-| will to all. Then, by a series of atta k» which she catalogued—education, pre; -f ing for abandonment of all war toys f - children, for a universal language audi coinage, for an international police fore:-,! for abolition of passports and otheii accentuations of frontiers between th<j nations. The whole concluded With al differentiation of false and trail nationalism and ended on a Christian note. <

Mrs. Humphreys gave a brief sketch of the Preparatory Peasants' Conference, organised by the International Peace Campaign last February in Geneva. This was the first attempt to gather representative peasants for the purpose of looking into the causes and results of war, and was most successful, delegates from 16 countries attending. The meeting concluded with afternoon tea.