MAKING PEACE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 71, 25 March 1941, Page 10

MAKING PEACE.

WOMEN'S PART

THOUGHT AMONG DISHES.

"New Zealand women en at lea-t be thinking about peace even though , t'.iev may not, in the did, be in a position to make concrete settlements." This vv.ione- of the private opinion-; expressed by Mrs. F. A. K. Mcintosh. Dominion president of the National Council of Women, in an interview last night. I ny can think about peace aim.s and ideals and reconstruction even while they are going about their work and doing dishes,' sic said. " T he. military ends are not the on.y end* to victory. We can win the war and lose the peace, as we did la-t time. As Captain Wedgwood, broadcasting from the U.IJ.C. to the Lilited States, said: 'We in Britain are on the top -storey,. being .bombed: you iu the. United testates must do the mental work.' In the same way, the women of New 7,p.; land arc not being bombed, and it is their duty to think t>f the broad principles of pc.sce and what they desire for a better world. '•We arc doing our share of military work, certainly, in preparing for emergency and doing patriotic 'work, but we must also be thinking of peace. We were not prepared for this war. as we know. It is up to someone to see that we are prepared for the end of it. "Women should certainly be 011 any peace conferc.nce« to be held, not as a privilege but as a duty. T think young people are recognising these things, Mrs. Mcintosh concluded.