OUTLAWRY OF WAR.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19889, 28 March 1930, Page 17

OUTLAWRY OF WAR.

"PATHWAYS TO WORLD PEACE"

"Pathways to World Peace'' was the subject chosen by Miss Lilian Edger, M.A., for an address given under the auspices of the New Zealand No More War Movement in the Lecture Hall at the Public Library last night. Mr C. H. Cole, secretary, was in the chair. The speaker began with the assumption that there were none who wanted war. Some, particularly the younger generation, had perhaps forgotten the last war, but works of the nature of "Journey's End" and others would recall it with all its horrors. The question was, what could be done to prevent the possibility of war? Miss Edger's plea was that the peoples of the world should allow themselves to be persuaded that war was evil. In order to do this old prejudices and sentiments accepting war as inevitable, or even as great and glorious, must be challenged and beaten. The speaker referred to- the good work that the League of Nations was doing and also to the effects and possibilities of recent peace pacts and discussions. At present, however, there was nothing that would get rid of war itself. There were too many forces working against any such movement. Moreover, they were spreading. If war were illegal, anything done by war would be illegal, but at present it wasn't illegal. Public opinion would have to be won over as also the Church and State, as war was only causing misery, disaster, and ruin to the rest of the worlcU

The epeaker was accorded a hearty vote of thanks.