PEACE BALLOT IN BRITAIN

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21512, 29 June 1935, Page 15

PEACE BALLOT IN BRITAIN

! REDUCED ARMAMENTS FAVOURED TWELVE MILLION VOTES CAST LEAGUE OF NATIONS SUPPORTED (UICITBI) .•»*.«» MSOrIATION-.-nV M.F.CTHIC I' F.l-r.OKAI'II C(ls' Vlt !<i FIT-> (Received June 20. 9 p.m.) LONDON. June 28. Ten thousand tumultuously cheered Lord Robert Cecil's announcement, at a mass meeting in the Albert llall. that nearly 12,000.000 votes were cast througnout Britain in answer to each of six question:; in the peace ballot oifanised by the League of Nations Union. The ballot overwhelmingly favoured Britain remaining in the league, and a peroral ieduction oi armaments. It also favoured pro hibiting the manufacture of arms for private profit. Ten million voters supported economic non-military measuies, and 6,750,000 advocated military measures in an international combination to nullify one nation's insistence in attacking another. Lord Cecil moved that the Government carry out a policy of peace and disarmament through the League o Nations. „ , , . The Archbishop of Canterbury praised the intelligent vote in affirming that the league must stand. Sir Walter Citrine halted the ballot as a triumph for idealism, which the Government would ignore at its peril. The motion was carried with acclamation. The "Manchester Guardian." in a leader, says that the peace ballot will profoundly strengthen at home and abroad the hards of any British Government determined to maintain the league's collective system.