PETITION TO AID WORLD PEACE
A “Peoples’ Mandate to Governments” to end war is being circulated in the city by the Christchurch branch, of the League of Nations Union. The mandate, which will be presented to the council and assembly of the League of Nations by the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom next September, includes the following clause- ‘‘We demand that our Governments, in common action to fulfil their international pledges, stop immediately all increase of armaments and of armed forces; use existing machinery for peaceful settlement of present conflicts; secure a world treaty for immediate reduction of arms as a step toward complete world disarmament; secure international agreements founded on recognition of world independence to end. the economic anarchy which breeds war.”
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21727, 9 March 1936, Page 6
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