PEACE OF THE WORLD

Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 122, 24 May 1920, Page 8

PEACE OF THE WORLD

LEAGUE OF NATIONS' CAMPAIGN

BRITISH STATESMEN^ APPEAL.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

LONDON, Bth April,

An appeal for £1,000,000 for a national fund has been issued by the League of Nations Union for the maintenance of the World's Peace, for which the League was designed to ensure. The signatures appended to the appeal are those of the Earl Grey of Pallodon, Mr. Lloyd George, Earl Beatty, Mr. Asquith, Lord Robert Cecil, and" Mr. J. R. Clynes. REASON FOR THE UNION. The League of Nations was called into, being in the flood of idealism and selfdenial caused by the agony of the later stages of the war. It was created in the heart-felt desire of every soul who fought to have done for all time with the abomination of modern war. Whatever selfish nationalism may have crept into the life of the world since the armistice, •it was those higher ideals which transcend selfish nationalism that inspired the League; and those- are the ideals which must give it life. ' The League of Nations can only be what the! people of the world choose to make it. The League itself—that is to say, the Council of the Assembly, and the secretariat—is just a piece of machinery.; and it will achieve good or" fail, or possibly even do evil, according to the spirit in which it is used. That spirit must come from the people. .That is the reason for the League of Nations' Union. The Union has already organised some hundreds of meetings in support of the League, and has created nearly 200 branches of the Union. It is now engaged upon study circles for adults, and will organise junior branches, and take a prominent part in the education of the children of to-day and of the future. To do the work effectively, something in the neighbourhood of #1,000,000 is needed, which necessitates a national campaign for funds. --

The sum named sounds ' a large one, but it is indeed the bare cost of four hours of the late war. Viewed in this way, 'it is not a great deal,to provide as an insurance against another,war. The hoii. treasurer of this appeal is Sir Brieri Cokayne (late Governor of the Bank of, England). Intending subscribers should send crossed 1, cheques to the hon. treasurer at the headquarters of the League of Nations' Union, 22, Buckingham Gate, London, 5.W.3.