CONSTRUCTIVE PEACE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 96, 24 April 1945, Page 7

CONSTRUCTIVE PEACE

PRINCIPLES ENUNCIATED Rec. 10 a.m. LONDON, April 23. Bishops, members of all parties m the House of Commons, and other prominent persons are among the 85,000

signatories of a petition for a constructive peace" which has been presented to Mr. Churchill and the British delegates to San Francisco.

! The preamble to the petition, which !is sponsored by the National Peace 5 Council, declared: "A world free from : insecurity, injustice, and war must be built, not on conceptions of exclusive " guilt, racial inferiority, and preponder- ■ ant power, but on the principle of the interdependence of all peoples and their common responsibilities for making a peaceful order. True security against war and aggression can only be provided by a positive policy removing the causes of conflict." The petition states that such a policy calls for radical reconstruction, spirit- . ual, economic, and political.----j SEVEN CONDITIONS. It sets out seven conditions for an j enduring peace. Firstly, adequate rei lief for distressed peoples everywhere; secondly, the abolition of poverty and i unemployment by the maximum use L and equitable sharing of all available [ resources; thirdly, political' and eco- ; nomic freedom for all dependent ' peoples; fourthly, closer unity between :■ and common services, for the peoples ■oo r Europe; fifthly, the progressive in- . ternational reduction and control of ■armaments; sixthly, education in re--1 sponsibility and world citizenship; seventhly, the establishment of international organisations, side .by side with the limitation. of national sover- , ; eignties to fulfil these purposes.