PEACE CONGRESS

Evening Star, Issue 18031, 27 July 1922, Page 4

PEACE CONGRESS

MEETING IN LONDON. ■ TWENTY NATIONS REPRESENTED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, July 26. The King, mi a message to the twentysecond International Peace Congress, welcoming the delegates to English’ soil, said : “ I can assure them of my sympathy with the great ideal they have in vieWj and I earnestly hope that their efforts will meet with all success.” " ■ Five hundred delegates wore _ present, representing twenty nations, including Germany and Austria. —Mr 11. A. L. Fisher (President of ; the Board of Education) said that the desire of the British Government was that Germany should apply for admission to the League of Nations this year, so that the last lingering reproach that the league is an engine for propagating the interests and policies of the victorious 1 nations should be finally and effectually removed. The greatest present danger consisted of fanatical nationalism as seen in Ireland, Anatolia, and Egypt. Alluding to the growth’ of scientific interest .in the latest developments of art and war, ho pointed out that though war had become more terrible'' it had gained in intellectual fascination. While we could not afford _to stop or decry research, the peace-loving peoples ’of the world must override the professional interest in warfare by an insistent demand for an enduring peace. He urged that the civilised nations _of the world ought completely to proscribe the use and manufacture of revolvers, which were of little use in war time. They were the weapons in peace, time of cowards, conspirators, and terrorists'.—A. and N.Z., Cable.