THE WILL FOR PEACE

Evening Star, Issue 18628, 8 May 1924, Page 12

THE WILL FOR PEACE

NATIONAL CO-OPERATION ESSENTIAL. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK. May 6. According to a ■telegram from Cleveland, Sir Esme Howard, Che British Ambassador, spoaking at tlio animal convention of the Chamber of Commerce of the E uited States, said that only by the united efforts of business men, statesmen, educationists, and journalists throughout the world to create and produce the will for peace could there be achieved recovery and reconstruction of a thorough and abiding i hind. To the same end they must work | to remove the desire for revenge on the one hand and the fear of revenge on the other; and they should endeavor to show that, while accepting the ordinary competition of trade, which was part of the natural order of things, no 'nation desired to take an. unfair or'improper advantage of another. Too little attention was paid to the influence of internai'.cma.l co-opera-tion on trade by business men. The great question of the future was: “Who is going to help Russia, and how this was to bo done?"—A. and N.Z. Cable. FRENCH I’ROrO.'ALS. LEAGUE OF CONSUMERS AND PRODUCERS. WASHINGTON, May 7. A French proposal for a new inter-; national order as r.n alternative to the j British suggestions to modify the Vcr- j sullies Treaty was suggested at to-day's session of the M omens League for Pence | and Freedom. , 1 The French proposal, which was sup- 1 ported by most of the European sections of the League, would constitute a worldwide league of peoples representing the consumers and producers of all countries. If. would have a legislative executive with judicial powers, nnh'r which it could outlaw- rear and rev s.' all treaties. It- would command no armed forces, but would rclv on public opinion for the enforcement of its laws. The order would be empowered to resolve the rmestioai of reparations and interallied debts; to inlernaitiomdise currencies, weights, and measures; to abolish all Customs tariffs : and to internationalise all sources of power and raw materials, •riving every country, if possible, access. A world charter of Labor would also bo compiled. The proposals were referred 1 to a committee to obtain the formal opinions ol the different national sections. —Reuter.