LEAGUE OF NATIONS UNION

Evening Star, Issue 21819, 7 September 1934, Page 14

LEAGUE OF NATIONS UNION

CONFERENCE CONCLUDED [P»K United Press. Association.] WELLINGTON, September 6. A tribute to the work of the Rev. Dr J. Gibb, who has resigned the presidency of the League of Nations Union after being associated with the union since its inception in 1920, was paid by members of the council at the conference which concluded to-day. It was decided to confer the honour of president emeritus on Dr Gibb, who is at present in Australia. The-Rev. F. H. Wilkinson was unanimously elected president, and Mr _R. H. Hooper was elected treasurer in place of Mr Walter Nash, M.P., who had resigned, and who was elected to the council. The conference decided to urge the Government to support the policy of internationalisation of civil aviation and that the League control all military aircraft. The following resolution was also carried:—“That this conference urge upon the Education _ Department the necessity of the carrying out of the instructions laid down in the syllabus of instruction for public schools regarding the attitude to peace and to the League of Nations. In this connection the conference would recommend (a) the use in schools of the League of Nations School Book; (b) that fuller use bo made ol the School Journal; (c) that in secondary schools the history syllabus should include some study of post-war movements, leading to an understanding of foreign peoples and their problems; (cl) that university and training college prescriptions' in history be brought up to date by the inclusion of some of the more important, post-war movements,’-’