LEAGUE OF NATIONS UNION

Greymouth Evening Star, 7 September 1934, Page 4

LEAGUE OF NATIONS UNION

CONFERENCE DECISIONS. [FIB PBISS >eSoolAL'lor,.] WELLINGTON, September 6. A tribute to the work of the Rev. Dr. 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 Ejneritus on Dr. Gibb, who is at present in Australia. Rev. F. H. Wilkinson • was unanimously elected president. Mr R. H. Hooper was elected treasurer in the place of Mr Walter Nash, M.P., who resigned, and who has been elected to the Council. The Conference decided to urge the Government to support the policy of the 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 (.he 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 schoolbook; (b) that fuller use be made of the School Journal; (c) that in the secondary schools, the history syllabus should include some study of post-war movements. leading to an understanding of foreign peoples and their problems; (d) that the University and Training College prescriptions in history be brought up-to-date, by the inclusion of some of the important post-war movements.’’