“PEACE FOREVER”

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 51, Issue 3150, 29 July 1942, Page 2

“PEACE FOREVER”

WOMEN CAN STOP WAR NEW YORK MEETING PLAN FOR A WORLD CONGRESS Women are the only ones who can stop war once and for all, Mrs Carrie Chapman Catt told a meeting of the recently-formed Women’s Society for a Free a and Democratic Europe held jointly with the National Council of Women of the United, 'States, Inc., to commemorate the anniversary of Susan 18. Anthony. She urged that it was not too soon now to plan for a world congress of women who will stand for “peace forever” and convene wherever the post-war gathering of nations is to he held (states the Christian Science Monitor). Warning against the repetition of another ineffectual peace treaty, Mrs Catt declared that whichever side wins the war, the kind of peace they will make will he the kind others will resent.

“It will mean another wax’,” she said, “and the only ones who can stop this are women—not by doing anything superficial, but only by making things fundamental. I believe the thing we can do when the peace comes is to call a woman’s congress where representatives of every woman’s group can meet.” “Laying Aside War Policy”

Such a woman’s congress would demand “in a loud voice,” she continued, “that men lay aside the policy of war- and substitute peaceful means of settling differences of opinion.” One of its purposes would be the restoration of the right to vote, to be educated, and to hold property which European women have lost. “Are we going to accept this lightly?” Mrs Catt asked in regard to >the last-mentioned result of this war, “or are we going to do something about it? Don’t say that putting war out of the world is one of the things that can’t be done. I say it has never been tried.

“After the last war, some nations which sounded good enough, but if came together and wrote a covenant you read it you will know that there was not one single thing to indicate that the members of the League were not going to t.olerate war, and going to do their best to put it out of the world.

“War never made anything right, but it is instille'd into the political minds of nations. We have got to get it out. I don’t think that men are going to do it.”

The last World War created a larger body of people who “hated” war, she added, and who believed in the possibility of ending war.

ENGAGEMENT DAVIES—HUGHES The engagement is announced between Cecil Alexander Davies,, second son of Mrs D. Sheehan and the late Mr J l . Davies, of Paeroa, and Olive Ena, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs H. P. Hughes, of Mission Bay, Auckland.