ARMAMENT CONFERENCE.
LIGHTER SIDE AT GENEVA. PETITIONS AND RESOLUTIONS Received February 20, 8.5 a.m. GENEVA, Feb. 19. There is a lighter side even of so serious a function as the Disarmament Conference. Mr Arthur Henderson has received hundreds of good luck tokens and the city is filled with the representatives of peace societies, who haunt the conference halls-, buttonholing delegates. It is estimated that petitions and resolutions have been received from organisations representing 500,000,000 members, while petitions with a total of 16,000,000,000 signatures have actually been received.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 69, 20 February 1932, Page 7
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87ARMAMENT CONFERENCE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 69, 20 February 1932, Page 7
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