"No New War!"

Maoriland Worker, Volume 12, Issue 301, 6 December 1922, Page 12

"No New War!"

;':-: Tkg .of the English p&jters". ■fry tiii._ makes" oiftr tMtig' certain-—it ? w;as>' oiily • by. the miffed' will', and' wisdom of the People thai was v. r as averted. ' ■ The "Great War" was,. In a certain seiife'e,, "A Popular.War/* as far %s a great majority of people were cor,-, j cerKecl. They 3aa& been trained by_ I. theJr v taught by their (new spacers;" , " to consider such, & war r'as 'iTverratafeje/' So tlistjwhen every?; i tlung _.was, teady aM tlja stage .all j set- the actors Ibj : ih& vtlraxna were aU-.j !ready to pjay the mita - assigned! j them by i;he stage manages-. Bilf'iiof's'b'-'thfs' mne. 4 People have learnt a lot of Truth , I aboiit" war (all war) since 191& i They are now paying clearly* fibr • their" ; " lesson— paying Id unemployment'and starvation, many of them,, and very truly "Experience teaches ! wisdom." And' becausn tile Moral I j Conscience-of lliv* State Ixixv-" bee _ aj 'roused/the Ehglfeli People,"who ' &?3 \ i a thonsand' , limes greater tliun, Tlieir i.rulerV, said, ''There'shall be : war!" • . : " " .-•■_ )■ And' they sYartetJ at 61105" fo i-dtes , '! .ttheir iii-ass protest*?.' | « «• . * » The .London I.L/.P. Demons! ral'ou at ; Kings way Hs-11 was packed with at*.; j audie.iaee t>l 3-000,. and .an ■''overOo'V ,, , meeting was atteiislo'd "by 20"0"0 ittore. , The audience was an extraordinary , one in quality as wj-Li.as quantify. { There wery Communists, religious- : EaciSte'ts such as .Dr. ©rcfuird, and I Mauu-e Royclen ovtio v. r ore greeted j :-,vith.. great applause), Then were; i turbari-sd XncTU'niH, f!reeks, Turk;-),; j Chinese, tuvl Negroes ia-tlie 1 ; vast CTo\v r t3.. I Among ■ th.B s>2)f.a?ters w**re George j La'iisoiiry ('tiie- former edi'er of "Daily •! I Herald") and one of. ttio sxevv labour ; members ot . .Parliament", Margaret 1 Bon&fit-'ld ■ w'-as'-oft r.ho platform (but did not spealO, Major Atlee (who ad.dressed- Hie overflcvy meeting), Smillie, , and ts?e now Leader, Ranisay iM;ac- . Donf<hi. M.A.H.. in th» "Labour Leader," ■ suys. "In. 'A L-rief halil-liour h« an- ; n'••hi la ted the spociou - -* pretexls on which. im attempt was being made : to fan .a- new war fever, demonstrated . the responsibility of Ldoy;l Georjre. i and denounced the provocative in- , eutitude of the MANIFESTO TO ! ALI>IIiIS &i\d J3OMT-KXONS, and set. ! out the true luies oif-policy' to be pur-, 1 "HiMl in the Tjoar East 1 From the favst s?nteTaae>- -In whlcli ■he laid it .down that THEKE"WAS j NOT TO BE JVAE because the people of this country hare- fcue POWER, it : they ha~v*<-> i;he to ,:preveufc it, to the last; in'^v-hicla' he- reminded 'the audience of the vast and Lovribie con-uagratlo-ft '\vldch. 'would be tit abross the ; \vhole Eastern world, war with Tilncey to be entered, uiiort, h.6 not only held i'heane&Ung—lie kejpt it 'thinking;. . ■ • ' Tlilip-klng ,and"-seemg—for no' nvan. ! has it' greater '■power o\yr'tho visual. j imagjs; and he made us all see, some I part of What he lias likoseli , recently (seen iit tli© East, , "