"No More War"

Maoriland Worker, Volume 13, Issue 30, 25 July 1923, Page 12

"No More War"

'* - ':g__»' ■' ';- »„— ■—lpSi' m ] • g. £y fAILIMA 'i)j ■ j *_£&& IS A STATE OF MIND. . « * ! "_HEJWIL_ TO WAR HAS MYRIADS _p IWttNDS, 3WB CAN UNITE OUR JWILLS, AND CREATE A NEW STATE OF- MIND OPPOSED TO WAR THE PRESENT WORLD CRISIS CALLS FOR A UNION OF ALL DYNAMIC PERSONALITIES »T0 WILL TOGETHER THAT PEACE SHALL PREVAIL." .

How well the. war-organisers uix--j flerstand th a wisdom o£ Mass Effect, j See men going off _to war—no t singly,, or „ twos and threes, but in large j compact masses. Is there any man, W woman to whom the "Unity" of ; \he thing does not appeal? All these. mea w**Jfciug as with one step, to j one strain of. music, to one goal! | One man or woman going down the ; 'street carryiug a banner on which: 'jWJas inscribed "There Shall Be No' liior,, War," would liars very lUtle j 'effect. ! • k v . But, get millions of people in the! mmd to do it at the same time —tha ■ '©ft'ect would be overwhelming! i / This is really what is happening in ; the world to-day—and j t' is only when ; more people WILL PEACE than. . (IVILL WAR, that there will be a final; end to tho curse. • i .. The idea of Peace is growing by, Jeaps and bounds. Since th's time jlast yoar, the "Converts" have been : -tnany, and they have come from unexpected quarters. Some of us remember a No More War Meeting last year. I recollect one where the people seemed to slunk in as if they were almost ashamed of themselves. There seemed to be a feeling in tlifc nix- that it was "Disloyal" to associate yourself with Labour, even in the sacred cause of Peace—that you were "unpatriotic" if you wished to do anything to prevent your country being involved in slaughter again! Poor patient, waiting Peace. One could imagine her, with droop' Ing w''ngs, just inside the door — but Jio • further—*as if she were indeed )50me disreputable drab, in whose company it was not quite respectable cr advisable to be seen. ■,•» * . * But "we have altered all that," because history is being made (and ' Unmade) so quickly. '- The title of a lecture at Khigsway Hall. London, on May Day, at which the principal speakers were George Lansbury and Dr. W. E. Orchard, struck mc very much —"Chaos or Christ." ' It expresses the opinion of many people to-day—people who would; smile if you suggested that they were | "Religious"! So, wherever you live, ■ in cities, small towns, or in the "back i country," organise your No More! War meetings' on 28-29, remember- j ing that all the world over, there are | millions of people all thinking the! same thought, at the same time— ' and THAT THOUGHT, PEACE. It is niagnificient. and if we could , only see, in "our mind's eye," those: masses of people in England, in Ger- j xnany, in France, in Russia, in India,: In Ameriqa—people of all colours, all _ creeds, but all One, in the desire to j have NO MORE WAR, it would ap-! petal to that quality in- all of us, j which is so strangely stirred and] thrilled by simultaneous action. j We, in this far-away little .coun-' try, are not alone. The heart of all. the world beats with ours —one v/il'l j and purpose runs through us all.; Protestants, Roman Catholics, Jews; ©r Greeks—War is the Common' Enemy of us all—tha One Enemy that we -can all unite to fight, !

I think that July 2S-29 is going to be a memorable time all the world over, for its great meetings of

protest against War, and that we in New Zealand are going t Q do our full part. t