DANGERS TO PEACE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18153, 27 July 1922, Page 7

DANGERS TO PEACE.

FANATICAL NATIONALISM. | GERMANY AND LEAGUE. ! ADMISSION ADVOCATED. i ! By Telesnratkh—Press Association— Copyright(Received 6.5 p.m.) A. and N.Z. LONDON. July 25. The King, in a message to the International Peace Congress welcoming the delegates to English soil, wrote : "I assure you of my sympathy with the great ideal you have in view, and earnestly hope that your efforts will meet j with all success." Five hundred delegates, representing 120 nations, including Germany and i Austria, are attending the congress. Mr. H. A. L. Fisher, president of the I Board of Education, speaking at the j opening session, said that it was the | desire of the British Government that j Germany should apply for admission to i the Leasrue of Nations this year so that ; the last lingering reproach that the | League was an engine for propagating the j interests and policies of the victorious j nations should be finally and effectually j removed. The greatest present danger consisted j in fanatical nationalism as seen in Ireland, Anatolia, and Egypt Alluding to the growth of scientific interest in the latest developments of the art of war, Mr. Fisher pointed out that though war had become more terrible it had gained an intellectual fascination. While nations | could riot afford to stop or decry research the peace-loving peoples of the world I must overbear professional interest in warfare by an insistent demand for en- | during peace. He urged that the j civilised nations of the world ought completely to proscribe the use and manufacture of revolvers, which were of little use in war time and were weapons in peace time of cowards, conspirators and terrorists.