SEEKING WORLD PEACE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18703, 8 May 1924, Page 9

SEEKING WORLD PEACE.

FRENCH PROPOSITION.

AN INTERNATIONAL ORDER.

FAR-REACHING POWERS.

SUPPORT IN AMERICA. | SIR E. HOWARD'S IDEALS. Br Telegraph Press Asrociation— (Received 0.45 p.m.) A. and N.Z. VANCOUVER, May 6. A French proposal for a new International Order as an alternative to British suggestions to codify the Versailles Treaty was discussed at to-day's session of the Women's League for Peace and Freedom. The proposal was supported by most of the representatives of the European sections of the league. It was suggested in the French proposal that there should be established a worldwide league of peoples representing the consumers and producers of all countries. This leagu© would have legislative, executive, and judicial powers, under which it could outlaw war, and revise all treaties. It would command no armed forces, but would rely upon public opinion for the enforcement of its laws. It would be empowered to settle the questions of reparation and inter-Allied debts, and to internationalise currencies, weights and measures, and abolish all customs tariffs also to internationalise all sources of power, and raw materials, giving every country access, if possible. A world charter of labour would also bo compiled. The proposals were referred to a committee to obtain the formal opinions of the different national sections of the league. (Received 10.55 p.m.) A. and N.Z.-Reuter. WASHINGTON. May 6. Senator C. A. Swanson, Democrat, representing Virginia, has introduced in the Senate a resolution providing for American participation in the World Court, with the reservations recommended by Mr. C. E. Hughes, Secretary of, Sta'te. The chief of these states that such adhesion to the Court shall not be taken to involve a legal relation on the part of the United States to the League of Nations, nor the assumption. of obligation by th© United States under the covenant of the League.

Speaking at the annual convention of the United States Chambers of Commerce, 1 at Cleveland, Ohio, Sir Esme Howard, I British Ambassador to the United States, ! said: Only by the united efforts of business men, statesmen, educationalists, and journalists throughout the world to create and produce a will to peace can recovery and reconstruction of a thorough and abiding kind be achieved. They must work to the same end—to remove the desire for revenge on the one hand, and the fear of revenge on the other; to show that while accepting the ordinary competition of trade, whioh is part of the natural order of things, no nation desires to take an unfair or improper advantage of another. Too little attention wat paid to' the influence of international co-operation on trade by business men, said Sir Esme. The great question of the future was: Who is going to help Russia, and how is thia to be done ?