CIVIC LEAGUE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19092, 10 August 1925, Page 14

CIVIC LEAGUE.

A meeting of the Civic League was held iij the Cabin Tearooms on Friday evening. Tlio president, Mrs. Neal, was in the chair, and there was a good attendance, rile ordinary business of the meeting was attended to, and it was resolved to send to tho City Council a piotest against «moking in buses. An intere'ting address !wa S given by Mr. T. Buxton, tho Dominion organiser for tho League of Mat ions Union, who explained a few points regarding the spiendid work dono by the league during the last four years. Mr. Buxton stressed the importance and value of women's work. He quoted a ■(tiitemnnt made by Mrs. Carrie ChapmanCatt, of New York, at a meeting of the International Women's Suffrage Alliance, when she said. " World peace is largely woman's job." Ho said the union was | formed iu 1921, and the objects of it were to secure tho whole-hearted acceptance of the British people of the League of Nations as tho guardian of international right, the organ of international co-opera-tion, the final arbiter in international differences and iho supreme instrument for removing injustices which may threaten tho peace of the world; to foster mutual understanding, goodwill and habits of cooperation, and fail dealing between tho peoples of different countries; to advocate the full development of tho Leaguo oi Nations in accordance with tho otiginaJ object of the union, so as lo bring about such a world organisation as will guarantee tho freedom of nations, act as trustee and guardian of backward races and undeveloped territories, maintain tho international order, and fully liberate mankind from tho curse of war. Illustrations were given by Mr. Buxton of tho practical help the League ol Nations had beon to Austria and Hun(tarv in the economic sphere, literally rescuing those countries from bankruptcy and tho people from starvation. llo _^ s P p J) rlen " tinned the protection given to 300,000 rofucees, who had fled into Greece from tho Turks. In the mattor of international health safeguards, tho leaguo lywl dono great work, especially in preventing the spread of disease from Russia westward into Eu::ope. , The Leaguo of Nations, said Mr. Buxton, provided for an exwert consideration of precise questions by States, with a view to finding how far or disputed points wero possible. Examples were given of the league's virtual prevention of war, tho settlement of the GreekItalian dispute, and also the Anglo-Turkish dispute over tho Mosul boundary question, being cases in point. Ono important feature of the league's activities was its guaranteeing of protection to minorities. The protocol has been held over for further consideration at the September assembly. It is not likely to pass in its present form, but out of it will e\olve something more acceptable to all concerned.