PEACE CONGRESS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22517, 7 September 1936, Page 9

PEACE CONGRESS

WORLD All! FORCES WAR USE CONDEMNED BRITISH FLIER'S PLEA By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright (Received September 0, 5.5 p.m.) BRUSSELS, Sept. 5 The well-known British airman Mr. C. W. A. Scott, who is attending the World Peace Conference, supported a resolution in favour of the international air force.

Mr. Scott was loudly applauded when he said that the best and bravest youths in the world were attracted to the air fofces. He hoped they would not be called upon to wreak terrible havoc among civilian populaces in war. He and his feljow pilots, said Mr. Scott, would rather fly peacefully than as agents of destruction. Italy and Germany are not represented at the congress. Very loud applause greeted a Spanish delegate whom the chairman promptly rebuked for raising his fist in a political salute. The congress carried a resolution in favour of disarmament by agreement, the suppression of military air forces, the internationalising of civil aviation, and the constitution of an international force under the league, insistence on signatories of pacts helping all aggressed countries, organising an international plebiscite on the basis of the peace congress and creating Parliamentary groups in each country as adherents to the programme of tho congress.

Mr. P. J. Noel Baker, a former member of the League secretariat, on behalf of the general committee, outlined a constitution for a central international office with a team of world touring experts and speakers, also a bureau to combat false news. He said consideration was being given to an international peace campaign for the holding of an annual worldwide peace day. Ethusiasm greeted a Jew and an Arab, who, saluting before a microphone, unitedly advocated peace in Palestine and the' mutual reconstruction of the country.

The congress concluded with a resolution to the effect that peace was endangered and calling on all peoples to be militant in its defence.