WORLD PEACE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23259, 31 January 1939, Page 2

WORLD PEACE

WOMEN'S CONFERENCE DISCUSSIONS IN WASHINGTON Women are starting the New Year well by having a peace conference and, in an attempt to find some solution to international strife, women leaders from all over the world are meeting this month in Washington to discuss what action women must take to preserve world peace. Among points to be discussed at the conference is the importance of teaching women to realise the role they can play in preserving peace. Many world-famous women are attending the conference, among them being Mrs. Corbett Ashbv, of England, Miss Rosa Manus, of Holland, Miss Bantiska Plaminkova, of Czechoslovakia, and Hanem Hoda Charaoui, of Egypt. American delegates include Miss Dorothy Detzer and Mrs. Estelle M. Sternberger, both ardent leaders of important American peace movements, and Mrs. F. D. Roosevelt, wife of the President. After the first public meeting of the conference the delegates held private discussions on the subject of effective co-operation between women's international and national organisations on some common policy or common action, and renewed educational campaign. Peace educational campaigns have become an important factor in the moulding of American public opinion. Mrs. Sternberger, for instance, is the publicity director of an organisation known as "World Peace ways," which has won the co-operation of big business houses. Its aims are supernational and super-political, the general idea being gradually to condition people all over the world into not supporting war, so that no State will be able to embark upon a war of aggression and remain in office.