CRUELTIES OF WAR
TERMINATION URGED PEACE PARTY'S RESOLUTION FAIR TERMS DEMANDED LONDON. Feb. 19 The Council of the International Peace Campaign passed a resolution that, while desiring to end the cruelties and ravaging in Spain, it protested against the pressure on the Republican Government in the direction of an unconditional surrender. It asked States devoted to peace and justice to endeavour to secure a settlement which would conform the politico-economic independence of Spain, the immediate withdrawal ' of foreign forces and foreign control and a guarantee that no Spaniard would be persecuted owing to his political attitude. Another resolution demanded an embargo on arms and war material for Japan, and urged the Powers to refuse all Japanese imports. AID FOR DEMOCRACIES POSITION OF AMERICA LONDON, Feb. 19
Speaking in the course of an international peace campaign representing 17 countries, under the presidency of M. Paul Boncour, the secretary, M. Louis d'Olivet, said a steady increase of resentment had produced an explosion of feeling in America against the totalitarian States, which would influence America to provide food and war supplies to the democracies if hostilities broko out.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23277, 21 February 1939, Page 9
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