THE WORLD'S PEACE

Otago Witness, Issue 3511, 28 June 1921, Page 20

THE WORLD'S PEACE

ASSOCIATION OF NATIONS. WASHINGTON. June 20. Tne Washington correspondent of the Tinted Pics Association learns that a diplomatic repent, giving a rough outline of the Association of Nation- plan, which is purported to be favoured by President Harding, has been sent to two South I American Republics, which have asked j their representatives at Washington to • report on the scheme, the salient features ; of which, according to the report, are that the association would have no written constitution, and would function through a council of representatives of the nations,

the decisions being advisory rather than binding. The present Allied Supreme Council could be used as a nucleus of the plan, which provides for an international law court without compulsory arbitration, and without penalties for failure to abide by the court’s judgment. PRESIDENT HARDING’S VIEWS. NEW YORK, June 22. The New York Tribune’s Washington correspondent states flatly that President Harding will not call a. disarmament conference until there is a thorough understanding or a very definite agreement made between the representatives of Great Britain, Japan, and America. This attitude is taken despite the Administration s satisfaction with Mr Llovd George’s statement that Great Britain is anxious for a disarmament move. June 23. According to a Washington message, a committee bearing a petition signed by 20,503 clergymen, Protestants, Catholics, and Jews, called on President Harding, urging that the time is ripe for calling a disarmament conference. President Harding answered that lie favoured the principle, but it was impossible to move swiftly. America’s steps depend on the attitude of other Governments. SPEECH BY ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY. LONDON. June 25. The Archbishop of Canterbury, addressing a great demonstration by the League of Nations Union in Hyde Park, said the demonstration brought them into touch with something really 7 mattering in the life of the world. If the victory had gone the other way unbridled force would have reigned supreme. “We won a worthier rule for the world,” he said, “and now we wanted to develop a new patriotism, not to any one nation, but to the world.”