WORLD PEACE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16425, 8 May 1924, Page 5

WORLD PEACE.

MOVEMENT IN AMERICA. UNITED EFFORT NEEDED. (E!ec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable AssociaMon.) NEW YORK, May 6. A telegram Irani Cleveland says:— "Only by the united efforts of business men, statesmen, educationalists, and journalists throughout tbe world to create, and produce tbe will to peace can' be achieved recovery and reconstruction of a thorough, abiding kind," Sir Esme Howard, the British Ambassador, told the Chambers of Commerce of the United States, addressing the annual convention. "To tho same end," he continued, "they must work to remove the desire for revenge on the one band and the. fear of revenge on the other. They must show, while; accepting the ordinary competition of trade which is part of the natural order of things, that no nation desires to take unfair or improper advantage of the other. Too little attention is paid to the influence of international co-operation on trade by business men. The great question of tho future: is : Who is going to he'lp Russia and how is this to be done?" WASHINGTON, May 6. Mr. Swanson, Democrat, qf Virginia, will introduce in the Senate a resolution providing for American participation in the. World Court, with reservations as recommended by Mr. Hughes, the chief whereof states : "Such adhesion to the Court shall not be taken to involve any legal relation on the part of the United States to tbe League _ of Nations or the assumption of any obligation by the United States under the covenant, of the League." WASHINGTON, May 7. A French proposal for a new international order as an alternative to the British suggestions to modify the. Versailles treaty was suggested at to-day's session of the Women's League for I'eace and Freedom. The French proposal, winch is supported by most European sections of the League, would constitute a world-wide league of people, representing consumers and producers, all countries to have legislative, executive and judicial powers, under which they could outlaw war and revise all treaties. They would command no armed forces, but rely on public opinion for the enforcement of the laws, and would be empowered to resolve the question of reparations and inter-Allied debts, internationalise currencies, weights and measures, abolish all customs tariffs, internationalise all sources of power and raw materials, giving, every country, if possible, access. A world charter of' labor would be compiled. The proposals were referred to a committee to obtain the formal opinions of different national sections.