VITAL ISSUES

Southland Times, Issue 25311, 14 June 1935, Page 7

VITAL ISSUES

NEED FOR ACTION. BRITAIN’S PROBLEMS. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) London, June 12. Mr Lloyd George, the leaders of the Free Churches and others have issued a non-party manifesto urging a fresh crusade for peace and national reconstruction, stating that the approaching election may return the most fateful Parliament in British history. Therefore, citizens must ensure that its membership will ensure a courageous grappling with vital issues. The failure of successive Parliaments to deal adequately with social and economic problems has caused cynicism and despair constituting a national danger, states the manifesto. All the resources must be mobilized to avoid irreparable disaster and ensure members insisting on definite measures for peace and social justice. Electors should support _ only those candidates pledged to insisting on British initiative for redressing those injustices which breed war and also pledged to practical disarmament, the maintenance of peace through the League, a supreme effort for international reconciliation, a League agreement for the abolition of offensive war instruments, a reduction in arms to police level, control of the private manufacture of armaments, the pacific revision of treaties and the provision of collective guarantees, while the State must make a great effort to abolish unemployment. , The manifesto urges the abolition o. slums, the improvement of the highways and the refertilization and repopulation of the countryside. A convention will be held on July 1 and 2 in order to create a council for peace and reconstruction at which ah sympathetic organizations are invited to be represented and take concerted measures for a national rally. The signatories include Mrs Corbett Ashby, Bishop Barnes, Mr Hal Fisher, Mr Lloyd George, Sir Walter Layton, Canon Scott Lidgett, Lord Lothian, Sir Gilbert Murray, the Rev. Dr F. W. Norwood, Mr Arthur Porritt and Lord Snowden. NO REMEDY SEEN * “MORE POLITICS THAN CHRISTIANITY.” t (United Press Assn.— Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 7.15 p.m.) London, June 13. The Times says the peace manifesto professes a non-party appeal, but the list of signatories shows that its origin owes much to one particular party. There is no indication of any definite measures to remedy the evils which all admit. The appeal purports to be a call for union, but is, in essence a call to refuse any union under the present National Government. It seems, in fact, more concerned with politics than Christianity.