WORK FOR PEACE

Southland Times, Issue 22993, 12 September 1936, Page 15

WORK FOR PEACE

Women from many countries will meet in Brussels at the Congress of the International Peace Campaign to be held during the first week in September, states a London correspondent. The call to a world-wide effort for peace, the “International Peace Campaign,” sent out by Lord Cecil and other well-known men inspired like him with a love of humanity, has roused echoes in the hearts of women everywhere. Women realize that it is not enough to long for peace, to pay lip service to peace, but that if they are to have peace they must toil for it. Tlie congress committee is calling on all women, manual workers, and intellectuals, housewives, schoolteachers, mothers of families from the towns and countryside, of all countries, of all classes, of all political opinions, to support the campaign with all the force at their command. Four points which form the basis of tlie congress are: — 1. Restoration of the sanctity of /treaty obligations. 2. Reduction and limitation of armaments by international agreement, and the suppression of profit from the manufacture of arms. 3. Strengthening of the League of Nations or the prevention and stopping of war by the more effective organization of collective security and mutual assistance. 4. Establishment, within the framework of the League of Nations, of effective machinery for the remedying by peaceful means of international conditions that might lead to war.