LEAGUE OF NATIONS UNION

Southland Times, Issue 25796, 6 October 1945, Page 6

LEAGUE OF NATIONS UNION

Proposed Change Of Name

In New Zealand

(P.A.) WELLINGTON, October 5. A proposal that the name of the League of Nations Union of New Zealand should be changed to the “United Nations Association of New Zealand,” met with general approval at the Dominion conference of the union today. Because of legal technicalities, however, the proposal was referred to the Dominion Council to prepare a resolution in conference with the union’s honorary legal adviser (Mr E. P. Hay), for submission to an annual meeting early next year. The Rev. P. Gladstone Hughes raised the point that the term “United Nations” at present excluded a number of nations that had never been envisaged by the union, which was essentially a world organization. The chairman (the Rev. Dr. E. N. Merrington) said that the term' “United Nations” was used in a connotation which meant that the organization was open to all peace-loving nations. No nation was excluded except, in the meantime, enemy nations. All would be eligible to enter when peaceloving conditions were expressed. WORK IN SCHOOLS. The fostering of the ideals of international co-operation through. the school curriculum was discussed. It was decided to thank the Education Department for what it was doing, and to ask if it were possible to extend the work.

From inquiries which she had made, said Mrs B. Roberts, she had found that the authorities fully realized that if there were to be. international cooperation, attitudes must be developed in school children, so that in adult life they would be willing to work for it.