SEEKING WORLD PEACE

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1010, 28 June 1930, Page 6

SEEKING WORLD PEACE

! “APATHY AND INDIFFERENCE TOWARD IDEALS PRODUCTION OF WAR BOOKS | “Men ancf women are becoming bold in the production of war literature. In the years immediately following the upheaval of 1914-18, people would rot have dared to write a book or show a moving picture dealing v*ith the horrors of war.” In these terms the Rev. S. J. Atkins ; addressed the Auckland Branch of the League of Nations Union at its monthly luncheon yesterday. “A new generation has sprung up.” | he said, “and there are many books and moving pictures showing the wars of the past and imaginary wars of the future.” Among the general public there apIpeared to be a great deal of apathy and indifference toward the union and . its ideals, but in spite of this it oon- | tinued to propagate the cause of peace. “The indifferent person,” remarked Mr. Atkins, “really votes, by his very lassitude, for the elimination of any ( scheme.” A danger existed that the world’f peace desire, for which men and women had died, was becoming compromised, but there were sti ! f men with the ideal of peace before them, and it was this ideal that inspired the work of the League of Nations Uunion. “Cecil Rhodes said the safe way for ho world was the federation of Great Britain and the United States, both had the *world* outlook,” con- , eluded Mr. Atkins. “It is to inspire this idea of things that the union is working among the children of the i world.” “In criticising military training, tha j union has been considering the pos- | sible effects of compulsory' training on international relations,” said Mr. W. T. J. Airey, who announced that the union I proposed to hold a public meeting * shortly, at which several authorities I with different views on the subject I would be invited to speak.