PEACE CONGRESS.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 July 1922, Page 5

PEACE CONGRESS.

GATHERING OF NATIONS. GERMANY AND LEAGUE. PROBLEMS OF. TO-DAY. By Telegraph.—Press Ann.—Copyright. Received July 26, 8.15 p m. London, July 25. The King, in a message to the twentysecond International Peace Congress, welcoming the delegates to English soil, said: “I assure them of my sympathy with the great ideal they have in view, and earnestly hope their efforts will meet all success.” Five hundred delegates are present, representing 20 nations, including Germany and Austria. Mr. A. L. Fisher (President of the Board of Education) said the desire of the British Government was that Germany should apply for admission to the League of Nations this year, so that the last lingering reproach that the League is an engine for propaganda of the interests and policies of the victorious nations shall be finally and effectually removed. The greatest present danger consisted of fanatical nationism, as seen in Ireland, Anatolia and Egypt. Alluding to the growth of scientific interest in the latest developments. of the art of war, he pointed out that though war had become more terrible it had gained an intellectual fascination. While we could not afford to stop or decry research, the peace-loving peoples of the world must overbear professional interest in warfare by an insistent demand for enduring peace. He urged that the civilised nations of the world ought completely to proscribe the use and manufacture of revolvers, which were of little use in wartime. They were the weapons in peace time of cowards, conspirators and terror-ists.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.