WILL TO PEACE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19008, 8 May 1924, Page 5

WILL TO PEACE

THE DUTY OF WORLD’S LEADERS SOME WEIGHTY WORDS Received May 7, 9.40 p.m. (Reuter). NEW YORK, May 6. A Telegram from Cleveland says: Only by the united efforts of business men. statesmen, educationalists and journalists throughout the world to create and produce the will to peace can be achieved recovery and reconstruction of a thorough and abiding kind. Sir Esme Howard, the British Ambassador, told the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, when addressing the annual convention, that they must work to remove the desire for revenge the one hand aad fear of revenge M the other, to show, while accepting the ordinary competition in trade, which was part of the natural order of things, that no nation desiies to take unfair or improper advantage of the other. Too little atteniton was paid to the influence of international co-operation on trade by business men. The great question of the future was: Who is going to help Russia, and how is this to be done? SUGGESTED WORLD-WIDE LEAGUE Received Mav 7. 11.5 p.m. WASHINGTON, May 7. A French proposal for a new international order as an alternative to British suggestions to modify the Versailles Treaty, was suggested at today’s session of the Women’s League for Peace and Freedom. The French proposal was supported by most European sections. The League would constitute a world-wide League of peoples representing consumers and producers in all countries. It would have legislative, executive and judical powers under which it could outlaw war and revise all treaties. It would command no armed forces, but would rely on public opinion for the enforcement of its laws. It would be empowered to resolve the question of reparations and Inter-Allied debts; internationalise currencies, weights and measures; abolish all Customs tariffs; and internationalise all sources of power and raw materials, giving every country access, if possible. A world charter of Labour would be compiled. The proposals were referred to a committee to obtain the formal opinions of the different national sections.