INTERNATIONAL PEACE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 124, 27 May 1936, Page 6

INTERNATIONAL PEACE

Sir.— With your kind permission T should like to draw the attention of the citizens of Wanganui to a people's mandate to Governments praying for world’s disarmamci t. The movement has been organised by the Women’s International League for Peace and steady progress and much enthusiasm is being displayed in the 50 countries where the petition has been launched. From the Mandate Committee for the western hemisphere and the Far East, a committee constituted by women’s International League for peace, we learn that the European Committee met at the League on January 22 last, where the countries wers well represented and many worldknown workers for peace took part in tho deliberations. women of France, Great Britain, Sweden, Holland, Hungary, Dutch Indies, Finland, and Czechoslovakia, have taken up the campaign for signatures must heartily ami are launching it on a large and spectacular scale. In addition to this such international bodies as the Women's International Alliance for Suffrage. The Women’s World Committee, I lie Afolhers and Education League, The International Federation of University Women, and the World’s W.C.T.U. are throwing the weight of their international affiliation into the campaign. In France, such bodies of men as the Organised War Veterans, numbering some hundreds of thousands, and Women’s Peace Bodies numbering over 600.000. are amongst those constituting the National Mandate Committee. These are assisted by the Society for International Friendship and Reconciliation. In N’.Z. the petition is being organised by (he Peace Department of the WJ’/I’.U., with Mrs. T. E. Taylor, National Superintendent, in charge. Petition forms are now in circulation all G ’Y ( 1 ,, "bcre the women of the W.C.l.t . me endeavouring to secure at least 40,‘i00 signatures. Bible Class I nions. Youth Movements for Peace, The Salvation Army, N.Z. Labour ( nion, Douglas Social Credit, and other organ.sations are busy securing names, while in Christchurch the “No More War” Afovement Committee has th<» petition forms at various strategic points on thp streets. Ihe local W.C.T.U. intend launching their appeal at the annual Peace Day celebration next Friday in the W.D.T .1 . rooms, where forms will be supplied and arrangements for securing sttoet signatures will be finalised. Men and women are urged to take an interest in this vital question. In the name of our leader this appeal is sent cut in faith, nothing doubting, realising that our strength is not, nor ever <-an be, i n armaments of man’s device, but in the power of the spirit of peace in men’s hearts and lives.—T ain, etc.. ANNIE IDUXFIELD, District W.C.T.U.