LEAGUE OF NATIONS

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XVII, Issue 5881, 8 April 1920, Page 2

LEAGUE OF NATIONS

ITS AIMS AtyD OBJECTS BRITISH EDUCATIONAL CAMPAIGN. APPEAL FOR £1,000,000. (Australian and N.Z. Cable) (Received April 8, 12.5 p.m.) LONDON, April 7. Interesting details of the work or the League of Nat-iotas is furnished in a letter appealing for £1.000,000 for a national education campaign on behalf of the League. It states that hundreds of meetings in support have already been organised on behalS:' of the league, that 200 brandies of the union have been created, that two League of Nations periodicals and many pamphlets and booklets have been published. a|.yl tliat the union is now engaged on educational text-books a,nd is organising study circles for aduilts and children. The signatories are Viscount Grey, Mr Lloyd Gebrge, Admiral Beatty, Mr Asquith, Lord Robert Cecil, Mr Civile?. and General Hubert Gough, who declares that 5f the world is allowed to relapse iiito pre-war antagonisms a.nd a,mbs.io'iis it would be the greatest triumph of evil in all ages, 'and t:hey emphasize tha;i> if Great Britain does nbt support the League with all her iri'glit and resources the League will wither and dip. The luanrcs of sudatories o>f sucli idiverse views are comparable only with the early days of the war., when the whole coujatry was united in its prosecution of the Avar.