THE WILL TO END WAR.

Waikato Times, Volume 99, Issue 16545, 14 July 1925, Page 8

THE WILL TO END WAR.

THE TASK OF THE BRITISH LEGION. The annual conference of the British Legion was attended by nearly 500 delegates. Field-Marshal Earl Haig, in his presi. dential address, referred to the resolution submitted at the annual conference of the Inter-Alied Federation of ex-Fighting Men, to the effect that if every organisation were favourably inclined to co-operate,, on the question of peace and war the'Allied ex-Service men's organisations would agree to collaborate. He said: Here is a question in which the Legion can exercise an enormous power for doing good if we set to work to convince our Allies that the only way lo secure the peace of the world is by agreement by co-operation and by mutual good-will. What a proud boast it would be for the British Legion lo say that it took a leading part in putting an end, for all time, to war between civilised nations. (Cheers. Continuing, Earl Haig said:

At the second biennial conference of Ihe British Empire services League in Ottawa next month they wanted their representatives to help in binding together the great Commonwealth of free nations that they called the British Empire by a chain of mutual good will aid mutual understanding. They could do this through their ex-servico men'a organisations, backed up by a comradeship begotten of fighting in a common cause. Old Soldiers' Claims. Prince Arthur of Gonnaught said the British Legion stood for the unity which won the war. and it had already done much and would do more in the future for unity in our civil life, which was just as essential I'm- the welfare of our country and mpire.