THE INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE OF YOUTH.

White Ribbon, Volume 29, Issue 343, 18 January 1924, Page 4

THE INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE OF YOUTH.

The league was founded at Copenhagen in August, 1912, at a Congress at which eleven nations were represented, including England, Prance, and the United States of America. The purl»ose was to found branches of the international league of Youth in every country. A Congress was held this year (1922) in Hamburg, at which the following resolution was unanimously adopted: “The second Conference of the Int - national league of Youth sees it to )>c an urgent task for the young who have known war through experience, and who therefore condemn it, to recail again and again to the minds of former comrades the horrors of the battlefield, the injustices unde which they suffered, and to beg; them therefore not to look with indifference on the intrigues of reactionaries and of those who work for war, but t 0 strive un swervingty, wherever they may be, foi the removal of hate and dl trust, for the creation of a good understanding and friendly relations between the youth of all countries, and thus to influence the nations.” The feeling of the Owigress rose highest during the speech of Paul Campargue, the French delegate. He told with great joy of the interchange of visits ami speakers between Germany and France, and of the deep and lasting impression which such personal con tact made.