UNIVERSAL DISARMAMENT

White Ribbon, Volume 36, Issue 427, 18 February 1931, Page 9

UNIVERSAL DISARMAMENT

A WOMEN’S PETITION. The following petition has been largely signed in Great Britain and U.S.A., as well as in Europe. It. is to be presented to World Disarmament Conference pt League of Nations in Geneva:— "International Declaration on World Disarmament. The nations have renounced war. Let us also renounce the instruments of war. The undersigned men and women, irrespective of party, stand for world disarmament. They are convinced that competition in armaments is leading all countries to ruin without bringing them security; that this policy renders further wars inevitable; that wars in future will be wars of indiscriminate destruction of human life; that the Government's assurances of peaceful policy will be valueless, so long as those measures of disarmament are delayed that should be the first result of the Pact for the Renunciation of War." Numbers of outside organisations are co-operating with the W.I.L. in England, Australia and the United States in the work of getting signatures, including many branches of the League of Nations Union, all the peace societies, a number of branches of the National Council of Women, and most of the other women’s societies, as well as the National Union of Seamen and kindred associations.