"PEACE FOREVER"

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 85, 31 July 1942, Page 3

"PEACE FOREVER"

WOMEN CAN STOP WAR

NEW YORK MEETING

"Women arc the on]}' ones who can .stop Avar, once and for all, Mrs Carrie Chapman Call told a meeting of the recently-formed "Women's Society for a Free and Democratic: Europe held jointly with the National Council of Women of the United States, Inc., to commemorate the anniversary of Susan J3. Anthony. She urged that it was. not too soon now to plan for a AvoHld congress of women Avho will stand for

"peace forever'" and convene Avherever the post-war gathering of nations is to be held (states the Christian Science Monitor). Warning against the repetition of another ineffectual peace treaty, Mrs Catt declared Unit whichever side wins the Avar, the kind of peace they avi'll make will lie the kind others- Avill resent.

"it will mean another war,"' she said, "and tlie only ones who can stop this are women—net by doing anything superficial, but only by making things fundamental. I' believe the thing we can do when the peace comes is to call a woman's congress where representatives of every woman's group mjet." "Laying Aside War Policy" Such a woman's congress would demand "in a loud voice," 1 she continued, "that men lay aside the pol- 1 icy of war and substitute peaceful means of settling differences of opinion." One of its purposes would lie the restoration of the right to vote, to be educated, and to hold property which European women have lost. "Are we going to accept this lightly?" Mrs Catt asked in regard to the last-mentioned result of this war, "or are we going to do some- 1 thing about it? Don't say that putting war out of the world is one of the things that can't be done. I sav it has never been tried. "After the last war, some nations which sounded good enough, came together and wrote a covenant but if you read it you will know that there was not one single thing to indicate that the members of the League were not going to tolerate Avar, and going to do their best to put it out of the world. "War never made anything right, but it is instilled into the political' minds of nations. We have got to get it out. I don't think thai, men are going to do it."' The last World War created a larger body of people who "hated" war, she added, and who believed in the possibility of ending Avar.