WORLD PEACE CONFERENCE

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22507, 15 September 1938, Page 9

WORLD PEACE CONFERENCE

TO THE EDITOR OF THE PRESS. Sir, —It is possible that the heavy rearmament of Great Britain has contributed towards a postponement of the threatened world disaster, but it can only be a postponement. Under present conditions we can only run from crisis to crisis. Until the causes of war are removed there is no hope of peace. Mr de Valera’s appeal for a world peace conference, reported in “The Press” to-day, 'Should be supported by every Government. As he so rightly says, a conference based on justice for all peoples, which is possible before a war, is almost impossible after one and it is every citizen’s vital concern to see that his Government presses for the calling of such a conference now The basis for such a conference hep in the Van Zeeland report, which has apparently been shelved by interests which prefer the argument of force to that of conciliation. , Whatever sacrifices might be demanded by such a policy, the cost would be negligible compared with the cost of a world-wide war, followed by such a peace as we have known since the last “Great War to end War. Yours, etc.. K THOMpsolsli Press Correspondent. Peace Pledge Union. September 14, 1938.