HORRORS OF WAR

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 5, 29 September 1937, Page 5

HORRORS OF WAR

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Sit- Ertiest Davis Appeah to N.Z. Women the need for peace

tBy Tfclejjiraph-

AUCKLAND, This Day. Th& Maybr, Sir Ernest Davis, at a civic recepti'oh this mbrning tb visiting d'eiegates tb the . Dbminion Cbiif efettCe of tke National CoUttbil bf Women, said that citizens lboked to theni to give a lead on questions affeetiug natiottal welfare. Men and women in New Zealand today were overcome With hofror at the laWless fighting cfeated in the Oribnt, with its terrible destruction of helpleSs non-combatant iives and propoi'ty an«l the cfilamitous blow it aimed at genei-dl safety, secufity, and iastiiig pehcb: These conditions, which had ehbcked humanity, were an ontrage and a eliaileiige to civilisation itself. They intensifled the neeesfeity for eommon a'ction by women, aC well as men, of the English-speakittg nations. The passing of pacific resolutions, however pious, would be of no avaih To his Way of thinking, grave dolibts arose as to whether New Zealhiid wan not living in a fool's paradise of security He appealed to the women lo siipport and sponsor aiiy grotectivo measures expedibnt to take as New Zehland's eoncern was defencej not deflahce, and preparedness, not aggression. Becent carnage, With all Ifcs rhthlessness, had been possible largbly by lack of preparedness on the pttft bf Weakfir nations..