A PEACE LETTER
TO BRITISH PRIME MINISTER.
SIGNED BY 128,700 BRITONS.
London, Dec. 8
Mr. A. Ponsonby, Labour M.P. for Brightside, presented a peace letter to the Prime Minister, signed by 128,700 Britons, setting out:
“We hereby solemnly declare that we refuse to support or render war service to any Gov-
ernment which resorts to arms.” Mr. Ponsonby, in a letter of explanation, says; “Many of the petitioners are disillusioned ex-soldiers and women, who are determined that their children shall not be blown to atoms in purposeless slaughter. Our unusual message is a blunt but simple declaration, a signal to a new and more enlightened patriotism of Britons not to shrink from necessary sacrifice but to show a rooted objection and heartfelt loathing for inflicting by new and diabolical cent populations with whom we have methods, suffering and death on innono quarrel.” Britons, not to show rooted objection and heartfelt loathing for inflicting, by new and diabolical methods, suffering and death on innocent populations with whom we have no quarrel.” Mr. Baldwin replied that he would think the matter over carefully in order that his reply might be more than a mere acknowledgment—(A. and N.Z.)
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 10 December 1927, Page 5
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195A PEACE LETTER Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 10 December 1927, Page 5
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