PEACE CONGRESS

Hokitika Guardian, 27 July 1922, Page 2

PEACE CONGRESS

THE KING’S SYMPATHY. AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAW.E ASSOCIATION. LONDON, July 26. Tne twenty-second International peace Congress has opened here. There are 500 delegates present, representing 20 nations, including Germany and Austria. The King sent a message to the congress welcoming the delegates to English soil, saying:—“l assure them of my sympathy with the great ideal they have in view, and earnestly hope their efforts will meet with all success.’.’ The Hon. Fisher( President of the Board of Education) said t)w? desire of the British Government was that Germany should apply for admission to the League of Nations this year, so that the last lingering reproach that the League is an engine for the propagating of the interests and the policies of the victorious nations, shall be finally and effectively removed.

He said the grentest present danger consisted in fanatical nationalism as seen in Ireland, in Anatolia, and in Egypt, He alluded to the growth of scientific interest in the latest developments of art and war. He pointed out that.

“though war has become more terrible, it had gained intellectual fascination.” He went on: “While we could not afford to stop or to decry such research a.s he had mentioned, yet the peaceloving peoples of the world must overhear the professional interest in warfare, by an insistent demand for an enduring pence.” i-e urged that the civilised nations of the world ought completely to proscribe the use and the manufacture of revolvers, which, he said, were of little psp in w»r time. They were weapons in peace time, uvappilß of cowards, eririppfrntftr* iw<! forrprh?* " ‘