ANTI-WAR CONGRESS
OPENED AT AMSTERDAM
RUSSIANS REFUSED A VISA
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)
(Received this day at 10.25 a.m.)
AMSTERDAM, August 28.
Described as a “passionate call to men and women throughout the world to prevent war, which may break out tomorrow and destroy civilisation,” the anti-war congress opened, two thousand delegates signing the international appeal. M. Remain Holland was prevented from attending owing to illness. M. Henri Barbousse, ■ leading a strong French delegation, opened the discussions, and urged that public opinion should unite against a coming world war, which would be the murderer of civilisation. An Italian, Professor.’ Miglioni was elected president. The German delegation numbers five hundred, and the British eighty, including Labour Party, and Trades Unions. The Russian delegation, refused a visa by Holland, ■ telegraphed, stressing the necessity of uniting the masses aaginst the danger of war.
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 August 1932, Page 6
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