ATTITUDE TOWARDS GERMANS.

Taihape Daily Times, 29 August 1919, Page 5

ATTITUDE TOWARDS GERMANS.

A most animated discussion took place at the last meeting of the National' Council of Women of Victoria as to whether or not the Victorian Council should adopt the same attitude a s that of the National Council of Canada toward German women (says a writer in an exchange). The Canadian Council is unwilling to be associated with the women of the National Council of Germany and her allies, not only because they refused to lift a finger to stop the outrages and atrocities which their countries committed during the war, but because they approved of the military tactics as practised by Germany throughout. The resolution, a s finally passed by the Victorian Council and which caused the dissension of opinion, will be forwarded to the inter-State conference, to be held in Sydney in October. It reads as follows; —“Whereas the object of the National Council of Women is the furtherance of the application of the golden rule to society, custom, and law; and whereas the German natiqn hag repeatedly broken the golden rule, and has expressed no repentance for such action, and it is not therefore possible to contemplate that Germany and her allies, while they are unrepentant, should continue to participate in the work of a society whose object is to secure the enforcement of a law which they have broken; therer fore be' it resolved that this National Council of Women request the president of the international council, now that Peace is signed, to call a meeting of allied and neutral countries only, since the National Council of Women of Canada is unwilling to be associated with -the women of the National Council of Germany.”