CHILDREN’S PEACE LEAGUE.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 September 1921, Page 4

CHILDREN’S PEACE LEAGUE.

PROPOSED ADDRESSES FOR < SCHOOLS.

CANTERBURY BOARD ADVERSE. '

By Telegraph -Pre<w Asaociation Christchurch, Last Night. The application from the National Peace Council for permission to address children in the schools and to form branches of the Peace League was refused by the Canterbury Education Board at its meeting to-day. A deputation headed by Mr. C. R. McKenzie, the secretary of the council, waited on the board, following upon a letter in which the former body outlined its aims. The board defined its attitude in the following resolution: “That while the board is mindful of the untold blessings that would result from a universal and stable peace,’ and is earnestly desirous that the endeavors of the League of Nations may bring such a peace within measureable distance, it cannot regard with approval, or even with equanimity the propaganda of a body that, at a time of imminent peril, merely took up the attitude of benevolent, but nevertheless dangerous, neutrality which, had it been shared by the majority of people, would have spelt disaster to the British Empire and deprived her citizens of that freedom which all unbiased persons recognise they enjoy under the present constitutional Government, and that, therefore, the board cannot accede to the request preferred by the National Peace Council.” The letter from the Peace Council read that a Children’s Peace League in New Zealand is being formed, and askii for an assurance that no unnecessary obstacle wijl be placed in the way of the council’s addressing children and forming branches of the league in schools, also expressing the hope that the council had the goodwill of the board in approaching school committees and seeking their active co-operation, and their consent to use the school buildings.