PLEA FOR PEACE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 January 1939, Page 5

PLEA FOR PEACE

MADE BY EMINENT MEN IN BRITAIN ISSUED TO THE PRESS FOR PUBLICATION. MANY NOTABLE SIGNATORIES. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day. 10.30 a.m.) RUGBY. January 27. An eloquent appeal for peace and co-operation among the nations, over the signatures of nearly a score of public men eminent in diverse fields of activity—literature, education, law. science, finance, medicine, administration, art and music—has been issued to the Press for publication. The signatories are the Marquis of Wellington. Lord Derby. Lord Dawson of Penn, Lord Horder. Lord MacMillan, Lord Stamp. Messrs Montague Norman, H. A. L. Fisher and G. M. Trevelyan, Lord Eustace Percy, Sir Michael Sadler, Dr Vaughan Williams, Sir William Bragg, Sir Arthur Eddington. Sir Edwin Lutyens, Sir Kenneth Clark, Mr John Masefield and Lord Burghley. The appeal states that a spirit of uneasiness broods over the world and that civilisation is threatened with the greatest catastrophe in human history. The statement appeals to the peoples of all nations to "use those great gifts by which they for centuries enriched our common inheritage in all fields of human knowledge and activity, and join with us in a supreme effort to lay the spectre of war and enmity between nations and, in the spirit of free and willing co-operation by which alone can their needs and ours be satisfied, to build with us a better future, so that we may not only preserve civilisation, but hand it down to our children enhanced by our experience.”

TIMELY EFFORT CONTRIBUTION TO CASE AGAINST WAR. BROADCASTS TO GERMANY. (Received This Day, 11.35 a.m.) LONDON, January 27. The Australian Associated Press says the statement issued by distinguished public men was submitted before publication to the highest quarters, where it is regarded as one of the greatest possible contributions to' the moral case against war and is considered most timely. Arrangements are being made to broadcast the statement to Germany at least three times tonight. It will also be included in all other foreign programmes from the 8.8. C. The signatories include science and art leaders who have a recognised following in Germany.