PLACE AND ARBITRATION.
At the recent annual National Council of the British Women’s Temperance Association, held in London, the following resolution was passed by a standing vote. The Council was attended by no less than 731 “registered delegates,” despite the war conditions and expenses of travel from all parts, and there i ere only four dissentients to the motion, as put thus: “This Council declares, on behalf of the National 8.W.T.A., its conviction that as soon as (treat Britain and her Allies have terminated this war, by a peace which shall re-establish the civilisation of the world on a safe . nd permanent foundation, the nations that have fought for the cause of free-
dom, justice, and international rightcoumh ss, should concentrate their most determined religious and political energies on chec king the spread of the ‘military spirit,’ with all its attendant evi's big armaments, international rivalry, and ever recurring bloodshed ; and this Council dedicates itself ,to the task of helping forward all national efforts which shall have for their goal the realisation, as the vital, compelling, practical basis of al! statecraft, of the Gospel truth of the Brotherhood of Man.”
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White Ribbon, Volume 23, Issue 268, 18 October 1917, Page 15
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190PLACE AND ARBITRATION. White Ribbon, Volume 23, Issue 268, 18 October 1917, Page 15
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