Evening star., 1925-04-28
CALLING OF PEACE
CONGRESS LOOMS
InterparIiamentary Unions
Session Here Expected
to Be FOrerunner.
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

- definite movement will be
launched in Washington next October
for the assembling of a Third 1nterna-
tional Peace Congress on the lines of
the first and second Hague confer
enCeS of 899 and 1907. The move
ment will be sponsored by the twenty
third conference of the Interparlia-
mentary Union at the invitation of
President Coolidge and pursuant to a
special act of Congress. More than
200 representative statesmen of Eu-
rope and South America will be pres
ent. They will be the guests of the
American Group of the Interparlia-
mentary Union, which includes a ma
jority Of the members of both the
Senate and House of Representatives.
Senator Mckinley of Illinois, preSi-
dent Of the group, and Representative
Burton of Ohio, n member of the
executive committee, are comforting
in Paris this week with members of
the Interparliamentary Unions coun-
ell. Details of the Washington meet
ing will be settled at that meeting.
1t is exactly y years ago that the
1nterparliamentary Union last met in
the United States. The occasion was
the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at
ST. Louis. The union in that year,
1904. took the initiatiYe in steps that
induced the late Gar of Russia to call
the second Hague conference three
years later. Union leaders hope and
believe that history viii repeat itself.
They confidently eXnect that the in
ternationaI public opinion which they
will reflect at the Washington confer
enCe in October will lead TO the as
sembling of another world peace con-
gresS, this time perhaps under Ameri-
can auspices. The purpose of a third
congress would he to consider the
whole problem of international law.
EurOpe's Representatives.
Some of the outstanding figures in
European politics will attend the In
terparliamentary Union conference. A
dozen countries have already an
nOunCed their intention of sending del
egatiOns. An unusually strong dele
cation is coming from Germany. 1t
Will be headed by DR.. Joseph Wirth,
former chancellor. who was at the
head of the German government when
the United States concluded its treaty
of peace with Germany. Other dis
tinguished German parliamentarians
will include Paul Loebe, president of
the ReichStag; Walter SchueCkling,
Germany's most eminent international
authority: Herren Rheinbaben, Won
Raumer and Koch. all ex-cabinet min
listers; Herren Breitscheid and David,
prominent Social Democratic leaders,
and Prof. Hoetsch, one of the pillars
of the Nationalist party, but a man
of wide international outlook.
MeSsrs. Ramsay Macdonald and
Arthur Henderson, Great Britain s
principal Labor statesmen, have ten
tatively sisnified their intention of
coming to the Washington conference.
France will send an imposing delega-
ton, but has not yet named it. Its
makeup will depend upon the kalsido-
scopiC changes bound to take place
in the French parliament iL the
meantime. 1t is hoped that NJ. Her
riot, the late premier. may be Z mem
ber of the French party.
Delegations Are Set
Countries which have already fixed
the number of their delegates to the
nterparliamentary Union conference
are as follows:
Germany, 81.
Great Britain, &c.
Poland. 10.
Sweden, u.