Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-03
PEACE IS ISSUE
FIN ENGLISH VOTING
aMake Kellogg Pact a Real
J ity" Is Slogan of Brit
I iSh Women.
3y the Associated Press.

b. the Associated Press.
? LONDON, May 3.-Strong in tn.
power of voting majority of 100000
British women are waging a great peact
crusade throughout the country Il
make international peace an election
issue.
I Make the Kellogg pact reality L
their slogan, and their twofold object
is to focus the attention of woman
voters on the question of internationa
peace and to impress on parliamentary
candidates of all parties that those who
represent women in the law-makinp
body shall also be peacemakers.
Twenty-eight of the important wom-
ems organizations in Great Britain are
cooperating with the women's peace
crusade, and a similar group of Amer
itan women's societies, headed by the
Conference on the Cause and Cure OF
War and the Young Women's Christian
Association, is giving the British wom-
en- support in their campaign.
Have Efficient Organization.
"A highly efficient organization is
spread throughout the country under rs
centralized crusade committees repre-
senttng all the local women's societies
at work in Great Britain. More than
600 meetings and public demonstrations
already have been held.
Parliamentary meetings, dinner hour
. meetings for factory girls and special
meetings for the new young woman vot-
ers are among the special campaign
features.
The chief line of action is the presen-
tation of a QUESTIONABLE on foreign
folicy to all parliamentary candidates
by women'S populations from their con-
stituencieS. Their replies in every case
are to be published in local papers.
The questions follows:
/. Kellogg pact. Seeing that in sign-
Ing the Kellogg pact we have renounced
war as an instrument of national policy.
will you urge that this principle should
be strictly observed in every dispute
with other countries without reserya-
tions?
: 2. Optional clause. Will you vote
and speak in favor of Great Britain
signing the optional clause of the
statute establishing the Permanent
Court of International Justice, by
which she would bind herself to take
TO the court any justifiable dispute
which cannot otherwise be peacefully
settled?
3. Pacific settlement of international
disputes. Will you vote and speak in
favor of the British government accept
ing the obligation to settle all inter-
national disputes by peaceful means?
Ask Disarmament Stand.
4. Disarmament Will you urge upon
the government to insist at the Pre-
paratory Disarmament Commission that
reduction as well as limitation of all
armaments is required of all members
OF the League. and to make definite
proposals for this purpose? Will you
do all in your power to urge the calling
Of the International Disarmament Con-
ference in 1929?
5. Evacuation of the Rhine. Are
you in favor of the immediate evacua-
ton Of the Rhineland, seeing that In
article 2 of the pact of Paris we have
undertaken not to seek settlement of
International disputes except by peace
fpl means?
3 The women's peace crusade Is headed
by Lady Acland, chairman of the COM
Iaittee, and Mrs. Pethick-Lawrence,
Honorary treasurer
Among the well known women sup
porting the movement are Lady Astor,