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WORLDWIDE DRIVE
PLANNED AS PEACE
CONGRESS OPENS
MarShaIing of Church, School
and Press for Better Under
standing Alliance Topic.
CYNICISM SCORED
AS WORST IN HISTORY
DR.. Atkinson Points to Fact Three
Quarters of Worlds People
Are in Revolt.

Marshaling the forces of church
school and press in the cause of worlo
peace based on international under
standing was discussed at the opening
meeting at the Willard this morning
of the Goodwill Congress of the World
Alliance for international Friendship
which will continue in session for threa
days.
Before this organization tomorrow
President leoover win deliver his annual
Armistice day address.
There never has been more cynicism
regarding the possibility OF permanent
world peace than in the present time
of .sreSurgence of truculent national
ism DR.. Henry A. Atkinson, general
secretary. told the Congress. This was
emphasized, he said, in the deep fog
which seemed to envelope the last
League of Nations assembly, which
lacked the customary atmosphere OF
hope: - y.
cuss measures of peace when at least
taree-quarters of the people of the world
are living in countries convulsed with
revolution or on the point of revolution
World debts, tariff walls and reparatlons
were answered in the general elections
In Germany by putting in power a new
force, which promises to become a real
dictatorship. One is brought. to realize
more than ever that the margin between
peace and war is a very narrow one"
FutiIity Of Fact.
The kellogg pact, Mr. Atkinson said,
presumably would bring about war
less world if accepted literally at Its
full significance. But, he continued,
'the League delegates paid verbal hon.
age and then proceeded to act on the
old principle that has guided the world
since the beginning of time. In a war
less world peacemakers are talking
about maximum ornaments and the
next war methods of defense and are
trying to provide the means for regu-
1ating the mind Of man so that the
fury of the next outbreak may be in
some measure restrained. The shadow
OF the mailed fist of the god of war falls
across every conference table"
The program of the World Alliance
he emphasized is based on the recog
milton that world peace can be attained
only by developing friendship between
the peoples Of various countries. through
commerce, are. srieuces transpo rtation,
education and religion. IF the COM
bined religious, moral and spiritual re-
sources of mankind he said, brought
to bear upon these problems cannot
help them, then there iseflo help pos
sible."
Disarmament" declared Prof. James
7. Shotwell of Columbia University, lis
net a short cut nor even direct road
toward world peace. SO long as de-
Tense is necessary the weapons OF de-
Tense are necessary also"
France, he said, has been the leading
interpreter Of this emphasis on secur-
ity, in the face of the criticism that
security for one nation makes insecur-
ity fer others. Prof Shotwel proposed
a disarmament conference meeting
periodically at two or three year inter-
walls. as q permanent institution with
an international secretariat. Great
Britain, he said, now is advancing this
proposal IN Geneva, but it first origi-
mated in the United States.
Fighting Machine Units.
THE Preparatory Commission in
disarmament now meeting in Geneva, ="
he said, has as its chief task to find
what units are comparable in the fight
ing machines OF the world. and then
how many of each of these units the
different nations should keep. We have
seen in the London Conference how
difflcult it has been to reach agree
ment as to the relative value of six or
eight inch guns, but this is a simple
problem compared to that of matching
armies. How many conscript troops
are the equivalent of soldier? DO we
count reserves or only those under
arms? If we include all the potential
dangers we limit the onward march Of
science and the machinery Of peaceful
international communication. If we
Go not include them we do not include
the chief elements of destruction in
future wars, for war has changed its
nature from the limited specialization
of the past to include all the resources
that a nation possesses.
1T should be clear that only small
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