Evening star., 1936-04-22
LANSBURYP PLEADS
FOR WORLD PEACE
British Labor Leader Makes
Vigorous Appeal at
Conference.

Spurred by vigorous international
peace plea by George Lansbury, for
rner leader of the British Labor party,
delegates to the National Peace Con-
ference today were returning to their
homes in various parts of the country
with the avowed intention Of COM
batting militarization Of America and
promoting world peace by supporting
President Roosevelt in his good neigh
Dor" policy.
In closing business sessions of their
two-day convention at the Washing
ton Hotel yesterday afternoon, the
delegates-who represented "a Ma
tion-wide organizations-passed va
riety of resolutions which will be
submitted to the member groups for
further consideration. At the final
banquet last night they heard a dozen
speeches denouncing war and plead
ing for "reaSonableneSs" in settling in
ternational disputes.
Foremost among the principles ap-
proved by the convention are con-
demnation Of the continuing wicked
war of Italy on Ethiopia" Endorsement
OF the coming inter American peace
conference, strong opposition to the
rapid militarization of the United
States now going on" and immediate
rejection of Admiral Standley's re-
quest, made as chief of naval opera
tions, for two additional battleships." +"
Lansbury Urges Conference.
In his first address to an American
audience. Lansbury urged his listen
ers last night to make new start
In dealing with the problem of war
and call an international conference
to discuss the causes of conflict and
set to work Immediately to eliminate
them" The conference, he said,
should include subject peoples such
as India and Egypt, as well as the great
powers of the world.
When nations give as much at
tention to the problems Of peace as
they now give to preparations for
war" he declared. "the international
difficulties will solve themselves"
There. can be no such thing as "a
war to end war;" the veteran British
statesman warned. Wars always leave
the seeds of future wars, he added.
Lansbury invited American peace
leaders to join Great Britain in lead
ing the world in more vigorous peace
movement than any yet undertaken.
Propaganda Criticized.
Robert L. O'Brien, chairman Of the
Tariff Commission and staunch
supporter of reciprocal trade treaties,
States, which, he said, inevitably is
breeding warfare. He blamed the
Military Academy at West Point and
the Naval Academy at Annapolis for
''giving the country too many propa-
gandlstS for national defense"
The director of the conference, DR..
Walter w. Van Kirk, reviewed prog
ress of the conference in uniting Amer
ican peace organizations of all shades
of opinions and asserted "a will to
peace" now exists in this country in
greater strength than ever before.
Objecting to military hysteria," he
Bald the United States is threatened
with becoming "a gigantic lunatic asy-
ium" unless large military and naval
appropriations are stopped immedi-
etely. He exhorted the members Of
the conference to make their organi-
cations function politically as we'll as
educationally in behalf of peace.
Representative Caroline O'Day Of
New York spoke briefly. Peace in the
world nowadays, she said, requires a
new code of morality, a new scheme Of
international ethics.
Emphatically denouncing super
patriots who stir up animosity be-
tween nations" Representative Sis
son of New York delivered a brief
TRADE against the Daughters Of the
American Revolution and shouted: II
hope my voice carries to the Daugh-
ters now holding meetings in this very
same CITY," He said the D. A. R., by
demanding immigration barriers and
other nationalistic measures, is "advo-
eating all the irritants which make for
war"
In resolution indorsing the COM
ing Inter-American Conference. the
delegates yesterday declared them
selves in favor Of the good neighbor
policy which has been and is an out