The Washington times., 1938-01-22
Peace Group
Ends Meeting

There has to be concerted &C.
ton in seeing that aggression
does not pay before the hope for
peace car be realized, Pierre de
Lanux, director of the Paris
Bureau, League of Nations, told
delegates of the thirteenth an
nual conference on the Cause
and Cure of War, at the closing
session lsst night in the Wash
ington Hotel.
"In my opinion" declared M.
de Lanux, "the chances for peace
are all included in the answer to
one single question: Can we see
to it that aggression does not
pay. Unless the question Is an
swered in the affirmative be-
lieve that war will spread and
that more and more nations will
resort to it.
ECONOMIC ARMS CITED
SIT happens that we, the
peaceful nations, have it still in
our power to make war a fail
ure for anybody who resorts to
it in violation of our common
pledges. And we have it still in
our power to do so by other
than a military counter-attack.
We still have economic weapons
so powerful that by merely TAX
ing a negative attitude toward
an aggresSor, we could deprive
him of the means of carrying
on his war"
M. de Lanux pointed out that
Single-handed action against an
aggressor by any single nation
is not the desirable way, as it
will only bring hostility a nd
long resentment. He concluded
by saying:
eff there is to be concerted
action to make sure that he
who resorts to war can reap no
reward whatsoever, and to make
sure that he knows it, then and
then only will there be a re-
newed, reasonable and truly in.
spring hope for peace"
Another speaker last night
was Mrs. Harper Sibley, of
Rochester, vice president of the
National Council of Federated
Church Women and a member
of the national board of the
Y. w. C. A., whose belief that
peace-loving nations must make
a united effort to uphold law
and principles, was a great in
spiration to the listeners.
CADDEN SPEAKS
Miss Josephine Schain, Of
New York City, chairman Of the
conference, conducted the seS-
sion. Approximately 1000 dele
gates and interested wom e n
have attended the meetings
since the conference opened
Tuesday morning. There has
been a large interest among
local women, with at least sew
eral hundred attending.
Joseph Cadden, chairman Of
the organizing committee Of the
World Youth Conference, was
one of the speakers yesterday
afternoon. He declared in part:
youth is a primary raw ma
terial of war. This simple ex-
plicit fact should be continual
and shocking warning to par
ents-as we'll as young people.
Instead, judging from the ap-
athletic attitude of most people
and most governments, it seems
to be a normalcy to be quietly
accepted"
A highlight at yesterdays
early session was the presenta-
tion of the 1888 program by the
Findings Committee. The major
recommendation is as follows:
That during the year 1888,
the member organizations lay
major emphasis on the neceS-
sity of the cooperation Of the
United States with other ma
tions to eliminate war and to
establish and maintain peace
with justice.
The Findings Committee also
reported:
1.-THE year 1887 has brought
into startling prominence the
failure of mankind to curb wars
of aggression and conquest.
Those very countries in which
there remains conviction that
war is a crime and never should
be used as an instrument OF
policy, present the appalling
spectacle of impotence and fail
ure to unite to use their un-
doubted power to bring to an
end the present condition Of in
ternational lawleSsneSS. The
present situation is intolerable;
it must be met by concerted &C
ton for peace"