The Archive · 1938

"JAPANESE BOYCOTT"

BALLOT MOOTED

"China Week" Organized for Britain London, Feb. 15.

As a result of the week-end anti-

Japanese conference, the committes of the International Peace Campaign is to-day considering the proposal submitted by Lord Cecil, President of the League of Nations Union, who presided at the conference.

Lord Cecil suggested a nation-wide ballot, similar to the famous peace ballot, asking; "Will you join a boycott of Japanese goods?"

The Chinese committee of the Campaign has organized a "China Week'

next week, with meetings to be held throughout the country. A million leaflets urging a boycott against Japan and explaining the modus operandi will be distributed.

—Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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