IN the midst of the vigorous General Election campaign in Great Brita leading members of all parties were represented on Friday at great non-party peace meetings in London.
Six thousand persons attended the League of Nations Union meeting at the Albert Hall, says a wireless message through Reuter, and the presence on one platform, just before the General Election, of representatives of all three parties was referred to by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Cosmo Long, who occupied the chair, as being an event of almost unprecedented significance.
He directed the attention of Governments throughout the world to this demonstration of national unity on the grave issues now before the League of Nations.
The meeting unanimously pledged itself to the support of the League -measurey deemed necessary to maintain the provisions of the Cove-rant by. collective security.
Lord Cell of Chelwood said there was ne possibility of the League fal ture inthe present crisis, except the possibility of want of resolution on the part of the League Powers.
Sir Austen Chamberlain said it was neither affection for Abyssinia nor dislike of Italy that had brought to the meeting. It was his deep profound conviction that, if ties were solemnly signed, cove-hunts freely undertaken were pledges.
Takes All (o Make Peace Earlier in the day, the Prime Min ister. Mr. Stanley' Baldwin, at"
reeling of the Peace Society, de-ivered' an eloquent speech which ranged over the whole field of international relationship, in the course of which he said that, by the law of the Covenant, they were bound over to make the peace, but they cout not make peace alone. It took tw to make a quarrel, and it would take all to make the peace.
Referring to the scope of the gue. he said:
"We mean nothing by the League Ht we are not. prepared, in the end end after a grave and careful. tris, to take action to enforce its judg: ment. I am an impenitent patriot, but England is no less England be: Jcause she is a member of the League Ske surrenders nothing she would wish to retain merely because she wishes to live at peace with oth tions. 'The League will grow in' strength, and we respect the individ-quality of nations: which compose it. am certain there are millions of American citizens who are watching with lively sympathy our efforts te make the League an instrument world peace. Germany has left the League. We regret it. But the future is open, and I trust that a. solution may not be impossible, Japan Turns Back on Whole World
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