"Full House" at Peace Conference Held In Manchester A peace conference, declared to be the first in Manchester to secure a "full house," was held at Milton Hall last month under the chairmanship of Mr. P. M. Oliver, and the attendance represented the League of Nations Union, the International Peace Campaign, the China Relief and Campaign Committee, and the Spanish Medical Aid Committee.
Mr. P. M, Oliver, referring to a resolution asking the Government to take a lead in efforts to stop bombing of open towns, remarked that ultimately we could not prevent bombing from the air unless we prevented war itself, One of the greatest contributions this country could make to sanity and decency in the world would be to give up the right we had so far claimed to bomb native villages on the confines of our Empire.
Mrs. de Courcy Ireland moved the resolution against bombing, one demand of which was "a stringent embargo on oil and war materials des-uried for any country guilty of aggression." Miss Muriel Roberts, just home from the American conference representative of young people, sèc-ended the resolution, which was card unanimously.
resolution calling for wide extension of League of Nations medical ud refugee services in Spain and China was carried on the proposition of Mr. de Courcy Ireland.
Mr. L, F. Behrens moved a resolution on the present Czech crisis which urged that the best hope of preserve ing peace was in ce-operation between the peace-loving countries in defence of the common peace, The resolution also expressed admiration of the courage and sagacity of the Government and people of Czecho-Slovakia, and declared that no solution of the grievances of any section of its citizens could be fairly considered until the threat of violence from within or from without the State was removed.
Mr. Behrens urged that the choice lay between some small risk of war now and a far greater risk of war in the near future. Unity in this country could be secured only on the principles of the League of Nations. Praising the courage and sagacity of the people of Czecho-Slovakia, he said at Hitler was a clever man who had the inspiration of the devil, but the grievances of Czech minorities could not be considered with violence of a most frightful force threatening in the background, The resolution was carried, together with a demand for the immediate assembly of Parliament.
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