The Archive · 1938

China Aid Conference

Delegates from many countries will attend the International Conference te be held for promoting the boycott of Japan to aid China. The conference opens on Saturday and will continue through Sunda; Mme. Sun Yat-sen will address a mass meeting in the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden on Sunday evening. The meeting, with which the conference will be concluded, will be attended by the principal delegates, The British delegation, headed by Lord Cecil President of the League of Nations Union and author of "The Way of Peace," will include Sir Arthur Salter, Independent M.P. for Oxford University; Sir Norman Angell the author and lecturer who, in 1933, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize; Mr. Samuel Vyvyan Adams, Unionist MP, for West Leeds; Mr. Philip Noel-Baker, Miss Megan Lloyd George, Mr. Arthur Henderson, Labour M.P, for the Kingswinford division of Staffordshire, and Viscountess Gladstone.

Among the foreign visitors will be M. Camille J. J. Huysmans, the Bel-Zion politician and journalist, M. Leon Jouhaux, editor of the French trade union organ, the Labour Sodalist "Peuple," other representatives of trade unions and ex-servicemen associations and a number of distinguished scientists.

The British trade union movement will be strongly represented.

The Conference is being held under the auspices of the International Peace Campaign.—Reuter.

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