Mitigation Urged for Slaughter of Civilians New York, Oct. 12.
"The world has now reason to hope that the Munich Conference may be the forerunner of further conversations at which may be evolved i ternational understandings which will assure peace for Europe and peace for all the world for decades," declared Mr. Harry H. Woodring, Secretary for War, while visiting the site for a new dam at Cherokee, Ok-
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"If the tine is not opportune for an international agreement limiting armaments and armies to purely defensive roles," he added, "can we not anticipate some mitigation of the merciless slaughter of civilians from the skies which has characterised conflicts in recent years?"—Reuter.
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