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British League Societies Avert Break Over Peace Campaign By a Staff Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor. LONDON, Dec. 16—The threatened split in the League of Nations Union over the plan to assume responsibil- ity for the work in Britain of the International Peace Campaign has been averted by a last-minute coin- promise in which the union will merely be represented in I. P. C. instead of being responsible for it. If the original plan had been adopted large numbers of resignations would have occurred on the grounds that the I. P. C. is largely communistic. The union's ability to promote the League's ideals in Britain would have then been jeopardized. Want Stronger League The amended proposal put forward by Viscount Cecil of Chelwood at the general council meeting yesterday passed by an overwhelming majority. It provides for the union's being represented in the I. P. C. like any other organization interested in peace. The meeting was preceded by publication of a manifesto calling on public opinion in Britain and other countries to "reaffirm in clearest manner its fidelity to the principle of collective security as expressed in the League of Nations, its determination to strengthen that League and its wish that the League should be used without qualification for promoting justice and protecting peace." I.P.C. was launched at Geneva in April by Lord Cecil, Prof. Philip Noel Baker, Pierre Cot of France and others with the object of linking together all the organizations working for peace in the various countries, including not only peace and League of Nations societies, but also trade unions, cooperative societies, and so forth. The preliminary work in Great Britain was undertaken by an "autonomous committee" working at the League of Nations Union headquarters with Dame Adelaide Livingstone as secretary. In September, the campaign held a well-attended congress at Brussels at which 30 countries were represented. Shortly afterward, the League Assembly received a special deputation from the congress. Immediately afterward, a proposal to take the campaign on the ordinary budget of the League of Nations Union was approved by the executive committee of the union. In spite of the enthusiasm the campaign has evoked in certain quarters, the plan aroused bitter opposition from a section of the union's supporters, some of whom denounced the campaign as veiled Communist propaganda.
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Full-Text | British League Societies Avert Break Over Peace Campaign By a Staff Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor. LONDON, Dec. 16—The threatened split in the League of Nations Union over the plan to assume responsibil- ity for the work in Britain of the International Peace Campaign has been averted by a last-minute coin- promise in which the union will merely be represented in I. P. C. instead of being responsible for it. If the original plan had been adopted large numbers of resignations would have occurred on the grounds that the I. P. C. is largely communistic. The union's ability to promote the League's ideals in Britain would have then been jeopardized. Want Stronger League The amended proposal put forward by Viscount Cecil of Chelwood at the general council meeting yesterday passed by an overwhelming majority. It provides for the union's being represented in the I. P. C. like any other organization interested in peace. The meeting was preceded by publication of a manifesto calling on public opinion in Britain and other countries to "reaffirm in clearest manner its fidelity to the principle of collective security as expressed in the League of Nations, its determination to strengthen that League and its wish that the League should be used without qualification for promoting justice and protecting peace." I.P.C. was launched at Geneva in April by Lord Cecil, Prof. Philip Noel Baker, Pierre Cot of France and others with the object of linking together all the organizations working for peace in the various countries, including not only peace and League of Nations societies, but also trade unions, cooperative societies, and so forth. The preliminary work in Great Britain was undertaken by an "autonomous committee" working at the League of Nations Union headquarters with Dame Adelaide Livingstone as secretary. In September, the campaign held a well-attended congress at Brussels at which 30 countries were represented. Shortly afterward, the League Assembly received a special deputation from the congress. Immediately afterward, a proposal to take the campaign on the ordinary budget of the League of Nations Union was approved by the executive committee of the union. In spite of the enthusiasm the campaign has evoked in certain quarters, the plan aroused bitter opposition from a section of the union's supporters, some of whom denounced the campaign as veiled Communist propaganda. |
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