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Women’s Peace League Also Calls for Withdrawal of Foreign Troops.ONE-THIRD CUT SOUGHT IN ARMS EXPENDITUREHallgren Assails Defense Policy of U. S. as Preparation for New War Abroad.IPresident Roosevelt was a^ked to rail for mediation of the Spanish civil war and for immediate withdrawal of foreign troops from Spain in resolutions adopted today by *h* Women’s International League for Peare and i Freedom at the closing session of a four-dav annual meeting a* the Washington Hotel.An immediate reduction of one--h;rd in the budget of all nations for armaments was advocated b\ the league In another resolution. The President was asked to initiate action to prohibit *he shipment of iron or other raw material which might be used for milhary purposes to any nation which might refuse to make the reduction. Another resolution was adopted requesting all nations to prohibr the shipment of munitions and arms or arm*d for re. to any faction in a civil war or to any nation engaged In war.Hallgren Hits National Defiance.Mauritz Hallgren. author of ' The Tragic Fallacy,” told members of the league that national defense in the United States ' is not a defense policy, but is preparation for another war I abroad He declared that it is the| pacifist “who is the true patriot ”I Mass organization of labor and agriculture. together with such organizations as the league. i« necessary to bring adequate opposition to bear S against military preparation:. h° said. In other resolutions the league requested the temporary liPing of pro-visions of the newly enacted neutrality law to permit the sending of food, clothing and medical supplies to Span-J- ish war sufferers; advoca*ed admm-id istration of the Civilian Conservation )r Corps by the Interior Department, -• commended the Senate for its civil • liberties investigation, and recom-c mended study by Congress of co-operatives as a means of expressing the0 *echmque of non-violent social read-.lustment.The league denounced the marital ld status section of the economy act as “a grossly repressive measure re-m sembling those laws in Fascist Ger-!d many and Italy which have dismissed women from government positions and barred them from participation ir. public affairs.” and voted to support the Celler repeal bill.New Board Elected.Tie new Board of Directors of 18 members, including five from the District of Columbia, was elected and will hold its first meeting this afternoon. E Washington members are Mrs Bertha R McNeill. Mrs. Faith Ward Libby. Mrs. lfj Ernest Gruening. Miss Dorothy Detzer j and Miss Elizabeth Christman Amor.g v the other members of the board are y* Representative Caroline O'Day of New York and Mrs Helen Taft Mar-r. nine, daughter of the la*e Chiefn Justice.r Following its closing session the icj league held a special ceremony :n commemoration of the signing of the Rush-Bagot treaty which disarmed the United States at the Canadian border. Mrs Gruening presided at the ceremony, which took place a-y the tablet erected two years ago on1 the site of the former British Legation. where the treaty was signed m 1817.Among those participating were Mrs. Hannah Clothier Hull, international president of the league, and Representative Nan Honeyman of Oregon, who was the principal speaker. Representatives were present from a number of international peace organizations and from the Canadian Legation and the State Department. There was music by the Navy Band.Is
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Evening Star
Washington, Washington-DC, US
Mon, May 03, 1937
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