March 20.-DISARMAMENT. Resolved: "That this Committee observe with much satisfaction the reply given by Her Majesty's Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs to Sir James Carmichael, to the effect that Her Majesty's Government would be quite ready to consider and support any practical proposals for arriving at some international understanding as to the relative strength at which the armaments of the respective nations should be maintained, with a view to checking the vast and ever-growing Military and Naval expenditure which is crippling the commercial resources and impoverishing the population of every civilised country.' "That this Committee would urge their friends on the Continent, in their respective localities, to take advantage of the opening thus afforded and make new efforts to induce their several Governments to unite in an international movement towards simultaneous and proportionate reduction of Naval and Military Armaments." "Further, that copies of this resolution be sent to Sir James Carmichael, and to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, with a letter stating that this Committee have received frequent evidence from the Continent that a proposal made by Great Britain would be favourably entertained." -THE UNIVERSITIES ALLIANCE.-The Chairman wrote that Dr. Richet was visiting Lausanne with a view of taking counsel with the professors of the University of that city as to the inauguration of this movement at Geneva. He also intended to visit Turin, Milan, and Rome, and later on other Universities, including that at Moscow. Resolved: "That the Committee hear with much satisfaction of the progress of this movement." 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Ir is with much regret that we make the announcement that, until further notice, CONCORD will only appear every other month instead of every month as heretofore. This step has been rendered necessary by the condition of the funds of the Association, which imperatively demand that a saving in expenditure should be made. Meanwhile, we most earnestly appeal to our friends to do their utmost to obtain new subscribers, in order that this change may be only temporary, and that as soon as possible this Journal may again appear every month. The next number of CONCORD will accordingly be published in July. NOTICE. THE PEACE CONGRESS OF 1894.-The Committee appointed by the Fifth Universal Peace Congress at Chicago to determine the place and time of meeting for the Sixth Congress, have resolved that it be held at ANTWERP, on WEDNESDAY, August 29th, 1894, and three following days. According to a further resolution of the above-named Committee, the INTERNATIONAL PEACE BUREAU AT BERNE has been charged with the duty of carrying out the arrangements, in communication with a local Committee at Antwerp. PROGRAMME. The Organising Committee has resolved to place the following subjects on the Congress programme, and has invited all the Peace Societies to suggest others: 1. An international Truce. 2. Reform of international law, and the establishment of a permanent Court of Arbitration. 3. Questions relating to propaganda. WHICH FIRST: TRUCE, DISARMAMENT, OR ARBITRATION TREATIES? No reforms, social, political, or religious, would ever be accomplished at all if reformers were to calculate their chances of success before proceeding to take action. The only way to success is to go straight on, when the aim in view is the welfare of man. Our Association, therefore, has done its duty in forwarding to Queen Victoria a memorial praying that Her Majesty should invite the Powers to consider jointly the possibility of adopting some reduction in the Whatever may military burdens of Europe. be the result, our Association will always have the credit of having taken a practical step towards giving satisfaction to the prayers of the peoples; towards the relief of many nations from the danger of ruin; and towards the establishment of Peace. How striking are the words recently uttered by the veteran statesman, M. Jules Simon! "Oh, that my voice could reach a sovereign who, burdened with years and glory, is ready to appear soon before the Supreme Tribunal and render an account of a life's work, so that I might persuade him to take this great step! He would give ear to me, as he fears God." The honour of taking such a step would for ever belong to England and to her Sovereign, even if the present effort failed in its accomplishment. The act would never be forgotten by the world, and would strengthen the forces which make for justice and peace. It is especially creditable to our Association that it has had the courage of its opinions in this matter, because it has been obliged to act alone. Certainly it is easier for English peacemakers to take such a step, than for those who are citizens of States which are not neutral in the great controversy which afflicts Europe. It was because our Continental colleagues are, unhappily, members of communities concerned in a terrible antagonism, that neither the International League of Peace and Liberty, nor the French Arbitration Society, has felt able to take any steps on behalf either of a truce or of disarmament. Neither by the members of those two societies, nor by their fellow-citizens |