THE ALLIES' PEACE AIMS SIR,—Since your correspondent Mr. H. A.
Kelso in your issue of January 5th misrepresents the Peace Ballot of 1935 by calling it a pledge, by saying it had an anti-rearmament bias and in other ways, in fairness will you kindly publish the questions on the Ballot Paper? They were : t. Should Great Britain remain a member of the League of Nations? 2. Are you in favour of an all-round reduction of armaments by international agreement? 3. Are you in favour of the all-round abolition of national military and naval aircraft by international agreement? 4. Should the manufacture and sale of armaments for private profit be prohibited by inter- national agreement? 5. Do you consider that if a nation insists on attacking another the other nations should combine to compel it to stop by (a) economic and non-military measures, (b) if necessary, military measures?
6,833,803 answers to question 5 (b) were in the affirmative. Canvassers did not, as Mr. H. A. Kelso suggests, work on a commission basis.—I am, yours faithfully, 3 South Hill Crescent, Sunderland. JAS. W. STEWART.
Previous page
