APA—A Year's Progress

A YEAR ago an article appeared in the Spectator -EX- announcing the formation of a new international society, the All Peoples Association. Many readers of the Spectator joined the new movement and gave it their suppOrt. So far 1,400 members have been enrolled, and a strong Governing Council has been formed on which are represented members of all three parties, for APA (pronounced Ahpa) is entirely non-party. Sister societies have been established or are in process of -formation in. France, Germany, Italy, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Czecho- slovakia and elsewhere. Thirty nationalities are repre- sented in the present membership, which is growing rapidly.

It is sometimes asked : " Why should another inter-, national society be necessary ; surely • APA -overlaps with some of the existing organizations ? " The new movement is different from all existing societies because it does not advocate any particular form of international co-operation (although its members are firm believers in the League of Nations) and it has no other purpose than to make all the peoples of the world better known to one another. The society aims at carrying out this object by various means, such as the publication of a monthly magazine in • French, German and English,- and the opening in London at an early date of a central club-house with reading and writing-rooms and information office, where the visitor to Great Britain will be made. welcome and where British members interested in inter- national friendship will be afforded an opportunity of meeting those from other countries.

Those joining APA do not join a merely local British society, but are associating themselves with a world movement which hopes in the course of time to establish active centres in every country in the world, so that the foreigner, wherever he may be, shall never feel lonely again. It seeks by -various methods to establish persthal contact between its members in all countries. The follow- ing is the list of Honorary Corresponding SecretarieS already appointed by APA Oslo.—Per Vogt, Esq., Sirilund, yettakollen, Pr. Oslo, Norway; Budapest.—Madame de Guilleaume, IXm, Gonezy. , Pal Utea 4. Budapest, • Hungary.

Berlin.—Mrs. Fylernan, Barbarossastr 26, Berlin, W.30. Germany; Edinburgh.—J. de Gruehy Gaudin, Esq., Edinburgh International Club, 3 West Castle Road, Edinburgh.

-Helsingfors.—Fru Helmi Krohn, Helsinki (Helsingfors), Turuntifs . 38, Finland:

Hon. Secretaries of National APA Associations, Branches and Groups.

Belgrade.—Monsieur Z. V. Simi& 11 Petra Mrkonjica, Belgrade, Yugoslavia.

Bonn A/R.—Professor F. Kern, Haydnstr. 12 Bonn A/R. Germany. Copenhagen.—Mrs. Bodil Begtrup, Wildersgade 60, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Kaunas.—Adele Galauniene,. RotuMs Oikste 11-5, Kaunas, Lithuania.

Paris.—Mademoiselle L. Weiss, L'Europe Nouvelle, 73 bis Quai d'Orsay, Paris. Assistant Secretary : Mademoiselle Gautier, who deals with enquiries and correspondence.

Prague.—Professor J. B. Kozak, Prague VII., Zatisti 4, Czecho- slovakia. -

Tallinn.—Herr Jiirganson, Teede Ministeerium, Tallinn, Estonia: Vienna.=Countess von Hartenau, 1 Parkring 18, Wien, Austria. Zagreb.—Madame Paula de TJ1marisky, Zagreb, Demetrova

mica 13, Yugoslavia. , . .

During. the past year in London a successful and largely attended series of national evenings have been held by APA, including. French, German and Hungarian, Czechoilovakian and Indian evenings. The creed of the association is :— " Believing that ignorance of the aims and aspirations of other nations is at the base of much international misunderstanding we pledge ourselves—provided that by so doing we are not asked to do anything conflicting with our duties as loyal citizens of the country of our birth or adoption—to promote by every means in our power a good understanding between the peoples of the world."

And the motto is : " World Service."

The membership fee, which includes the right to receive the periodical Bulletin of APA, has been pur- posely fixed at the moderate sum of 10s. per annum. Readers of the Spectator interested in international co-operation can obtain a copy of the current issue of APA's Bulletin and full details of the movement free of charge on writing to the Hon. Secretary of APA, 99 Gower Street, London, W.C. 1.