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Program and National and International Aims © Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom United States Program for 1923-24 The Section for the United States at the National Conference assembled | at Washington, March 14-16, 1923, adopted the following program: . INTERNATIONAL. qd) Continuous efforts to obtain a New Peace in accordance wi i d December, 1922. (2) Pro- motion of a widespread unders t International Court at The Hague. (3) Educational work fea al action on the “Outlawry of War.” NATIONAL. (1) Intensive and extensive educational work in regard to the new national military system inco orated in the National Defense Act of 1920, and which is being developed t roughout the United States. (2) A systematic development of junior interna $ g people. (3) Further organization of States by Congressiona ic practica- ble. (4) Establishment of an International House in Washington. (5) Co-op- eration with other organized groups. - . : National Aims = ; The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Section for the United States, in convention assembled at Washington, D. C., April, 1922, asserted its conviction “that the aim of all International Peace efforts should be to outlaw war itself and to abolish it as a le ized institution, instead of to regulate it; and that to this end a code 0 international law, based upon equity and justice between nations, as municipal Jaw is based upon equity and justice between individuals, be. erected, by which the waging of war be made a crime, defined and punishable under the terms of the code.” Further principles for which the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom of the United States has stood inelude the international control of seas and international waterways; the abolishment of secret covenants; democratic control of foreign policies; no transference of territory without the consent of its inhabitants; the removal of the economic causes of war; the participation of the U in a League of Nations and a World Court of Justice; oppositio as well as to school military train- ing; the education ‘of youth in the ideals of peace; and a unive system ~ of ethies to be pre by an international commission for use in the, schools of all countries. ; 20 ‘Looking toward the realization of the above aims, the National Board - n “ : recommends that the ited States Section: (1) Support the Resolution of the Women’s International League Con- > tss of Vienna and of The Hague by making the Revision of the eace terms its immediate International interest. ° .: (2) Continue its efforts on behalf of the peo les of the famine areas of ~" Burope, the recognition of the present vernments of Russia and ~ of Mexico and the withdrawal of ‘American troops from Haiti and San ngo. ; . For the tmmediate National Interest the National Board Continued efforts to end the dis: to the United States, both of the withholding of amnesty to political z. soners, and of the substitution of lynch- ing or other forms of mob violence for the due process of law; a Particular study of all National, State and City laws, pending bills and Administrative policies which have direct or indirect bearing upon the pos-