"War Atmosphere"

They met in the Royal Gallery of the House of Lords last week, and for them King George gave a reception at Windsor Castle. Their skins were brown, yellow and white, but each of the 500 was like the others in being a legislator, a member of some duly elected Parliament, Congress or Diet. Arriving from 32 countries they met in London as the Inter-Parliamentary Union and began to talk "Peace."

Speech of the week was that made by Edgar Algernon Robert Cecil, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, leading British exponent of the League of Nations (during the War, Minister of Blockade). "The peace current is slackening," he warned. "Old tendencies which ultimately lead to war are beginning once more to assert themselves. . . . No one who watched the negotiations of the London Naval Conference can have failed to see how much they were conducted in a war atmosphere, how seldom any reference was made to great international instruments for peace. . . . Important leaders of opinion are again preaching that hoary-headed falsehood: 'If you want Peace you must prepare for War.' . . ."

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