Doctor Norwood, President of the Free Church Council, declared that a turning-point in history was approaching. Memorable throughout the world - per-haps throughout the ages -it would demonstrate whether the old bad order was to be brought to a noble climax or whether "through man's failure we most re-enter the Valley of the Shadow and learn the inevitable lesson.''

Doctor Sidney Berry, Moderator of the Evangelical Free Churches' Council, said that the "Free Churches unreservedly supported the British declarations at Geneva. He added it would seem that the world had gone stark mad with rampant nationalism and war-like gestures, threatening to engulf mankind.

The National Liberal Federation unanimously welcomed the British statement of the League system of a reduction of barriers to international trade and the freedom of immigration in underpeopled countries, also making available to the whole world colonial resources now controlled .by a few countries.