7. Recognizing that a permanent peace must be based upon mutual confidence and goodwill between the nations, which can only be shown effectively by the abandonment of all material preparations for war, this Conference urges the abolition of armaments, the disbanding of military and naval forces, and the prohibition of the manufacture and import or export of munitions of war. NATIONAL PEACE COUNCIL: FEDERATION OF BRITISH PEACE SOCIETIES [Sidenote: National Peace Council.] 1. Establishment of an international peace commission such as those already established between the United States and certain other Powers. 2. Peace commission to extend its functions to include both those of a commission of inquiry and of a permanent Hague court of arbitration. 3. Formation of a permanent Congress of Nations composed of delegates appointed by the Parliaments, to settle important international affairs which might give rise to war; further elaboration by the Congress of the Hague Conventions regulating the conduct and methods of warfare. 4. No territorial change without consent of the population involved. 5. Foreign policies and treaties subject to parliamentary control. 6. Armament question to be put before Congress of Nations. 7. Congress to seek to remove obstacles to freedom of trade. WOMEN’S MOVEMENT FOR CONSTRUCTIVE PEACE London _Object_: to organize public union and to bring its pressure to bear upon the Governments of the world to the furtherance of the following ends: PROPOSITIONS 1. The reinforcement of the Democracies of the world by the inclusion of the mother-half of the human race into the ranks of articulate citizenship. 2. The creation of some constitutional machinery, where none at present exists, by which the Democracies may exercise some control over foreign policy. 3. That all treaties and alliances on the part of any Democratic nation shall be ratified by the representatives of the people. 4. That the manufacture of armaments shall be nationalized and that the export of ammunition from one country to another shall be vetoed. 5. That the allies shall be held to their slogan that this is a war to end war. 6. That at the conclusion of peace no province shall be transferred from one Government to another without the consent of the population concerned; that this consent shall be obtained by plebiscite and that women, who have suffered equally with men, shall be included in the plebiscite. 7. That women as well as men should be sent as representatives of their nation to the Hague Conference. 8. That the Democracies shall press for some kind of international agreement by which all the nations shall put themselves at the back of any one lawabiding nation that is aggressively attacked, or of any small country that is menaced by a stronger Power.