The American League Against War and Fascism made application yesterday at Washington for a visa to be issued to Mme. Sun Yat-Sen, widow of the first President of the Chinese Republic, who has been invited to attend the second national Congress Against War and Fascism, which opens in Chicago on September 28. Applications for visas for Maxim Gorki and Romain Rolland have also been filed, so these famous writers may attend the convention.
The congress will make vigorous protest against “the extensive preparations for war now being made throughout the world, and especially in the United States. It will rally the American masses against these war preparations, and will work toward the stoppage of munitions manufacture and transport in the advent of war.”
It will demand the transfer of all war funds to social relief, and will urge all peace and anti-war organizations to support total and universal disarmament. It will oppose all attempts to attack the Soviet Union, whose policy is sincere.
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