Today's date, the eighteenth of May, should sometime become an occasion of great international celebration, for on this day ten years ago the first Peace Conference opened at The Hague.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
World Peace Day is envisioned to become a moment of global unity - it is up to each and every one of us to make this a reality.
The interparliamentary conference should, in my opinion, direct its particular attention to the preparation of the next Hague Conference, the diplomatic conference, the conference of governments.
After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
So May 4th in the labor movement has always been an important date.
The time has come - and must come - for multilateral conversations about a secure peace in all of Europe.
My debut upon the world's stage occurred on February 26, 1845, in the State of Iowa.
If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference', you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.
I am convinced that when the history of international law comes to be written centuries hence, it will be divided into two periods: the first being from the earliest times to the end of the nineteenth century, and the second beginning with the Hague Conference.
And now the momentous day, a day to be forever remembered in the annals of the country, arrived. Early in the morning on the 1st of July the conflict began.
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the Peace Corps as it reached its 45th anniversary on March 1, 2006.