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Pursuant to the invitation of this committee,
the second International Assembly of Members
of Parliament met in London, July 22–23, 1890.
In consequence of the second Universal
Peace Congress, the central gathering of the
peace societies, being held only a short time
previously (July 14–19), a large number of
influential men attended this international
meeting of legislators; but whilst amongst
those who took part in the first named
conference, the Universal Peace Congress, were a
fair number of M.P.s of various countries, yet
(with few exceptions) all those who took part in
the interparliamentary meeting were members
of one or other national legislative assembly.
The second Interparliamentary Conference,
in London, 1890, had double the attendance of
the first, in Paris,—members from Austria,
Belgium, Denmark, England, France, Germany,
Holland, Hungary, Italy, Norway, Spain and
Sweden; besides which, more than a thousand
representatives of the people, who were
prevented attending, signified by letter their
adhesion. Amongst these were Gladstone,
Clemenceau, the Vice-president of the
German Reichstag, Baumbach, the Italian Prime
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