CENTURY OF PEACE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 304, 20 December 1912, Page 5

CENTURY OF PEACE.

ENGLAND AND AMERICA. MONUMENT TO WASHINGTON rsr "_-rES_____fST___ abbey. LOKDOK, December 19. The British committee that has been formed in connection with the proposed | celebration of the centenary of peace j between the Kruriish-spe—iinp nations resolved at a nrfeung held last night to inaugurate a M_r..-i..n House found for , the raising of £00.000. The pr-eliminary proposals include a monument to l.t-eorge Washington in Westminster Abbey and the purchase of Su'srrave Manor, the ancestral home of Washington's family in -."orthamptonj shire. j Letters supporting: the movement were | received from the Prime Minister ( Mr : Asquith i . Sir Edward Grey t British i Minister for Foreign Affairs I. and Mr Theodore Roosevelt i -President of i America ). [ A letter, written on December 6 by the | late Mr Whitelaw Reid ! American Amj bassador to Great Eritain • was also read. IHe stated that he hoped to be able to : attend the meeting, and he added that the movement could not be more opportune or I more helpful to the peace of the world. I Earl Grey r e_-Governor-<>eneral of (Canada. Lord F.mmct I Parliamentary Under Secretary for the Colonies). Lord Weardale, and the Burgomaster of Ghent i --here the treaty of peace between Great Britain and the L'nited States was „g_ed 'in 1814. were amongst those present at , the meeting.