EDWARD THE PEACEMAKER.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 172, 21 July 1921, Page 5

EDWARD THE PEACEMAKER.

"WORK NOT IN VAIN. GOODWILL AMONG NATIONS. (Received lu.ao a.m.) LONDON, July 20. The King unveiled in Waterloo Flacca statue of King Edward seated on a charger in the full dress uniform of a field marshal. The statue is 29ft high. The King, in the course of his speech, said: "To-day's ceremony gathers about j it one great association —my father was, | above all, a great lover of peace. During ! the years of his reign it was his constant j aim to promote friendship and a better understanding between the nations. His j. work of conciliation has not been wasted, j We owe it largely to his influence that . the great conflagration, when it broke I out, found that Aye were not an isolated nation, but that with old contentions. forgotten and ancient quarrels healed, we were united in bonds of close friendship I with our former rivals. j "The war which seen>?d to mark the | negation of his efforts may prove the purification of the thoughts and minds of men, and the forerunner of that goodwill between nations which King Edward desired and laboured to create.' Mr. Bertram Mackennal, who executed the statue, was knighted after the ceremony. He proceeded to Buckingham j Palace, where the honour was conferred I privately.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.) !