TOWARDS PEACE.
ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES. SIR ESME HOWARD URGES BETTER UNDERSTANDING. (BT CABL* ®BBSS ABSOCIATIOS—COf TUOST) (rectee's teleqEajis.) (Received November 26th, P. 20 p.m.) WASHINGTON. November 20. That the teaching of American history and geography in English schools, and the acquisition of greater personal knowledge of the United States, nieuns st.lengthening the good understanding between English-speaking countries, was urged in an address by the British Ambassador (Sir Esme Howard), broadcast in order to establish communication with Europe. "Once we have established a feeling of absolute confidence in one another wc shall have attained to the certainty that, come what may, nothing will bo allowed to break the peace between us," said the Ambassador. "And when the rest of the world comes to believo this, the cause of world peace will have made a great stride forward."
Requiring English , schoolboys to read short lives of Washington, Lincoln, and Roosevelt would bring America vividly before the eyes of the young people, lie added.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18241, 27 November 1924, Page 9
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