GIFTS TO THE PEACEMAKER

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 94, 14 January 1939, Page 6 (Supplement)

GIFTS TO THE PEACEMAKER

Gratitude To Neville Chamberlain

Many gifts have been offered to Mr. Neville Chamberlain for his part in preserving pence in Europe. The following are a few <>f the offers as collated by an English journal. Newspapers of Sweden, Norway, and other countries urged that he should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Swedish papers proposed that he should be awarded the Order of Hie Seraphim. Versailles made him an honorary citizen, and arranged to name one of the streets after him. A Lille paper proposed that, every municipality in the areas invaded in the war should name a street after him.

Strasbourg renamed its Avenue de la Paix Hie Avenue Neville Chamberlain.

A fund was established by the Paris Soir to buy him a house in France, to be named the House of Peace.

fl'he Paris L’Oeuvre, with a gift of £l5O, opened a fund for presentation to Mrs. Chamberlain.

One French paper advocated Hie erection of monuments in every capital in the world to “the saviour of modern Europe.” A Lisbon paper suggested the erection in one of the city’s parks of a monument to him from Grateful Mothers.

Geneva is to name one of its chief

streets Neville Chamberlain. The inhabitants of Hie Swiss Canton of Neu-,-lintel are presenting him with one of their famous gold clocks. Savoy peasants picked bunches of beautiful wild flowers and sent them by air to 10 Downing Street.

'Holland sent, flowers by aeroplane and opened funds for more lasting gifts. Adopting a suggestion by a Liege newspaper, the school children of that city are signing a Golden Book expressing their gratitude. Sir Charles Hyde has offered £lO.OOO to establish a Neville Chamberlain Scholarship at Birmingham University.

Sir Francis Joseph has given £lOOO to endow a Chamberlain bed in North Staffordshire Infirmary. Mr. Bernard Docker has given £lOOO to endow a Chamberlain bed in Westminster Hospital.

Twelve houses for servicemen are to be built at Blackpool by Mr. William Parkinson in memory of Mr. Chamberlain.

One of his constituents, Mr. John Dibble, has given £lOOO to Birmingham hospitals.

Boulogne is to give him a replica in ivory, inlaid with gold, of the town’s statue of Britannia.