PEACE PALACE
♦■ OPENED AT THE HAGUE BY THE UUEEN OF THE NETHERLANDS MR. CARNEGIE'S GENEROSITY. . | (8y Telegraph.— Pteta Association.— Copyright.) (Received August 29, 12.10 p.m.) THE HAGUE, 28th August. The Peace Palace vras opened to-day by Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands. There were several other royal personages present. The speakers at the ceremony paid a tribute to Mr. Carnegie's generosity. The hall will contain four busts— of King Edward, Sir Randall Cremor (founder of the International Arbitration League), Hugo Grotius (the Dutch jurist and pioneer of international law, who died in 1646) and Mr. W. T. Stead, the English journalist. The bust of tho latter is being presented by Dutch journalists. WARS AND RUMOURS OF WARS. AN IRONY. LONDON, 28th August. The Daily Telegraph comments on the irony of the fact that "this period of wars and rumours of wars should yield to-day's inauguration ceremony of The Hague Palace of Peace. It is good for us to have great ideals," says the Telegraph, ''so long as we remember that the measure of a nation's security is the' precise measure of its strength.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 52, 29 August 1913, Page 7
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182PEACE PALACE Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 52, 29 August 1913, Page 7
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