PEACE CENTENARY

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 153, 26 December 1914, Page 7

PEACE CENTENARY

BRITISH & AMERICAN COMMITTEES EXCHANGE GREETINGS GROWTH OF MUTUAL AFFECTION (TIMES AND SIDNEY SUN SERVICES) LONDON, 24th December. The British and American Commit- j tees exchanged greetings on the occa- j sion of the Peace Centenary, and suggested that the celebration should be renewed at the end of the war. j Earl Grey, President of the British j Peace Centenary .Committee, in a mani- ] festo to Mr. Roosevelt, expressed profound thankfulness at the steady growth of mutual aftcction and goodwill between the two peoples during the centenary oE peace, and added : " May this memorable day prove the stepping-stone ' to a new century of unbroken peace between our two countries, and of com- | raon effort for the betterment of humanity." The American manifesto says : " Unfortunately we are sorrowfully called on to mark the centenary celebration in the midst of the most terrible and most destructive war in history." The Times, in a leading article on the manifesto, says they bear witness ! to the universai sorrow with which the English-speaking race forgoes the celebrations planned to-day, but not until our swords arc sheathed can public rejoicings mark our pride and _ thankfulness for this memorable triumph of peace and goodwill between Britain and America.