THE PEACEMAKER
TRIBUTE TO KING EDWARD
HIS LABOURS HAVE NOT BEEN
WASTED
(UNITED PRBSS ASSOCIATION.—CerTMGHT.)
(AUSTRALIAN • NKW ZEALAND CABLS ASSOCIATION.)
(Beceived July 21, 9.30 a.m.)
LONDON, 20th July,
The King unveiled in Waterloo-place the sUUie of King Edward. Seated on a chai'ger, in full dress uniform of a Field^Marshal, the statue is twenty-nine feet high. The King, in the course of his speech, said: "To-day's ceremony gathers about it one great association. My father was, above all, a great lover of peace. During the years of his reign, it was his constant aim to promote friendship and better understanding between nations. His work of conciliation has not been wasted. We owe it largely to his influence that the great conflagration, when it broke out, found that we were not an isolated nation. But with the old intentions forgotten, ancient quarrels healed, and united bonds of close friendship with our former rivals, the war which seemed to mark the negation of his efforts may prove a purification of the thoughts and minds of men, and the forerunner of that goodwill between nations which King Edward desired and laboured to create."
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Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 16, 21 July 1921, Page 7
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189THE PEACEMAKER Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 16, 21 July 1921, Page 7
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