Bridge of Peace

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 201, 9 August 1927, Page 5

Bridge of Peace

Linking Canada and U.S.A. PRINCE OF WALES'S SPEECH DISTINGUISHED GATHERING. (British Official Wireless.) (Received 9. 12.30 p.m.) Rugby, Aug. 8. A brief speech delivered yesterday by the Prince of Wales in opening the Peace Bridge which links Canada and the United States at the southern neck of Niagara River and Lake Erie, was relayed from America by wireless and broadcasted in Britain. After referring to the fact that the bridge commemorates the peace that has happily endured between the British Empire and the United States, for more than a century, the Prince said: “May this bridge be not only a physical and material link between Canada and the United States, but may it also be symbolical o fthe maintenance of friendly contacts by those who are on Doth sides of the frontier. May it serve also as a continual reminder to those who will use it, and to all of us, to seek peace and ensure this as the first and highest duty both of this generation and of those that are yet to come.’’ The British Prime Minister. Mr Stanley Baldwin, together with the Prime Ministers of Canada and Ontario Province, were among the British and Canadian party at the function. The vice-President of the United States, with whom was the British Ambassador at Washington, attended to represent the United States. GENEVA CONFERENCE NOT A MISTAKE. General 0. G. Dawes, referring to the Geneva Conference, declared that temporary differences between British nnd American naval experts could not. and would not. be permitted to lead to a renewal of competitive building. The conference had not been a mistake and agreement wou-d ultimately be reached. Mr. F. B. Kellogg recalled that the two countries had sprung from similar origins and had the same ideas and government and enjoyed the same industrial and outturn] developments. They were rivals in national and Industrial developments but the rivalry was untouched with envy and racial animosities were nonexistent. Difficulties arose from time to time but they could be settled Intolerance and common sense. OUTBURST OF LOYAL FEELING. Yesterday’s ceremony on Niagaia River attracted immense crowds of spectators from both sides of the frontier, and the distinguished English visitors were accorded a stirring welcome.

Their arrival on Saturday at Toronto was the occasion of a great outburst of loyal feeling. Mr. Baldwin made a speech at the official dinner in which he referred to the place < 1 Canada in the Empire. After remarking that Canada was the pioneer of the Empire in the exploration of constitutional government, he turned to the future and spoke of the responsibilities which equal status within the Empire involved in external affairs. He said that all policies must commend themselves to the different governments and parliaments, the brotherhood of nations had vet to be worked out. Canada had succeeded in achieving nationhood by the success of her practical working of a compromise of the different elements in national life. They must apply the same principles to Empire problems. There was no precedent for the British Commonwealth; its history was one of constant change. Their greatness lay In remembering the the best service to mankind and their supreme duty was not to foster Imperial trade, great as that was. but to further the peace of the whole world. The Empire was an instrument of world peace and by the reverent u§e of freedom and by the generous protection of weakness might we be just in our power. AT VERY OPPORTUNE TIME. The opening of the Bridge cf Peace, linking Canada and the United States, across Niagara River is regarded by the British press as having taken place very opportunely so soon after the break-up of tho naval conference at Geneva.