ROYAL ACADEMY BANQUET.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXIII, Issue 15922, 7 May 1912, Page 7

ROYAL ACADEMY BANQUET.

MR CHURCHILL ON WAR.

TO MAKE WAR IMPOSSIBLE.

MAKE VICTORY CERTAIN. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, May 5

Sir G. H. Reid and Sir W. Hall-Jones were present at the Royal .Academy banquet, at which Mr Winston Churchill said that behind the development of a war force lay the claim of a great Power to nut a distinguishing characteristic mark on mankind. There were a number of men who were becoming fascinated by the terrible machinery, but if two great civilised nations went to war they would be heartily sick of it before it was finished. The best way of making war impossible was to make victory certain. THE REMBRANDT SALES. Mr Asquith, alluding to the recent sale of Rembrandt pictures, urged increasing co-operation between private generosity and the State. Sir E. J. Poynter, president of the Royal Academy, advocated a register giving the nation first refusal.