PEACE ASSURED

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23205, 26 November 1938, Page 27

PEACE ASSURED

SCENES IN LONDON AUCKLANDERS RETURN HOLIDAY IMPRESSIONS Impressions of an enjoyable holiday in Ilngland and America and on the ConHnent were -given by Mrs. George Hutchison, who, with her daughter, jtfjsg Meudel Hutchison, returned to Auckland yesterday by the Mariposa. The first talk of war in London did 'not sink in seriously, said Mrs. Hutchison, However, in the few days before the fateful Thursday, when the issue

was decided in fsivour of peace, the loun,ge at their hotel at the Marble Arclt was seething with excitement. "] shall never forget the scene outBide the hotel at midnight on the Wed- . nesd&y, when the first editions of the newspapers were circulated," she said. "Men and women were waiting in , queii.es at the news stands, and a shilling was not too much to pay—change , was forgotten." Armed Forces While in Paris, Mrs. Hutchison viewed the July 14 military and naval parade. The President's dais was situated immediately in front of the hotel in which she was staying, and from the balcony she got an uninterrupted view of the proceedings. For two and a-half hours the colourful parade passed the dais, and she was much impressed with this display of France's military and naval splendour. Mrs. Hutchison and her daughter arrived in Holland the day after the axmtlal carnival of flowers, which is held when the tulips and hyacinths are at their * best. The scene was onß of extreme beauty, she said. • !> Germany and Austria lii; Germany the people seemed happy and contented, Mrs. Hutchison said, undjthey showed great friendliness, deplining the thought of fighting. She wasr impressed with the spontaneous lore for Hitler which was exhibited r in Austria l"1Ve arrived in Austria a few months aftei' she had joined Germanv," she said,. "and, on crossing the border, one wasj; immediately struck by the country's neglected condition. Bad r'roadii and general-shahbiness-compared- | unfavourably -with the splendid coneditions through which we had just | : pass<>d. There were, however, many signs that the roads were to be 'improved to bring them to the same Etatei as those in Germany."