PEACE CONGRESS
MESSAGE FROM THE KING CAUSE SINCERELY AT HEART i? (British Official Wireless.! (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) RUGBY, June 15. (Received June 10, at 5.5 p.m.) A message from the King to the International Peace Congress at Cardiff, attended by delegates from nearly every part of the world and organised in connection with the Peace Society, a 120-years-old foundation, was, read at the opening session to-day. His Majesty hoped the congress would help to promote the cause of international peace, “which was so dear to his late Majesty King George V, and which his Majesty has no less sincerely at heart.” The Lord President of the Council (Mr Ramsay MacDonald), who spoke, delivered a message from the Foreign Secretary, in which Mr Eden said that international peace could be assured only by making the common desire of individuals to live at peace part of the national consciousness of every country.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22909, 17 June 1936, Page 9
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153PEACE CONGRESS Otago Daily Times, Issue 22909, 17 June 1936, Page 9
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