BRITAIN M AMERICA.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVII, Issue 33, 7 February 1913, Page 3

BRITAIN M AMERICA.

100 YEARS' PEACE

CELEBRATION PItOPOSAL.3

. LONDON, Dec. 20. ■On Christmas Eve, 1814, the Treaty1 of Peace • between England and America was signed at Ghent, and the 100 th anniversary of this event is to be signalised in a worthy and letting manner.

Ihe influential British Committee, -.vnich has.the matter in hand in this country, met this week at the Mansion House, when Earl Grey (the president) enumerated the steps that had been proposed. One- suggestion that had already been submitted to the American Committee, he said, was that n.onuments which should commemorate in an impressive and sufficient manner the 100 years of peace should be erected in Canada, England, and the United States. While that suggestion was one- which found favor with the British Committee, there 'vere three other proposals that appeared to be also worthy of adoption. The first was that a monument should be erected to George Washington in Westminster Abbey, not in memory QJF-his part in the rebellion, which perhaps might be regarded by future historians as the first foundation of eventvial- _: Anglo-Saxon and Celtic consolidation, but as ' a testimony to our ungrudging and generous recognition of the influence for good exerted on successive generations of the British as well as the American, people by the example of his splendid qualities. The lamp of his character kad been a beacon which for nearly 150 years hadi enabled struggling humanity to steer through the af rkliess; to a nobler aiid^a higher IJfe, and for that reason .it was only right that we should make' use of the opportunity provided by the approaching centennial to do: his memory honor on British soil. GEORGE WASHINGTON'S : HOUSE. It had further seemed good-to the British Committee that steps should be taken to purchase Sulgrave Manor in Northamptonshire, the ancestral home of the "Washington family. On the walls of that ancient building might still be seen the Washington coat of aims, which was the origin of the Stars and Stripes, thus showing that the national emblem of the United State?, like so many other American customs and institutions, derived its source from the Motherland. It was proposed that Sulgrave Manor should be purchased^ and so maintained that a visit to it would be an agreeable pilgrimage to the steadily - increasing number of American visitors to England. An option on the property had been secured, and it was estimated that to complete the purchase and to provide for it:-; maintenance a sum of from

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