THE PEACEMAKER.
KING EDWARD’S INFLUENCE. CEMENTING ALLIANCES. TRIBUTE BY KING GEORGE. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. . London, July 20. The King unveiled in Waterloo Place a statue of Edward VII. seated on a charger in the full dress uniform of a Field Marshal, The statue is 29 feet high. The King, in the course of his speech, said: “To-day’s ceremony gathers about it one great association. My father was above all a great lover of peace. During the years of his reign it was his constant aim to promote friendship and better understanding between the nations His work of conciliation has not been wasted.
"We owe it largely to his influence that the great conflagration, when it broke out, found we were not an isolated nation, but with old contentions forgotten and anciens quarrels healefl, united in bonds of close friendship with former rivals.
“The war, which seemed to mark the negation of his efforts, may prove a purification of the thoughts and minds of men and the forerunner of that goodwill between nations which King Edward desired and labored to create.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 July 1921, Page 5
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180THE PEACEMAKER. Taranaki Daily News, 22 July 1921, Page 5
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