PLEA FOR PEACE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 May 1939, Page 6

PLEA FOR PEACE

THE DUKE OF WINDSOR’S BROADCAST INDIVIDUAL RELATIONSHIPS ADJUSTED. NEED OF DOING THE SAME INTERNATIONALLY. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day. 1.20 p.m.) NEW YORK, May 8. The Duke of Windsor’s dress, which was brief, drew' attention to his consciousness of the presence of a great company of dead at Verdun, from which he was speaking, lie stressed that he had abstained from public affairs for the past thirty months deliberately, and still proposed to do so. He was speaking wholly for himself, simply as a soldier of the last war “whose ernest prayer is that such cruel and destructive madness shall never again overtake mankind.” He added that he was convinced that no people wanted war, whether German, British or French, and appealed to all political leaders to maintain peace. The Duke urged the discouragement of all harmful propaganda, “which from whatever source it came tends to poison the minds of the people of the world. I personally (he said) deplore the use of such terms as encirclement and aggression. They can only arouse just those dangerous passions it should be the aim of us all to subdue.” The Duke drew a parallel of international relations to the relations of individuals which are harmoniously adjusted. “Otherwise,” he said, “modern civilisation could never have come into existence. Are we now going to destroy civilisation by, failing to do internationally what we learned to do individually?’! The Duke concluded:—“The greatest success any government could achieve for its own national policy would be nothing in comparison with the triumph of saving or contributing to save humanity from the terrible fate which threatens it today. It is not for me to put forward concrete proposals. That must be left to those who have power to guide their nations toward closer understanding. God grant that they may accomplish that great task before it is too late.”

The address, which was heard very clearly in the United States, was not rebroadcast by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, which stated: “We are following the example of the 8.8. C. in this matter.”