The Archive · 1927

Mr, Dawes' Whirlwind Speech

Buffalo, Aug. 7. the Prince of Wales, Prince George and Mr. Stanley Baldwin is being marked with tremendous popular Their visit to Toronto to-day filled the streets with dense crowds.

At a luncheon at the Canadian Club the British Premier, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, said that the greatest hope of Great Britain was the Kindling of a real desire for education, which he regarded as the only fruit of the War to which one jeculd look with satisfaction. Mr. Baldwin, urged his audience to work for the Empire, to determine that "so long as we speak the same tongue and obey the same God and the same laws wherever we are situated, we shall remain to the end lof time' one people.'

The tour culminates to-day when the Prince of Wales will open Peace Bridge, which connects Fort Eri Canada, with the town of But the United States, and commemorate, a century of peace between Great Britain and America.

The most striking portion in the speech of Vice-President Dawes was. his reference to the Geneva Naval Limitation Conference. He said: "The Geneva Conference is but an incident in the steady onward march of the principle of equality in British and American naval strength agreed upon at Washington, Experts may be slow in interpreting that principle in terms of our respective ship programmes, but it is unthinkable that Britain and the United States will again burden their peoples with competitive naval] Building, Although the naval requirements of Britain and the United States differ, there is no excuse for inaugurating a competition in the building of ships which neither needs. The Geneva Conference will result in a stronger world demand for work interpreting that the principle of equality shall continue till fair agreement is reached!

New York, Aug. 7.

'The newspapers stress the import ance of Vice-President Dawes' re-

The Canada end of the bridge! rests on the site of the last battle] in the war between Great Britain and the United States In 1612-—

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

Your account