The Archive · 1937

Mr. G. Lansbury

London, Apr. 22.

Mr. George Lansbury, apostle of peace and the idol of London's slum children, arrived at Dover to-day from his pilgrimage to Chancellor Adolf Hitler, and in a statement to the press, said he" hoped to visit Signor. Mussolini in connection with his world peace plan. He then would have seen all the leading statesmen Europe and the United States.

return with the conviction that the catastrophe, which war would mean to the world, is going to be averted. I) believe that we are moving away from the spirit of war." He' added that the peoples of the world were living on the edge of a precipice but at least he could say that he had not met anyone in the Inst five days who did not want peace Mr. Lansbury said that although he and Herr Hiller realized there were difficulties, neither of them thought these difficulties, with goodwill, would be unsurmountable. He pointed out that the Non-Intervention Committee had proved that there was no real obstacle to a meeting

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