Urges Britain's Lead for Peace: on Economic Basis London, Nov, 19.
The British Empire was so importanta part of the human race that it must realize more clearly than other nations how closely the fate was bound up with its own, declared King Leopold of the Belgians in a speech at a resplendent banquet at the Guildhall yesterday.
nscquently, added His Majesty, ilerstanding of great universal problems is so profound that it permissible to hope that Great Britain will play a dominant part in the search for a solution to major econo-mie difficulties."
King Leopold, who spoke in reply to a toast in his honour proposed by the Lord Mayor, likened London 10 the stage in" a' world theatre. To London more than to any other hho said, came echoes of those xicties to which the whole world was a prey.
Political objectives, the King de: Jared, were of concern only 10 certain sections of mankind, but a better ordering, of economic life was of interest to mankind as a whole.
"We are' faced." he continued, "with a world which is complicated various national problems. To solve these difficulties we need a clear view of economic re: with a dispassionate from every other consideration,
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