Mr, James Gerard Denounces Dictatorships London, May 20.
Mr. James W. Gerard, personal representative of President Roosevelt at {the Coronction, at a meeting which included Mr. A. Dulf-Cooper, Secretary for War; Lord Derby and the Archbishop of Canterbury, praised British re-armament as "the greatest guarantee of peace on earth."
To the question, "Can we end war by conferences?" he declared, "Now might be the time for calling confer= fences to break down trade barriers fand the like, which are undoubtedly Ineltements to war. The time has of yet come for a greater confer ence, because there would only be a succession of claims and disputes, We must. walt until certain nations are famished by revolution and come to jus genuinely seeking peace,"—Havai Great Britain, Mr, Gerard declared, was arming—sodly and reluctantly, but with determination, reports Router.
jut when you are armed," he pro> "then armed Britain will be the greatest guarantee of peace on earth, We In America are. firmly Gelerinined on three things, that we fre against war, against any alliances, and against meddling in the muddled affairs of Europe. But we and you, the great British Empire, are bound
Iianees and treaties. We are bound Something more. binding than together by mutual trust, by a common desire for peace and stability, fand especially by a feeling that, at this moment, with Fascism on the one side and Communism on the other, the three great democracies, Britain, "France and the. United States," stand" as the sole hope of Uberalism and of freedom in the worl Dealing with the ceremony Westminster Abbey on May 12, Mr. Gerard said they had come many miles to see o great ceremony, which was not only the consecration and coronation of one individual, but was the consecration of a great Empire held' together In more permanent bonds than ever before in Its history.
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