The Archive · 1938

OBITUARY Marquis Of Milford Haven SPECIAL TO THE "inch

London, Apr. 8. E of George Louis Mountbatten, e death has occurred, at the age

second: Marquess of Milford Haven.

He was the eldest son of the first of Milford Haven and Princess Victoria.

The Marquess served in the Europen War between 1914 and 1917. He was present at the battles of Heligoland in 1914, Dogger Bank in 1915, and Jutland in 1916 in H.M.S. New Zealand. He received e Russian Order of St. Vladimir and the Italian Order of Savoy for~services at Jutland—Reuter. appeasement, it was a factor of immense advantage to negotiate with countries between whom and British fears and anxieties-could never arise.

British agreements with the Dominions, India, Argentina, Scandinavia and the Baltic countries were practical contributions to that end, and he most sincerely hoped that, before many weeks were passed, an agreement with the United States would unite two of the greatest trading countries in the world.

Everything possible, he added, would be done to further the cause of peace in the economic field,' whether by agreements or through the Van. Zeeland programme, or by any other means, Progress on the economic and political side must go band in hand, as the Van Zeeland report showed.—Reuter and Wireless.

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