Observance of Armistice Day in the capital of the United States consisted chiefly of tte annual Presidential visit to Arlington National Cemetery, which was followed by Mr. Hoover's Armistice Day speech fat Washington Cathedral under the auspices of the World Alliance for International Friendship Through Churches.
America's soldiers who gave their! ives in the Great War were silence amid the homage of a vast crowd many of whom had been waiting at the Cenotaph throughout the night, HIM, the King, who was wearing the uniform of afield Marshal and was looking exceedingly fit, laid the first wreath at the Cenotaph after the silence.
There was a service at Weatminster Abbey, where the congregation was composed largely of women wearing war service medals, eulogized to-day President Hoover in his Armistice Day speech.
The President declared that it is the duty of the United States to prevent the wastage and horrors! of war in future, is learned that H.M, the King suffered no ill-effects from attending the service at the Cenotaph, Reuter, 'The present year, he continued, has been notable in peace annals. He cited the London Naval Limitation Trea' n example, The promotion of peace, however, cannot rest upon the accomplish: ments of a single year, but must be continuous because the nat of the world are in many ways, commercially and otherwise, always in conflict, Mr. Hoover said.
The President said that the; Kellogg Anti-War Pact has become powerful influence in interna'fonal affairs. It is one of the most. potent instruments the world ever forged for itself, he declared:
Mr. Hoover reviewed the history of arbitration and conciliation trea~ ties which are now binding upon, many nations, He expressed the belief that such agreements will firmly bind the world in a few years. 'The great hope, however, lies in the expanding of the principles of international law upon which such' agreements and settlements are based.
He said that the World Court is now firmly established as " continuing body, facilitating deter.
mations which are capable of accomplishment only sporadically under special arbitration treaties, From this court, according to the President, "there is growing a body of precedents and decisions and an acceptance of law in the form tion of which we should have a part, not alone in our own interest but in the advancement of peace—United Press.
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