That Great Britain is pursuing a peace rolley and is doing everything possible to avoid war is the observation of Dr. F. L. Hawks Pott, Presisident of St. John's University, who recently returned from several months' holiday in America and England.
Despite the dreadful fear of war, a fever for rearming prevailed in England, Dr. Pott told members of the Cosmopolitan Club, who met at a luncheon at the Park Hotel at 12.15 p.m. yesterday. In small towns he visited in Cornwall he noticed that people were taking a great deal of interest in the use of gas masks and mock battles were held along the coast. Almost everybody there was provided with a gas mask, he said.
Dr. Pott said he heard of the hostilities in China in London, where he visited Mr. Quo Tai-chi, Chinese Ambassador and also Dr. H. H. Kung, Special Ambassador to the Coronation. The sympathy of the British people was entirely with Chino, he said.
Dr. Pott left for America and Europe last April after over 50 years' service in China. The vacation was delightful in many ways, especially in America, he said.
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