OCR Text |
Show KING EDWARD JIS II PMKEfi I Andrew B. Humphrey, Leader in - Peace Movement, Praises the Dead Ruler. HAD DONE MUCH WORK THAT COUNTED FOR MUCH Is Not Certaih'as to What Attitude Atti-tude of the New King Will Be. 1 By Leased Wire to Thc Tribune. NEW YORK, May 7. King Ed-ward Ed-ward s pacifying influence in European international politics makes his death a source of deop regret to advocates of universal poaco. This appears in a statement givon to a Tribune- representative represen-tative by Andrew B. Humphrey, general gen-eral secretary of thc American I5eacc and Arbitration league, of which former for-mer Senator James B. McCreary is president, former President .Roosevelt honorary president, and which numbors among its members Admiral Dewey and many of the best known men in the country. Mr. Humphrey said: ! "That the death, o'f King Edward should cause thc worldwide sorrow that ;b apparent cannot be surprising when it is remembered how well hy earned the title of Edward thc Peacemaker, which has been conferred upon him bv universal sentiment. Thc event may be regarded as a great loss to the movement move-ment for universal peace. Knew Need of Peace. io other rulor in Europe understood under-stood it better or believed in it moro sincerely. His lifclontr training under! England's great Queen Victoria, especially espe-cially fitted him to be a peacemaker. His interost in the movement has been so manifest and his success in influencing in-fluencing the amicnble settlement of international incidents of a threatening nature will cause him to bo missod in the pcuce counsels of the near future. "King Edward's death, coming at this particular time, iB. in a senBe a setback set-back for the programme of the American Ameri-can Penco and Arbitration league That is to say, it is a disappointment that the peace-lovinc monarch hns passed .away on the eve of an expected meeting meet-ing with America's great peacemaker, former President Boosevelt, during which, in all probability, this great topic would have been ono of the most interesting discussed. Mr. Koosvclt, who is ono of tho honorary presidents of this len-ue, might have been expected ex-pected to invite some exchango of views relating to the proposition to invest, the president of the court at Tho Hamic with the powers to be vested in thc international court of arbitration and .lustice. which it is expected will be created at the third ponce conference in 19 M. "Of course, it is impossible to say just how far a -man in thc king's position posi-tion could or would commit himself on any such question as this, but I think it is tolerably well known .that it is one of thc propositions in the direction direc-tion of international ponce that inter-CHtcd inter-CHtcd King Edward deeply. Attitudo of New Euler. "What will bo the attitude of Eng-Innd Eng-Innd 's now rulor concerning the poaco question is regarded b3" many as problematical prob-lematical He has seen active sorvicc along the stern lines of a naval officer's of-ficer's career, and he has not boon in close and sympathetic touch with various va-rious clnsfios of. mon which made King Edward a broad-minded, far-seeing and diplomatic man. He is a man of reserve, re-serve, lacking elements that made his father popular, and it is possible that in his intercourse with other sovereigns sover-eigns ho may not bo able- at all times to inspire that cordiality that, enabled King Edward to pour oil on tho troubled trou-bled waters. Xovertheloss T do not think the change of rulers will affect the pcaco movement, adversely. King George V. derived from his illustrious ?randparont8, Victoria nnd Albert, and rom his own fnther, a rich inheritance of qualities that mado for tho uplift of hifhmnity, and tho richest among them is an innato love and desire for peace. " |