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Show Salt Laker Honored at Dinner V 1 ' WALLACE URGES PEACE PARLEY William R. Wallace, chairman of the state water storage commission commis-sion snd vie president of the Utah Oil Refining company, had declared Friday a "world conference table" offered the only solution to the peace problem. Speaking before 100 members of the Alia club at a homecoming banquet In his honor Thursday night, ths distinguished Salt Lake civic and business- leader, who recently re-cently returned from Europe, made a stirring plea to America to stay out of war. "The worst catastrophe In tlte history of the world can be prevented pre-vented only If the United States , exercises Its tremendous power as ' a nation to bring about Immediate arbitration," he said. As a means of Instituting such arbitration. Mr. Wallace declared, the United States "must flood Europe with the right kind of propaganda, prop-aganda, then Join with the South American powers-to call an Inter national conference. All Europe Is now resdy to respect sound reasoning." rea-soning." 1 The wurld council table as pto ' posed by Mr. Wallace would be originated by the nations of North and South America and would bring all belligerent and neutral powers together for "a sane dls- WORLD CONFERENCE TABLE URGED TO END WAE William W. Bay, left, and William E. Wallac cumion of their problems." . "This is a fight between democracy democ-racy and tyranny," he declared. "I am not neutral In thought word or deed, but there Is none In this world who wishes America to stsy out of war more than I." . He expressed belief thst, hsd the United States been a member of the League of Nations, "Germany "Ger-many would have received fair treatment and the German republic repub-lic would have been saved." He scoffed at persons who declared "the dictators of Europe sre insane," in-sane," replying that Mussolini, Stalin Sta-lin and Hitler have accomplished things "which never could hsve been formulated in ths minds of innane men." ' He said neither England nor Franc desire additional Isnds and "none quntions thst there is nough land In tha world for all nations." William W. Ray, Salt Lake attorney, at-torney, was toastmaster at the dinner, din-ner, which was attended by many state snd city notables. |