New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-20
MAYOR OF LONDON
CREETS AMERICANS
Says United States Has
Greatest Opportunity
in History.
From stan Correspondent of The Tribunel

| From a stan Correspondent OF The Tribunel
London, Dec. 1e.-Sir Charles John
ston, Lord Mayor of London, in an in
terview with the Tribune correspondent
/ to-day sent the following Christina:
greetings to New York. Sir Charles
! has crossed the Atlantic seventy eight
| times and knows people all over Amer
lea. One of his late friends in New
York was Mayor Gaynor. He is sixty
six years old, but gives an impression
: of alertness which makes him seem
scarcely fifty. Although by birth Liv-
erpool man, of shipbuildng family
Sir Charles was Sheriff of the City OF
/ London before he became Lord Mayor
/ His Inauguration last November was
the most pretentious military display
London has yet seen. The interview
follows:
"This ancient city. through myself
its Lord Mayor, sends TO the people OF
/ New York and of the United States its
/ friendly greetings, none the less deep
because at this time of peace of the
Christian year the world is at war
/ Speaking personally. my knowledge and
sympathy with and affection for the
/ United States is very great. | have
crossed the Atlantic to and from Amer
lea seventy-eight times, and as they
have passed | have noted with deep
satisfaction an ever increasing under
standing between the two peoples who
have come of the same Anglo-SaXon
stock and are animated by kindred civ
/ ilized ideals.
"That understanding. having its ORR
gin in the same fundamental concep-
tons of national and social life, was
never given such scope as now, when
every nation in the world is at war or
in peril of war except the United
States and when this country stands TO
be judged for the share she has in the
world conflict-a judgment which she
has no cause TO fear. Ii is comforting
to every Britisher to realize that in this
very winter there will be between the
United States and this country cele-
brations OF. one hundred years of peace,
which had its foundation in the Treaty
of Client Now and again during that
one hundred years the United States
has been at war, and once at war with
in herself, but the cup of peace between
us, filled in 1914, has never been emp
tied, and her people and our people
have had no wounds of war to heal.
"The people of the United States,
perhaps more than all others in the
world. arc lovers of peace and haters
of war. With them to cultivate the
soil, develop industry and expand com
merce through the arts of peace is al
most a religion. They lament the en-
ergy diverted from peaceful toll and
labor into channels of war, and If !
read the trend Of public opinion in the
United States Alright there is a deter
mination TO throw the whole influence
of that great commonwealth into an
effort to secure. when this conflict is
over, such q settlement as will prevent
militarism organized for conquest from
again torturing the whole world and
destroying human life, energy and the
accumulated wealth of generations
"The United States has the greatest
opportunity and the greatest response
bility which has ever fallen TO any ma
ton. From my knowledge of the Amer
lean people, / believe they will judge
Justly and act wisely in their hour of
duty. | notice that the most promi-
nent advocates Of the peace societies of
the United States have said. that, hor-
rible as this war is, it is a war against
war; and they profoundly believe that
shocked and enlightened humanity Will
so order events in the future that there
can be no repetition of the present
CHASTITY turmoil and bloodshed, the raw
age of cities and the destruction of in
nocent populations.
1--WE may all well wish in this win
ter, when the Treaty of Client is COM
memorated, that there may be seen the
dawn of an unbreakable peace for all
the nations now at war and secure
tenure Of life and liberty to all small
nations like Belgium. In that new
epoch may the United States and Great
Britain again walk the way of concord
together, rightly caring for their own
interests. but chivalrously serving civ
ilization with a high and honest pur-
pose"