The plans for the celebration of the Anglo-American Hundred Years'
Peace, as decided on by the delegates to the International Peace Conference, were made public in last Saturday's papers. Their central idea is not merely to commemorate the past hundred years of peace, but to declare the purpose of the nations to maintain perpetual peace in future. Accordingly it is proposed to erect international monuments, identical in design and legend, in Great Britain and the States and their respective dominions and possessions, the foundation-stones to be laid on a given date by the King, the President, and their representatives. It is also suggested that on the occasion of the laying of these foundation-stones there should be a five minutes' cessation from work throughout all the countries interested, that work in schools should be suspended, and the two National Anthems sung. By way of promoting mutual respect and goodwill, it is further recommended that Chairs of British and American history should be endowed, with special reference to the peaceful progress of the two peoples, and based on the principle of the interchange of professors and the endowment of travelling scholarships.
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