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KING EDWARD VII.
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At the present moment, when the political horizon far away is so obscure, I feel sure that whatever may happen, it is the wish of all Englishmen that our Army, however small, should be in the highest state of efficiency, and that our Navy should be as it ought to be—the best in the world.
Yet his desire for this efficiency was based upon a deeper longing—the goal of all his life. "When a string man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace." And King Edward worked continually, untiringly. indomitably, towards peace. In social affairs, in private matters, his intervention was being constantly sought, to prevent folks making shipwreck of their lives; and of his efforts in the cause of international conciliation, it is not possible to speak too highly.
It has been written: "King Edward went openly in the light of day, facing Kings and men and talking like a King and man, and the world also knows what he did for peace."
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