| Main Performers | Mr Horatio Bottomley (presiding),
Admiral Lord Charles Beresford,
Sir Edward Marshall Hall, KC,
Mr Havelock Wislon, MP,
Brigadier-General Page Croft, MP,
Mrs Dacre-Fox,
Ben Tillet,
Mr Arnold White,
Sir Walter Runciman - speakers |
| Set List | Speech (Mr Bottomley),
Resolution (Lord Beresford),
Seconded (Sir E Marshall Hall),
Speeches (Mr Havelock Wilson MP, Mrs Dacre Fox, Mr Ben Tillet MP),
Vote of Thanks (Mr Arnold White),
Seconded (Brigadier-General Page Croft MP),
'God Save the King' (The National Anthem) |
| Performance Notes | 'The tenor of the meeting can well be judged by the demands which it was suggested should be made of a defeated Germany. She would be required to pay an indemnity of ten thousand million pounds. 'She should be subjected to a period of economic slavery until she has paid her bill', and it was suggested that a large number of Germans should be forcibly imported to Britain to work for her.'
('The Royal Albert Hall', Ronald W Clark, 1958)
"Mr Horatio Bottomley presided over a large meeting held in the Albert Hall on Saturday afternoon with the object of giving 'a mandate to the politcians' in regard to 'the people's peace'. On the platform were a number of Chelsea pensioners and wounded soldiers from military hospitals....
The following resolution was moved by Lord Beresford and carried unanimously:-
That this great open meeting of London citizens affirms its determination that there shall be no peace negotiations with either the Kaiser or his present Government, and that the unconditional surrender of the enemy shall be the first condition of any peace discussion: it further reaffirms the confidence of the British public in the policy of General Foch, Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig and General Pershing, Admiral Beatty and Admiral Sims speedily to bring the enemy to his knees: and finally it records its unabated loyalty to the King and its desire to support in every way his Majesty's Government as long as it acts upon the principle above enunciated in bringing the war to an early and victorious end, always retaining the command of the sea."
(The Times, 4 November 1918) |