The American Peace Centenary Committee was formed during the 1909 centennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth. In 1913, they made the decision to mark the anniversary of the ratification of the Treaty of Ghent in 1915[1] which ended the War of 1812.
W.B. Howland, the British-American Peace Centenary Commissioner, has been in London for several days discussing with members of the British committee the plans for the celebration.