The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-07
PRAISE FOR US.
Sir Edward j. Munson's Words at Jubilee
Banquet.

Banquet
Paris, Dec 6.-At the silver jubilee
banquet of the British Chamber of
Commerce here this evening the Brit
ish ambassador, Sir Edmund ]. Mon
son, referring to the new diplomacy"
which is said to have come Into fashion
during the past year, said il was chief
ly due to the enterprise % the press.
but also, it was in a measure due to
mother country inventions, and to the
originality of the American mind, ever
| restlessly watching to improve every
thing, which viii perhaps end by i'm
proving the diplomatists of the old
school off the face of the earth
The ambassador added: Il am quite
ready to acknowledge thar there is
much good in the particular innova-
ton occupying my mind at the present
moment. America has inwariably sent
/ to England the finest representatives.
OF her intellect and culture, and l
think we may attribute to no little de-
gree the happy development of the
| friendly feeling between Great Britain
and the United States to the manner
in which those representatives per-
formed their tasks. especially in their
public utterances on both sides of the
Atlantic
Il wish possessed the facility of an
propriate language which distinguished
Col. Hay, the late Mr.. Bayard and
their eminent predecessors at the court
OF st. James. Such oratorical gifts I
nave not. But ! feel the strongest de-
sire to say q few words which NAV
work towards the end for which a
British ambassador is sent abroad. 1t
has not been without much reflection
a n risafx hat 7
inns occasion from the traditional limits
by which diplomatist is nampered."
SIR Edmund Monson then proceeded
10 d1late on the recent remarkable out
burst of public feeling in Great Britain
provoked by the Fashoda incident. and
said he yentured to express the hone
that the idea Of Great Britain being un-
duly squeezeable and prone to make
graceful but impolitic concessions, is
thoroughly exploded
After referring to the mischief often
wrought by reckless journalism, which
| is too apt to forget it can never be so
| accurately informed as to the foreign
minister" Sir Edmund eulogistically
| referred to the Paris exhibition of 1900.
which he described as zone of the most
| significant factors in restraining the
| combatiVe elements now menacine the
peace of the EARTH
| He appealed to France to disabuse
/ herself OF all suspicion of unfair inten-
ton upon the part of Great Britain to
! try 20 believe that there was no general
animosity in England toward France,
and to meet England on every question
at issue with an honest desire for an
equitable arrangement.
| Sir Edmund Monson closed as fol-
| lows: Il would earnestly ask officials
| in power and unofficial opponents of
| public opinion to discountenance agd
abstain from a continuance of the
policy of pinpricks, which, while it can
/ only procure an ephemeral satisfaction
to short-lived ministry, must newt
ably perpetuate across the channel an
intolerable irritation.
II would entreat them to resist the
temptation to thwart British enter
prise by petty maneuvres, such as the
proposal to start colleges as rivals of
Gen. Kitchener's projected institution in
the reconquered Soudan Such ill-con-
sidered provocation might have the eff
feet of converting Great Britains
present policy of forbearance in Egypt
into the adoption of measures at which
I presume French sentiment is not aim
ing"