The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-07
THE NEW DIPLOMACY"
SURPRISING SPEECH BY THE BRIT
ISH AMBASSADOR TO FRANCE.
Reference to American Methods and a
Warning TO Frenchmen--Lntter
Likely to he Resented.

PARIS, Dec. 6.-At the silver jubilee BAN
quet of the British Chamber of Commerce
here this evening the ambassador, Sir Ed
mund J. Monson, referring to the new
diplomacy" which is said to have come into
fashion during the past year, said it was
chiefly due to the enterprise of the press,
but also it was in measure due to mother
country innovations and to the originality
of the American mind-ever restlessly
watching to improve everything-whch will
perhaps end by wiping the diplomatists of
the old school off the face of the earth.
Il am quite ready to acknowledge" said
the ambassador, that there is much good
in the particular innovation occurring in
my mind at the present moment. America
has invariably sent to England the finest
representatives of her intelligence and
culture, and think we may attribute no
little degree Of the happy development of the
friendly feeling between Great Britain and
the United States to the manner in which
those representatives performed their tasks,
especially in their public utterances on both
sides OF the Atlantic. / wish l possessed
the facility of expression and the command
of appropriate language which distinguished
Colonel Hay, the late Mr.. Bayard and their
eminent predecessors at the court of st.
James. Such oratorical gifts / have not.
but lcel the strongest desire TO set lew
words which may work toward the end for
which O British ambassador is sent abroad.
1t has not been without much reflection
and anxiety that l decided to depart on this
occasion from the traditional limits by
which a diplomatst is hampered."
Sir Edmund Monson then proceeded to di-
late on the recent remarkable outburst OF
public feeling in Great Britain provoked
by the FaShOda incident, and said he ven
tured to express the hope that the idea of
Great Britain being unduly SqueeZable and
prone to make graceful but impolitic con-
cessions is thoroughly exploded. After re-
ferring to the mischief often wrought by
reckless journalism, which Is too apt TO for
get it can never be so accurately informed
as the foreign minister" Sir Edmund eulO-
gistically referred to the Paris exposition
of 1909, which he described lone of the
most significant factors in restraining the
combative elements now menacing the peace
Of the earth. He appealed to France to dis
tent1On on the part of Great Britain, to try
to believe there was no general an1mOSlty
in England toward France and to meet
England on every question at issue with an
honest desire for an equitable arrangement
He concluded as follows: Il would earn
eStly ask officials in power and unofficial
eXponentS Of public opinion to diScounte-
nance and abstain from a continuance of
the policy of pin pricks, which, while it
can only procure Stn ephemereal SatiSfac-
ton TO q Short-fVed ministry, must in
eVitably perpetuate across the channel an
tntOlerable irritation. l would entreat them
TO resist the temptation to thWart British
enterprise by petty maneuVerS such as the
proposal TO start colleges as rivals of Gen.
kitchener's projected institution in the re-
conquered Sudan. Such ill-considered provo
cation might have the effect of converting
Great Britain's policy of forbearance in
which I presume French sentiment is not
aiming"