Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-09-03
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Lord Robert Cecil Also Voices
GratefuIneSS to
IL Americans.
PAYS TRIBUTE TO PAGE

LONDON, September lord Rob-
ert Cecil. assistant secretary of state
for foreign affairs, at dinner to-
night celebrating the conclusion of
the deliberations of the allied mari
time transport council in London
made an important announcement re-
specting the pooling of allied ship
ping He also alluded to the pooling
of allied food supplies and of allied
munitions.
Incidentally, Lord Robert paid
warm tribute to Walter Hines Page,
the retiring American ambassador to
the court of st. Jane, who. he said,
had done so much to assist the allied
cause.
Salient Passages in Speech.
The following are salient passages
from the speech of Lord Robert:
The allied maritime and transport
council was established last December
at a meeting of all the allies. 1t has
grown and it's organization mas peeh
completed. but its central principe
remains what it always was, the
necessity of allied control for allied
supplies.
I'm order to feed our armies, apart
from our civil population. we have
got to pool all our resources; we must
bring together the whole economic
strength of our allies.
We are fighting under certain
disadvantage. Our enemies have oeen
content to enslave themselves TO the
German general staff. That gives
them a certain unity of control which
it is difficult for us to initiate. For,
after all. the essential part of our
struggle is that we are free nations
that we claim, and rightly clam, the
right to decide each for ourselves
what is necessary in the interests OF
the general cause in which we are
engaged.
Allied Shipping Is Key.
1.-THE key of allied control is allied
shipping. But though 1t is OF the
greatest Importance that you should
have common allied control of ship
ping. yet that cannot be made perfect
unless you also have full consldefa-
ton of the allied needs.
THE principal organization for
which we are pressing is control OF
allied shipping and complete exam:-
nation and control of allied needs and
also of allied resources to supply
those needs. 1t is the coordination
of the allied needs and allied resources
with allied shipping which would
make an overwhelming economic
power of the alliance to which
we all belong.
I'VE have done a great deal. It is
well that everybody should know,
even that our enemies should know.
how much we have done. The best
example Of our efforts in the matter
of allied need and supply has been
the wheat executive. 1t has done
wonderful work. Not many months
n
feeling bit panicky about the main
tenance of food supplies of the allied
nations Now by the efforts of the
wheat executive it is certainty that
we will be able to reach the next
harvest. The danger of starvation
has been conjured away and much
more than that has been accom-
plished. We have secured the guar
anty of fair distribution of allied
resources among the allies.
Co-ordination's Saving.
1--WE have by co-ordinated allied eff
forts in this respect saved immense
ly in our shipping expenditures. Each
allied country gets its supply from
its nearest allied source. Italy gets
her supply from India, we get ours
from the American continent and an
immense saving in allied shipping
has been accomplished. For that
great effort there are no two people
who are entitled to greater credit
than Etienne Clementel. minister of
commerce of France, and Sir John
Beale. president of the board of
allied food controllers.
But our efforts have not stopped
there. Quite recently we established
the food council, which brings to-
gether all Of the various committees