Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-09-29
GREY ARRIVES To
ASSUME POST AS
BRITAIN'S ENVOY
New Ambassador From Eng
land to United States Is a
Conspicuous Figure in PoIit-
ical Life in Home Country.
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Washington, Sept, 2S,-Viscount
Earl Grey. former minister of foreign
affairs, the newly appointed British
ambassador to Washington, who land
ed In this country Friday is one of the
most conspicuous figures in British po-
litical life. He is known chiefly by the
diplomatic efforts he made to avert
the world war and by the fact that,
when he failed, and the conflict be-
came inevitable, he insisted Great Bril-
tain could not with honor remain out
OF 1t.
John Morley, the historian, said of
Grey twenty-five years ago: THAT
young man will go far. He will be
prime minister of England some day"
Gladstone said Grey might be any
thing he chose-but that "he chose to
go fishing"
Viscount Grey of Falloden, a title
TO which he was elevated in 1916, was
born April 25, 1862. the son of Capt,
George Grey, "a Grey of Northumber-
land" from whose father he inherited
a baronetcy. Before the war he was
known as an aristocratic democrat, q
silent pilot of British diplomacy"
and the greatest living authority on
fly-casting. Gladstone, carrying his
illusion further, said of him in his ear
~ days in the house of commons: II
never knew in man such aptitude
for political life and such disinclina-
ton for It," Viscount Grey. according
to the British who's Who" is the
author of only one book. 1t is entitled
Ely Fishing" When Theodore Roose-
welt visited the viscount, instead Of
3a1f 1t n
foot-journey through rural England
TO study English bird life, ON which
Viscount Grey is an authority as
Roosevelt was on American bird life.
Cordially Hated by Germans.
The career OF the man, who of all
other Britons. it has been said, was
most cordially hated by the Germans
because he increasingly advocated
England's entrance into the war for
the preservation of the neutrality Of
Belgium, was quite unlike that of al
most every other man in British pub
lie life. He is not a lawyer. In fact,
when he became under secretary Of
state for foreign affairs In 1892, a
position he held for three years, he
was chairman of the board of direc-
tors of the Northeastern railway.
Educated at Winchester and Bal
liol college. Oxford, the prospective
viscount was elected liberal member
from Berwick -on-Tweed to the house
OF commons at the age of 23 and had
been repeatedly reelected from 1885
to 1916, when he was made a peer.
An athlete at college, he won the
queens club and other champion ten
mis- prizes. In 1912, as mark of dis
tnchon fer his public services, King
George made him a member of the
Order of tho Garter. the only COM
moner, it is said, so honored,
Is Forceful Speaker.
Visceunt Grey is noted as forceful
speaker He is an Englishman Of Eng
lishnen, 1t is said. "cold. reserved and
correct in speech and department"
His speeches in parliament were main
" plain, simple statements of fact,
vigorously put without any attempt on
his part to be histrionic or eloquent.
The new ambassador in other words.
is said to possess a logical mind.
When Viscount Grey became British
foreign minister fourteen years ago he
sought to strengthen the ties of friend
ship between his country and other
governments. The Anglo-French en-
tente cordiale and the Anglo Russian
entente which was brought about in
1907 were regarded as the corner
stone of his foreign policy, and to-
gether they paved the way for entente
alliance in the great war. In 1911 he
supported President Taft's arbitration
proposals and five years before, at the
Algeclnas conference over Morocco,
he turned the scales toward French
predominance in northwest Africa. All
of these efforts II has been said, We're
taken In view of the growing agrees
siveness of Germany and have added
20 Sir Edwards fame as far-sighted
dipiomatist.
Prophetic Character Study.
Less than four months before the
outbreak of the world war, on July 2S,
1914, In a prophetic character study
OF the British foreign minister, a well
known writer said: Sir Edward has