The sun., 1919-09-27
BRITISH
AMBASSADOR, HERE
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So much good will has been shown to
me already by American as we'll as Brit
ish friends that feel both grateful and
encouraged. My regret Is that the par
tial failure of sight. which has made ms
withdraw almost entirely from public
life for nearly three years and which
makes all public work difficult, renders
II impossible FOR me to undertake the
cuties of permanent Ambassador. and
! must make my mission comparatively
short am looking forward to my stay
among you, and l should like to try
to convey in a few words why this mis-
sion to the United States appeals to
me as nothing else In public life now
does
I'VE have to make q new start after
the war to repair ana to rebuild the
Old World. which the war has left in
ruins. We wish to build a better one,
but the British Empire, in common,
am sure. with other countries, feels thai
without good understanding and friend
| ship with America international progress
| is impossible and even International
security Is doubtful. I do not come to
put forward any new proposals for
treaties or alliances I am not charged
| with any mission of that kind. Good
understanding can best be established
In cordial feeling between the peoples,
Bonds Between Nations.
There are some things that do not
exist In common between any Two other
Countries common language IL one OF
them-which make strongly for friend
ship between the American and British
peoples. On the other hand there are
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! tendency and make for misunderstand-
ing. arising partly out of old historical
| memories. partly out Of British political
problems which do, as a matter Of fact,
| excite a special interest In America. My
own hope and belief Is that the things
which make for misunderstanding may
| by a wise and sympathetic policy and
by fuller knowledge Of the facts and
difficulties be dissolved and disappear.
| The things which make for friend
ship believe to have their root so deep
in the minds of the American and Brit
ish peoples, and to be SO inseparable
from the natures of each. that they must
endure and grow. The difficulties will
not be overcome by ignoring or under
rating them. and that Is why I refer to
them. But 1t would be an even greater
error to underrate the strength and pos
sibility of growth or the things that
draw us toward each other.
| I'm Great Britain last year we saw
hundreds Of thousands of American SOL
diers passing through our island to go
to hght side by side with the allied
forces on the Continent of Europe. We
| felt as we saw your soldiers and heard
OF their courage and heroism on the bat
tlefleld that they were animated by one
| patriotism and that your whole nation
| was fighting for an ideal.
Prarse for United states.
There have been many things in this
war unexampled in history, and one of
them Is the spontaneous and whole
hearted way in which so great a nation
and so vast n country as the United
States was moved by one ideal to fight
abroad on land and sea and to combine
for work and sacrifice OF every kind at
home. 1t was a splendid thing to see
your whole nation realize that its ma
tional interest was the common interest
of humanity and rise up unanimously to
defend it
Between the enemies in this war
there have been bitterness and hatred.
1t will need time and the growth of
confidence In good faith and good inten-
lions to alter this, but in time hope
J the feeling will change into a hatred of
war itself. hatred of things and not OF
peoples against each other. The great
est security against future war. and the
most permanent cure for the evils of
war. lies in good will. It will be the
object Of my mission while 1t lasts to
promote that good will, as far as have
strength or opportunity, between ths
American and. British peoples in the
hope that this may be one great element
J Of security leading to greater interna-
tional good will on the broadcast possible
basis"
Presides at Concert.
The viscount presided at the ships
concert on Thursday night and, accord.
ing to the liners faithful reporter Pur.
ser c. T. SPEEDING alluded to his health
and said he hoped 1t would be strong
enough to permit him to accomplish his
mission to America. He felt buoye6
up by the many kindnesses already re.
ceived from American friends. He hat
} been struck by the unaniInity of sac.
rifices the Americans had made in the
war. In another part of his talk a.
toastmaster he said:
! "Great democracies do not speak o.
accepting CONSUMPTION they adopt con
scription, and II is thought full o.
hope for the future in these trouble
; some times that the spirit OF sacrific,
should so permeate the whole OF grea
republic like the United States that 4
should adopt conscription 10 fight not FOL
q material gain but for an ideal wha
has happened once can happen again
and while other nations have equal,
shown that spirit Of idealism It is upoI
the United States that history will focuI
hope in the future"
II was noticeable that Lord Grey
modest dress. topped when he abandoned
his seagoing cap with a light era.
fedora. was initiated by members of hi
stan and that there were no high hat
among his greeters. Sartorially the oc
casion was quite as democratic as 1
was otherwise.
Major-Gen. Alfred Cecil Critchley, III,
youngest officer Of his rank in any o
the armies OF the Allies, a fellow
voyager of Lord Grey. was slightly pro
: vcked because his passports had beer
} held up temporarily because of a rumo
/ that he was coming here TO take part II
organising revolution in Mexico. Tn
/ General Is a salwart speciment OF
Canadian, only 20 and has won decora
tons for gallantry and bears the scar
OF wounds In four years service Il
France. He said he was at a loss I,
T. know why anybody suspected him o
being q promoter OF revolutions.
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