The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1919-12-28

fore they went to watertown to spend
Christmas. They will give the second
of the series shortly. Quite a few
dinners have been given recently and
are scheduled for the next few days,
with the British Ambassador as the
guest of honor. He had been dined-
perhaps wined-frequently in a quiet
Informal way before the announce
/ ment was made that he is going back
10 England early in January. Since
that news leaked out people have
seemed to vie with each other in en-
| tertaining him before he departs.
Having never been formally received
by the President. the formal enter
tanning that would naturally have fol-
lowed the presentation OF his creden-
Gals has been dragged slowly out.
Now the hosts and hostesses are max
ing up for lost time and crowding
his days with dinners and Iuncheons
before he sails for home.
Just as when Lord Reading an
noumced ne was going to England
the air Is full of rumors as to who
Will be the next Ambassador. Lord
Readings name has been suggested;
also Sir Auckland Geddes. Sir Auck-
land is at present president of the
, board Of trnde. During the war he
held several high and important posts
In the government service.
LORD GREY
WILL RETURN.
1t has even been said that Sir
Auckland would come over early in
the spring. But the Marquise de
FontenOy declares that il Is a mis-
take to assume that because Lord
Co.. of Falloden, is sailing for Eng
land next week with his devoted lieu
tenant and adlatus. Sir William
TNrrcli, one of the undersecretaries of
state at the foreign Office in London,
that he is terminating his mission to
the United States. II Lord Grey is
leaving, it Is with every intention OF
returning to these shores in the same
official capacity as the one which he
has been occupying since his arrival
with so much tact and delicacy.
People in England. alike In govern
ment circles. as also in the political
world, in the newspapers and among
the general public. have no concep-
ton of the real state of affairs at
Washington and. indeed, throughout
the entire country. The press dis
patches from London and from Paris
the authorities and of the public, alike
in Great Britain and in France, TO
take too seriously and TO resent too
strongly as a breach of faith and
as a lack of friendship the marked
tendency of Congress and of the
American people generally to avoid
every species of foreign entangle-
mentS. to disregard their obligations.
moral aad otherwise, as one of the
greatest of world powers to the other
nations OF the entente and to indulge,
Tor a time at any rate, In that craze
for international parochiaiism, which
was rampant in Great Britain after
the battle of Waterloo and the close
of the lonG-drawn-out Napoleonic
wars little more than 100 years
ago.
In those days England, finding her
self burdened with a staggering ma
tional debt. and consequently with
terrible burden of taxation by reason
of her continental wars, did not
want to hear anything more of the
continent and displayed the utmost
prejudice against all foreign nations.
even those which had been her COM
panions in arms. Something of the
same sentiment now prevails in
aneflCa' largely owing TO the argu-
ments which have been brought to
bear against President Wilson's
treaty and projected league of ma
ti"ns in Congress. There Is q dan
ger of this passing prejudice against,
everything foreign, this manifest
disinclination to assume the iRevi-
table obligations OF a great power
of the entente toward her former al
lies. being taken too seriously in
England and in France.
If Lord Grey is returning home, II
is to make clear the present situa-
ton in the United States and the
peculiar and nearly always incom-
prehensiblc psychology of the
American people to the government
in London and indirectly also in
Paris.
1t must never be forgotten that
the keynote of the foreign policy
OF Lord Grey during his ten years
OF office as secretary of state for for
eign affairs was the development Of
Great Britain's friendship and un. I
with the United States. |
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