The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-10-01
NEW
AMBASSADOR HERE
EARLE GREY, WHO COMES TO
REPRESENT GREAT BRITAIN
AT WASHINGTON

Viscount Edward Grey, former
minister for foreign affairs, the newly
appointed British Ambassador to
Washington, one of the most conspicu-
GUS figures in British public life, is
known chiefly by the diplomatic eff
forts he made to avert the world war
and by the fact when he failed, and
the conflict became inevitable, he IN
sisted Great Britain could net With
Ahonor remain out of it, - - n :
John Morley, the historian, said of
Grey rs years ago: "That young man
will go far. He will be Prime Minister
some day" Gladstone said Grey
might be anything he cnose--but that
he chose to go fishing"
Viscount Grey of Fallodon, a title
to which he was elevated in 1915, was
born April 25, 1862, the son of Cap
tain George Gray,"a Gray of North
umberland," from whose father ne in
herited a baronetcy. Before the war
he was known as an aristocratic dem
ocrat, a "silent pilot of British djplrm-
acy," and the greatest living authori-
ty on fly-casting. Gladstone, carry
ing his illusion further, said of him in
his earliest days in the House of Com
mons: II never knew in man such
aptitude for political life and such dis
inclination for it," Viscount Grey, ac-
cording to the British "Who's Who
is the author of only one book. 1t is
entitled ely Fishing" When Theo-
dore Roosevelt visited the Viscount,
instead of talking world politics they
went on foot journey through rural
England to study English bird life,
on which Viscount Grey is an authori-
life.
The career of the man, who of
all other Britons, it has been said,
was most cordially hated by the Ger
mans because he increasingly advocat-
ed England's entrance into the war
for the preservation of the neutrality
Of Belgium, was quite unlike that of
almost every other man in British
public life. He. is not lawyer In
Fact, when he became Under Secretary
If State for foreign affairs in 1892,
i position he held for three years, he /
was chairman of the board of direct |
3rs of the Northeastern railway.
Educated at Winchester and Balliof
College, Oxford, the prospective vis-
,ount was elected liberal leader mem
per from Berwick on-Tweed to the
House of Compons at the age of % I
hid had been repeatedly reelected
rom 1885 to 1916 when he was made
peer. An athlete at college, he won
he Queens club and other champion
ennis prizes. In 1912, as mark of
distinction for his public services,
King George made him member of
he Garter, the only commoner, it is
aid, so honored
Viscount Grey is noted as a forceful
peaker. He is an Englishman of
it is said, "cold, reserved
md correct in speech and deport-
nent." His speeches in Parliament
we're mainly plain, simple statements
f fact, vigorously put without any |
tempt on his part to be historonic
r eloquent. The new ambassador in 4
ther words, is said to possess a lcgi-
al mind.
When <Viscount Grey became for {
ign minister IA years ago he sought
. strengthen the ties of fir endsaip
etween his country and other govern
tents. The Anglo French entente
oldiale and the Anglo Russian en-
snte which was brought about in 1907 /
Jere regarded as the cornerstone of
is foreign policy, and together they
aved the way for entente alliance IN
re great war. In 1911 be supported
resident Taft's arbitration proposals s
nd five years before, at the Algeci- {