Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-09-27

ASD$~OAAAl N4S
New Ambassador
to y. S. Arrives in N. Y.
New York. Sept. a-Arririnx here
late today aboard the steamsh.1
Aanretan1a to assume his new pos:
as British ambassador 70 the EniteS
st&tes discount Edward Grey wea--
arg black glasses dspiored has poor
fseslgnt which compelled him &c
withdraw for three years from pab;ie
LIE and which, ne said. would make
nls mission Ia this country CON
para4tFeiy short"
|rested by group If British on
esfs from the embassy In washinz-
ton. headed Dr Robert e. LINDSAY.
Fiscount Grey expressed mis- deaixAt
al the attention shown him By news
paper met and photographers. He
VIII leave ~ once for Washington.
The new ambassador asserted thas
he mad NOT come 70 prt forward any
new appeals for treaties Or sffis nc>s
ont tl1at his object In accepting tbs
port Was ~ promote the existing
s"od w3a between America and Brit
isn psovie- az Tar az be has strength
or opportunity.
he asserted that his views On the
League II Nations. previously ex-
pressed. when be said hast May that
ne was Delighted with the eoyea.
ant" lad not changed. He also ex-
pressed Keen regret a. the news II
the illness u PrexiHent Wilson ans
Inc hope that il Was not Serious.
In hos formal statement. preoa,.6
60 tne Aoyage, the yiseorn. saie:
wish 70 take thu opportunity ~
express the appeal it made to me
wnen 1 Was asked 70 undertake the
duties Of British ambassador to the
United States. 30 much good ha.
been shown TO me already by Ame,;-
car friends as well ar British friens.
that feel both grateful and en-
coarageG.
Ny regret IL that the partial faf,.
afe 81 sight, which has made me
withdraw almost entirely from pub
ne ME for nearly three years, and
winch makes all public work DIM
cua, renders TO it impossible for me
70 undertake the duties of a ner.
mSosnt ambassador and must make
my mission comparatively short.
We have to make a new start aft.
ef the war 70 repair and to rebuild
the Old world which the war has Jeff
IN ruins We wish 10 build a better
one. bat the British empire, in COM
mon. / ana sure, with outher conn.
Tries. feels that without good under
standing and friendship with Amer
tea international progress In fmoossi-
Die and even international. security
10 doubtful
DO not care to put forth any an.
Dea1 Tor treaties or alliances. am
not charged with any mission OF tina.
kind. Good understanding can be-
oest established On cordial feeling
between the peoples.
There are some things that do mot
exist In common between any two
other countless common LANGUAGE
u one OF them-whieh make strongly
Tor Friendship between the America
ana British peoples. On the other
nano, there are some things which
cut across this happy tendency and
make for misunderstanding, arising
out Of old historical memories. part
~ out OF British political problems
WINCH DO AZ a mater Of fact excite
q special interest In America.
Ny own hope and belief IN that
the things which make for ,nisun-
oerstanding may by time. by wise
ana sympathetic policy and By a full
Ter knowledge Of the facts and dim
cuiftes be dissolved and disappear.
the things which make for friend
ship believe to have their roots no
deep IN the minds Of the American
and British peoples. and TO be 20 IA.
separable from the natures Of each
that they must endure and grow.
me dfncuities viii mot Be overcome
y ignoring or undertaking them, and
Ina. - why refer to them. Dut 4
os'd De an even greater error In nm.
oan the strength ana pos.sbt,,tv -
srowth Of the things that dr.v ~ "a.
wards each other. W.
ne'e ave nsen many thinss In Til
sr "neAanpsed N history. ana oua ~
tnsm u 1e epoataneons and vhole.
hearted way In which % srsas s -.
ton and - vast . country - he yJnite.
States was moved By one IDEAL to an
abroad On land and SEA and to com
bins for work and sacrifice Of ever,
Kind at home. II was Q splendid thin
70 So your whole nation realize tn