Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-01-04
GREY'S VISIT. D|sAPPO|NTs
AMBASSADOR RETURNS
WITH WORK UNFINISHED
fNsflcd to Confer With President or
Prcscnt His Credentials as urit-
lsh Diplomat.
ny 5. FnEDt2nICK l.s>AnN.

WASHINGTON. Jan. 3.-Niscount
Grey, special ambassador from Great
Britain TO the United states. is re-
turning to his home IA profoundly dis
appointed man and prepared TO sub
NIT TO his government a decidedly dis
couraging report OF his mission.
This fact ie known not only 10 the
members of the official british colony
in Washington, but 10 many OF the
eminent as We'll. And The one s; CUP
Grey faced in this country and upon
which he must comment when he ar
riycs in London. moro than does the
This diisappointment, /; is carSfpllly.
laanr ns IS fn eavh ma the the "s S,ss
without so much as 1--WE minutes con-
tidential conversation. with President
portunity was given him even TO pre-
sent his. credentials. Much has been
made of that CIRCUMSTANCE on both
matter compared with the more inn
..Sor,ant phases OF me report whinh
Lloyd George, Foreign Minister Bal
.our and the British peoptc.
Illness Prevents Visit.
The obvious reason why frCSilCN:
Wilson did not receive Lord Grey is
f But the he aTG %heE may
not seem So obvious 10 the outsider
why some means could not be found
= .
these two men such as that between
the President and King Mh@ri; and
the President ana the Prince Of Wales
might be worth stating.
II Is a fact that there are n large
n,umber Of fGtGign diplomats in Wash.
nresen, their credentiais to PRESIDENT
Wilson. Some OF them have been in
this country even longer than Lord
been physically unable TO receive all OF
the ambassadors and ministers. there
fore he has not undertaken 20 receive
any. To have made an exception in
the case of the .Britigher. would have
given direct ofensc TO every other
unrecoFnized diplomat. il is explained,
run the risk of that even to crafty so
important pcrsonagc as Lord Grey.
British ambassador has turned his
face homeward. probably not 10 re-
turn: without Gsonfdins the rurrHsess
the government 10 which he has been
accredited or without being able 10
confde TO his own, government any
he might have received from the lips
of President Wilson.
Pence Issues Most Vital.
But. as already stated. this is not
matter of deeper Importance. What
Lord Grey will say to his government
regarding the peace issues in america
= der the necessity os explaining
; Ito Downing Street that President viii
son subscribed 10 4 treat Y nj ' crSaillcS
which the, American Senate refu<es to
ratify without reservations. which may
draw much of the Likelihood from
the league of nations covenant. lie
will be forced TO say that if there is
ratification at all at the hands of the
Senate. notifications of a character
tions VIII have been enacted. and that
actual peace will not be proclaimed
by President Wilson for many weeks
perhaps months. to come.
But the nplca pro.rrnr, will
not be the most discouraFnE part Of al
me anhaSsador,s report, it is said. by
arises from what he has observed of
the militant anti-Bri,ish sentiment
found in many quarters of the United
states. "A sentiment which most out
standing English statesmen of today
had hoped that the war had completely
dissolved.
ssnmYStanees which LORD Grey viii
dwell upon in the conferences he will
There is In America a widespread
sympathy with the cause of irish free
american people are clamorng for
Irish autonomy, and great deal Of
time and OF money is being expended
IN support OF the Irish republic Both
branches of tho American Congress.
by formal vote, have. expressed sym
pathy for the aspirations Of the Irish
people, ana the campaign for Irish lib
crty is react Ing decidedly against
There Is III America, Lord Grey has
found systematic and wel-nnanccd
propaganda In behalf Of Egyptia n
freedom. another movement which en-
couragcs hostility on the part of the
American people toward Great Brit
ain. and which makes Il harder for
the American and British govern