The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-13
GEDDES MAKES
PLEA FOR UNITY
British Envoy Tells Canada So
ciety Allies Would Gladly
Have Yielded to |. ).
NEXT WAR WILL BE LAST
Recent Conflict Ended Just in
Time to Save VictOrs and
Vanquished From Chaos.
NEXT WAR WILL BE LAST

Warming that civilization could not
survive another great war, n plea for
complete understanding between the
United states and Great Britain as
the surest preventive of war, assur-
ance that the neighborliness OF the
United States and Canada make Can
ada the Interpreter OF America to
the Britons and OF the Britons to
America" and the dispeller of misun-
derstanding produced by misrepresen-
tation and distortion-these were the
main points of an impressive speech
made last night by Sir Auckland
Gcddes, the British Ambassador. at a
dinner given in his honor by the
Canadian Club of New York at the
Biltmore.
Those who understand, the Anibassa-
dor said. should proclaim boldly their
belief that "a frank and free under
standing between the nations is essen
tial."
IF we do not reach that understand
ing soon" he added, who nowsY-
the ships of state of the nations may
drift along paths that will cross. For
without free interchange OF thought no
man can tell the path which nation
seeks to tread. There may be collisions
seeming afterward az inevitable as wss
the great collision from which we are
now seeking to recover
Sir Auckland Geddes had prepared an
address from the language but not the
spirit of which he occasionally de-
parted. lie was introduced amid much
applause by Arthur Knowison, presi-
dent of the club, and stood beneath In
tertwined British and American flags.
Agrees with Marshal Foch.
Evidently he agrees with Marshal
Foch rather than with Clemenceau-
assuming that the former French Pre-
mier is correctly reported by Andre
Tardleu as having taxed Foch with
ending the war too soon. He did not,
Of course. alludc TO the controversy.
but said:
Those who we're In position to Judge
Of the extent Of the havoc the war mad
wrought realized that indeed IL was the
eleventh hour and that IL the war had
gone on 70 the twelfth the civilization
we have known in Europe would nave
collapsed, never to reappear In our time
In any form that we would recognize.
II collapse had come, victors. van
ouished. neutrals would have been
plunged 10 common disaster. But the
arnlistlce came at the eleventh hour or
the eleventh day of the eleventh month
while there was time, Just time, to es-
cape chaos.
'rThose who hold responsible govern
nent positions in the closing weeks and
early months Of 1918 and 1919 WILL never
forget che strain that was on them.
There was no certainty which OF the
battered ships OF state would float or
s,nk. The whole armada ot European
civilization was driving toward the
Jagged rocks and some OF the crews
,rere rnutinous and some were spent and
not caring whether their nation was
numbered among the saved or lost
cast back your minds 70 the tneh
ana contrast Il with the now. IL there
anv country In Europe, except Russia
which has not rlgged at least jury
mast and spread at least enough canvas
% tho breeze 20 insure steerage way
anon her ship Of state? The armada OF
European civilization is sill laboring In
hoav, seas. but the ships arc all pulling
nwav from the rocks that threatened
beating out 20 the safe Ealing OF the
open sea.
some faint hearts are alarmed be-
CAUSE the waves still run high. They
moan that the storm is not over and
that the dangers are as great az they
were. Others torture themselves with
speculation as 20 what would happen II
another storm az intense as the last
wero 10 break upon the fleet before Il
has had time 10 effect repairs"
New storm would Destroy Al.
"rhey need not speculate. fc another
storm % fierce as the last were 20 break
nov the laboring ships would be lost
beyond hope OF salvation. and not only
tho ships that were severely damaged
in the storm but those that last time
lost only an unlmportsnt spsr--they.
too. would 20. and the survivors OF that
CHA silly wreckage would begin again the
unending voyage Of humanity not in
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