The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-07
LATE SENATOR
 KNOX RELATED
 "J0KE" ON SELF
Told of Hearing How Wash ington and Downing Street Considered Him Too Pig-Headed for Seat In Arms Conference.

Washington. Dec. 7-OnIy a few
 hours before he was fatally stricken
 Knox sat with the writer in front of a cheerful log fire in his co~lfy office
 at the Capitol.
 He appeared tired although he de-
 clared the visit he just paid to Eng
 land had accorded him much-needed
 rest and relaxation. He had no pre-
 monitton of the fate that awaited him
 upon his return to his residence.
 He chatted intimately and informal
 ly, as was his wont with those he knew and trusted, and he looked for ward with undisguised anticipation to the Washington conference, at which it had been suggested he might be | member of the American delegation. There was much that he said that even his sudden taking off cannot remove the seal of confidence from, but there was one narrative he unfold | ed which he later repeated to several | of his Republican colleagues as | though he regarded it in the light of a l good joke on himself and which he 1 intimated he thought was roo humor- 1 ous to keep to himself.
 Refused Dinners. When I was in England" Senator Knox told me, "I made up my mind | that I would refuse all invitations to 1 wine and dine. and that Mrs. Knox | and I should spend nearly all Of our | time motoring through the beautiful | English countryside.
 | ''But I made on exception to the. rule I laid down, George Harvey, our
 astute Ambassador, wheedled me into | first dining and then into spending 1 two days with him. He told me that | Lloyd George and Lord Curzyon were ! insistent that I dine with them, but l 1 adhered to my rule and declined their | invitation. with the usual thanks. | ''I found that in England they re- 1 spect a man for sticking up for Amerf-
 ca when he is an American, as some l of stuck up for America in the i Versailles Treaty fight.
 | Well, Harvey told me. as we sat | taking over the possibilities of the | Disarmament Conference' - possl- l bilities I told him frankly I was dis | fruitful of-that Lloyd George and he
 had discussed the makeup of the l American delegation
 | Senator Knox laughed.
 | Knox 'FPig-Headed."
 s'It was really too funny for words, | he continued. "It seems that Lloyd II George had heard from Washington that I was not to be appointed an
 American delegate to the conference
 He had heard about who were to com pose the American delegation, and he told Harvey he had reached the same | conclusion that the White House had that Knox was too pig-headed and Borah was too much of a fanatic to
 suit either President Harding or | Downing Street.
 1 Senator Knox laughed again.
 | "It wasn't news to me that the | White House considered me too pig headed and regarded it as further II compliment that the English Govern | ment should share the same view. For
 by being .pig-headed' 1t was, of course, meant that I was not pliable enough
 to be twisted into altering what II considered best for my country to meet the viewpoint of others" II Senator Knox told the story with
 evident relish. Before he left the Capi-
 to1 on that fatal day-for the last | tirne-he told 1t to several of his Re- II publican colleagues, who have since told it to several of theirs.
 Poor Knox appreciated that story
 because he knew and we all knew that
 he was, indeed. too 'pig-headed' to agree to anything savoring of 'entan' gIing foreign alliances, was the comment of one of them.