New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-05-13
U. S. JOINS
ALLIED BOARD
HARDING ACTS TO GUARD ALL
RIGHTS IN WORLD WAR
SETTLEMENTS.
AMERICA REPRESENTED
HARVEY TO SIT WITH BODY IN
UNOFFICIAL CAPACITY IN
ALLIED COUNCIL.

Washington, May s. President
Harding has accepted the invitation OF
the allied supreme council that the
United States be represented at the
meetings of that body a. well as those
of the conference of ambassadors and
the PREPARATIONS commission.
George Harvey, newly appointed
ambassador to Great Britain, will sit
with the supreme council and take
part as the representative of the Pres
,ident of the United States in the DELHI
erations'' of that body.
Representation at the conference Of
ambassadors in Paris and the repara-
tons commission will be unofficial.
The ambassador TO France will he
the observer on the former and Roland
W. Boyden will sit in unofficial capac-
ity on the latter.
Decision to accept the councils in
v~itation was reached mt the regular
cabinet meeting and formal nnounce
| ment Of it was made at the White
House. Soon afterward the e X of
the American reply to the invitation
was made public al the State Depart
ment. 1t follows:
''The government of the United
States has received the communication
in which you state that, with the unan-
imous concurrence of the powers rep
resented ut the allied conference in
London, you are to inquire whether
this government is disposed to he rep
resented in the future, as it was in the
past, at the allied conferences, at the
conferences of ambassadors in Paris,
and on the PREPARATIONS commission.
"The government of the United
States, while maintaining the tradi-
tiOnal policy of abstentation from par
ticipation in matters of distinctly
European concern, is deeply Interested
in the proper economic adjustments
and in the just settlement of the mat
tiers of worldwide importance which
are under discussion in the confer
ences, and desires helpfully to COOP
crate in the deliberation upon these
questions.
"Mr. George Harvey, appointed am
bassador to Great Britain, will be in
structed on his arrival in England to
take part as the representative of the
President of the United States in the
deliberations of the supreme council.
"The American ambassador to
France will be instructed To resume
his place as unofficial observer on the
conference of ambassadors, and Mr..
Roland W. Boyden will be instructed
to sit again in an unofficial capacity
on the PREPARATIONS commission
"The government of the United
States notes with pleasure your ex-
preston of the belief of the represen-
tatives of the allied governments as
sembled in London, that American CO.
operation in the settlement of the
great International questions growing
out of the World war will be of mater
ial assistance"
This communication was delivered
TO Sir Auckland Geddes, the British
ambassador, who handed to Secretary
Hughes the invitation of the council
which was signed by Premier Lloyd
George of Great Britain, as its presi-
dent.
In the highest administration circles
il was emphasized that the action
taken did not mean the participation
of the United States in any project "of
n world government or world league"
II was said that 1t was inevitable
that the United States have an advis-
DRY part in the settlement of the vast
economic and other problems growing
of the World wal. These settle
ments, 1t was explained, mast ece
as the rest of the world.