The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1921-06-03
SILENT APPROVAL
TO HARVEY SPEECH
President and Hughes Find No
Fault With Statement OF
Our Foreign Policy.
BRITISH GLAD OF OUR HELP
Ambassadors Statement Regarding
U. S. Stand on League Considered
Reiteratng Harding's Views.
Resent Attack on Wilson.

Washington.-Presi Harding was
distinctly pleased over the speech OF
Colonel George Harvey, the new am
bassador to Great Britain, at the Pill
grims dinner in London. Secretary OF
State Hughes is also known to ap-
prove it. Both the President and Sec
retary Hughes, it was said, had ex-
pressed themselves at the caDlnet
meeting.
In the senate the feeling, judging by
expressions obtained, divided sharply
along the old lines, save that practl-
cally all the Republicans since the
election are in hearty accord so far as
scrapping the League of Nations Is
concerned, and the speech of Colonei
Harvey, therefore, met general ap-
proval.
.Th Democrats were particularly irrl-
tated over the reference to the express
sion ''too proud 10 fight" regarding it
as an unnecessary slap at President
Wilson.
ooh, too proud to fight has come
to be an historic phrase" said one Of
ficials in discounting the seriousness of
this.
The satisfaction in administration
circles and among opponents of the
League of Nations in Congress seems
to be based on the thought that now,
at last, perhaps the people in Europe
will accept as inevitable the fact that
this country Is not going to join the
league 1t has been annoying to the
irreconcilable element, particularly in
view of the whispers that Mr.. Hughes
and Mr.. Hoover might lead the coun-
try toward the League Of Nations, to
have some of the foreign newspapers
comment so hopefully about this coun-
try resuming its seat on the Supreme
Council.
The amazing thing about the whole
situation here is that Colonel Harvey,
so far as his statement about the
League of Nations is concerned, did
not say anything new at all. AS one
high official of the administration put
it, what Mr.. Harvey said on this point
was merely a paraphrase of what the
President has said several times, in
cluding the statement in his inaugural
address.
The keen interest in what Colonel
Harvey said about the League of Ma
tions, therefore, is due not to anything
new in his remarks, but to two other
points-one that it brands as untrue
the whisperings that Mr.. Hughes and
Mr.. Hoover are leading the country by
almost imperciptible steps into the
league, and the other that it again in
forms the people of Europe positively
of the irreconcilable position Of this
country, so far as the league is con-
cerned.
There Is another phase Of the situa-
ton to which some Importance was at
tached. That is the probable effect of
the speech on the French in the pres
ent SiIesian controversy. In view of
the fact that Colonel Harvey is going
to sit on the Supreme Council during
the consideration of the Silesian ques-
ton, although he is to be there on that
occasion as an observer rather than as
q member, it is thought his declaration
Of strong friendship for the British at
this time is rather significant.
Senate irreconcilables were pleased
of hn
cially because Colonel Harvey, in Ian,
euage whose meaning could not posi-
| bly, be mistaken, had once more made
it plain that the United States would
not enter the league.
Under the surface, irreconcilables
said that beyond question the tone of
Colonel Harvey's utterances with re.
spect to American non-participation in
the league would have a soothing eff
feet on the feeling in the senate in re.
gard to participation in the Supreme
Council and other bodies.
On the other hand, pro-Wilson sena,
tors were not pleased. The friends OF
the league did not hide their dis
pleasure and had some sharp things
to say of Colonel Harvey's expressions
Some of the Democrats resented what
| they called the filings of Colonel Har-
vey at the former President.
The remarks of Mr.. Harvey, accord.
| ing to the senate view, reflect the senti-
ments of the Harding administration
1t is the understanding he has spoken
| in accordance with his instructions
from the White House and State De
partment. This tended to give his ut.
! terances much added significance.