The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-07-05
Sentiment of Ambassador Har-
vey at Annual Indepen-
dence Day Dinner.
GIVEN BY AMERICAN
SOCIETY OF LONDON
Common Impression in Europe
United States Is Land of
Milk and Honey.
tRy The AssocIated Press.l


LONDON, July 4.-Diplonatic repre-
sentatives of more than thirty foreign
governments were guests tonight at the
annual independence day dinner of the
American Society of London. Ambassa-
dor Harvey was the guest of honor.
Lord Farham, first lord of the admir-
atty, toasting the guest, referred to Mr..
Harvey as "a foreign envoy to whom
the muzzle of diplomacy has not been OBJ
structive." Therefore, he said, both Bri-
tain and America could expect from him
open and frank comment upon Anglo
American relations.''
Referring in his reply to the revolt OF
the American colonies, Mr.. Harvey de-
clared:
Whether the territory comprising the
United States could have been retained
is wholly speculative. But one fact is
certain--if George the Third had issued
proclamation even approximating in
eloquent sincerity and appealing force
that uttered the other day by George V,
in his faithful endeavor to reconcile a
nation, there would have been no ringing
OF bells in Philadelphia one hundred and
forty-five years ago this night, nor for
many years thereafter"
Ambassador Harvey declared the mu-
tuaI helpfulness whic' I'll desired could
not be realized until two grave misap-
prehensions had been removed, one OF
which pervaded Europe respecting the
United States, and the other permeated
the United States as to Europe.
'I find in Europe the common impress
sion that the United States alone among
the nations of the world" he said, 'is
today a land of milk and honey, whose
people not only are universally prosper
Gus. though recalcitrantly discontented,
but are rich beyond the traditional dreams
of aravice. You have only to supplement
the fancy with a suspicion which I find
not wholly lacking that all this opulence
and this happiness are direct results of
the great war, to account for the wholly
natural sense of resentment.
what are the facts? Did the United
States really profit from the war to such
degree as to make the lives she sacri-
feed seem to the cynical and sordid mind
relatively insignificant"
Ambassador Harvey proceeded to cite
the tremendously increased national debt,
the congressional appropriations for 1920,
and the heavy income taxation. He
added:
"In dollars, the cost to America of her
participation in the war, when finally
computed, will fall not so very short of
the entire indemnity upon Germany. I
make no comparisons. There has been
too much of that already. Surely no good
can come now, when we all are striving
to get together in common purpose for
the common veal. from disputing over
the relative sizes of the contributions to
the great cause.
'"The two men swirling down the Nj
agara didn't profit by dropping their pad
dies to quarrel over the distance to the
their fate certain. Let US, in position
hardly less perilous, not emulate their
idiotic example,"
The ambassador said the staggering
present cost and the great price must be
paid by the next generation from those
countries which had been so pitilessly
denuded of the flower of their youth,
who were relied upon to carry on
Nothing could be further from my
thoughts or more repellant to the in
stinct of any American than to measure
money against men," he went on. my
sole purpose is to win fair consideration
from any which may have overlooked the
fact that the United States along with
Europe has her full share of material
burdens to bear for scores of years, in
addition to her grief at the incalculable
greater loss of those who persisted in the
service of their country"