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i. $. TO SIT IN
ALLIED COUNCIL
Accepts Invitation to Send Un-
official Representative.
DECIDED At cAB|NET SESSION
Rowland w. Boyden, Now American
Commissioner in Paris, Will Serve
on the Raparations Commission.

Washington, May 1.-The adminis-
tIation has decided to accept the in
v.taIion to send an unofficial repre-
sentative to the supreme council and
! tie council of ambassadors in Europe.
| The decision was reached after
| President Harding and his cabinet
| had devoted virtually all of the reg
| uar meeting to discussion of the sub
! j. "r A note Informing the allied DOW
e~S of the acceptance viii go forward
shortly.
| The decision carries with it also
| Denomination to have the United
| $ ares represented on the reparatiOnS
| commission in connection with the
| German war Indemnity. Roland W.
Iuyden, now serving as American
! commissioner at Paris. will he the
| American on the reparations COM
| mission.
! In its discussion OF the subject tfle
| cabinet is said to have shown dis
linsition to feel that American inter
estS could not be properly protected
and furthered in the light of present
! world relationships, unless the United
States participated at least in an un-
| >.t!ir!al characSr in the meetings of
| t'!e, commission and other bodies now
dealing with the European situation.
1t IS understood that the note II he
| cent to the allies will make it plain,
! however, tnat the American repreSen-
| tativeS will act largely in an unotfi-
! tial capacity, particularly in refer
| ence to any question touching on the
! League of Nations.
Ambassador Harvey in London will
! represent the United States on the SUI
rreme council and until relieved by
! ilerrick, Ambassador Wallace in Paris
viii he the American representative
} in the council of ambassadors.
BCYdan. who was the American IN
official representative on the repara-
t;0nS commission of the last admins
tration. Will be restored to his for
mer status. but thaf of the American
representatives on the supreme coun-
ci! and the council of ambassadors
VIII be official.
1t was emphasized by high admin
iStratiOn officials that it was ineyit-
able that the United States have an
?dvisery part in the settlement of
problems growing out of
4hoGgh it is held that such acliOn hss
haS been taken now does nor mean
the participation of the United States
in any project "of a world govern
.nent or world league"
, In the appointment of an unofficial
representative to the reparati0nS COM
mission it was stated by officials that
it was not certain wheth ar the eXecu-
tive mad the authority to do any more
than this
Officials made it plain that the
American representatives on the su-
preme council. council of ambassa-
Gors and reparations commission will
not have the power to bind the Unit
ed States to any course of action in
dependently. but that they will act
chiefly as observers in reporting and
in advising the United States govern
ment as to policies undertaken by
those bodies affecting the United
States.
1t has been Indicated by administra-
tiOn officials that one of the first sub
iectS of Il general character to be tax
en- up by Colonel Harvey in the SUI
preme council will be the question of
n world conference for disarmament,