Great Falls tribune., 1921-08-14

, David Lloyd George and Aristide
BRAND are not wanting in wit or in
dramatic outbursts, but they have be.
come familiar to the Paris audience.
Colonel Harvey was new blood and the
throng awaited for his first word
1t was long wait. The colonel
compressed his lips as he arrived at
the Care du Nord and thereafter sep
arated them only long enough to let
fall an occasional monosylable. His
long face seemed longer than usual
under tall, felt stove pipe hat and
his lanky figure seemed lankier be-
| non separable companion from the en-
bassy in London.
Spectacles Conceal Twinkle.
If there was a twinkle in the ambas-
sador's eye as he arrived in Paris, his
huge black trimmed spectacles conceal
ed it. AT the council table he has sat
asture. On emerging he has walked
solemnly to his automobile looking
gravely from side to side but not ac-
knowledging any smiles directed at him
by the assembled Journalists of 20 ma
tons. One reporter did have the te-
merity to ask why General Henry Al
len, commanding the American forces
On the Rhine, was in Paris.
Because / asked him to come" re-
piled the ambassador without moment
of hesitation or a word of further ex-
PLANTATION.
The few times the ambassador has
received American correspondents in
his rooms at the Hotel Meurice. he has
talked perfunctorily and one could not
tan to get the impression that the col
onel was discharging distasteful
duty.
Comments have been freely made
here on Colonel Harvey's non-parti-
cipatlon in the council. and where Wig
orous self assertion was willing to be
thrust aside.
Accepts British Notice.
One incident has emphasized this.
Lloyd George, the British prime min
ister. IN opening the Silesian discus.
SION lntlmated rather pointedly that
while the American and Japanese rep
resentatlves were heartily welcome at
the council meeting their advice was
not needed. 1t was noticed, however,
that Baron Hayashi, the japanese del
carefully took the floor and solemnly
registered the stand of his government.
Ihls was purely pro forma of couree.
put at the same time it was announced
q quiet but effective disallowanca Of
Lloyd Georges exclusion hint, but Am
oasSador Harvey said nothing. tacitIv
accepting the British notice.
The American attitude On the
Graco-Turk war expressed by Colonel
1arvey, while consistent with mast
pfactice was disappointing to Euro
peans. This senseless slaughter con-
tliues only because arms and ammu-
nition are being sold to the Opposing
toes by French and British munition
makers. Lloyd George and BRAND
deeply deplore the war but have agreed
that that it is quite all right for private
Trims to supply arms so long M tha
Greeks and the Turk nationalists de-
sire to fight it out"
Harvey Not Overioyed.
The League of Nation has not en-
pioyed its famous automatic economic.
pressure" on the Anatolian bellixer-
ents and the only chance for peaca
seemed to lie in the hope that Ameri-
ca would say:
forego your munitions profits.
gentlemen. and this war will end" Rnk
Colonel Harvey declared that shipment
OF arms to the belligerents was legally
Jnstfliable and that America was quite.
satisfied with the decision Of the al
lies. AL of this tinlidity is so out OF
keeping with the European conception.
Of Colonel Harvey that observers here
are baffled
q But . close friend of the colonel has
declared that. the role he has been
playing was not written BY himself;
that he intensely hislikes an attitude Of
being ION the fence
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