Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1921-05-20
AMBASSADOR TELLS
BR|T0Ns OUR VIEWS
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] have thus far come In contact"
Precisely as your ambassador went
TO Washington as an unalloyed Briton.
] como to London as an unailoyel
F. American
Nothing could ba more futile. more
dciusivc and more mischcvous." hc
ssaid. "than 10 pretend that the Ameri.
can prefer Of a helping hand WAS az.
tributable primarily to tender sus
.<eptibility."
eft n not" Mr.. Harvey declared
s"My country stands ready 10 work with
yours. because. first. 1, il 20 our own
Interest % do 81: and secondly. because
Il II 20 the advantage Of both. We DO
. not resent being called iicalisis. even
.as some times happens. by those who
: anticipated reward Tor cNtulling our al.
=, truism. as IL ,ransparcnily material hut
. we have come 20 realize In the past few
/: years that ideals too often resolve into
. Illusions and illusions We have found
. 20 be both dangerous and profitlcss.
I. I'VE deceive ourselves occasionally.
Even 20 this day at rare intervals an
! ebullicnt sophomore seeks applause hy
shouting that we won the war Far
I, more prevalent until recently was the
impression that We went to war o. re-.
cue humanity from all kinds 81 me.
nacing rerils.
mot a few remain convinced that We
cent our young soldiers acruss 10 saVc
this kingdom. France and Italy That
is not fact. We sent them snlely 10
save the United States ~ America aud
most reluctantly and laggardly at that.
We were not too proud to fight
whatever that may mean. We were
afraid not 20 fight. That Is the real
truth Of the matter. 80 We came along
toward the end and helped you and
your allies shorten the war. That II
all We did and that II an we claim To-
have done"
Discussing what he called the sent.
mens. perilous by present. Ambassador
Harvey said:
"ror years I have heard I, proclaim.
Cd that war between Great Britain and
America had ceased Ia he conceivable.
Never have known the declaration %
be denied general appreciation. Yet II
In clear that what Ia alleged 10 hc a fact
is no more than an assumption. No re-
sumption of an armed conflict IL un.
imaginable.
The instructions forwarded 10 Amhas'
sador Harvey at London for his partici.
patton In the sessions Of the supreme
council as the personal representative
Of President Harding. II was said 70.
night. are that he shall act only as an
observer 10 far as the sIlesian question
n concerned.
Administration officials reiterated
that the position n the American gov
eminent was the same as outlined In
the formal answer 10 Poland. the text
ce which vas made public last night.
declining her request for support he.
fore the council In settlement Of the
disposition of upper silesia following
the recent plebiscite. That question is
essentially European. n was stated. and
therefore does not concern the United
0tatea !,
IN discuasing the question. however,
oeficiAls Indicated that although the
0liesiAn question was essentially Euro
pean bssauhe Il was a problem Of nd.
5usting boundaries. II Or similar cues
tions might conceivably develop 10
broader proportions involving interests
a the United States Of an economic
character.
in such an event Il In understood tina,
instructions will be forwarded to Am.
hassadoe Harvey TO act In n manner
10 afeguard American interests. on the
ground that the United States IL vitality
conserved h all economic readjus,ments
growing out Of the war.
Any day may witness n renewal Of
Tire War Of the Roses. any day the clash
e u Blue and the Gray In the swamps
q Virginia.
But % unlikely are such happenings
shat the suggestion. even though u In.
credIbly were made. would evoke no
moro than q derisive smile. But Il IL one
thing to stamp constantly upon an ab.
surd nation and another never to think
a n at an.
Now me question arises. have not
inuf countries reached point with re.
opect 10 The remotest possibility Of
conflict that 5ustlfies ous forgetting II
e. completoly ~ the battles Of Dos
uyoeth, field END Appomattox have faded
nn<n0noi1cction,
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