The Holbrook news., 1921-05-27
AMBASSADOR
 REJECTS LEAGUE
GEORGE HARVEY ANNOUNCES APPOINTMENT IN DISCUS
 SION OVER SILESIA.
OUTLINES NEW POLICY
ENVOY MAKES PLEA FOR CLOSER COOPERATION BETWEEN
 TWO NATIONS.
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 London, May 2O-The dinner of well come by the Pilgrims Society to the American ambassador, George Harvey, was enveloped in far deeper interest than usually attends such a reception to a new ambassador. Not only was it MT. Harvey's first public appear ance since his appointment, but there was general expectation that he would reveal something of the new adminis- trations policy toward Europe.
 The ambassador did not disappoint his audience for he brushed aside any lingering illusion that the United States would have any relations with the League of Nations. He also an nounced his appointment to represent the President in the Supreme Council in the discussion over Silesia.
 MT. Harvey's plain words on the league were a revelation and his plea for the closest cooperation between the two great English-speaking coun- tries was impressive.
 The British premier rather disap- pointed those who hoped for more of international plain speakingl He de scribed the plight of Europe, enmeshed in ancient feuds, and gave warm wei come to the new cooperation of America in world affairs.
 The duke of Connaught presided and Lord Desborough read message from the American Pilgrims.
 There were $50 diners, among them the duke of York and many members of the peerage and representatives of the American colony.
 Ambassador Harvey declared:
 "There still seems to finger in the minds of many here the impression that in some way or other America may yet be beguiled into the League of Nations. Let me show you how ut terly absurd such notion is.
 T need not recall the long contest waged between the two branches of our government over the proposal. need hardly mention that the conflict became so sharp that even the treaty went by the board, to the end that to- day, paradoxically enough, America continues to be technically at war but actually at peace, but according to all reports is not wholly free from the clash of arms.
 Finally, the question of America's participation in the league came before the people who decided by majority of 100000. Prior to that election there had been much discussion of the real meaning of the word mandate. There has been little since. A single jority of 100000 conveyed a mandate jority of 100000 conveyed at mandate that could neither be misunderstood nor disregarded.
 Ut follows, then, that the present government could not without betray- al of it's creators and masters, and will not, can assure you, have another thing to do with the league or any commission or committee appointed by it or responsible to it directly or indi- rectly, openly or furtively."
 Mir Harvey paid tribute to the Pill grims as the most distinctive link in the chain of blood relationship be- tween the British and American peo- ples and one of the most potent agen- cies of civilization.
 'Inevitably, you to the east of us derive your information respecting our public opinion from the great cities on the Atlantic seaboard," he continued, precisely as our friends to the west take theirs from the states on the Pa cific differences thus drawn may be right or wrong, but whether right or wrong their bases obviously are the of i,f heart of our republic lies in the great plain which stretches from the Ale ghenies to the Rockies