Bisbee daily review., 1921-05-20
HARVEY As OBSERVER ONLY
 WILL. SIT IN MEETING IF
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phfied his avowal of obligation, it must not be inferred that he proposes to become an international meddler," he continued. He would be the last to intervene or be drawn into any matter of no concern to his own coun@ try, but also no one realizes more clearly than he that the United States proper economic adjustments and the just settlement of matters of world wide importance under discussion and desires helpfully to co-operate'
 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 utterly absurd such notion is.
 ''I need recall the long contest wag- ed between the two branches of our government over this proposal. need hardly mention that the conflict be- came so sharp that even the treaty went by the boar6 10 the end that today, paradoxically enough, America continued to be technically at war but actually at peace, while Europe is nominally at peace, but according to all reports, is not wholly free from the clash of arms.
 League Eliminated
 Finally. the question of America's participation in the league came be- fore the people who decided by ma jority of 7,000,000. Prior to that cleo tion there had been much discussion Of the real meaning of the word man. date. There has been little since. A single. example provided q definition. A majority of 100000 conveyed a mandate that could neither be misun- derstood nor disregarded
 Tt follows then, that the present government could not without betray- al of it's creators and masters, and willnot, I can assure you, have an other thing to do with the league of any commission or committee appoint cd by it or responsible to it. directly or indirectly, openly or fultively"
 Harvey declared that the goverh- ment would not dream of criticising or objecting to the league and ex- claimed:
 But enough of public affairs, Per haps l have gone too far along that line already but, if so, I must ask you to attribute the overstepping to the self-bestowed prerogatives of novice. You see. have never been an ambassador before. Yet. TIT proud ly deny any suspicion of unwariness that suitable acknowledgement of this most cordial greeting is all that is expected or probably desired of me upon this occasion.
 On Perfect Equality The time was, he said, when John Bull appeared to Americans as a trifle arrogant; simultaneously Uncle Sam was regarded by Britons as "a whit ting vulgarian." bue. he concluded, 'in their places now gleam in personifica- tion of our splendid nations the beau tiful figures of Britannia and Colum- bia, hand in hand. side by side. erect and glorious on a plane of perfect equality in the eyes of each other and the world"
 Colonel Harvey's address. attracted especial interest. coming as it did when the probable attitude of the United States toward the tense poIit- ical situation in Europe is arousing speculation and. the first authorized expression of the American view point.
 The Duke of Connaught. in propos- ing the ambassadors hearth. said that Colonel Harvey was rnan who be- lieved in the closest friendship be- tween bis country and Great Britain