Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-05-20
BRITISH welcome
]. S. COOPERATION
Come Newspaper Comment
However, Shows Regret for
Havey's League Rejection
NATIONS TO ACT TOGETHER

by the Associated Press
Y,cndcn. May 20.--The London
aewspnpers commented today at some
length on Ambassador Harvcy's speech
last night in which he declared the
United States would have nothing
whatever to do with the League Of
Nations.
Three journals cordially welcomed the
Ambassadors expressions OF friendship
and his frankness, and commended his
address In general.
The Daily News, however. declared
Itself perplexed by Americas repudia- :
tion Of the League Of Nations. that
newspaper having been whole hearted
champion of the League. II inferred
from Mr.. Harvey's address that the
United States actually agrees with the
objects of the League, but 1t ex-
claimed:
"Yet the United States will have
nothing to do with the greatest organi.
sation ever created for the fulfllment Of
the leagues high purposes, and this is
not because America disapproves OF any
one Of the objects Of the League, but
because her people ut the last election
gave a decisive vote against the party
Of one of the Leagues chief founders.
"Is this policy or politics? II the
latter. is 1t domestic politics, or inter-
national?"
Cooperate With Harding
The Chronicle remarked:
'Nobody here has any desire to pre-
scribe the channels In which America s
Mr.. Wilson straightforward CO. opera
cooperate in the same spirit with Mr..
Harding outside the League
The Daily Express welcomed espe-
cially the AMBASSADOR pronouncement
on the League of Nations. which il de-
scribed as "the end of an expensive
sham."
'Tbe League, as an instrument Of
practical idealism,' the newspaper add
ed, 'is dead, and Il is best TO wind up
Its affairs with as little cost as may
be-
America Is Europe's Hope
The Express declared it saw in Amer
lean cooperation the only hope for Eu-
ropes regeneration. remarking:
'There is new hope for old, water
battered Europe in the help of young
er soul. The League of Nations has
found frmer substitute"
The Times says that the Allied ma
lions will wish to meet America more
than half way, now that Mr.. Harvey,
like the President, has made It clear
that American action will be inspired by
the desire 'helpfully to cooperate"
Concerning Mr.. Harvey's statement
On the League the Times says:
That. at least, is clear. We know
where we stand. The League has its
own sphere of usefulness and, in work
ing within It, we believe it will not
estranSe American feeling or lessen
American respect for its endeavors.
We hold that partisans Of the League
among the Allied nations should well
come unreservedly the precise and prac-
tical American cooperation now Of
fered."
Adopt American Child
Declaring I'VE won't quarrel over il. I"
the westminster Gazette, in its editorial
regarding the Ambassador illusions to
the League OF Nations, refers to the
League as of American origin.
"The sober minds of Europe in no
wise repent having adopted this Ameri
can child" it says. "and if the step-
parent has ceased to feel affection for
1t they will. nevertheless, attempt TO
rear it so that it will be a credit to
Its original home"
This newspaper contends that the
hard logic of events has shown thnt
neither America nor England can live
In splendid isolation and that ''it Is the
master problem of the present time to
make the British American idea of an
orderly world prevail against the idea
OF a fighting world which still domi-
Mates most of Europe We
shall not prevail unless we are able to
show that our methods offer the fighting
nations greater security than theirs
This Great Britain and America can do
together, but neither alone"
Manchester, England. May 20.-(By
A. P.)-Commenting on the speech of
Ambassador Harvey last night. the
Guardian, which is a stanch upholder
OF the League Of Nations, takes the
view that Colonel Harvey's character
istically vigorous repudiation of the
League is not 20 discouragipg as 1t
looks.
I'VE have heard that even President
Harding favors an association Of ma
tons continued the Guardian. "If
We cannot gain the goal in one leap we
must proceed little by little"
The League, the Guardian considers,
must continue its labors until it be-
comes SO effective as a recognized in
atrument for good that no great Power
viii desire to stay outside OF it.
"On the whole" declares the Guar
dian, 1--WE welcome Ambassador Har-
vsy's words as quite comforting after
the. bleak reports of complete American
isolation"
Ambassador Harvey's appointment to
sit with the Supreme Council the news
paper considers as IAN admission that
the United States Government cannot
cut itself off from the great world prob
lens, and may perhaps in the long run
carry, the United States farther than
President Harding at present contem-
plates"