New-York tribune., 1921-11-04
Warming of Washington
Against Foreign Entan.
clements Indorsed by
Harding, Envoy Asserts
Industrial Peace
Now World Need
Sees Peril i'm Demand of
Employees for Higher
Pay and Shorter Hours

LIVERPOOL, Nov. 8 (By The Asso-
ciated Press) Harvey, the
United States Ambassador to Great
Britain, told an audience at the Liver
pool Chamber of Commerce tonight
that it was futile to hope that Amer
lisa, as Lord Derby recently had been
suggesting, might be merged some day
in definite alliance with Great Brit
ain and France. This statement was
made as depression from an address
on economics and the international in
dustrial situation, in which the Amer
ican Ambassador attacked communism
and socialism and defended the prin-
ciple Of individualism.
In his depression Ambassador Harvey
recalled Lord Derby's statement in a
recent address in Birmingham, in
which the latter voiced the conviction
that the success of the Washington
Conference for the Limitation Of Ar
mament would mean peace and that its
failure would mean war In the imme-
called Lord Derby's suggestion to for
mer President Poincare of France at a
dinner last Tuesday evening that an
Anglo-French alliance would be desira-
BILE in the interests of peace, intimat-
ing the "strong hope" that America
might eventually join this combination.
Hope of Alliance Futile
"Now it seems to have fallen to my
unhappy lot since I have been in Eng
land" continued Ambassador Harvey,
"to dispel illusions respecting tho at
titude of the United States. can
conceive of no more effective service
on the part of an envoy, desirous as I
am of eliminating all causes for mis-
apprehension, than to set forth frankly
immediate future, however disappoint-
ing it may be to his hearers. In pur-
suance Of this policy, rightful or
wrongful as it may be, ! feel impelled
to say frankly that the hope voiced by
Lord Derby must be regarded as
futile.
"Our first President fixed the foreign
policy of the United States clearly and
unequivocally when he adjured his
countrymen never to enter permanent
alliance with any other power. This
policy has been reaffirmed by prac-
tically all his successors. 1t was re-
iterated with great positiveness in our
latest national campaign by our present
President and was confirmed by g
majority of the people SO great as to
be beyond the pale Of comparison.
Suggestion Is Deprecated
ain view of these circumstances, am
l doing more than stating the wholly
obvious and inescapable fact when l
pronounce the entrance of the United
States into any permanent alliance,
however desirable that action may seem
to be, an utter impossibility? May
it not be, then, the part of wisdom to
avoid discussion on or even suggestion
of proposal which, however praise
worthy it may be, could hardly serve
any purpose other than to feed enemies
and distress friends of both Great
Britain and France who live in Amer
ica?"
Ambassador Harvey, in dealing with
the subject of world economies, said
the aftermath of the war was hardly
less disconcerting and devastating than
was the war itself
"At the expiration of the ensuing
week" he continued, 1--WE shall have
reached the beginning of the fourth
year following the armistice Even
then we shall only be approaching what
we hope may prove to be the first
definite and enduring settlements look
ing toward the lifting of burdens and
the establishment of international
agreements or understandings fore
shadowng prosperity, which can be
attained only through the assurance
of tranquil relations among the powers
of the world"
Economic Facts Supreme
There was, he added, political peace
in broad sense, and it was industrial
peace that now is being sought and
which must be obtained.
Eve must face the issue squarely
and manfuly," he said, "as it beft.
our race. The first fundamental princi.
pie that we must recognize is that
economic laws are superior to legis
lative enactments." He declared that
supply and demand constituted ths
basic law of all industry, and a perioc
of what normally would be termed
overproduction should now follow the
long period of interpretation. In.
stead, however, he declared both Eng.
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