New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-21

or furtively.'
Senator Borah said: "Colonel Har-
Vey's speech was fine ONE
senator Moses, of New Hampshire,
mad TINS TO say; sit must have been
very interesting to his English audi
enee..
Senator Hitchcock. of Nebraska, who
LED the fight for the league in the Will
son Administration. gave out state
ment IN which he said:
Colonel Harvey evidently forgot
that he was speaking as the Amhassa-
dor from the United States, and from
force of habit prepared Illumination
for Harvey's Weekly, which suspended
publication when he went abroad. His
address was filed with improprieties.
His attempt to commit the Harding Ad-
mlaistration 10 his own narrow and
extreme views on the League of Ma
tiens may succeed I shall be very
much surprised, however, if President
Harding gave him authority to do so.
Neither the Ambassador TO Great Brit
ain nor the ambassador to any other
country is the one to announce the for
eign policy of the United States. That
can only properly be done by the Presi-
dent, or the Secretary of State by his
authority.
Assails filings at wilson
Colonel Harvey's fing's at former
President Wilson were indecent. If
British Ambassador in the United
States should thus sneer at former
British Prime Minister in speech at
Washington the case would be parallel.
Colonel Harvey's analysis of the mo-
tives which led the United States to
enter the war is a discreditable per-
Torrance. That analysis puts the
United States on the lowest possible
level and seeks to becloud, if not to
besmirch, the great record made by
this nation in that crisis of the worlds
history"
Senator New, of Indiana, Republican:
"There is nothing in the Harvey speech
that reflects anything new. Everybody
who has been willing to accept fact
has known for months, if he can I'M
derstand English, that the United
States cannot be driven or cajoled into
membership in the League of Nations.
/ think the developments of every day
that passes justify the wisdom of that
determination.
To Aid Without Meddling
"That the United States is going to
do all that it can, either properly or
consistently, to help in the readjust-
ment Of the worlds affairs, is evident
by what has been done in instructing
Mr.. Harvey to sit as the representative
of the President with the Supreme
Council, and by what has been done in
giving US unofficial representation on
other agencies engaged in the economic
rehabilitation of Europe. We are TO
aid if we can, where we can, without
meddling.
II think it is a reassertion of
policy previously announced by the
President himself and which l think
will be accepted by the American peo-
pie as sound in principle and apph-
cation"
Senator Simmons, of North Carolina,
Democrat: at is indeed to be re
what is perhaps the highest and most
important diplomatic post within the
gift Of the American people, did not
show himself capable of exercising
proper restraint in discussing what he
represented as the foreign policy of the
present Republican Administration.
Il had looked upon Colonel Harvey
as being fairly discreet. was amazed
at the indiscreet and reckless tone of
his utterances. | am sure they do not
reflect the personal views of President
Harding and his advisers, and l am
confident they do not properly repre-
sent the sentiment of vast proportions
of the American people, no matter how
we may differ in cur personal opinions
as to the League of Nations issue.
Humiliating, Harrison Declares
ct was unfortunate that Colonel
Harvey found it necessary to indulge
in slurs on the Wilson Administration
/ had thought he would have at least
eomported himself in a manner be-
fitting the dignified and important
position he has been called upon to
occupy as the official representative of
the American government at the court
of st. James's."
Senator Harrison, Mississippi, Demo
crat: Colonel Harvey's utterances
justified all that has been said about
the narrow provincialism and partisan
ship of the Harvey viewpoint. His nom
sensical ranting simply provides fur
Their proof of the bitter, bigoted
malignancy against former President
Wilson that he is known to carry in
his breast, and affords another illus
tration of his well known unfitness for
so high and important post.
Neither those who supported or op-
posed the Presidents desire to send a
man of Colonel Harvey's 'small-town'
qualifications to London need feel sur
prised at the spectacle he not only
made of himself, or the humiliation he
subjected the American neonla +o in