The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1921-07-06
CONTINENTS NEED
AN UNDERSTANDING
Must Remove Misappre-
tensions Says Harvey
WAR COSTU. S.
A HUGE SUM

Britain and United States Has Al.
ready Eliminated Atlantic Ocean ns
Consideration for Naval Conflicts.
London, July 4.-Diplomatic repre-
sentatives Of more than 80 foreign gov
crnments were guests tonight at the
annual independence day dinner OF the
American Society of London. Ambas-
sador Harvey was the guest of honor
Lord Lee OF Rareham, first lord OF
the admiralty, toasting the guest re-
ferrcd to Mr.. Harvey as "a foreign en-
voy to whom the muzzle Of diplomacy
had not been obtrusive." "Therefore,"
he said, both Britain and America
could expect from him open and frank
comment upon Anglo-American rela-
tons
Referring, in his reply, to the re-
volt of the American colonies, Mr.
Harvey declared:
Whether the territory comprising
the United States could have been re-
tanned is wholly superlative. But one
fact is certain-if George Ill had is
ing in eloquent sincerity and appealing
force that uttered the other day by
George V, in his faithful cndcavor 70
reconcile a nation, there would have
been no ringing of bells in Philadel-
phia, l45 years ago this night nor for
many years thereafter
Ambassador Harvey declared the
mutual helpfulness which all desired
| could not be realized until two grave
| misapprehensions had been removed,
one of which pervaded Europe respect
ing the United States and the other
permcating the United States as to
Europe.
II find in Europe the common ina
preston that the United States alone
among the nations of the world" he
said, sis today land Of milk and
honey where people not only are uni
versally prosperous, though recalci-
trantly discontcnted, but are rich
beyond the traditional dreams Of
avarice. You have only to supple
ment the fancy with suspicion
which | find not wholly lacking, that
all this opulence and this happiness
are direct results OF the great war,
to account for the wholly natural sense
Of resentment.
What are the facts? Did the United
States really profit from the war to
such degree as to make the lives she
sacrificed seem to the cynical and sor-
did mind relatively insignifcant?"
Ambassador Harvey proceeded to
cite the tremendously increased ma
tional debt, the congressional appro-
priation for 1920, and the heavy in
come taxation. He added:
In dollars. the cost to America
! OF her participation in the war, when
finally computed will fall not so
very far short Of the entire indcm-
nifty upon Germany. make no COM
parisons. There has been too much
OF that already. No good can come
| now when we all are striving 10 get
together in common purpose for the
common veal, from dispnting over the
relative sizes OF the contributions to
the great cause.
The two men swrling down the
Niagara river did not profit by drop
| ping their paddles to quarrel over
the distance to the falls-they sue
ceeded only in making their fate
certain. Let us in position hardly
less perious not emulate their idiotic
example"
The ambassador said the Stagger-
ing present cost and the great price
must be paid by the next generation
from those countries which had been
so pitilessly denuded Of the flower OF
their youth, who were relied upon to
carry on.
Nothing could be further from nv
thoughts or more repellant to the in
stlnct Of any American than TO meas
ure money against men," he went on.
My sole purpose is to win fair con
sideration from any who may have
overlooked the fact that the United
States, along with Europe, has her full
share OF material burdens to bear for
scores OF years. in addition to her
grief at the incalculably greater loss
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