The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-04
U. S.-BRITTSH- FRENCH ALLIANCE IMPOSSIBLE
 SAYS GEO. HARVEY
Hope Voiced by Lord Derby Must Be Regarded as Futile, Ambassador Declares in Ad- dress Before the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce
By Associated Press

Liverpool, November 3.-George
 Harvey, the American ambassador
 to Great Britain, told an audience at the Liverpool Chamber of Com merce tonight that it was futile to Ihope that America, as Lord Derby recently had been suggesting, may
 some day be merged in a definite alliance with Great Britain and France.
 This statement was made as c di- gression from an address on eeonom-
 ics and the international industrial
 Situation in which the American am
 bassador attacked communism and
 Socialism and defended the principle
 of individualism.
 In his Aggression, Ambassador liar
 }vey recalled Lord Derby's statement a recent address in Birmingham k which the latter voiced the convic- Zion that the success of the Wash Engton limitation of armaments con Terence would mean peace and that
 It's failure would mean war in the
 immediate future. The speaker also
 recalled Lord Derbys suggestion to tormer President Poincaire of France at dinner last Tuesday evening that an Anglo French alliance would be de- [sirable in the interests of peace, in-
 timating the strong hope" that America might eventually join the
 combination.
 Now it seems to have fallen to my unhappy lot since l have been in England" continued MT. Harvey, Ito
 hispel illusions respecting the attt-
 Jude of the United States. l can con-
 heive of no more effective service on
 The part of an envoy, desirous as am of eliminating all causes for mis- Apprehension than to set forth frank lly any uncertainty which may bear upon the Immediate future, however disappointing 1t may be to his hear CTS. In pursuance of this policy, rightful or wrongful as it may be, l feel impelled to say frankly that the hope voiced by Lord Derby must be regarded as futile.
 Washington Fixed Policy
 Our first President fixed the for eign policy of the United States clear ly and unequivocally when he adjured his countrymen never to enter a per smanent alliance with any other pow This policy has been reaffirmed py practically all of his successors. aIt has been reaffirmed by our pres lent President. and was confirmed by Ia majority of the peolpe so great as k se beyond the pale of comparison. < SIn view of these circumstances, k SI doing more than stating the }9 lily obvious and unacceptable fact 3aan I pronounce the entrance of the JhHed States into any permanent sance. however desirable that ac-
 oa may seem to be, an utter impos- sEHity? May 1t not be then the part If e isdom to avoid discussion or even q eE 'estion of a proposal which how 'ever praiseworthy 1t may be, could hasa aly serve any purpose other than lto feed enemies and to distress l5ialds of Great Britain and France ly,b live in America?"
 lD A nbassador Harvey in dealing with ls subject of world economies said iss aftermath of the war was hardly less disconcerting and devastating Itnan was the war itself.
 VI Approaching Settlement "After the expiration of the ensu- fi. tr week" he continued, we shall Fl ve reached the beginning of the ,feurth year following the armistice. tEven then we shall only be approach Eug what we hope may prove to be Etae first definite and enduring settle- Ernent looking toward the lifting of thurdens and the establishment of in- >ternational agreements or under tf indings foreshadowing prosperity tv .3ioh can be attained only through tty 3 assurance of tranquil relations {a ong the powers of the world" gle declared that I've have politi- ,r peace in broad sense" and that N vas industrial peace that we now and must obtain."l
 Hr we must face the issue squarely y,nd manfully." he said, "as it befits |our race. The first fundamental principle that we must recognize Is lt tt economic laws are superior to ? Hislative enactments." He declared
 F pply and demand constituted the . sic law of all industry and that a E< riod of what normally would be 'E ymed production should now f low the long period of under pro E, .ction. Instead, however, he de- ared both England and America
 Id been persistent in~under produc-