The Washington times., 1921-01-23
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English Believe Returning En-
voy Will Urge Frank Policy
Toward U. S.
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This does not mean that the Repub-
lican administration Is likely to rais3
the issue OF recognition OF an Irish
republic or to take q formally hostile
attitude toward Ireland.
ISSUES WARNING.
"But let us not deceive ourselves.
Our misconduct in Ireland Is rapidly
poisoning the minds OF America"
The paper insists upon the main
tenance of the English alliance with
Japan, but adds:
"If anything is to come from the
negotiations on disarmament, both
England and japan must be prepared
TO abate their imperialism"
Under the signature OF Shane Leslie.
the new witness prints the frankest
article of Anglo-American relations
that has appeared here in years.
"Since the election in the United
States" the article says, president
elect Harding has made no utterance
suggesting friendliness to British
Imperialism. His message to the
English-speaking peoples Is a recess
slonal. He Is impressed not by their
glory. but by their duties to be re-
strained. tolerant and just.
The thought OF Ireland underiines
his whole utterance. 1t is clear that
self-determination as a nation in
directly keeps America out of the
League of Nations.
"sICK OF EUROPE.
America is sick-of Europe and sick
Of England. On the complications
which have arisen in oil and finance
there is no manifest desire to smooth
the British strain. On the Panama
Canal question, in which President
Wilson gave in so decidedly in Eng
lands favor, Senator Harding threat
ems a complete reversal.
Meanwhile, a British financier Is
to be sent, and not at an American
request, to discuss some alleviation
of the appalling debt to which the
British taxpayers are shackled.
Somebody is not only twisting the
lions tall but his ptrsestrings as
well, which is q much more serious
thing in these times.
at may cause indignation to say
that AmerIcn In mt present more anti
British than IL ever was nnti-German,
but IL is true, md Sir Auckland
Geddcs, British ambassador, knows IT,,
president Wilson dragged America
into the war after winning his cleo
tion on a definite peace ticket. Today
if there were wnr between America
and England (Which Heaven or Lord
NorthcliTe nvert, we are crcdibly
Informed that there would be no need
Of the conscription act I'm America.
NOW AN EPIDEMIC.
"Bitter Irish sentiment, the polit-
ical injustice, and the historical
wrong have been working through
the American forces and populace ever
since the armistice. The peace treaty
and the war in Ireland famed 1t into
an epidemic.
"For four years there has been a
steady suppression of the diplomatic
truth. Impolite propagandists have
been sent by England and polite
Americans have been entertained in
England, who have both conspired to
the pretense that the Irish issue was
dead in America and was wholly ex-
ploded in American eyes, thanks to
'dud' pro-Germap plots, which the
British government reveals at inter-
walls of several years.
"In the meantime, Irish and Amer
lean difficulties have simmered until
the whole American political life has
been affected, and II has passed from
the simmering to the boiling point.
"All relations with England, COM
merciaI, financial, and naval, have
in the political whirlpool become
coiored and distempered. Az a finale,
Sir Auckland Geddes retreats pre-
cipitately.
"wfl he tell the truth. or will he
be allowed tor
ANGLo-sAxoN "MyTH.-
"The myth may still be necessary
to keep up that America is a purely
Angio-Saxon community, and that
civilization IL dying for an alliance,
but always Is unexpectedly thwarted
by American domestic politics. False
diplomacy and false Americans COM
bine TO uphold the myth. Sir Auckland
GSddes is without doubt aware of the
truth, but whether he will be allowed
to open the eyes of the much bluffed
and long blindfolded British public Is
another matter.
= "Former Ambassador Bryce could
AFFORD to blink the truth in the days
of peace. Sir, Cecil Spring Rice dis
covered IL, and died In his efforts to
meet Il. Ambassador Reading discov-
cred IT, and wisely retreated. Both
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