Evening star., 1921-05-21
HARVEYS SPEECH
CLEARS UP DOUBT
British Now Convinced U. S.
Will Not Enter League
During Harding Term.
By the Associated Press.


LONDON, May 21.-Two very cordial
editorials were included in this
mornings newspaper comments on
the address made by George Harvey,
United States ambassador to- Great
Britain, on Thursday night. They
were published in the Morning Post.
which never favored the league of
nations. and the Daily Telegraph.
The Post said Prime Minister Lloyd
Georges assertion that the future
we1lbeing of the world depends
mainly upon Anglo-American friend
ship and cooperation" was true, and
it continued:
This being so, the league of ma
tions cannot. as we have been told
rather frequently, be the only and
unique guarantee of the future peace
of the world"
Referring to Anglo-American rela-
tions. the paper declared that moth
ing in recent years more thoroughly
diss:pated misunderstanding than
President Harding's memorable state
ment of American policy to which Mr.
Harvey referred during his speech.
The British public" the newspaper
added. may well wish the policy of
the British government was as def
mite and simple as that of America"
Sees Death to Idea.
The Daily Telegraph's CONNIE ment,
which was largely a personal appre-
citation of Ambassador Harvey, cor
daily agreed it was high time to
give the quietus to the idea that the
United States may yet be beguiled
The Daily News. continuing its
championship of the league of ma
tions, remarked that the British
League Of Nations Union had just at
tanned a membership of 100000. and
said there was mo need to take Mr..
Harvey's words to tragically"
Assuming that the United States
will keep out of the league during
the term of President Harding, the
newspaper said. this would be mat
ter OF grave regret. but it will mean
at the worst. that the league will
go on without the United States, as
1t has done hitherto"
The News made the point that the
whole of America was not ignoring
the league. saying that Canada was
taking a valuable part in its OPERA
tions. as was virtually all Of Latin
America except Mexico.
So long as the nations now mem
bers OF the league stand loyalty by
it,, the newspaper concluded. 1--WE
can afford to wait until the United
Long Step for Peace.
BERLIN, May 2O.-Ambassador Har-
vey's speech and Premier Llovd
Zeitung to observe that the "Anglo-
French entente cordiale never ELECTED
such fervent appreciation before the
war as that now bestowed upon the
Ans!o-American understanding"
The exchange of sentiments in Lon
don, the newspaper believes. will
mark long step in the direction Of
pacifying the world, II they are pro-
ductive of a solution Of the Upper
Silesian problem, which not only will
tated by judicial, ethical and ethno-
logical reasons, but which will ra-
tionally deal with the issue as con-
stituting an obvious prerequisite for
the economic restoration of Europe"
Vorwaerts believes the United States
turn English politics has taken since
Germany accepted the ultimatum.
Premier's Speech Significant.
"The speech with which Mr. Lloyd
George welcomed the new ambassador
is also significant in this connection"
it says. land Germany can only well
come him IL the United States succeeds
in influencing English politics in the
direction of accomplish an early
ditions throughout the world"
The newspaper feels itself called on
to remind the United States Of it's
moral obligations toward Europe.
These. it adds. are primarily an out
growth Of the American point Of re-
sponsibility for the military and Dip
lomatic outcome Of the war" which
probably impressed nobody on the
other side as wholly satisfactory. for
after entering a war which was to end
Imperialism, the United States is now
forced to behold Europe in the clutches
OF imperialistic violence which is not
emanating from crushed Germany.
but. on the contrary, from among the
very elements which it, by virtue of
its matchless resources. put into the
saddle"