New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-05-27
AMBASSADOR
REJECTS LEAGUE
GEORGE HARVEY ANNOUNCES
APPOINTMENT IN DISCUS
SION OVER SlLESIA.
new POLICY
ENVOY MAKES PLEA FOR CLOSER
COOPERATION BETWEEN
TWO NATIONS.

London, May 2O.-The dinner of vel
come by the Pilgrims Society To III,
American ambassador, George Harvey
was enveloped in far deeper interes
than usually attends such Il reception
to a new ambassador. Not only wa.
it Mr.. Harvey's first public appear
ance since his appointment, but There
was general expectation that he woult
reveal something of the new admins
tration's policy toward Europe.
The ambassador did q disappoinI
his audience, for he brushed aside an,
lingering Illusion that the United
States would have any relations Will
the League of Nations. He also an
nounced his appointment To represent
the President In the Supreme Council.
in the discussion over Silesia.
Mr.. Harvey's plain words on the
league were a revelation and his plea
for the closest cooperation between
the two great English-speaking couI
tries was impressive.
The British premier rather disap-
pointed those who hoped for more of
international plain speaking. He de-
scribed the plight of Europe, enmeshed
in ancient feuds. and gave warm wei
come To the new cooperation of
America in world affairs.
The duke of Connaught presided
and Lord Desborough read Il message
from the American Pilgrims.
There were $50 diners, among them
the duke of York and many members
of the peerage and representatives of
the American colony.
Ambassador Harvey declared
. There still seems to linger in the
minds of many here the impression
that in some way or other America
may yet be beguiled into the League
of Nations. Let me show you how ut
terly absurd such a notion is.
81 need not recall the long contest
waged between the two branches of
our government over the proposal. /
need hardly mention thai the conflict
became so sharp that ever the treaty
went by the board, TO the end that to-
day, paradOXically enough, America
continues TO be technically at wal but
actually at peace, but according to all
reports is not wholly free from the
clash of rms.
FINALLY, the question of Americas
participation in the league came before
the people who decided by n majority
of 100000. Prior TO that election
there had been much discussion of the
real meaning Of the word mandate.
There has been little since. A single
jority of 100000 conveyed a mandate
jority of 7,UO0,O0O conveyed at mandate
that could neither be misunderstood
nor ~disregarded.
1T follows, then, that the present
government could not without betray-
al of its creators and masters, and will
not, | can assure you, have another
thing to do with the league or any
commission or committee appointed by
ii or responsible to it directly or indi-
openly or furtively."
Mr.. Harvey paid tribute 10 the Pill
grilms as the most distinctive link in
the chain of blood relationship be-
tween the British and American peo-
pies and one Of the most potent agen-
ries of civilization.
Inevitably, you to the east of us
your information respecting our
public opinion from the great cities on
the Atlantic seaboard,'' he continued,
precisely as our friends to the west
lake theirs from the states on the Pa
rific. differences thus drawn may be
right or wrong, but whether right or
wrong their bases obviously are the
Of sectional influences. The
of N republic lies in the great
plain which stretches from the Ale
yhenies TO the Rockies"