Evening star., 1921-05-20
HARVEY'S PROMISE
f. Of us. A|DLAUDED
|. BY BRITISH PRESS
Purpose to Sit With Supreme
Council on SiIesia Issue
Hailed With Satisfaction.
By the Associate Press.

By the Associated Press
| LONDON. May 2o-Newspapers of
this city this morning featured the ad-
dress made last night by George Har-
vey. the United States ambassador to
Great Britain, at dinner given by
the Pilgrims. Announcement was
made by Mr. Harvey that he had been
directed by the State Department in
Washington to represent America at
the proposed meeting of the supreme
council at which the Silesian question
is to be considered, and he declared
that the United States. under no pos
sible circumstances, could be led into
participation in the league of nations.
Press Welcomes F-rankness.
| Only two or three newspapers COM
mented editorially upon the ambas-
sador's speech. apparently because Of
| the late hour at which Mr.. Harvey
spoke. These journals cordially well
! coined the amba ssadors expressions
| of friendship and his frankness. and
! commended his address in general.
The Daily News. however. declared
itself perplexed by Americas repudi-
newspaper having been a whole
hearted champion of the league 1t
inferred from Mr.. Harvey's address
that the United States actually agrees
with the objects of the league. but it
exclaimed:
Yet the United States will have
nothing to do with the greatest or
ganization ever created for the fulfill
ment OF the leagues high purposes,
! and this is not because America dis
approves Of any one of the objects of
the league. but because her people
at the last election gave a decisive
vote against the party of one of the
leagues chief founders. Is this policy
or politics? If the latter. is it do
mestic politics or International"
Will Still Cooperate With L. 8.
The Chronicle remarked: Nobody
here has any desire to prescribe the
channels in which Anne rica's good will
may flow. and just as We gave Mr.
Wilson straightforward cooperation
in founding the league, so We will CO.
operate in the same spirit with Mr.
Harding outside the league"
The Daily Express welcomed espe-
cially the ambassadors pronounce
ment on the league Of nations. which
it described as the end Of an expen-
sive sham."
The league. as an instrument of
practical idealism." the newspaper
added. "is dead. and it is best to wind
up its affairs with as little cost as
may be-
The Express declared it saw in
American cooperation the only hope
There is new hope for old. war-bat-
tered Europe in the help of younger
soul. The league of nations has found
firmer substitute"
Allies to Go Over Half Way.
The London Times. commenting edi-
torialiy on Ambassador Harvey's
speech. says that the allied nations
will wish to meet America more than
half way. now that Mr.. Harvey, like
the President. has made it clear that
American action will be inspired by |
the desire "helpfully to cooperate"
Concerning Mr.. Harvey's statement
on the league. the Times says: THAT. |
at least, is clear. We know where we
stand. The league has it's own sphere /
of usefulness, and in working within i
it. we believe, it will not estrange !
American feeling or lessen American |
that partisans of the league among |
the allied nations should welcome un-
reservedly the precise and practical i
American cooperation now offered"
Most Significant Point.
The Times says the most significant !
passage in the ambassadors speech
was the announcement that the am
bassador would represent President /
Harding in the supreme council in the
discussion of Silesia.
This decision, says the Times
will be hailed with profound salts
faction, and the fact that the Ameri-
can representative will be the ambas-
sador who frankly states we get no
where until we abruptly put aside
academic discussion Of theoretical
proposals and manfully face, without
mincing or wincing. the actual reali-
ties is of the happiest augury for the
work he may be called upon to do"
Declaring I'VE won't quarrel over
it," the Westminster Gazette. in its
editorial regarding the ambassadors
allusions to the league of nations. re-
fers to the league as of American
origin. |
Calls League "American Child"
'srhe sober minds OF Europe in no.
wise repent having adopted this
American child" it says. "and if the
step-parent has ceased to feel affec-
ton for it they will. nevertheless,
attempt to rear it SO that it will be a
credit to it's original home"
This newspaper contends that the
hard logic of events has shown that
neither America nor England can live
in splendid isolation. and that lit is
the master problem of the present
time to make the British American
idea Of an orderly world prevail
against. the idea Of a lighting world,
which still dominates most of Europe.