The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-18
MARGOT ASQUITH TAXES MEASURE OF
 NATIONAL CAPITOL
No Liberty in United States, Wife of Former English Premier Declares
 to Reporters
By HUGH W. ROBERTS Washington Bureau, The Axe-HeraId,
 300 IlaVida am RuiIdiuR

Washington, February f7.-(Spe- cial.)-The capitol has seen and taken the measure of Margot As anith And Margot has seen and taken the measure Of Washington. It appears that Margot is not deeply entranced with Washington. Wash ington has not expressed it's opinion of Msrgot
 Mrs, Asquth. while in Washington, put up at the Roumanian embassy, the domicile Of her son-in-law and daughter, the Prince and Princess Bibesco. But the latter, Elizabe th, who wrote that naughty" volume, T Have Only Myself to Blame" was absent A cold required her to re- main closely confined in New York apartment.
 Margot, immediately after reaching Washington, changed her dress. and repaired to the National theatre. There she was confronted by q crowded house, Everybody who is willing to pay handsomely for the privilege of hearing themselves crit icized, was there. Margot, however, was a disappointment
 She spoke too briefly of the scaa- dals, political and otherwise, with which it is understood London is oyerburdened and of which. it is understood she has intimate knowl- edge. Margot semed over anxious to talk about Americans She spe- cialized on a conversation alleged to have taken place some months ago in London between an American ac- tress and herself
 She mimiced the speech of this young woman, and her drawl was half way between the nasal utter ance of the stage Yankee and the lazy intonations of the stage south erner. No person in the audience had ever heard the like. and the joke was so obviously on Margot, that the house roared repeatedly
 The following day Margot called on President Harding Emerging. she declared: "oh. wo~talked of politics in this country and England; and of the big men"
 Presidents Manners
 And then she spoke of the Presi- dents manners, his amiability, the cage with which she had been en- abled to approach and talk with him.
 He is adorable" she exclaimed And his head Why, 1t is as big as mine and yours put together" And having so said, she hastened away. That afternoon she visited former President Wilson.
 "I was delighted to find him so ready of speech and quick of mind. she said in an interview But phys tcally, he is not the Wilson whom We greeted in Paris"
 This news made q visible impress ston on the reporters who were interviewing her. Margot conducted herself as if she had just given the American public something of im- portance and something of which the American public was grossly ig- Rerant She was obVoiusly elated with the success of her enterprise.
 She declared that there Is no lib- erty in the United States. She de- clared it a monstrous joke "that we have prohibition CD" ip this coun- try.
 Why. you have bound yourself with terrible laws which do not per init even the manufacture of wine and beer, and then willingly, quite freely procure and drink whisky, by your actions encourage others to do so. and deliberately bring all law into disrepute. Quite droll, I take 1t, quite droll, and quite American"
 And then she returned to New York.
 She is tall, stately and distinguish ed in appearance. The expression of her face is cynical. But
 That expression is professional, it seems. It grew apparently from premedj tated effort, Likewise, in all probability her reputation for possessing a "serpents tongue"
 There Is no doubt but that she appreciates her reputation as her chief stock in trade.