Evening star., 1922-07-13
british MISJUDGE
U. S, SAYS GEDDES
Ambassador Urges More Of
Eng|ishmen to Visit and
Study America.
By the Associated Press.

i
! LONDON. July 12.-In a speech re-
markable for it's frankness and evil
dent sincerity. Sir Auckland Geddes.
British ambassador to the United
States, told a large gathering at the
Pilgrims banquet in his honor last
night that England did not wholly
| understand America. 1t was vital that
more Of the people of England should
visit the United States in order to
become acquainted with the remarka-
BILE characteristics of the people and
the extraordinary Industrial engi-
neering. civic and educational prog
ress Of the country.
America had accomplished in the
brief century and a half of her exist
ence, he said, what it had taken
Great Britain a thousand years OF
slow progress to create.
America has given to the world
the riches of continent which but
yesterday was a wilderness" he con-
tinued. "Of course, she is absorbed in
| her own affairs. How could she De
otherwise? Her thought is in that
tremendous structural and industrial
work which has made her one of the
greatest nations of the earth. That
problems are to Europeans, but she
has not forgotten the trials and suf-
ferings of the outside world; she has
| given with a bounteous hand relief for
millions of starving Russians"
Viewpoints Naturally Vary.
1t was inevitable that the United
States should have a different view
point in many matters from that OF
Great Britain, the ambassador said
hut "a nf
two countries sat at the same table
as they did at the disarmament con-
ference, all these differences became
reconciled and facts and events were
soen in the same white light of logic
The friendly understanding between
| lie two countries could be vastly pro-
NOTED by frequent visits not only OF
official representatives of Great Brit
ain. but private persons.
| 1T is a rare event in the life of the
embassy at Washington" he added,
when l have a visit from a Britisher
who knows anything really worth
| while about this vast continental
| country. Endless numbers of them
go to America to deliver lectures or
/ beg money. 1t has been my pleasure
| to tell such persons humbly to keep
! their mouths shut, and to give up
| tied forty Of the forty-eight states OF
America and / am frank to say that 1
! have yet a tremendous lot to learn"
| Sir Auckland paid tribute to the
| news associations. the newspapers.
! the schools and universities for their
| immense contribution to fostering
| good relations between the two coun-
! tries. 1T Is common practice in
England to speak lightly of Ameri-
can newspapers" he said. but l want
to tell you that they are rendering an
astonishing public service to the peo-
pie: they are printing much more en-
! Tightening news from Europe than
our papers publish from the United
States"
American Women Active.
| The women Of the United States. Sir
Auckland proceeded. were now play
| ing tremendous part in the life and
| government OF the country because OF
| their voting power He concluded by
| saying that the relations between the
two countries were now franker and
! more friendly than ever in history.
| The American ambassador. George