New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-09-15
Ceddes Brands
Sll1rs ON u. S.
As 'Despicable'
. America Played a Great
Part in Ending the War, .
He Tells Police Diners; /;
Glad Kipling Retracted
Ambassador Scents Plot
British Empire Longs for
Cooperation, He Says,
calling for New Unity

throughout the length and breadth
OF the British Empire none but hone
less and dedspicable minority fails to
realize what the United States did
toward winning the war, Sir Auckland
Geddes, British Ambassador to the
United States, said last night at the
Police Department dinner to the dele
gates to the national police conference,
i saw in the press words attributed
by charming and beautiful sculptress,
an artist, to Rudyard Kipling," the
ambassador said. II am glad to sea
that Kipling has emphatically denied
the words attributed to him. If he had
said them, he would not have been
speaking as a representative of British
thought and as man who knew what
he was talking about"
America, coming in when she did
as she did, played great role and
great part in ending the war. The
man or woman who says otherwise is
one of three things: Crassly ig-
norant, yillainously malicious. or just
"a fool'' 80
"But people, stimulated by all sorts
of influences, will go on saying that
sort Of thing for years." he continued
Sometimes they will be Americans
sometimes Englishmen. We must
realize that an atmosphere exists that
has been deliberately created for the
purpose Of separating those who
stfDnrfnrr ho uaars n n, \
and 1918, happened to have the honor
and the privilege of holding the raspon.
sible post of Director General of Ma
tional Service, and was responsible fo1
100000 Of men to replace the casual
ties of the British armies. We also kept
as guide to ourselves records of the
strength, the numbers of men available
Yin France and in Italy and in the othe,
countries that were actively engaged in
the war, and when you came in we kept
records of your resources also.
No man could have known more di.
rectly, more at first hand, than I what
the cost of fighting the years Of 1914
1915 and 1916 and through 1917 to the
beginning of 1s18--no man could have
more direct knowledge Of the. loss in
blood, of the terrible toll Of life that
our people have suffered.
At End of Man Power
"It is no secret that in that last
year, 1918, that we had completed the
raising out of our population of all
available men, that we were at the end
of our military resources. We had
reached the end of the men between
eighteen years and fifty years who
were physically fit and we had left
nothing but the men between fifty and
tifty-five and the boys of eighteen OF
who were becoming eighteen"
81 speak for the British imperial
organization when say that It's people
long and pray to be able to cooperate
with your people, with all their late
allies, and even with their late enemies
We are not trying to assess what each
one did in the war; we want to go for.
ward as friends among friends toward
a better future, the future for which
countless men and women and chill.
dren, too, gave their lives, and we will
seek to be true to their trust"
Never was it SO necessary fol
England, the United States, France and
Italy to stand together and meet the
difficulties of the world situation, the
Ambassador asserted, adding the warn
ing. that there. are people who, fol-
their own ends, are seeking to raise
feelings Of dislike and distrust among
these nations.