New-York tribune., 1922-06-13
England Hears
Lady Astor Sing
Praises of L. S.
No World.AloOfness Here.
but a People Ready to
Help, She Tells Audience
That Welcomes Her Back
FOresces New Conference
Hailed as "Jolly Good Eel
low,' She Alternately
Jokes, Chides Auditors

LONDON, June j. by The Asso-
ciated Press. Viscountess Astor was
hailed as "a jolly good fellow" by q
gathering Of 400 at dinner given to-
day by the English Speaking Union
20 accord the FIRST woman to take her
seat as a member Of the House Of
Commons n welcome home after her
American tour
Mrs. Wintringham. who shares the
honors Of feminine representation in
Parliament with tho Virginian. united
with Lord Lee Of Fareham in saying
nice things about the guest OF honor's
work in Parliament and tho unofficial
mission she performed recently in
America.
The English Speaking Union is the
only Anglo-American fellowship so
ciety which admits women to member
I ship, and they wcrc present IN force
to hear the two women Commoners on
the first occasion they have spoken
from the same table.
Mingles Jokes and Admonitions
. Viscountess Astor was attired in a
lemon colored gown with green Rirdlc.
with two ropes Of pearls around her
neck. In Characteristic fashion she
scrmonized, admonished and joked for
an hour In her peroratiOn she re-
fcrred to the Washington conference,
saying:
America had chance TO build the
greatest navy in the world; she gave
Il up with as much grace as the great
est navy in the world gave up its long
reign Of the seas
When she resumed her seat the
audience 70 man--and woman stood
and sang spiritedly For She's q Jolly
/ Good Fellow"
Viscountess Astor twittcd Mrs. Win
| tringham good naturedly for not being
Coalition member. but disclaimed any
| feeling of jealousy over the latter S
I election, depriving her OF the honor OF
being the only woman in the Mother
Of Parliaments. Both laughed when
J. II. Thomas. Labor Privy Councillor.
in a clever address, exclaimed; THANK
| God, belong 20 neither party.
Lady Nancy" gave an account OF her
American travels, prefaced by recital
Of the unifying influence OF Anglo say
on idealism. She raped ~ the table
o. she affirmed II am not here TO
speak Of England; | did that for one
month in America. ] am here to speak
OF America and ] can do so with a.
much pride and confidence as TO ner
greatness as ! spoke OF England's great
ness in America.
Puritan Ideals Upheld
"If have done any good in pubiie:
life II is due TO the men and women OF
Z E. -. ON
I II 1, had not been for the defcat OF the
Snonish Armada of Plymouth England
! would not have been free 10 worship
God in her own way. Then from
Plymouth those who found their more
| advanced ideas about religious freedom
hampered sailed away 10 America.
| think il would have shocked these had
they realized that some they later wei
/ corred 40 their shores would preach
| hate in the name Of God toward the
countrv whence they came. They have
not understood that true freedom can
not como 10 q man OF a nation tha'
hates. 4 nation that hated most hand
somely was defeated IN 1918.
: Viscountess Astor described herself
az an "unregcneratc Anglo-Saxon' ad'
di,o "not because ! am virginia
horn VI. p; not because care 50 des'
perately for the British Empire or th'
limited States, but because ] care foi
something even greater than these iw,,
eountries-I care for. civilization based
on Christianity.
Everywhere 7 went in America
preached the establishment OF league
~ peace-not a league Of nations, toI
that las been too much Of snoct
for them. The trouble in the United
/ States is that the League o. Nation.
cot tangled NJ with politics, and tha'
Is fatal to any issue. .,
In an allusion 10 the Brush Iosse'