New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-07-13
l,eddes Finds
|Rritons Do Not
IJnderstandU.S.
Too Many Come Here to
Talk and Beg, He Tells
Tandem Dincrs; Praises
,he American Newspapers
Kahn and Enright There
Savs Nation Has Done in
loo Years What England
accomplished in Thousand

,oNpoN. July IL (By The Associated
cA In speech. remarkable for
s.,Rness and evident sincerity, Sir
. ~ Geddcs, British Ambassador
- .be usisea States, told large gath
80 At the Pilgrims banquet in his
$50. tonight that England did not
s.ilv understand America. 1t was
.;,.l he said, that more of the people
! ! England should visit the United
s..,ss in order to become acquainted
-;.s the remarkable characteristics of
,he ,esp.e and the extraordinary indus
40, engineering. civic and educa-
$3.50, progress of the country.
uV a~srica had accomplished in the
- century and half of her exist
80 he said. what it had taken Great
R,itain thousand years of slow prog
ress to create.
Bot Yesterday Wilderness
aAmerica has given to the world the
,,ebes OF q continent, which but yester-
lav was a wilderness" he continued
slf course, she is absorbed in her own
sasirs. How could she be otherwise :?
Epr thought is in that tremendous
srructural and industrial work which
has made her one of the greatest ma
t;ons of the earth. That is q problem
s.slose to her as our problems are to
Furopeans, but she has not forgotten
he trials and suferings of the out
side world. She has given with a boun-
,eous hand relief for millions of stare
ing Russians
Ii was inevitable that the Udited
States should have q different view
POINT in many matters fam that of
Great Britain, the ambassador said,
but when the representatives of two
countries sat al Che same table, as
they did at the disarmament confer
ence, all thes. differences became rec
onciled ans facts and events were seen
in the same white light of logic. The
friendly understanding between the
two countries could be vastly promoted
BY frequent visits, not only of official
representatives of Great Britain, but
by private persons.
Too Many Come Begging
ut is rare event in the life of the
embassy at Washington" he added.
when | have visit from a Britisher
who knows anything really worth
while about this vast continental coun-
try. Endless numbers of them go to
America to deliver lectures or beg
money. It has been my pleasure to tell
such persons humbly to keep their
mouths shut and to give up begging
ard return home. l have visited forty
Of the forty-eight states of America
and am frank to say that I have yet
tremendous lot to learn"
Speedy recovery of the pound ster-
ling to parity with the dollar was pre-.
s-'isd by Ambassador Harvey. He
sEed unemployment figures and trades
satisfies to show Great Britain's
strong financial and commercial posi-
.ion.
Colonel Harvey remarked that the
reduction of 8 per cent in the number
Of British unemployed since January
was amazing, when compared with the
OPPRESSION which followed the Ma
poleonic wars.
The American Ambassador then
:ammented on the fact that this re-
wal of trade and industry was occur
ing despite tremendous decrease in
me volume of British exports. He be-
ueved this could mean but one thing;
namely, that England, like the United
states, IF dire necessity requires, can
90 along, not luxuriously, as in the
golden past, but yet comfortably and
"a safety and security, while time
affords an opportunity to explore and
unfold the vast possibilities of the
faithful dominions and the million
square miles of land in the possessions
recently brought under the British
tag"
The Earl of Derby credited Sir Auck-
land Geddes with a large share in the
present understanding between the
TWO nations and the success of the
washington conference. Chauncey De-
pew sent q complimentary message on
Denaf Of the Pilgrims Of the United
States.
The guests included Police Commits
sloner Enright, of New York; Otto
Aann, Robert P. Skinner, Consul GEN
esal; Cyrus II. Curtis, Lord Lee, of
ssiafeham; Sir Hamar Greenwood and
Sir Eric Geddes.