The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-14

sary to be in constant contact with the govern
ment Northcliffe. on the contrary, after a
short visit to the White house, established him
self in a villa near New York. which he only
left from time to time to make quick raids on
men and ideas.
Il think in his heart. he despised for
my regular office work. His indomitable imag-
nation would never have stood it.
"NorthcIiffe is full of imagination. He is a
born reporter and will report all his life for
the sheer pleasure of it. With his gifts it is
splendid sport
Every week we met together he and I,
with ii. Bakmetief, the Russian representative,
and Count Macchi di CelIere, Italian represent
ative.
The Germans had said that if the United
States declared war they would never be able
to provide for the needs of the allies well as
for their own. We able to deceive Ger
man hopes by our united cooperation.
Whenever there was some great question
to decide-and that happened nearly every day
Il always found Northclffe ready for action,
jn the truest sense of the word. 1t was often
due to his intervention that l was able to settle
matters which had been debated for months be-
tween London and Paris.
Not once in 10 months did either he or |
ask anything of the United States for re-
spective countries without first agreeing to-
gether on the subject. NJ. BRAND, as we know,
had lost the recipe when he went to Washing
ton.
Not in 10 months was Northcliffe's
total and decisive cooperation wanting in
always in agreement with his government. But
he always did what he could.
people say of Alfred Hamsworth. ViScount
Northcliffe, that he is difficult to get on with,
but never experienced it. His personnel, how
ever, had other ideas on the subject.
"One evening an important problem was be-
ing discussed and as the moment for decision
arrived l asked one of the English experts to
go and wake Lord Northcliffe who had already
retired for the night. But the man answered:
No. thank you sir not l.
so l had to wake him myself. and without
protest he returned to the battlefield.
''Northcliffe is decent fellow and a brave
man." continued NJ Tardieu, with an exact
knowledge of his power, and this power was
used without restriction in the service of vic
tory.
He upheld Mr.. Lloyd George in order to
win the war when he thought he was the right
man and it is to save the peace that he opposes
the same Lloyd George when he considers he
is going the wrong way.
"Northcliffe has just returned from a long
journey. l remember walk we took together
last year in the Bots de BouIogne. He was full
of the tremendous upheaval which the had
caused we can no longer use our own ideas,
he said. For this reason he has travelled round
the world to see with his own eyes.
Il can imagine what he thinks of the pres
ent Anglo-French relations. He is sure to be
severe but probably not surprised For he
knows well those who have been playing the
game for the last two years and he sees them
as they are
" he is poor man; he is a small man. are
words which he will in speaking of those
whom one is accustomed to call contemporary
statesmen.
Derby, Northcliffe, two very different types
the one incarnating centuries of tradition the
other a violent struggle for existence these
are the sort of Englishmen with whom we
ought to clear up our MISUNDERSTANDING
These men have US at work and know
our faults but they also recognize our good
qualities
These men would certainly not try to ar
range matters by saying that France is afraid
These men are able to see the real France
in spite of deformations
Good work might be done through the CO.
operation of these men with the few Frenchmen
who can see England she really is
1t is high time to think about it."