New-York tribune., 1922-04-01
Houghton Sails
TOHeal Breach
With Germany
Restoration Of Friendship
and Ending of Wartime
Hates Is Hope Expressed
by New y. S. Ambassador
Good WillPersonal Duty
Envoy's Speech at Metropol-
itan Club on Eve of De-
parture Meets Approval

Alanson b. Houghton, Amba ssador to
Germany, will sail on the Olympic this
morning { lake up his new duties. The
first ambassador from this country to
Berlin in more than four years out
lined what is expected to be the attitude
of the United States toward the Ger
man Republic in an address delivered
at farewell dinner given in his honor
at the Metropolitan Club on Thursday
night. 1t is understood that before de-
livering this speech he submitted 1t to
the President who approved of 1t in
every detail.
Mr.. Houghton, who was educated in
Germany and has served several terms
in Congress, said that it would be the
policy Of the United States to seek to
renew the friendship that has existed
for 100 years between the German peo-
pie and this country. rather than TO at
tempt to perpetuate the animus Of the
war.
Sees No Value in Hate
In his address the new Ambas ssador
said:
"First and foremost, do not believe
in the moral or spiritual or even the
economic value of hate. Hate serves
no useful purpose. II is far more dan
wi q are hated 1t leads only to con-
fusion and destruction.
LAS | leave this country | have in
mind far more the hundred and odd
years of peace and friendship and
abundant good will which bound the
German and American peoples to-
gether than the few years of war and
misunderstanding which have separated
them. want to renew and strengthe n
again those ancient lies of respect and
mutual service. Why, gentlemen. we
cannot ourselves be happy and con-
tented as q nation SO long as our fellow
citizens Of German ancestry are un-
happy and embittered by sense of in
justice. Surely, better understand
ing must be sought by US all. In
Grants immortal phrase, Let US have
peace
"Moreover, | know no reason why
we should expect great and proud
nation to do something which under
similar circumstances we ourselves
would not do. The war is ended The
loser, to his ability. must foot the
bill. But its causes, the apportior :
ment of blames or guilt, are matter
which, frankly, | for one, will no longer
discuss.
Must Work or Perish
If the warning peoples cannot forget
and we may concede they cannot
they can at least unite in the common
conviction that whatever other values
the war may have established, it left
us all poorer. And they must No
choice is given to them. They must
get to work or perish. And until that
disposition is shown, the world will
remain bound and helpless in it's
misery.
"1f you ask me how this better con-
dltion can be brought about, | answer
it can come only as a result Of the
efforts of good will l believe enough
men of good will exist in each of the
warning countries to form the leaven
which shall leaven the mass.
"And l believe they must make the
effort conscientious duty. 1t is as
much our national duty as it is the
duty of other nations. But, gentlemen,
it is even more. 1t is a personal duty
"a duty which each of US should, to
the limit of his power, perform, not
some time, but now. I hope this does
not strike you as mere sentimentality.
| am not consciously looking at the
hard and stubborn facts ahead Of us in
a sentimental way. To me it seems
merely common sense. To me it seems
the only way out. And to that end we
Americans must do our part"