The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-24
AME RIGA TO KEEP ,ALOOF, {, COL. HARVEY
American Ambassador Makes Farewell Speech At PiI-
 grim'S Dinner, London
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Continued From Page One) present could not hear him at all, as he read for more than an hour in low tones from typewriter manu- script.
 Premier Baldwin, who sat next to Colonel Harvey, smoked a big -bowled briar pipe, while the French, Belgian and Japanese plenipotentiaries at times seemed detatched from what the ambassador was saying.
 Sir Auckland Geddes, whose pres ence was warmly greeted by all the speakers, looked exceptionally viz orous and fresh in spite of the seri- ous impairment of his eyesight, but speech was ended. A cablegram from Chauncey Depew. welcoming the re- turn of Ambassador Geddes to Wash ington, was vigorously applauded.
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 Tribut To Harvey.
 Premier Baldwin spoke briefly, paying tribute to Colonel Harvey for his association with two great events the settlement of the British debt to America and the Washington conference, events which had left a lasting impression.
 The prime minister compared Col onel Harvey to a stormy petrel, and
 
 were going west to meet storm. This evoked much laughter and MT. Baldwin remarked he wished he were returning to Washington with the ambassador this winter. He closed by proposing a toast to the ambas- sador which the diners honored by standing.
 Premier Bruce of Australia, created much amusement by assert ing that Mir. Baldin had received his inspiration for 8 settlement of the debt with the United States from Australia, and added: Great Britain would not be acting altogether un- favorable terms with us as she did with America"
 Lord Desberough acted as toast master.
 Pilgrims Speech Recalled.
 Ambassador Harvey recalled in his best humorous vein his first speech to the Pilgrims, which, he said, proved successful in evoking quite unprecedented disapproval from the public prints of my native land"
 My start at least was equal to that of zev," he continued, yet since that evening much water has splashed over the dam, and in the mutual interest of our two countries at least I am happy to believe that much good has been accomplished We can most easily reckon the ap- proximate total by visualizing condi- tions as they would appear today if no changes had transpired in the meantime.
 Suppose, in addition to the trou- bles now besetting, there hovered above us the clouds of an Anglo Japanese alliance, which, having served its original purpose, had be- come an actual menace to the peace of three great nations, of constant and ever-increasing peril, of possible, even though accidental clashes on the Pacific ocean, of the multiplying from the necessity of self protection of naval ornaments to degree never before imagined of growing distrust, rapidly approaching resent ment, concerning the financial rela- tions of Great Britain and the United States, and, finally, perhaps most disheartening of all, the seemingly amending centuries old problem in Ireland, whose satisfactory solution has become absolutely essential to faith and friendship between Eng land and America,
 "Iow vastly more desperate, if not indeed positively hopeless, would be the outlook here in your country and everywhere throughout the world if these portents of distruct of only three years ago still blurred the skies of today. Happily they have disappeared, and the way to peace to that extent at least Is clear. Sees Greatest Blessing.
 "These things did not merely hap pen; they were done by men, And out of the doing sprang perhaps the tablishment of faithful relationship between all the English speaking peoples such as has not existed in many years--more than century: l would not assume to depict the sem timents Cf the English, of Ireland or the far-flung dominions, but l do feel that I can speak with fair con- fidence of Canada as l know l can with surety of the United States. l doubt if anyone here fully compre- hends the magnitude of the change in the attitude in the people of my country toward the people of yours that has taken place in the past few years"
 The ambassador proceeded to ex- pound the Monroe doctrine. and said that when tue American elder statesmen, in return for their de- mand for no interpretation by Europe in American affairs, offered mo par ticipation by the United States in the political broils of Europe" the great powers on tnlS sue OL lHc ocean could but smile indulgently al ment in kind so trifling as to be their presumpuous tender of pay negligible.
 We have not changed, we keep our promises" he remarked. We would not impose our will upon Europe. We shall not now or even hereafter participate in the political broils of Europe. Let that be under stood"