Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-10-16
ANCLO-AM AMERICAN
ENTENTE PROPOSAL
IS GAINING FAVOR
Lloyd Georges Suggestion
Finds Attentive Ears in
Neutrality-suspicious. Pre-
vent international Conflicts
BY DAVID LAWRENCE
(Leased Wire Service to The Journal.)
ICnnrrirhf 1919

take official cogniZance Of the sug-
Lloyd George that by an unwritten
understanding the United States and
Great Britain in combination could
prevent any big war, the fact of the
matter is no official cognizance is
needed to put into effect a plan
which for years had unsuccessfully
agitated by the champions of Anglo
American cooperation.
What the former head OF the Brit
ish goverAneI.l wants is a diplomatic
entente-a friendly partnership OF
the two great Notwithstanding ma
tons. There has, however, been no
barrier against the formation of Suca
an understanding heretofore except
the irish As a, and when that
has not been a sore spot there have
been other sources of friction be-
tween the United States and Great
Britain. 1t is true these principals
Of conflict nave arisen over CONNER
cial ambitions, but the records of
the department of state are full OF
complaints against British diplomacy
IN various parts of the world, partic.
ularly South America. The Euro.
pean custom of linking up govern
mental influence and power to the
explorations by private British capt.
talists OF the resources of various
countries means an aggressive diplo-
macy from London which has fire.
quently been a disappointment to
Americans who have expected a pol
icy of equality Of treatment and the
so-called "open door" in commerce.
Equality Sought
The United States has, never in
sisted upon preferential treatment IN
the western hemisphere where COM
mercial questions have been involved.
but it is a fact that the Washington
government has had a hard time
arguing for equality of treatment in
regions where the influence of Great
Britain is dominant. The long-drawn-
out controversy over equal oil rights
in the Near East found America
ranged against Great Britain. Even
though the Royal Dutch Shell COM
pany was operating under grants
from the Netherlands government,
the British were behind much of the
opposition to Americc1 interests,
Similarly there are some chapters in
the controversy over the extension
of an American cable through Portu-
guese islandG in the Atlantic which
involved by British diplomatic influ.
ence in Portugal.
All these instances merely make
the diplomatic side of the Washing
ton government more than ever
anxious to get better understand
ing with the British foreign office
and the hint thrown out by Mr.,
Lloyd George doesn't need any me
official cognizance than it already mas,
On many an occasion in world af
fairs. American and British diplo-
have stood sid hV e and the
only reason they have not done 50
more often has been a divergence of
fnterests-the American government
preferring to remain aloof from Ger
tain problems in which Great Britain
and other European powers had a
more direct interest.
If Mr.. Lloyd George means a pool
ing of physical strength, he, of
course, has in mind only great
emergency such as the late war when
the British and American navies
worked as a single unit in European
waters.
Varied Naval Policy
But even in the ordinary times the
British form OF government permits
a sending OF a fleet for a naval dem
onstration which can be followed UP
instantly by landing of marines and
troops while authority for every &C
ton must be sought in the case OF
the United States from both houses
of congress, circumstance which
prohibits America from making 81
threat that is not likely to be sane
toned by American opinion. Most
of the questions that lead to war in
Europe are much better known to
the British public than to America.
What Mr.. Lloyd George has sug-
gested is an objective to which few
IN the Washington government would
take exception provided British and
American diplomacy had common in
terests in ell parts of the world. But
the value of the suggestion has not
been lost and probably will often be
referred to in diplomatic conversa
tions in the future as 1t has in the
past, particularly when Great Britain
and the United States have seemed
to be opposing each other in matters
on which unity OF action would be
better for both.
LLOYD GEORGE CALLED
GREATEST LIVING BRITON
MINNEAPOLIS MINI. Oct. 1S.-
David IIoyd George. wartime pre-
~ hn will cnnQt
I'm Minneapolis Monday was charac
ter;zed as 1.-THE greatest living Eng
Hshman" by the Earl Of Brikenhead
former lord chancellor of England
in an address at the University o.
Minnesota last night.
IT cannot exaggerate before you,
said the former lord chancellor, "tht
service Mr.. Lloyd George rendered
to his country and the whole allied
cause during the war.
HE was a man. by disposition
hateful OF war. There is no man ir
England who would have made OIL
did make greater effort to avoid the
struggle He was one of the most
tenacious, resourceful. and brilliant
men. I never knew him in low
spirits He radiated confidence ant
gladnlss. 1t is for these reasons
that, IN my opinion. he is the gree t
est living Englishman,
PETEr II. KYNE EXPLAINS
WHY HE LEFT PREMIER
NEW YORK. Oct 13.-Peter B
Kyne, the American novelist ant
friend of David Lloyd George, whC
ACCOMPANIED the former prime min
lister to Canada as advisor in plan.
for his tour of the United States ant
who Unexpectedly left the wartime
premier's party, today announced h
had done so because he had found
he could be Of no use to Mr.. LloyC
George.
He denies there has been any dis
agreement.