Evening star., 1924-03-20
SEES AMERICA IN AID
OF PEACE IN EUROPE
Sir Esme Howard Says q. S. Will
Not Permit Nations to "Stew
in Own Juice"
BY the Assoc'a ted Press.

by the Assoc a ted Press.
NEW YORK, March 1s.--America
unquestionably will feel the impulse
to work for permanent peace in
Europe. on which large measure of
her prosperity depends and will not
leave Europe to stew in her own
bassador of Great Britain to the
United States declared Tuesday night at
he Pilgrim Society annual dinner at
he Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. 1t was
his first public address since he has
assumed his post at Washington.
The customary Anglo-American ma
ture of the function was given
presence among the speakers of Am
bassadof Jules Jusserand of France
md Ambassador Don Juan Riano y
iayangos of Spain, while among the
hundreds of listeners to their ad-
dresses and those by John w. DAVIS,
former American ambassador 10
Great Britain. and Frank l.. POLK,
former assistant secretary of state
were citizens of many other Euro
pen nations. The addresses were
broadcast by radio.
Message From King George.
4 cable message from King George
Of England expressing his appreci-
alton of the accomplishments or the
Pilgrim Society on behalf of Anglo
American friendship was read, as was
one sending the good wishes OF the
Prince of Wales.
Secretary Of State Hughes, in
message EXPIRE Ssing regret at MS III.
ability to attend the dinner, joined
in greeting Sir Esme. whom he called
long known and highly esteemed
friend who represents SO adnlrdpiS
the continuance of the tradlt1on OF
friendly intercourse between the Two
great peoples, whose amtty ls tne
corner stone of all hopes for worlo
peace"
Sir Esme prefaced an appeal for CO.
operation in an effort to remove the
seeds of armed international connlct
with graphic refernce to the dev-
astation and common woe which. he
said. was the aftermath of the great
world war Incredible as it might
seem. he said, men still were to be
found who preferred war to judicial
peace.
.An attitude of complete aloofness
and lack Of interest in the affairs OF
the other White continent can not be
either wholesome or in the end good
business for either of the two" the
ambassador declared, turning his at
tention to America.
says America w cef 1"Pulscs
81 can not but believe that America
will unQueStionably feel the impulse
to work, in her own way and in her
own time. for permanent peace in
Europe, on which, to put 1t on no
higher grounds, so much of her own
prosperity depends" he continued, as
serting it was automatic that the
prosperity of America would be in
ratio with the prosperity of all Of
Europe.
Signs of good will. lacking for many
years, Sir Esme said, had appeared on
the horizon.
we in England" he went on; have
splendid isolation was but an idle
dream and vain imagining.
America under the administration OF
President Harding was not splendidly
isolated, but was rather splendidly
helpful in many ways and now, under
President Coolidge, she is doing her
best through the instrumentality of
her experts on the reparations COM
mission to help straighten out that
tangled skein.
Will Help As Need Arises.
And, therefore, / do not believe
that the American people will just
leave Europe to stew in her own
juice. On the contrary, l believe that
combining her strong, practical COM
mon sense with her undoubted ideal
ism, she will advance, step by step,