The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-07
-~a ID DIlIvf1IM C0O ! |lD4lWN FM AIIERICA GIVEN
 GllDE SUPPORT
u1Ees That Treaty With EnGInnd Be Speedily
 Put In Force

LONDON, March 6-(By Associ- e1e4 RfessL l-Sir Auckland Geddes. NheD the Pilgrims entertained tonight n h9nor of his return from Washing 10 kep< his word which he gave upon eH9Etznx from New York that he woezd eontinue as unofficial ambassa- @es o1 the American people on this sa1e ex the Atlantic by remarkable e<eh, which, for eandor and frankness, Z. Earely been surpassed at a meet
 ct the Anglo American society.
 InG former British ambassador had 441e1I started his reply to toasts by 14x4 Desborough, John Robert Clynes nnA foxmer Premier Baldwin before he xeHne9 the distinguished gathering of An< George's subjects by saying:
 Enn To Grasp Sentiment
 don't think the people of England rcc0gnfze- amid the class of stories of the violation of the prohibition laws, haw strong the feeling of the best minds ef the best people of America is on the subject ef prohibition. Given the Ameri- enn problem, given the American cli- Dnfe. I think that if I were an Ameri- en- .weuM De . prohibitionist."
 As is always the case at banquets n L0adon, the tables were abundantly supplied with wines and liquors, and SIT Auekiandfs pronouncement, which seemed heresy to the banqueters, who nad been not at all sparing in partak- Ing of refreshments of this nature, was made more acceptable by the remark that followed:
 Fortunately, I am not given the Anzeriean efimate.-
 His Humiliating Experiences
 The ambassador resumed in serious ys1ns however, saying that seldom had thefe been more humiliating experi- enee fer an ambassador than to 20 week after week to see the Secretary of State altar the release of this, that or the ether British schooner, caught in she handling of which anybody should he ashamed Sf
 He upheld the funding of the war deht debt as a great work that would ,y1e1a future fruit, and added that the British people did not fully realize how ar the United States came to meet fhe &fEifish negotiafors regarding the situ- Afion that existed.
 Sar Auckland described the condi- s1ous under which American wage earn exs worked and lived. According to his MNenuMf, the British working people night well envy American wage earners x1r their housing facilities, and for the comforts and luxuries they enjoyed. Un- as1ubaedly they were better housed, fed an& clothed than their kindred here. He wuuld urge the labor government, where special care after thinking of the good of the entire nation, was directed ta the wage earner, to consider whether aHything could be learned from the pro- sss-ssssst methods of the United States. The asdfenee eheered and the former prime minister, Stanley Baldwin, seemed pEeased
 Kellogg Lauds Geddes
 He American ambassador, Frank B. kslleSE. i'm a short extemporaneous sReeaA said: Great Britain has been gxREe Hted at Washington by a long Ailze Distinguished statesmen, but no nsan s held a higher standard of s1afsAmanship than Sir Auckland EeFsIsA< Statesman, soldier, scholar of sm@ hfShest arder; orator, man who Mn@w the i44meriean people through long study p<E them, he was most welcomed, A& ErS we'll as Lady Geddes, in the af- Rasktion Of all Americans"
 1lf. Baldwin alluded to rum running ma a problem with potentialities for 1nfetion between the two nations beyond many questions which seemed of greater lzRpsrtanee, and expressed the hope that 1be treaty on the subject would be speedily brought into force.