Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-05
SIR ESME HOWARD
LIKES u. S.ATHTUDE
Retiring Ambassador Sees
Permanent Friendship
With Britain.

Ey the Associated Press.
LONDON, March 5.-Speaking last
night at a banquet of the famous Pill
grim Society in his honor, Sir Esme
Howard, retiring British Ambassador to
Washington, expressed his appreciation
for his treatment during his term of
service in the United States. He re-
iterated his belief in the durability of
the friendship between England and
America.
Reviewing Anglo American relations
during his six years at washington, ne
Cling and the failure of the 1927 dis
armament conference at Geneva.
Only One Serious Incident.
apart from the I'm Alone case
which was dealt with by my Canadian
colleague, think 1 can say that no
really serious incident arose during my
term of office which caused any bitter
ness or ill-feeling between the govern
ments," he said.
IT should like to say word upon the
American press, which plays such a
large and important role in the United
States.
1T is now six years since faced the
newspaper men who greeted me on my
landing in New York. Since then I
have come in contact with members OF
the American press of every shade OF
thought, and ON the whole, I feel that
I owe them great debt of gratitude.
"They have, with hardly any excep-
tions, treated me with the greatest pos
sible friendliness and courtesy. / have
found them eager to learn the other
fellows point of view, whether or not
they agree with it; they have always re-
spected my confidence; and among their
number are many friends to whom /
have said good-by with warm regret.
1T have sometimes chaffed my friends
of the American press upon their pen
chant for making a machiavelh out
of the most guileless and of looking for
a black hat in dark room when there
is no hat there. But / wish more
power to the elbow of all of them in the
two countries who are engaged in max
ing the difficulties, the problems, and
the hopes of each better known to the
other, and are not afraid to break a
lance with the narrow, the prejudiced,
the impatient, and, above all, the pessi-
mistic''
Unfortunately the public-human
nature if you willis much more in
terested in dog fight than in agree
ment or peaceable conference: 1t is
only natural, therefore, that journal
lists should try to give the impression
that really serious fight is on, when,
as a matter of fact, there is only q
difference of opinion which with time
and patience, those two great pillars of
diplomacy. will melt like snow in
Springtime."
America Sympathetic.
He mentioned the reception ac-
-
ing his visit to Washington last Octo-
Der, and the interest taken by the
American public In the illness of King
George last Winter as signs of sym
pathy and interest which it needed no
particularly acute observer to note.
Now from what does all this i'm
provement in feeling and sentiment
spring? A variety of causes, think.
Since the war Americans have become
more universal, less isolated than be-
fore. They have discovered that George
v Is on the throne and not George III,
and that has been to many a great dis
covery. Then, since the war two things
have greatly impressed the American
mind and contributed to change the
whole trend Of it toward Great Brit
ain"
These were the Irish settlement and
the funding of the British war debt.
When asked by Americans how he felt
about the latter, Sis Esme said he al
ways had replied that taking all circum-
stances into consideration he considered
Great Britain had gotten on cheaply.
visions Canadian Future.
He pictured Canada in the next so
years as financially and economically
one Of the great powers of the world {"
Arthur Henderson, foreign secretary.
presided at the banquet. Ambassador
Charles @. Dawes proposed a toast to
Sir Esme; praiSing the British diplo-
mats service In the interests of United
States and Great Britain.