COLONEL HARVEY

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 205, 25 May 1921, Page 5

COLONEL HARVEY

STATUS AT SUPREME COUNCIL OFFICIAL STATEMENT By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Rec. May ?4. 8.35 p.m.) Washington, May 21 (delayed). Colonel Harvey's status at the Supreme Council was amplified in official statements last night. Ho will not depart from an attitude of observation unless events develop threatening the world’s peace or to jeopardise United States interests distinctly. He will not be involved in European matters. Colonel Harvey would act should the Silesian situation threaten an Anglo-French breach, but so far that is solely a boundary question.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. [The Washington correspondent of the "New York Evening World” stated a few days ago that President Harding and Mr. Hughes (Secretary of State) were embarrassed by tho speech made at the Pilgrims’ Chib dinner in London by Colonel Harvey (Ambassador to Britain), which was not submitted to Washington for approval. In his speech' Colonel Harvey raid that he was authorised to pate in the proceedings of the Supremo Council upon the question of Upper Silesia. President Harding had declared that the United States must play her full part in promoting the peace of , the world. In view of t'he decision of the American people and American Government to have nothing to do with the League of Nations. America stood ready io work with Britain because it was to tho advantage ot both to do so. He would fail miserably in his mission and disappoint President Harding if he did not greatly strengthen the existing bonds of friendship ami mutual helpfulness, so that hereafter 'both Governments would instinctively approach all world problems from the same angle, as being of common and inseparable concern.]