UNITED STATES.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 April 1917, Page 5

UNITED STATES.

HUN INTRIGUES. . A POLITICAL BAGMAN. London, April 20. ... _ Mr. John St. Leo Strachey, in an arjfcicie in the Spectator, makes a remarkable statement and explanation rejjgarding the purpose of Prince Henry of jferugßk% visit to the United States in - 3902. The Kaiser, he says, became •" alarmed at the better feeling growing up between Great Britain and America, and sent Prince Henry to capture America's goodwill. The Spectator, in an 'arl/'le on March 1, 1802, expressed the Opinion that Prince Henry would make • Ityma political request. Mr. John May, then the United States Secretary of , State, immediately wrote Mr. Strachey, Who 'was a close personal friend, a letter of five words: "You are a mind reader." ■fjmi- '•' ?traohey adds: "I had guessed H« Prince Henry was a political bag"- > pMi «nd wanted a tangible souvenir of BU visit in the form' of concessions of territory. Mr. Hay later told me" he s waived th'e German overtures with disglttt. During the Spanish-American war » German diplomatist in London asked lit, Hay to arrange a cession of a portion of the Philippine Island; to the Kaiser, and said: Uf you have «o many > islands why not give us some,' Mr. r , i Ha* repjtodr sJot aa Ufrn&J, not om.'2