AMERICA AND BRITAIN.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 May 1921, Page 5

AMERICA AND BRITAIN.

TROUBLE OVER AMBASSADOR’S SPEECH. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. New York, May 20. The New York Evening World’s Washington correspondent states that President Harding and Mr. Hughes are embarrassed by Mr. Harvey’s London speech, which was not submitted to Washington for approval. The correspondent declares that had it been submitted certain passages would have been toned down. As the position stands the Administration can say nothing without seeming to disapprove of the appointment of its own Ambassador. Officials generally are surprised at Mr. Harvey’s statement regarding the League, which has gone further than Mr. Hughes or President Hardinjg have ever gone in public declarations. At Winon’s Lake (Indiana) speakers at the Presbyterian General Assembly denounced Mr. Harvey’s speech. Doctor A. Atkinson, head of the World Alliance, an inter-denominational body which is working for a world peace, declared that if Mr. Harvey’s statement that America entered the war for her own interests is true, hundreds of Aremican soldiers died under false pretences.—Aus.-N.Z Cable Assn.