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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1919
THE BRITISH AMBASSADOR
Viscount Edward Grey, former min
ister of foreign affairs, the newly
appointed British ambassador to
Washington, who arrived at New
York last Saturday, is one of the most
conspicuous figures in British public
life, and is known chiefly by the
-diplomatic efforts he made to avert
the world war and by the fact that,
when he failed, and the conflict be
'came inevitable, he insisted that
Great Britain could not with honor
remain out of it.
John Morley, the historian, said of
Grey twenty-five years ago: “That
young man will go far. He will be
prime minister of England some day.”
Gladstone said Grey might be any
thing he chose—but that “he chose
to go fishing.”
Viscount Grey of Fallodon, a title
to which he was elevated in 1916, was
born April 25, 1862, the son of Cap
tain George Grey, “a Grey of
Northumberland,” from whose father
he inherited a baronetcy. Before
the war he was known as an aristo
cratic democrat, a “silent pilot of
British diplomacy,” and the greatest
living authority on fly-casting. Glad
stone, carrying his illusion further,
said of him in his early days in the
house of commons: “I never knew in
a man such aptitude for political life
and such disinclination for it.” Vis
count Grey, according to the British
“Who’s Who,” is the author of only
one book. It is entitled “Fly Fish
ing.” When Theodore Roosevelt vis
ited the viscount, instead of talking
world politics they went on a foot
journev through rura 1 England to
study English bird life, on which Vis
count Grey is an authority as Roose
vop was on American bird life.
The career of the man who of all i
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most cordially hated by the* Germans
because he unceasingly advocated
England’s entrance into the war for
the preservation of the neutrality of
Belgium, was quite unlike that of al
most every other man in British pub
lic life. He is not a lawyer. In
fact, when he became under secre
tary of state for foreign affairs, in
1892, a position he held for three
years, he was chairman of the board
of directors of the Northeastern rail
way.
Educated at Winchester and Bal
liol College, Oxford, the prospective
viscount was elected Liberal member
from Berwick-on-Tweed to the house
of commons at the age of 23, and had
been repeatedly re-elected from 1885
to 1916 when he was made a peer.
An athlete at college, he won the
Queen’s Club and other champion ten
nis prizes. In 1912, as a mark of dis
tinction for his public services, King
George made him a member of the
Order of the Garter, the only com
moner, it is said, so honored.
Viscount Grey is noted as a forceful
■ful speaker. He is an Englishman
of Englishmen, it is said, “cold, re
served and correct in speech and de
portment.” His speeches in parlia
ment were mainly plain, simple state
ments of fact, vigorously put without
any attempt on his part to be histri
onic or eloquent. The new ambassa
dor, in other words, is said to possess
a logical mind.
When Viscount Grey became Brit
ish foreign minister fourteen years
ago he sought to strengthen the ties
of friendship between his country and
other governments. The Anglo
French entente cordiale and the
Anglo-Russian entente, which was
brought about in 1907, were regarded
as the cornerstone of his foreign pol
icy, and together they paved the way
for the entente alliance in the war.
In 1911 he supported President Taft’s
arbitration proposals and five years
before at' the Algeciras conference
over Morocco, he turned the scales
toward French predominance in
northwest Africa. All of these ef
forts, it has been said, were taken in
view of the growing aggressiveness
of Germany and have added to Sir
Edward’s fame as a far-sighted
diplomatist.
Less than four months before the
outbreak of the world war, on July
28, 1914, in a prophetic character
study of the British foreign minister,
a well-known writer said: “Sir Ed
ward has guided England through
some anxious days. At the end of
1911 the British fleet was out in the
North sea for three days and three
nights without 'lights and the decks
cleared for action. How the war
with Germany was avoided is as great
a mystery as how war with Germany
threatened. It was the second inci
dent of its sort since Sir Edward be
came foreign secretary, and men do
not pass days of that kind and not
age. But he has kept the peace in
the days that are past and striven to
secure peace for the days that are to
come, and British relations with Ger
many seem happier today than ever.
But if Sir Edward Grey ever has to
announce war he will do it in the
same calm, even tones with which
he would open a flower show.”
When, later in 1914, the war clouds
became positively ominous, Viscount
Grey proposed an ambassadorial con
ference of all the representatives of
the European nations, and failing to
bring this about, when the time came
for other action he issued his almost
laconic statement that, in order to
“preserve the neutrality of Belgium,”
Great Britain had entered “upon a
state of war with Germany beginning
at 11 p. m. on August 4.” Later, in
an interview in London, he said Great
Britain and the allies were “fighting
to end all war.” The viscount has
long been an advocate of a league of
nations, and is one of the chiefs of
the British organization for a league.
Viscount Grey married, in 1885,
Miss Dorothy Widdrington of New
ton hall, Northumberland, who died
in 1906.
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It’s the flavor and the grain which
make the bread at the City Bakery
famous.
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30-tf
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29-31
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WANTED—Girl for general house
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NICELY furnished rooms for parties
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Proprietor, Nels Nelson. 25-1
FOR SALE—An upright piano, also a
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APARTMENT FOR RENT—Inquire
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FURNISHED ROOM FOR RENT—
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FOR RENT—Bachelor apartment.
Phone 185 15tf
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FOR SALE—Good stock of rabbits for
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FOR RENT—Furnished cabins. See
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Particular Attention and Prompt Service Given to Orders from
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Fresh Fish of all kinds will be kept in stock when available.
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French Rolls with every meal
Big Variety of Pastries and Cakes, Always Fresh
Sanitary Machinery of Latest Model. Patent Brick Oven. Best Ma
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Best Coffee in Town
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The Burkhardt
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tunity to serve you In a manner
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A and B Avenues