American Ex-Ambassador's Tribute to the Present Spirit of the Commonwealth New York, Nov. 90-
Speaking at the annual dinner of the St. Andrew's Society to-night, Mr, Harvey, ex-Ambassador at Lon-acclaimed the recent "spring ito being of the Britich Commor wealth of Sovereign States as great event and the most momentous tone of the 20th century in the forward march of our race Mr. Harvey advoented prompt appointment of American diplomatic representatives in the Irish Free State, in Canada and in Australia, and added: "Americans neither re-agnize nor rejoice in the discom-future of Britain. Our first gratify. ing duty-is to grasp the bands of there new nations. Ths United States and Britain are inseparably linked. We are the! the biggest purchasers; we the! world's greatest producer, the
Jereatest creditor, they the most solvent debtors." A. breakdown of British guidance and control. would spell calamity for the United States, hardly lees serious than the dis: aster in Britain.
Paying a. tribute to Mr. 8, Bruce, Premier of Australia, Me, Harvey suggested that "this rating democrat," when he returns home through the United States, should accorded a welcome "not inferior! to that recently showered upon a
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