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MAY 12, 1921 London Offices, Rolls Hous: THE srass is green the “leaves are out, and the look than and 9 the old little like more they city times parks of peace and have looked since we got into the war. The battleships and the recruiting stations 1 welfare houses have been cleared out of them, and there would be tulips in bloom Hylan administration is not strong on tulips. if any had been planted, but the Things in general look more springlike, and peaceable, and a little better for this world. The great fe. s of current life and current business kecp coming along and bumping obstinate people until they do what is necessary. Slowly, but in increas- ing numbers, folks-are getting to realize that if they de look sharp and do what they should, things may get altogether too hot for comfort. The need of peace in the world, and of conciliation, and of agree- ment between warring interests, seems to he getting under some pretty thick skins. The Senate has passed the treaty for the payment of twenty-five million dollars to Colombia, partly as a reparation, partly as a soothing lotion. It is funny, That treaty was the project of Mr, Bryan. The Democratic administration could get it through. The Republican adminis- tration has succeeded in passing it, and the never reason it succeeded was that in the course of events it had become conspicuous expedient to do it. So, no doubt, other important things will be done when their expediency becomes conspicuous. England has got along so far without a general strike. When it lutely to the point, the transport workers came abso- and the railroad men found it more dan- gerous to go in with the miners for : triple alliance strike than to stay out. Ac- cordingly they stayed out and encouraged “While there is Life there's Hope” Published by LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY Breams Bldgs. L 17 West Thirty-first Street, New York parleys and discussions between the miners, the mine owners and the govern- ment, so that now there is a prospect that the coal England worked out reasonably instead of being settled with a club. Perhaps even the Irish question will come to parle question in settlement presently when enough people realize the expediency of settling it. N there is the great question of the It lacks several days, at this writing, of the date set for but the jerman reparations. the French advance into Germany prospects are fair that the advance will not happen. Nobody wants it to happen, except perhaps the extreme nationalistic Ger- many has come across with a really good offer, conveyed through President Hard- Rhine-boundary faction in Fran ing, whose participation in the haggling was so urgently demanded that he could That is another case of the compulsion of facts. Our present admin- istration seemed to wish, above all things, not to get mixed up with disputes in Europe, but in this dispute the good the United States necessary that to withhold them seemed not consistent even with intelligent self- interest. For, of course, as part of the great political and industrial world these States are very greatly concerned with the real restoration of Europe to a peace and with the removal of all obstacles of that restoration. not refuse, offices of seemed so hasis, Ng MBASSADOR HARVEY has sailed away to London, leaving rather a bad smell where his Weekly went out, and will be” VOL. 77. No, 2010 ndon, E. C. a few expiring echoes of railing. It was all right to rail at the Ambassador if one liked the exercise, because Colonel! George himself rails at times with great freedom, ick to facts, Senator Harrison, of Mississippi, let go at George in the Senate at considerable length and eloquence, but he did not stick to facts. done after the confirm: Harvey’s appointment, so but railers should s It was ion of Colonel was nothing really to it except relief f Senator Harrison's mind and some fil space in the newspapers. It pained Mr. Lodge that anybody should pitch into Colonel Harvey after he had been accepted by the Senate as Ambas- sador, but the Colonel himself scems not to have minded it at all. In the hs issue of his redoubtable weekly er he made the paper recount its own exploits in an autobiographical farewell, winding up with the words, “So the war is won The more. League is dead. Autocracy is no ‘That citude The nincompoops are out.” makes one smile at Dr. Lodge's for the ambassadorial dignity ax kD DB Sy HO are the gentlemen who are to go down in history as the nincompoops of the late administration? Perhaps Col- onel Harvey will tell us sometime. One would surmise that the head nincompoop, i the Colonel's estimation, n Baker. in the war, and there is so mu difference about the value of his services that it is gratifying to notice that Benedict Crowell, lately Assistant Secretary 9f War, is out with a book al Department in the war, whi to an understanding of Mr. Baker's merits and defects. Mr. Crowell apparently has paid attention to his defects, but doubtless will lead to a competent expo He was a highly important figure honest comicbooks.com