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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Colonel George Harvey, Ambassador at the Court of St. James, was preparing to sail for home. Before he left, he attended a farewell din- ner of the famous Anglo-American Society, The Pilgrims. There he made a speech in which he said two things: 1) that our Administration has been accused of having no foreign policy; 2) that our Government had exhibited its policy and offered its services to Europe when Secretary Hughes, in a speech at New Haven last December, made a proposal for reparation settlement...
...First there is the Negro, ten and a half million in number, about a tenth of the whole population. They have not, they cannot attain the Anglo-Saxon level. Both biology and anthropology prove it ... The records, authoritative and unemotionally scientific, show the Negro to be specially susceptible to tuberculosis and alarmingly vitiated by veneral infections . . . There could never be intermarriage between the whites and blacks without God's curse upon our civilization...
...Another absolutely unblendable element is the Jew ... He has been a wanderer upon the face of the earth . . to him patriotism, as the Anglo-Saxon feels it, is impossible. Persecution has been his lot. . . . As a race the Jews are law-abiding. They are physically wholesome stock. . . . They are a family people, reverently and eugenically responsive to God's laws in the home. But their homes are not American...
What U. S. Ambassador George Harvey said to the Pilgrims about Anglo-American friendship is not likely to be forgotten easily throughout the Commonwealth. Referring to the late President Harding's speech at Vancouver last July, Mr. Harvey said: "In that speech Mr. Harding referred to the interchange of residents between America and Canada and declared: ' The ancient bugaboo of the United States scheming to annex Canada disappeared from all our minds years and years ago. Heaven knows, we have all we can manage...
...George also received a long telegram from William Joseph Simmons, Emperor of the Invisible Empire of the Ku Klux Klan, who said he was working for Anglo-Saxon unity...