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Arrived in the U. S. the Right Hon. Sir Esme William Howard, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., C.V.O., P.C., recently appointed British Ambassador at Washington in succession to Sir Auckland Geddes, resigned (TIME...
...last official act of Sir Auckland Geddes, retiring British Ambassador, before sailing for home last week, was to sign with Secretary Hughes the so-called "Rum pact." Its chief provisions...
Addressing the Federation of British Industries at London in his Presidential capacity, Sir Eric Geddes, brother of Sir Auckland, the retiring British Ambassador to the U. S., advised the panic-mongers to calm themselves. "This," said he, "is not the time for panic mongering or wild talk. Undoubtedly the advent of a new party?a most inexperienced party?of which certain extremists make proposals which shock us, has caused uneasiness, but there has been no panic, nor anything that can be described as such. The sky is not black with pound notes winging their way across the Atlantic, but doubtless...
...Manhattan, the Pilgrims of the United States gave a dinner to Sir Auckland Geddes, retiring British Ambassador to the U. S. In a setting of Stars and Stripes, Union Jacks, Army khaki, Navy blue, Diplomatic scarlet, Chauncey M. Depew, President of the Pilgrims of the United States, rose to pay tribute to the excellent character, the "rare qualifications," the remarkable career and the great administrative ability of the British Ambassador. In particular, did he stress the part played by the Ambassador during the Washington Conference and in settling the British war debt...
...Auckland Geddes said: "It seems to me that as I go back to my own country?I who came here as an Ambassador of the King of England, as a representative of the British Empire?I go as a sort of deputy assistant American Ambassador. I want to tell my countrymen what you are doing and what you are. . . . There is more ignorance of America in Europe than any American dreams. . . . And I do not believe that all your countrymen are fully informed of England...