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Show GREY'S OBJECT. Viscount Grey's salutatory to the American people makes it certain that his purpose during his short tenure of the office of British ambassador to tlno United States will bo the consolidation of the good will now existing between 1he two great English-speaking peoples. ' His self-introduction to the American people is couched in language typical of the man who has been pronounced ! among tho very first of British statcs- men. As Lord Grey tho viscount's part in : tho momentous events leading to the j world war will readily be recalled. The career of Earl Grey, who, of all Britons, it has boen said was most cordially hated by the Germans because ho uu- ceasingly advocated England's entrance into the war to preftervo tho neutrality j of Belgium, is quit o unlike that .of al most every other man in British public ' life. He is not a lawyer, in fact, when ho became, nnder-secretary of 'stato for i foreign affairs in 1S92, a position lie held for three years, he was Ichainnan of tho board of directors of a British I railway. When ho became foreign min- l jster fourteen years ago he sought to ' strengthen tlw ties of friendship !bo- 1 tween his country and other govern- ! inputs. The Anglo-French entente cor- j diale and the Anglo-Russian entente aro regarded as the cornerstone of his for-1 for-1 eign policy and they paved tho way j i'or tho entente alliance in the great J war. In 3911 ho supported President j' Taft's arbitration proposals and five years before, at the Algcciras conference confer-ence over Morocco, he turned the scales towards French predominance in north-west north-west Africa. All of these efforts were j taken in view of tlwj growing aggres siveness of Germany and have illustrated illus-trated tho far-sighted diplomacy which marked Lord Grey 's conduct of the foreign for-eign office. ! When, later in 191-1, the war clouds became positively ominous, "Viscount J Grey proposed an ambassadorial con ference of all tho representatives of the European powers in an effort to avert the cataclysm which later engulfed the continent. Failing in that, when the timo camo for other action he issued his almost -laconic statement that in order to preserve the neutrality of Belgium Bel-gium Great Britain had "entered upon a stato of war with Germany beginning at 11 p. m. on August 4." Later, in an interview in London, he declared that Great Britain and tho allies "were fighting to end all war." The viscount has long been an advocate advo-cate of a league- of nations and is one of tho chiefs of the British organization organiza-tion for a league. That he will prove a worthy successor to tho long line of illustrious representatives of tho court of St. James at Washington is not to be doubted |