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Show AUTHORITY QUOTED ! IDENTIFIED AS t GEDDES ' f British Press Discloses Statesman Interviewed by Americans LONDON. Feb. ll.lvoncion newi-papers newi-papers today, including the Morning Post, the Daily Chronicle and the Daily Herald, name Sir Auckland t.eddes. British ambassador to the I'nited States, ax the high official who discussed dis-cussed Anglo-America affairs with the American correspondents at t he foreign for-eign office on Monday. The p;ipers comment extensively on ka inditate that some of the American Ameri-can correspondents who failed to report re-port the Incident are now asserting thai the conference wan strictly confidential con-fidential and not to be reported. Such a contention 1 completely discounted by the fact that the I'nited Cress dispatch dis-patch was submitted to the proper foreign office official on Tuesday and thoroughly approved. ONE CONDITION. The only condition incidpnt to the Interview was that the speaker should remain anonymou. and his idem ity patches until it was widely published in Hindoo papers today. The dispatch ws submitted to and a Pproved by the very same official who on Wednesday gave out the formal disavowal of responsibility on the part of the foreign office. This official is the regularly indicated authority for American newspaper men to consult and heretofore it has been understood he represented foreign office and government gov-ernment opinion. On Tuesday, this official specifically Maid that he considered the dispatch to have been handled conservat ively and adequately. -His whole attitude gave the distinct impression that he desired the dispatch used. CLEARS UP POINT. The publication of the name of Am bassador (Jeddes makes clear the technical tech-nical point made in the foreign office statement when it asserted that "the statement wag made without the authorization or knowledge of the foreign for-eign office." Technically, Ambassador Geddes is not an "official' of the foreign for-eign office. It was suggested tod.iv that perhaps the purpose behind the whole incident may be revealed in the following comment com-ment by the Daily Kxpress: "In the end, this strange incident will do no good. It teaches all people here and across the Atlantic how much they abhor the bare suggestion of & possibility of a conflict." j |