Show I LORD GREY AS ENVOY TO U. U S. S IS DISCUSSED Conscious and Unconscious Unconscious' Unconscious Unconscious' Unconscious Unconscious' Parts of Di Diplomat Diplomatist lomat- lomat t- t Referred To ToB ToBy ToBy B By r George George- Bernard rd Shaw Written n Expressly l ly for tor Universal Service Special Cable Dispatch London Sept 6 C. C G Now Non o that L Lord rd Grey has been sent to the tho United States to to represent ent Great Britain there I am moved to declare that thou though h I have called tho ho policy of or the tho British foreign office during during- Lord Greys Grey's a Machiavellian policy policy I do not regard Lord Grey as Machiavellian I 1 heartily wish ho he were I think that when an English countr country country coun coun- tr try gentleman Is so simple minded that he never knows what ho he is doing d can therefore at an any moment asure as- as suro ure tho the country In all honor that he heIs heIs heis is not doing doing- it It his simplicity Is not of ot the kind called l Holy sot Not Choice I J should not myself have sent Lord Gre Grey to America or even since our successes In the tho cast to J Jericho As an tn English country gentleman Lord Gre Grey re regards ards Americans as outsiders outsiders out out- siders and czars as Insiders He made that clear in his dealing dealing- with Mr r. r Morgan Morgan Mor Mor- gan He may have been right But Dut that is not the point which is that as our relations with America arc I extremely delicato delicate just at present and I likely to to become more so BO an and aa as AmerIcans Americans Americans Amer Amer- II I do not regard themselves as outsiders outsiders outsiders out out- siders possibly again quite wrongly tho appointment of ot Lord Grey is hardly the masterpiece of or tact It has been hailed halted as by the British press pre As to what Lord Gre Grey will do In I America which is after acter all the important taut tant thing ho lie will be well Wen received In American society I The p part of ot him will re spond very cry a agreeably to these attentions atten atton- lions ions his speech ch will will willbe be bo reassuring quite intelligent and pleasant And tho the unconscious part of ot him will fall Into the tho hands of or whoever th the Japanese Jap Jap- anese equivalent t of or Is the Russian Russian Russian Rus Rus- sian ambassador at Paris at the outbreak outbreak out out- break of ot the war ma may be he and will I I maneuver r for a strangle hold hotd hold on our I I most formidable rival rhal now no that Germany Germany Ger Ger- man many is disposed E of or I What else Is there for Lord Grey to do J with his official traditions and his instincts as a a. simple minded country gentleman Now if it there them is one point more than another at which Americans mistrust I i and dread our old diplomacy it Is the Japanese point The Tho l' l Is I II I I too obvious ob I You will never r persuade American diplomatists that Lord Grey has not a secret trent treaty with Japan Jaan in his pocket and that Is wh why I 1 would not have sent Bent Lord Gre Grey to America I I I shall bo he asked 1 r whom would I send gend instead I 1 1 reply pre precisely iSelY and without a mo mo- I i I I I ments ment's hesitation that I should have e sent H. H L L. who has writ writ- ten ton a book boole In which ho describes AmerIca Amer Amer- I Amer-I I ica as an nn Island Not so much because ho Is a man of or ability so 80 distinguished I that he mR may be described as aa one our of or our ur I few geniuses because that fact is hot of discernable In the house hOURC of or commons I which Is an of or his being any 1 one In particular r as 38 it tt was for thirty i years of or Lord I should shoud send him because he knows that North orth and anti South f America are only a n couple of ot perilously situated islands and anel that lint It h Is dangerous for tor us to tom tom- tool fool with I Island land security |