Show E The British Ambassador UNLESS President Wilson soon begins to receive the eight or nine nine ambassadors and n ministers of other countries who are fire waiting in Washington to present their credentials and puts them through their paces ii in 1 rapid succession it may be bc some time Limo before Sir Auckland Auckland Auck Auck- land and Gedd Geddes the newly appointed British ambassador whose arrival is imminent will become fully accredited Presentation of credentials takes place it is said ii in inthe inthe 1 the order of envoys envoy's arrival because it establishes official of of- S pr precedence The ambassador of Japan has been beci 1 4 waiting since November 3 it is reported to present present pre pre- sent his letters of credence at the White House However 1 since the resumption of meetings meeting'S of the cabinet and fh the testimony of its members of the im im- proved pro health of the President it is thought probable i i in Washington that the formalities of or receiving receiving- and accrediting accrediting ac ac- crediting the waiting ambassadors will all bo be dispatched I before the Presidents President's summer vacation The significant thing in ill conn connection tion with Sir Auckland Auckland Auck Auck- land laud is that his designation is a a. permanent ap ap- not a temporary one so o that if all goes goci well wA-eIl he is likely to stay awhile For lor three years the thc i British embassy at Washington has led a fitful ex ex- Sir Cecil Spring ng it will be remembered I. I was sas quite unc unceremoniously ejected b by his government I 4 early arly after Americas America's participation in the war and I later went to Canada where bere ho bo is said to have o died L 3 of a broken heart Then came the temporary or cial ambassadorship of Lord Reading whose tenure t 7 Continued until May 1919 Then ensued a n. lapse of ol live five during which there was no ambassador S 1 at all attributed all in England Englan to Lloyd Georges George's procrastination pro pro- I in designating one In September 1919 1910 came Viscount Grey whose ambassadorship was t Dated as merely temporary yet ct proved to to-be to he almost ephemeral l He lie only Y remained in this country three 1 months durin during which he did not so much as get a good brood 1 look k at the tho President the President being ill and the vision not of 01 the best After that another interval t of three and one half months occurred during dur- dur I ing which no British diplomatic representation of the first magnitude existed at Britain's Britain 5 new ambassador comes at a 1 time when re relations relations re- re lations between the two countries though not strained are in circumstances perhaps more aptly defined as delicate events in the Senate the treaty amendment opposing six British votes otes in the league of 01 nations and the vote of 01 sympathy for Ireland I together with the testimony of Admiral Sims that thatA A Admiral Ad- Ad Amiral miral Benson admonished him on the eve of Americas America's entry into the war not to let the British pull the tho j wool over his eyes eyes' are arc arc symptoms of possible distrust dislike or lack of the true fraternal spirit which should permeate the two nations Sir Auckland Geddes is reputed to be not only a a. distinguished diplomat but a physician by profession It t is to be e hoped that he will ill bo able through these specially favorable fa qualifications for his tasks to reconcile recon- recon tile sue and heal an any disturbances or distempers that ma may arise In Jn the thc meantime President Wilsons Wilson's delay in crediting the foreign representatives is not adding addinO 0 to the influence of the United States |