Show EN GLAND DODGES I Lord Acted Merely as Dean of the Corps in Cuban Affair LONDON Feb 14 The H.-The The Associated Press understands that the Secretary for for- Foreign Affairs Lord Cranborne win inform the House House of Commons this afternoon that Lord the British at Washington acted merely as dean of the diplomatic corps corps' in summoning the meeting of ot April 14 14 1898 that he did so at the Instigation in In- In of f other diplomats that he acted I ir In those proceedings entirely on his own initiative forwarded the the- note as 35 a a. matter of routine and was in instructed in- in in return to take absolutely no notice of ot the matter |