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Show HE SLAPS AT 111 SKr Vrl 1 Whitelaw Reid Tells What Roosevelt Told Him Now York, March 1G. Whitclaw Reid, American ambassador to England Eng-land declares In an Interview cabled today to tho Times, that Roosevelt repeatedly told him that be would not run again for PresidenL Mr Reid says : "The announcement of the ov-President to accept tho nomination if it wero offered him, came as great sur-piiso sur-piiso to mo I had been busy telling tell-ing every one thoro was not tho sllghtost chance of Mr, Roosevelt running again, based on what ho had repeatedly told me and members of my famll', when, to my surprise, the first thing I heard after we had got out to sea was that ho had decided to run again." Discussing tho coal strike In England, Eng-land, the ambassador said that he regards tho situation as perilous. "Despite the efforts of the press to work up Interest In tho strike," ho explained, "tho public seems to regard re-gard It with utter indifference, although al-though one might detect a certain air of oppression. T havo been trying to recall conditions in Paris as described describ-ed in history previous to tho overthrow over-throw of the government, and, as far as I cain remember, a similar state of apathy existed there I think there Is no doubt that conditions here aro grave, and they aro being mndo worse by intertwining tho Industrial and political po-litical situation.'' |