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Show RECALL OF PAGE IS SUGGESTED Chamberlain Asks That Ambassador's Am-bassador's Lips Be Closed or, He Be Called Home. Places American People in False Light Before the British Public. Washington, I). C, March 14 "Some means ought to be fouud by the powors that be, to seal the Hps of the ambassadors lo Great Britain or else, In justice to the American people, he ought to be recalled and that as promptly as possible," declared declar-ed Senator Chamberlain of Oregon, In a formal statement today after reading cabled accounts of Ambassador Ambassa-dor Page's address before tho Associated Asso-ciated Chambers of Commerce in London, Wodnesday night Senator Chamberlain Introduced the resolution passed by the senate, as a result of which Secretary Bryan cabled Mr. Page for a full report or his speech, in which he was reported as having said that the American people peo-ple were pleased that Great Britain should profit most by the Panama canal ca-nal and that the Monroe doctrine meant merely that the Unitod States "would prefer that no European governments gov-ernments would gain more land In the new world." Second Offense In England. "This Is the .second time in less than a year that Ambassador Page has been guilty of the impropriety of placing the American pcoplo in a false light before the British public," said Senator Chamberlain. ' "Further reports of the ambassador's ambassa-dor's London speech do not differ at all froni tho first report as lo the matters concerning which I complained. complain-ed. It reflects the American view only in one particular and that is that we rejoice In the prosperity of the British empire!" . . ... |