Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-06-01 | Page 3 | New Ambassador Warns Americans

-uu New Ambassador Warns Americans WASHINGTON. June 1. Sir Auckland Auck-land Geddes, British ambassador, speaking at the ninety-ninth annual commencement of George Washington University, warned against enmesh-ment enmesh-ment in tho social "disentanglements" of Europe. "So far tho swell of tho storm centered cen-tered in Europe, laps your coast," ho declared. "Yet your daily press is 'already filled with news of strikes, what is vaguely called industrial unrest. un-rest. Wo all know it was your tradition tradi-tion to keep clear of European entanglements. entan-glements. "Hero Js aEuropean disentanglement disentangle-ment that is already piling the waters on your social beaches, a distanglo-I distanglo-I ment of the complicated interweaving j of men and man in the social fabric." i Sir Auckland declared he doubted if ; ever before was the future for as many nations, as many individuals, so closely close-ly shrouded in dark clouds pregnant with storm. "In Europe wo know an age is dying," dy-ing," he continued. "Here It would be easy to miss tho signs of the coming change, but I have little doubt but that it will come. A realization of the aimlessness of life to labor and to die, having achieved nothing but avoidance of starvation and tho birth j of children also doomed to tho weary treadmill of life has seized tho minds of millions."