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Show HARVEY TERMED britisi mm Senator Reed Deprecates Ambassador's Speeches in London CHICAGO. Fob. 28. A deuuncla-liou deuuncla-liou of Cenrce Harvi y. tm ilc iin am baaaador to Ihe court of St. James, In which lio mfeed that Ambassador Har-I Har-I vey be recalled and "his recent performances per-formances erased from the recollection of man" was made b Senator James A Reed of Missouri. Wednesday In a speech before the Chicago council, j Friends of Irish Freedom. "America has produced two great ;Georges George WashlnRton. th-Father th-Father ! 1 1 is Country, and Qeorge Harvey, duly accredited ambassador to the couri of St. James." he said. COMPARISON MADE. "Washington was our greatest pa-Itrlotj pa-Itrlotj Harvey is England's greatest today. to-day. Washington expressed the soul l of America. Harvey the spirit of sychophancy and toadyism. "Washington addressed his country beneath the American flag: Harvey-spoke Harvey-spoke (o an audience of ex-patriots toadies and nobles beneath the Union Jack. W.i liincioti sirups in honor, his 'memory fresher with the passing its. Harvey ought to be recalled and his recent performances erased from Ihe memory of man. "As I survey the field of the present and listen to the words of an American Ameri-can ambassador, in substance demanding demand-ing a union of America with the Brit 'Ish empire; and the continued insist ence that America shall join herself In entangling alliances with the world: win n I consider Ihe never ceasing agitation agi-tation Id favor of a union between the United States and the British empire, there arises before my mind the vis-Ion vis-Ion of other days. WASHINGTON'S WARNING. "Again I see the lantern in the old North church, 1 hear Paul Jtcvere's rallying shout, 'The British are coming,' com-ing,' arousing the minute men to arms, the sharp reports of the first Bhois fired In the battle of freedom. Ai such a time as this I summon the heroic he-roic spirits of the revolution. Come. Washlncion and lell whv you cried to God to break the tyrant's sword. Was it for this? That at the end of 150 I yean a duly aecredited envoy of the l country you established would stand Ion British soli, beneath the flag you Forced Cornwall is to haul down and declare for a union one and Inseparable, Insepara-ble, of America and the British empire. em-pire. "In 1792 George Washington said: Why forego the advantages of our pe cu'.iar situation? Why Quit our own i o aland upon foreign ground? Why. I intorv-a Ine our destiny with that Of any part of Europe, entannle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rlvalship, interest, honor aud caprice?' HARVEY'S SPEECH QUOTED. "On February 21. 1922, George Harvey, Har-vey, speaking of the relations which, he asserted, had been recently ostab llshed between Great Britain and the United States through the Washington conference, said: " 'Not Liberty alone, not union alone, but liberty and uuion, one and Inseparable Insepar-able was the most striking dictum of sjnerlca'g greatest senator on Aineri ca'B greatest need, and such in fairly accurate parallel is the chief requirement require-ment of our two working and trading countries today.' "I do not preach hatred for the Brit-i,lr Brit-i,lr I preach lovr for America. 1 am 9 llllng England should run her course '.- seek no Interference there Bui we will be true to ourselves. We will steer by th stars Washington and the Revolutionary fathers gave to the j skies of Liberty " |