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Show AFRAID OF THE UNITED STATES. Great Britain has hastened to assure the United States that Ihe claims pre sented in connection with the occu patlon of tho Coblenz area on the Rhine are recognized by the allies lyord L'urzon. in notifying Ambassador Harvey, sent a note as follows "I am anxious to lose no time in assuring your excellency that the claim put forward by the United Stales government that these expenses should be reimbursed to them is one which his majesty's government would not In any circumstances desire to question. 1 1 vtiiuni or iuiju3iuit iu do 90 without an Indifference to manl-j manl-j fest considerations of justice and with lout a failure to recognize the part I played by the United States In the war and the subsequent occupation such aa il am confident thai your government would not think of Imputing to his ma Jesty's government. It Is the earnest iilrslrt- of his majesty's government I that means should be found with as J little delay as possible to give practical prac-tical effect to tho desires of the United Unit-ed States government as explained by your excellency and 1 am accordingly placing myself in communication with , the governments of France and Bel ! gium in the hope that a speedy agree ment may be reached as to Ihe most' convenient mode by which the allied and associated governments may con , cert together to secure the desire 1 ejid.' The allies are courting the United States. Neither Great Britain nor, I France would dare to offend by telling the United States to do its own col locting, inasmuch as America with I drew from the negotiations involved; in reparations America is too powerful to be dls-1 ! regarded and when America gets I miffed and begins to pout, there is a j humoring and a petting in the Ian- j i cuagr Of diplomacy. |