SUPREME COUNCIL

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 9 May 1921, Page 5

SUPREME COUNCIL

UNITiSD STATES TO BE REPRESENTED.

IN CAPACITY OF OBSERVERS

• BY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYBIGHT WASHINGTON, May 6. The United States Government has decided to accept the invitation to be represented on the Allied Supreme. Council. WASHINGTON, May 7. The United States Note, which was handed to Sir Auckland Geddes (British Ambassador) to-night, accepting the invitation' to take part in Allied cohferencesj says Mr George Harvey (Ambassador to Britain) will join in +v' liberations of the Supreme Council, while, Mr "Wallace' (Ambassador at Paris) and Mr R. W. Boyden (United States Commissioner at Paris) will be unofficial observers. at the Ambassadors' Council and the Reparations Commission respectively. Cabinet discussed, the invitation all day. It was felt the United States' interests could not be properly protected and furthered in the light of the present" world relationship unless the United States participated in an unofficial character. The Note points out that the United States will not be bound by any course of action taken, but her Ambassadors will act chiefly in the capacity of observers. The Note to Britain says: "The Government of the United States has! received from Sir Auckland Geddes a courteous communication in which you, with the unanimous concurrence of the Powers represented at London, enquire whether this Government ,ie disposed to be represented at future conferences. The Government of the! United States, while maintaining its traditional. policy of abstinence from participation in matters of distinctly European concern/is deeply interested in the proper economic adjustment a«d just settlement of matters of world- - wide importance, and desires helpfully to co-operate in the deliberations on these questions." \ Republican leaders state that the passage of the Knox resolution through the House of Representatives will Ire delayed jtill the critical situation in Europe is relieved. They intimate that both the State Department and : White House request indefinite delay.