Foreign News: Esme Speaks

With the Atlantic between him and home, Sir Esmé Howard, new British Ambassador to the U. S., rose from the banqueting table to deliver his first expression of British policy to the Yankees. The occasion was a dinner given by the Pilgrims of the U. S. at the Waldorf-Astoria, Manhattan. John W. Davis, whom Britishers used to know as U. S. Ambassador, and Frank L. Polk, onetime U. S. Under Secretary of State, were preliminaries on the program. Radio spread the proceedings far and wide; while the dinner was still in progress, a...

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