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After the Roehampton Polo Club had beaten the U. S. Army team by 8 to 4, Ambassador Alanson B. Houghton gave a dinner to both teams at Crewe House, his London residence...
...made a speech. He began: "It is a great honor. . . . But, like all honors or privileges-if we except the ancient British Order of the Garter, which Disraeli said he particularly admired because there was no damned merit attached to it-it entails some responsibility." Like U. S. Ambassador Alanson B. Houghton at London, in his recent Pilgrims speech (TIME, May 18), he took for granted all the Anglo-Saxon platitudes, but, "looking about for a substitute, it struck me that, building on these sentiments as an accepted fact, I might take as my text 'goods across the water...
...Alanson B. Houghton was Ambassador to Germany three years and, by his own confession, made one public speech. Last week, in London, he attended the Pilgrims' dinner, which he described as "the routine whereby an American Ambassador takes office...
...Jacob Gould Schurman, Minister to China, was transferred to be Ambassador to Berlin (post left vacant by Alanson B. Houghton, transferred to London...
...Alanson B. Houghton, Ambassador to the Court of St. James's (who had not yet assumed his post) and ex-Ambassador to Germany, conferred with President and Secretary Kellogg at the White House before entering on a brief vacation that will precede his going to London...