The Allies on Thursday, May 5th, formally invited President Harding
to send representatives to the Supreme Council, the Council of Ambassadors, and the Reparation Commission. The President on the following day gave a favourable reply, saying that America, " while maintaining its traditional policy of abstention from participation in matters of distinctly European concern," desired "helpfully to co-operate" with the Allies. He then instructed Colonel Harvey, the new American Ambassador to Great Britain, to represent him in " the deliberations " of the Supreme Council, and ordered Mr. Wallace, the American Ambassador to France, to resume his " unofficial " connexion with the Council of Ambassadors. Furthermore, he asked Mr. Boyden to sit " unofficially " on the Reparation Commission. Mr. Wallace took his seat at the Ambassadors' Council on Monday, when the affairs of Silesia were considered.. President Harding's friendly action is of the highest importance.
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