Irony?

Rumors persist that Ambassador Harvey will shortly resign his post as American Ambassador to the Court of St. James. Nothing definite is known, except that the report seems to rely for its authenticity upon a statement made by an American Embassy official that Mr. Harvey wished to stay in America at the time of the Baldwin debt negotiations; and the Ambassador's preamble to his now famous Pilgrim speech in London, when he said: " I am utterly destitute of the traditional weapons of diplomacy."