Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1903-03-07
BY THE DIPLOMATS
Secret Of President Rooseveit's
Popularity Among Them.
A WIDE READER, GOOD MEMORY
re Knows Something About Politics
and History Of Every European
Nation.
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If f8re.-a culoae IL Washington
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III, tie pres.dest ee The United
There are very Jew cues. ia3s
IL III wa'ah President Roosevelt Goes
nos Know something. lie has been a
vopact0us reader ever since he was a
10y, aud he has always been passion
4 fond Of history and biography.
HI n!ellory is tenacious and encyclo-
ped (. Whatever information ouce
cts 40 Ills mind sticks there, ready
Il be called on at q seconds notice.
No president since John Quincy Adj
ans has begun to compare with hin,
In the extent of his general knowledge
of questions not Immediately cor
cerned with American politics and his
tory. He knows something about the
politics and history of every nation in
Europe, even the most insignificant.
and he at times displays a familiarity
with them which is as surprising to
their representatives in washington az
it is gratifying.
The wife of the Austrian ambassa-
dor. Won Hengelmuller. is n native of
Poland. If there Ia a region in Europe
about which most American public
men have vague and hazy notions, 1t is
Poland. Everybody knows something
about Kosciusko and how freedom
shrieked when he fell, and that is
about the limit. But it happens that In
the course of his reading the president
has picked up a lot of Information
about Poland and about the old Polish
families. He knows their relationship
to one another and the part they have
played in polish history, so that when
Nine. Won Hengelmuller happens to be
placed beside him at dinner he can talk
to her about her own people with a ia
mtliaI ty and with a just appreciation
which I'll her with establishment and
delight.
So With NJ. Jusserand, the new
French ambassador. NJ. Jusserand is a
littcrateur of high rank in his own
country and has an international repu-
tation. although comparatively few
Americans probably have ever read
much that he has written. He has
made a special study of early EngliA
literature and has written upon it with
great ability and with fine discrimina-
tion. When he came to talk with the
president. he was flattered and over
loved TO find that Mr.. Roosevelt had
road evervthinr he he'd ever written
ohont eorlv English literature. Piers
p1onrbmon and the rest and tbe two
conversed with enthusiasm for n long
time mon tonics c~ongenial 10 hotI
which have no bearing whatever upon
internotionol relations Sir Michael
Herbert and poron Won Sternburp of
course arc old friends dating hack To
tho days whom tho nrasident was an
under oncioI in washington. and all
The otber automatic representative in
w,oshtnn+on end +hoir norsoroI ,ola
| House exceDtionally pleasant.