The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-04-08
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sal stomach power, but without sue i cess. l If the count left England with any sense of soreness about some incidents | of his social career there, be must have | enjoyed all the more the triumph of his next visit to London, when he came hither as the special emissary of his father to reeesiye the personal explana- tions of Lord Granville which closed the acrimonious quarrel between Eng land and Germany over their respec- tive spheres of colonial interest. Bis.
 marck pere showed pr. Busch Count
 Herbert's letter recording his conyer-
 sation with Lord Granville, to whom the count had made bold to reply that lllis question ton one polnt) was one of
 mere curiosity. x and a matter that does not concern you Bis marck," says Busch, was pleased with his sons bluntness." <T. But this "bluntness"-- some de-
 seribed, by very much harsher term
 was destined to be his undoing with the diplomatic corps, when, after serving for a short time as German minister at
 The Hague, be was pitchforked into the position of foreign secretary at Berlin.
 It was not enough that the count, in his social moments, was a jolly good fellow, an effusive host, a toper so val iant as to have even been able to hold his own with so invincible comrade of the can as Count Schouvaloff; it was not enough that he was known to en-
 joy the confidence of the old emperor as fully as he did that of his own father. No; all that was insufficient to make the new foreign secretary entirely pop
 ular among the members of the diplo-
 matic corps, which contained some of
 the acptest and most accomplished
 judges of good form. Strictly speak
 ing, the chancellor himself was head of
 the foreign office, but all the business
 between it and the diplomatic corps
 now came to be transacted by the
 princes son, who was looked upon as
 pus, and what the ambassadors wanted
 was to hold direct speech with Jupiter
 TonanG himself. '%
 Moreover, this vicarious mode of do-
 ing business was all the harder to bear
 when the chancellor's substitute aped
 the worst faults of his father and paid
 very much less attention to form than
 to substance, which is perhaps the
 most henious sin that any diplomatist
 can commit Be that as it may, sigh of decided relief went up from the
 whole diplomatic world in Berlin when
 it became known that the count, no less furious and resentful than the fal- len chancellor, had resolved to follow the father into exile at Friedrichsruh;
 nor could he be induced to stay by the honeyed words and fatterfng atten- tions of the present emperor, whom he had accompanied on his visits to all the chief courts of Europe.
 The Bismarcks have always been capital haters and vendetta men. See, for example, how they secretly inspired the press persecution of Sir Robert Morier in connection with the Emperor Frederick's death and publication of his diary accusing him of having re- vealed to Marshal Bazaine the move- ment of the German armies round Metz. But when appealed to "as gen. tlemen and man of honor" to cause an official denial of the foul and infa- nous libel and calumny" to be issued, Count Herbert showed that Sir Rob ert had committed a serious error of judgment in making his personal ap- peal without any doubt as to the re- suit"
 It was the same. relentless spirit of resentment that characterized the atti- tude of he wo Bismarcks-father and son-toward the present emperor after their retirement from alice. so it was no wonder that Count Herbert's friends flor he had some-sooh gave up all hopes of ever seeing him realize his ann bition, which had been entered on the German embassy in London. Instead of this they were only disappointed and mortified by the very feeble figure which he began to cut in the Riechstag. Perhaps his most memorable effort as a member of the Riechstag was on the occasion of the Boer generals visit to Berlin, when he placed himself between two of our recnt nenies to be photo graphed. ..... ...