The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-07
NOT ON SPEAKING TERMS.
England Cuts servia and Bolivia

Japan ."UnKnown" to Turkey.
 There are in the world nations as well as individual people who don't know each other" or who are not on speaking terms.
 Two nations more or less continuous ly in our eye are unacquainted diplo- matically-Japan and Turkey. Though during the last two years questions have often arisen in ivhich our East ern ally would have liked to pop a word into the ear of Abdul Hamid IT. especially such questions as the free passage of Russia's volunteer fleet through the Dardanelles last year Japan has no accredited representative to Turkey and Turkey has none to Japan
 As a matter of fact, they simply don't know each other. The Sultan of Turkey hasa rooted objection on prin- ciple to foreign diplomatists, and is about as anxious to receive a new one as the average mouse is anxious to re- ceive a cat. Therefore he has never consented to 8 Japanese Minister at the Yildiz Kiosh. It is, however, ex- pected that after the war Japan will be able to put that little matter aright
 Two powers whose territories adjoin each other who may be said to prac- tically cut each other dead are Aus tria and Montenegro. One of the sur est signs of good relationship between countries is the existence of a treaty of commerce by which one nation en- ljoys the most favored nation tariff within the others boundaries: Though adjoining, Austria steadfastly refuses
 to grant Montenegro such a treaty, probably because of the sittle princi- pality's notorious friendship for Russia. The result is that the goods of the
 Montenegrins are heavily taxed before they can even leave that country, and
 smuggling is rife on the borders. 1 It is, however, notorious that certain
 of the powers wont know" Servia, as punishment for the fearful mas sacre in 1903 of King, Alexander and Queen Draga. Britain is the most aloft of these powers, and now, for nearly two years, we have had no diplomatic intercourse with King Peter, our busi- Iness with him being done by our con- lsul, MT. Thesslger, at Belgrade. Morocco has been very much talked about of late, but, though Britain is on visiting terms with the Sultan, through our Minister at Fez, Morocco has no
 representative in London. Her nearest approach to the British ear is conduct 1 ed at Gibraltar by a gentleman who l1,hi fiYa fIn rf N7Io lNl
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 The new republic of Panama has as yet got to ''know", us, in the usual
 way, by sending a representative. The shoe is on the other foot in the
 case of Great Britain and Bolivia. Our relations with that South American state have been distinctly ''offish" for the last fifty years. Three times since | 1852 have we appointed a Minister, but for various reasons he has never gone to his post. There is no British Min ister in Bolivia at the present time In the case of some small states,
 Britain, as 1t were, kills her social duties by appointing one Minister for four. Thus, Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua and Salvador each rejoice 1 in one-quarter of a minister resident, the whole of that official being to rep resent us to all four at oncee.
 Apart altogether from times of war,
 we have often been in the position of mot knowing" another state.
 Of all the great powers in recent years, we have fallen out dipomatical- ly most with the United States Old time United States Presidents had way of dismissing an Ambassador With little ceremony. The President in 1856 promptly sacked" MT. Camp ton, our Minister, to show his disap-
 proval of the British habit of recruit ing in the United States soldiers to fight in the foreign legion against Rus sia.
 Thirty-two years later, in 1888, Presi- dent Cleveland cut us dead in the same fashion by dismissing Lord Sackvile, our Ambassador, for having written a letter commenting on political question.-Pearson's Weekly.