Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-27
IS HILL ALL R|CHT2
German Foreign Office Says
So EmphaticaI|y.
OTHER SOURCES DISAGREE
Declared the Emperor Is Personally
Opposed to Him.
TOWER PROTESTS FRIENDSHIP
At Least He Tells the Correspondents
so-Prospective Ambassador
Haunted by Reporters.
OTHER SOURCES DISAGREE
TOWER PROTESTS FRIENDSHIP

BERLlN, March 21.-The matter of the
acceptance by the German government of
DIR. David Jayne Hill. now American anin-
lister at The Hague, as American an:bas-
sador to succeed Charlemagne Tower
continues today to hold public interest.
The foreign office deals with the affair
by denying that any expression adverse
to DR.. Hill has come from the German
side. by declaring that he is persona grata
and that all statements in contrary
sense are inventions put into circulation
by designing Americans. 1t states that
the opposition to DIR. Hill is American and
not German. On the other hand En-
peror Williams desire not to have DR.
Hill come to Berlin has been a subject of
discussion in the official household of his
majesty for weeks past. Gen. Won Pies
sin, adtutant general to his majesty. has
referred to 1t. and it is known outside of
his majesty's Immediate suite that Ad-
miral Won Mueller. chief of his ma jesty's
private marine cabinet and Admiral Won
Tirpitz, secretary of the admiralty. are
among those who have told the emperor
that they did not regard DR.. Hill as suit
able ambassador.
Ambassador Towers Role.
Mr.. Towers part is explained to have
been confined to a transmittal to Presi-
dent Roosevelt of the emperors definite
communication. 1t happens also that his
majesty at about the same time requested
a distinguished personal friend of Presi-
dent Roosevelt who is now in Germany to
| write to the President concerning his
| ma jesty's unwillingness to receive DR..
| Hill.
| Both Of these communications were
sent at the express wish OF the emperor.
It is just possible that the foreign office
| is not aware Of the second communication.
which is probably still in the transatlan-
tic mail
Tower Is to Resign.
| Special Cablegram to The Star.
BERLIN. March -. = Ambassador
Tower authorizes the statement that it is
| his infiexible determination to send his
resignation to President Roosevelt within
| few months. He will ask to be allowed
! to retire and return to America. This. he
says. is what he wrote to the President
| in a personal letter last autumn. The ar
| rangement Is quite satisfactory to the
President. who thoroughly. understands
| that there Is no reason for Mr.. Tower to
change these plans, nor is Mr.. Tower
aware that the President wishes him to do
SO.
| Mr. Tower denies that his relations with
DIR. Hill are anything but extremely
| friendly. When he saw IN the papers that
| DR.. Hill probably would be his successor
| he wrote to him. inviting him to come to
Berlin and offering to assist him in every
| way. Or. Hill, when he was in Berlin
| three weeks ago, dined with Ambassador
Tower.
Hill Is Haunted.
Special Cablegram to The Star.
PARIS. March 27.-Dr. Hill. American
minister at The Hague and ambassador
designate to Berlin. is spending a few
days in Paris on private business. The
reporters haunt him from breakfast to
bedtime. He tells them all with the
greatest good humor that he is quite in
credulous of the reports that there is any
personal feeling against him In Berlin.
Naturally, he refuses to enter upon sur
misses as to the origin of these reports.
Paris Is Expectant.
By Associated Press.
PARIS, March N.-Dr. David Jayne
Hill, the announced successor to Char
lemange Tower as American ambassador
to Germany. who is now in this city on
personal business, received no informa-
ton today that would throw any light
upon the alleged refusal of Emperor
William to receive him at Berlin. DR..
Hill is aware that Baron Won Sternburg,
the German ambassador at Washington.
transmitted Emperor Williams approval
Of his appointment last November. and he
declines In the absence OF off1c1al IN
formation, to admit that there is any
possibility of the emperor having changed
his attitude.
The Hill incident has aroused the live
liest interest in diplomatic eircles in
Do or{c Ttn rafr IN N
bassador after asserting to his appoint
ment is said to be unprecedented In the
annals of diplomacy. and justifiable only
on the strongest personal grounds.
prominent foreign diplomat said In this
connection today:
Affront to America.
1.-The incident can be explained only on
the theory that the emperor has dscov-
cred some strong personal objection to
DR. Hill; otherwise his refusal to receive
him would be not only offensive but q
breach of good manners. The suggestion
contained in the Berlin dispatches that
the emperor desires brilliant and
wealthy American at Berlin capable of
adding luster to his court, savors of
spirit of dictation which any country
would resent. If DIR. Hill were an OBJ
scure man such an objection might be
understood. but insomuch as it Is recog-
QlZcQ ABROAD tIdl III Illl 10 all dDic dHu
accomplished diplomat and scholar, this
suggestion is almost an affront not only
to Dr. Hill but to America.
ITO foreign diplomats it always has
seemed strange that the United States
has not pursued a policy of sending
abroad able and modest men like Dr.
HILL who are capable Of representing
their country with dignity and simplicity.
rather than men Of wealth who seek to
rival in their social functions the mag
nificence of the old world"
Berlin Statement Accepted.
The statement issued from the foreign
Office at Berlin in relation to the case OF
DR.. HILL whom it had been proposed to
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