The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-04
RESIDENCES FOR
j. 6 6 DIPLOMATS.
Foreign Countries Would Supply
Suitable Palaces for Ambas-
sailors and Minister'S.
P "a r l. ! A.M.EINsT CIR OW 70.
Only Room for 40 Of tic go
Members Of House OF
Commons.
ny IA ,1..l,ouIsE DE roN1lsNoy.

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by ia AI.tlt0UISE DE rONrE;NOY.
a moment when the United
~ States government Is being
~ urged to acquire the ownership
of mansions In various foreign
capitals, for use as permanent! QUAR-
abroad, 1t may be worth while TO draw
attention to the ARRANGEMENTS which
nave for many years existed between
France and Turkey in matters Of this
TO but few. The Turkish government.
ever since the Crimean War. that isto
say, for more than iftS-fou' years
INST. has placed at the disposal OF
a palatlal building in Pera. the foreign
quarter of Constantinople, for the Use
OF the French embassy during the VIM
ter. and has added an equally conf
large grounds, at Therapia. further
north. on the shores of the Bosphorus.
to be used as summer quarters by the
envoy and his staff. In return for this
Ottoman embassy at Paris free OF cost.
and the Chambers vote each year a
sum of $4,000 to dcfray tho rent OF
the mansion occupied by the rcprcscn-
tativcs of the Sublime Porte.
King Ferdinand of Bulgaria last
year offered To the great powers sites
in his capital. free of cost for the
erection of permanent homes for their
ENJOYS to his court, and there is no
doubt that tho United States govern
ment could at any time that 1t wished
mako with almost any foreign govern
ment the same sort OF arrangement
that exists between France and Tur-
key; that is to say. il the American
government were to undertake to
place at the disposal Of foreign Vow
or, for use as IT'S embassy at Washing
ton, a suitable mansion. which 1t had
either built, bought, or rented for the
~ hot t,nt n
undertake to house in a suitable FASH
ion the United States embassy or lcga-
ton in its capital. The advantage OF
this scheme would be that 1t would
from the ownership by the United
States of buildings in foreign CAPITALS.
These disadvantages are numerous.
Thus. a district of the capita1 which
the reverse twenty-five years hence,
and the English government now finds
Itself under the necessity of selling at
a sacrifice the mansion occupied bN
Its embassy for the last thirty years
at Berlin. andAto transfer, its abode
to new quarteS, in the more fashion
able Thicrgarten ncighborhood. The
German government is considering the
advisability of transferring Its embas-
sy In Paris TO more commodious quar-
tiers tan those which 1t owns in the
Rue de Lille, the mansion, once the
home Of Prince Eugene dc Beauhar-
na1s, Stepson of Emperor NAPOLEON. be-
ing inferior in every respect to the
infinitely more imposing embassy
buildings of Great Britain. OF Italy and
of Austria.
The United States government could
easily find means OF housing the for
eiSn embassies at Washington, and
would do so with much economy OF
money and trouble, if IL could thereby
transfer to the foreign powers the OBJ
LEGATION of providing suitable quarters
for the United States embassies and
legations abroad.
There is one feature about the Ger
man embassy in Paris which ] have
apartments include the room formerly
occupied by Prince Eugene dc Beau
harnais's sister. Queen Hortensc. when
in Paris. Il is OF blue and gold. and
adorned with an immense mirror The
latter Is pierced by rifle bullet which.
without shattering the glass made n
hole through It. cnvironcd by a star
OF some size. It Is a memory of the
Commune instruction. But French
people do not like to be reminded OF
such things. and Emperor William.
Prince Radolin. as we'll as Prince Mum
ster and Prince Hohenlohe who pre-
coded Radolin on the banks of the
Seine as ambassadors. havo shown so
much delicacy and tact In their deal-
inSs. with. French people that it has
always been a matter of Surprise to me
that they should have left this mir
ror, thus damaged, to serve as a SOU
vcnir OF the Commune TO the French
guests invited to partake of the hos
pitality OF the German embassy.