Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-12-20

Robt. N. MeWade.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2,.-Practical-
ly sponsored Dy the entire Latin.Am-
erican diplomatic corps accredited to
this country, with an honorary mem.
bership, including royalty and we'll
and widely known Lati1.Americans.
the Spanish.American Athenaeum OF
Washington, d. c., has been formally
inaugurated in the presence OF q
large assemblage Of foreign diplo-
matists. addresses In its favor being
made by the Hon. John Barrett, d.
rector.general Of the Pan-American
Union, Rev. DR.. Currier of the Catho,
sic University, Senior Don Manuel
Calero, the Mexican ambassador, and
Senior Don Juan Rianoy Gayanogs.
Minister from Spain, and other foreign
ENJOYS. The purpose of this new
organization Is to further the study OF
the Spanish language in the United
States and throughout the civilized
world, aad to bring to the readers OF
good literature the masterpieces or
famous Spanish and l.atin-American
authors. The Athenaeum Is the idea
Of the Rev. DR.. Charles Warren
Currier, a learned and pious Catholic
priest who has made an exhaustive
study of all Spanish literature and the
Spanish language. and who is uni
versally acknowledged to be an
authority upon those subjects. Dir
ector General Barrett predicts that, as
a direct result of the establishment OF
this splendid institution not only will
the study of Spanish be instituted in
every American college and uni
yersity within the country ten years.
but also In nearly all af the high
schools, and that Americans will go to
the Latin-American universities and
colleges in the same way that many
OF the Latin.Americans come here.
The roster of officers Of the new lnsti-
tuition comprises every ambassador
and minister of Latin-Anerican, be-
ginning with Ambassador Calero OF
Mexico, and Minister Federico alfol'
so Pezet of Peru, and closing with
Senor, Don Roberto MacDouall charge
afiaires OF Colombia.
In Washington, as in London. Paris,
and other foreign capitals, the ruling
Of Imperial Chancellor von Bethmana-
Hollweg, who has restored the regu-
.lation mace by the late Prince Bis
narck prohibiting German diplomats
from marrying foreigners, that here.
after all ~diplomatists who disabey the
in Injunction will be regarded as having
resigned from the diplomatic service,
has stirred up diplomatic and official
circles. This revival of Bismarck's de-
cree, based on his behalf that "a
foreign wife cannot possibly help a
German diplomat. has been revived
in consequence, it is said, of German
diplomacy in a certain European
capital having been unfavorably at
fected by the influence OF a certain
foreign grade daIle who is the wife
of a member of the German diplomatic
service.
T. Of~the ten embassies in Washing
ton six are presided over by American
wives. OF the twenty-nine legations
seven ministers have American wives;
and, in addition to these, many of the
attaches are married to American
women-aad almost all of them are
wealthy The list Of American women
married to foreign ambassadors anC
ministers includes even Germany. o.
course, State Department officials and
Il; al ~, n {, r1Y,tco. r. 1icnllcc Tho wiling
openly; but, one of the latter sale
in my presence that although the rul
ing would seem to mean that Ameri
can-born women hereafter cannot
marry into the corps Of Germany, to-
gether with all women not Germans
this rigid Interpretation is not true
to conditions. AS he was %criticising
the ruling Of another country, dip
lomatic discretion, he added, made il
necessary that his name be withheld
Thirty years ago, or Whereabouts, the
German Foreign Office ruled that fore
ign women should not marry into the
German diplomatic corps, but since
then a number of German diplomatists
have married American, French
British, and women of Othel
~nationalities. 1t is noted that it ha.
been a simple thing for a diplomat tt
marry a foreign woman BY obtaining
permission Of the foreign office, bu1
on one or two occasions these re
quests have been refused. and when
ever that occurs, it is limited, the rul
ing has been suddenly revived.
"The ruling is really a dead issue I,
many ways" declared the diploma:
whom l am quoting literally" Wher
II was in Britain it came to my notice
because a member of the German
corps was refused permission to marry
Being interested for various reasons
II made an investigation privately, ant
several officials Of the German govern
ment told me in confidence that the
ruling was made simply to protec
the higher German society from un
desirables. The aristocracy Of Ger
many, and all official circles, are
bitterly opposed to the entry int
their sacred circles Of the less arts
tocratic, and especially when thee:
people happen to be members of othe7
than the Christian faith.
"From my own observations,
should judge that this latest reviva
Of the dictum has come about be
cause the foreign Office has refused
TO grant permission to some younl
diplomat to marry a woman e%videntl!
not favored by the officials"
Count Won Bernstorff, the presen
German ambassador, was married t