The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-10-11
Emperor's Refusal to Receive
Outgoing Ambassador No
Slight to United States.
nv Ia MAnaIlsE de ro1rI.on

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HAT Emperor William should have
received Captain II. -. Watson.
r. y. the naval nttachc of the
British embassy At Berlin. III farewell
audience at potsdam on Saturday last,
while refusing 10 take leave in Il SINH
iar fashion OF john G. Leishman the
outgoing American amba sEador must
not DO considered in this country as
any slight to the United states. but
merely as somewhat unusual mani
festation OF his personal dislike for
John 6 Leishman ANA for his family.
The Emperor had wished 20 have
either Lloyd Grscom or Henry White
at Berlin. Ia succession TO David JAIME
mn. and was much disappointed when
john Leishman was appointed The
i-cishinans did nothing TO remove tho
prejudice which they found against
them at the very outset, and which
WAS increased by tlcir action in in
Noking diplomatic privilege ia defense
OF some sensational lawsuits brought
against them BY tradesmen in Paris
ana elsewhere. Diplomats enjoy legal
linmunitics IN this connection; but il
always makes an unpleasant stir akin
70 scandal, when they avail them
selves OF these ex-territorial prcroSa-
iVes 10 resist pccuniary clame. 10
matte: how much the pctitionillg
tradesmcn may have cndeayored 10 inn
pose upon them
NJ Emperor resented. too that the
I.cishmans. who were credited with
| considerable wealth. should not have
! taken a fine house at Berlin, and that
Mrs Leishman and her two daughters.
one OF them the widowed Countess de
Gontaut- Biron, should have so openly
manifested their preference for French
lie. french society, French dress. etc.
IN TACT Mrs. Lcishman and her dauyh-
ters were most OF the time absent
I from Berlin and in France. absenting
| themselves from official functions at
! which Mrs. Leishman's presence was
more Or less imperative. as ambassa-
dress at the court OF Berlin.
The hospitalitics OF John I.eishman.
rs ambassador in the Kaiscr's capital,
nave been of the most meaGre and per
funciory order perhaps because he
realized that the Berlin atmosphere
was not consenial: and the climax
OF tho matter was reached when both
he and his Wife encouraged the infat-
uation Of the young Duke Charles OF
Croy for their unmarried daughter. to
the extent OF alternating him from the
court OF Berlin. from his principal
relatives, and from his regiment tho
Gardes du Corps, from which he re-
/ aware that both Kaiser Wilhelm and
the imperial house OF Austria. which 10
allied b. ties OF blood to the Grows
We're bitterly opposed TO any marriage
between the Duke Of Grow and Miss
f.eishmau. which could ut the best have
been only Of a inorpanatic character
The infatuation does not seem to have
been Of a lasting character and al
though there has been no announce
ment thai the match has been broken
OIL. set II is asserted both at Berlin
and at Vienna that the project Of q
| marriage has come TO an end
The principal mission or American
amba ssadors abroad is to promote
! friendship and coed will towards the
| United states on the part OF the rulers
| to whose court they are accredited
| 1t is difficult TO understand how Ameri-
can interests can have been served in
Germany by the retention for two
years of an ambassador 50 personally
dis'astcful 10 The Kaiser as John c.