Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-08-20
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NATIONS At WAR
CUT EACH OTHER
etiquette Requires Severance
Of All Social Communication
During Continuance of Hos
tiIitieS.

meet upon the streets or washington
No matter how good personal friends
they may have been, the representa-
lives of nations that are now at wal
must regard each other as enemies
and must ignore their presence upon
this mundane sphere. This "enmity'
is not 10 be carried TO the extent OF
engaging In mortal combat when. they
meet, or even to the issuance of q
challenge at arms. but custom re-
quires that these diplomats represent.
ing warning nations must have no So
cial intercourse whatever and must
not even notice each other.
Must Look the Other Way.
For instance. II Horace Seymour
third secretary OF the British embas.
~, should walk into the smoking.
room OF the Metropolitan club and
find seated there Baron Kurt Won
Lersner, second secretary of the Ger.
man embassy. they would glare a,
each other for a brief moment, and
then one or both of them would re.
tire. And by the same token. should
Joseph Loris-M elikoff, chamberlain
to his majesty, the emperor of Rus.
STA, and first secretary Of the Rus.
sian embassy, while playing Il round
of golf on the Chevy Chase course
come face TO face with Konstantin
Won Masirevich. first secretary of the
Austro- Hungarian embassy ii is like
~ that both would pack up their
clubs and leave the ground
Pass without Speaking.
These names have been selected al
random for the purpose of illustra-
ton. solely, and to show the strict Gus
tom that prevails in such cases
Young diplomats, who have been as.
ISOLATED for years possibly and who
have come to be fast friends. are now
rendered implacable official enemies
by reason Of the European war. II
they pass upon the streets there must
not be a bow Of recognition. Should
they chance to meet in the reception
room of the state department, bent
on official business and both unable to
retire. they VIII gaze intently at the
official portraits upon the walls OF
look out of opposite windows each
entirely obivious of the presence OF
the other.
Most Of the foreign embassies and
legations are now in charge of young
diplomats, secretaries who are acting
in the absence of their chiefs in Eu-
rope or at the watering places of this
country. These young chaps. under
ordinary conditions, mingle freely and
enjoy each others society during the
summer months when they are forced
to remain here. but now circumstances
have arisen which puts the ban upon
their friendship.
Only Two Ambassadors Here.
OF the five great powers at war, the
ambassadors of two of them, Aus
tfia-Hungary and Russia. are now in
Dumbia. Austrian envoy. is now at
Manchester, ~ II. Madam Dumba is
abroad and her husband has been en-
deavoring to locaii here but, so far
az known, has sscl. unsuccessful.
George b yhmeteff. nc Russian am
bassador Pa s,adame Bakhmeteff are
occupying a vita at Newport for the
season. The embassy building here
has been closed and the business has
been transacted at Newport during the
summer. J. j. Jusserand. the French
ambassador. and his wife are in
France. Sir Cecil Arthur Spring Rice,
the British ambassador, and Lady
Spring Rice are in England, and
Count j. III. Won Bernstorff, the Ger
man ambassador and Countess Bern
storff are in Germany.
Count Bernstorffs nephew. Werner,
was In Canada when the war broke
out and he made hurried exit for
New York. where he took ship for
Italy. He announced that he was GO
ing back to the fatherland to Join his
regiment in the German army The
count has a son. Gunther. who is
a stockbroker in New York. but. so
far as learned he has not determined
10 fight for the kaiser. Countess
Bernstorff was an American girl. the
daughter of James Luckemeyer of
New York, although she had resided
abroad the greater part of her life up
to the time of her marriage. 1t is no
exaggeration to say that Count Bern
storff IL the most popular member of
the diplomatic corps in Washington
land that his American wife shares in
that popularity. IL he were here now,
IN is certain he could do a great deal
Ito popularize the German cause with
Americans.
Gives Up European Voyage.
The three smaller nations that have
heen drawn into the war to greater or
less extent by reason of the violation
of their treaty rights, are Switzerland,
keigium and the Netherlands. DR..
Paul Ritter, the Swiss minister, was a
passenger on the Kron Prinzessin Ce-
Iciiie, the North Lloyd ship which
started for Europe and landed at Bar
darbor, Me- He was going abroad to
join Madame Ritter, but when his
Journey was interrupted and affairs
in Europe became SO tense and of
such vital interest to his country. he
returned to Washington E. Havenith,
the Belgian minister. is in Europe, ac-
companied by his wife. Chevalier W.
L. f. c. Van Rappard, the minister of
the Netherlands. is spending the sum-
mer at Manchester, n. IL.
Japan. not yet drawn into the Eu-
pean conflict hut reported to be pre-
pairing to stand by its ally. Great
Britain. has pursuing watchful poll
icy all summer Its ambassador, Wis
count Sutemi Chinda. has been ION
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