The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1914-09-24
PRESS MEN ANXIOUS
Foreign Correspondents in Wash
ington Worried.
Being Able, Scholarly and Well Liked,
Their American Colleagues Re-
frain From Hurting Their
SensibiIites.
Ry EDWARD q. CLARK.

Misunderstanding the most
anxious men in Washington today are
the correspondents of foreign news
papers sent here by their editors to
report the doings in this capital Of a
hrst-class power. There are not many
OF these men, but each has his heart
engaged, naturally, with the cause Of
the country across the water of which
he is native. Their anxieties are
increased by the difficulties which they
have in communicating to their jour-
nails the Washington view of the war
abroad
It Is unqpestionably true, for one
sees it and must know it, that the
great preponderance of sympathy in
the capital, lay and official, is with
the fighters on one side of this great
European war. 1t is true also that
the preponderance of sympathy among
the newspaper correspondents rests
with the same cause. It must be left
to the readers to guess or to judge
where the greater fund of sympathy
rests.
The correspondents of foreign news
papers, men sent here from their home
countries, are members of the Ma
tional Press club. American newspa-
per men, no matter how their sympa-
thies lie, refrain from expressing them
in the presence of their foreign news
paper brethren. These foreign cor
respondents all are good fellows, we'll
Mixed, and admired for their ability
and their scholarship; for the foreign
newspaper men for the most part real
ly are scholars in the best sense Of
the term.
One Of the greatest newspapers in
all Germany is represented in Wash
ent who has been here for some years.
This writer of American affairs for
German readers is DR.. George Bar
thelme. The German cable was cut at
the very outset of the war by the
British and there are no mails today
reaching German ports.
Doctor Barthelme might be thought
in a way to be man with his occupa-
ton gone It Is true that he cannot
send his daily dispatches or his daily
and weekly letters, but unquestionably
he is writing for future reading his
studies of the American attitude in
this great war and to give the Ger
man view of how America felt and act
ed when Europe was at grips.
The Washington correspondent OF
the great London Times is Arthur
Willert, a graduate of Oxford and a
man who has served his newspaper In
various capitals of Europe. Willert's
lines of communication with his news
paper are not as open as they were
but he is not handicapped to anything
like the extent of his German journal
| ist brother.
| War between the countries Of l., Eu
| rope has not produced war between
| the newspaper representatives Of
| those countries now in Washington
| It seems that the battlefield is the
only place where men of different
countries cannot fraternize. The Off
cial news of the department in Wash
ington is as open to the foreign cor
respondents as it is to American cor
respondents. They get all that 1t Is
possible for anyone to get, and they
interpret it according to their judg
ment for the benefit of their readers
Seemingly the sympathies of mos
American correspondents in this wal
are all one way, but they do not per
NIT themselves to give open expires
sion of their views in the presence O.
the foreign correspondents whose
sensibilities might be injured.