The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-09-30
To CHECK CRITICS
WILSON RESENTS interviews OF
Foreign DIPLOMATS
TAKES UP Three CASES

/ TAKES Up Three CASES
Turkish Ambassador is to Leave Thi:
Country Within Fortnight-Eng
ishman and German Get in Ho1
Water When They Made Indiscree1
References to Mexico and Japan.
President Wilson has determined
to put stop to public comments on
the international relations of the
United States by diplomatic repre-
sentatives Of foreign governments.
The presidents patience in this re-
spect became exhausted Wednesday
when he saw an interview with Baron
Wilhelm Won Schoen of the German
Diplomatic Service, who arrived in
this country last week from Toxic,
! where he formally was attached to
the German Embassy. In the inter
view, which Baron Won Schoen con-
frmed Wednesday afternoon, the
German diplomatist, among other
things, said:
"I have heard many persons in
Japan say they believed war with the
United States was unavoidable. From
repeated statements of this sort
have come to believe that it is the
general opinion of the Japanese peo~
pie. I have seen frequent evidence
of very strong anti-Amcrican feeling.
There seems to be intense hatred for
the United States throughout Japan. ,
Administration officials were angry
over such statements, which they con-
strued as intended to incite feeling
between Japan and the United States.
By direction of the president, Secre-
tary Bryan will call the attention of
the German ambassador. Count Won
Bernstorff, to the utterances of Baron
Won Schoen.
In this connection it became known
Thursday that A. Rustem Bey, the
Turkish ambassador, had informed
President Wilson that he does not
alter the views he recently expressed
in a published interview and will
leave the United States within fort
night.
The ambassador refused to com.
ment further except to say he had
asked his government for leave of
absence, which he was certain would
be granted. The announcement of
the ambassadors withdrawal, though
not unexpected, caused a profound
sensation in diplomatic circles.
In the Objectionable statement
which was given out by the Turkish
ambassador, and which aroused the
temper of the administration, Rus
tenn Bey said that Great Britain was
trying to involve the United States
in the European war by indicating
that she had no objection to the send.
ing of American warships to Turkish
ports for the alleged purpose of pro-
tecting American citizens. In max
ing some ironical comments on re-
ports that Christians in Turkey were
in danger OF massacre, the ambas-
sador referred to lynchings in the
Southern States and to the water
cures in the Philippines during the
Aguinaldo insurrection.
When the interview was published,
Secretary Bryan, at the instance Of
the president, sent for Rustem Bey
and asked him to refrain from fur
ther comment on matters of domestic
concern to the United States and the
war in Europe. The ambassador has
not overstepped the bounds of pro-
priety since then.
1t was understood that the admin
istration was not disposed to make
an issue of the affair, and that it
would let the matter drop if Rustem
Bey preserved a discreet silence in
future. \ But the Rustem Bey inter-
view has been followed by other in
terviews by diplomats, and the ad-
ministration feels that it is necessary
to take more drastic action in order
to prevent repetition CT practice
that it believes in becoming alto
gether too common and is likely to
disturb the friendly relations of the
United States with other nations.
Another interesting development
was that the administration had de-
termined not to drop the case of Sir
Lionel Garden. British minister to
Mexico, who was quoted in New York
last week, as he was starting for Eng
land. in criticism of the action of the
United States in withdrawing its
armed forces from Vera Cruz.
Sir Lionel Garden is now on his
way to England. When he arrives
there he will be asked if the inter-
view attributed to him in New York
was authentic. Upon the answer he
gives will depend the course of the
United States with regard to the
statements he was reported to have
made in New York.
This interview was regarded as
particularly aggravating in view of
other comments on the attitude of
the United States in Mexico which
newspaper dispatches said had been
made by Sir Lionel Garden when he
was stationed in Mexico City. He
was transferred recently to Brazil as
minister, and is now on his way to
his post by way Of England.