Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-18

pacity for absorbing knowledge ana m
formation, working in combination with
a personality wholly charming. ana with
a gift of clarity of language most IN
usual and you have count Won befh
storff.
Mentally agile, he is physically the
same. Straight slender, supple, he has
the figure and bearing of subal'ern
army officer-which he was. The trim,
blonde, military mustache, the lght-blue
saxon eyes, the fair hair, proclaim the
German.
OF the bluest blood in the empire, an
aristocrat by birth and breeding, ne mas
that simple and unaffected manner SO
often described as democratic AS ne
has declared the German government 10
he a vast business corporation, SO ne re-
CARDS himself as the business representa-
tive of that corpora ton.
The world policy of the German EN-
pire is purely commercial he has said,
and without any territorial ambitions or
deep-seated designs against other slaLes
and the existing balance Of power III the
world.
As his ancestors, with intensity of puT-
pose that is historic, served their SOW
ereigns as soldiers and statesmen, eager
Y, whole heartedly, SO he is intent on serV-
ng the kaiser in this new KIND OF
diplomacy. working under ruler VINO
has been described as Europe's first bust
ness man.
No exponent of modern efficiency sys-
TENS can teach him anything. Count Won
Bernstorff is efficiency PERSONNEL Note
the lines in his face-the only evidence
that he has put youth eh.nd h1m-and
you will read the record of hard work
done.
From his small circle of truly Intimate
friends and advisers thu kaiser chose
Count Won Bernstorf to be ambassador
to this republic. The kaiser knew the
intensely interested in this coun -ry-in
its growth. development. politics ana
virile life, in the effect the working-out
of American ideals VIII nave on the
world 1t is a friendly interest. and so
the kaiser selected man near to MIN
and thinking much with him TO De MS
representative here.
Count Won Bernstorm was born and
Graded in an embassy. Carlton House.
London, was his birthplace HIS father.
Count Albrecht, former minlster OF a, LOT
eign affairs of Prussia. then was filling
the post of Prussan ambassador at the
court of St James This was in ls62
Count Johann received his early educa-
ton at Dresden an1 at R.tA ,ufs capi.
tai of the little INDEPENDENTLY of
like name. Being a younser son and not
entitled to succession in the enta1ied
family estate, he chose the army for his
profession, and, when nineteen years OLD.
became an officer of the artillery guards
In Berlin, where he formed a friendship
with the present kaiser.
Oddly enough, this highly educated and
cultured ambassador. upon whom ten
American universities have conferred de-
grees Is not a graduate of any univer-
sity Of his native land. His army career
prevented the completion of his univer-
sity education in youth, and when. in
1859, he left the army he had passed be
yond the age beyond which student
may not matriculate in Germany. Never,
theless, he completed his educational
work by attending lectures at the Uni
yersity of Berlin, though not permitted,
by reasons Of age to take degree.
In 1889 Count voa Bernstorff was sent
as military attache Of the embassy al
Constantinople, where he remained for