Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-11-05
PRESS men ANXIOUS
Foreign Correspondents in Wash
ington Worried.
Being Able, Scholarly and Well Liked,
Their American Colleagues Re.
frain From Hurting Their
Sensibiiities.
BY 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 q
first-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 a native Their ~anxieties are
increased by the difficulties which they
have in communicating to their jour-
mails the Washington view Of the wal
abroad.
1t is unqpestionably true, for one
sees it and must know 1t, 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. 1t 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
liked, and admired for their ability
and their scholarship; for the foreign
newspaper men for the mos. part real
~ are scholars in the best sense OF
the term. ay.
One Of the greatest newspapers In
all Germany is represented IN WASH
ington by a native German correspond.
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 nails today
reaching German ports.
Doctor Barthelme might be thought
In a way to be a 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 vas at grips.
The Washington correspondent OF
the great London Tines Is Arthur
Willert, a graduate Of Oxford md q
man who has served his newspaper in
various capitals Of Europe. Wil.ert's
lines Of communication with his news.
paper are not as open as they we're.
but he is not handicapped to anything
like the extent Of his German journal.
fstF brother.
War between the countries OF 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 ON.
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 It is
possible for ;nyone to get, and they
interpret it according to their judo.
ment for the benefit ot their readers.
Seemingly the sympathies Of most
American correspondents In this war
are all one way, but. they do not per.
nit themselves to give open expres-
Aion OF their views 10 the prssarNcA ~
the foreign c0rFespOndsnts whaS&
sssnsibilities might be Injured.