New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-07
DEMAND PROMPT
ACTION ON DUVIBA
Editors Declare Breach Of
Diplomatic Etiquette
Calls for Passports.
The Times.

Ambassador Dumba's deplorable
breach of diplomatic etiquette, to des-
ignate il in no harsher way, over
shadows all other incidents of the hour,
as official action in regard to 1t must
be prompt and definite. A little refiec-
ton should convince the Ambassador
that he has done his countrymen in the
United States a very i'll service In
recommending to his government that
il employ money to call them. away
from their occupations.
In the whole history of our relations
with foreign countries there has never
been another diplomatic representative
at our national capital who has in such
an open and unabashed way taken
measures TO make himself altogether
unacceptable. Ambassador Dumba is
guilty of a direct and grossly improper
Interference in our domestic affairs.
The Vienna government should at once
see the necessity OF a change IN its
representation at Washington.
The World.
August - the United States Govern
ment sent its reply TO the Austro-
Hungarian protest against the traihc IN
munitions OF war. Eight days later,
DR.. Dumba, the Austro- Hungarian Am
bassador, wrote the memorandum to his
Minister of Foreign Affairs asking for
money for a campaign against Amerl-
can industry in which 1--WE can disor-
ganizo and hold up for months the
manufacture of munitions in Bethlehem
and the Middle West" This IS the
memorandum that was sent by the
faithless American messenger Archibald
and confscated by the British Govern
ment. " When the United States
government refused TO prohibit the
manufacture of arms, Dr. Dumba un-
dertooA to do it himself. That was
his answer to the American note. E.
Passports are the proper answer TO
Dr. Dumba's note to the Austro-
/ Hungarian Minister Of Foreign Affairs.
e.. To give him his passports will
be formal notice to Berlin and
Vienna that this propaganda must
cease Appeals to Teutonic com
mon sense and courtesy have proved
futile. Exposure has brought no ces-
sation of hostile activity. The last
word is now with the government Of
/ the United States. To permit DR..
Dumba to remain here is to condone
all the offences against the American
people and the American government
that this propaganda has instigated.
The Sun.
Apart from the propriety Of Ambas-
sador Dumbas proposed campaign TO
withdraw his fellow countrymen from
American factories having contracts 10
supply munitions of war 10 the enc
mics Of Austria. his plan suggests a
question of immediats Importance to
Americans.
We're the United States TO engage in
war. would it be possible for its en-
envy, or powers in sympathy with that
enemy. 20 demoralize even temporarily
the industrial plants on which we
should depend for ammunition by in
ducing workingmen to quit their
benches? Or could a system of sabot-
age, directed by aliens. be established
under which imperfect and undependa-
bic products might be served TO our
/ fighting forces?
The Herald.
Il is with sincere regret that all true
Americans realize that relations of the
United States with both Germany and
Austria Hungary are racing TO a crisis.
If the Austrian Ambassador is not given
his passport the United States will be
in the position of man who, being
/ unproyokedly slapped on one cheek, re-
, peatedly turns the other. So much for
1 DR.. Dumba. II is impossible TO see
how he can continue at his post.
As for Count Won BernstorT, his boot
heels appear to be holding in the same
kind Of slippery mud. Forbearance now
ceases 10 be virtue. Is the United
States TO be regarded as puerile, in
feriOr, pusillanimous country that can
be insultod one day and cajoed the
next; lied to one day and patronized
F the next; treated alternately as a phys
zeal coward and Il mental incompetent
among nations?