The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1915-09-24
DISMISSAL OF THE AUSTRIAN AM
BASSADOR

DISMISSAL OF THE AUSTRIAN AM
BASSADOR
More than a rebuke to an indiscreet
dipiomatist is discerned by our press
in President Wilson'S request for the
recall of DR.. Constantin Dumba, Aus
tro-Hungarian ambassador at Wash-
ington, because of his conspiracy to
instigate strikes in American NUM-
ton plants. Through the general cho-
rus of editorial praise for the Presi-
| dents action runs also the suggestion
| that the incident has wider signifi-
canoe than appears on the surface.
Thus the Chicago Herald, noting that
Washington by plotting to destroy
our industrial peace" and by seeking
to transfer the European War to our
neutral land" remarks that his case
should convey lesson ito all and di-
yers gentlemen in Washington who
are here on sufferance." The Incl.
uClA says lIC bdLtiAlOAS 1AiACA ANdAy
SHOULD prove salutary warning to
other foreign representatives who
have been Just as active, but so far
have been shrewd enough to prevent
a full exposure of their acts" Let
other diplomats who have been "en-
deavoring to NEEDLE in our internal
affairs" take heed, admonishes the
Pittsburg Gazette-Times, and the same
| warning is sounded in varying ac-
cents by the St Louis Globe Democrat,
Philadelphia Record, and many other
papers Reminding us that the Lusi-
tania. Arabic and Hesperian cases are
still pending between this country and
Germany, the New York Tribune re-
marks:
| Words of argument, of remon-
STRANGE, have hitherto failed to obtain
from that country's representatives
anything but vague and indefinite
assurance that hereafter the rights of
our citizens shall be respected 1t is
not too much to hope that the dismiss
sal of Dumba may carry to Germany
the pointed assurance, as only deeds
! can, that the United States is deter
mined to make its rights respected"
The penitentiary sentence of Stahl,
the self-confessed perjurer who swore
he saw guns on the Lusitania and the
demand for the recall of DR.. Duntba,
says the New York Times, serve no
tice ito Austrians, Germans and Ger
man-Americans" that "the cure for
this plague of conspiracies is in our
hands and We are going to apply it.
And in the Washington correspond
ence of the same paper we read:
1.-THE dismissal of DR.. Dumba, for
that is what it amounts to, has Great
ed sensation in Washington But
diplomats and other interested obser-
vers are wondering whether or not a
greater sensation is in store as an out
growth of the Dumba case. Specula-
ton in this connection is based on the
statement in Secretary Lansing's in
structions to Ambassador Penfield
that Dr. Dumba was guilty of a fla
grant violation Of diplomatic propri-
ETY. in employing an American citizen
protected by an American passport
as secret bearer Of official dispatches
through the lines of the enemy OF
Austria-Hungary.' Archibald, the Sc
cret dispatch bearer, also carried &
copy of a communication addressed tt
the state department by Count yor
Bernsdorff, the German ambassador
to the United States"
Even the German American New
Yorker Herold confesses that 'Dr
Dumba invited the fate that befel
him." but 1t qualities this admission
with the following comment:
'The pro-British newspapers, embit
tered by the defeats the Teutoni
allies are inflicting on their adversar
les, seized upon this letter as vel
come basis for a new campaign Of ha
tired. and the President had to yielt