Arizona republican., 1917-09-10
SWEDISH LEGATION INCIDENT RANKS SECOND ONLY TO THE
 FAMOUS ZIMMERMANN NOTE
Republican A. p. Leased Wire1


 Sweden's legation in Argentina
 acted as secret channel of com
 munication for Count Luxburg,
 German charge in Buenos Aires,
 and the Berlin foreign office, has
 created sensation which absorbs
 the diplomatic corps and all of-
 ficial quarters almost to the ex-
 clusion of all other subjects con-
 nected with the war.
 As revelation of the machina-
 tions of German diplomacy it takes
 rank secondly only to the celebrat-s
 ed Zimmerman note plotting war
 between the United States and
 Japan and Mexico.
 State department officials today
 continued their policy of absolute
 silence, but it was plain they de-
 plored any attempt to color the in
 cident as forecasting a diplomatic
 break between the United States
 and Sweden.
 No such development is even
 thought of at this juncture. At the
 present stage it is wholly matter
 between Argentina, Sweden and
 Germany, with the United States,
 her allies and the rest of the world
 how the most remarkable train of
 
 with by the three governments.
 Germany's probable action is more or less disciunted. Anxious to retain the friendship of thefe W nations which have not gone to war with her, it is expected that amends will be offered to Argentina for the German charges references to the foreign minister as a notorious ass' and his recommends tion that Argentina ships be destroyed without leaving any trace" This might take the form of Luxburg's re- call and repudiation of his action.
 How Argentine will receive the in- suit, coming colse on her diplomatic victory with Germany, and apply it to her determination not to join the Unit ed States in the war, or even to sever diplomatic relations, is the subject of a good deal of conjecture. Undoubtedly public opinion in Argentina will go far toward determining that point and there has not been time for it to crys- talize
 To Sweden, however, the United States and its allies as well, look for action which will purge the Swedish government and the Stockholm for | eign office of the stigma of knowingly | having been Germa1y's tool in her in l trigue. American officials would like to believe that Sweden officially dis countenances any such encroachments on her neutrality; that the guilt was personal to some particular officials or possibly that Sweden's legation was | imposed upon by Luxburg and sup l posed that at the worst it was lending the inviolability of it's diplomatic priv 1 ileges to an attempt to preserve peace rather than to accommodations that 1 Argentine ships and Seamen be de- | stroyed without leaving any trace" | Officials and diplomats entertain the possibility that he may have transmit ted Luxburg's dispatches without | knowing their exact contents, taking 1 the German charges word that they | were no breach of Sweden's obliga- | tions to Argentina They also enter tain the possibility that LuXburg, with a diplomacy of which the world has learned more since German secrets be 1 gan to leak out, may have told the Swedish legation one thing and writ ten another in his dispathes.
 Whatever becomes the accepted eN- planation, officials and diplomats here /, are unanimous in their belief tha1 Sweden must disavow any participa tion or responsibility and take appro- priate steps to show her good faith This may be difficult because of the internal situation in Sweden where thu upper circles are admittedly. pro- Ger man. because Sweden, militarily veal 1 nation, lies at the mercy of German, at her borders, and also becaus, | Sweden may wish to adopt one cours' | while Germany may wish her to talk another.
 It is thoroughly understood that il | Stockholm the pro-German classes art the court, the professors in the univer sities, the bankers, the officers of tn army and the journalists. The mos intense Germanophile is the queen who is a cousin of the kaiser, whil the king has little to say but in spit of contrary opinion at heart favors th | English. The government is. in tn main neutral, but the lavish bestowa of reward in the shape of orders ant decorations has won over certain of ficials to the German side.
 The existence of an active German propaganda in Sweden and Norwa. dates back before the beginning of tn war when the fear of Russia was use, with the Swedes to such an extent tha the great mass of thepeop le were pro German. In spite of the fact that tn propagandists redoubled their effort after war broke out and pointed t the fact that England and France wer arrayed with Swedens hereditary en emy, the sentiment changed gradual until, when there was no further fea of Russia, the mass of the people side with the allies.
 , Now Sweden is bound to maintai her neutrality, for it is almost univer } sally believed that Sweden would l, another Holstein in case German
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