The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-04-24

Bad Days For
Ambassadors

VXTORD from Corstantinople via ABetne,op
wv Saturday announced the decision Of the
Sublime Porte to sever diplomatic relations with
the United States. the news causing hardly rip
pie OF excitement In these, DAYS. the sending
home Of an ambassador and the recall Of others has
become almost . commonplace, being only aggra-
waited in this particular case Of Turkey II the re
ports be officially confirmed by the fact that the
American ambassador in Constantinople il seri-
ously iii with typhus fever.
The United States has sent a number OF min
listers and ambassadors away from Washington.
ten in all up to the time Won Bernstorff was in
vited to take his hat.
Thomas Jefferson when secretary Of state under
Washington, asked the recall OF Genet, the French
ambassador, in 1898, for making inHammatory
speeches and for trying to commission privateers
here to prey on British commerce
James Madison, when secretary Of state under
jefferson in 1905, handed the Marquis Of Casa
Trujo, the Spanish minister, his passports for at
tempting to bride Philadelphia editor to favor
Spain in controversy with the United States
Robert Smith, when secretary OF state under
Madison in 1909, procured the recall Of the British
minister F. ]. Jackson, for circularizing British
consus accusing the American government Of bad
faith
Then we had an interval Of forty years without
there being occasion to request the recall Of for
eign minister
In 184o when General Taylorwas President, M.
Poussin, the French minister. was recalled be-
cause Of insolence to Secretary Of State John M.
Clayton. fsst
n In 1855, when Franklin Pierce was President,
Secretary Guthrie obtained the recall Of the British
Minister CHAMPION for enlisting soldiers for the
Crmean war. 49,
The next dismissal Of foreign minister oc-
CURED thirty three years afterward, when in 1885,
James G. Blaine handed Lord Saclsville West his
passports for advising American citizens Of Brit
ish birth to vote for Grover Cleveland for Presi-
dent
In 1893 the Spanish minister, Dupuy de LONE,
wrote disrespectfully Of President Mckinley to, a
friend in Cuba, for which offense Secretary Hay
obtained his recall.
During President Taft's term Secretary Knox
handed his passports to Rodriguez, the Nicara-
guam minister, as a protest against the judicial
murder Of two Americans in Nicaragua.
I'm 1913 Secretary Bryan did not exactly procure
the recallof Rustem Bey, the Turkish ambassador,
for unkind criticisms Of the United States, but he
induced the Sultan to give Rustem Bey "leave Of
absence and he left in October 1914, and has
never since returned.
The recall Of the Austrian Ambassador, Doctor
Dumba. was requested by Secretary Lansing in
1915 as result Of his attempts to cripple Ameri-
can industries.
Just why Won Bernstorf was sent packing is
recent history, but not 50 much was known Of the
Vaccinations Of the German embassy even then
as now. 1t was not known, for instance; that the
highly virtuous envoy was attempting to stir up
a war against the United States by Mexico and
Japan atsthe same time shrieking out his earnest
desire that the historic friendship between our
country and his would not be disturbed.