Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-11-09
DIPLOMATS CROWD
TIE CAPITAL CITY
MORE REPRESENTATIVE FOR
EIGNERS IN WASHINGTON
NOW THAN EVER BEFORE.
ALL BUSY ON TASKS OF WAR
Gorgeous Dress Of Peace Days Is
Abandoned by Them-British Mill
tary Attaches Always ceIts-Russian
Embassy List the Longest.
BY GEORGE CLINTON.

BY GEORGE CLINTON.
Washington.-Was has more
representative foreigners in it today
than ever before. Some sections of
the city, as the slangy might say,
listen" like babble of tongues. Dip
lOmats and soldiers and sailors from
foreign parts are here in legion and
every one of them has a set work
to do.
Every month the state department
issues diplomatic list. 1t is a mod
est appearing pamphlet printed in
light blue with the seal of the United
States on the cover. The booklet is
waxing fatter month by month. Where
once half page was enough to carry
the names of the diplomats attached
to the biggest embassy, two pages now
are necessary. Some of the most dis
tinguished men known to government
work in Europe are today in Wash
1ngton laboring in behalf of the war
cause Of democracy.
The dean of the diplomatic corps is
]. J. Jusserand, ambassador extraor-
binary and plenipotentiary of the re-
public of France to the United States.
Jusserand has been in the United
States as the French ambassador for
IA years. He has written widely on
American subjects as they appeal to
, this country has made Ambassador
Jusserand feel that he is not altogeth-
er foreigner.
Sir Cecil Arthur Spring Rice is
Great Britain's ambassador extraor-
binary and plenipotentiary. He has
been here only four years, but they
have been four years Of stress. His
staff at the outset, like that of the
French ambassador was limited in the
number of its members. Today both
the French and the British embassies
are alive with men and "doings."
When one attends an official diplO-
matte reception in the days of peace
and sees there the ambassadors of the
different countries, he gets an idea
that the chief diplomats are bedizened
persons and this idea is so firmly fixed
in his mind by the resplendence of uni
form that he probably will fail utter
ly to recognize the same diplomats
when he~meets them in civilian dress
on the street. The ambassadors of all
the countries are noted for their ex-
IRENE simplicity of attire when in
civilian garb. Perhaps 1t should not
be said, but some of them are almost
shabby.
Dress in Keeping With the Times.
There is a reason FOR extreme SIM
plicity of dress in wartime. In fact all
of the ambassadors of foreign coun-
tries who are now serving in Washing
ton wear old clothes and do 1t pur-
posely. There are hardships at home
and It is known definitely that in
France and England families of high
social position have given over every
appearance of wealth and have abso-
lutely foregone so-called full dress at
order that their "habiliment" may be
in keeping with the wartime situation
Of stress and anxiety.
Brig. Gen. J. d. McLachlan has just
reported to the British embassy as
military attache to succeed Lieut.. Col.
Murrough O'Brien. With General Nc
Lachlan has come Lieut.. Col. A. G.
Murray to act as assistant military at
tache.
In the names given there viii be
exemplification Of what seems to be a
curious rule of the British foreign Of
flee. Every military attache who has
been sent to Washington for years has
been a Celt. Very rarely is it that
the English army officer is sent here
in military capacity. The soldiers at
the embassy have been either Scotch
men, Irisnmen or Welshmen. Just
why this is the case nobody seems to
know, but it is apparently the rule for
it would seem that the long succession
through the years of Celtic names can
not be the result of accident.
The Russian embassy is the biggest
one In Washington. 1t has just been
augmented by the arrival of at least
a dozen rev representatives who have
as delegates of the new republic to
the older American republic 1t is
curious that the Russian ambassador
now representing the newborn democ-
racy bears the same name, Bakhmetef9
as his predecessor who represented the
autocracy of the car.
American Bravery Knows No Section.
The first of Uncle Sans sailor boys
to be killed in this war while actually
serving on man-of-war was Osmond
K. Ingram, native of Alabama, an en-
trant into the service from that state.
Some one semi jocosely has said that
this is an Alabama war.
1t simply has happened that three
high ranking officers of the United
States army are from the state of Ala
bama. One of them is Maj. Gen. Will
liam G. Gorgas, who is the surgeon