The New York herald., 1922-07-02

George o. Squier, the brilliant head OF
the Signal Corps, who has contributed
so notably to the advancement OF his
arm of the service along scientific lines.
received from Dartmouth Sc. D., which
means a whole lot more. Somehow
Secretary Hughes seems to have avoided
the lightning this season-unless Ann
Arbor gave one to him when he went
out there recently and made COM
mencement address that the newspapers
all over the country heralded as wise
and brilliant commentary on interna-
tional relations.
The British Ambassador, himself a
college president before he was drafted
during the war. has been. perhaps. the
favorite target of honorary degrees.
Every college in the country pretty
nearly has fired one at him, and most
of them have hit the mark. He mas
spoken at college graduating exercises
In all parts of the country and may be
credited with bagging the first of the
season when he went out to California
In March to help Leland Stanford cele-
brate its thirty-fifth anniversary, and
got an LID. His last addition to his
string was from Brown University a
few days before he sailed. Baron Serge
Korff, one time Governor Of Finland
under the Kerensky Government in
Russia, and all the time son-in-law Of
Admiral and Mrs. William Van Reypen,
whose daughter Alletta he married some
fifteen years ago, also received Browns
degree.
Also, just before he sailed. Baron de
Cartier, the Belgian Ambassador, re-
ceived Columbia's LID, as did the
Chinese Minister, DR.. Alfred SEE. who
then journeyed to Toronto to gather in
another LID. from the University OF
Toronto before sailing for England to
bring home his three elder children, who
are at school there. DR.. SEE is himself
the product of American schools. He
attended Central High School In Wash
.ngton. his father being at the time at
tached to the legation here under WI
Ting-fang. who died the other day.
Later young SEE attended Cornell and
was graduated there.
Collected Many Degrees.
As for the French Ambassador, he
has probably>in the course of his nearly
twenty years of service In the United
States collected pretty nearly every
available degree. But just recently he
was the commencement orator at the
University of Chicago, he and Nine.
Jusserand travelling all the way out
there to attend the graduating exercises.
If he didn't get their degree 1t must
have been because they had already
given 1t TO him.
With the sailing of the British Ambas-
sador and Lady Geddes-and II was q
surprise to learn that she had gone, for
Washington had understood that she
would remain at York Harbor with the
children during her husbands brief abb
sence-the diplomatic European exodus
is complete except for the Jusserands.
The Jusserands are going. but they
don't know when. Usually they are off
by this time, but Nine. Jusserand says
that they have made no definite plan
and booked no passage. They are
waiting for counselor in whose hands
they can leave the embassy.
The French Embassy staff has been
short of secretaries of the higher grades
since the departure of the Prince de
Bearn last January. When he left he
seemed to expect to return, and when
on reaching France he found that he
was to be transferred, he was not at all
pleased. judging from letters to friends
at that time. For several months the
diplomatic list has carried the name Of
Mr. Louis Georges Robert de Courcel as
counselor of the embassy, and both he
and Nine. de Courcel have been listed
as absent" AS a matter of fact, M.
de Courcel has never been here, and IN
the interim he has been switched else
where.
Members of an embassy staff not not,
of course, have to present credentials to
the President, as their chief does, nor
are they formally received by him. So
that NJ. De Courcel could very easily
| ha nj ha OF har of
the French Embassy staff without hav-
ing personally arrived and qualified.
Arriving as second in command, he un-
doubtedly would have been duly pre-
sented to the Secretary of State by the
Ambassador, and in the event of the
Ambassadors absence from the country
he would have been designated as
Charge d'Afaires.
But as things stand. while the French
Embassy staff has military and naval
and air attaches, not to mention a very
well established commercial attache,
has neither counselor nor secretary of
the first rank In the regular diplomat.
service. And it Is not customary to
designate a second secretary. which Is
M. Jules Henry's grade, as Charge
d 'Afaires of an important embassy. Of
course, military and naval attaches are
not regularly in their country's diplo-
matte service, but are temporarily de-
tailed from other services as specialist
and are not regarded as eligible to take
charge OF the embassy. So the Am
bassador is held up in his vacation plans
until he knows that counselor is al
least on the way.
Entertains Fellow Countrymen.
! Meanwhile he is entertaining an oc.
casional fellow countryman of dstinc.
| tion,-General Gassouin a week or Sc
ago. and during tbs last week Com
mander Taufflieb who was in Washing
ton for a day or two. Commands
Taufflieb Is really now Senator Tauf
flieb.-an Alsatian who having served
France effectually during the war. re
turned after its close and has beer
elected to the French Senate. 1t is no
Commander Tauffliebs first visit I,
America. (His wife Is an American
woman. and they come over every one
in a while). but do not recall his hav
ing been officially entertained at tn
embassy before. Nine Taufflieb di,
not come to Washington with her hus
band, but remained in New York
1t also looks as II the French Am
bassador would be doing some enter
tanning shortly for the French financia
mission headed by M. Jean " Par
mentier which is sailing from Ffanc
to-day on board the Savoie. 1t shoul,
be here by the end of the week, Will
Its official business Is to confer wit
the War Debt Commission in the Unite,
States, relative to Frances obligations
II will undoubtedly be cordially wei
coined and Will be the center of a littl
social furry. involving the Frencl
embassy and American officials.
| Then the British also are expectin,