Evening star., 1936-08-09
WORLDS ACE DIPLOMATS
MAKE WASHINGTON MECCA
Americas Growing Prestige Reflected
i'm Men Picked Abroad to Fill u. S.
Diplomatic Posts.

rank Oh MINISTER ana served at Paris
in 1920 and 1921, and then was trans
ferred to the foreign Office as under
secretary from 1921 to 1924, after
which he served as British representa-
tive at Constantinople in 1924-25,
rising to the rank of Ambassador in
the latter year. He was the British
Ambassador at Berlin from 1926 to
1928, and permanent undersecretary
of state of the foreign Office from
1928 to 1880, before coming to Wash
ington.
JusSerand's Tenure Longest.
Only the Peruvian Ambassador ap-
proaches Sir Ronald closely in length
of service in Washington, having pre-.
Sented his credentials exactly four
months after the Briton took over his
post. The longest tenure of the posi-
ton Of dean, which is determined by
such seniority, remains with the late
Jules Jusserand, the colorful and
widely acclaimed war time Ambassa-
dor of France, who was succeeded by
the poet, Paul Claudel, and later by
the present Ambassador, Andre Le-
febre de Laboulaye
The latter, with 35 years of diplo-
matte service to his credit. came here
in 1888 when the war debt situation
was an acute problem in the light
OF the change in American admins
trations. A carefully groomed man,
looking much younger than his 60
years, he had known President Roose-
velt here when he was secretary of
the Embassy-for a time Charge
d'Affaires-and the latter was As
ststant Secretary of the Navy.
Most conspicuous among the Am
bassadors now assigned to Washing
ton, who use the social method of
meeting many Americans personally
with view to promoting mutual un-
derstanding and friendships and ad-
vancing cultural and economic rela-
tions, are Alexander A. Troyanovsky,
first Ambassador of the Union of
Soviet Socialist Republics, and DR..
Hans Luther of Germany.
Had Adventurous Career.
A small, Swarthy man with dark
eyes. bushy black eyebrows, high
brushed hair and jovial laugh, Am
bassador Troyanovsky. at 81, has be-
hind him perhaps the most adven-
turous career of any member of the
diplomatic corps in Washington. Born
at Tula, the metallurgical center of
Russia, he was educated in the mill
tary academy and the physio-mathe-
matical school at Kiev University.
He joined the revolutionary move
ment in 1902 and became member
Of the Social Democratic party in
1904. His feeling against the Czarist
regime was deepened by experiences
as an artillery lieutenant during the
Russo-Japanese War.
Exiled to Siberia for his revolu-
tionary activities in 1909, he escaped
and made his way to France in 1910
and stayed there for seven years,
until the Romanoff dynasty collapsed.
In that period he established liaison
between Lenin, there, and the boil
shevist organization in Russia. where
Stain was one of the leaders, and
participated with the first and pres
ent Russian bolshevist dictators in
the secret conference which was held
at Krakow in 1912. He differed with
Lenin on several occasions, their
chief breach coming when he fought
for a democratic peace for all the
belligerents of the World War in
stead of a separate peace with Ger
many. He went into the Menshevist
camp when Lenin. Trotsky and Stain
all were opposing Kerensky, joining
the latters forces against Germany
as an officer. He also argued against
some of Lenin leadership's principles
in the short-lived Constituent As
sembly, and was arrested by the boil
shevists in 1918.
Brought Back Into Fold.
II was Stain who brought him
back into the fold after an accidental
meeting in 1922, when a new eco
nomic policy was in the making, and
his contributions to the Soviet or
ganiZation which followed were
ranked with those of Lenin, who
adopted almost verbatim his proposal
for an agreement with the peasants.
Afterward he was made chief of the
state trading corporation, a director
of the commisariat and foreign COM
merce, and, when relations with
Japan were strained in 1928 over
events in China, was sent as Ambas-
sador to Toxic, where he served dur
ing the Manchurian Railway crisis and
managed to adjust disputes over
fisheries in Siberian waters.
He resigned as Ambassador to
Japan in 1888, but was sent to Wash
ington in 1884, soon after diplomatic
relations were re-established between
the two governments.
DR.. Luther, who preceded the Com
munist governments representative to
Washington by almost 18 months,
has, like him, faced a difficult sit
uation because he also represented a
form of government which, although
differing sharply in fundamental
philosophy, has many critics and op-
ponents in this country. A public
official whose career was distinguished
by successful insistence on economies,
he was chancellor in German gov
ernments in 1925 and again in 1926.
He has been widely in demand for
addresses at German centers and else
where in the United States and has
maintained a longtime tradition of
frequent hospitality in the embassy
here.
The importance which the present
Japanese government attaches to the
Washington point of view, presumably
because of the emphasis it has placed
on its fight for naval equality with
Great Britain and the United States,
was demonstrated in its promotion to
this post of Hiroshi Saito from rank
Of Minister to The Netherlands over
large number of his seniors in the
foreign service.
A small man, speaking fluent Eng
lish with a clear voice, cordial, hos
pitable, at once frank and subtle. he
is the youngest Ambassador ever sent
to the United States by Japan, being
now orlly midway in his 5Oth wear.