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Career. Baron von Maltzan began his diplomatic career in Rio de Janeiro. He soon won promotion and he was transferred to the embassy at St. Petersburg (now Leningrad). In 1912 he was made counselor of legation in Peking and was charge d'affaires there when the War broke out. He worked hard to prevent Japan from entering the conflict, even going so far as to offer Tokyo the cession of Tsingtao on his own responsibility; the Berlin government, however, refused to sanction the step. Virtually isolated by the Allies, all his messages subject to censorship, his next dilemma...
Proud of his master, King Al fonso, the Ambassador waxed indignant in answering the charges that his monarch had become the "slave of a dictator [Primo de Rivera]." Wrote...
...Excellency Alfonso, Marques de Merry del Val,* Spanish Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, Chamberlain to King Alfonso of Spain, irate, took up his pen, wrote to the Sphere, London illustrated weekly, denied that Spain is decadent; answered an "arrant tissue of airy inventions" made previously in that periodical by one Mme. Bordeux on behalf of Vincente Blasco Ibanez, "notorious" Spanish novelist...
...Marques de Merry del Val, white-haired and aristocratic, took umbrage at certain statements made by the "disreputable politician and brilliant novelist," one of which was that: "Spain is exactly as it has been for over three years, there is no outward change of any kind . . . it deteriorates." Penning beneath the sun at San Sebastian, popular Spanish watering place where he was spending a vacation from his diplomatic duties (he has been Ambassador in London since 1913), he wrote the following list of changes that had been effected since 1923, year of the Primo de Rivera revolution (TIME, Sept...
...petty professors from the grammar schools, all the Ministerial posts are filled by generals." To this assertion the Ambassador countered by giving a complete list of the present Cabinet with the origin and profession of each member. Snappishly he concluded: "Total, nine Ministers, of whom three are generals [Primo de Rivera, Duke of Tetuan, Martinez Anido], and no one of them is a professor from the grammar schools...