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Seventysix, Sir Edward was a diplomatist of the old school. In 1869 he entered the diplomatic service and in the 45 years between 1869 and 1914 he held posts at Madrid, Buenos Aires, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Constantinople, Peking, Copenhagen, Lisbon, Petrograd, Washington, Belgrade, Vienna, Berlin...
...latter capital that the veteran diplomatist tacked fame to his flagstaff. He asked Herr von Jagow, German Foreign Minister in 1914, whether Germany would refrain from violating Belgium's neutrality...
...those with whom they are transacting business, for the conduct of our international relations. College, or rather University training, while not absolutely necessary for one who intends to enter diplomacy, is extremely advantageous, and almost indispensable for the reason that one of the first requisites for a successful diplomatist is to understand human nature, and to be able to deal with men. There is no better way that I know of for acquiring that faculty for young men, than daily personal contact with their fellow creatures in college, and the gradual realization thereby of the different methods of approach which...
...interviewed M. Venizelos they found him walking up and down deep in thought. He was pressed for information and consented finally to say: "I can only confirm all that has been said by my honorable colleague, M. Pashitch, with whom I am in complete agreement." He is a born diplomatist and one of the finest revolver shots in Europe to boot...
Described as " clinging shakily to his position," Herr Gustav Stresemann, German Chancellor, was reported to be coquetting with the idea of strengthening his dictatorship by inviting the wily old diplomatist and former Imperial Chancellor Prince von BÜlow* to accept an important position. General von Seeckt, who commands the entire Reichswehr, would be the strongest man in the directorate, which, besides von Billow, would include such men as Admiral von Vintze and the noted diplomatist von KÜhlmann, and, of course, Herr Stresemann. Thus Germany would virtually be under the same rulers as before the War, minus...