Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1912 — Decay of Diplomacy. [ARTICLE]

Decay of Diplomacy.

s Diplomacy to not a career which encourages the growth of a strong personality. The diplomatist to necessarily the tool of other men. Wandering front capital to capital, he to the month piece of successive ministers, to whose divergent policies he must adapt himself with the good grace that leads to swift promotion. If he develops decided views of hie own, or allows himself to cultivate embarrassing sympathies, he to apt to to marked as a dangerous and uncomfortable subordinate. for whom there, will presently yawn some Bbscure and distant hole In a South American legation. The great ambassadors lived In the days when no telegraph had yet been invented to make bureaucracy omnipresent. It wants only.. some further perfgltton of the long-distance telephone to abolish tbe diplomatist altogether.— London Athenaeum.