Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 253, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1914 — NEVER SPEAK AS THEY PASS [ARTICLE]

NEVER SPEAK AS THEY PASS

•overal European Diplomata Are Now Giving Ono Another the Frozen Stare. Several European diplomata in Washington, who have long been close friends, are now giving one another the frozen stare as they meet or pass each other on the street This situation is due to the fact that diplomatic representatives of the powers at war are not permitted to have

the slightest relations and are supposed to meet as strangers. A number of social ties in the national capital have been broken by the European conflict, as the diplomats concerned in the war are religiously adhering to the custom of not recognizing, even in a personal way, the representative of the country with which their own power is at war. Rather embarrassing situations have occurred at the department of state since hostilities began, but on the regular diplomatic day, several diplo-

mats were forced to apparently snub their close personal friends representing “the enemy.” It is related that during the RussoJapanese war the ambassadors from Russia and Japan had a way of bowing in a perfunctory manner, but never exchanging a single word.