Show NATIONS SLAP TAFTS TARS PEACE new york dec 30 american diplomacy received one of the hardest blows in its history when the ambassadors bass adors of every one of the great i powers after having accepted lavi invitations to be present at the peace dinner arranged in honor of president taft and arid his suggested arbitration treaties now held up in the senate declined to honor the occasion A by their presence the snub was unmistakable at 1 noon today tho the leaders of the diplomatic corps at washington were on record as having accepted invitations to sit at the guest tables despite the fact that colonel roosevelt has assailed the motives of the dinner promoters and that the committee was divided against itself it was hoped that the presence of the diplomatic corps would demonstrate that there was absolutely no political motive back of the dinner and that the world in general was in sympathy with the taft project to advance universal peace this hope was shor short t lived shortly before the time set for the dinner the committee was deluged with telegrams and alid special delivery letters and when all bad had assembled it was found that only the japanese charge daf faires hon H E masanao Han lian ihara and a few minor representatives senta tives of diplo diplomatic matie washington were on hand and in many instances stances the guests who did not come plainly stated in their regrets that they had been ordered not to attend by their respective governments the first tint to anno announce mice that ho he could not come rua L the russian ambassador bas bam isador M george who badly stated thai that because this government had seen fit to abrogate the russian american treaty he had been forbidden by the czar to appear at the function i next came the italian ambassador and then tho the turkish five tive each pointed out thai that hie his government had called his nt to the fact that it would be to say the least incongruous for him to attend a peace banquet when hie his countrymen were actually engaged in war the ambassador from brazil aleo also explained baat he had been forbidden by his government to attend mt ua of the other diplomats sent word that thy would not be able to come but failed to elaborate on the reason the ambassadors who failed to attend were senior don gilberto crespo Y martinez mexico hon zia pacha turkey hon george senor do ingo iagoda da gama brazil X J J ju merand france right hon ron james bryce 0 X great britain aunt count J IL von bernstorff germany in addition most of the ministers and charges daf faires falm of the washington diplomatic diplo matio set sent regards the reg regular monthly meeting of the officers of carbon stake will be bl held saturday night of this week at tre tte stake house the hour of meeting is it is hoped that all members will be present in all there iro are sixty eight officers of the stake all but abent a dozen of whom reside in price ward |