Show PRESIDENT PRIEN laND AND DIPLOMATS Mr 1512 Ir Roosevelt Rosevelt Inclined to Keep Them Thern Within International Usage Post Washington Pot President advent to DOW pow power DOWer DOWer er is regarded with wih a a certain amount am of misgiving by the foreign diplomatic corps at Washington as there th re seems seem to be a disposition to credit him wl the determination ton to curtail a a number numb r of the prerogatives social and other otherwise ther wise which toe members of the various foreign missions in itt the national capital have usurped Usurped is the only word that can cn be used in this connection for the dip diplomats diplomat diplomats lomat accredited to the United States assume privileges which they would not venture nur to adopt in any any European capital While It I is I perfect perfectly ly true tre that according to the usage among civilized nations naton and Intern international donal law they enjoy immunity from the te Jurisdiction of the tribunals of the I country in which they the are stationed and are likewise exempt from taxation yet et it must be understood that they are subject to the directions of or the executive live tive tye to whom hom they are accredited In monarchial monarchist countries such as a England Germany Austria Austra and Russia R the for foreign foreign foreign eign envoys their wives and the mem members member hers bers ber of ot their staff stat are regarded as a forming part dud and nd parcel of ot the court of the sovereign in whose capital they are stationed They hey are subject to all al the regulations r and rules of or the te court courtIn In question queston and likewise to any new decrees d rees that the monarch may see fit ft to issue Thus when King Edward or orders orders ders court mourning for lor any foreign ruler or for any a ny one of of his hiM relatives till all the foreign diplomats stationed in London are obliged to go 0 into mourning as well weir wel no matter mater whether Wether their own sovereign is affected by King Edwards Edw bereavement b or not and it Is King Krag I Edward too who determines all al ques questions tons of diplomatic precedence in his empire J the early part of the reign reig of the te late Queen Victoria not merely ambassadors but likewise mere ministers plenipotentiary put forward claims to precedence over dukes The queen however at once put her foot down and commanded that foreign ministers plenipotentiary should yield the pas ps to British dukes on all aU oc casio and some time afterward when the foreign diplomats put for ford w nd jd d pretensions with regard to the official of Ucla 1 status of daughters of Ambas Ambassadors and envoys claiming for them the prerogatives of ambassadors in incases Incases Incases cases where Hie they were either mother motherless motherless motherless less or else when temporarily occupy occupying occupyIng occupying ing the place of or their mothers her majesty intimated that she she would not ot permit anything of or the kind President Roosevelt Roosevel doubtless will wil keep in mind that he is master in the national capital at any rate as far as the foreign diplomats are ar concerned that as a president of this thi republic he be stands toward them in the same rela rota relation rotation tion ton as any an European monarch to whose court they might be accredited and that they are subject to his con control control trot and direction in alt all questions of C etiquette precedence and social as well wel as official intercourse Former Forer presidents have have with a good goodnature goodnature nature which doubtless verged on weakness allowed the foreign diplo diplomats diplomats mats at Washington to do pretty much muchas mucha I as a they pleased to affect th the airs of a caste altogether apart and superior to the remainder of or society in the nation national naton al capital and to usurp all al kinds of ot I extraordinary prerogatives President Roosevelt Roosevel will wiil wil only be doing what is right and within his power if J he sets In order and exercises a a little whole wholesome wholesome wholesome I some discipline over that of his official diplomatic circle corps which is known kown as the |