Show iCK YOUTH IN DIPLOMATIC RANKS und hal English Ambassadors at Present All lit I Comparatively Young e A very noticeable feature In the diplomatic world is the way In which ver 1 I younger men are superseding the older diplomatists who ruled the roost I The a generation ago Seniority Is not rSc now the main cause of promotion to le the higher posts and the fact Is much cab resented by those who find themselves iln them-selves passed over or shelved An examination hot ex-amination of tho ages of our Ambo ° i test Bailors will show that Sir Francis Bertie France has nine more yeirif os end of utility before ho will bo oullgfrf yon the rules of tho service to retire Br ck Edwin Egerton Italy six Sir Edward le d Ed-ward Goschen Austria about sU uhit teen Sir Francis Lascelles Germany it Ger-many eight Sir Mortimer Durand Iih United States fifteen Sir Nicholas st Ask OConor Turkey eight Sir Arthur re Nicolson Spain fourteen and Sir Charles Hnrdlnge at the Important post of St Petersburg no less than in D twentythree years Vanity Fair I Th |