Show Kelloggs Kellogg's Job Includes Cop of Diplomatic tic Cors Corps Corps' By W. W J. J LOSH 1 United Unite Press Pre Staff Staf Correspondent WASHINGTON July 4 UP UP- UP UP-I UP Secretary or State Kellogg Kelogg already h has s found that among his manifold I duties dutes not the least Is acting as d special policeman for the diplomatic corps Under traditional diplomatic usages and the rights of extraterritoriality extra ter ter enjo enjoyed ed by all al foreign diplomatic staffs local police are arl I forbidden to lay lar hands on these emissaries of foreign powers power They may shoot up up and down the broad highways of Washington in their sleek motor cars or flivvers for some use them thel at sixt sixty miles mies an hour beat up cops In sidewalk brawls brals It has been done tote liquor around the streets If it thc they choose and do most anything that would land n an ordinary American citizen In jaiL Jan To the te credit of the vast majority be it i said sid that such Incidents apart from speeding are ery very rare On the whole the corps Is well wel behaved beh Considering that the secretaries and attaches are usually young bloods of fine families unaccustomed to prohibition or other restraints of ot democracies the restraint the they dis dis- dis play Is in t th cit tb-cit if lt favor faor according to those who live lve beside them I SOMETIMES TOO FLAGRANT But now and then the occasion arises when their breach of American Amen Ameri can law and order Is too flagrant to pass b by The police arc are stopped from front taking matters In Ts n their own hands but they have one ne ne recourse reporting recourse reporting the trouble to the state department Here Hero Is where the secretary of Mr Ir In state state now now Kellogg Kellogg comes comes Kelogg-comes comes He must drop his ponderous diplomatic diplomatic diplo diplo- matic burdens and weighty weight a affairs hirs of ot state to notify Ambassador or So and So that one of his staff has fractured some American liw hw un alit will the ambassador please caution ulon the member that such occurrences are no not pleasing to the American government Kellogg Kelogg has had three notable op opportunities opportunities op- op to act as diplomatic policeman po po- po- po already In his short term The first instance was short shortly after he took office olle A. A young oung South American diplomat J plentifully tUP- tUP up t-up- piled with liquor dropped into an night al-night night all lunch room for a sand sand- He got no noisy sy and the proprietor proprietor pro pro- called cled a policeman When tn the minion of the law arrived the diplomat offered him hima a drink drink Upon the officers officer's refusal the diplomat trl tried d to get him to eat an egg egg sandwich sandwick sand santI- wick and polite pole falling failIng he tried to to crowd the sandwich down the patrolman's throat In the ensuing fracas much furniture I Iwas was broken The diplomat is understood understood understood un un- un- un t tp have returned to his native land after a hint by the state department EPIDEMIC OF SPEEDING An epidemic of diplomatic speeding speeding speeding speed speed- ing broke out with wih the arrival of ot summer and warm evenings Mem- Mem bers of the staffs of the French embassy embassy em embassy em- em bassy and nd Greek legation have been complained of or the former not only for speeding but manhandling the officer who held him up The Gre Greek k diplomat was accuse accused of dusting up nearby roads of Maryland at too fast a clip to suit the Marylanders aryl The usual procedure of the state department is s to notify the ambassadorial ambassadorial ambas ambas- or ministerial chief of the offender and arid the bare fact that the state state- state department department has felt it necessary sary to do this usually Is sufficient The implied rebuke Is keen keenly f felt l and mid the offender generally gets a t smart dressing down by his boss In In more serious cases cases a polite polte hint 1 is 19 conveyed by the department that the presence of a certain ferson person person per per- son no longer Is desired by the United ed States government and he heis heis heis is promptly sent home This has occurred a a half a dozen a-dozen dozen times Umes in re recent recent re- re cent years principally when the ithe persons involved were suspected of tampering with the prohibition laws POLICE ACT ALONE Washington policemen do not al always always always al- al ways go to the length of turing turning in of offenders tenders to the state department Sometimes they take take lt it upon themselves themselves themselves them them- selves without any authority whatever what what- ever to act for the secretary of ol state They pay an Informal call callon callon cl on the chief of the diplomatic mis- mis lon ion involved and warn hit him that Mr Ir So and So has disturbed the peace of the capital and suggest that perhaps a word will wi prevent a amore amore I more serious repetition which might have to be bo reported to the dreaded I secretary tary of state |