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Show AbU to Hold Their Own. In cenernl the United States have found her great diplomats ready made They have begun at the top mil, with the marked exception of John Qulncy Adams, who was trained In diplomacy f-om his boyhood, have had little or none of -hat preliminary training which Europe has deemed 3ssentlal, Their bc!iooI has been that f American law-, politics and affairs, ind, taken ag a whole, thej havj more than held their own with their old country npponentj. This was most conspicuously the case In the dnjs when American diplomacy was more truly a career open to talent than at present, which a large private forttino hns come to he regarded as a condition condi-tion precedent to appointment to the moat Important diplomatic posts. Cleveland Plain Dealer. |