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Show H HOW FOREIGN DIPLOMATS H ARE HOUSED B. Washington has an increasing num- H ber of handsome buildings owned by M foreign governments devoted to the M residence and official use ot their rep B ' roscnlatlves in this country. Evorj H ' one knows whore to find the British. B .French or German ambassadors, no H r matter what their names ma) he, No( H one has ever bad tho slightest occa H ' sion to Inquire whether these reprc- H sentatives of the great European na- H I tsons have large private means or H i small. In Washington, as In London, IHI p Paris, Berlin, SL Petersburg, Rome and other great capitals of the world, i thero is always an appropriate, perma- H f nent embassy of these nations, with H suitable salaries for tho Ambassador Hl or Minister, and proper allowance for Hl its maintenance. When Brvce camo H to be British ambassador at Washing ton, or Dr Jusserand camo to the American Am-erican capital to be spokesman- for tho French 'government and people, neither of them w-ns compelled to hunt to find a house. 'They followed their predecoBSorB into well-irppolntcd embassies em-bassies without hitch or embarrassment embarrass-ment of any sort. Up to the present time almost exactly the contrary has been the exporlenco of American representatives rep-resentatives abroad American Review Re-view of Reviews. |