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Show NEVER SPEAK AS THEY PASS Several European Diplomats Are Now Giving One Another the Frozen Stare. Several European diplomats In Washington, who have long been close friends, are now giving one another the frozen stare as they meet or pass each other on the street This situation is due to the fact that diplomatic representatives of the pow- at w-ar are not permitted to have the slightest relations and are supposed sup-posed to meet as strangers. A number num-ber of social ties in the national capital cap-ital have been broken by the European conflict, as the diplomats concerned In the war are religiously adhering to the custom of not recognizing, even in a personal way, the representative of the country with which their own power is at war. Rather embarrassing situations have occurred at the department of state since hostilities began, but on the regular diplomatic day, several diplo- mats were forced to apparently snub their close personal friends representing represent-ing "the enemy." It is related that during the Russo-Japanese Russo-Japanese war the ambassadors from Russia and Japan had a way of bowing bow-ing in a perfunctory manner, but never exchanging a single word. |