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In 1911 followed the episode of Agadir, which was clearly an attempt to 'force a quarrel on France. But in 1911 Germany realized that her military calculations had been insufficient, if she wished to continue these unamiable diplomatic manners.
Two of mine were familiar to me; one bearing an English post-mark was from Alice Merivale, the other was Hortense's dear writing. I tore them open and, resuming my seat, read them leisurely. How different they were in every respect! One the effusion of a worldly, artful, diplomatic beauty, the other an earnest interpretation of the loving, ardent sentiments of a whole-souled emotional child woman.
Her opening sentence was exceedingly diplomatic: "The Chief of Police of Vienna has made a most startling discovery." Beginning thus, she went on to details of the discovery she had that day made. When her account was finished and codified, she went down to her hostess and said,
Of course, as they are "secret diplomatic agents," the government must keep them in hand and direct them. Consequently, "their superior must no longer reside in Rome, but at Paris." The same precaution is taken with reference to other congregations, which, in teaching or in charity, become regular auxiliaries of the lay power.
I also strongly commend to the favorable action of the Congress the enactment of a law applying to the diplomatic and consular service the principles embodied in Section 1753 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, in the Civil Service Act of January 16, 1883, and the Executive Orders of June 27, 1906, and of November 26, 1909.
Rezanov inevitably was more or less cynical and blase', and too long versed in the ways of courts and courtiers to retain more than a whimsical tolerance of the naked truth and an appreciation of its excellence as a diplomatic manoeuvre.
Also I have heard you say it many times, and it is an accepted rule in the diplomatic game never meddle in what does not concern you; never help to pull another's chestnuts out of the fire." "My dear lady, you are perfectly right! I subscribe unreservedly to the rule, and try to follow it; but you have overlooked another rule the most vital of the code." "What is it, pray!"
That Philip III. as the Spanish Government by a convenient fiction was always called was the head and front of the great Savoy-Biron conspiracy to take Henry's life and dismember his kingdom, was hardly a stage secret. Yet diplomatic relations were still preserved between the two countries, and wonderful diplomatic interviews had certainly been taking place in Paris.
If house- flies and minnows could but coin money, or set up a manufacture, contrive something, in short, to buy or sell attractive to Anglo-Saxon enterprise and intelligence, of course we should soon have diplomatic relations with them; and our despatches and newspapers would instruct us to a T in the characters and propensities of their leading personages.
On this, they painted with berry juice "something that they called a Bear." By this capture of Sonoma, and its subsequent endorsement by Frémont, Larkin's instructions that is, to secure California by quiet diplomatic means were absolutely nullified. A second result was that Englishmen in California were much encouraged to hope for English intervention and protection.
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