GERMANY ACCEPTS NEW AMBASSADOR.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 29 February 1928, Page 6

GERMANY ACCEPTS NEW AMBASSADOR.

A DIPLOMAT OF WIDE EXPERIENCE (Received Tuesday, 7.45 p.m.) BERLIN, Feb. 27. The Government has agreed to Sir Horace Eumh old’s appointment as British Ambassador to Berlin. Sir Horace George Montagu Rumbolj has been British Ambassador at Madrid since 1924, Ho was'born on February 5, 1869, being the eldest son of the Right Honorable Sir Horace Rumbold, eighth hart. After an early education at Eton he passed into the diplomatic service, being first attached tc the Hague Embassy (1888). In 1891. he obtained an appointment as attache to Cairo, being granted an allowance for special knowledge of Arabic. In 1895 he was transferred to Athens, in 1897 to Vienna, in 1900 back to Cairo, and in 1906 to Madrid. He became Charge d’Affairs at Munich in 1908, and later at Tokio.. In 1914 he was Charge d'Affaires at Berlin, an office he held at the outbreak of the war. He thereupon became attached was British Minister in Switzerland. Later be was Ambassador at Warsaw, and in 1920 became British High Commissioner and Ambassador at Constantinople, a position he held till his appointment to Madrid in 1924. Sir Horace Rumbold is one of the most highly experienced diplomats in the British Service. NOTABLE FIGURE PASSES. Lichnowsky, 1914 German Ambassador to London, Dead (A.P.A. and Sun.) • BERLIN, Fob. 27. The death is announced of Prince Karl Max Lichnowsky. German Ambassador in London at the time of the outbreak of the Great War in 1914. Prince Lichnowsky, after considerable experience in the German Foreign Office, was appointed Ambassador in London on the death of Baron Marschall von Bieborstein. , Baron Marschall who had been Secretary for Foreign Affairs under the Chancellorship of Count Caprivi, and for a time under Prince Hohenlohe, had achieved great success as Ambassador at Constantinople, and also, from the German point of view, as chief German Plenipotentiary at the second Hague Conference in 1907. Baron Marsehall was, to use an expression of Bismarck's,/ ‘the best horse in Germany’s diplomatic stable," and great things were expected of him in London. But he lived only a few months after his appointment.

Prince Lichnowsky’s high, social rank his agreeable manners, and the generous hospitality which he showed' in London, after his appointment in 1912 gave him a position in English society which facilitated the negotiations between England and Germany, and did much to diminish the friction that had arisen during the time that Prince Bulow held the . post of German Chancellor. When the Great War eventually burst upon the British Empire and her Allies, Prince Lichnowsky returned to Berlin, but retired into private life except for occasional articles in the press. When in London he took part in the •negotiations for : a convention with Great Britain regarding ■ the Bagdad railway and various colonial 4 u esri°bs, which was initialled bn: 12th June 1924. Prince Lichnowsky was convinced that for yqars the' lations between Germany ..and Great Britain had been mismanaged and - misunderstood by the Foreign Office in Berlin-, and, in particular, he believed that Herr Bethmann vori Hollwcg and his advisers failed to appreciate the pacific and intentions of Sir Edward Grey and the British Government during , the crisis that ended in the Great War. He embodied his views in the pamphlet entitled “Heine Londoner Mission/’ Which he circulated privately in manuscript among his Gorman friends. This document came into the hands of an opponent of the war, Captain von Becrfelde, who was the .means of its being published without authorization, in 1918. The publication exercised a very prejudicial effect upon the German war spirit, and there were loud demands among the Conservative* and National Liberals for the prosecution of the author, while the Prussian Upper House, of which Prince Lichnowsky was a member, passed a resolution excluding him from that assembly. It became impossible for him to live in Germany and ho sought refuge in. Switzerland. . whero '-as lived mostly ever since.