GERMANY ACCEPTS NEW AMBASSADOR

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6545, 29 February 1928, Page 7

GERMANY ACCEPTS NEW AMBASSADOR

Sir Horace Rumbold Appointed to Berlin . A DIPLOMAT OP WIDE EXPERIENCE ■ ■*>. [By Electric Cable-Copyright J i Auat. end N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Tuesday, 7.45 p.m.) BEBLltf, Feb. 27. The Government has Agreed to , Sir Horace Eumhold’s appointment as British Ambassador to Berlin. Sir Horace George Montagu Bumbold has been British Ambassador at Madrid since 1924. He was born on February 5, 1869, being the eldest son of the Eight Honorable Sir Horace Eumbold, eighth bait. After an early education at Eton he passed into the diplomatic service, being first attached to 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 tp 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. Ho thereupon became attached .to the Foreign • Office' but from 1916-19 was British Minister in Switzerland. Later he 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 Eumbold is one of the most highly experienced diplomats in the British Service. (

Licknowsky, 1914 German Ambassador to London, Dead (A.P.A. and Sun.) BERLIN, Feb., 27. Tho 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 L’chnowsky, after considerable experience in the German Foreign Office, was appointed Ambassador in London on the death of Baron Marsehall Von Bieberstein. Baron Marsohall who had been Secretary for Foreign Affairs under tho 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 Mm 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 ho showed in London, after his appointment in 1912 gave him a position in English society which facilitated the negotiation's 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 Wax; 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 questions, which was initialled on 12th June 1924. Prince Lichnowsky was convinced that for years the lations between Germany and Great Britain had been mismanaged end misunderstood by the Foreign Office in Berlin, and, in particular, he believed that Herr Bethmann von Hollweg and his advisers failed to appreciate the pacific attitude and intentions of Sir Edward Grey and the British Government during the crisis that ended in tho Great War. He embodied his views in the pamphlet entitled “Meino Londoner Mission,” which ho circulated privately in manuscript among his German friends. This document came into the hands of an opponent of the war, Captain von Beerfelde, 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 tho 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 aud he sought, refuge in Switzerland, whern Vas lived mostly ever since.