Foreign News: Missions

Three British statesmen were terrestrially in motion, last week, in the furtherance of their several missions:

Sir Austen Chamberlain, the British Foreign Secretary, journeyed to The Hague and settled down for a fortnight's visit as the house guest of U. S. Minister to the Netherlands Richard Montgomery Tobin. Presently Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands bade Sir Austen to come and take dinner at the unpretentious, neatly painted mansion which serves as Her Majesty's palace. Placid Dutch courtiers admitted that Crown Princess Juliana, 19, is beginning to ponder whether she should take as a useful consort one of the British King-Emperor's younger sons:...

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