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Aftermath. Such sentences endure. Frenchmen recalled them fervently, last week, as Ambassador Herrick resumed his post. They remembered that although he (Republican) ceased in 1914 to be U. S. Ambassador at Paris (under Democrat Woodrow Wilson), he toiled on in the general cause of Victory, and later became Chairman of the American Committee for Devastated France. When, in 1921, President Harding (Republican) sent Mr. Herrick back to Paris as Ambassador, France regained a Great Man who is at least half her own. Said he, last week: "In leaving my friends in my own country. I feel that I am going back to my friends in my other country."
An Ambassador dare not, cannot say more.
Significant Plenipotentiaries. While the U. S. representatives accredited at London,* Paris, Berlin†and Mexico City** are most in the public eye, at present, three other U. S. Ambassadors are especially worthy of significant remark: 1) Henry Prather Fletcher. Ambassador to Italy and now a delegate to the Pan-American Conference; 2) Charles MacVeagh, potent industrial attorney, Ambassador to Japan; 3) Joseph Clark Grew, forceful, distinguished, onetime Under Secretary of State, now the first U. S. Ambassador accredited to the new Republic of Turkey.
*Alanson Bigelow Houghton, potent glass tycoon.
†Jacob Gould Schurman, learned, educator.
**Dwight Whitney Morrow, onetime Morgan partner, delegate to the Pan-American Congress.