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...been said of him that the world is his plaything. Certainly his attitude toward creeds and laws was that of a versatile bad boy playing with what toys he could misuse. His book, Revelations of an International Spy (McBride, 1916), was described by an amused U. S. diplomatist as "a spitball of wastepaper and spleen spat at his former European employers"; others professed to take seriously his arraignment of Sir Edward Grey as the archvillain of the World...
...mother and a vain, weak father never to forget the contingency that if Elizabeth died childless he was heir to the English throne. Within a month Darnley had shown himself to be a selfish, inconstant, drunken roisterer, vicious and contemptible. A hired assassin could have murdered Rizzio, her Italian diplomatist, but to discredit Mary, Darnley was persuaded to have it done of his own will, at the very door of her chamber in Holyrood. "Well, ye have taken the last of me, and so, farewell," she cried to him when she recovered consciousness...
...poverty-stricken mother of Elijah Cobb, a sailor's widow, mothering six, sent him out into the world. At 14 he sailed for Surinam as cook and cabin-boy; he was in command of a brig at 23. The captain of those days was navigator, merchant, banker and diplomatist as occasion required; witness his first voyage to Europe as shipmaster. The year was 1793, when neutrals had few rights. His brig captured by the French on a pretext, her cargo of foodstuffs looted for starving Brest, the guillotine overshadowing all, Cobb loyally strove to secure his owner...
Died. Ellis L. Dresel, 54, lawyer, diplomatist, signer of the Peace Treaty with Germany, as plenipotentiary and U. S. Chargé d'Affaires in Berlin after the War, at his home in Pride's Crossing, Mass. A lawyer for 25 years, he suddenly became a diplomat through accidentally being in Berlin when the War broke out and there offering to Ambassador Gerard his services in looking after stranded Americans. Later he was an Attache of the U. S. Embassy at Berlin; aided the Red Cross in caring for prisoners of war hi Germany; headed the political information section...
Engaged. Miss Marion Choate (Manhattan), granddaughter of the late Joseph H. Choate, diplomatist, to Charles B. Harding (Manhattan), great-grandson of the late Jay Cooke, Civil War financier. She attended Foxcroft; he, Groton...