Mr.Bryan will point with pride and say: "These men who bore themselves so well were my appointments." Some of them were.

But back of them, and coaching them, were first and second secretaries and consuls-general and consuls who had been long in the service and who knew the language, the short cuts, and what ropes to pull.

And they had also the assistance of every lost and strayed, past and present American diplomat who, when the war broke, was caught off his base.

These were commandeered and put to work, and volunteers of the American colonies were made honorary attaches, and without pay toiled like fifteen-dollar-a-week bookkeepers.
In our embassy in Paris one of these latter had just finished struggling with two American women.

One would not go home by way of England because she would not leave her Pomeranian in quarantine, and the other because she could not carry with her twenty-two trunks.
They demanded to be sent back from Havre on a battle-ship.