The public seldom learns the real reason for the diplomatic appointments made froma time to time. We read that in consequence of the approaching retirement of Count Soanso from the post which he has filled with so much distinction [and so on] Baron Somebody will become Ambassador in his Toon transferred somewhere els+; but we lace and that the Marquis Blank has
rarely know whether Count Soanso really wanted to retire or whether he was suffering from a temporary loss of face. Recent events, however, have thrown a good deal of light on the relations between the Minister for Foreign Affairs and one of his colleagues. It was necessary, as I mentioned in my last letter, to find a successor to M. Jules Cambon in the difficult post_of Governor-General of Al-gena. The Government offered the post to M. Lozé, the Ambassador at Vienna. M. Lozé was very comfortable there and had no desire to leave. He accordingly declined the offer, and, in order that there might be no mistake about it, he took the trouble to come to Paris and give his answer in person. He then went into the country to see his aged parents. While he was performing this filinl duty, the Go-yernment meanly took advat absence to publish "his ap Governor-General in the Oficial. Gazette. At the same time it was semi-officially announced thatthe Marquis de Reverseaux, Ambassador at Madrid, was to be M. Lozé's successor at Vienna. Poor M. Lozé rushed back to Paris in hot haste to explain that he really did not want to go so far away from his venerable father and mother. It unfortunately happened that Hanotaux was out of town, and by the time M. Lozs had made it, nite clear that he would not go to Algiers, the Austrian Government had, with the most remarkable promptitude, accepted the Marquis de Reverseaux as his successor. MIN. Lozé has consequently nothing left to do at Vienna but to present his letters of recall. He cannot even fall back on the despised Governor-Generalship, which has been accepted by M. Lépine, his successor as Prefect of Police at Paris. The whole affair appears to have been a clever j scheme of M. Hanotaux to get rid of an agent who was obnoxious to him. M. Lozé has no great reputation for tact, and he is said to have excited M. Hanotaux' ire by some unguarded remarks about the Franco-Russian fetish.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.