The New Europe/Volume 6/Number 66/Who is the Lady?
Who is the Lady?
On 18 December, in the House of Commons, Colonel Faber asked the Foreign Secretary “whether Herr von Kühlmann, the German Foreign Minister, is able to correspond with a lady of high lineage in England, under cover of a neutral dispatch bag; and, if so, whether any steps are taken to prevent such correspondence.” Lord Robert Cecil in his answer expressed “reluctance” to believe that any neutral Government would lend itself to such an abuse of diplomatic privilege. In view, however, of the persistence of such rumours, and of the fact that investigation proved that similar suspicions were not unfounded in the case of a well-known portrait painter now interned, we invite the Foreign Office to pursue its enquiries a little further. If it forbids Socialists to meet their enemy colleagues on neutral soil, it should see that persons of high lineage live under the same ban.
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