SOCIAL PETS BARRED.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 95, 21 April 1923, Page 14

SOCIAL PETS BARRED.

tf.S. DIPLOMATIC SERVICE. TO BE DEMOCRATISED. (From Our Special Correspondent.) LONDON, March 12. Concurrently with the news of Canada taking upon itself tbe responsibility of ! national status in its signature of the i recent treaty with the L.S. Government, we hear of a movement in the great. North American Republic towards the demoeratisation of its diplomatic service. An announcement emanating from Washington states that the young secretary of embassy from the land of tlie Pilgrims is to be fully protected from the"temptation of social functions. This is the keynote of a bill just introduced ;by Congressman .lohn Jacob Rogers, of j Lowell, Massachusetts, member of tbe powerful Committee on Foreign RelaI tions. The bill, which provides for many j radical reforms in the diplomatic service, has received the sanction of the I Government, and hence seems assured of success at an early date. "The type of young 'whipper-snapper' who thinks himself superior tj iwisu-ar representatives must disapp t.**. »Ye arc willing to give our diplomats sulticieut increase in salary to reimburse them for their adherence to th_ principles of democracy " Congrcssina.l llogcs told an interviewer. "I have seen young men g> : n'<> Ihe. foreign service, be invited out to dinner, feted and treated with distinction by people of culture, and lose ilvir heads I and their Americanism at the sninctimc. We are going to get rid of lie : caste system, of the system where the ] diplomatic side of the service looks down ]on the consular side. - '