THE KING'S DIPLOMACY.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 27, 26 October 1907, Page 12

THE KING'S DIPLOMACY.

.busy at.marienbad:; ....,, ..... The King concluded the series, of, meetings.., wliicli His ..Majesty,: has . had with , foreign , Monarchs. and statesmen, which havo'been so . marked a jfeaturo.'of tho ; King's..holiday this year, by receiving at Marieiibad oh Septom-. ; bcr 5' M. Izvolsky, the Czar's Minister, for Foreign Affairs, and conferring.with; him on foreign politics.,, This ..meeting-, must be rcg'arded as the complement .of. t-bo,>AYilliehua-. : liolie and Ischl interviews (when the Kingmot Jirsfc tlio- German Emperor and: after- - wards the, Emperor of Austria-Hungary), and..tho interview botween His Majesty, and M. - (Jlcmonccau, l'rimo Minister of Franco, .who came, us M. Izvolsky came, .front . Karlsbad., for. the purpose. ~ Nor must-there bo for- : gotten, in this connection, tho 'meeting bo; ■ tween the Kaiser and tho Czar at SwillOmuudo.' '

Viewed iii tho light of these friendly conferences betwoen.the Sovereigns.and responsible Ministers of. Great Britain, France, Russia, Germany, and Austria-Hungary, the European situation appears to bo very satisfactory, and tho prospects, of i uiidisturbod maintenance, of peaco arc brighter, than they. have-been .for many years. v M. Izvolsky, , who was accompanied by Count Palllen, motored- from Karlsbad, and readied hero, in, time to tako luncheon with His -Majesty at tho Hotel -, Weiniar.; ! After Itthcheon His Majesty and M. Izvolsky withdrew for private conversation, and were absent together, half an hour.': On . its conclusion, ; the; King handed his vguest tho Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order.

When M. izvolsky left the hotel- ho authorised the statement that'the conference lio had had with the King of was of a political and private character, Hud its purport he should report' immediately; to his' imperial master, tho Czar. An official communication thereon may subsequently bo issued from St. Petersburg.