AMERICAN AMBASSADOR AT BERLIN.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 89, 17 April 1911, Page 7

AMERICAN AMBASSADOR AT BERLIN.

TO EESIGN IN JULY NEXT. } Bj Telegraph.— Pi ess Association.— Copyright, j NEW YORK, 15th April. j Dr. Hill, the American Ambassador J at Berlin, will resign in July. The reason is not given. BERLIN, 15th April. Dr. Hill's resignation of the American Ambassadorship recalls the coolness raised through the Kaiser's objections to j his appointment in 1903. Dr. Hill is-! at present visiting ths United States, ] and he recently, in the course of a lee- | ture at Columbia University, declared I that the Divine right of kings was an i extinct belief. In Berlin his resigns- , tion is said to be due to ths inability of - a man of moderate means to meet the expenses of an important Embassy. [Dr. David Jayne Hill hus had a distinguished career. Born in 1850, he , was a student at the universities of Berlin, Paris, Geneva, etc. He was for nine years president of Bucknell University, and eight years president of the ' University ot Rochester. He resigned the latter position in 18&5 and spent nearly three years in tho study of the public law of Europe. From 1903 to 1905 he was U.S. Ministei to Switzerland, and from 1905 to 1007 to the Netherlands. On 2nd April, 1908, he was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Germany. Then trouble began. It was reported at the time that the Kaiser had, on personal grounds, objected to Dr. Hill's appointment, but that the U.S. Government had decided not to depart from, its choice, it being felt that Dr. Hill was one of the most able men in the American diplomatic service. The German authorities denied the report, although it was generally undt».stood that the Kaiser did have an objection to Dr. Hill, on the grounds that ho was not well off financially, acd that the prestige of the United States in many would suffer in consequence. After ■ some correspondence, the German Am- ■ bassador to Washington conveyed to the United States Government the assurance of the Emperor oi bis cordial willingness to welcome Br. Hill to Berlin. The Emperor's favourable " opinion of Dr. HiH was comnranicafced to the Washington Admrmisfcrafcion in November, and this atfcitudii had never changed.]