LOVE, WAR, AND DIPLOMACY

Evening Star, Issue 17328, 16 April 1920, Page 1

LOVE, WAR, AND DIPLOMACY

. Colonel Renner, who has just been appointed German Minister at The Hague, is, with his wife, now in Berlin (writes Mr Ilenwick in the London ' Chronicle'), where he is receiving his general instructions from the Government prior to taking up his duties in the Netherlands capital in a week or two. Behind his appointment there is an inteTsting romance of war and love. Before the war the gallant diplomat was military attache in London, and there ho became engaged to a charming young Englishwoman, Miss Kenilworth. Their marriage was fixed for August 10, 1914. But before that date, of course, the war had separated the lovers. It. was perhaps only natural that, strong pressure should have heen brought to bear on both of them by their relatives to regard the engagement as ended; but they had made up their minds to be true, and to wait, no matter how long. Colonel Renner was appointed military attache to The Ha.gue, but (owing to his protest against the submarine war) had been removed from that post by the old regime authorities. He saw military service. Then the revolution came, and She new Government at Berlin thought they owed to this bold and outspoken officer the post which the losers of the ivar had taken from him. So back he went to The Hague a« military attache, ■iid when it was possible for his fiancee o cross to Holland the long-delayed wedling took place in the Dutch capital. ' 'olonel Renner's personal history may ■rove to be not unimportant in the' Dutch ■npit.il. situated as it is between—and to considerable extent linking diplomatically—two of the greatest of the war antagonists.