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By WALDON FAWCETT

EW ENGLAND is, in the eyes of the majority of foreign governments, the "summer capital of the United States." This is due to the fact that the diplomats who are stationed in this country as the accredited representatives of foreign powers almost without exception spend the vacation season. in the northeastern section of Uncle Sam's domain. Diplomacy has been termed a profession of leisure and even though this be a definition justified by appearances rather than by actual conditions, certain it is that the devotees of statecraft are enabled to enjoy a longer play time each year than workers in many other fields of endeavor. In consequence many of Uncle Sam's official guests spend five or six months each year in New England.

The new multiplicity of our national interests has forever put an end to the old-time wholesale deser

tion of the capital of the nation by governmental officials during the heated term but the new status of affairs has not been reflected by any change of procedure on the part of the diplomats. Most of them continue their old practice of leaving Washington in the spring or early summer and remaining in some cooler clime until late in the autumn.

It is notable, however, that there is no longer a universal migration to Europe on the part of not only envoys but their subordinates as

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