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Title: George von Lengerke Meyer; his life and public services
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Howe, M. A. De Wolfe (Mark Antony De Wolfe), 1864-1960
Subjects: Meyer, George von Lengerke, 1858-1918
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead and Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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all; then a small reception room, my den, after that twoiilarge reception rooms, with ball-room beyond as.large as Papantis in Boston. Facing the garden is*the dining-room, larger red room, conservatory, smallsitting-room, small library, and larger living-room.On floor above, eight bed-rooms. The diary in its completeness for the next fouryears would contribute many items to the personalrecords of Roman society for this period. The namesof many sharers in the pleasures of that society,Italians, Europeans of other countries, and Americans,appear and reappear in its pages. Dinners, bridge,and other occasions for informal meetings with thediplomatic circle remind one that statecraft was alwaysin the background. Days of work at the Embassyletters to Washington, dealing with occasional inter-national questions arising between Italy and th(United States, receive their share of record. It wasrather as a listening-post in the European workthan as a station for difficult work in diplomacy thai
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won AMBASSADOR TO ITALY 37 Rome gave Meyer his opportunities for valuableservice through the four years of his ambassadorship;and in establishing many relations of intimacy andfriendship, he was constantly turning the pleasant hfehe led to valuable purposes of his own government.It is thus, indeed, that diplomats may often serve theircountries best in times of peace in the world. Thereis no better way of coming to know men than byplaying with them; and if Meyer had not been capableof the all-round sportsmanship which made him sowelcome a companion to the spirited young men ofwhom the Italian King and his cousins were the con-spicuous types, the useful knowledge of Italian andEuropean affairs which he could acquire, as it were, in passing, would have been appreciably less. Allthis appears, without intention, in the diary. He had been in Rome less than a month when henoted in his journal, February 14, his first ride withthe hounds, on borrowed mounts, on the Campagna.The next day he bou

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