AN AMBASSADOR'S DILEMMA.

Evening Post, Volume LXVII, Issue 55, 5 March 1904, Page 13

AN AMBASSADOR'S DILEMMA.

Tlio difficulty -with which Lord Curzoti lias been mooting over his call at Bushirc, on tlio Pomim Gulf, reminds tho St. James's Budget that the Persian Ambaasador at tho Court of George 111. demanded, but whs denied, precedence ov<*r .ill other foreign reprweenuitivee. Ho refused to go to court, causing it to bo reported abroad that ho whs ill. Ho mot the Regent (afterwards (Jcorgo IV.) nt the house of tho Lady Salisbury of tho time. "[ am very oorry to offend your Royal Highnesa by not gowig to court," he Raid. "Now, sir, my Sovereign, lio tell mo I go fiwfc; your Congress, about which I know nothing, my I mu»t go last. Now, this very bad foi^ine when I go back to Persia." k<> saying, It© made* a significant pass towards his head, expressing decapitation. The l'rinw tried to appease Mm. "But, sir, you still angry with mo; you have nut invited mo to your party to-morrow night." The Prince explained that it was orvls' a diiMnsiVi pttrty, but tl«3 Amba«wdor might como if lie ctiose. Ho did ohooso; weiit; was tho only Ambassador tlwre — a signal scor& for Porsin which mado him comfortablo about the neck again.