Note 287 — Chapter XXIX · FOREIGN RELATIONS

When two countries go to war they at once withdraw their diplomatic representatives from one another’s capitals. The embassy or legation and its archives are put under the care of some neutral ambassador until the war is over. During the years 1914-1917 the American ambassador in Berlin and the American minister in Brussels looked after the interests of Great Britain at these two capitals. The work of Mr. Brand Whitlock at Brussels was notable, and the services which he rendered to the Belgian people during the years of their country’s captivity will long be remembered in that heroic little land.