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Notes from the Capital
van Dyke, Henry | January 11, 1917 issue

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Reverend Dr. Henry Van Dyke, who recently resigned his office as U.S. Minister to Holland, will never figure in history as a great diplomatist, for much the same reason that he will never figure as a great ecclesiastical leader, he likes too well to obey his human impulses, regardless of artificial restraints. Though technically a neutral of the neutrals while representing his Government at a foreign court, barely had he got beyond gunshot of The Hague, the Netherlands before he burst into song in glorification of France, and with a fervor which showed where his heart had really been through the two years and more when the code of international etiquette imposed upon him an irksome silence.

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VAN Dyke, Henry; DIPLOMATS; INTERNATIONAL relations; HAGUE (Netherlands); UNITED States; NETHERLANDS
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