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INTO EXILE
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As to M. S-ff, towards the spring of 1918, when
every one in Europe was beginning to fear or to anticipate
the final success of Germany, he paraded his German
sympathies so obviously, was so often seen in public
with German diplomats, that he was at last made to
leave his post and Spain (his supplies were probably
cut off). Still less was he allowed to reside in France,
he only passed through on his way to Switzerland;
from there he went to Poland—under German
domination at that time—to endeavour to save a property he
owned there.1 I do not know what has since become
of him.
On the 25th September, 1917, I finally left San
Sebastian, bidding farewell to the beautiful Kingdom of
Spain. I regretfully took leave of a few congenial
Spaniards whose acquaintance I had made during my
short stay, and of the four allied Ambassadors with
whom I had had such pleasant intercourse, and I got
into the motor-car of another charming colleague, the
Rumanian Minister, M. Cretzeano, who was kind enough
to take me as far as Biarritz.
By leaving San Sebastian I was giving up—not only
my post—but my long diplomatic career, commenced in
1881. And I was not wending my way homewards—I
was going into exile !
1 A Polish patriot’s estate confiscated in 1863 and given to M.
S-fifs father, at that period Under-Secretary of State for Poland.
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