Abroad the first official step has been the resignation of
Ambassadors and Ministers accredited by their august Sovereign.. There will be genuine sorrow here that the Marques de Merry del Val should leave the Court of St. James's, where he has so long adorned his office. He has been Doyen of the Corps and long recognized as the most welcome of speakers in admirably polished English at all kinds of functions here. The loss of Don Jose Quinones de Leon from Paris affects us through Geneva, since he has been one of the most prominent and valuable delegates to the Council of the League of Nations since its earliest days. The Vatican, having lately lost the support of the Double Crown of Austria-Hungary, must be anxiously reckoning the effect of the fall of His Most Catholic Majesty. In Spain there has been no attack upon Church or Clergy,and the Nuncio has been assured that there will be none. But freedom of religion has been proclaimed, and the Clergy are given full civil rights, of which the first will probably be the right to be taxed like laymen. So far they have not fully shared that privilege of the citizen.
