Diplomatic Seed

Despatches told last week that U. S. Ambassador Charles Mac-Veagh, learned Manhattan lawyer, has evolved an innocuous and popular formula for his necessarily numerous public addresses.

To Japanese--just now one of! the most acutely sport-conscious peoples in the World (TIME, Sept. 27)--Ambassador MacVeagh speaks as often as possible of U. S. sports and sportsmen.

Thus far he has achieved one striking forensic passage quoted in news organs throughout the Empire: "Men who are engaged in sport for sport's sake belong to the highest class that the country can boast--clean, generous, high-minded. When this class has the opportunity to compete with the same class of representatives of another nation it cannot fail to sow the seeds of a mutual knowledge and understanding which will ripen into a lasting fine friendship between the nations."