Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I muri mai ka neke ia ki Milan i reira i mahi ai ia hei Kaunihera mo te United States i Milan mo etahi tau. I a ia i Itari, i tukuna e te Kaikauwhau Lloyd Carpenter Griscom a Cutting ki Messina whai muri i te
1908 te ru ki te whakatū i tētahi consulate me te wahi ko ia tetahi o nga manene tuatahi ki te tae. Ko te tapahi "he nui te awhina ki te whakaiti i te mamae i reira". I te tau 1909, i tohua ia hei Hekeretari o te Embassy i Tangier, he taone nui kei te raki-hauauru o Morocco ko te taone nui o te rohe o Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima. Heoi, i whakawhiwhia e Harvard ki a ia he korero mo te Kawanatanga o Ingarangi i te timatanga o te ngahuru o te tau 1910, na reira, i wehe ia hei Hekeretari ki te whakarite mo tana whakaakoranga. I haere a Cutting ki Ihipa ki te ako i te Kawanatanga o Ingarangi i reira i mua i te whakamahere ki te neke ki etahi atu o nga koroni o Ingarangi.