National Affairs: Ambassadors

The first great change under the Coolidge Administration, the first major operation since 1921 on the State Department's corps of diplomats, is forecast. The State Department announced the forthcoming retirement of Colonel George Harvey from the post of Ambassador to the Court of St. James, and of Richard Washburn Child as Ambassador to Italy.

The Causes. As is nearly always the case, the underlying causes of such events are carefully concealed from the public eye. The assigned reasons for these two retirements seem sufficiently motivated under the general terms of the official account to...

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