Last week Charles Gates Dawes was defensively preoccupied with the finances of the Dominican Republic. Mulling over matters of revenue, expenditures and interest on foreign loans, he could barely pause long enough to acknowledge publicly the fact that President Hoover had appointed him Ambassador to the Court of St. James's to succeed Alanson Bigelow Houghton, resigned. Congratulatory telegrams which preceded the official message from the State Department he tossed aside impatiently. Newsgatherers finally coaxed this statement from him:
"I am appreciative of the high honor done me and recognize the responsibilities which it involves."
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