The new U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James, able Joseph Patrick Kennedy, stepped off the Manhattan onto an admiral's barge at Plymouth in the middle of the night last week, reached London before dawn, alighted from his sleeping car at 7:15 a. m. to be greeted by top-hatted officials.
At the new U. S. Embassy in Grosvenor Square, the Ambassador cocked his feet up on his highly-polished desk, to the satisfaction of Britons who always thought the "English gentleman" manners of his predecessor, the late Robert Worth Bingham, somewhat pretentious....
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