FOREIGN RELATIONS: Good-By Joe

These words appeared in the London Daily Herald one day last week: "Forever, in deeds if not in written words, we are Allies. Largely, that is Joseph Kennedy's work. Good-by Joe! Heaven bless you! Your job is done."

There had been no formal announcement that Joseph Patrick Kennedy was to quit his post of Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. But the finality of the Herald's farewell spoke what most Britons and Joe Kennedy's colleagues suspected: he was leaving England for good. Friends knew he wanted to get back in the swim...

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