FOREIGN SERVICE: Careering & Proteges

Careering & Protégés

¶ Out of New York harbor last week aboard the 5. S. American Legion sailed Hugh Simons Gibson, Grade A career diplomat, to take over his new job as Ambassador to Brazil. With him went his dark, distinguished wife, sorry to leave her native Belgium where her husband had been Ambassador for six years. Mr. Gibson used to be President Hoover's Man-About-Europe until replaced by President Roosevelt's Norman Hezekiah Davis.

¶ Also out of New York harbor last week sailed Alvin Mansfield Owsley, fifth (1922-23) national commander of the...

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