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Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, 64, former Ambassador to Poland during the convulsive early days of World War II, will return to diplomacy as Ambassador to Spain. After Poland was overrun by the Nazis, Biddle served in London as ambassador to the exiled governments of Poland, Belgium, The Netherlands, Norway, Greece, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia, thus holding more diplomatic posts simultaneously than any other envoy in U.S. history. He resigned from the diplomatic corps in 1944, joined General Eisenhower's SHAEF staff as liaison officer with the Allied governments, then went on a tour of duty with Ike in NATO, which gives him an insight into Western defense problems in Spain.
Grant Stockdale, 45, a Miami real estate dealer and former administrative assistant to Jack Kennedy's old Senate pal, Florida Democrat George Smathers, will be Ambassador to Ireland.
William Attwood, 41, foreign editor of Look magazine and an erstwhile ghostwriter for Adlai Stevenson, will get his first taste of diplomacy as Ambassador to Guinea, where left-leaning President Sékou Touré is a potential spark for the African tinderbox.