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...Businessman Griffis prepared to depart, another U.S. businessman quit the Foreign Service. Richard C. Patterson Jr., onetime vice chairman of the board of RKO, resigned the ambassadorship to the Russian-dominated government of Yugoslavia, where he had been as frustrated as Lane was in Poland. Private interests required his attention, said Patterson. As his successor, Harry Truman picked a State Department careerist: 52-year-old Cavendish Welles Cannon, whose large, pale, triangular face has been appearing in the trouble spots of southern Europe for 20 years, most recently in Lisbon, where he was First Secretary and Consul...
Arizona Roots. When the call to the ambassadorship came last week, Lew Douglas was in Phoenix which he still calls home. His family roots are deep in Arizona's arid soil. His grandfather left Scotland and a career as a scholar to go prospecting, and hit the jackpot with the fabulous Copper Queen mine at Bisbee. His father, "Rawhide Jim" Douglas, discovered the U.V.X. mine...
After weeks of mulling over the biggest vacancy in his diplomatic corps-the ambassadorship to Britain-Harry Truman made up his mind. The man he picked for the job: conservative, 64-year-old O. (for Oliver) Max Gardner, a safe, uncolorful candidate whom the Senate was likely to confirm with little or no fuss...
...Crack British Career Diplomat, Lord Inver-chapel (formerly Sir Archibald Clark Kerr), succeeds to the U.S. ambassadorship...
...President hoped that Jesse Jones would continue to stay in the Government. He told him to drop around and see Ed Stettinius one of these days to see if there was an ambassadorship open. The letter, which began, "Dear Jesse," closed with "warm regards...