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...Budapest, Hungary, will be sent the Princeton man, Joshua Butler Wright, to succeed Theodore Brentano as U. S. Minister. Ignorant Hungarian newspapers expressed proud surprise that the U. S. Secretary of State had been made Minister to their country. Blithely unconscious of Mr. Kellogg's Secretaryship, they attached all manner of significance to the appointment of Mr. Wright, who happens to be merely Mr. Kellogg's suave and able assistant. Mr. Wright, a onetime rancher from Wyoming, has been in the diplomatic service and the Department of State since...
...consider at the winter session. A man with political ambitions and no longer young, who recently battled to be Governor of New York, cannot be expected to tuck himself quietly away in "the little Cabinet."* Perhaps Mr. Mills merely desires to continue residence at Washington and this Under-Secretaryship was the first opportunity which presented itself; perhaps he is grooming himself to be a future Secretary of the Treasury. But Mr. Mellon, in announcing Mr. Mills's appointment, attempted to forestall rumor by a firm denial of any intent to resign...
...appointment of a Junior to the position of assistant-secretary is a recently initiated procedure. The reason given for this is the turbulence of routine business caused by the change of secretaries each year. The junior secretary will continue in this position and automatically succeed to the secretaryship, subject to the approval of the Governing Board...
...qualify for the U. S. diplomatic service, to achieve a "Third Secretaryship" of an embassy or legation, are not feats which demand more than mortal powers...
Probably no man understands these and other delicate matters better than Mr. MacMurray. Since graduation from Princeton, he has filled diplomatic posts in Siam, Russia, China, Japan. In 1919, he became Chief of the Far Eastern Division of the State Department, last year was elevated to an assistant Secretaryship of State. As soon as Minister Schurman accepted the Berlin post, Mr. MacMurray was put forward as the ideal candidate for Peking. Would politics interfere? Could Senator Curtis persuade the President to appoint his fellow-Kan- san, William S. Culbertson? Could some other Senator win the post for some one else...