Evening journal., 1921-06-25
WARREN GETS
TOXIC mission
New Ambassador is Detroit
Lawyer of international
Reputation
w. M. COLLIER
GOES TO CHILE

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WASHINGTON. June 25.-Presi-
dent Harding has named Charles
b. Warren Of Detroit. as ambassa-
dor to Japan. and william II. Coll
lier. OF Washington, as ambassador
70 Chile
Mr.. Warren is a lawyer Of inter-
national reputation and a Republ-
can national committeeman. Mr.. Col
lier is president Of George Wash
ington University.
Warren is now in New York and
will sail soon for Norway with his
family for a vacation of several
weeks. He plans to return 20 Amer
lea in August. and is expected 10
leave soon afterward for Toxic. He
will succeed Ambassador Roland S.
Morris. OF Philadelphia, who was
appointed in 1917. but who returned
TO the United States some months
ago on leave OF absence.
The new ambassador is senior
member Of the law firm OF Warren,
/ Cady, Hin & Hamblen. OF Detroit.
He was born al Bay City. Mich. 81
years ago and was graduated from
the University Of Michigan in 1891.
/ In 1896 Warren was associate coun-
sci for the United States before the
/ joint high commission to determine
/ the Behring Sea claims, and in 1910
| he was counsel for the United States
in the North Atlantic coast fisheries
arbitration with Great Britain before
I The Hague tribunal.
During the War Warren serv-
ed on the staff OF the judge
advocate general in Washing
ton with the rank OF lieu
tenant colonel. and was awarded a
Distinguished Service Medal. He
/ was a delegate-at-large 20 the Re-
publican National Convention in
1908. and has been a member of
| the Republican Na1cnal Committee
and executive committee since 1912.
| Besides sewing as president OF the
Detroit Chamber 9f Commerce. War
rem has been a director Of the Ma
nonal Bank OF Commerce and many
other companies and also is a mem-
Der of the American Society OF Inter-
national Law.
Mr.. Collier served as minister 20
Spain under Presidents Roosevelt
and Taft He was born at Lodi. n.
Y. "a years ago. the son Of the Rev.
Isaac Il and Frances Collier and
was graduated from Hamilton Col
lege. in 1889. He studied at the Co
lumbia College Law School for two
, years and was admitted to the bar
, in 1892.
After serving as a member and
president Of the New York State
Civil Service Commission he became
, a lecturer on the law of bankruptcy
b at the New York Law School. Hh
first Federal Office was that of spe.
cial Assistant Attorney General. {,
e which he was appointed by Presi
D dent Roosevelt in 1908. He was as
% signed TO the Department OF Com
merce and Labor and was appointed
solicitor for those departments IL
D 1904
, In the following year president
Roosevelt appointed Mr. Collier min,
lister to Spain and he served unit
: June 3. 1903. when he became gen
eral legal counsel for the various
, American corporations in Europe
After one year in this service he be
came lecturer on international Law
at the New York Law School and a..
lecturer on diplomacy at Georgl
Washington University.
President Wilson appointed Mr.
Collier plenipotentiary and head o
' the American delegation to the in
ternational conference at Chris
tiania, Norway in 1914, to frame
government for the Islands o
Spitzbergen. He was elected presi
dent OF George Washington Univer
2 sity in 1917.
Mr.. Collier also was one Of tn
collaborators on the inquiry con
Quoted in 1s17-1S under the direc
ton OF +. NJ House TO obtain dat
for use at the world peace confer
ence. He was a member Of the com
= mittee on policies and platform a
: the Republican National Conventio
in 1920. and is the author Of
number OF legal books on bankrupt
e cy. civil service law and other sui
l. jects.
p Nomination OF Cyrus f. Wood
a secretary OF the Commonwealth
IS Pennsylvania, for Ambassador (
ID Spain was confirmed yesterday I