Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-25
HOOVER CHANGING
! DIPLOMAT SERVICE
MacNider, Iowa Banker and
Farmer, Made Minister
to Canada.
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.


Appointment Of Hanford MacNider,
Iowa banker and farm-owner, as Amer
lean Minister to Canada ts the latest
indication Of President Hoover's sys-
tematic plan to reorganize the country's
diplomatic representation abroad. The
plan has been quietly but steadily car
ried out during the first 14Ia months
OF the Hoover administration, with the
result that today there are no fewer
than "a "non-career" men in the major
foreign posts, as compared to ~
career" men. Mr.. Hoover has appoint
ed II new non-career diplomats and
promoted o career oficers.
The Presidents avowed purpose Is
to man our embassies and legations
overseas with Americans of practical
training In the world Of affairs, rather
than In purely diplomatic affairs. The
Hoover idea Is that Uncle Sans foreign
relations nowadays are almost exclu-
sively relations of trade. commerce and
finance. They are virtually devoid, in
the Presidents opinion, of the old-tine
methods Of diplomatic red-tape and
pronunciation, and call for the services
of men schooled in the roueh-and-
ready practices of business.
Business Men in Europe.
The completeness with which the
President is breaking with the career"
principle is rather startlingly revealed
by the list of mon career" diplomatic
plums which he has been distributing
since March, 1929. All of the first
rank ambassadorships In Europe, with
out exception, are now In the hands
OF business or professional men. To
London Mr.. Hoover sent Charles G.
Dawes, Chicago banker. To Paris went
Walter e. Edge, New Jersey advertising
magnate and publisher by occupation.
To Berlin the President appointed
Frederic M. Sackett Of Kentucky.
lawyer. To Rome has gone John w.
Garrett Of Maryland, banker. To
Madrid the President named Irwin B.
Laughlin OF Pennsylvania, capitalist and
steel naagnate.
Prominent European legations also
are now In the keeping of men selected
because OF their eminence in the Amer
lean business world. Abraham C..
Ratshesky of Massachusetts. a close
personal friend Of former President
Coolidge, was appointed Minister to
Czechoslovakia in the midst of an out
standing banking career at Boston To
the United States newest embassy. In
Poland, was recently sent John N,
WHY'S Of Ohio, automobile manufac-
turer. Gtlchrist Baker Stockton, Florida
real estate man, has become Minister
to Austria. Ralph H. Booth, Michigan
newspaper publisher, Is Minister to
Denmark. Gerrit J. Diekema of
Michigan, Q lawyer and life insurance
man, Is Minister to the Netherlands.
Two other newspaper publishers-Henry
Wharton Shoemaker of Pennsylvania
and Edward 4. Brodie Of Oregon-have
been appointed Ministers, respectively,
to Bulgaria and Finland.
Albanian Minister Promoted.
Other European posts to which Presi-
dent Hoover has dispatched non.career
ENJOYS are Albania, where Herman
Bernstein, New York journalist and
where John Motley Morehead, North
Carolina and New York manufacturer,
has gone. At Teheran, Persia, Is sta
toned Charles c. Hart Of Minneapolis,
whom Mr.. Hoover promoted from the
ministership to Albania. Hart went to
Albania under the Coolidge administra-
ton while serving as q Washington
newspaperman. President Hoover has
also promoted John Glover South of
to Portugal. South Is q physician.
It is In Latin America, largely as
the result Of his pre-inaugural goodwill
mission, that President Hoover wants
to have American ENJOYS of special
qualifications, headed by the ability to
speak Latin languages. His first break
with the diplomatic career" rule In
that region came when he appointed
Harry +. Guggenheirn, brother of the
mining engineer and aviation promoter,
to be Ambassador to Cuba. Guggen-
helm spent his early manhood in South
America and speaks Spanish fluently.
To Bolivia the President sent another
"non-career" man in the person of Ed
ward r. Feely, who came under Mr..
Hoover's notice as foreign attache of
the Department Of Commerce. Feely
learned business diplomacy as the de-
partment's agent at Buenos Aires.
Mexican Pert Vacant.
The blue-ribbon Latin American dip
lomatic poSt-Mexico--will shortly have
to be filled, owing to Dwight w. Nor
rows retirement. That Enthusiastically
Is certain to be awarded by Mr.. Hoover
to another business man Of the Nor
row type. It Is highly probable that
an envoy Of the same caliber will be
selected for Toxic, the Japanese post
having become vacant after the recent
death Of Albert H. Washburn. who had
been promoted from the ministership
at Vienna. DR.. Hubert Work.. former
chairman Of the Republican national
ambassadorship, but declined.
Although it Is an open secret that
the noses of our career" men are
out Of joint, in consequence Of the
Hoover foreign service policy, those who
remain In the service, especially the
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