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military supply aspects of the work as
exceptionally meritorious," Judgment
which was echoed by Gen. Charles G..
Dawes
And after Calvin Coolidge had left
the White House President Hoover
confirmed the Judgment of his prede-
cessor as to the Morrow talents and
capabilities, by naming the Ambassador
as member of the American delega-
ton to the Five-PoWer London Naval
Conference of 1880.
There Ne and Gen. Dawes, the latter
being then Ambassador to the Court
Of st. Jame5, specialized on the Franco
italian nava$ problem and it was said
that it was no fault of theirs that the
ultimate treaty, in the drafting Of which
Mr. Morrow took leading part, did
not become a five-power pact instead
of being limited to the United States,
Great Britain and Japan.
In 1928 he was one of the American
delegates to the sixth Pan-American
Congress, held In Havana.
Started as Law Clerk.
| Mr.. Morrow's list of achievements in
professional life. business, diplomacy
| anu pLdCI1Cd POllllCS dLR lEOI1 oil
intellectual heritage, but background
Of decidedly moderate worldly posses
sions. His father. Prof. James E. Nor
] row, was president of Marshall College
at Huntington, w. Va, when his second
son was born there on January IL. 1873.
! The mother was Clara Johnson Morrow,
reared on an Ohio farm, but known to
her girlhood neighbors as literary" be-
cause of the number of books she read
| hn r6ay lfNyY
speller. They named their second son
| for Prof William Dwight Whitney of
| Yale, author Of a famous English
! grammar.
The future diplomat finished his or
| binary schooling at Allegheny, Pa.
where his father had become teacher
in the high school. He worked his
way through Amherst College, winning
| the degree of bachelor of arts in 1895.
Then he turned to the study of law
and after four years struggle with Gcant
| finances, graduated with an LIB. de-
gree from Columbia University in 1899.
J. P. Morgan g. Co. Joined.
He got himself a job as law clerk
with the firm of Simpson, Thatcher &
Bartlett in New York, perSuading them
start Six years later he was a member
of the firm and nine years after that
| in 1914, he transferred his allegiance
| to finance and became a partner in
| J. P. Morgan e. Co.
With that famous house he spe-
cialized in international loans, spending
| considerable time in Cuba and also
devoting attention to the increased
| European business that followed the
outbreak of the world war.
In these activities he displayed not
only keen commercial sagacity but also
| qualities of tact, sympathy and under
standing that marked him as leader
in business diplomacy.
| 1t was President Coolidge's knowledge
of Mr.. Morrow'S talents as conciliator
that prompted him to appoint the
! board which studied the dispute over
airplane defense between Gen. william
Mitchell and high Army officials. This
board Sifted the wheat from the chaff
Of the controversy, then made unani-
nous recommendations which within a
| year were made effective by Congress
i and put in force as Government policies.
Made Envoy to Mexico in 1927.
Two years of continued business sue
cess followed. then on September &c.
| 1927, the banker became Ambassador
to Mexico, first resigning his partner
! ship in the Morgan concern.
Mexico was then just beginning to
| emerge from a long period of tumult
marked by civil wars, the overthrow of
several administrations, widespread
banditry, revolutionary laws relating
to property rights of foreigners and
anti-religious propaganda. Outstanding
in the pending questions with the United
| States was a controversy over Oil rights
on which 10000 words of notes had
been exchanged with Washington with
out tangible result.
Ambassador Morrow found that con-
| fidence between the two governments
| was decidedly minus quality. So first
| he started to make the Mexicans believe
in the United States and his own coun-
| try believe in its smaller southern
neighbor.
A famous ham and eggs breakfast
! with President Elias Gales at the lat
ter's ranch outside Mexico City has been
credited with being the real start of
this campaign.
Discarding the useless system of ex-
changing notes, the new diplomat
adopted the method of direct, friendly
conversation with responsible officials
as a means of settling international
problems. Groups in disagreement on
the oil questions were brought face to
face, the essential similarities in their
viewpoints were stressed and after
ch1LCS1 6OuNy NACNANO oAOPSSN
legislation confirming oil lands conceS-
sions that was acceptable to both sides.
Another big question, but with no di-
rect American Government interest,
arose when President Gales put into
effect constitutional provisions upSetting
the position of the Roman Catholic
Church in Mexico. Priests were with
drawn from their parishes by the church
authorities, the government halted re-
ligious education and abrogated many
church property rights and for three
years there ragged a controversy that
was punctuated by bloody fighting in
several States of the southern republic.
The whole subject was outside the
Ambassadors jurisdiction but both sides
turned toward him as friendly neutral
sand, more than any other one man, he
was credited with having paved the
way for final adjustments that were
signed in June, 1929, by representatives
of the hierarchy and Provisional Pres
ident Portes Gil, succeSsf to Gales.
Daughter WEEDS Here.
Before this Mr.. Morrow had thorough
ly convinced Gales and other Mexican
leaders that he was actuated by sincere
friendship for the Mexican people. The
ending of the church question saw this
belief as firmly intrenched in the popu-
lar mind Marriage of "the" Alnbassa-
doris daughter Anne to Charles Lind
berrh on Nav 81 1929, helped enhance