Evening star., 1933-07-14

President Roosevelt's decision to re-
tain all career" diplomats 'that IS to
say, non-political appointeesI affects
some two dozen men now in posts
abroad. nearly all of whom have spent
their lives in the foreign service. These
envoys are either to be left urdisturbed in
their present positions or transferred
to other countries. The President be-
gan giving evidence of his interest In
the foreign service career earlv in his
administration First, William Phillips,
service veteran, was restored to the
berth he held once beforc-the Under
secretaryship Of State. Then, in rapid
succession, Wilbur j. Carr, Assistant
Secretary. was reappointed; Sumner
Welles. formerly in the State Depart
ment. was named an Assistant Secretary
and later promoted to the ambassador
ship to Cuba Assistant Secretary OF State
Francis White was promoted to the
ministership to Czachoslovakia Jeffer-
son Caffery. new Minister to Columbia,
has just been promoted to succeed Mr..
White as Assistant Secretary OF State,
in charge of Latin American AFFAIRS.
Ambassador Hugh Gibson. highly dis
tinguished career man. was transferred
from Belgium to Brazil. Joseph G.
Grew was permanently retained as
son, likewise. as Minister to China, and
Robert P Skinner, seasoned dean OF
the foreign service. was promoted
from Minister to Latvia, Estonia and
Lithuenia to Ambassador to Turkey
Warren Delano Robbins was promoted
from the State Department to Minister
to Canada, post he is about to assume.
This wholesale and unprecedented
recognition of the career principle Is
now to BE- extended to all career men.
These include the following: Charles
C. Eberhardt, Minister to Costa Rica;
H. F. Arthur Schoenfeld. Minister to
the Dominican Republic: William Daw-
son, Minister to Ecuador; Charles b,
Curtis, Minister to Salvador; Addison
E. Southard, Minister Resident in Ethl-
opia: Sheldon Whitehouse, Minister to
Guatemala; Norman Armour, Minister
to Haiti; Julius G. Lay. Minister to
Honduras: Paul Knabenshue, Minister
Resident in Iraq Frederick A. Sterling,
Minister to the Irish Free State, Max
we'll Blake. diplomatic agent in Mo-
rocco; Matthew E. Hanna, Minister to
Nicaragua; Hoffman Philip, Minister to
Norway; Post Wheeler, Minister to
Paraguay; Fred Morris Dearing, Am
bassador to Peru: Hugh r. Wilson,
Minister to Switzerland; Ralph j. Tot
ten, Minister to the Union of South
Africa: J. Butler Wright, Minister to
Uruguay, and George T. Summerlin,
Minister to Venezuela.
Two capable career men have been
retired this Summer under the service
law-Edwin v. Morgan, for 81 years
Ambassador to Brazil, and Robert
Woods Bliss, Ambassador to Argentina.
Their places have already been filled.
One Latin American diplomatic plum
the ambassadorship to Chile-became
available this week with the resignation
of non-career man William S. Culbert-
son. The ministership to Siam. now
held by a Republican political ap-
| pointee, David E. Kaufman of Pennsyl-
vania, will probably soon be vacated,
tc,. Mr.. Roosevelt's expressed inten-
ton on all possible occasions to favor
career men as against merely merltorl-
Gus Democratic politicians is the best
news the foreign service has had IN
years. The Presidents devotion to the
career" idea springs In part from ms
| friendship with the late Representative
John Jacob Rogers of Massachusetts,,
| his 1904 Harvard classmate and author
of the foreign service law which. under
Roosevelt auspices. is now receiving
such handsome support. The laws IN
tent Is to protect career men from the
ravages of the political spoils system
and gradually provide the United States
/ with the same kind CT professional
diplomatic service other great powers
have long maintained.
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banking for journalism, and, like Eu.