Evening star., 1935-04-08
ROBBINS FUNERAL
TO Be TOMORROW
Presidents Cousin, Envoy to
Canada, to Rest at
Fairhaven, Mass.
BY the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April s.-A funeral
service for Warren Delano Robbins.
40, United States Minister to Canada
and a first cousin of President Roose-
welt, will be held tomorrow In the
Church of the Incarnation here, fol-
lowed by private burial at Fairhaven,
Mass.
i Robbins, who had served the United
States in various diplomatic capacities
for more than Is years. died early
yesterday in Doctors Hospital OF
pneumonia that developed a week
ago after a severe cold.
Successfully he served at Buenos
Aires, Mexico City and Guatemala
before being assigned to duty in the
State Department in 1916.
He served as aide to the Council
of Ministers of France, who visited
the United States In 1917, and was
attached to the Belgian Commission
to this country later in the same
year.
Returning to foreign service, Rob-
bins served at Buenos Aires and
Santiago, before he was recalled to
Washington to become acting chief
of the division of Near Eastern af-
fairs in the State Department He
became chief of the division in 1921.
Arms Farley Adviser.
Robbins acted as an adviser to the
American delegation at the Confer
ence on Limitation of Armament in
Washington in 1922, served on
the Foreign Service Personnel Board
and was named counselor of embassy
at Rome in 1925.
In July, 1928, he was appointed
Minister to El Salvador, returning to
the United States to serve as secretary
of the American delegation to the
International Conference of American
States on Cancellation and Arbitration
in 1929. Robbins was named chief of
the Division of Protocol in the State
Department in September, 1881, and
served here until his appointment as
Minister to Canada.
The Minister and veteran of the
diplomatic service was taken to Doc
tors Hospital last Monday after he
had contracted a severe cold. Men,
bers of his family, who had remained
close to him when his condition be-
came critical, were at his bedside.
Appointed in 1888.
When Mr.. Roosevelt visited WASH
ington in November of 1892, shortly
after his election, Robbins was one
of those who greeted him officially
on behalf of President Hoover. In
1888 Mr.. Roosevelt nominated his
cousin as Minister to Canada and the
Senate confirmed the appointment
Before taking up his regular duties
at Ottawa, Robbins went on tenn
porary duty at London in connection
with the impending economic con-
ference and was received by King
George. AS Minister to Canada he
worked for hand hand" relation
between the two countries in work
toward prosperity.
I'VE can progress hand in hand
"AIAA IAALo WUIh, lie SdIQ III an dQQreSS
at Montreal last year.
Robbins was born in Brooklyn. son
of the late Charles Albert Robbins
and Mrs. Catherine Delano Robbins
His mother. now Mrs. Price Collier.
widow of the author. is a sister of
Mrs. James Roosevelt, mother of the
President.
Harvard Graduate of 1908.
Robbins attended Groton School
and was graduated from Harvard in
1908. He started on his diplomatic
career the next year, when he became
secretary to the American Minister to
Portugal. Later that year he became
secretary to the American Minister
to Argentina.
1t was while he held this latter post
that he was married in 1910 in Buenos
Aires to Miss Irene de Bruyn of Buenos
Aires. daughter of Casimir de Bruyn,
railroad man and banker. Robbins
work in the diplomatic service in
Europe and Latin America followed.
Besides his widow and mother, sur
vivors are daughter, Mrs. Alexander
Cochrane Forbes of New York, and
two sons, Warren Delano, jr., and Ed
ward H. Robbins
HULL EXPRESSES DISTRESS.