Evening star., 1946-03-24
Winant Resigns
As Ambassador;
HarrimanNamed
Trumon Gives UNO
Council Post to
Envoy to Britain
Bx Joseph A. Fox

President Truman last night
announced the resignation of
John G. Winant as Ambassador
to Great Britain, and the ap-
pointment of w. Averell Harri-
man, who has just resigned as
Ambassador to Russia, as his
successor.
Mr.. Winant will become the Amer
lean member of the Economic and
Social Council of the United Nations
the President disclosed. He has
been serving as the representative
of this Government during the or
ganizational meetings of the council.
1t is expected that the nomina-
tions will go to the Senate tomorrow.
Hartman Selection Was Surprise.
The Winant resignation has been
reported imminent for several
months, but the selection of Mr..
Hartman to succeed him came as q
surprise. Both were White House
visitors within the past week. Press
Secretary Charles G. Ross told news
men that King George VI had in
formed the United States that Mr..
Harriman's appointment was accept
able.
The Ambassador designate, in pri-
vate life chairman of the board of
the Union Pacific Railroad, is 54
years old and the son of the late
railroad king, E. H. Hartman.
A one-time Republican who went
over to the Democratic party in
1928 and voted for Alfred E. Smith.
he entered Government service at
the outset of the New Deal with ap-
as deputy administrator
OF the old National Recovery Ad-
ministration. Later he was associ-
ated with the Office of Production
forerunner of the War
Production Board, and in l941. was
by President Roosevelt as
'expediter" of American aid to-
Great Britain with the rank of min
lSter.
4 He participated in the several con-
ferences abroad which brought to-
sether Mr.. Roosevelt, and other
chiefs of state of the major allies
and late in 1943 was appointed Am
oaSSador to Moscow when Ambas-
Sador William H. Standley resigned
after blasting the Soviet for-as he
said-not permitting the Russian
people to know the extent to which
they were being aided by the United
States.
Wanted Private Life.
Mr.. Hartman had been anxious
for a long time to return to private
life, and his recent resignation was
not unexpected.
Leaving here several DAYS ago for
4 vacation at Hobe Sound. off the
coast of Florida, he told reporters
hat he had no further plans than
10 take a rest and then 60 out for
one OF his periodical visits to Union
Pacific territory. He said he would
make a speech there covering
everything" of interest to the
American people.
During his stay here, he was a.
witness at closed session of the
House Rules Committee to which he
was reported to have said that Rus
'ia lis playing a game of bluff" and
neither seeks nor desires war.
1t. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith.
former chief of staff to Gen. Eisen-
mower, was confirmed Friday as Mr. |
successor and is leaving
.or Moscow today.
Will Serve for Year.
Mr.. Winant is leaving the Court of
St. James after five years. He told
White House reporters last week
that he took the diplomatic post as
4 wartime assignment, and hoped
soon to relinquish it, He added that
The economic council berth requires
the full time of those composing it.
but did not indicate that he would
be the American appointee.
Under the sliding scale arrange
nent for the initial appointments,
the American member of the 18-manI
body will serve year. He will be-
eligible for reappointment to al
three-year term. The council was
set up at the London meeting of
the UNO.
Mr.. Winant, 81, was born to
wealth of an old colonial family,
and is Republican who served
(See AMBASSADORS- Page A-67