Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-06
Major Shifts Planned
For Career Enjoys;
Mexico Post Filled

Several major shifts of Ameri-
can diplomats. including APP
pointnent of three career For
eign Service officers as Assistant
Secretaries of State. are due for.
announcement soon by President
Eisenhower, it was learned today.
One political appointment is
understood to be involved in the
impending announcements-that
of Francis White, Baltimore bus
inessman, as Ambassador to Mex
leo. He would succeed William
O'Dwyer. former Democratic
Mayor of New York, who plans
to continue living in Mexico.
New Post for Murphy.
The career men scheduled for
Assistant Secretary posts in the
State Department are:
Robert D. Murphy, present
Ambassador to Japan. who served
as political adviser to Gen. Eisen-
hover in the Mediterranean and
Europe during World War II.
p Livingston T. Merchant. now
assistant to the special Mutual
Security representative in Paris,
who served as economic coun-
selor in the American Embassy
at Paris for a time during the
war and at a later period as
deputy Assistant Secretary for
Far Eastern Affairs in the de-
partment.
John M. Cabot, now AmbaSs-
ador to Finland, who has filled
numerous diplomatic posts in
Latin America and elsewhere
during more than Is years in
the Foreign Service.
Mr.. Cabot is slated to be AS
Sistant Secretary for Inter-
American Affairs. The areas of
responsibility for Mr.. Murphy
and Mr.. Merchant were reported
not definitely decided as yet,
John D. HickerSon, another
career man who has been AS
sistant Secretary for United Ma
tions Affairs since 1949, is ex-
pected to be retained in that post
indefinitely by the Eisenhower
administration. Henry A. By
roade, who resigned as an Army
colonel last year to become As
sistant Secretary for Near East
ern Affairs, also is expected to
be retained.
John M. Allison, career dip
lomat now serving as Assistant
Secretary for Far Eastern At
fairs. is slated to replace Mr..
Murphy as Ambassador to ia
pan. He was closely associated
with Secretary of State Dulles
when the latter negotiated the
japanese Peace Treaty as a spe-
cial ambassador for former
President Truman.
OtHCE SHlltS Expected
Other impending ambassa-
dorial shifts are understood to
include: ~.
Charles E. Bohlen, new coura-
selor of the STATE Department
and one of the Governments top.
experts on Soviet affairs. to be
Ambassador to Russia.
George v. Allen, now Ambas-
sador, to Yugoslavia and a for
mer Assistant Secretary of State
for Public Affairs, to be Ambas-i
sador to India. III
George F.. keenan,. now nomi-
nally Ambassador to Russia al
though barred from serving
there by the Soviet government,
and 10y w. Henderson, present
Ambassador to Iran. are re-
ported among several other ca
reer diplomats slated for new
assignments which have not
been settled definitely yet.
Mr.. Keenan, has been reported
under consideration for appoint
ment as Ambassador to Egypt
or Switzerland, but authorita-
tive informants said there has
been no final decision.
Mr.. Henderson also is re-
ported being considered for
transfer to Egypt.
George Wadsworth, now Am
bassador to Czechoslovakia and
former Ambassador to Turkey,
may be transferred to Pakistan
but this shift also was said to
be unsettled as yet.