BRITAIN AND U.S.A.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 85, 11 April 1929, Page 9

BRITAIN AND U.S.A.

DAWES NEW AMBASSADOR.

(Australian Press Assn.—United Service.i Received a m ) WASHINGTON, April 10. The appointment of General C. G. Dawes as Ambassador to Britain, wa; announced at White House on Wednesday. The State Department has received word that General Dawes was acceptable to the British Government. The appointment, which is subject to Senatorial confirmation, was well received in Diplomatic circles. General Dawes sails for Ensland in June. General Charles Gate Dawes, born in 1865. began his political activities in connection with the Presidential election. workmz on behalf

of William McKinley, who, in 1>97. appointed hir.i Comptroller of the Currency. In 1 !>;0 he returned to the- business world as p: u*nt of the Central National Bank in Chicago. During the latter part of ~ the war he was appointed head of the Purchasing Board of the ;nit-ed States troops. After the armistice , was signed Dawes

. was entrusted by President Harding with the reform of the Government Departments. At the end of 1923 the Reparations Commission appointed him head of the Committee of Experts which was to investigate the ability of Germany to pay. As a result of his investigations he drew up the Dawes report, which was adopted by all countries concerned as a bas-.s for the carrying out of the reparations undertakings. In 1924 he was elected VicePresident of the United States bv a big Republican majority. He is the" author et the book on The System of the United State*.* U * -