NEW AMBASSADOR.
American Envoy to Britain Resigning. MR. BINGHAM'S ILL-HEALTH. NEW YORK, December 9. The Washington correspondent of the "New York Times" states that it is learned from an authoritative source that the United States Ambassador to Britain, Mr. R. W. Bingham, resigned several weeks ago owing to ill-health. President Roosevelt has decided to appoint Mr. Joseph P. Kennedy, chairman of the Maritime Commission, to succeed Mr. Bingham, who is undergoing treatment for malaria at the Johns Hopkins Institution. He is expected to go to England after the holidays to pay official calls of farewell. Mr. Kennedy will go to London after that. It is understood that Mr. Kennedy has accepted the post although he implied to the Piress that he did not think it would be offered to him. Mr. Roosevelt Is said to consider the Ambassadorship the most important post anywhere. He expects Europe to receive Mr. Kennedy as the most influential and must important emissary from the Uniled States for many years. That view is based on the European situation, -the progress of the trade treaty negotiations with Britain, the need for (currency stabilisation, and for closer relations between democracies.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 293, 10 December 1937, Page 7
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193NEW AMBASSADOR. Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 293, 10 December 1937, Page 7
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