MR DUFF COOPER REPLACED

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25321, 22 October 1947, Page 7

MR DUFF COOPER REPLACED

BRITISH AMBASSADOR TO PARIS SIR OLIVER HARVEY APPOINTED (Rec. 11 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 30. The Foreign Office has announced thet Sir Oliver Charles Harvey has been appointed to succeed Mr A. Duff Cooper as British Ambassador to Paris. Sir Oliver Harvey is at present a De-puty-Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign Office. Reuters diplomatic correspondent says: “Persistent rumours of Mr Duff Cooper’s retirement ever since the Labour Government took office in 1945 were based on the assumption that because Mr Duff Cooper was a wellknown Conservative politician, his continued appointment to one of the few major diplomatic posts filled by a political figure during the war was not consistent with the Labour Party’s foreign policy. It is no secret that Labour Party members brought pressure to bear on Mr Bevin to replace Mr Duff Cooper, but Mr Bevin withstood the 6 ressure Observers, indeed, declared lat Mr Duff Cooper wielded perhaps more influence with his Government at home after Labour came to power than during the last phase of the Coalition Government when Mr Eden was Foreign Secretary.”