DIPLOMATIC CHANGES

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 45, 16 November 1929, Page 11

DIPLOMATIC CHANGES

AMBASSADOR AT BUENOS AIRES RESIGNS ENVOY AT PARIS (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, November 14. It is announced that Sir Malcolm Robertson, His Majesty’s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Buenos Aires, for reasons of a personal and. family nature, has tendered his resignation to the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, who has accepted it with regret. Sir Malcolm Robertson was appointed British Minister to Buenos Aires in 1925. He became Ambassador two years later when the British Legation there was raised to the status of Ambassador. Pie had earlier held posts in Berlin, Peking, Washington, Madrid, Bucharest, The Hague, Montevideo, Rio de Janeiro, and Tangier, and was for a time British Commissioner in the Rhineland. He has recently been engaged in negotiating the Anglo-Argen-tine Trade Convention, which was the sequel to Lord D’Abernon’s economic mission to the Argentine and was signed a few days ago, The King has approved of the appointment of Mr. Ronald Hugh Campbell, Counsellor in His Majesty’s Diplomatic Service, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in the Diplomatic Service whilst employed at Paris.

RESIGNATION OF AMERICAN MINISTER AT OTTAWA Ottawa, November 14. “My reasons for resignation I have given already. I am naturally also disappointed, that the Government has not decided as yet to acquire the necessary premises here,’’ the United States Minister, Mr. W. Phillips, said on Thursday, questioned in respect of the published report from Washington that the refusal of the United States Government to provide its representative with a house in the capital had been the cause of some annoyance.