WOMAN AMBASSADOR

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 130, 5 June 1933, Page 8

WOMAN AMBASSADOR

AMEKI€A AND DENMARK

A DAUGHTER OF BRYAN

(From "The Post's" Representative.) NEW.YORK, April 26. Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, M.A., LL.D., eldest daughter ©f the late William Jennings Bryan, and widow of Major Reginald Owen, 8.E., sou of Sir Theodore Owen, brings to her task of first woman Ambassador appointed by any country attributes that fit her peculiarly as United States-Minister, to Denmark. When the appointment was hinted, a month ago, it was hailed with enthusiasm by the Danish people, among whom the daughter of the Great Commoner has made a multitude of friendships during ,a caravan tour of their country with two of her five children' throughout, last summer. "The hospitality and friendliness of the Danish people and the beguiling charm of every section of that delightful country made that summer vacation an unforgettable experience for all three of us," Mrs. Owen observed. ' Mrs. Owen .served with the British Forces for the duration of the Great War. From 1915 to 1918 ~she was a nurse in, the Egypt-Palestine campaign. She was a member of tho executive of the American Women's War Relief Fund in London, -which financed and operated the American Women's War Hospital at Paignton, Devonshire. Her husband was gravely wounded in the field, and, on his being invalided, late in- 1918, Mrs. Owen took him to Florida, -where he enjoyed the benefit of a warm climate.,As his health began to fail, she nUfcquished a wide array of public activities. Her devotion to him until his death aroused the admiration of American /Womanhood. Hers was a double bereavement, as her distinguished father died in the. same year, as a result of over-work in connection with his pleading—his first brief after years of retirement from the Law—in the famous evolution ■ trial in Tennessee. . .-'■■■'■'.,■'■ ; I Mrs. Owen then plunged whole-heart-edly into public Jife. She was elected to Congress in 1929, but met defeat; in the' "primary" for the 1933 "election. A vigorous debater, she wrote, in 1931, a.book, "Elements of Public Speaking." She lectured'at Miami University from 1926 to 1929, and. for fpur years sat on the University Senate. She looks forward to serving in" the diplomatic service, which had been administered by her father as Secretary of State. She was a member of tho Foreign Affairs Committee during her two terms in the House of Representatives. Her appointment to Denmark was confirmed by the Senate without the customary formality of reference to a committee.