AMBASSADOR TO WASHINGTON

Evening Star, Issue 25700, 25 January 1946, Page 6

AMBASSADOR TO WASHINGTON

SIR ARCHIBALD TLARK KERR NEW YORK, January 24. A ' New York Times ' correspondent learns that Sir Archibald Clark Kerr will succeed Lord Halifax. It was announced yesterday that Halifax, who, as Britain's war T time Ambassador in Washington, was lirectly responsible for much of the goodwill between the two countries during the past few years, was planning to retire Sir Archibald Clark Kerr is expected to arrive in Washington in three or four months' time after the completion of his duties in the Netherland? East Indies, where he is being sent to attempt to restore harmony. The choice of Sir Archibald Clark Kerr is expected to be very popular witix the Americans.

lawyer and a typical modest Frenchman, who rose to his present position of unexpected prominence mainly through his ability to carry through any job and maintain his reputation as a man without enemies. He is a southerner with a rich provincial accent from a small village near Aix-en-Pro-v'ence. He has a fine record in the resistance movement since . the day when, as a deputy, he voted against granting dictatorial powers to Petain in July, 1940. M. Gquin eluded the Gestapo, after defending M. Blum at the Riom trial in 1942, and escaped to England through Spain. He . was elected President in January, 1943, of the first Free French Parliament—the Consultative Assembly which sat at Algiers. .