U.S. AMBASSADOR TO BRITAIN RESIGNS
(Received 10 a.m.) NEW YORK, December 8. 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, (o succeed Mr Bingham, who is undergoing' treatment for malaria at the John Hopkins Institution. 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 most important emissary from the United States for many years.
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Northern Advocate, 10 December 1937, Page 4
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