UNITED STATES CABINET.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20172, 5 February 1929, Page 9

UNITED STATES CABINET.

HOOVER MAKES BEGINNING.

NEW SECRETARY OF STATE.

FORMERLY WAR MINISTER.

Australian and N.Z. Press Association. (Received February 4, 8.55 jj.m.) NEW YORK, Feb. 3. The Washington correspondent of the New York Times says it is authoritatively stated that Mr. Hemy L. Stimson, Governor-General of the Philippines, has been offered and has accepted the post of Secretary of State under the Presidentelect, Mr. Herbert Hoover. Mr. Stimson has often been mentioned for this position. He is now preparing to leave Manila for the United States. The Times says he is highly fitted for the post.

The well-known airman, Colonel Charles Lindbergh, to-day refused to comment upon a report that he will be Assistant Secretary for Aviation in the Department of Commerce.

Mr. Henry Lewis Stimson, GovernorGeneral of the Philippines, who is reported to have been appointed Secretary of State to succeed Mr. F. E. Kellogg under the Administration to bo led by Mr. Herbert Hoover, was born in New York City in 1867. He has received degrees from Yale and Harvard and from the Harvard Law School. Ho served from 1906 to 1909 as District Attorney for the Southern District of New York, leaving office to stand for Governor of New York on the Republican ticket. Ho was Secretary of War from May, 1911, to March, 1913, in the Cabinet of President Taft. Ho is a lawyer of note, and was formerly a member of the firm headed by tho late Mr. Elihu Root. In the Great. War he was Colonel of the Thirty-first Field Artillery. Sentiment in Manila on the appointment of Mr. Stimson as GovurnorCeneral of the islands in December, 1927, was highly favourable on all sides and especially on the part of business interests and Americans. General Aguinaldo, tho old-time revolutionary leader, declared that the President, Mr. Coolidge, could not have chosen a better man.

The success met with by Mr. Stimson in a mission to Nicaragua early in 1927 was believed to have weighed favourably with Mr. Coolidge in his search for a successor to General Leonard Wood at Manila. Mr. Stimson accepted a commission from the President in April, 1927, to investigate the revolutionary situation in Nicaragua and, if possible, to persuade the contending forces to lay down their arms. Shortly after his arrival in 'he little republic lie won over the Conservative President, Adolfo_ Diaz, to the cause of peace, and later influenced the Liberal Commander-in-Chief to suspend hostilities on condition that the United States should supervise the 1928 election. Lonq: a student of island _ governments, Mr. Stimson was not only in tpuch with the Nicaraguan situation, but during the preceding year, as a guest in Manila of General Wood, had an opportunity to study the situation in the Philippines. Again, when Secretary of War. Mr. Stimson established a personal contact in the problem of governing island people by going to Cuba from Washington to investigate charges of graft in the local government that were stirring Havana.