NEW REGIME.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18204, 4 March 1929, Page 2

NEW REGIME.

MR HOOVER S CABINET SELECTIONS.

Oaltad Pr«*« AiiocUtlon'- By T*i«cruph—Ootiyr'gM > WASHINGTON, March 1. The following further appointments to tfie Hoover Cabinet are announced: Secretary of State, Air Henry L. Stimson (New York). Secretary to the Treasury, Mr A. W. Mellon. Postmaster-General. Air Walter F. Brojvn (Ohio). Secretary to the Navy, Air Charles Francis Adams. Secretary to the Interior, Air Ray Layman Wilbur (California).

Air Henry Lewis Stimson, GovernorGeneral of the Philippines the new Secretary of State to succeed Mr F. B. Kellogg was born in New York City in 1867. He has received degrees from Yale and Harvard and from the Harvard Law School. He served from 1906 to 1909 as District Attorney for the Southern District of New York, leaving office to stand for Governor of Kew York on th© Republican ticket. He was Secretary of War from May. L.)ll, to Alarcb, 1913, in the Cabinet of President Taft. He is a lawyer of note, and was formerly a member of the firm headed bv late’Air Elihu Root. In the Great War he was Colonel of the Thirty-first Field Artillery. Sentiment in ATnnila on the appointment of Afr Stimson as GovernorGeneral of the islands in December, 1927, was highly favourable on all sides and especially on the part of business interests and Americans. General Aguinaldo, the old-time revolutionary leader, declared that the President. Afr Coolidge, could nat have chosen a better man.

The success met with by Air Stimson in a mission to Nicaragua early in 1927 was believed to have weighed favourably with Afr Coolidge in his earch for a successor to General Leonard Wood at Manila. Air 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 the little republic he won over the Conservative President, Adblfo Din*, to' the cause of peace, and later influenced the Liberal Cnm-mnnder-in-Chief to suspend hostilities on condition that the United States should supervise the 1928 election. Long a student of island governments, Air Stimson was not only in touch 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. Air Stimson established personal contact in th© problem of governing island people by going to Cuba from Washington to investigate charges of graft in the local that were stirring (Havana. -;.mm • • a