Nothing could be better than the appointment of M. Rene
Massigli as French Ambassador in London. Indeed, his claims to that post are so obvious that, once it was announced that M. Bidault was to be Foreign Minister in the reconstructed French Government, his predecessor's transference to London was taken for granted.. M.
Massigli should be well able to maintain the prestige which the Embassy in Albert Gate established under a series of distinguished occupants. He has had long and wide experience in diplomacy, and his contacts with the Foreign Office will lose nothing from the fact that he and Sir Alexander Cadogan have had strikingly similar careers, both having been in their time heads of the League of Nations section in their respective Ministries—meeting, therefore, constantly at Geneva—and both in due course rising to the highest position among permanent officials. M. Massigli reached this country from France early last year in circumstances which make an entertaining story if 'only he will tell it, and was in charge of Foreign Affairs in Carlton Gardens until the Free French Com- mittee went to Algiers.
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