Diplomatic Appointments Sir Ronald Lindsay, Permanent Under-Secretary in the Foreign
Office, is to be the new Ambassador in Washington: Sir Esmond Ovey will go to Moscow. Sir Robert Vansittart, principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister and an Under-Secretary in the Foreign Office, will become Permanent Under-Secretary in suc- cession to Sir Ronald Lindsay. Sir Ronald Lindsay, brother of Lord Crawford, belongs to a family of great ability and of a sensitive artistic taste which has never excluded wide human sympathies. He can reason power- fully, and intellectually' he is not easily intimidated: He served for a short time at the Embassy in Washington in 1919, and Lady Lindsay is an American. He has been Ambassador at Constantinople and also in Berlin. It is interesting that the Labour Government have not gone outside the diplomatic profession for an Ambassador at what is now by far the most important post. We believe that they • are right. Anglo-American relations require now not so much a great public figure like Lord .Bryce, as a well-disposed man of ability who has a complete knowledge of the intricate discussions.
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