It is an interesting coincidence, but there is no reason
to think it more than a coincidence, that the appointment of the British Ambassador in Moscow to Washington should be followed so quickly by the appointment of the American Ambassador in Moscow to London ; the moves will at any rate facilitate discussion between London and Washington on a subject which there may be frequent occasions to discuss. Till he became an Ambassador, Mr. Averell Harriman was mainly known as the riglit-hand man to Mr. Harry Hopkins, who in financial and economic ,matters was right-hand man to President Roosevelt. He promises to be a popular representative
of his country at the Court of St. James's, and it is no misfortune that he happens to be a rich man (thanks to the prosperity of the rail- ways he has been associated with), for American Ambassadors in London can rarely live within their income.
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