The New United States Ambassador General Dawes will have an
able and popular successor at the United States Embassy here in Mr. Andrew Mellon, who has served both Mr. Coolidge and Mr. Hoover as Secretary to the Treasury. Mr. Mellon is known in his own country as a wealthy banker with large interests in aluminium and oil. He is noted also for his exceptionally fine collection of pictures, to which he recently added several of the famous masterpieces from the Hermitage. Some of Mr. Mellon's treasures have been lent to Bur- lington House for the Flemish Exhibition and for the present French Exhibition. He is known to be a good friend of this country, and his son has taken his degree at Cambridge. Mr. Mellon is too well versed in American polities to let his sympathies carry Min too far, but he understands our troubles and the troubles of Europe and may be trusted to smooth the relations between White- hall and the White House as far as an Ambassador can.
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