20 NOVEMBER 1953, Page 7

From Stockholm to Grosvenor Square

Although it will be sad to say goodbye to Mr. Julius C. Holmes after his five years service as Minister at the United States Embassy in London, no better replacement could have been found than Mr. Walton Butterworth, at present American Ambassador to Sweden. A Rhodes scholar who served in the London Embassy from 1934 to 1941, Mr. Butterworth, a burly, cheerful and highly intelligent man, has many friends in England and a son at Wellington. During the war an air- liner in which he was flying crashed into the Tagus when coming in to land at Lisbon, and I have always heard (though Mr. Butterworth denies this) that several of the survivors owed their lives to his gallant conduct.