Ambassadors Three

The State Department will be enriched by three ambassadors if the Senate is polite enough to confirm all three nominations made by President Coolidge last week.

P:The American Embassy at Rome, from which Richard Washburn Child is, retiring by resignation, would be occupied by Henry Prather Fletcher, 50, present Ambassador to Belguim. The appropriateness of Mr. Fletcher's appointment is that he has spent his entire career in the diplomatic service. Following the Spanish-American War, in which he served as a Rough Rider, he went into the diplomatic service as a Second Secretary and rose to be an

Ambassador, serving in Cuba, China, Portugal, Chile, Mexico and lastly in Belgium. During 1921, he took a brief time out from his foreign journeyings to serve as Under Secretary of State. Promoted from the ranks.

P:For lodgings in the American Embassy at Mexico City, the President nominated Charles Beecher Warren, 53 --three years to the day older than Mr. Fletcher--of Detroit. The post was recently recreated when the Administration recognized Mexico after a lapse of diplomatic relations since May, 1920. New conventions were drawn up last summer (TIME, Aug. 27). The two commissioners who negotiated the conventions for the U.S. were John Barton Payne and Mr. Warren.

Law was Mr. Warren's profession before he took to diplomacy. He represented the Government in several international cases. During the War he served on the staff of the Judge Advocate General. In 1921 President Harding sent him as Ambassador to Tokyo. In May of last year, he went to Mexico to negotiate the terms of recognition. Since then, he has professed his unwillingness to take the Mexican Embassy, although his name was under discussion. He changed his mind.

P:As Ambassador to Brussels, to replace Mr. Fletcher, the President nominated William Phillips, 45, Under Secretary of State. He began his diplomatic service as private secretary to the late J. H. Choate, Ambassador to the Court of St. James. His next place was as Second Secretary of the American Legation at Peking as direct successor of Mr. Fletcher. His subsequent service was mostly at the State Department in Washington. From 1920 to 1922 he was Minister tp the Netherlands and Luxembourg. Then he again succeeded Mr. Fletcher--this time as Under Secretary of State. Now he is scheduled once more to succeed Mr. Fletcher, as A. E. and P. to Belgium. Promoted from the ranks in Mr. Fletcher's footsteps.