Again, Career Men

THE CABINET

Last week President Coolidge, on the advice of Secretary of State Kellogg, lifted three wise men of Princeton, Yale and Harvard out of the Department of State, appointed them to important diplomatic posts.

To Budapest, Hungary, will be sent the Princeton man, Joshua Butler Wright, to succeed Theodore Brentano as U. S. Minister. Ignorant Hungarian newspapers expressed proud surprise that the U. S. Secretary of State had been made Minister to their country. Blithely unconscious of Mr. Kellogg's Secretaryship, they attached all manner of significance to the appointment of Mr. Wright, who happens to be merely Mr. Kellogg's suave and able assistant. Mr. Wright, a onetime rancher from Wyoming, has been in the diplomatic service and the Department of State since 1909.

To Berne, Switzerland, will be sent the Yale man, Hugh R. Wilson, to succeed Hugh S. Gibson* as U. S. Minister. Keen-witted, methodical, Mr. Wilson, of a family of Chicago wholesalers, a onetime Chairman of the Yale Daily News, entered the diplomatic service as private secretary to the U. S. Minister at Lisbon. Recently he has been chief of the bureau of current information in the Department of State.

To Stockholm, Sweden, will be sent the Harvard man, Leland Harrison, to succeed Robert Woods Bliss/- as U. S. Minister. Mr. Harrison, of New York, has been Assistant Secretary of State since 1922. Two more "career men," William R. Castle Jr. and Francis White, were appointed Assistant Secretaries of State.

*Mr. Gibson was appointed Ambassador to Belgium a fortnight ago (TIME, Feb. 21).

/-Recently appointed Ambassador to Argentina (TIME, Feb. 14).