Kerr for Cripps

Britain last week shifted Ambassadors to Russia, kept the job in the hands of a broad-scale, human envoy:

>Leaving Moscow was high-domed, bespectacled Sir Stafford Cripps, 52, able leftist lawyer. When he was expelled from the Labor Party in 1939 for trying to form a united front with Liberals and Communists, it was said "the Party has blown its brains out." A vegetarian and devout non-Church Christian, often called "Christ and Carrots" by his friends, Sir Stafford has long believed in a possible British-Russian alliance, worked hard maintaining even relations during the Soviet-German Pact. Last week he was widely mentioned for a high post in the Churchill Cabinet

>Going to Moscow was tweedy, handsome Sir Archibald John Kerr Clark Kerr, 59, Ambassador to China since 1938. An aristocratic Scotsman and career diplomat, Sir Archibald became noted among the Chinese for his personal and official friendliness. He was instrumental in selling the idea of China's thousands of industrial cooperatives to Mme. Chiang Kaishek, treated the Japanese aggressors in China with such flat, undiplomatic candor that whenever he went into Japanese-fringed Shanghai he had to wear a bulletproof vest. He will be succeeded in China by Sir Horace James Seymour, 56, Assistant Under Secretary of State. Sir Archibald may be useful in Moscow, but he will be missed in Chungking at a time when the Chinese are fed up with the British.

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