Ambassador to Brazil

FOREIGN RELATIONS"

Brazilian newspapers applauded the news last week that President Eisenhower had picked Clare Boothe Luce to be the next U.S. Ambassador to Brazil--the U.S.'s first woman envoy to a Latin American country. Sometime journalist (managing editor of Vanity Fair at 29), playwright (The Women), movie author and scenarist (Come to the Stable) and Congresswoman (from Connecticut, 1943-47), Clare Luce, 55, served as U.S. Ambassador to Italy for 3 1/2 eventful years--1953-56. During her service in Rome, Communism's threat to Italy was decisively broken, and she helped settle the explosive old quarrel between Italy and Yugoslavia over Trieste.

As Ambassador to Brazil, she will succeed able Career Diplomat Ellis O. Briggs, 59. Only foreign diplomat to visit every one of vast Brazil's 25 states and territories, polished, amiable Old Latin America Hand Briggs built up a priceless fund of good will for the U.S. during his 2 1/2 years in Brazil. Judged by her performance in Italy, Clare Luce can be depended on to add to the fund.

Ambassadorial shifts under way last week in the Foreign Service's latest flurry of career-diplomat musical chairs:

To the Union of South Africa: Philip Kingsland Crowe, 51, wartime OSS officer in East Asia, Ambassador to Ceylon (1953-56), lately Secretary Dulles' special assistant for confidential press relations (policy guidance, planned news leaks). Crowe's successor as briefing officer: Pennsylvania Banker William Warren Scranton, 41, civic leader, whose ancestors gave their name to the Pennsylvania industrial city of Scranton, formerly Slocum Hollow.

To Afghanistan: Crowe's predecessor in South Africa, Henry A. Byroade, 45, West Pointer who gave up his Army commission (brigadier general) for a diplomatic career in 1952, was Ambassador to Egypt in 1955-56.

To Jordan: Byroade's predecessor in Afghanistan, Sheldon T. Mills, 54, Foreign Service veteran who took up his first overseas post in Bolivia in 1929, served as Ambassador to Ecuador before moving to Afghanistan in 1956.

To Cambodia: William C. Trimble, 51, Foreign Service officer since 1931, lately deputy chief of the U.S. mission in Bonn.

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