Show WINANT NAMED LONDON ENVOY BY ROOSEVELT ROOSE No Nomination r Tops Ch Changes r in Diplomatic Fi Field ld I W AS E Feb 6 6 UP J President re ic e t Roosevelt Roos y Thursday Thursday Thursday Thurs Thurs- day nominated d John G. G Winant former Republican governor of N New J M Hampshire p rire an and jl a sp specialist special special- I in n l labor bor and social problems problems I I lems as Americas America's new ambassador ambas ambat- I sa sailor or to London during this crucial period in British history The long expected nomination of Winant to succeed succeed Joseph P. P Kenedy Kennedy Ken Ken- nedy pedy topped a list of diplomatic shifts which the president sent to the senate Th These se included Anthony J. J Drexel Biddle Jr of Pennsylvania former ambassador to Poland as IU ambassador in Ip London London London Lon Lon- don to the refugee governments of Poland Belgium Norway and the Netherlands Johnson to Quit China Ambassador dor to China Nelson T T. Johnson to be minister to Aus Aus- Clarence E. E Gauss now now minister to Australia to to be ambassador to China WI William liam Dawson Dawon n now w ambassador d dor r nama to o b be ba a ap ambassador p s or orto to Uruguay Edwin Edwina O a Wilson now now minister to Uruguay YI J to be ambassador dor to toPan Pan Panama ma Bert Fish now no minister to Egypt to be minister to Portugal Alexander Kirk now now c counselor of the U. U S. S embassy at Rome to tobe tobe tobe be minister t to Egypt Herbert C. C Pell Fell now minister to Portugal to be minister to Nor Nor- way J. J Pierpont Moffatt minister to Canada will also take on the duties as minister to the government of Luxembourg which has been established established established in C Canada na a. a Hints flints Long Range Aid Ald Selection of ot a man of Winant's type ype is as s envoy to London indicated the emphasis the administration is giving to the problem of long range coop cooperation r tion with the British empire looking toward social and econ economic re reconstruction after the wa war He 1 It is a quiet studious New Englander Englander Eng- Eng lander ander who started talking about the short work week and job se security security security se- se back in the lush boom days of ot 1928 As U. U S. S representative and since 1939 director of the international labor abor office Winant became a close friend of Ernest Bevin evin the minIster minster min mm- Ister ster of of- labor in the Churchill cab- cab net met Explains Johnson e Move i White House Secretary Stephen T. T Early fold told reporters the shift ot of t Ambassador Johnson from China to be minister to Australia a step down in m rank was a technical technical technical tech tech- demo demotion io but actually is a reward He p pointed dout out J n r many years r on oil Page ur I 1 Three His Name Goes to Senate a t 1 s a r t JC y i ii im m i 4 13 a I Yh w r j p 9 International News Photo WILL SUCCEED JOSEPH P. P KENNEDY IN LONDON John G GT Winant Vivant former farmer governor of New Hampshire Roosevelt Nominates I I Winant as Envoy I Continued Page Papa One cult conditions in China bein being g forced to move each time the Chi CM Chinese Chinese nese government moved and being confronted with one crisis after another during the undeclared war between C China lna and Japan He said aid resident President ent Roosevelt wanted to reward eward him Mm by moving him to a place where he could return to a quiet peaceful life and have his family with him The promotion of Minister Gauss to o be ambassador of t to China h na E Early parly said is a h reward for the work he heId did Id while serving as ps consul general in ip China during most of the period when Americans were threatened by hostile outbreaks in Shanghai CONCORD N. N H. H Feb 6 21 P- P When John G G. Winant first was mentioned as the possible ambassador ambas sailor saor t to Britain many people couldn't have told you whether t the e name represented an Austral Austra lian Uan tennis star or a e. new variety of apple The main exceptions to thi would be citizens ns of New Hampshire Hampshire Hamp r shire which Winant serve served three terms as governor habitual readers read ers of pf t dispatches from Geneva Switzerland where Winant directed direct ed ea the International labor office and people who could remember back bpck to the first director of th tM the social security administration Yet for many years Winant hat haj ha s b been en pursuing one of ot the most re remarkable re re- markal le careers in American poll poli- tics Tall raJI and dark daric with a st stern rn face and piercing eyes but a winning smile and a friendly firm handclasp handclasp hand hand- clasp he J Is s a striking contradiction tion of many notions true or fallacious fallacious falla falla- cious Clous that have been bandied around about people and politics I for decades Some of these are That all aU school teachers teacher are peo peo- PIe who couldn't make a tying Hying any other othe Why way That what is the matter platter with this country is Js that people of means mean never take any interest in public affairs That government is monopolized by professional politicians jn instead tead of experts In public service e That rich people cant can't get labors labor's viewpoint And that New Tew ew Englanders are Invariably chilly In demeanor and provincial lat in outlook First hirst Job Teaching n Winant began his career career carrer as a school chool teacher and subsequently demonstrated unu unusual ability inmany inmany in inmany many lines A man man of large private private private vate m means an he has devoted the theet better et eJ part of ot his JIs Clr career er to public DubUc affairs assiduously cultivating the toe scientific approach Despite extensive exten exten- Jive give commercial interests he ha has displayed solicitude for l labor bor And a a. New Englander In up up- bringing ringing and appearance Winant administered two flung far-flung cosmopolitan cosmopolitan cos cos- cos- cos projects projects th the League of Nations Nations' labor division and a d the so social social so- so cial security e program with program with sufficient sufficient finesse and warmth to bring him JUm into consideration for an un urn dIPlo diplomatic assignment Few b. b LONDON Fel Feb 6 British P official sources applauded Thurs day r President nt ROO Roosevelt's velt's appointment appointment appoint appoint- ment of J John hn G. G Wi Winant t to b be 81 ant am to Great Britain They sale said he would be welcomed Jn to London n both as a a. man with a wide liberal outlook in International international affairs and as a o Joyal collaborator col cot of fC President Roosevelt Roosevelt- eve W |