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Show Holland Selects New Envoy to U. S. Amsterdam, Holland The Handels-blad Handels-blad learns that Herman Van Roijen, the Dutch minister in Rome, Italy, will be appointed minister to the United Unit-ed States, succeeding Dr. A. C. D. De Graeff, who has been promoted- to governor general of the Dutch East Indies. Mr. Van Roijen is well known in the United States. His wife was Albertina T. Winthrop, daughter of the late Robert Winthrop, assistant secretary of the navy in the Taft administration. ad-ministration. He was mentioned for the Washington post as early as 1917, when he was minister to Spain, and again in 1921. |