Rearrangement

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Secretary of State Kellogg was called upon to undertake a major rearrangement of Ambassadors and Ministers as follows:

Dr. Jacob Gould Schurman, Minister to China, was transferred to be Ambassador to Berlin (post left vacant by Alanson B. Houghton, transferred to London).

Peter Augustus Jay, Minister to Rumania, was transferred to be Ambassador to Argentina (post left vacant by the resignation of John W. Riddle).

Ulysses Grant-Smith, Minister to Albania, was transferred to the Ministry at Uruguay (succeeding Hoffman Philip).

George L. Kreeck, banker of Lawrence, Kan., was made Minister to Paraguay. The post has been vacant for some time.

¶ The vacant diplomatic posts left by the rearrangement of Ambassadors and Ministers just before the Senate adjourned consisted only of:

1) The Ministry to China.

2) The Ministry to Rumania.

3) The Ministry to Albania.

4) The post of agent to Tangier.

¶ Aside from these, the only foreign capitals in which the U. S. is not represented are Moscow and Constantinople—with neither of which the U. S. has had any formal relations since the War. Rear Admiral Mark L. Bristol, with the title of High Commissioner, represents U. S. interests at the latter spot.

¶ Jacob Gould Schurman is a cosmopolite. Of Dutch descent, his boyhood was spent at Freetown, Prince Edward Island. He studied at London, Paris, and Edinburgh, taking a B.A, M.A. and Sc.D. He then obtained a traveling scholarship which took him to Heidelberg, Berlin, Gottingen and finally to Italy and Switzerland. In 1880, he took a professorship in Acadia College, Nova Scotia. Four years later, he went to Cornell as professor, and was President there from 1892 to 1920. In 1892 he became a U. S. citizen. He served as U. S. Minister to Greece and Montenegro in 1912-13. In 1921, having pretty well explored Europe and North America, he was sent as Minister to China. Now he hops around the world again to Berlin.