Foreign News: Great Chief Sackett

As popular with the U. S. colony in Berlin as his immediate predecessor was unpopular is Frederic Moseley Sackett, the new U. S. Ambassador* (TIME, Feb. 3)

Embassy officials are now confiding to their friends: "He's a great chief!" And last week the interest of U. S. citizens in Germany was aroused when Great Chief Sackett put on his long, heavy, fur-lined coat, sank his square jaw in its black Persian lamb collar, and went out to have a look at the famed Leipzig Fair (TIME, March 10).

Straight as a humming bee Mr. Sackett made for the booth jointly operated by Baltimore and Philadelphia.

"I am gratified by the enterprise and alertness here shawn," said the Great Chief. "I hope that other cities will follow the example of Baltimore and Philadelphia next year, so that the United States may be adequately represented at this great fair [largest and oldest in Europe]."

Toys, porcelains and heavy machinery were the things which chiefly interested the new Ambassador, who, like President Hoover, was once a mining man.

"The massiveness, steadiness and ingeniousness of these ponderous machines," said the Great Chief, "typify my conception of German thoroughness and painstaking care."

In effect this was Mr. Sackett's maiden speech to German Business, ringing with the same reverberant note as his first utterance when he landed: "President Hoover has sent me to carry on. . . .

Frenchmen were furious last week at their Ambassador in Berlin, sleek M. Bruno Francois Marie Pierre Jacquin de Margerie. Because he has married a German, his recall or at least transfer to some other country was said at the French Foreign Office to be "virtually certain."