SENATOR D.W. MORROW

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 84, 6 October 1931, Page 7

SENATOR D.W. MORROW

AMERICAN STATESMAN FRIEND OF HOOVER (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph— Copyright.) (Received 6th October, 9 a.m.) NEW YORK, sth October. The American statesman, President Hoover's right hand man, Senator Dwight W. Morrow, died on Monday afternoon from cerebral hemorrhage at his home at Englewood, New Jersey. Senator Morrow was the father-in-law of Colonel Lindbergh, the aviator, now in China on a flying tour with his wife.

Dwight Whitney Morrow was the man whom President Hoover recalled from Mexico to enter the Senate, because the President wished him to pilot the London Naval Treaty through the legislative body. An overwhelming majority of more than 250,000 saw him win the Republican primary in June last year, and relieved him of the necessity of any very active campaign for the following November. At once there rose a new Presidential possibility, and there is little doubt that Morrow would have been a favourite choice for the Presidential post after Mr. Hoover had served his second term; that is, if Mr. Hoover does serve a second term. Mr. Morrow neither desired to run for the office of President next year nor would have been persuaded to run. But as a favourite son of the Eepublican Party he would have been marked for the highest office in the future.

I Mr. Morrow went back to the United States from one of the most difficult of his country's Ambassadorial posts, that in Mexico City. He had succeeded brilliantly in what proved a thorny task. Ho had tact, a persuasive manner, and a ready ear for grievances; ho was ready to cut the Gordian knots of diplomatic stiffness and make a frank and direct approach, and he was an untiring student of Mexico and her problems. He came to know the Mexicans better than anyone in the United States and tho Mexicans camo to respect him. There was a certain feeling of unpleasantness caused by the brass plate of the legation which announced itself as "American." Morrow had it changed to "United States." There was the thirteen-year-old dispute between the oil companies and the Mexican Government. Morrow adjusted it after a rupture of relations had been threatened before his arrival. There were the tangled Mexican debt negotiations which he finalised. He conducted secret and brilliantly successful negotiations which resulted in settlement of the dispute between the Mexican Government and the Church. He gained his point in the endeavour to minimise friction in the land laws which had grown out of Mexico's land hunger. In his house in Cuernavaca he gathered a thousand threads between 1927 when he went to his post and September of last year when ho returned to his native country. His career had been striking, and looked to be reaching to further horizons. Mr. Morrow had received a varied training for the task of international affairs and national politics. He entered the employ of the law firm of Simpson, Thacker, and Bartlett, in New York, in 1899 and from 1905 to 1914 was a member of the firm. From 1914 to 1927 he was a member of the firm of J. P. Morgan and Co., and ho resigned from that body to accept appointment as Ambassador to Mexico. He was chairman of the Now Jersey Prison Commission of 1917, and of the New Jersey State Board of Industries and Agencies till 1920. During 1918 he was adviser to the Allied Maritime and Transport Council, and director of the New Jersey War Savings Commission. In 1925 he was chairman of the President's Aircraft Board. He was awarded the D.S.M. by General Pershing for "exceptionally meritorious and distinguished services" in connection with military shipping matters and the Military Board of Allied Supply. Mr. Morrow's gifts were many. His belief in co-operation, his easy buoyancy, quick penetration, studious seriousness and inveterate curiosity were his most marked characteristics. Ho took his degree as a Bachelor of Arts at Amherst, and was trained as a lawyer at Columbia University, and, though he abandoned this career for banking, he carried with him a lawyer's methods and the methods of outstanding counsel in handling men. He was 58 years of age.