AMBASSADOR TO LONDON

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 634, 10 April 1929, Page 9

AMBASSADOR TO LONDON

DAWES PLAN ORIGINATOR REPORT FROM WASHINGTON (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) ( United Service) Received 9.5 a.m. WASHINGTON, Tuesday. Although White House is silent it was learned to-day that the former Vice-President of the United States, General C. G. Dawes, has been proposed to the British Government as the next United States Ambassador. General Charles Coates Dawes. C. 8., who served with the American Army in France from 1917 to 1919, is famous as the originator of the “Dawes Plan” of German reparations, which was put into effect on September 1, 1924. "He is now 63 years of age. Ho was admitted to the American Bar in 1886. He has been a member of various political executive committees. From 1897 to 1902 he was Comptroller of Currency. General Dawes went to France as a major in the engineers and advanced by rapid strides to the rank of brigadiergeneral in October, 1918. He served on the administrative staff of General Pershing, the American Commander-in-Chief. Later he was a member of the Military Board of Allied Supply, and a member of the Liquidatl-\p Board of the XT.S. War Department. 7*vc is a Commander of the British Order of the Bath and holds various French, Belgian and American decorations. In 19 23 General Dawe was appointed by the Reparations Commission as president of the committee to investigate the problem of Germany’s war debts, which resulted in the drawing up of the Dawes Plan. He was elected Vice-President of the United States in 1925.