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NEW ENVOY APPOINTED AT PRAGUE British Official Wireless RUGBY, Tuesday. Mr. Joseph Addison, the British Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Latvia, has beqn appointed to a similar post at Prague, Czecho-Slovakia. Mr. Addison succeeds Sir Ronald Macleay, who has become Ambassador to Argentina. Mr. Joseph Addison entered the Foreign Office in 1903. He was secretary to the International Sugar Conference at The Hague in 1907. Next year he went to Peking as acting second secretary. but returner to the Foreign Office in 1910. He was successively secretary to two Parliamentary Undersecretaries for Foreign Affairs in 1911. Later he took part in the Peace Conference as an expert on economic and financial questions, and it was this special knowledge that led to his appointment in December, 1920, as counsellor of embassy at Berlin. There he acted a.s Charge d’Affaires on several occasions and was intimately concerned under his chief, Lord D’Abernon, with a very stirring and critical period in the history of Germany. In December. 1927, lie was appointed to succeed Sir John Vaughan as Minister to Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania with his headquarters at Riga.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 884, 30 January 1930, Page 11
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