One of my first pleasant surprises entering my duties as corres Pondant inthe State Department and White House here was in Ing Mrs' Mahlon Fay. Perkins, formerly Executive Consul, and Yefore that an American Mixed Court Assessor in Shanghai. Sometime ago Mr. Perkins was tra red to Washington in the of Far Eastern Affairs in the State Department, and-I now find he has eon promoted to be Assistant Chief of that. division, 'The Division' of Far Enatern Affairs, which is administered by Mr. John Van A. MacMurray, als" well known to many Americans in China, has general supervivien, under' the Secretary of State, of relations, diplomatic and const ical and econo! vive, Japan, Siam, the Far Eastern possession of European nations (in conjun tion with the Division of Western European Affairs) and Siberia (in conjunction with the Division of Eastern European Affairs).
Mr, MacMurray, Chief of the Division, after graduating from Princeton University and practising:
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