Transfer from Tokyo: M. de Billy Succeeding Him Nov. 30.
'M, Paul Claudel, whose appointment to the Embassy at Washington is confidently expected, started his career in the Consular Service in the United States. He was wards for 10 years in China, ter filling a series of European posts with an interval in Brazil he was appointed French Ambassador at Tokyo in 1921.
M. Claudel has attained great dis-friction in literature, being conidered one of the leading lyrical poets of France.
M. De Billy, the present Minister at Bucharest, will probably be appointed to Tokyo if M. Claudel goes to Washington—Revter
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