Nanking, Nov. 23.
Dr. V. K. Wellington Koo was appointed to-day to be Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs in succession to Dr. C. T. Wang, who resigned on September 30, a few days after a mob of students had made a brutal attack upon him for his alleged mishandling of the Sino-Japanese dispute, Dr. Wellington Koo received not fication of his appointment this morning, Reuters correspondent) [being the first person to congratulate him, Dr. Koo declared that he had not' yet decided when he would Jassume office.
Questioned regarding Japan's proposal for the appointment of a neutral commission of observers to proceed to Manchuris, the new) Acting Minister for Foreiga Affairs, in the first interview granted in his present post, said that any suggestion without definite provisions for the early withdrawal [of the Japanese troops from territory outside the South Manchuria Rail-ray zone could not be accepted by Dr, Koo asserted that although China was anxious to do her utmost towards a settlement of the churian imbroglio, it was of importance that a really satisfactory solution should be reached, Dr. Koo, who is regarded Prime Minister and as Minister for Foreign Affairs, He was Chinese Minister at London in 1920 and attained great popularity in diplomatic and social circles there, A remarkable feature of Dr. Koo's career is the fact that he has held such important posts at such a comparatively youthful age from the diplomatic point of view. He wa appointed Chinese Minister to Washington when he was only 28 years of age and when he went to the Court of St, James he was only 34. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs in Peking when he was 85 and was Prime Minister at the age of 39. Now, at the age of 44, he again becomes Minister of Foreign Affairs, post of outstanding importance at the present juncture when the country is facing some of the most! serious problems in its history.
Dr. Koo was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1922 to 1924, Minister of Finance in 1926 and Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1926 to 1927. Upon his, rejignation from the post of Minister! of Finance he created a precedent by publishing a complete document of the receipts and disbursements during his tenure of office.
He formed his second Cabinet in January, 1027, and was concurrently Minister of Foreign Affairs.
He vesigned in June 1927 and since then has lived more or I retirement, though in the past few, months he has an important figure behind appointment was widely expected-—Reuter,
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