Ambassador to Tokyo, is now on the high seas on his way to relieve Sir Francis Lindley, who has so ably lied that dificult post since 1931, the year that saw Japan's Manchurian venture launched with all its attendant com: plications and repercussions. Sir Robert is travelling to Japan via Canada and will doubtless post him: self on Ottawa's attitude towards the British policy of limiting the importation of Japanese goods into the ed Kingdom and the Crown Coton! Sir Robert has been the British Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Holy See since last year. This will not be his first visit to Tokyo, He was attached to the Embassy there earlier "in his career, in the course of which he has served in many countries—Ttaly, Egypt, Switzerland, Sweden, Germany, Morocco, Persia, and' China, There will be many who remember his service in Peking, He was. promoted Counsellor of Embassy there on January 1, 1620, and subsequently twice acted as Charge d'Affaires in this country, from July 1 to December 8, 1920, and from October 24, 1922, 10 February 14, 1998. From Peking he was appointed to a consul-generalship in Bavaria. Sir Robert was mi C.M.G. in 1019, and a knight of the same order in 1997, He was educat-led at Haileybury and Magdalen College, Oxford, and married the Hon, Magdalen, third daughter of the late Lord Muir Mackenzie. He has two sons and one daughter.
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