In September 1939, M. de Mor-erie asked to be mobilized and was! Feealled 10 the Foreign Ministry by Mi. Paul Reynaud, then Foreign Minister, in Merch 1940, and entrust fed with the important post of Chief Of his Cabinet at the Quai @Orsay. His. appointment as Consul-General in Shanghai came at the end of June.
President Coolidge also Paul-Boncour Paul-Boncour, phew of the former French Premier BIN. Joseph Paul-Boncour, has been appointed Counsellor to the French Embassy in China.
He was born on July 20, 1898, and started his diplomatic career August 18, 1922 when he was appoint ed Embassy Attache. In 1923 he was Embassy Secretary. in Washington, ud was entrusted with various mis: sions at the League of Nations in Geneva from 1923 to 1934. At one time he was Secretary-General of the French Delegation to the Disar lament Conference in February 1932.
He was Chief of the Cabinet of the Minister of Foreign Affairs in Feb rary 1932 and again in December the same year. On August 31, 1994 he was appointed Secretary-General the French Delegation at the teenth Assembly of the League of Nations.
In 1995, M. Paul-Boncour was cartying out the duties of First Score: tary to the French Legation in Bucharest, and more recently was Press Counsellor to the French Embassy in Weshington, taking an active part in the formation of the Ministry of Information.
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