Mr, Gauss began his career as Deputy Consul-General in Shanghai in 1907 and has served four terms Jor duty in China. During his. service In China he was Counsellor to Embassy and Charge @AMfaires in Peiping, and Counsellor to the Embassy and Consul-General in. Shanghai, "He also served in the State Department in Washington and for a year was Counsellor to the Embassy and Consul-General in President Franklin D, Roosevelt nominated Mr, Gauss to the post of Washington, Jan. 31, President Roosevelt, in a. brief radio broadcast on the occasion of his birthday yesterday, said. It was "not a completely "happy birthday" for him.
'He added that in fact, "these are not completely happy days for any of us in the world." He felicitated {the people of the United States because they were "still living under free peoples' philosophy" while hone of their eries were blacked out as, in other parts of the world.
"tt ig not that we are unconcerned with the plight of free peoples else~ where," he said, sit is Because. we Believe in and insist on the right of the "helpless, weak "and crippled everywhere to play their art in life Sand' survive.
"it ig Because we know instinctive that this right of the unfortunate comes under our free peoples' philo-Sophy from the bottom up and can never be Imposed from the top down."
President Roosevelt also thanked the supporters of his campaign against Infantile, paralysis.
The President's. birthday has become a traditional occasion on, which fo hold elaborate presidential "Birth-diy Balls" throughout the United Sales and its possessions, "Proceeds of the alls go to alleviation of incantile paralysis sufferers, particular to. the Warm Springs' Foundation for sufferers at Warms Springs, Georgla, where the President himself re-Euperated from an attack of the disfease—United Press, 20-Year-Old Woman in Germany Decapitated Berlin, Feb. 3.
Ruth Schubert. aged 20. the frst woman to have died this year on the scaffold for espionage. was executed this morning, Decapitated with was Karl Schapper, age3 62. who was convicted of high treason. "Three ples were executed in Germany dur ing the month of January.—Reuter.
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