Joins Embassy

ELLIS O. BRIGGS '21, who has for some time been assistant chief of the Division of American Republics of the State Department in Washington, is the latest of the Dartmouth family to be affected by Washington's recognition of the importance of South American countries in plans for hemisphere defense. He was designated First Secretary of the American Embassy and American Consul to Santiago, Chile, last month and will serve in a dual capacity.

Briggs taught geography and English at Robert College, Constantinople, and free-lanced for magazines before going into the foreign service. He went into the unclassified service in 1925 and was assigned to Callama, Chile, in 1926. Liberia, Africa, and Havana, Cuba, were other places he served before being stationed in Washington.