New assistant Secretary of State. Washington, D.C. Aug. 24. High R. Wilson, American Minister to Switzerland since 1927, today assumed his new post as Assistant Secretary of State. He succeeds Sumner Welles, who was promoted to be Undersecretary. A State Department career man, Wilson is a native of
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