ALUMNUS WILL GO TO JAPAN AS SPECIAL AMBASSADOR

The nomination of W. R. Castle Jr. '00, of the District of Columbia, to be special ambassador to Japan during the international conference on naval armament, which will be held in London next month, was made known yesterday.

Mr. Castle was born in Honolulu, and his father was King Kalakaua's minister in Washington. He was graduated from Harvard in 1000 and was an instructor and assistant dean here from 1904 to 1913, During the American participation in the World War, he was director of the bureau of communications of the American Red Cross. Entering the state department as a special assistant in 1919, he was gradually promoted until he reached his present position of assistant secretary of state.