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August 23, 1938
DE WOLF HEADS NEW STATE DEPT. TELECOMMUNICATIONS SECTION
Francis Colt de Wolf, who has handled, radio matters for some time past, has been appointed by Secretary Hull to head the new State Department Section of Telecommunications.
The Telecommunications Section is one of the three new sections of the Division of International Communications just created. Thomas Burke, who has been Chief of the Specialties Division of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, has been named Chief of the International Communications Division.
The other sections are Shipping and Aviation, All three sections are expected to work closely together. The setting up of the new division, Secretary Hull said, was the last of a series of major changes which have been made in the organization of the State Department within the past year and a half.
The Telecommunications Section will handle all matters having to do with radio, telegraph, telephone and cable. Mr. de Wolf, who was formerly connected with the Treaty Division, is already well and favorably known in this field. He was a delegate to the recent Cairo Radio Conference, was a delegate to the Radio Conference (CCIR) in Bucharest, in 1937, and a representative at Warsaw in 1936, namely the Telegraph Confer¬ ence (CCIT). Mr. de Wolf was legal advisor to the American delegation on "Egyptian Capitulations" at Montreux in 1937.
He served as an expert on disarmament at the League of Nations for three and a half years. A native of Rhode Island, Mr. de Wolf received his A.B. at Harvard in 1918, and his L.L.B. in Columbia in 1922, and has been with the State Department since 1922.
Mr. de Wolf will have as his right hand man in the Telecommunications Section, Harvey B. Otterman, who was with him in the Treaty Division.
Mr. Otterman was a delegate to the InterAmerican Radio Conference at Havana in November, 1937, and represented this Government at the preparatory conference also held in Havana for these sessions. Mr. Otterman is the representative of the State Department on the Interdepartmental Committee to Study International Broadcasting. He is likewise an alternate for the State Department on the Interdepartmental Radio Advisory Committee. Mr. Otterman was bom at Allegheny, Pa., attended Carnegie Institute of Technology and received an L.L.B. degree at the National University Law School.
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