DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS

NEWS RELEASE NO. M/37 3rd June, 19710

AMBASSADOR TO GERMANY

The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Leslie Bury, announced

today the appointment of Mr. R.L. Harry, C.B.E. as Australian Ambassador

to the Federal Republic of Germany in succession to Sir Ronald Walker,

who has been appointed Australian Representative to the O.E.C,D.

Mr. Harry is a senior career officer of the Australian

Diplomatic Service who is at present Acting Deputy Secretary of the

Department in Canberraa He joined the Department of External Affairs in

1940 and has served in Ottawa, Washington, Singapore and in the Australian

Mission to the United Nations in New  Y ork, Mr. Harry has served as Head

of the Australian Mission in Geneva, as Australian Commissioner in

Singapore and as Australian Ambassador in Saigon. From 1965 to 1968

Mr. Harry was Australian Ambassador to Belgium and concurrently with

this appointment was Ambassador to the European Economic Community, the

European Atomic Energy Community and the European Coal and Steel

Community. He has also attended numerous international conferences in

a representative capacity.

A former Tasmanian Rhodes Scholar, Mr. Harry is married and

has one son and two daughters.

