The British Foreign Office advised its Embassy here today that the name of Walter H. Annenberg had been submitted by President Nixon as the United States’ Ambassador-designate to the United Kingdom. Mr. Annenberg, 61, is a millionaire publisher whose papers include the Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia News. If the Senate approves his nomination, he will be the first Jewish U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James.
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