Secretary of Interior Ickes today confirmed Washington rumors that Benjamin V. Cohen would go to London as a special aide to Ambassador John G. Winant.
Ickes said Cohen was taking an indefinite leave of absence as Interior Department counsel, tentatively estimated at two or three months, and added that he had no knowledge of what Cohen’s duty at the Embassy would be.
Washington reports are that Cohen will be Winant’s legal advisor. His selection as an aide to Winant, responsible for the drafting of much of the New Deal social and economic legislation, Cohen has been comparatively idle in recent months in his post as counsel to the Federal Power Policy Committee and recently it was reported that his retirement from the Government service to enter private practice in law was imminent.
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