Conant States He May Head U.S. Embassy

President-emeritus James B. Conant said last night that he expects to be the first United States ambassador to the German Federal Republic.

Although the appointment has not yet been announced, the U.S. High Commissioner said to the CRIMSON that he has no double about his appointment or about the creation of a U.S. embassy in West Germany.

Conant expanded on statements which he made when he arrived, expressing certainly that the Paris Treaties, giving sovereignty to the German Republic and permitting armed German participation in NATO, would be ratified before summer.

"I was sorry to hear that the Mendes. Frances government had fallen, but I cannot believe that the new French government will fail to approve the necessary treaties quickly, no matter who forms it." Conant said.

In support of his assumptions, Conant said that he did not see any immediate threat to peace in Europe nor a return of Nazism to Germany in the future.

The High Commissioner said that he would leave for Washington next week for conferences with President Eisenhower, Secretary of State Dulles, and Congressional finance committees.

In Washington, Conant will submit his new budget, which is reported to be slightly smaller than last year's. The reductions of expenditures in Germany would tend to support Conant's assumption that he will direct an embassy next year.