A United States diplomat and native of Salt Lake City, Cavendish Wells Cannon, 67, died after a heart attack ‘Sunday morning in an American Military Hospital near Seville, Spain. MR. CANNON, who had been a U.S. ambassador to several countries and had served in other diplomatic posts, had undergone a gall bladder operation Wednesday. He had served the U.S. Foreign Service in Austria, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Greece and Yu goslavia and in many special} jobs in other nations of Europe. © MR. CANNON entered the ‘|diplomatic service in; 1920, serving first in Vienna, where he married Marie Lucia Ottilie (Lilla) Horsetzky, a '|daughter of Baron Horsetsky. He later served as consul at Zurich and for many. years was chancellor of the US. Ministry in Sofia, Bulgaria. He was serving as first secretary in the U.S. Embassy in Athens Cavendish Wells Cannon... at the time of the German inNoted U.S. diplomat dies. vasion in World War II. IN APRIL, 1947, Mr. Cannon was named ambassador to Yugoslavia, but prior to that — during World War II — was chief of the State Department’s division of southern In 1943 he represented the U.S. at a Moscow conference — and also attended the famed ™ Potsdam conference. a ‘During his long service in : Belgrade, he was credited with _|Strengthening Marshal Josip -|Broz Tito’s stand against Communist pressures from Moscow. He was named minister to Syria in 1950. DURING HIS residence in _|Damascus, the American Legation was bombed. In February, 1952, Mr. Can- non was named ambassador to Portugal; then the following year be became ambassador to Greece. IT WAS IN 1956 that he was named the first American ambassador to the newly independent nation of Morocco. It was from that post that he retired in 1958. For the past several years he had maintained a home in '|Lisbon, Portugal and in Tan- giers, Morocco. He last visited ‘|his home town of Salt Lake '|City in 1940, although he had “|been a frequent visitor in Washington and New York. HE WAS BORN in Salt Lake City Feb. 1, 1895, a son of John @. and Annie Wells Cannon. '|He was educated in Salt Lake Cw eR Utah Diplomat, 67,* 4r Sale Aage ari byne, BU IGue Su ceumb Ss in Spain _ |City public schools’ and gradu_jated from the University of Utah. While at the university, he was prominent in student affairs and a member of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. MR. CANNON organist and was active in orister. He later taught school in Hyrum, Cache County. x June 17, 1917, Mr. Cannon joined the U.S. Marine Corps and served in France during World War I, later studying in the Sorbonne in Paris. RELATIVES IN Salt Lake City said funeral services and burial will be held Tuesday in Seville. Survivors include his wife, Lisbon; brothers and sisters, David W. Cannon, Theodore L. Cannon, Mrs, R. D. (Louise) Andrew, Mrs. David H. (Mar- garet) Clayon and Mrs. Lyman /|R, (Emmeline) Martineau, all of Salt Lake City; George Q. Cannon,‘ Redwood City, Calif.; Abram H. Cannon, Washington, D.C., and John Q. Cannon, | New York City. IN THE. LATE 1940s, Mr. Cannon assisted in forming government policies as a member of the State Department’s policy planning board. At one time he was chief political consultant for Europe and the Near East.