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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1922
FRESH INFLUXOF FOREIGNERSEXPECTED HEREFamous Frenchmen Me in January and Brit¬
ishers to Follow Shortly.Will Confer onWar Debt.Newspaper King Also Expected.Washington's Diplomatic Corps GrowingRapidly.New Envoy From Hejas Me. '
By EVELYN C. HUNTJANUARY will see another notable influx of distinguish¬
ed foreigners into Washington. They will be Frenchand they will be British. Several, clad in ambassadorial
rank, will be included in the company... From France.or rather from Switzerland, for he is now
domiciled in the land of the Alps.there will be AlftertThomas, famed as the French minister of munitions duringthe world war. M. Thomas, who is due in the Capital on or
about January 10, is director of the International LaborOffiee at Geneva, an unofficial offshoot of the League ofNations. He will be here several days, seeing Governmentofficials and national labor leaders.
,A Socialist in politics, but tofbct a.pwt French liberal, M.Tbonuui to om of the foremostof French politictons. He speaksEnglish, to . big-shouldered,broad-chested, bearded French¬man^ and hail-fellow-well-met..Many of oar army and State De-nartment people recall him fromwar days in Paris and are plan-Bing fcr him in Washington.From Oreat Britain there will
be IW*nl*T Baldwin, Chancelloref the Exchequer, In the new
Bonar Law Government. He Is
n H.r to talk British Wkr debt
with Decretory Menon and the
yi Debt Funding Commli-
,1^ Mr. Baldwin Is one of the
-nholan to politics," to whom
British public life abounds, being-boy" and a tSsm-
He has been^^oUH« the Brit-
M Treasury stooe lilt, and thus
|i .»«"¦> with war time financ¬
ing operations, which will be
the object of his mission to
America. He has represented »
division of Worcestershire In the
houae of commons since 1108.e . .
A NOTHER distinguished Brit-
Uhf eoon to be among us Is
the Vlsoount Burnham, one of Eng¬land's newspaper kings. Lord
Burnham is the hereditary pro¬
prietor of the London Dally Tele-
graph, founded by his late father,the first Lord Burnham. He is an
aggnsslve advocate of British-
amsflrrrn fraternity, and the in¬
fluence of his powerful newspaper
» always exerted In that direction.
The Viscount Is on his way to
to attend a conference of
tbo world's press. He, too, is an
Bs.gn«h 'varsity man, having"propped" at Eton and graduatedat Oxford, from the oelebrateedBalllol College there, sometime®called the Incubator Of Britishprime ministers.
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JkfOW that the Lausanne con-F* ferenoe on Near Eastern af-
y.lr> |Mms to be drawing to a
Cl0tt. we may soon expect PrinceLotfallah. the newly ap¬
pointed minister of the King of
Bedjas to Washington. He Isn't
attending the conference, but 1s
watching It from London, where
he is staying at the Rits and
going much entertaining. I hear
the prlnoe la looking forward
aogerly to his stay here. He
Wffw. French well and Is study¬ing hard at English, which he
with considerable fluency.Be held a high government postIn Hedjas when It wss underTurkish sovereignty before theworld war and when, after thearmistice, It became an inde¬pendent kingdom he continued toacoupy Important official position*,
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ttjb coming will mean another
diplomatic staff in Washing-mn. since the war we are
rapidly acquiring new legationsas different groups abroad are
pslng recognised as nations.Accepting the House of Repre-
aentatlves. no portion of the of¬ficial world has grown so rapidlyaa the diplomatic corpe. WhenUm Secretary of State and lira.
Hughes preside at the diplomaticbreakfast which ushers in thenew year many guests will ap¬
pear, and several oi them forthe first time at such a functionhere. No private home la now
adequate for this traditionalcourtesy, and even the spaciousprecincts of the Pan-Americanbuilding begin to look crowded. At
the numerical progress withwhich.the foreign corps leaps for¬ward now. the diplomatic break¬fast of -ten years henoe will callfor the largest hotel ball room
In the city if we have one largeenough.
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WASHINGTON friends are deUghted to know that the
late Russian Ambassador to,
America. Boris A. Bakhmetsff,is now permanently settled Inthis nouilffy- *" He hu'WtrtXWloffflses. at J Rector street, NewYork city, as a consultant Inengineering, economics and fi¬nance in connection with foreignaffairs. Mr. Bakhmeteff Is a
hydraulic engineer by profession.The efficiency as a marksman
of Boris Bakhmeteff, may never
be known, but as a duck decoyand a detector of their presencein Long Island's marshland heIs an expert. So says Mr.BakhmetefTs friend, Frederic R.Coudert. International lawyer,who on the poorest duck huntingday of the season brought backfive toothsome birds to theFlanders Club, at Riverhead, L.I., to prove his theories regard¬ing Mr. BakhmetefTs powers.Former Ambassador and lawyer
went down to the Flanders Clubrecently, and decided on a littleduck hunting. They dropped Inat the office of Frank Soliar,town clerk at Riverhead, and ap¬plied for a hunting license forthe one-time diplomat. But Itwasn't procurable, since, as analien, Mr. Bakhmeteff must makehis application tor permission tocarry firearms to the Bute con¬servation commission at Albanyand. not to tha town authorities.So Mr. Coudert shouldered his
shotgun and Mr. Bakhmeteff. un¬armed. trudged along beside him.They hunted a long time withoutmuch success. Then Mr. Bakhme¬teff brought his powers of locating -
ducks Into play and down near thashank of the afternoon Mr. Cou¬dert shot enough birds for whathe described as a "comfortable din¬ner" for the disappointed diplomat
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'J'OKTO seems to me to be asunpopular a diplomatic poat
as China is popular. I askedNorval Richardson the other dayJust why that was. Ha has beansecretary of our embassy there,you know, but only stayed fourmonths. He didn't exactly saythat he didn't like Tokyo, but I'msure h* didn't. He says It's notpopular because the streets areall mud and the buildings a con¬glomeration of ten story Occiden¬tal office buildings and one storynative abodes, that the people arenot partlculsrly Interesting anda few other things.
I asked him If Count John de8alls waa still there, but no, he'sgone back to England. He wasthird secretary of the British em¬bassy hers about tha end of ItSOand the early part of 1M1, andleft here for Tokyo to relieveCapt. R. R. Olen, who was oneof the secretaries of tha BritishEmbassy In Japan. Captain Olenwaa honorary attache here in1911 during which time he mar¬ried Jane Story, tha daughter of
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two, three, four, sometimes I wishCJ were more>" runs the old song.
so here for good measure are five en¬gaging young women who contribute materially tothe enjoyment of life in Washington. Mrs. CharlesO. Bunker is the wife of Commander Bunker,U. S. N., and a popular member of the navy con¬tingent. Miss Helen Colbert, a debutante of lastyear, is as popular with the buds of this winter..and their swains.as she was during her own
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season. Miss Frances Neville. daughter of Maj.Gen. and Mrs. Wendell C. Neville, is anothergirl both pretty and popular. The daughter ofthe Comptroller of the Currency and Mrs. Cris-singer, Miss Donna Ruth Crissinger, is cleverwith her pen and has a little volume about readyfor the press. Miss Irene Basford managed thebrilliant and successful ball given recently by theRoy McKinley Basford Unit, American Women'sLegion, for the benefit of disabled veterans.
MISS IRENEBASFORD
MtfSDOMNARUTH
CRISSINGER
MISS FRANCESNEVILLE.MAA/Vf ? MNG
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MISS HElfNCOLBERT.
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MRS. CHARLESftUNKECL
NEWYEARDAYSTRUGGLES TORETAIN COLOR
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Much of Distinctive Flavor Will Go With theCancelling of White House Reception.Dip¬lomatic Breakfast Will Be Gala Event,Jar-ever, as Will Receptions at Cabinet Homes.Congressional Onb to Celebrate. r '
By JEAN ELIOT'"My^SRRY Christmas! Here it is upon as and before theJWlYuletide festivities are well over it will be NeW
Year Day, perhaps Washington's most pietureaqq*and characteristic fete day.
There's a brave effort being made, too, to welcomethe New Year with a certain amount of official pomp inspite of the fact that there will be no reception at theWhite House.
. The annul diplomatic break¬fast will be hald at the PanAmerican Building, with theSecretary of State and Mrs.Hughes aa hosts and the entirediplomatic corps, with theirwomenfolk, as guests. TheVice President ^nd Mrs. Cool-idge will be at home informallyto the official world, as hasbeen the custom of their pre¬decessors, and such of the
" Cabineteers as are in town.saving Secretary and Mrs.Hughes.will be at home dar¬ing the afternoon boors.
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JJUT.apropos of New Year oneIs apt to become reminiscent of
the "good old days" when theNew Tear reception at the WhiteHouse was ah Institution as un¬utterable as the laws of theMedee and Byrelans Whan everydiplomat In taifa (rattened him¬self Into his gold-laced uniform topay his respects.and his sover¬eign's.to the President -of the
""United States snd hasteneddirectly from the White House.gold lace and all.to the diplo¬matic breakfast When everyCabinet hostess held a great re¬
ception. with a score or more ofpretty girls to assist her. Whenevery matron of any social Impor¬tance kept open house. Whenevery girl with any pretense toposition was invited to receivesome place.'usually several places.When every man- in town whoboasted a morning ooat.or couldbeg. borrow or steal one.wenta-vlsltlng. And when eggnog andother holiday cheer could bedrunk openly and efcgaog partiesactually mentioned in the papers!
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PRESIDENT WILSON gave thefirst blow to the good old
fashioned New Tear celebrationwhen be cancelled the WhiteHouse reception, most picturesqueand American of institutions. Hedidn't eeem to have any particularreason except that he was nevergiven to "glad handing." Butbefore long the war broke andduring war time, of course, suchan assemblage at the WhiteHouse, officials robbing elbowswith office boys, cabinet officerswith cabmen and diplomats withdebutantes, was quite out of thequeetlon.The war also put a stop to ttte
diplomatic breakfasts. Long be¬fore we got into the ponfllct,the diplomatic corps was dividedInto two hostile camps and Itwould have been Impoeslble toentertain them both under oneroof at the same time. And nat¬urally with our entrance Into theconflict there came a cessationof all official entertaining exceptthat which centered about somevaried assortment of "foreign mls-slonaries" who Invaded the Cap¬ital from time to time. ,
After the armistice an effortwas made to revive the festivitiesof New Tear Day, but It was ahalf-hearted sort of an effort.President Wilson was away andlater he was IU, so there wae no
entertaining at the ExecutiveMansion and the official world Isprone to take its oue from theWhite House.
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pONSSJQUENTLT It was.not un-
til last year.the first NewTear of the Harding administra¬tion.that ths official celebrationof the New Tear took on any de¬gree of brilliance. The Preeldentand Mrs. Harding revived thehistoric reoeptlon at the WhiteHouee. being at home during themorning hours to the diplomaticcorps and the official world, retir¬ing for a bit of lunoheon and rar
turning to their etatlone In theafternoon to shake hands withths long line of men and "women,regardless of rank or station, who
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had stood In line (or hours, .eoraeof them, waiting the opportunityto My "Happy New Tear" te thePresident of the. United States.The noticeable thing about this
crowd, by the way. was the num¬ber of women who turned out. layear* before the White House re¬ception had been distinctly aman's party, with only the wive*of the Cabinet officers and a fewother ladles assisting "behind th*line." But this time there seemedto be almost as many women a*men In Un«. Secretary and Mrs.Hughes entertained the diplomatsat breakfast, all th* Cabinet war*at home in the afternoon, therewere a lot of other big receptions,and altogether it was a gala day.
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JJOUBTLES8 the President aalMrs. Harding would havebeea
at home to all uwm thtr fjiiirhad It imt been for Mrs. Hardial'sIllness. But the New T**r nl»tfon^ya* cancelled wltk an theother social actlvltiee at th* WhMeHouee.and with It trill go muchof the color and flavor, ef NewTear Day. The diplomatic break¬fast will undoubtedly b* a perfect¬ly appointed and a pleasant func¬tion. but much of Its pictureaq**value will be gone since the corpswill not be In uniform. Tou ***,It was not In honor of the Secre¬tary of State that the foreign eng.voys donned ostlrt dress, but h£cause tbey had been calling Scthe White House and had not ha£time between functions to rhsag^.their clothes.
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fpHE Secretary of the Nary and'Mrs. Denby expect to be ouf
of town on New Tear Day.ettp^ping away immediately after'Christmas "Incognito," as It were,and leaving no addreas. Const"quently the naval officer* station -
ed in Washington win be rallsvsdof the necessity of climbing Intouniform to call upon their chief,thus subtracting another elementof color from the picture. Pre¬sumably the Secretary ef Warand Mrs. Weeks will receive. al%though at the moment ef writing.Mrs. Weeks has reached no de¬cision. It is to be hoped thatthey win, for the receptions atthe homes of the Secretary of Warand Secretary of the Navy arealways gala events, with militarymusic by way of an "extra addedattraction."The Secretary of State and Mr*.
Hughes will not receive In theafternoon on a«ttMWljlklUle-matlc breakfast. HwTWell, the Coolldges and prebatgythe Weeks, the Ileal *<eiy' *f 110Treasury and his daughter, MMAllsa Mellon.tf they get back latime from Pittsburgh, where theyare spending Christmas, the Work*and the Wallacee and the Davlsee.and presumably the Falls, al¬though they, too, are away fbrChristmas.out at Whrdman ParkHotel and the Secretary ef Com¬merce and Mrs. Hoover at theirhouee In 8 street. Mre. Daugh-erty Is spending dhristmas withher husband, the Attorney Oea- teral. In Washington, but ah* willnot, of course. r*o*tv* on NwrTear, as sh* I* an Invalid and.take* no part la aoelal activities.
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MRS. OILLBTT, wife of theSpeaker of the Houee, will
be at home en' New Tear* Day,her daughter. Miss Louisa Hoar,assisting her. She will, moreover,receive on the eecond Wednesdayin January and th* drat W*daas-day In February, th* days **._lected by the Cabinet boatease*for their first "at ¦ homes." Thewife of the Speaker, as yoS dsabt-less recall, Is the only wosma Inofficial life beeide the Vloe Presldent's wife and the wives of
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