Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1919-12-31
SEVERAL ENJOYS, HOWEVER, ARE
WAITING TO BE PRESENTED
TO THE PRESIDENT.
BRAZIL is SENDING ALENcAR
Polish Minister, Prince Lubomirski,
Purchases Former Austrian Embassy
-Masaryk's Son Will Receive
Warm Welcome in Washington.
BY JAMES p. HoRNADAY.

"a technical sense, without ambaSSa-
dorial or ministerial representation
here, and will continue to occupy that
position until President Wilson regains
his health sufficiently to receive the
ambassadors and ministers who have
come on. Lord Grey, the ambassador
of Great Britain, has been here more
than tvs months now and has not been
able to present his credentials as ann
bassador to the president, although he
presented them long ago to the state
department. Baron de Cartier Mar
>cflienne has been here since early In
September waiting for an opportunity
TO present his credentials as ambaSsa-
dor from Belgium, having been re-
eeived as Belgian minister originally
I'm April, 1917. Mr.. Varela, the new
minister from Uruguay, arrived with
shis wife and three children several
fweeks ago and has so far been unable
70 make his bow to the president.
MIR. Shidehara, ambassador of Japan,
IS another waiting to be received, as Is
also the Polish minister. Then the
italian and Peruvian ambassadors are
already in this country and will soon
oe ready to be received, while the Bra
lillian ambassador and the ministers OF
switzerland and Czecho-Slovakia will
ne here shortly. Also the new Euro
lDean governments that have not yet
assigned ministers to Washington will
be doing so before long. The presi-
dent will hold q real reception by the
time he is able to receive them, there
Twill be so many to present their Gre
jdentials.
/ AIencar Coming From Brazil.
I With the arrival of the italian and
Peruvian ambassadors, all of the en-
ioassies in Washington again have
lheads with the exception of the Brazil
Qlan. An ambassador from Brazil will
s.arrive shortly. Augusta COchrane de
aAlencar has accepted an appointment
sto this post. Senior Alencar was for
snerly Brazilian minister to Peru and
4Yecently held the post of undersecre-
,Eary for foreign affairs. He is to sail
for his post here within month, COM
ing by way of London. The Brazilian
government has received assurances
. that he is acceptable. The services
f:he rendered to the United States in the
,z'eruvian negotiations when he was
charge d'affaires to Peru are recalled.
Ehen for the first time in months will
. m ,af the ambassadors assigned to
= Washington be ION the job"
! For some time the diplomatic corps
vas a mere skeleton of its normal self,
but there are few vacancies now among
6fle foreign ministers and new ones are
sarriwfng all the time. The new Polish
minister, Prince Lubomirski, recently
arrived. and George RoussOs, the min
lister Of Greece, returned after an abb
sence of ten months. The Polish min
lister has just purchased for his gov
-ornment the handsome residence at
264O Sixteenth street, which was at
one time the Austrian embassy.
TWO New Ministers Coming.
Two new ministers are scheduled to
come soon, that of Switzerland to re-
,oIace Hans 'Sulzer, who asked some
time arc to be relieved; and the min
lie. The Swiss envoy will be Marc
peter. a prominent lawyer of Geneva.
and Frederick Stepanek has been Sc
Iected to represent Czecho-Slovakia.
That leaves only four legations actual
qy without heads, though the ministers
of three countries are absent abroad.
sThe Portuguese minister, ViscOunt
D'Alte, has gone home on six months
2eave of absence. and DR.. De Cespedes
and DR.. Koo, ENJOYS of Cuba and
China, respectively, are abroad. Or.
De Cespedes will be home about the
middle of December and DR.. Koo is ex-
pected almost any time now. The four
countries without ministers assigned
to Washington at this time are Panama,
Honduras. Montenegro and ROumania.
1t was with pleasure that Washing
hron heard of the appointment of Jan
Garrigue Masaryk son of President
Masaryl of the new Czecho-Slovak re-
public, as charge d'affaires of the
Czecho- SIovak legation in this city.
His father has so many friends in this
country thai the son is sure of a warm
SEelcome.
Suffragists In Final Drive.
A final ''lrive" for the woman
suffrage amendment TO the Consti-
tuition of the United States has
been starts i. The purpose of the drive
is to stir up fresh interest in states
that will act through special sessions
of legislatures that are to he called
shortly, or through regular sessions
that win be held in January. Some of
shese conferences have already been
'heid with good results, the women
say. The conferences will be held dur
ling this month.
At no time has there been any doubt
an the minds of the women who are
managing the campaign that the
amendment would eventually be rati-
fled By three-fourths of the states. but