Evening star., 1919-07-20
WASHINGTON TO HOLD
WORLD STAGE CENTER
Royal Visitors and Historic Gatherings
Scheduled for Late Summer Autumn
and Early Winter Months.

country generally is evidenced by
the fact that Washington hotels are
already receiving requests for reser-
vations of rooms during the time of
the councils stay here. and that
these requests come from every part
of the United States and Canada.
Men and women from every corner of
the North American continent are
keenly desirous of being in the city
at the time when world history. as
well as the history of nations as
such, is to be made.
Representatives of the other four
great nations included in the council
are to come as most distinguished
guests of the United States While
plans for their entertainment are as
yet in no more than the earliest
formative stage. it is said the council
is to be received with the most dis
tinguished honors ever accorded to
any deliberative body in any country
or at any time.
To Be World Capital.
Then it is that the capital of the
United States will assume, at least
for the time. the status of world
capital. That it will hold that place
for years to come is the belief of
financiers, statesmen, diplomats and
observers generally, while admission.
tacit at least. that this is true, is
made by representatives and digni-
taries of the other powers.
FunctiopS ofber than official
erings of the council are to be large
ly in the hands of the White House
and the State Department. Social at
tentions paid to the members of the
council and their encourages, it is
intimated, also will require the Off
cial approval of the State Department
authorities on international etiquette,
though it is anticipated little diff
Guilty will be encountered in this re-
spect.
The complete personnel of the coun-
Gil as yet is not known. nor is any
information available at this time as
to the identity of those who, while not
members of the council, are to attend
the initial assembly in this city as
representatives of other members of
the league of nations. 1t is antici-
pated, however. that including actual
representatives, secretaries. interpret
ers and the host of attaches that must
accompany such a gathering, the
wives and daughters of those who are
to come, and their secretaries, etc, the
number will run well beyond the
thousand mark.
Huge Crowd in Prospect.
Add to this assemblage the influx of
visitors coming to Washington for the
sole purpose of getting at least a
glimpse of the men who are to at
tempt to formulate policies for the
guidance Of the civilized nations of
the world, and the hordes of sight
seers always attracted to Washington
by any unusual event, and it is safe
to say the capital promises to be
crowded this winter as never before,
even during the busiest days of the
war.
Currently with the meeting of the
council of the league of nations is to
be the international labor conference.
which is expected to bring to Wash
ington labor leaders of practically
every nation in the world. While no
special social significance attaches to
this assembly of labor's most promi-
nent international figures, the gather
ing is expected to be of momentous
significance, its deliberations being
second only in Importance to those of
the council of the league of nations.
Plans for this meeting of labor's rep
resentatives have not been formulated
as yet, nor have the names of dele
gates as yet been forwarded to Ameri-
can Federation of Labor headquarters
here.
Hope for Rumania's Queen.
While there has as yet been no inti-
nation in official circles to that ef-
feet Washington society-as well as
residents not included in that classi-
fication-recently received another
thrill by the statement that the
Queen of Rumania had expressed her
determination to visit this country
during the winter. The announcement
was made on apparently reliable au-
thority. Washingtons social leaders
have been figuratively blinking their
collective eyes at the dazzling pros
pect of entertaining here not only
Great Britain's royal heir, but the
reigning sovereigns of two European
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