The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-12-20
DIPLOMATIC CORPS
FAST FILLING UP
SEVERAL ENJOYS, HOWEVER, ARE
WAITING TO BE PRESENTED
TO THE PRESIDENT.
BRAZIL is SENDING ALENCAR
Polish Minister, Prince lubomirskl,
Purchases Former Austrian Embassy
-Masaryk's Son Will Receive
Warm Welcome in Washington.
sy JAMES p. HoRNADAY.

| warm welcome IN washington
BY JAMES P. HORNAOAT.
! WashingtOn.-Sever nations are III
/ technical sense, without amDasSa-
dorial or ministerial representation
| here, and will continue 10 occupy tha'
position until President Wilson regalhS
his health sufficiently to receive the
| ambassadors and ministers who nave
come on. Lord Grey, the ambassador
| of Great Britain, has been here more
| than two months now and has not Deeh
| able TO present his credentials as am
bassador TO the president, although he
presented them long ago to the state
| department. Baron de Cartier Mar
! chienne has been here since early III
! September waiting for an opportunity
| to present his credentials as ambaSsil-
| dor from Belgium, having been re-
ceived as Belgian minister originally
| in April. 1917. Mr.. Varela, the new
minister from Uruguay, arrived WIN
his wife and three children several
] WEEKS dSO anu HIS 81 ltil b'''
| to make his bow To the president.
| Mr.. 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 VIII soon
be ready TO be received, while the Bra
lillian ambassador and the ministers or
Switzerland and CZechOSlovakia Will
be here shortly. Also the new Euro
pean governments that have not yet
assigned ministers to Washington will
be doing so before long. The presi-
dent will hold real reception by the
time he is able to receive them, there
will be 50 many to present their Gre
dentals.
AIencar Coming From Brazil.
With the arrival of the Italian and
Peruvian ambassadors, all of the EN-
baSSieS in Washington again have
heads with the exception of the Brazil
ian. An ambassador from Brazil will
arrive shortly. Augusta COchrane de
Alencar has accepted an appointment
to this post. SenOr AlenCar was for
merly Brazilian minister to Peru and
recently held the post of undersecre-
tary for foreign affairs. He is TO sail
for his post here within a month. com
ing by way of London. The Brazilian
government has received assurances
that he is acceptable. The services
he rendered to the United States in the
Peruvian negotiations when he was
charge d'affaires to Peru are recalled.
Then for the first time in months will
all of the ambassadors assigned to
Washington be ION the job"
For some time the diplomatic corps
was a mere skeleton of It's normal self.
hut there are few vacancies now among
the foreign ministers and new ones are
arriving 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
eminent the handsome residence at
2640 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-
place Hans SulZer, who asked some
time age TO be relieved; and the min
lister of the new CzechO-Slovak repub-
lie. The Swiss envoy will be Marc
Peter, a prominent lawyer of Geneva.
and Frederick Stepanek has been Sc
lected to represent CZechO-Slovakia.
That leaves only four legations actual
ly without heads. though the ministers
of three countries are absent abroad.
The Portuguese minister, ViscOunt
D'Alte, has gone home on a six months
leave of absence, and DR.. De CeSpedes
and DR.. KOO, ENJOYS of Cuba and
China. respectively, are abroad. DR..
De CespedeS will he 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.
It was with pleasure that Washing
ton heard of the appointment of Jan
Garrigue Masaryk. son of President
Masaryk of the new Czecho- SlOvak re-
public, as charge daffaires of the
CzechO-Slovak legation in this CITY.
His father has so many friends in this
| country that the son is sure of a warm
welcome.
Suffragists In Final Drive.
A final drive" for the woman
suffrage amendment to the Consti-
tuition of the United States has
been started. The purpose of the drive
is to stir up fresh interest in states
that will act through special sessions
of legislatures that are 10 be called
shortly. or through regular sessions
that will be held in January. Some of
these conferences have already been
held with good results. the women
say. The conferences will be held dur
ing this month.
At no time has there been any doubt
in the minds of the wohen who are
managing the campaign that the
amendment would eventually be rati-
fled by three-fOurthS Of the states. hut
recently there has been some question
as to whether thrty-six states would
ratify il in time To give the women IA