The Washington herald., 1919-11-30
MANY WAITING
TO BE RECEIVED.

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received by the President grows week
ly. Lord Grey, the Ambassador OF
Great Britain. has been here for sew
eral months now and has not been
able to present his credentials as AM
bassador to the President, although
he presented them long ago to the
State Department.
Baron de Cartier de Marchienne has
been here since early in September
waiting for an opportunity TO present
his credentials as Ambassador. hav-
ing been received as Belgium Minister
originally in April, 1917. Mr.. Varela,
the rev Minister from Uruguay, ar
rived with his wife and three lovely
children several weeks ago and has
so far been unable to make his bow
to the President
Mr.. Shidehara, Ambassador OF ia
pan, is another waiting to be received.
also the Polish Minister. Then the
Italian and Peruvian Ambassadors
are already in this country and will
soon be ready to be received while
the Brazilian Ambassador and the
Ministers of Switzerland and Czecho-
Slovakia will be here shortly. Also
the four countries that have not yet
assigned ministers to Washington
will be doing so before long. The
President will hold a real reception
by the time he is able to receive them.
there will be so many to present their
credentials.
1t was with great regret that WASH
ington heard last week that the mill
tary attache of the Chilean Embassy,
Col. Alfredo Ewing, and Mrs. Ewing
will leave for Chile on December s.
Col. Ewing has been in Washington
for five years. and he and his family
have come to be thought OF as one OF
us. Col. Ewing has been appointed to
the general staff of the Chilean army.
1t was with pleasure that we heard
OF the appointment of Jan Garrigue
Masaryk. son of President Masaryk.
of the Czecho-Slovak Republic. as
Charge d'Affaires 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.
When Wellington Koo, the Chinese
Ambassador to the United States, re-
turns to Washington from Paris. he
has promised to take his two small
children home to his people in China,
where they can be taught the language
and customs of their fathers country.
President Wilson on his first trip. and
after the Presidents return, remained
in charge of the Chinese delegation to
the Peace Conference.
In the meanwhile Wellington, jr..
and 2-year-old Patricia are growing
into a pair of sturdy young Americans.
wearing American clothes, playing
American games and speaking English
with a decided American accent. Both
youngsters were born in the United
States. and since their mothers death
have been directly in the care of an
American governess. though officially
the secretaries of the embassy are
their guardians in the ambas sador's
absence.
The governess speaks no Chinese
and the numerous secretaries them
selves. in conversing with the chill
dren. speak only. English, with per-
haps an occasional Chinese pet"
name for little Patricia.
Three-year- -old Wellington has for
gotten-if he ever heard-his ancestral
name. Teh Chang. chile Patty" has
never been given a Chinese name.
Dressed in their American rompers,
the youngsters play and romp around
the embassy. racing on their "kiddIe
cars and shouting to each other and
their nurse in English-as American
as any descendant of a Mayf1ower
passenger.
Their playmates have been only
American children until recently, when
they were introduced to the first Chi.
nese children they ever had known,
the two small boys of the newly ap-
pointed head of the Chinese Education
Mission, DR.. Philip SEE.
DIR. SEE EDUCATED
IN THIS COUNTRY. o.
DIR. SEE was educated in the United
States and Is a graduate Of the Gen.
tral High School of Washington, but
both his boys were born in China, and
until their fathers appointment to
his present position neither had been
in the United States.
The youngsters wear the quaint en-
broidered kimonos worn by the child
rem of the wealthier classes in China
and at the time of their first introduce
ton to the Koo children neither spoke
a word of English. Since then. how
ever. four-year-oid Wilbur has learned
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