The Washington herald., 1919-08-31
BARON DE CARTIER
RETURNING HOME


for President at the next election7
BARON DE CARTIER
RETURNING HOME
Baron Emil de Cartier de Mar
chienne, with his American bride. is
en- route home now. He will reach
here about the tenth of September.
| His wife was very prominent in So
ciety in New York. Newport and
! Florida but has never visited
Washington much, so the friends of
the baron here are anxious to Took
| her over" and quite naturally. 1t is
also supposed that the Belgian Le-
CATION. having a mistress, will play
more important part in society
this winter than II has since Baron
Moncheur was minister here. He
and his wife were very active So
cially. Then as the legation is about
to be raised to the status of an en-
bassy. its head wilNbe apt to feel
: he has greater social responsible
ties. p~stl
/ Baron Moncheur, by the way, who
! has been Belgian minister to Eng
, land since 1917. is now ambassador.
| that legation having also been re-
/ Gently made an embassy. His wife
| too, was an American; was Char
lotte Clayton, wife OF the former
American Ambassador to Mexico
| the late General Powell Clayton. He
was minister to Mexico when our
! legation there was raised to an
embassy so he became the first
American Ambassador to Mexico
Baron Moncheur represented Bel
gium in Mexico at the same time
and there met and married Gen.
/ Clayton's daughter. She was par
| ticularly popular in Washington, as
was her husband. and their depar-
ture was viewed with great regret
! The baron returned here a year or
so ago as the head OF the Belgian
mission. but his wife did not ac-
company him then. 1t was an
nounced several days ago that the
Belgian Legation has a new first
| secretary in the person of Prince
/ Reginald de Croy. who arrived Just
/ last week. but future inquiries de-
velop the fact that he comes as
special attache to arrange for the
coming OF his King and Queen. The
prince. who is of the royal house OF
Belgium, had a narrow escape from
the same fate meted out to Edith
Cavell by the Germans. His sister
was tried for assisting some OF her
wounded Countrymen to escape into
Holland and received a sentence of
ten years. She was released after
the armistice, when she had served
three years of her imprisonment.
The prince and his sister stayed in
! their home in the Belgian capital
after the Germans had taken the city.
turning their residence into hos
pital, caring for Belgian and German
alike. One evening he learned that
the Germans had discovered that he
had been aiding his countrymen to
escape over the border. He disguised
himself as A wounded German soldier
and made his way to the boundary.
succeeding i'm getting through the
electrically charged wire on the Hol-
land frontier
Have you heard that Guglielmo
Marconi. the famous inventor of wire
less telegrsphy may be the next Ital-
| ian Ambassador at Washington?
Senator Marconi is very popular in
this country and few Europeans know
US better He first came over here
nearly twenty years ago to report by
wireless the international yacht races
off Sandy Hook and he has made
many extended visits since He was a
member OF the Italian Mission which
came over here in the early days OF
the great war, the mission headed by
the Prince of Udine This rumor
seems to gain strength in spite of the
announcement formally made that
! Count di Macchi di Cellere, the present
ambassador of Italy is- here for an
indefinite period and is entirely salts
factory to all concerned