Evening star., 1923-04-29
Charge Of Greece
And Wife Return
After Long Absence
Host of Friends Welcome
NJ. Tsamadoa and Nine.
Tsamados, Now IN Wash
ineton in Perm a n e n t
Sense.

After a long absence from wash
ington, the charge dAffaires of
Greece and Nine. Tsamados have re-
turned to Washington, and are receiv-
ing a cordial welcome from the hosts
of friends whom they made during
their former residence. They have
been residing in France and Switzer-
land during the troubled times which
have come to Greece and when politi-
cal conditions were too much con-
fused for NJ. Tsamados to perform
any diplomatic service. They are now
here in q permanent sense and will
remain on this side of the ocean
through the summer. probably taking
cottage near Bluemont for the
heated term.
Both the Greek charge and his wife
belong to families whose history
reach far into the past and recall
some glorious chapters of modern
Greek history. NJ Tsamados is the
son OF distinguished Greek states
man who held the office of secretary
Of state under King George. and
other important posts in Athens. lie
Is the grandson of another Michel
Tsanladoa, who is national hero and
who fought an officer in the war
of the Independence. 80 Immortality
Cunmenorated by Byron. The pres
cnt envoy from Greece was trained
in the diplomatic service and was the
charge d'affaires from the Athens
government in constantinople six
Years ago. when he met and married
lis wife. tho daughter Of distin-
guishcd Russian official resident in
the city of the caliphs. Nine. Tsama
Il ioa hri. inc al A
daughter Of NJ. Bogdan de Jugovich,
and she was horn and reared in Con-
stantinople and received her primary
education in one of its several excel
lent English schools. talented
musician. Nine. Tsamados, as a girl,
spent much time in Paris and Geneva,
and is deemed an unusually brilliant
and finished pianist. Her parents still
reside in Constantinople. retaining
the title of handsome property
owned by many genera tions of the
de Jugovichs, and which is now be
ing protected by the allied tribunal
which controls the city. Mime. Tsam
dos mother Is of a distinguished
Greek family, and was Miss Euterpe
Acatos. born in one of the loveliest
of the islands of the Ioniau sea. Nine.
Tsamados considers that she inheritS
her passionate love and sympathy for
Greece from her mother. who. though
for many years an exile from 1t. re-
tl1nS all t1e ueNOiIon LOT HIS history.
Its glorious legacy to civilization and
the marvellous patriotism of its sons
and daughters.
Nine Tsamados feels most keenly
the present distress of her country's
people. and during Il recent visit to
Consta ntinople and to Athens she saw
some of the saddest sights which pos
Sibly the sun ever shone on. the thou
sands of refugees from smyrna and
other points in Asia Minor dying
SLOWLY of starvation. for lack of medi-
cine and hospital facilities and of the
diseases which faSten on the aeuemic.
But NJ. Tsamados and his wife realize
that conditions are gradually growing
better and that happier days cannot
he far off for Greece. They have been
particularly interested i'll the quiet
patriotism of the American Greeks
who are now doing their best for
their stricken kindred across the sea
and. of course. they feel profoundly
grateful for what this country has
already accomplished for the refugees
and for what is still being done.
Nine. Tsamados is but half Greek
for her father is of Serbian origin
and descended from warriors who
first fought the invasion of the Turks
in the sixteenth century. when the
Moslem army was defeated at Bor-
soya. Her grandfather was a general
is the Crimean war. and at it's ter