The Washington times., 1923-09-20
JEAN ELIOT ON SOCIETY,"
President Receives
Two Foreign
NOtabLeS.
By JEAN ELIOT.

"a
day received two distin'
\ guished foreigners, the Ri.
Hon. w. F. Massey, prime min.
lister of New Zealand, and
Edouard Herriot, erstwhile deputy
minister of public works of
France and former mayor of
Lyons, both of whom have been
making brief visits in Washing
ton. Mr.. Massey, who is on his
way to England to attend the
meeting of the Imperial Council,
was accompanied by Henry
Getty Chiffon, charge d'affaires
of Great Britain, and Mr.. Herriot
by members of the French EN-.
bassy staff.
William Phillips, Acting Sec
rotary of State, gave a luncheon
today for Mr.. Massey and to-
night the prime minister will be
the guest of honor at dinner
with Mr.. and Mrs. Chiffon as
hosts. Mr.. Phillips luncheon
was given at the Metropolitan
Club and the guests asked to
meet the visitor from New
Zealand were the Secretary of
Agriculture, Henry C. Wallace,
the Secretary of Commerce, Her.
bert Hoover; Henry Getty Chill
ton, charge d'affaires of Great
Britain; Dwight F. Davis, acting
secretary of war; John w.
Riddle, American Ambassador to
Argentina: julius Barnes, pres
ident of the u. s. Chamber of
Commerce, Wilbur J.. Carr, d..
rector of the Consular Service;
F. D. Thomson, secretary to the
prime minister, and Elliott
Goodwin.
Ladies will be included among
the guests at the dinner Mr.. and
Mrs. Chiffon are giving and their
party viii number sixteen. They
are entertaining at their home
in r street. Mr.. Massey is leav.
ing today for New York and win
sail on Saturday for England.
He arrived ip Washington yester-
day and stayed at the Willard.
entertaining informally at dinner
last evening on the Willard roof.
Besides his secretary, Mr.. Thorn
son, the prime minister is accom-
panied by Mr.. and Mrs. II. B.
Drew, of New Zealand.
M HERRIOT was also the
honor guest at a luncheon
today, his hosts being the charge
d'affaires Of France and Nine.
de Laboulaye. Their guests were
William r. Castle, jr., Leland
Harrison. Mr.. Garrard Winston.
Assistant Secretary of the Treas
ury; Mr.. Bias, who accompanied
M. Herriot from France; Mr..
Hickok, of the Brooklyn chamber
of commerce; Col. George Dumont,
military attache Of the French
embassy, and Mr.. Jules Henry,
second secretary.
NJ. Herriot is leaving for New
York this evening.
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THE PRESIDENT AND MRS.
COOLIDGE had Senator Win.
lam e. Borah of Idaho, as their
guest at dinner at the While House
last evening. It was not a party.
the Senator having simply hap
pened in, but with William N.
Butler, one of the stalwarts of the
Republican party in Massachusetts,,
also among those present." one
may well imagine that politics
came in for discussion over the
coffee cups. Mr.. Butler, who
reached Washington yesterday,
stayed over night at the White
House, but left town today.
Mrs. Coolidge sent an auto
graphed photograph yesterday
to Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton, vice
chairman of the executive COM
mittee of the Republican National
Committee, to grace the walls of
the women's branch of the Re-
publican party.
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The Secretary of the Interior ant
Mrs. Work have had as theil
guests for a few days Mrs. Mar!
w. Hogg and her daughter, Mis-
Winifred Hogg, of Manchester
who have gone to New
York and Boston for brief visits
Mrs. Hogg will sail for England OF
Miss Hogg will remain
in this country through the win
ter. most of which she will spen,
In New York.
The minister from Serbia will Civ,
q reception from 5 to o'clock ii
the Willard room at the Willard OF
the afternoon of October 8. He ex
poets about 400 guests.
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Justice and Mrs. George Suther
land are again in their apartment a
2O29 Connecticut avenue. Mrs. Suth
erland spent the summer in Cali
fornia
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Mrs. William Phillips, wife of tn
Acting Secretary of State, wi
return today to their summer hom
at Beverly, Mass, to remain unit
the latter part Of October