Evening star., 1923-09-09

No aspect Of the icoming official
season presents so many fascinating
angles as the diplomatic corps. Whlch'
if all signs prove true. will bow TO
the thirtieth Chief Magistrate of this
republic and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge on
January /. 1928 Wounds of the war
are so far healed that an envoy OF
the first class is coming from Turkey
for the first time stncc 1913. wheh
affairs between the countries became
involved and rather acute and the
sultan had to content himself with
charge d'affaires The new ambassa-
dor. though not yet officially an
nounced. is indicated in reliable dis
patches as Adnan Bcy. the present
governor and high commissioner at
Constantinople who had spectacular
career as military commander of
Stamboul under the Angora govern
ment lie will bring a wife who is
typical of the feminist new Turk
party. graduate of Robert college,
and ono Of the most progressive of her
acx among Mohammedans. who VIII
take her place among the hostesSeS
of the corps. rather than live behind
closed doors as the spouses of former
Turkish diplomats have done. Egypt
is to send an envoy before the new
year opens and thus the diplomats
at Washington who are followers of
rho prophet will be increased from
one representative. the Persian min
lister. to large group. which will in
clude the Turkish ambassador and
his large staff, the minister from
Egypt and his adss and possible
representative from the Hedjaz coun-
tries.
.
their credentials from Mexico and
from Cuba. the group of higher diplo-
mats from the Latin nations becomes
numerically the largest and most
powerful accredited to the national
capital. Two amba ssadors remain to
he appointed. one from Argentina and
one from Peru. but advices are that
both these dignitaries soon will be
named by the respective govern
ments and will be here to swell the
residence now an ambassador from
Brazil. Dr. dc Alencar. and one from
Chile, Senior Mathieu. who is he dean
of the Lati corps, and with the com :
ing Of the recently appointed ambaS-
sador from cuba. DIR. Cosme dc la
Torrientc, and the appointment of
ono from Mexico and the filing Of
the vacant posts by Ruenos Aires and
Lima. there will be six Latin Amcri-
can ambassadors compared with three
Latin Europeans. the French. Spanish
and italian amha assadors. There is
one Teutonic and one British. though
an amba SSa dor from Canada is pos
sihility. In the group of ministers
tho Latin Americans again are over
whelmingly in the majority. The next
largest racial division Is from Scan
dinavia and includes the ministers
from Sweden. Norway. Denmark
Finland and the envoy from Latvia.
Not only politically but in the social
sense does the Latin group form "A
most important part of Washington s
amenities and presents many pic
turcsque phases not apparent in any
other capital city of the world.
The solicitor general. Mrs. Beck and
Miss Beatrice Beck, who are due in
their home here In few days. have
enjoyed n unique experience during
their recent Sojourn IN London. They
participated in all the amenities of an
exceptionally gay season, slipping tea
at Queen Mary's garden party at
Buckingham Palace and bowling be-
fore their majesties at the last court
in st. James and attending all the
leteeS connected with, parliamentary
life. In addition they received an al
most overwhelming number of call