Evening star., 1923-12-02
Latours Are About
Ready to Move Into
Handsome New Home
Minister From Guatemala
and Wife Plan Many
Dances for This Season.

Although the minister from Guate-
mala. Senior Francisco Sanchez La
tour. ranks as envoy of the higher
class only since May 90. 1922, he has
been resident in Washington in the
diplomatic sense since 1908, when he
came on a special mission connected
with the treaty of 1907, and he has
been connected with the Guatemala
legation at frequent intervals ever
since. At the time that the late
President called the special confer
ence of the central American coun-
tries AR. Sanchez Latour was the
ranking member and he became the
senior delegate who was assigned
the place of honor at the many
prandiai events which marked that
gathering. Hence Senor and Sonora
Sanchez Latour felt personal loss
in the death of President Harding,
since they had met him and Mrs.
Harding so pleasantly and so often.
Sonora Sanchez Latour. whose mar
rlase occurred to the present envoy
from Guatemala about four years
ago, was before this event Miss Lii
Iian I'll. Davis. a native of Richmond,
va, but for many years a resident
VI " dsH ing ton. ifer nome Tor sew
eral OF these years was on q street
where the Guatemalan minister had
established his legation before the
purchase of the handsome mansion at
1521 New Hampshire avenue, which
was for many years point of social
interest as the Spanish legation
The minister found it necessare to
make many repairs and alterations
in this house, but these. have been
satisfactorily completed and the new
G1hetai,, otheial home of the republic of
cious and elegant in the Capital. There
is particularly fine ballroom on the
second floor and. as the minister and
his wife are both fond of dancing, this
mansion will soon be among the most
active in the foreign contingent
Senor sanchez Latour, for, after
the Spanish way, Latour, the name
OF his mother, is added to his own,
though in his own country he would
powerful family of politicians which
for more than fifty years has upheld
liberal doctrines in Guatemala. But
for the fact that at the age of eight
cen he had lost both parents and
became the head of his family. with
1our young sisters and a brother to
care for he would have followed the
profession of engineering instead of
politics and diplomacy. His father
vas that well known liberal leader,
a
cabinet minister for many years. first
as head of the department of educa-
tion, then of public works, and he
died in 1885 holding the position Of
secretary of the treasury. Senor
Delfino Sanchez educated all his chiI-
dren in England. with the result
that the minister though a fluent
Spanish, French and German scholar.
speaks the vernacular of this re-
public without trace of accent or
the usual awkward construction.
The minister i. native of Ouezal
teriango and he inherited q coffee
plantation which he cultivated most
protitably but sold after he had
adopted the career OF politics. After
serving in Washing ct on for the e-reater
part of three years. from 1905 to
1911, Senior Sanchez returned TO his
country and was for several wears
national treasurer and a me ber Of
the national assembly. He returned
to Washington again in 1916 and was
secretary of legation under Senor
Mendez. and was later charge daft
faires.
The minister from Guatemala lived
for some time in New York during a
political upheaval in which the iib-
eral party was defeated by the con-
servatives and the diplomatic corps
resigned. He and Sonora Sanchez