Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-28
Features Of Interest Mark
New YearDa forDiplomats
HAL and Farewell" for Certain Disting ushed
ENJOYS Who Will Greet President
and Mrs. Coolidge.

1t will be hail and farewell" for
some of the most distinguished mem
bers of the diplomatic corps who will
greet President and Mrs. Coolidge and
the assembled cabinet families in the
fower-laden and flag-bedecked White
House on New Year morning. The
venerable and universally esteemed
dean of the corps, the French AM
baSSador, NJ. JuSserand; the distin-
guished Roman noble and eminent en-
gineer, Don Gelaso Caetani, the Ital-
ian envoy, and the quiet and capable
German, DIR. Otto Wiedfeldt, all are
homeward bound within the next
month. Three who were stately fig
ures in last years pageant departed
many months ago. Sir Auckland
Geddes of the British, NJ. Hanihara
d the Japanese, and Dir. CoChrane de
Alencar of the Brazilian embassy.
Sir ESme Howard, who has come
from the court of St. James, will
make his first appearance in the ex-
allied role of Ambassador, though he
greeted President Roosevelt several
times while he was counselor of the
embassy, under the leadership of the
late James Bryce.
The newly appointed Brazilian nor
Japanese Ambassadors will be here
for this opening ceremony of the year,
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NJ. JuSSerands successor, however is
on the high seas and will arrive in
this country the first week of Jan
uary. DR.. Wiedfeldt's successor is
not expected for two months, although
the present Ambassador will sail for
home late in January. The Italian
government has not yet found an Am
baSSador TO fill the place of the
courtly Don Gelasio Caetani, and
&c SIa 10,
continue here for some months
longer
The Cuban Ambassador, DIR. Cosme
Torriente, though received by the
President last December, left unex-
pectedly for Havana, and this will
mark his first appearance in the New
Year pageant. The Chilean Ambassa-
dor, Don Beltran, is not in robust
health and is spending the month in
New York, and the Argentinian Am
bassador. DIR. Honorio Pueyredon, is
in Buenos Aires with his family. The
Peruvian Ambassador, DR.. Herman
Nelarde, Will be the only associate OF
DIR. Torriente in the New Year group
for the Mexican envoy, though APP
pointed, has not yet set a day for
his coming.
But despite these absent ones, the
diplomatic corps now resident in
Washington is the largest and in
many ways the most distinguish d
body which will foregather in any
capital to greet its court or its OFF,
cial world. There are SO separate
nations now holding friendly rela-
tions with the great Republic of the
West, and of these two are of thrill
ing interest-the Egyptian and the
Irish Free State. The ENJOYS from
both countries have been added to
the long list since January l,
1924, and. in addition, the Republic OF
Lithuania has raised its mission here
to d regular legation, and its envoy,
NJ kazys Bizaukas, now is Minister
instead of charge d'affaires.
The coming of the diplomatic mis-
sion out of the land of Egypt was
in a sense epOchal, and no group in
the foreign contingent has been re-
ceived with more cordial sympathy
and understanding. The Minister, S.
Yousry Pasha, is to all intents an
Englishman, speaking the language
perfectly and knowing the traditions
of the nglish-speaking people and
sharing in every way their enthu-
siasm for sports. Nine. Yousry is