Evening star., 1925-12-27

OF the round dozen of Ambassadors
who greeted President and Mrs. Coo,
idge and Nashirt@t on's official worl'l
on January 1, 1925, BtIt three will
perform this pleasant duty on the
first day of 1926. the dean of the corps
Senior Don Juan Riino. the Amba ssa-
dor from Spain: Baron de Cartier de
MarChienne from Belgium. and Senor
Herman Nelarde from Peru. The Am.
haSsador from Mexico. Senor Manuel de
Teller. was with his colleagues. but in
the role of charge d'affaires. his pro-
motion TO his present rank dating
from February ~. In all the other
insta noes the heads os diplomatic mis-
sions 70 Washington have been re.
placed by others who make their in
ltlal bow in the international pageant
next Friday. except the Ambassador
from Argentina. Senior Honorio Pueyr-
redon. who has served in Washington
since March. 1894 hut who had been
called home on official business at the
close of the same year.
Though Mrs. Coolidge has antici
pated the onening of the traditionallv
accepted political season by having the
evening levee and the banquet to the
foreign corps during the middle days
Of this month. New Year dav is the
only occasion on which all the mem.
hers of WashinSton'S public world
dents home. For the ma iority of
the envoYs it will serve as introduc-
ton TO the officers of the tri-partite
government all gathered to extend the
seasons greeting 70 the President and
Mrs Coolidge and to each other NJ
JusSerand's successor. NJ. Emile
Daeschner. who is rNt'r'rg from his
post here, will he among the Ambassa.
doris TO greet the President for the
first time since ha r"osented his ere.
dentials on January 80.
The same is true of Baron Nathan
who is DR. Otto Wiedfeldt's successor
in the German emha of Mobile
GtaComo dc Martinn, who fills the role
ot Prince Caetani the Italian Amba ssa-
dor: If NJ. Tsuneo NatSud4ira and of
the cuban and Brazilian Amba ssadors.
Owing to the official morning of the
British court for Queen Alexandra
the British Ambassador. Sir Esme
Howard. who succeeded Sir Auckland
Geddes. Is spending the holidays with
his young sons. Edmund Bernard
Carl" and Henry Anthony Camille
Howard. in the Bahamas This per-
sonal representative Of King George
Of Britain was al the foot of the list
Of the higher diplomatists less than
nine months ago when he presented
his credentials. but now. 50 swift have
been the changes. he ranks as third.
Immediately after the vice-dean. which
noSition since the departure of Senior
Reltran Matthew, the Chilean Ambas-
sador, is filled by the Belgian Ambas-
sadOr Baron de Cartier.
In the ranks of minister there ap-
pears more stability than in the am
hassadOrial circle The envoy from
the republic of Portugal. As he was Of
the kingdom. Viscount d'Alte is the
senior diplomat in Washington and
dean of the ministers. and has been at
his CaDital continuously since Nav /
1902. The Danish Minister, NJ. Con-
~tantin Brun. can count the same num-
her of years, hut his service was in
terrupted for three wears when he was
envoy to Constantinonle. The Nor
wegian Minister and Nine Bryn and
their daughter Miss Laura and Miss
1nger Bryn are in their sixteenth
year of residence and Nine Brvn is
the senior of all the foreign ladies
in point Of calling Washington her
home. Senior Narela. who is the
senior of all Latin American diplomats
and is the president of ths governing
board Of the Pan-AmeriCan Union. was
the first Of the lengthy list of envoys
TO be received by President Wilson,
May l.. 1920. after what is called the
lnterrecnum, the prolonged illness
following his nervous collapse in the
Autumn of 1919. After Senor Varela
and the Swiss Minister. DR.. Marc
Peter, received May -. 1920, there are
few of the present Ministers who can
count more than two or three years
in the American Capital.
With the several who arrived dur
Ing 1925 is the Minister from Para
quay, who, with Senor Eusebio Ayala,
will pass before the receiving line
of New Year day for the first
time. The Ministers from Haiti from
Honduras, from Egypt. from Czecho-
slovakia from Poland and from Bull
Caria. appear for the first time and,
In higher rank. the Austrian envoy.
NJ. Edgar Prochnik vii! ipn his col
leagues. as will also the Minister from
Jatvia. Dr. Charles Seya. who was
for two years charge daffaires. and
returned To Washington in the sum
mer after serving as minister of for
eign affairs in Riga.
The diplomatic corps now is one of
the largest bodies in the official world
of Washington and ranks next to the |
House of Representatives in numbers.
but Immediately after the executive
division in general Importance. 1t is
the largest and most cosmopolitan ag-
gregation of diplomats accredited TO
any capital in the world. Since the
war the members have been shorn Of
much of their glitterinG apparel.
Once upon time the very noon-day
sun was not more glorious than the
representative of Franz-Josef EN-
peror of Austria. gold, SILVER. fur. vel
vet an6 gorgeous brocade making up
his court costume. Mr. Prochnik now is
as sombre as an attache of the State
Department, in morning frock coat Of
The conventional type. Baron Malt
San has costumes to spare and gor-