Evening star., 1925-03-15
New Envoy of japan
To United States Is
Veteran in Diplomacy
Matsudaira Was Here Dur
ing Arms Conference and
Is Well Acquainted.

NJ. Tsunoe Matsudaira, until three
months ago vice minister, or in Amer
lean phrase undersecretary of state,
In the foreign Office of Toxic, Is the
fifth arrival in the group of new Am
bassadors assigned to this Capital.
Like his colleagues in the corps, the
French, Mexican, Italian and German
Ambassadors, he is frankly described
by all who know him as the most
brilliant and best equipped diplomat
attainable by the Nippon government
at the present time. Thus the some
what amazing aggregation of men
who had been trained in every pro-
fession save that of statecraft and
International relations who have held
lofty posts in the Washington foreign
contingent ever since the World War,
has been totally displaced by the
trained diplomatist who has won his
laurels and wears them gracefully.
The Ambassador from Japan, NJ
Matsudaira, has just turned into his
tSth year, and 25 of these years have
been passed In diplomatic missions.
Knows Washington Well.
The scholarly envoy from Toxic
comes to the National Capital with
the solid foundation of knowing it
we'll and having a wide acquaintance
With it's influential public men. He
was secretary of the japanese dele
cation to the Disarmament Confer
ence in 1921 and resided here for more
than six months. His present sojourn
IS tempered with sadness by the
death of President Harding, who won
the hearts of all the delegates so
completely, and especially those from
retary of State, Charles Evans
Hughes. is also missed, for he Is tre-
mendouSly admired in Japan. 1t is
well known there as IL is here, that
Mr.. Hughes worked indefatigably to
solve all differences with the East by
treaty and that it was blow to him,
almost as heavy as that which fell
upon Japan, that Congress overruled
his judgment and decided all the is
sues at stake by new laws.
1t was fresh from the victories
gained at the Washington conference
that the Ambassador was invited
into the foreign office as vice min
lister, his first service in Toxic. He
had been sent to London as attache
when he had just graduated from
the College of Law in the Imperial
University of Toxic, and he served
in different grades in the British cap
ital for 10 years. hence his perfect
command of English. He was sec
years, and then served d few years
as consul general at Ticntsin.
Knows Ways of West.
In Nine. Matsudaira, who is the
daughter of Nabeshima, the Jap
anese embassy will have one of its
most graceful and important chate-
' laines. She belongs to a distinguished
family, formerly chieftains of power
full clans. members of the House of
Peers, and she is the perfect type of
the high born modernized daughter
of the East, who retains all her de-
votion for her own traditions and
customs, and yet has absorbed some
of the ways of the West. This charm
ing and very lovely lady was born in
Italy during the residence of her
parents on an official mission, and her
soft, flowery name, ltoka, means
child of Italy
BY one of those happy condolences
which happen in real life as well az
in novels, the Italian Ambassador and
Dona Antonietta de Martino have but
recently come from Toxic, where the
former had been ambassador for the
past two years, and the families have
been on the most friendly terms.
Nine. Matsudaira has spent many
years in Italy, studying art and let
terS, and she mas the KeeneSt sym
pathy and appreciation for all that
relates to the land of her birth.
There are three children, two of
them girls who are quite we'll grown
and have been studying Under tutors
for the past four years. Miss Setsuko
is in her early teens, and Makuko is
a little over II. The baby boy, who
arrived in Washington in the arms of
a, most picturesque nurse, is named
Jiro, and is about IA months old.
Japan's new statesman will have
more important measures to consider
than the purchase of d new embassy,
but it is said this will engage his at
tention at the earliest possible mo-
ment. The Japanese embassy, the
and in it's day one of the finest domi
) Giles in Washington. is in a down
town district and now far removed
from Washingtons Mayfair. But 1t
has it's good points, since it faces
Franklin Park, and viii be open
enough for the children until the am
bassador has time to grapple with
the problem of a new diplomatic es-
tablishment.
Brings New Aid.
The ambassador brought a new
counsellor of embassy from Toxic, M.
Setsuza Sawada, who is accompanied
by Nine. Sawada and two sons. There
is also a new first secretary in NJ.
Kazue Kuwashima. Nine. Kuwashima