Evening star., 1926-04-18
BY MARGARET r. DOWNING.

The Belgian Amha sSa dor. Baron
Emile de Cartier. as acting dean ot
the corps has been hearing the strenu
Gus burden of courtesy toward the
scores of distinguished visitors recently
in Washington and. with the baroness.
he has passed the busiest months OF
his extended residence here since the
Autumn Of 1919 In the diplomatic
sense, the Belgian Amba s7ador's career
presents several urique features. tie
came TO Washington IN the Spring Of
1917 to succeed NJ. Emmanuel Have
NTH. who had been ira nSferred TO the
foreign office i'm Brussels He then
held the rank Of minister and he had
~ previously served in Washington as
second secretary Of his country's lega-
tion during the late nineties. After
this Government raised Mr.. Bra nd
Nhitlock TO the rank Of amhassa dor.
the first ever accredited 10 Belgium.
that nation responded by elevatinC its
representative TO Washington, Baron
de Cartier. who then was serving as
delegate To the Versailles congress.
The new Amba ssa dor. who had just
married Mrs. Hamilton Carey, Of New
York, took the first available steamer
to reach Washington in order to have
all preliminaries for his reception al
the State Department and at the
pending %isit of King Albert and
Queer Elizabeth and of the ate Cardi
nal Nerrier. Though the Amha ssa dor
Va in residence in early August. .9l@.
hts plans were futile. President vii
son was away on that memora hle lee
rure tour and when he returned. as all
The world remembers. no official husi
ness OF any desc. iDtion was possible
50 the Belgian Ambassador was com
L. ,t.,ssN
to Diplomatic representatives not vet
t-aceived by the President and to he
come the very center of social life
Tor more than three months. II was
not until MAY L., 1920, that he pre-
scented his credentials 10 President
W ilson and this date marks the begin
ming of his official term as Belgium s
representative though he held that
rank actually eight months earlier
and had been a minister here for two
wears and a half.
President Coolidge's cOunselors are
seem. igIy familiar in All aspects to
,fhe Washington public. hut clever
sxoung Brazilian scribe attending the
recent Pan-American journalistic con
cress mas discovered that of the four
who are accredited from the same
State where they were born. Mr.. Mel
lon, Mr.. dwight F. Davis. Mr.. Sargent
and MIR New. all still live In the same
citv where they were born and have
been identified with its activities since
childhood. The Secretary of the Treas.
urv with Pittsburgh. Of War with st.
Louis. the ATTORNEY General with the
small town of Ludlow, VT, and the
Postmaster General with Indianapolis.
The Secretary Of the Navy and the
Secretary of Commerce, both citizens
of California now, were born in Iowa.
The Secretary of State. who adds lus
ter to the political annals of Mime
sota. always swells the pride of New
York, a commonwealth which has
Civen birth actually to 1 such digni-
tariee and politically to TO- The Secre.
tarv OF the Interior, DR.. Work. is from
Pennsylvania. but he counts as the
second cabine: official from Colorado.
The Secretary of Agriculture Is from
Kansas politically, Idaho by birth
ana from Utah in political training.
The Secretary of La Dor is Welshman
and a most enthusiastic one. All of
which was immensely interesting to a
journalist from a. country where po-
Iitt.al residences remain the same
through generations.
Ionkhoer de GraeH. retiring Minis
ter from the Netherlands. leaves
Washington with the reputation of be-
ing une Of the wittiest and readiest
ereakelE which the diplomatic corps
has known in some years. Public
eres klrg has. in fact. not heen smiled
upon II. the foreign Offices OF Europe
nd tho East and few diplomatists
have been courageous enough to essay
q sperc.. except of the after-dinner
variety. But the Dutch Minister
tHouAn born in Holland, spent nearly
ad .lis mature life in the East Indies
and after taking his academic degree
IN Leyden, he entered the colonial
service In the far-off districts. court
restrictions do not hold as firmly as in
t,urore and the Dutch Minister ac
,;uired the habit Of expressing his
hp.niuns forcibly and with consider
;.hla mixture Of humor. The retiring
Giplumat was in the colonial service
for IS years, and in that time was
stationed in a minor role in all the
reg. ons which he is now TO govern as
tie personal representative Of Queen
WIhelmina. Nine. de Graeff. who
since coming to Washington. has been
50 .racious and hospitable hostess.
WIS The daughter Of Gov. Cornelius
van der Wyck OF Batavia. a crown