Evening star., 1927-05-15
Social Roster Revised
By Personnel Changes
At State Department
Notable Additions Effected
Through Assignment to
Washington of Two Expe-
rienced Diplomats.

MIR. Francis White of Baltimore,
who was promoted from counselor of
embassy in Madrid to one of the AS
Sistant Secretaries of State. has re-
turned to an old field of service. and
he and Mrs White will find many
i. lends in Washington whom they
made in their two years residence
from 1922-1924. The Assistant Secre.
tory, after graduating from Yale in
1913, selected the foreign service as a
career and spent two years studying,
first in L'Ecole Libre des Sciences
Politique in Paris, and next in the
University of Madrid and in the Real
academia of the same city. Passing
the entrance examination at the State
Department with high honors, his
first assignment was to Peking, in
February. 1916. These II years have
been eventfui ones in the history of
the world, and the new Assistant Sec
retary has served in many of the
most important capitalism Tereran,
Persia: Buenos Aires and other cities
of the Southern Hemisphere, and dur
ing the past three years in Paris and
Madrid. In 1922 he was appointed to
the Latin American division Of the
State Department, and he also served
as a member of the United States
Panama Commission.
Mr.. White is the son Of Mr.. and
Mrs, Miles White of Baltimore. His
mother was Miss Virginia Purviance
Bonsal. also of Baltimore. He mar
'ried June 2S. 1920. Miss Nancy Brew
ster of Stevenson, Md, and they
have one little daughter. Mrs. White
did mot sail with her husband
when he left Madrid about six
weeks ago. but she plans to join
him in the late Summer, when
they probably will establish a country
h0me and wait until the Autumn be-
fore becoming permanently placed in
Washingtons official world. For the
present Mr.. White has quarters in
the Metropolitan Club.
The return of Mr.. Matthew Elting
Hanna-so long affiliated with Latin
American affairs at the state Depart
ment--with his wife, who was the
Baroness Gustava Won Rheinbaben OF
Berlin, is of much social importance.
Mr.. Hanna will not remain very long.
as he has been for two years past
foreign service inspector, but as he
viii come back from time to time to
make reports and study new phases of |
his complicated task these visits will
be like that Of the present-an occa- |
sion Of much social activity. This is |
Mrs. Hanna's first visit to Washing !
ton, for the marriage took place in |
Berlin about two and a half years ago |
when her husband was counselor Of |
emba assy She has. however, prob /
ably been entertained in more Of the |
foreign establishments of the United |
States than any woman married to |
an American diplomat, for she accom-
panied Mr.. Hanna on his tour of in
spection and was received in the |
various homes Of the republics of the
Caribbean Sea, of Central America
and of the Southern Hemisphere.
While the experience was wonderful,
it was something of an achievement !
and trial of strength and endurance
and required almost Is months of con-
unuous travel.
Mrs. Hanna--for the German Repub-
lie is not partial to the retention of |
titles by those who remain within the |
country and, in difference to this Ma |
tion's democratic status. has not been |
known as baroness since her mar
riage-is a daughter of that Baron |
Won Rheinbaben who was for 12 years
minister of finance under the empire,
and now is dead. After the marriage |
Mr.. Hanna and his bride occupied the
fine baronial residence which had been
a famous social center and which is
near the Thiergarten, a section of |
Berlin which was not damaged during
the civil strife following the armistice,
and which presents the same smiling |
aspect that it did under the Kaisers.
Mr.. Hanna had never before been
stationed in Berlin in the diplomatic
sense. He had intended to follow a
martial career and graduated from
West Point in 1897 and saw service
in the Spanish American War and
in minor brushes of the military be-
fore and after that conflict His first
glimpse of the German capital was
in 1911. when it might be said he
reached the peak of military great
ness when he accompanied Gen.