Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-27
Envoy from Norway
Is Prominent Figure
In Diplomatic Life
Mr.. Frederik Herman Gade,
Minister of Brazil, Comes
to Washington on Special
Mission.

One of the most interesting diplo-
mats recently assigned to Washing
ton, though his mission is temporary,
is Mr. Frederik Herman Gade, Nor
Wegian minister to Brazil. but at
present representing his government
at the American Capital. He came
early in the new year to take up the
negotiations in regard to an old claim
which Norway holds against this
Government, and associated with him
In this matter is Mr. Wilhelm
Morgensterne of the foreign Office in
Oslo, but we'll known in this country,
where he had been in the consular
service also In the local legation. 1t
is probable that these negotiations will
continue for some time yet and Mr..
Gade, his wife and daughter, Miss
Alice Gade, have found a pleasant
home in the Mayfiower. while Mr. and
Mrs. Morgensterne are at Wardman
Park Hotel.
In connection with Mr.. Gade's
special mission to Washington in be-
half of Norway, 1t Is related as one
of the unique happenings in di-
plomacy that his only son Is at pres
ent assigned to the American legation
in Oslo. Mr.. Gerhard Gade entered the
foreign service of this republic after
having served, three years as yeo-
man before and during the World
War, and had passed the requisite
examinations at the State Depart
ment., Behind this lies the fact. that
the present envoy from Oslo Is the
son of an American mother, Helen
Allen of Cambridge, Mass, and that
true to the traditions of her home, she
had prevailed upon her husband to
send the boy to Harvard after he had
completed his preparatory studies in
what was then Christiani and after
getting his B. A. degree he continued
in the law school and decided to try
his fortune in Chicago. For eight years
he practiced law in that city and be-
came naturalized and maintained a
home in Lake Forest. Here he
married, in 1897, Miss Alice Garfield
King, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs,
Charles b. King Of Chicago. and
King having been a Garfield and a
cousin of James Abram Garfield
twentieth president of the United
States. Both the children of Mr.. and
Mrs. Gade We're born in the Lake
Forest home and he would no doubt
have remained a subject of Uncle
Sam, but for the fact that the dis
with Sweden. led to his being made
consul general of Norway in Chicago.
From this time, the minister says,
he felt the urge of the blood to return
to his homeland, and this he did in
1910, became repatriated and at once
entered the Norwegian foreign serv-
ice. He served in various consular
roles in this country and was at one
time consul general of the entire
West In 1915 he was named as
special commissioner to San Francisco
at the time of the exposition, and from
this post he went to Brazil, where he
has served continuously for almost
10 years The American Ambassador
to Rio, Mr.. Edwin Vernon Morgan,
was Mr.. Gade's classmate in Harvard.
and he Is constantly meeting in
Washington those with whom he
studied in Cambridge or who were
his friends in Chicago. Gerhard Gade.
born in Lake Forest and still claiming
it as his home, did not follow his
father and mother to Oslo, but after
completing his course in the Harvard
Law School, he began practice in
Chicago and remained there until he
enlisted in the Navy as yeoman in.
1915. He was stationed here in 1922
after he had been for two years at
the legation at Riga. His intimate
knowledge of the Morse tongue led
to his appointment as secretary of
legation In Oslo In 1925. During the
past Summer when the minister. Mr..
fCoptipued on Sixth Ragel