The Washington times., 1937-04-13

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to the yarn. A
But keep hear-Mrs. j. b. Hartman
ing it everywhere I go.
There's a possibility the Cos
sips Say-that Mrs. Ruth Bryan
Owen Rohde may be given back
her post as Minister to Denmark.
Or maybe in the general shakeup
which is disturbing the State De-
partment, Mrs. Isabella Green
way, former CongresSwoman from
Arizona, may draw a diplomatic
prize.
The beauteous Isabella is in
town now. Watching her radiant
and magnetic at the ball of Mr..
and Mrs. w. Forbes Morgan, the
center of a group that adored
merely seeing her close by and was
enchanted with her absurd anec-
dotes, I thought of what a Ger.
tain Congressman name secret)
told me last week.
"Of all the women who have
been in the House." this child
like fellow said, Mrs. Greenway
was the most satisfactory to work
with. Why?
well, I'll tell you. She carried
on like another man. Did her job
efficiently and quietly and never
called attention in any way to
the fact that she was woman.
Never worked that old sex appeal
racket. Quite without guile. Just
an industrious Representative of
the State of Arizona. That's what
Mrs. Greenway was"
Oh, Isabella, aren't you ashamed!
Yours is the art that conceals art!
You Of all wornen-guileless!
One of the difficulties of send
ing a woman Minister or Ambas-
Sador to represent a country
abroad is that a foreign govern
me1t feels more responsible for
her safety than if she we're a man.
Wherever she goes the government
to which she is accredited thinks
It necessary to send an escort, gen.
orally a beautiful young military
or naval aide, to look after her
safety. ....
Naturally an unattractive
woman is not picked for a diplo-
matte post. A woman like Mrs.
Rohde or Mrs. Hartman or Mrs.
Greenway is an obvious choice.
So-given the woman and the
beautiful protector, you're likely
to have an international romance.
Mrs. Owen had one. She married
her escort.
Another persisting rumor sends
Mr.. Joseph E. Davies, present Am
bassador to the Soviet Union, to
London. Within a few months,
Mr.. Davies, so l gather from talk
ing to various diplomatic gentle
men, is Number One among
American Ambassadors and Min
isters. When Ambassador Robert
Worth Bingham comes home from
England, as he is certain to do,
Mr.. Davies is going to proceed to
the Court of st. James.
Mr.. Joseph P. Kennedy, new
chairman of the Maritime Com
mission, has taken Merrywood,
that beautiful house in nearby
Maryland not far from Great
Falls. When Mr.. Kennedy was
chairman of the Securities and
Exchange Commission, he leased
Merrywood. Now he is preparing
for another summer in Washing
ton there and has bought large
new moving picture machine for
outdoor use.
Madame Saito, wife of the Jap,
anese Ambassador, who by this
time probably feels she never
wants to see another cherry bios
som, tells me that in Japan cherry
trees are planted against back
ground of evergreenS. Outside Of
Tokyo is a cherry tree drive three
miles long and when the trees bios
som against the deep green the eff.
feet is of unreal beauty.
Mr.. Roosevelt may have made a
usual husbandly request for more
variety in breakfasts, please, but
I'm sure he has never murmured
against the soups at the White
House table.
Mrs. Roosevelt served at lunch
con the other day, the perfect
chicken soup concocted in some
adroit and talented way with
ground almonds. Most chicken
SOUPS are memories Of last Sun
days drumsticks and neckS, but
this White House chicken soup is
something to write poem about.
Representative Billy Connery
Is one of Massachusetts proudest
Irishmen and one of the finest
story-tellers in Congress. He
came back from st. Patrick's
Day parade in New York State
in a fine rage. His Irish dander
had more than reached the boil
ing point.
There were 20 bands in the
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