Evening star., 1942-03-28

heads the hostess committee. The
Joaquin Elizalde, will be the speake
Mr.. Tregor, who has created lik
his Macarthur portrait on photogr
Among his other subjects have been
President Roosevelt. the late Ignace
Jan Paderewski, famous Polish
pianist, composer and statesman,
and the late Knute Rockne, out
standing football coach.
Welles Gives Dinner
For Gen. Sik0rski.
Members of diplomatic and official
society continued on their merry
way yesterday. attending more par
ties honoring visiting celebrities in
town.
Winding up the series of events
honoring the Prime Minister OF
Poland, Gen. Wladyslaw Sikorski,
was the dinner given last night by
the Acting Secretary of State Mr..
Sumner Welles. The party was given
at the Carlton Hotel, and in addi-
ton to the prominent Polish ofh-
cials others attending were Senator
Tom Connally. chairman of the For
eign Relations Committee of the
Senate; Representative Sol Bloom,
chairman of the Foreign Affairs
Committee of the House; Represen-
tative James WadsWorth, Represen-
tative Charles S. Dewey, Vice Ad-
miral F. J. Horne, Assistant Secre-
tary of State Breckenridge Long,
Mr.. James Clement Dunn. advisor
on political relations of the State
Department; Mr.. Myron c. Taylor,
Mr.. George T. Summerlin, chief OF
protocol; Mr.. Ray Atherton of the
Division of European Affairs OF the
State Department.; the Rt. Rev.
Michael j. Ready. Brig. Gen. Dwight
Eisenhower, Mr.. M. S. Szymczak OF
the Board Of Governors of the Fed
eral Reserve System, Mr.. Hamilton
Armstrong, Mr.. 10y w. Henderson
of the Division of European Affairs
and Mr.. Raymond D. Muir OF the
State Department.
The Polish guests at the dinner
we're Count Edward Raczynskl. act
ing Foreign Minister OF Poland;
Ambassador Jan Ciechanowski, the
Rt. Rev. Zygmunt Kaczynskl. Col,
Leon MitkiewicZ, 1t. Col. M1chael
Protasewicz, Wing Comdr. Bohdan
Kleczvnski. 1t. Col Janusz Ilinskl,
Count Michael Potulicki. Mr.. An
toni Balenski. Mr.. Michael Kwapls-
zewski and Col. Wlodzimierz Onace-
vicz.
Panamanian Envoy
Honors Countryman.
The Panamanian Ambassador,
Senior Don Ernesto Jaen Guardla,
was host at luncheon yesterday en-
tertaining at the Embassy in honor
Of his distinguished countryman,
Senior DR.. Catalina Arrocha Graell.
director of the National Institute OF
Panama. Senor DR.. Arrocha Graell,
who is in this country as a guest
of the Cultural Relations Division
of the State Department, left today
for New York on his way to visit
various States in this country before
returning to the ISthmus.
Other guests of the Ambassador
Yesterday were the Mexican Am
bassador, Senor DR.. Don Francicso
Castillo Najera; the Ecuador Am
bassador, Senor Captain Eloy Alfaro;
the Costa Rican Minister, Senor DR..
Don Luis Fernandez: the Director
General of the Pan-Amerlcan
Union, DR.. Leo S. Rowe; the chief
of protocol Mr. Summerlin; Mr..
Roy Pascal Davis, Mr.. Philip Bonsal,
Mr.. Charles Thomson, DR.. John Pat
terson. Mr.. Richard Pattee. Mr..
Murray Wise, Senor Fransicso
Cespedes. Senor Juan Herman and
the members of the Embassy staff
with the exception OF the one
feminine member, Senorita Anita
Ramirez-Duque.
Egyptian Minister and His Wife
Are Hosts at Legation.
Another party in the diplomatic
set yesterday was the dinner given
by the Egyptian Minister and Nine.
Hassan. The ranking guests were
the retiring Minister of Australia
and Mrs. Richard G. Casey and
the Minister of New Zealand and
Mrs. Walter Nash. Others present
were former Undersecretary of
State and one-time Ambassador to
Japan, William R. Castle, and Mrs.
Castle; Sir Clyde and Lady Ballieu
and their daughter, Miss Yvette
Baillieu; Mrs. Ian Elliott, Mr.. R.
Keith Jopson, Commercial Secre-
tary of the British Embassy, 1t. Col.
Horace Smith, and Mrs. Smith; 1t.
Col. and Mrs. S. H. Leete. Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Hurd, Mrs. 10y
Henderson, DR.. and Mrs. Clarence
Miller and members of the Legation