Evening star., 1944-08-22


publics, the United Kingdom, and t
Of this Government.
The representatives of these c
Oaks, an estate which has been in
important port Of foreign trade befol
Columbia as the seat of Governme
Oaks. it was purchased some years
Bliss, who remodeled and enlarged
years gave it to Harvard Univer-
sity. It was Mr.. and Mrs. Bliss who
made it Dumbarton Oaks, which, it
Is said by many, was its original
name. However, there are many
others who know Georgetown his
tory who maintain that Dumbarton
House, now the property of the Co
lonial Danes, was the sole owner Of
the Dumbarton name.
Dumbarton Oaks, where the con-
versations are being held on the
future security of the world from
wars, was for many years the home
of the late Mr.. and Mrs Henry F..
Blount, who were leaders in George
town society as well as in Washing
ton. Mrs. Blount, before her mar
riage, was Miss Lucia Eames, sister
of the late Mrs. Franklin MacVeagh.
Mrs. MacVeagh built the house
which now is the Mexican Embassy
as . birthday present to the late
Mr.. MacVeagh, who then was Secre-
stary OF the Treasury.
The Oaks, as the place was known
for so many years, was owned and
occupied 100 years ago by the late
Mr.. Edward Magruder Linthicum.
The name of Linthicum is one that
is distinctly Georgetown, where
Linthicum Hall has been the meet
ing place of its residents as we'll as
its popular place for entertaining.
1t was here that the Georgetown As
sembly held its dances until the
war and the Georgetown Assembly
was as important to old Georgetown
as the Baltimore Bachelors Cotil-
lions.
The dinner last evening was
strictly an official party and the
guests included the Soviet Ambas-
sador, Mr.. Andrei Andreyevich
Gromycko, who heads the group
from his country, and Sir Alexander
Cadogan, chairman of those from
the United Kingdom. Others at the
dinner were His Britannia Majesty's
Ambassador, the Earl of Halifax;
the Speaker of the House, Repre-
sentative Sam Rayburn; the chair
man OF the Foreign Relations Com
mittee, Senator Tom Connally, and
Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, also
of that committee; Representative
Sol Bloom, chairman of the For
eign Affairs Committee, and Rep
resentative Charles A. Eaton of that
committee: the British Minister,
Sir Ronald I. Campbell, and the
four Assistant Secretaries OF State,
Mr.. Adolf A. Berle, jr, Mr.. Breck-
inridge Long, Mr.. Dean Acheson
and Mr.. G. Rowland Shaw.
Other members of the three
groups in conversations at Dunn
barton Oaks who attended the din
ner were Sir William Maxim, 1t.
Gen. G. N. Macready, Admiral Sir
William WEIGH, Mr.. Gladwyn Jebb,
Mr.. A. H. Poynton, Col. Capel Dunn,
Mr.. Peter Loxley, Mr.. P. H. Gore
Booth, Mr.. C. K. Webster and Mr..
Paul Falla of Great Britain; Mr..
Arkadi A. Sobolev, Mr.. Semen K.
Zarapkin, Maj. Gen. Nikolai V.
Slavin, Rear Admiral Konstantin
K. Rodionov, DR.. Sergi A. Galun-
sky, DR.. Sergi B. Krylov, Mr.. Girl
gori G. Dolbin, Mr. Mikhail M.
Yunin, Mr.. Valentin M. Berezhkov
and Mr.. Alexander M. Kapustin OF
the Soviet Union.
Guests also included those serv-
ing with Mr.. Stettinius for the
United States, Admiral Arthur j.
Hepburn, Vice Admiral Russell
Wilson, 1t. Gen. Stanley D. En-
bick, Maj. Gen. George v. Strong,
Mai. Gen. Muir S. Fairchild, Rear
Admiral Harold c. Train, Mr.. Green
H. Hackworth, Mr.. Leo Pasvolsky,
Mr.. Stanley K. Hornbeck, Mr.. Ben
iamin Cohen, Dr. Isaiah Bowman,
Mr.. Henry P. Fletcher, Mr.. Joseph
c. Grew, Mr.. James Clement Dunn
and Mr.. Edwin C. Wilson.
Attending the dinner were others
from the Department of State in
Guiding Mr.. Harley A. Notter, Mr..
Paul H. Alling. Mr.. Joseph w. Bal
lantine, Mr.. John B. Hickerson, Mr..
Charles E. Bohlen, Mr.. John Cabot,
Mr.. Alger Hiss, Mr.. Hayden Raynor
and Mr.. C. Easton Rockwell.
Members of the press at the party
were Mr.. Paul Miller of the Asso-
ciated Press, Mr.. Julius Frandsen,
jr., United Press; Mr. Harry Free
man, Tass Agency; Mr.. William K.
Hutchinson, International News;
Mr.. Paul Scott-Rankin, Reuters,
and Mr.. A. r. Mackenzie, press OFF,
Ger Of the British Embassy; Mr..
Fedor T. Orekhov, press officer of