Evening star., 1946-10-27
Nezv Members
Of fDiplomahc
Corps Here
Peruvian Embassy
Secretaries Are
Assigned
By Katharine NJ. Brooks

The diplomatic corps Is Delng aug
mented by new and interesting
members. Peru has two new secre-
taries, Mr.. Guillermo Frye, First
Secretary. and Mr.. Alvarado Rey de
Castro, Second Secretary. Mr.. Frye
has come from Canada where he
served in a similar capacity. He was
accompanied by Mrs. Frye and their
three children, two boys and a girl.
The diplomat also has held post
at his country's Embassy in Brazil.
Mr.. de Castro has been here be-
fore, when he held the post of third
secretary. During that time he met
and married Miss Luz Iglisias,
daughter of a former Resident Com
missioner of Puerto Rico and Mrs.
Santiago Iglesias. Mr.. de Castro also
comes here from Canada, and with
him is his wife and their baby
daughter, born in Washington with
in the year.
The Venezuelan Embassy is adding
a cultural Attache in Mr.. Arturo
Briceno. He will be the third men,
ber of the staff to carry the name
of Briceno, the Charge d'Affairs
being DR.. M. A. Falcon-Briceno, and
the Counselor, DR.. Antonio Casas-
Briceno. No two are related. The
newest of the Bricenos to come has
been attached to the Venezuelan
Consulate in New York and has left
Mrs. Briceno there until suitable
place can be found in Washington.
coming here from the Bolivian
Foreign Office in La Paz is the new
second secretary, Mr.. Hugo Navajs,
a young bachelor just starting out
In his career as a diplomat. Wash
ington is his first post.
Egyptian, attaches
The new Egyptian Embassy will
add to its list of Attaches whenever
the sessions of the United Nations
Council are closed. Then Mr.. Amin
Rotten, who has been Vice Consul
in New York, will assume his new
duties at the Embassy here. Egypt
is ore of the three countries whose
term in the Council will terminate
January Is to be succeeded by an
other of the United Nations.
And following the subject of new
comers in the Washington corps,
should the new Chilean Ambas-
sador be Mr.. Felix Nieto del Rio,
it will bring to Washington another
charming hostess from our South
American sister republic. Mrs. Nieto
del Rio is socially minded, a great
lover of the arts, especially music,
and has graced embassies in other
great capitals with poise and much
charm. Before her marriage she
was Miss Luz Pierez de Castro, a
member of one of the leading fami-
lies of Chile. Mr.. Nieto del Rio is
a career diplomat and would be the
first such statesman to hold this post
since DR.. Miguel Cruchaga Tocornal
was Ambassador here Mr.. Cruchaga
went home from Washington to take
the post of Foreign Minister and in
1880 when there was a change Of
government, he was elected to the
Senate, where he has served ever
since.
Mr.. Nieto del Rio came to WASH
ington in the early days of his
diplomatic career. He was CONNER
cial attache of the embassy for some
months in 1921, during the regime
of Mr.. Beltran Matthew, who served
as Ambassador from November
1918, to March, 1926. The post in
Washington probably was the first
MI Nieto del Rio held outside of
the Foreign Office. No formal an
nouncement will be made of the ap-
pointment of new Ambassador until
after the Inauguration of the new
President, Mr.. Gabriel Gonzalez
Videla. Mr.. Gonzalez was elected
by the special session of the Chi
lean Congress after very close
political race which threw the elec-
tion to- the Congress. His inaugr~a-
ton will take. place November 4.