Evening star., 1946-04-28
Entertaining
By DIPLOMAT,
IS Informal
Many Changes
At Mexican
Embassy
By Betty MHiken

While invitations to several large
receptions have been recalled out
OF respect to the late Chief JUS
tice and others not yet in the
mail are being held for change Of
dates. smaller and less formal par
ties are continuing to be given in
the diplomatic corps and one of
these took place last night. An init
mate circle of friends were guests OF
the Belgian Ambassador, Baron
Silvercruys, who entertained at din
ner for the former Polish diplo-
mat, Leon OrloWski. The party
also served as farewell for the
Assistant Military Attache, 1t. Henri
Tournay, and his bride who are
slated to leave Washington.
1t. Tournay hasn't been here long,
as he arrived just a year ago to at
tend the Command and General
Staff School at Fort Leavenworth,
and after completing his course six
months agD came to Washington to
take over the duties of his first
diplomatic assignment. When he
sails May u aboard the Queen
Mary, he'll be en- route to Brussels,
and Mrs. Tournay will join him at
his new post, presently unknown,
in a couple of months. This diplo-
matte couple will entertain at a
farewell cocktail party May in
their new apartment at 1850 Harvard
street.
Tuesday evening the Bolivian Am
bassador and Sonora de Andrade
will be hosts to group of seniors
from the dalton School in New
York, who were anxious for first
hand information about Bolivia
and asked the envoy for personal
interview. The young people not
only will have their request granted
but will Be entertained at tea at
the Embassy.
Senorita Zulita Fernandez-Davila,
daughter OF the Peruvian Charge
d'Affaires and Sonora de Fernandez
Davila, was hostess at dinner
dance last evening, entertaining
more than 60 young people at the
Embassy. The daughters and sons
of other diplomats, as we'll as few
from official and residential circles,
had a merry time dancing to records
played on a Victrola following the
buffet dinner
Not a week passes without many
changes in the staffS of embassies
and legations, and this week the
official announcement of the retire
ment of the Czechoslovak Ambassa-
dor, Mr.. Vladimir Hurban, no doubt
will be made known. Unofficial
word was received a day or so
ago and came as a great sur
prise to many OF his friends. The
envoy hasn't been home since 1888,
though he came to Washington as
Minister two years before that. In
1943 the Legation was raised to an
Embassy and Mr.. Hurban immedi-
ately became Ambassador. 1t is said
his successor probably will be DR..
Juraj Slavik, former Czechoslovak
Minister to Poland and more re-
Gently Minister of the Interior in
London.
Another change in the Czecho-
slovak Embassy staff brings Mr..
Joseph Hanc here as Minister. No
newcomer to Washington, Mr.. Hanc
has been in New York during the
war, heading the Czechoslovak Eco
nomic Service. He will succeed DR..
Karel Cervenka, who with Nine.
Cervenka and their son Charles
sailed a week ago aboard the Uru-
quay for Prague. Nine. Hanc and her
sons, John, who is %, and George,
16, will come from Prague in the
fall, in time for the young men
to enter an American school.
So many changes have taken
place in the staff of the Mexican
Embassy that it's difficult to keep
track of them. The Minister, Senor
Don Rafael de la Colina, is in New
York serving as his country's rep
resentative at the Security Council
of the United Nations. He will be
gone only temporarily, however.
Senor Don Salvador Duhart, who
was Counselor of the Embassy for
4 number of years, has been pro-
NOTED to Inspector General of Con-
sulates. This high post will take
him to cities throughout the United
States, where there are five Con-
sulates General and Al Consulates
of the Mexican government.
En- route to Panama, where he
will be Second Secretary of the
Mexican Embassy, the same post
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