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tions were used on the tea table
where Nine. El-Khouri, wife Of the
Syrian Minister, and Mrs. 10y
Henderson. wife Of the director Of
the division Of Near Eastern and
Arabian Affairs of the State De-
partment, presided.
Nine. Ala. wife of the Iran Am
bassador, and Nine. Dendramis,
wife of the Greek Ambassador, were
among the guests and others in
cluded Mrs. Smith, wife Of Senator
H. Alexander Smith, and their
daughter, Mrs. H. Kenaston Twitch-
ell, jr., and Representative Frances
P. Bolton. Others who called dur
ing the afternoon were Mrs. Ken
meth c. Royal, Mrs. Gordon P.
Merriam, Mrs. Adrain Colquitt and
Mrs. Joseph Satterthwaite
Nine. Tomeh, wife of the Attache
Of the Syrian Legation; Nine. Yasin
Omar, whose husband recently came
for duty with the Iraa Embassy;
Mrs. Charles Issawi. wife of the
head Of the Arab Office in Wash
ington; Mrs. Frederick Mitchell
Gould, Mrs. Lothrop Stoddard and
Mrs. James Martin Souby were
others in the group of guests.
The Colombian Ambassador and
Sonora de Restrepo-Jaramillo gave
q. dinner party last evening in their
attractive home on Twentieth street.
Their guests included Sonora de
Caceres, wife of the Honduran
Ambassador; the Costa Rican AM
bassador and Sonora de Gutierrez
and the Argentine Ambassador and
Sonora de Ivanissevich and their
daughter, Senorita Eiena Ivanis-
sevich.
The Peruvian Charge dAffaires
and Sonora de Fernandez-Da
were accompanied by their daughter,
Senorita Zulita Fernandez-Davila,
and the Uruguayan Minister Coun-
selor and Sonora de Mora also were
accompanied by their daughter, Sc
norita Emma Mora. Other guests
included visitor from Colombia,
Senor Felipe Portocarrero: Senor
Mario Santo Domingo, a Colombian
student in washington; the Assist
ant Commercial Counselor of the
Peruvian Embassy, Senor Jose Adri-
arcen; the First Secretary of the
Colombian Embassy, Senor Don Fer
nando Gaitan; Senor Juan Antonio
Rodriguez, son Of Sonora de Mora,
and Senor Jorge Restrepo-Jaramillo,
son of the hosts, who recently ar
rived in Washington and will enter
Georgetown University at the next
semester.
Another dinner party last even
ing on diplomatic row was that of
the Australian Ambassador and Mrs.
Norman ]. O. Maxim, who enter
tanned informally in their charming
embassy on Cleveland avenue. In
the group of guests were the Coun-
selor of the British Embassy, Mr..
Archibald Mcdonald Gordon; the
First Secretary of the Australian
Embassy and Mrs. j. Keith Waller,
Col. and Mrs. Charles Fletcher Mar
tin. Mr.. and Mrs. c. J. Swart, Mrs.
Lance Lewis. Mrs. Robert E. Lee III
and Miss Elizabeth Considine.
Earlier in the day, Mrs. Maxim was
ranking guest at the luncheon given
at the Mayfower by Mrs. Russell
Bennett.
The other guests were Nine. Eriks-
son. wife of the Swedish Ambas-
sador; Sonora de Rodriguez, wife of
the Minister Counselor of the
Chilean Embassy; Mrs. Jean Delat-
tre-Seguy, Mrs. Burdette Fitch, Mrs.
McCeney Werlich, Mrs. Robert E.
Lee III. Mrs. Benjamin Hill, Mrs
Atherton Macondrat, Mrs. John
Allan Dougherty, Mrs. Edward
Brewer Montgomery, Mrs. Efingham
Townsend, Mrs. Michael Francis
Doyle of Philadelphia, Mrs. Gordon
Egoroff, Miss Beatrice Moore, Miss
Custis Blake, Mrs. James Souby and
Mrs. Emil Hurja
The luncheon table was gayly dec
grated with red poinsettias and white
snapdragons which filled the white
porcelain urns at each end and In
the center, The candles, too, had
small red shades in keeping with
the holiday motif,