Evening star., 1947-10-26

other to the Venezuelan Embassy,
Senior Otmaro Silva. Senor Mendez-
zebadua is spending the week md
with Sonora de Mendez-Zebadua
and their two children in Boston.
He has been attached to the Guate-
malan Consulate there for some
time and will not bring his family
to Washington until he finds suit
able abode. Senor and Sonora de
Silva have been in New York for
several days and are expected to
come to Washington tomorrow.
One of the very brilliant women
to enter the foreign service is the
new Cultural Attache of the Ven
ezuelan Embassy, Sonora Olga de
Briceno, who has taken up her
duties here and is staying at the
Shoreham. She is hoping to find q
house so that her three children
can join her. In the meantime they
are attending school in Cuba, where
she has been attached to the Ven
ezuelan Embassy for some time.
Sonora de Briceno was cultural del
egate to Spain and Portugal from
1936-1939 and has been in this coun-
try on several missions before being
appointed to the Embassy. She Is
an accomplished linquist and speaks
English, Italian, Portuguese and
Greek in addition to her native
Spanish.
Before entering the foreign service
she was a very successful news
paperwoman and has many books
published and in circulation. She
has not renounced her newspaper
profession and Is correspondent for
Ell Heraldo in Caracas, Vradymi IN
Athens, Greece, and La Gazette de
Lausanne in Switzerland.
Moslem Festival Marked
The Egyptian Ambassador and
Nine. Hassan are back in Washing
ton for few days from New York,
where the Ambassador Is attending
the United Nations. They have
planned no formal celebration dur
ing these five days of Ell Id el kebir,
the most important feast OF the year
for Moslems, which marks the an
nual pilgrimage to Mecca. The
Syrian Minister and Nine. FL
Khouri were hosts at dinner last
evening, entertaining only members
of the Legation staff and their
wives at typical feast Of their
homeland to celebrate Ell Id el Kebir.
The Iraq Foreign Minister, DR.. D.
Fadil Jamali, will come to WASH
ington this week, accompanying the
head of the Iraq delegation to the
United Nations, Gen. Nouri Said.
They will be guests Of honor at din
ner Tuesday. at which Mr.. 10y
chief of the division Of
Near Eastern and African affairs of
the State Department, will be host.
Mr.. Henderson will entertain in Blair
Lee House. The absence Of the AM
oassador and Nine. Jawdat, who still
are In Arizona, leaves the Embassy
in the hands of the Second Secretary
and Nine. lChorbachi.
The Netherlands Ambassador and
Nine. van Kleffens gave an informal
dinner party last evening for a small
group OF guests entertaining in
honor of the former Premier of the
Netherlands, DIR. William Schernler-
horn, who is here over Sunday. The
other guests at dinner included the
former United States Ambassador to
the Netherlands and Mrs. Stanley
<. Hornbeck, the Economic Adviser
10 the Netherlands Ministry Of For
eign Affairs, DR.. H. M. Hirschfleld,
who is in Washington for discussions
on the Marshall plan; Mrs. Walter
Foote, wife of a former United
States Consul General in the Meth
srlands East Indies, and several
members of the Embassy staff. The
and Mime. van Kledens |
will be in Ann Arbor next week end.
The Mexican Ambassador and
Sonora de Espinosa de los Monteros
will be back next week from Europe.
They now are in Paris.
The Peruvian Charge d'Anaires
md Sonora de Fernandez-Davila
will entertain at dinner Tuesday
evening In the Embassy.