Evening star., 1948-06-20

anniversaries
To Be Marked
Foreign Corps
Has Changes
By Katharine NJ. Brooks

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The program of official entertain
ment for the President Of Venezuela
and Sonora de Gallego and their
party. has been completed. The
visitors will arrive July l and be
guests of President and Mrs. Tru-
man at dinner that evening. They
will stay overnight at the White
House.
The Director General of the Pan
American Union, DR.. Alberto Lleras.
Is making elaborate preparations for
the luncheon the following day
which the Governing Board of the
Union will give for the South Amer
ican chief executive. Luncheon will
be served in the stately Hall of the
Americas, which is having thor
ough renovation. Other parts Of the
handsome building are having SINH
lar treatment, especially those por-
tions which held the interesting and
unusual exhibits from the 20 Latin
American Republics.
Preparatory to the completion OF
the new Annex for the Union, sew
eral of the divisions, such as music
and other cultural sections, are
occupying the Lothrop house on
California street at the top of the
Connecticut avenue hill.
President Gallego will be host at
dinner July 2, entertaining at Blair
House where he will stay for three
days after the White House visit
The reception which the Ambas-
sador and Sonora de Carnevali will
give July 3 in honor of the Presi-
dent and Sonora de Gallego also will
serve as a celebration of the Vene-
zuelan Independence Day, July S
One of the reasons for the unveil-
ing on July in Bolivar, Mo-, Of
the statue of Simon Bolivar, great
liberator of Central and South
America, is that this year the
United States will celebrate its in
dependence July 5, too.
President and Mrs. Truman will
be hosts to President and Sonora
de Gallego and their party on the
trip to Bolivar and also going with
them will be the Venezuelan Am
bassador and Sonora de Carnevali.
the Director General of the Union
and Sonora de Lleras and the Ecua-
dor Ambassador to the Union, Capt.
Colon Eloy Alfaro, who also is a
member of the Board of Governors
of the Simon Bolivar Foundation.
More Anniversaries
Other countries will celebrate
their national days in the next few
weeks. The first of these will be the
reception Thursday of the Siamese
Ambassador and Princess Wan
Waithayakon which will mark the
Siamese National Day.
Canadian Dominion Day, July /,
will pass without a large or formal
celebration in Washington as the
Ambassador and Mrs. Hume Wrong
and the Minister and Mrs. Thomas
A. Stone will be out of town. The
Minister will accompany Mrs. Stone
to Sorrento, Me-, where she will be
through the summer. He, however,
will return Immediately after the
Fourth Of July holiday and join her
again later in the summer for
vacation. The Ambassador and Mrs.
Wrong will be in Canada.
The Philippine anniversary is the
same as that of the United States,
but the Ambassador, Mr.. Joaquin
M. Elizalde, has not yet decided
which day he will celebrate-Sunday
or Monday. There will be party
at the Embassy, and it will not be
limited to the Philippine residents
here, but will include citizens Of the
United States, as well.
CHANCES in the Corps
Uruguay will have a new Ambas-
sador at this Capital by tall. DR..
Alberto Dominguez Campora has
been appointed to succeed DR.. Juan
Carlos Blanco. who represented his
President in Washington from Sep
tember, 1941, until his recent trans
fer.
Ambassador and Sonora de Blanco
went home early in the year, and
do not expect to return here before
going to France, where, the former
has been assigned as Ambassador.
The sador-designate and
Sonora de Dominguez Campora do
not expect to come north until
September, when they will be ac-
companied by the new Secretary Of
the Embassy, Senor Jorge Barrairo.
The newly appointed Indian Am
bassador, Sir Rama Rau. will be
here much sooner. He has been
Ambassador to Tokyo for the past
year, and is leaving there tomorrow
for Delhi, where he will have brief
conferences with officials Of his Gov
ernment before coming here. Lady
Rama was not with him in Japan,
nor Is she expected to accompany
him to Washington. He plans to
spend only fortnight at home, and
will reach the Capital the middle
or end of next month. His daugh-
ter, Miss Premila Rama, who has
been with him in Japan, probably
will be his hostess in Washington.
Her younger sister, Miss Santha
Rama, is writer.
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