Evening star., 1948-02-01
Guest Students
Are BeimgFeted
BY Diplomats
Foreign Corps
Members Active
By Katharine M. Brooks

I. The Norwegian Ambassador and
Nine. Munthe de Morgenstierne will
entertain at dinner Wednesday eve
, ming and will give another dinner
party Shrove Tuesday, February 10.
Tomorrow afternoon they will be
, hosts at the tea hour to small
group of Norwegian students who
are. in this country for brief
visit. The students, 80 in all, are
from Sweden. Denmark, Finland
, and the United Kingdom, and they
: are guests of the Civic Educational
Service, the New York Herald Trib-
une and the Scandinavian Air Lines.
The, young people were selected in
their homelands through the writ
ing of essays on THE World We
Want" and all are in their late
teens
The visitors from Norway who
. Yill have tea tomorrow with the
Ambassador and Mime. de Morgen-
stierne are Miss Hildur We, who
= represented the Quiz Kids of Nor
way on the radio program of that
, name last week; Miss Eva Paesche,
Miss Anne Vogt, MIR. Thor johann
sen, Mr.. Brynjulf Otnef, and Mr..
Andreas Jorgensen.
The Swedish Ambassador and
= Mime. Ericsson wille be OF today for
, Florida where the Ambassador ex-
. poets to complete his recuperation
from a long illness. In their alb
.sence the counselor of the Embassy
and Nine. Aminoff will be hosts to
the students from their country at
tea tomorrow. Mr.. and Mrs. Amin
of are in Baltimore today where
the groups from the Scandinavian
countries and Finland are visiting
points of interest.
Group From SUeden
-, From Sweden has come only one
young lady, Miss Carin Quarnstrom,
- with Mr.. Lars Ameus, Mr.. Jan
Carlestam, Mr.. Yngoe' Moeller, Mr..
. Sven Stroemholm and Mr.. Sven
During.
The Danish Ambassador and
Nine. de Kaufman will be hosts
q, to the young visitors from their
homeland tomorrow, the group in
cluding Miss Merite Bjorn-Hansen,
Miss Hanne Nielsen. Miss Anne Lise
. Hansen, Mr.. Johnny Christensen,
Mr.. Mel Skydsgaard and Mr.. Ulrik
Plessner.
Also in Baltimore to be with the
young people from their country
are the Finnish Minister, DR.. K. 7.
Jutila and his daughter, Miss Vappu
.Jutila. They will come back to
Washington with the group this
evening and tomorrow the Minister
and Nine. Jutila and their daugh-
ter will entertain them at tea in
the legation. There are only three
from Finland, Miss Eeva THUS, Mr.
Martti Soisalo and Mr.. Casimir
Ehrrrooth. .-... /
The United Kingdom is repre-
sented in the group by Miss Patricia
pender and Mr.. Terence Nelson OF
England, Miss Hazel Cory from
North ireland, Miss Isabella Tweddle
and Mr.. Calvin Hider from Scotland,
and Mr.. Colin Meredith from Wales.
They, too, will be entertained az the
tea hour tomorrow at their en-
bassy. ~
After touring the Capital tomor-
row morning on a sightseeing ous
the students will attend portions
of the sessions Of the Senate ano
House in the early afternoon and
in the evening will be entertained
a. dinner at the Statler. Maj, Gen.
Harry H. Vaughan, Military Alde
to the President, will escort the
thirty visiting students through the
White House Tuesday morning ana
after a visit to the Supreme Court
they will leave for New York on
their way to their homelands.
Coming to Washington with the
foreign guests will be two students
from New York City, Miss Gloria
Ackell and Mr.. Helmuth Koehn.
Leave for Home
Mrs Norman ]. o. Maxim, wife of
the Australian Ambassador, ana
their son, Mr.. Lloyd Maxim, will
leave Washington Wednesday by
motor for San Francisco and will
take off from there for their home
land, Mrs. Maxim will be absent
4 couple of months and will visit
her SON, 1t. Harry Maxim, in New
Zealand before landing in Australia.
- Mr.. Maxim has been attached TO
the embassy in Washington since
September, 1916, and is returning to
Canberra to enter the StatlStlclans s
branch of the Treasury Department
During her absence the delightful
billy teas which Mrs. Maxim in
stigurated for the Australian girls
who married United States soldiers
and now live in and near Washing
ton, will be omitted. These teas nave
been events in the embassy each
month and have been occasions for
the newcomers here to have a bit
OF home. The pleasant associations
have been so greatly appreciated by
those included that Mrs. Maxim has
had letters from the families OF
numbers of them thanking her for
looking after their daughters.
Packages are packed to ship to the
needy in England at each of these
teas, and they will be resumed when
Mrs. Maxim returns in the early
spring.
The Philippine Ambassador, Mr..
Joaquin M. Elizalde, is expected to
return tomorrow from New York
where he has been for week or
ten days following his trip to his
homeland
The Philippine Minister, Mr.. Mar
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