Evening star., 1948-05-09
Summer Plans
OF Diplomats
Being Made
Several Fetes
On Calendar
By Katharine NJ. Brooks

Summer vacations among the
diplomats are beginning to take
shape. The Italian Ambassador,
Signor Alberto Tarchiani, will take
off this evening for Rome for
three-week stay on business. Sig
nora Tarchiani expects to sail early
In June for France, where she will
join their two attractive daugh-
ters who are in school in Paris.
During the Ambassadors absence
Signor Mario di Stefano will be
Charge d'Affaires. :-.--
The Swedish Ambassador and
Nine. Eriksson will sail early in
July aboard the Stockholm. It
will be their first vacation in their
homeland since the Ambassador
came as Minister in October, 1945,
when he succeeded Mr.. Wollmar
Bostrom. Mr.. Bostrom served his
government as Minister in Wash
ington from February, 1926, until he
retired in the summer of 1945. The
Ambassador and Nine. Ericsson will
spend several months at home and
expect to come back to Washington
in September.
Sonora de Baraibar, wife Of the
Spanish Charge d'Affaires, and
their daughters will be off to Spain
June 9. They expect to spend the
summer in San Sebastian and be
back in this Capital late in Sep
tember. Senor Baraibar does not
expect to join his family except for
two or three weeks In midsummer.
/ The Second Secretary of the
italian Embassy and Signora Cat
alamo and their two sons also are
going home. They plan to sail May
Is, but do not expect to return to
Washington. Master Antonio Cat
alamo. the 9-year-old son, has not
been we'll since coming to the Capt.
tai and they hope the return to
Rome will benefit him. The young
er son is a native of the District of
Columbia, having been born In De-
cember of last year.
Parties Arranged
The Netherlands Ambassador and
Nine. van Kleffens were hosts at
dinner last evening, one Of a series
they are giving while Mrs. Raymond
Wilson of Scotland, sister of Nine.
van Kleffens, is visiting them. Shar-
ing honors with Mrs. Wilson last
evening was the Netherlands Consul
General in Chicago, DR.. j. B. v.
M. j. van de Mortel. who is here
for the week end. Other guests last
evening were the Belgian Ambassa-
dor, Baron Silvercruys; the newly
appointed United States Ambassador
to Brazil, Mr.. Herschel v. Johnson;
the Canadian Minister and Mrs.
Thomas A. Stone, Representative
and Mrs. A. S. Mike Monroney,
the chairman of the Atomic Energy
Commission and Mrs. David E.
Lilienthal, the Assistant Secretary
of State and Mrs. Garrison Norton;
DR.. and Mrs. Paul Magnusson. Mr..
and Mrs. James Lawrence Hough-.
telling, Mrs. Sigourney Thayer and
Capt. Bland of the British Army.
The Military and Air Attache OF
the Danish Embassy and Nine.
Foerslev and the Naval Attache
and Nine. Kjoelsen have cards out
for a 6-to-8-o'clock party May 18
at the Army and Navy Club.
Returning to the Capital early
this week will be the Ell Salvador
Ambassador and Sonora de Castro
and their daughter, Senorita Maria
Teresa Castro. They have been
in Bogota, where the Ambassador
was a delegate to the recent Pan
American Conference. They are
making a leisurely trip northward
and expect to arrive in a few days.
A newcomer in the corps will
be Mr.. Fereyin Movassaghi, who
arrived some time ago from his
home in Iran and is in New York
doing some special work with the
United Nations. He will come to
Washington when he has completed
the work and take up his duties
as Second Secretary Of the Embassy.
Mr.. Movassaghi is accompanied by
Nine. Movassaghi, who will come
with him to Washington.