Evening star., 1949-01-23
Belts Are Hosts
AtEmbassyFete
For BJtles
Envoy and Wife
Saw Farewells

One of Washingtons most popu.
lar diplomatic couples gave party
for the secretary of the Senate and
Mrs. Leslie Biff1e yesterday and at
the same time said farewell TO many
close friends here.
When the Cuban Ambassador and
Sonora de Belt depart from the
Capital the middle of February
they are going to leave many sad
faces behind them. No embassy
heads in Washington enjoy mere
affection on the part of every one
they meet than these two. Every
body at the party was beWalllng
their coming departure.
Senior Guillermo Belt came here
in November. 1914, and Is the first
Ambassador from his country to
have served in the United States
Capital for more than four years.
During all that time, too, he has
been Cuba's delegate to the U. ~,
representative to the Pan American
Union governor of the World Bank,
chief delegate to the Chapultepec.
Bogota and Rio Conferences and
Minister to the Soviet Union He
hasn't, in fact. had a moment in
which to relax In the entire four
years.
When yesterdays party was
planned in honor of Mr.. and Mrs.
Biff1e, it was not known that it would
be a farewell for the Belts. Now
parties in their own honor are being
planned as quickly as possible. Mrs.
Nicholas Longworth will give .
dinner for them on Monday and the
French Ambassador and Nine.
Bonnet will be hosts at another
dinner for them on Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Biffle were still
smiling after a week as strenuous as
President and Mrs. Truman's. And
one wouldn't have guessed from
Sonora de Belts attractive appear
ance that she had ended Inaugural
Week by entertaining the Capitol
page boys at the Embassy that
morning.
The new Secretary of State and
Mrs. Dean Acheson headed the
Official studded list of guests In
vited to the, 6-to-8 reception. And,
looking around in the numerous re-
ception rooms on the second floor,
one might have seen Attorney Gen.
eral and Mrs Tom Clark, the Sec
retary of the Air Force and Mrs.
Stewart Symington and the Assist
ant Secretary and Mrs. Cornelius
Vanderbilt Whitney, the Secretary
of the Army and Mrs. Kenneth
Royal, the Undersecretary OF the
Treasury and Mrs. Edward H. Foley.
ir.; Associate Justice and Mrs. STAN
lev Reed, the Chief of Staff Of the
Air Force and Mrs. Hoyt Vanden.
berg and 1t. Gen. and Mrs. Wade
Hampton Haislip.
Senators Clinton Anderson, VIII
liam Fulbright. Leverett Saltonstall,
Millard Tydings, Russell Long and
Estes Kefauver we're there with
/ their wives, and from the State De-
7 partment came Assistant Secretaries
and Mrs. Willard Thorp and John
E. Puerifoy, Ambassador and Mrs.
Paul Daniels, Mr.. and Mrs Charles
Bohlen and Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
McClintock.
The Dean of the Diplomatic Corps
and Nine Munthe de, Morgenstierne
headed the diplomats. The chiefs
of missions from France, Denmark.
Netherlands, Canada. Mexico, Pam
anna, Colombia, Ecuador, Iran, Siam,
South Africa and Saudi Arabia
we're among those present with their
wives. 49,
Later last evening the Dutch
Ambassador and Nine. Won Kleffens
were hosts at q dinner Of IS for
Jonkheer and Mrs. Snouck Hur.
gronje, who arrived from New York,
Where the former is the Nether-
lands representative to the U. N.
Ranking guests were Senator and
Mrs. Saltonstall.