Evening star., 1949-10-30
Diplomats
Have BUSY
Schedule
British Envoy
On West Coast;
Cubons Hosts
By Katherine M. Brooks

1Ne 6TltlSn AMBASSADOR ana
Lady Franks are in Pasadena to-
day and tomorrow will go to San
Francisco. They left Washington
Tuesday. making the trip by train,
and do not expect to be back
before November 7, in time to
entertain the members of the
Sadlers Wells Ballet that evening
They also had hoped to enter
tain Sir Thomas and Lady Beech
am, who are coming for the,
concert. November 8, of the Ma
tional Symphony Orchestra, which
Sir Thomas will conduct.
The Ambassador and Lady
Franks were honor guests at a
reception yesterday in Los An
geles. given Jointly by the English
Speaking Union, the Council of
British Societies and the British
United Services Club. They en-
tertained in the California Club
in Los Angeles. The Ambassador
went to the West Coast to fill
several speaking engagements.
Lady Franks will lunch at the
Mills Club in San Francisco We'd
nesday and the following day will
have tea with the San Francisco
branch of the League of Women
Voters. Friday she will be honor
guest at luncheon of the Berkeley
branch OF the League and later
that day she and the Ambassador
will leave Oakland by train to re-
turn to the Capital.
The Ambassador and Lady
Franks will be honor guests at tea
Wednesday of the British acting
Consul General in San Francisco.
MI. A. J. de la Mare, when the
Ambassador will make the pres
entations of several decorations.
The Israeli Ambassador, Mr..
Eliahu Elath, IS in Canada over
the weekend and will join Mrs.
Elath tomorrow or Tuesday.
Lady Berendsen, wife of the New
Zealand Ambassador, spent Friday
at the Embassy and joined Sir
Carl in their New York apartment
late yesterday afternoon. The Am
bassador also is attending the
U. N. sessions to which he is a
delegate.
Parties Are Fewer
Few parties are on the social
calendar of diplomats beyond the
national holiday celebrations.
Among those few are the two din
ners which the Ecuador Ambas-
sador and Sonora de Dillon will
give Tuesday and Thursday of this
week. Last evening the Cuban
Ambassador and Sonora de Cans
loaned their handsome Embassy
for a celebration honoring the late
Jose Clemente Orozco, a distin-
guisned painter of Mexico.
Motion pictures were shown as
we'll as color photography re-
productions of his paintings and
tea was served after brief talks by
the Cuban Ambassador. the Hon
duran Ambassador, DR.. Don
Rafael Heliodoro Valle. president
of the Ateneo Americana. and Mr..
Jose Gomez Sicre. a native Cuban
who is art director for the Pan
American Union. Invitations for
yesterdays event were issued by
the Ateneo Americana and the
Cuban Ambassador.
A similar session will be held
Saturday afternoon in the Mex
ican Embassy when the late En-
rioue Jose Varona, Cuban writer,
will be honored.
The First Secretary of the
Uruguayan Embassy, DR.. Jorge
Barreiro, was host at dinner Fri
day evening entertaining in honor
of the First Secretary of the
United States Embassy in Mont
evideo and Mrs. James Brown,
who are here for a brief stay. DR..
Barreiro entertained at the Shore
ham and his other guests were
Costa Rican Charge d'Affaires,
Senor Don Jorge HaZera and Mr..
Kenneth Oakley and Mr.. John
Ohmann of the State Department
with Mrs. Oakley and Mrs.
Ohmann. From the Uruguayan
Embassy were the Military At
tache and Sonora de Bianchi, the
Naval Attache and Sonora de
Beraldo, the First Secretary and
Sonora de Yriat, Senorita Gladys
Mora, daughter of the Uruguayan
Minister and Sonora de Mora,
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