Evening star., 1949-07-24
Midsummer
Activities of
Diplomats
By Ann Cline

A very distinguished guest will
come to the Burmese Embassy to-
day. He Is Gen. Ne Win, Defense
Minister and Deputy Prime Min
lister of Burma, who is on an un-
official trip to the United States.
The visitor is accompanied by
his excellency, U Hla Naung, Bur-
mese Ambassador to Siam. and Blu
Set Kya, the generals aide.
Since the general and his party
are arriving in Washington today
and plan to leave the United
States on Tuesday, the only time
for entertaining is tomorrow. So
the Ambassador, U So Nyun, has
arranged a reception for 8 o'clock
tomorrow evening at the Embassy.
During their short stay. the
group will call at the State De-
partment and will visit places OF
interest.
The first week in August Is 60
ing to be busy and exciting one
at the Ceylon Embassy. First OF
all, the three sons Of the Ambas-
sador and Mrs. Corea-Nlhal,
Harindra and Chandra-are ex-
pected to arrive in this country on
August 3 from England. The boys,
who are coming over on the Queen
Elizabeth, attend school there but
are going to spend their summer
holidays in Washington.
Then on the fifth the envoy and
his wife will be hosts at a $50
to 8 o'clock cocktail party for
three of their countrymen DIR.
and Mrs. E. M. Wijerama and DR..
G. Malalasekera. DR.. Wijerama
is second physician at the Gen
eral Hospital in Colombo, Ceylon.
and DR.. Malalasekera is professor
of Pail at the University OF Cey-
lon.
Pail, by the way. is an Oriental
language on which the Singha-
lese language is based. DR.. WI
ierama came to this country on
the fifth of July and will be leav-
ing around August 20. DR.. Mala-
lasekera is due to arrive on Au-
gust 8.
The Egyptian Ambassador and
Nine. Abdul Rahim and son, Hus-
sein, will leave Washington on
Wednesday for New York. from
where they will depart by plane
the following day for a vacation
in Switzerland. They will be
Joined there by their other son,
Mahmoud, who is attending school
in Cairo. The diplomatic couple
will be gone for several weeks,
Abdul Rohims to Trovel
The Ambassador and Nine.
Abdul Rahim have given several
dinner parties in the past few
days. Friday evening they enter
tanned in honor of Col. Hassan
Axes. air aide to His Majesty,
King Farouk.
The colonel and his party OF
four came to this country to pur-
chase two private civilian amphibi-
GUS planes for his majestys use
and they will fly the planes back
to Egypt.
On Thursday evening the couple
gave another dinner party, this
one for the new United States
Ambassador to Egypt and Mrs.
jefferson Caffery.
Enjoying the delightful affair
were the Ambassador of Lebanon
and Mrs. Malik. Mr.. and Mrs.
Edwin Wilson, the Assistant Sec
retary of State and Mrs. George
c. McGhee, the Egyptian Minister
Anis Aver, who will be leaving
Tuesday to take up his new post
as head of the Egyptian mission
in Greece, and Nine. Fouad Pasha
who is the hosts house guest.
Also, Mrs. James Hamilton
Lewis, Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond
Hare, Mr.. and Mrs. Gordon Madi-
son, Mr.. and Mrs. Stuart Nelson,
Dr.. and Mrs. w. Wendell Cleland,
Gen. and Mrs. Bonner Fellers and
DR.. M. B. Chiati, new Counselor of
the Egyptian Embassy.
Other members of the Corps
vacationing are the Italian Am
bassador and Signora Tarchiani,
who left from New York Friday
on the Vulcania for a months
stay in Italy. And the Guate-
malan Ambassador. DR.. Ismael
(See CLINE, Page D-6)