Evening star., 1950-12-03
Distinguished
GuestHere
Australians Hosts:
Staff Changes at
Uruguay Embassy
By Katherine M. Brooks

Mrs. Munthe de Morgenstiern'
are entertaining at the Embass!
Mrs. Asia Meidell, who will be with
them until the middle of the week
She will accompany them to ths
recital of Miss Margaret Truman
Tuesday evening in Constitution
Hall and to the buffet supper fol
lowing, which the American News:
paper Women's Club will give ir
honor of the singer at its head
quarters at 1904 Twentieth street
Mrs. Meidell, who is the wife oi
one of the leading industrialists
in Norway, came to this country
to attend the Women's Inter
national Exposition in which 15t
women's organizations participat-
&c. The exposition was held ir
New York November II and seven
women were selected as the out
standing woman of 1850 in then
fields of endeavor. Mrs. MeidelI
was selected for her work for the
blind and crippled of Norway and
other countries. Others announced
at the exposition by Senator
Henry Cabot Lodge, jr.. were Mrs
Eleanor Roosevelt, for her inspi-
ration to all women in all lands;
to Mrs. Eugene Anderson as the
first woman Ambassador from the
United States to a foreign land,
and Mrs. Ruth Bryan Rohde as
the first woman to represent the
United States as minister in q
foreign country; to Begun Liaquat
Ali Khan. wife of the Prime Min
lister of PakiStan, whose activity
In the organizing of the women
and their work in her native land
Is outstanding; to Sister Mary
Madeleva, president of st. Mary's
College at Holy Cross. Ind, fol
her educational work; and te
former Representative Mary T
Norton for her twenty-five years
of service in the Lower House of
Congress.
The Ambassador, not fully re-
covered from his recent illness,
and Mrs. Munthe de Morgen-
stierne planned no large parties
for the visitor, but her hostess has
arranged a number of very small
and informal fetes so she may
meet women in Washington active
In the same kind of work in which
she is interested.
AustroIion Visitors
The Australian Ambassador and
Mrs. Norman j. O. Maxim also
have guests with them over the
week end. and last evening enter
tanned at dinner in honor of the
Australian Ambassador to France,
Sir Keith Officer. Sir Keith, be-
fore he was knighted, came to
Washington in 1887 as Australian
Counselor of the British Embassy,
and after the establishment of the
Australian diplomatic mission he
became Counselor on that staff
and later Australian Minister at
tached to the Embassy. He left
here about 1910 for duty in the
Foreign Office. He was very
popular bachelor in Washington
and has remained unmarried.
Sharing honors at dinner last
evening with the visiting Ambas-
sador was the Australian Consul
General in New York, 1t. Gen.
E. K. Smart, who also has friends
In Washington. where he has Wis
tied. He was Consul General IN
San Francisco until last summer
when he was transferred to New
York. Dinner guests also included
the French Minister, Mr.. Jean
Daridan; Mrs. Myron Cowen, wife
of the United States Ambassador
to the Philippines; Mrs. Joseph
Clark Grew, wife of the former
United States Ambassador to ia
pan; former Representative and
Mrs. Harold Mosier, Mr.. and Mrs.
August Boaz, Mr.. and Mrs. Lisle
Smith, DR.. Grace Cuthbert, lead
ing Australian physician who is
here to attend the Mid-Century
White House Conference on Chill
dren, and the First Secretary of
the Australian Embassy and Mrs.
Owen Davis.
Uruguay Embassy Changes
The former Uruguayan Am
bassador, DR.. Alberto Dominguez-
Campora, now is Minister of For
eign Affairs for his Government
serving under the newly elected
President Andres Martinez
Trueba. November 26 was elec-
tion day and the President-elect
defeated DR.. Luis Battle Berres.
The Uruguay Ambassador to the
Organization of American States,
DR.. Jose A. Mora. is Charge
d'Affaires, serving in that capacity
since September when Ambassa-
dor Dominguez-Campora went
home Just now DR.. Mora is in
New York where he also is head
of the Uruguayan delegation to
the United Nations.
Friends-and there are very
many in Westinghouse DR.. and
Sonora de Mora are hoping that
he will be the next Ambassador
from his country to Washington
as we'll as to the OAS.
The retiring First Secretary OF
the embassy, DR.. Jorge Barreiro
has been transferred to duty in
the Foreign Office and will leave
as soon as Senor Juan Felipe
Yriart returns the middle of next
week from an agriculture confer
ence. These are the first change.
in the embassy staff since the
election of a new President.
AecioIys Hosts
The new chairman of the Coun-
Gil of the Organization of Ameri-
can States, DR.. Hildebrando Ac-
cioly and Senhora de Accioly viii
give an early evening reception
Tuesday afternoon from 6 to s
o'clock in their home on Fordham
road. The party is in honor Of