Evening star., 1951-12-09
Australian
Visitors Are
Entertained
Coseys Much Feted,
Mrs. Sen Due Soon
By Kothorine M. Brooks

Washington is giving a warm
welcome to friends from two for
eign countries. the Minister for
External Affairs of Australia and
Mrs. Richard G. Casey and the
newly-appointed Indian Ambassa-
dor, Mr.. B. r. Sen.
The Caseys arrived Friday after
noon and dined informally with
the Australian Ambassador and
Mrs. Percy Spender. Last evening
the Spenders entertained at din
ner in their honor, the other
guests including the British Am
bassador and Lady Franks, As
sociate Justice and Mrs. Felix
Frankfurter, the Acting Secretary
of State and Mrs. James E. Webb,
former United States Ambassador
to Australia and Mrs. Myron M.
Cowan and Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh
Mcclure Smith of Australia.
The Minister for External
Affairs was the first Minister
from Australia to Washington
He established the Legation in
1910 when he came as his govern
ment's first envoy and was here
for several years. With Mrs
Casey the then Minister made
many friends for their country
and for themselves.
They are being entertained
rather extensively at small and
informal parties among these
friends and tomorrow the Am
basSador and Mrs. Spender will
give a sizable reception in their
honor. The visitors are guests at
the embassy which was purchased
for the legation shortly after the
Caseys came in 1910.
WeII-Known Here
The newly appointed Indian
Ambassador and Mrs. Sen also are
old friends in the Capital, the
Ambassador designate having
served as Minister at the Embassy
here until the spring of last year
when he was sent to Italy as chief
of the diplomatic mission in Rome.
Mrs. Sen is remembered here for
her culture and linguistic ability
and during her absence of a year
and a half she has perfected her
self in Italian. A member of
Bengal family which through
many generations has maintained
high standards of culture, Mrs.
Sen has carried on those tradi-
tions for higher education for
women as well as men. Her
family played an important role
in the great Reformation move
ment which started in Bengal
before the turn of the century.
Mrs. Sen attended the Univer-
sity of the Poet Rabindranath
Tagore at Shantineketan before
the death of the great Tagore.
The university is one of the out
standing institutions of it's kind
in the world and there the cM-
lures of the Eastern and Western
worlds are blended.
The three daughters of the new
Ambassador and his wife were
children when they were here be-
fore but now the eldest, Nandini
is a student at Hood College in
Frederick, Md, having come to
Washington with her father sever
al weeks ago. She joins him at the
Embassy for the week end as fire.
quently as possible. Her two
younger sisters, Ayesha and Ur-
mila are at school in Switzerland
and will remain there through the
school year. Their mother is still |
in Rome and they will join her in |
the Italian capital for the holi-
days. Mrs. Sen will come to Wash
ington early in the new year.
During their tour of duty in
Washington two years or more
ago Mrs. Sen was popular among
women's groups for lectures and
informal talks on the history of |
her country and its culture, her
beautiful English and personal |
charm adding much to the inter-
est of her subject.
Turkish Supper
The Turkish Ambassador and
Nine. Erkin will entertain at a
buffet supper December % in hon.
or of the newly appointed United
States Ambassador to Turkey and
Mrs. George c. McGhee. The AM
bassador-designate has been AS
sistant Secretary of State for Near
Eastern, South Asian and African
affairs for some time and with
Mrs. McGhee is expected to leave
early in the new year for his new
post at Ankara.
The Counselor Of the Egyptian
Embassy and Nine. Ell Kouny were
the guests in whose honor the
First Secretary and Nine. Ell Lab
bane gave a cocktail party last
evening. The festivity was in the
nature Of a welcome-home party
as the Ell Kounys recently came
back from several months vaca-
ton in their homeland.
The half-a- hundred guests were
invited from S to 7 o'clock in the
apartment Of the hosts on Mass
achusetts avenue. The Pakistan
Ambassador and Mrs. M. A. H. i
Ispahani. the Turkish Ambas-
sador and Nine. Erkin and the
Afghsnistan Charge d'Affaires and |
Nine. Aziz were among these from
the diplomatic corps at the party.
Others in the company included
officials of the Near Eastern, South
Asian and African division of the
State Department as well as al:
number of the officers of the
French and British Embassies.
The buffet supper which the
1raq Charge d'Affaires and Mime.
Bakr planned for last evening was
postponed until the former has re-
covered from his current illness.
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