Evening star., 1951-01-28
New Zealand
Due
This Week
Parties on Embassy
Row; Departures
For Home
BY Kothorine M. Brooks


Zealand, the Right Hon. Sidney
Holland, will arrive in Washing
ton the middle of next week and
his visit will cause a furry Of
official entertaining. The Prime
Minister will be here only a few
days on his way from London
where he attended the meetings
of Prime Ministers of other coun-
tries in the British Common
wealth of Nations. 1t was ex-
pected that the Australian Prime
Minister, Mr.. Menzies, would be
here in time for the Australian
party Friday or at least by next
week. However, Mr.. Menzies is
returning to Australia eastward
from London.
The New Zealand Ambassador,
Sir Carl Berendsen is still in New
York where he is attending the
United Nations sessions but he
will join Lady Berendsen here in
time to entertain their distin-
guished countryman. Lady Ber-
endsen came back from New York
early last week in preparation for
the entertaining of the Prime
Minister.
Turkish Supper Tonight
The Turkish Ambassador and
Nine. Erkin will be hosts at sup
per this evening entertaining in
compliment to the famous tenor.
Lauritz Melchoir. who will give a
recital this afternoon in Consti-
tuition Hall 1t will be the 25th
anniversary of the singers debut
in this country. Mrs. Melchoir
and Miss Mary Garden, another
star of opera and concert stage.
will share honors with him at
supper.
The dean of diplomats, the Nor
wegian Ambassador and Mrs.
Munthe de Morgenstierne will be
the ranking guests in the COM
pany this evening which will in
clude a number of musicians who
are prominent in social cir
cles of the Nations Capital.
The Melchoirs and Mary Gar
den shared honors at small and
informal dinner party last eve
ming which Col. and Mrs. Curt c.
Schiffeler gave in their apart
ment in the Raleigh. This after
noon at the concert the Turkish
Ambassador and Nine. Erkin with
Miss Garden will be guests of the
Schiffelers in their box.
Eeyption Diplomot Feted
The newly appointed Egyptian
Minister to Indonesia. DR.. M. B.
Chiati, will be the guest in whose
honor the Indonesian Ambassador
and Nine. Sastroamidjojo will en-
tertain at buffet dinner Tuesday
evening. DR.. Chiati is the retir-
ing Egyptian Minister in WASH
ington where he has served at the
embassy for some time.
The Finnish Minister and Nine.
Jutila had a family party yester-
day to celebrate the formers 60th
birthday anniversary. Mr.. Heikki
Jutila was the only member of
the family in this country not
present yesterday and he was de-
tanned at Ithaca, N. Y. where he
is a student at Cornell University.
Mr.. Sakari Tapani Jutila came
from his studies at Purdue Uni-
versity for the week end not only
to be with his father on his birth
day. but for a brief visit with his
fiancee, Miss Shirley Anne Rim
kinen. The engagement of Miss
Rinkinen to Mr.. Jutila was an
nounced last week by her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Johannes Rinkinen
of Atlantic Mine, Mich, and it is
probable that the wedding date
will be set before Mr.. Jutila re-
turns to Purdue. Miss Rinkinen
is one of the secretaries on the
clerical staff at the legation. The
members of that staff as we'll as
the officials of the legation staff
and their wives were included in
the informal family party yes
terday.
Mexicon Official Honored
The Undersecretary of the
Treasury of Mexico, Senor Rafael
Mancera, and Sonora de Mancera
were guests of honor at cocktail
party yesterday of the Financial
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