Show WHITE HOUSE HOST I TO DIPLOMAT CORPS Foreign Official Staffs Will Be Feted by Pre President ident and and Mrs Roosevelt WASHINGTON Jan 3 S AP AP From From a diplomatic colony that h has s reached record breaking size counts beys knights barons signora signers hens hen and urs will converge tonight on the White House The brilliant occasion is a fete tete to to the diplomatic corps by President and Mrs Roosevelt first of the major White House receptions of ot the win win- ter social season reason The diplomatic colony now now totals total with Japan topping the list in numbers of ot persons permanently stationed sta stat honed here The importance Nippon attaches to this capital is reflected in the fact tact that she ahe has an sn embassy staff stat here totaling 22 persons with wives and nd relatives bringing the number to 31 Great Britain Is second with 26 pcr persons on the accredited list of whom hom 1 15 comprise the working staff of ot the embassy headed by the towering tower tower- In ing S Sir 1 Ronald Lindsay his majesty's ambassador and de dean n of or the corps The diplomatic corps has seen scent striking increases In iii population since the World war with many military and commercial attaches joining the embassies here to handle complex problems that developed with the war Numbering about persons in Civil war days the corps increased to about 2 0 at the turn lurn of oC the century cen tury then jumped to at atone one stage of ot the World war Canada is ls an exception among themore the themore themore more important countries in that she has hRS n no military observers observer here Neither are there any American military mili tory tary observers at Ottawa From Front the large diplomatic staffs maintained by Great Creat Britain Japan Italy France Mexico Germany Russia Rus Bus sia sla and Cuba the number dwindles down to a sole envoy for Austria the minister Edgar L. L G G. G |