Show Huge Crowd Attends Splendorous Sp Reception At Russian Embassy in Washington WASHINGTON Nov 8 INS The The soviet embassy Saturday was credited with giving one of the biggest diplomatic receptions receptions recep recep- ever seen in Washington Americas America's dollar billion-dollar support support support sup sup- port of Russia in her war against Germany combined with widespread admiration for forthe forthe forthe the resistance being shown by bythe bythe bythe the soviet armies served to draw an unprecedented crowd to the soviet embassy for its twenty-fourth twenty birthday celebration celebration celebration tion of the Bolshevik tion Undersecretary of State Sumner Sumner Sumner Sum- Sum ner Welles and Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones were ani among ng the official Am American rican notables who attended the reception reception re re- in the beautiful Sixteenth Sixteenth Sixteenth Six Six- street mansion that that once once housed the diplomatic st staff ff of the imperial Russian government govern gorn- ment of czarist days j V. For nearly two hours a a. s st steady ady stream of notables ne not rot riot ables and cl climbed n bed tile the red-carpeted red stairs embassy to greet the sad eyed I f l little wife of ot Constantine Constantino A. A who is being replaced replaced replaced re re- re- re placed as ambassador by Former Soviet Foreign Minister Maxime Maxime Maximo Max Max- ime imo Litvinov is is' in Moscow Ambassador Kichi- Kichi saburo put in a brief appearance He was the only envoy of the axis powers who attended the reception No noninterventionist members members members mem mem- mem- mem bers of congress were to be seen among the milling crowd that nibbled at caviar and choked on vodka |