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Show Is British Embassy to Seek New Home? ACCORDING to gossip, one of the first activities which will engage Sir Esme Howard will be to select a suitable location for a new embassy. Taking a cue from the versatile M. Jusserand, who sold a site which the French government had owned for the past fifteen years, at a figure which permitted the purchase of another and more spacious piece of ground and in a more desirable neighborhood, neigh-borhood, the British ambassador has been advised that the psychological moment has come to dispose of the fine property in Connecticut avenue already submerged in the rising tide, of business. busi-ness. It is a fascinating topic to speculate on the chances of Sixteenth street obtaining ob-taining another stately establishment or whether the decision will be in favor of Sheridan Circle, or even the remote re-mote heights of Massachusetts avenue, where it becomes "semi-suburban. Great Britain built her diplomatic establishment establish-ment wdien the houses of Connecticut avenue could be counted on one hand, and she erected the finest domicile which Washington had known at that date. Possibly Sir Esme Howard will follow the traditions, but one of the most interesting landmarks of the city will disappear if the old brick residence resi-dence from which the "Hon and unicorn" uni-corn" look down on the passing throngs is to be demolished like its aristocratic neighbor, the former embassy of Aus-tro-Hungary. Italy and France are to erect splendid embassy homes on Sixteenth Six-teenth street, and the Spanish, Mexican and Cuban embassies already are established es-tablished there, together with the legations le-gations of Poland, Persia, Czechoslovakia Czechoslo-vakia and Venezuela. It therefore seems probable that Great Britain, will seek another locality, possibly near the great cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul, where the ground may still be purchased pur-chased in acreage. Ground plots for embassy and legation lega-tion buildings are becoming more spacious spa-cious in recent years, and in Washington, Washing-ton, where the official world is generally general-ly kept in residence during the entire summer, gardens and Wide verandas are necessities instead of luxuries. Then garden parties and al fresco amenities of every variety make up a large part of the social activity. President Pres-ident Coolidge recently laughed off the story about a summer White Llouse by saying that he had already selected one and it was the Mayflower. |