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Show RECEPTION AT WHITE HOUSE Washington, Jan. 21. Diplomats representing the entente allies and twenty-eight neutral nations gathered at the White House tonight for the first of two formal dinners arranged by the president and Mrs. Wilson In honor of the members of the diplomatic diplo-matic corps. The second dinner, to be given next Tuesday night, will be attended by the ambasaadors of Germany, Ger-many, tho charges d'affaires o( Aus tria-Hungary and Turkey, the minister minis-ter of Bulgaria and the same neutral diplomats present tonight. With the diplomats in their court uniforms, the state dining room of the White House presented a brilliant bril-liant scene. In addition to the diplomats diplo-mats and. their wives, the guests Included In-cluded tho Secretary of State and Mrs. Lansing, Counselor for the State Department and Mrs. Polk, the Assistant As-sistant Secretary of State and Mrs. Osborne, Senators Stone of Missouri rnd Sutherland of Utah and Repre-spntatives Repre-spntatives Flood of Virginia and Cooper of Wisconsin, ranking majority major-ity and minority members of the senate sen-ate and house foreign relations committee, com-mittee, with their wives, and several personal friends of Mr. and Mrs. Wilson. Wil-son. J. J. Jusserand, the French ambassador, ambas-sador, dean of the Washington diplomatic diplo-matic corps, and Mmo. Jusserand occupied oc-cupied tho seats of honor next to the president and Mrs. Wilson. Tho other guests were nrranged around the tables ta-bles In accordance with their rank. Argentina, Greece and Colombia were represented by 'Charges d'affairs, the heads of the missions being away from the city. Particular Interest attached to the dinner because It was the first affair af-fair of its kind given in Washington since the outbreak of the European war. |