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People in Luxembourg like to give small parties at which the guests sit around and talk quietly about business and the weather. The Grand Duchess Charlotte rarely ever mingles with her guests; at the receptions in her toylike palace, she prefers to remain secluded in a small side room. Last week Luxembourg, whose national motto is Mir welle bleiwe wat mir sin (We want to stay as we are), suspected that its social life, at least, would not long bleiwe as it was. For Mrs. Perle Mesta, famed Washington hostess and new U.S. minister to the Grand-Duchy, arrived with...
...When her Packard-borne party (with a luggage-laden Ford in the vanguard) motored from Paris to the border, they were stopped cold by strangely hostile frontier guards. After lengthy palaver, it appeared that Mrs. Mesta had picked the wrong country: the frontier she tried to cross was not Luxembourg's, but Belgium's. Two miles away an official welcoming committee was waiting, all set with flowers and speeches. By the time the party finally found little Luxembourg, the welcoming committee had become discouraged and gone home...
...Perle Mesto, promoted from Washington's reigning hostess to U.S. Minister to Luxembourg, sailed off to work with a shipboard farewell from 80 friends, including Mrs. Harry S. Truman and daughter Margaret, Chief Justice and Mrs. Fred M. Vinson and onetime Minister to Denmark Ruth Bryan Rohde. Amid the orchids, champagne and caviar, someone asked: "How does one address you, Mrs. Mesta-as Your Excellency?" Beamed the new diplomatiste: "Just call me Perle...
...Belgium 6, Denmark 4, France 18, Ireland 4, Italy 18, Luxembourg 3, The Netherlands 6, Norway 4, Sweden 6, United Kingdom 18. Greece and Turkey were invited to join this week; Western Germany may join...
Washington society noted an unlamented loss in Mrs. Harry S. Truman. At a party for Mrs. Perle Mesta, new U.S. Minister to Luxembourg, and Mrs. Georgia Neese Clark, new Treasurer of the U.S., Bess Truman displayed a new silhouette, 20 pounds slimmer than the old one. Her dietary secret: eating just what the President does, but passing up the salt...