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C., December 3, 1961 LENDING SANTA A HAND One wonders why the present incumbent and his predecessor have leaned so heavily toward family names, which are almost bound to be changed by ■ a successor. President Hoover used the yacht Sequoia, President Roosevelt the Mayflower and President Truman the Wil liamsburg—all impersonally labeled —and the only one of the .three still in use, now the Secretary of the Navy's yacht, is still called the Sequoia. Presumably named after a Cherokee Indian, not a presidential antecedent, offspring or grandchild, it has managed to survive and thus become a familiar in stitution in Washington's of ficial history. In short, if President Ken nedy does decide to change the name of Camp David, one would not urge him to call it the Crimson Corner, the Rocking Chair Roost, or even the. Joseph P. His suc cessor would certainly change it again. ** * * SECRETARY OF STATE RUSK’S new attitude to ward protocol printed in this column last week—i.e„ “it is entirely appropriate to mix private citizens in among the officials iat a dinner) if you preserve the relative rank of 7, in the Cotillion Room of the Sheraton-Park Hotel. Looking on are Mrs. T. L. Geers (left) and Mrs. D. J. O'Mears. On the table are gift suggestions for the "man who has everything": A mink toothbrush and mink bow tie. the officials” —has produced much comment among for eign ambassadors. Needless to say, the Secre tary did not have in mind seating a private citizen above a foreign ambassador who. if he is accredited to Washington, represents a chief of state. What he did have in mind was a freer distribution of officials and civilians to make for more interesting table conversa tions and to keep the private ‘ citizen who, under our con stitutional system, holds “the loftiest position," from al ways being seated below the salt. , Luxembourg Ambassador George Heisbourg said that he himself ‘‘would never seat a private citizen above anyone with a presiden tial appointment or any body with a mandate from the people on a Federal basis" meaning United States Senator or Congress man. Since presidential ap pointees include presidential assistants who are all the way down to 47th place on the table of precedence pub lished in the Green Book >a list unofficially derived from State Department seat ing), this means that this Ambassador would not feel free to follow the example of Secretary Rusk who has seated a president of a com pany above a Congressman who is 30th on the list. Ambassador Heisbourg, who is young, attractive and not at all stuffy, also pointed out that the demands of in ternational protocol are so strict, no foreign ambassador while he is in this country can ever attend even a com pletely private and unofficial party, except in the capacity of his chief of state’s repre sentative. THE FRENCH, who prac tically invented etiquette, take the same view. In France a foreign ambassador ranks second only to Presi dent de Gaulle, whereas in this country foreign ambas- I sadors are downgraded to sixth place—after the Vice President, the Speaker, the Chief Justice, and former Presidents. The French also never have such a thing as a guest of honor. Even when a party is planned in someone's honor the invitations never say so, i and unless he is the rank ing guest he is not seated on the right of the hostess. The only time a French am bassador can relinquish his place is when he is dining irt another French official's household the French min ister's, for instance—when he may step down to permit a very high-ranking American to have the place of honor. ** « * THE BRITISH go even further. Said the British Em bassy's protocol spokesman. Patrick Wright: "When our Ambassador is dining at an English house he should nor mally be given precedence over everyone there-includ ing all other ambassadors— ’ because he is the Queen’s personal representative.” It looks as though the Na tion's Capital simply cannot indulge in the kind of freely disposed seating for which Bernard Baruch has been noted. When asked once about his seating arrange ments, Mr. Baruch replied: “The people who matter don't mind and the people who mind don't matter.” But that axiom doesn't hold in the diplomatic life of a capital. So more power to Mr. Rusk if he is able to make any headway at all in the less astronomical echelons. 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Fur products libeled to show country of oriiln of Imported furs. *TM Mutitlon Mink Breeders’ Assn. something is falling," he said with a rather serious expres sion. "Don’t you wear suspend ers?” he was quickly asked with a twinkle? "I mean," he said with a laugh, “there are so many parts to it.” "I didn't know,” said Am bassador van Roijen with an impish smile, “in the Soviet Union that you ever had a complex about things falling down.” *• * • VICE PRESIDENT JOHN SON, probably the only of ficial in Washington who doesn't have an unlisted tele- phone, has been receiving so many unnecessary calls since the election last November he has been tempted to take his number out of the book. But. says LBJ, “it is the last concession I will make to the office.” ... He has had his number listed ever since he came to Congress in 1937. Lyndon, who can turn off his phone in his bed room at night, thinks public officials should be available to the public at least during their waking hours. This is an unusual attitude. Judging by the number of legislators and other officials who do not list their phone numbers mainly because of crank calls from the home, folks who forget about the time difference. . . . Based on the strenuous measures Senator Clair Engle has had to take, California must have more oddballs eager to make odd calls than any other state. . . . First he had an unlisted number which he gave to a handful of key people, but in no time at all some of those oddballs got it and began calling in the middle of the night. So he changed his number and the only person who has it is his secretary. Even the White House has to call her first.