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OCR Page 1 of 29Rewrite, Reel I, July 2, 1953
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There are one or tuo other episodes thich
I
think throw some light on our relationships
before I went into the State Department for the
last time.
One of th se has to do with the revival --
I think it was at the end of 145 or the beginning
of 46 of the practice of White House dinners
for the diplomatic corps. They had been given
up during the war. Stanley Woodward, then
Chief of Protocol, thought that it would be a
good idea to revive them. Accordingly a din-
ner was decided upon toward the end of 145 or
sometime in January, 46. Mr. Byrnes was in
New York at a meeting of the UN or a conference
of foreign ministers, and I was acting in his
place. We found that the diplomátic corps
was so large that to include the Chief of Mis-
sion and one or two senior officers of each
mission with their wives exceeded the capacity
of the State dining room at the White House.
So two dinners were to be given, and Stanley
decided that the best way to do this was to
number the diplomatic list, alphabetically, and
invite the odd numbered missions to the first
dinner and the even numbered ones to the second.
In that way there was no discrimination; nobody
would feel offended.
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