DIPLOMATIC SERVICE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21596, 14 September 1933, Page 3

DIPLOMATIC SERVICE

LONELY WIVES Those of ns who are still thinking of the women of Turkey and of Persia, for example, as quite unmodern and unlike the women to whom we are accustomed would be surprised to meet th« pretty wife of the Turkish Ambassador, who looks a typical Frenchwoman, and dresses with French taste and skill,' besides speaking French with a perfect accent. Another charming young woman, who speaks English fluently, is the wife of the Persian Charge d'Affaires, and there are many other delightful cultivated women living in London yet not of London, states an English writer. I fancy it must sometimes be a lonely thing for these ladies of the Diplomatic Service to be always among strangers and far from their own countries, and I rather wonder if they see as much of Englishwomen as one could wish, when one remembers that a good understanding may be fostered by women forgetting that they belong to different lands and only remembering that they share a great many things, as women. /