Evening star., 1944-04-18
W0nen From Is
Latin Countries
Urge Solidarity
BY Gretchen Smith.


Feminine voices from 16 Latin
American republics were raised in
brief, eloquent appeals for hemi-
Spheric solidarity when visiting dele
gates to the Inter-American Con-
ference in session at the Pan Amer
lean Union were guest speakers at
a luncheon in their honor yesterday
at the Mayflower Hotel.
The affair, which was sponsored
by leading women's groups of the
city, was attended by nearly 800
women representing over 80 women's
organizations.
Mrs. Harlan Fiske Stone, wife of
the Chief Justice of the United
States, presided at the luncheon and
introduced the speakers, WHO were
presented according to alphabetic
sequence of the countries they rep
resented.
Voicing the sentiments of her
lcountrywomen, Senorita Angelica
Fuseli, the delegate from Argentina
declared that "the Argentine woman
born singing to liberty, could never
admit an idea of slavery and mer-
cenary Servilism. Any of the omin-
GUS contemporary totalitarianisms
repel the dignity of her moral sense
Every one wishes the re-establish-
ment of those natural laws which
have been violated by contemporary
mankind" Senorita Fusel paid high
tribute to President Roosevelt fol
promulgating the good neighbol
policy, declaring he would be known
in history as "the paladin of De-
mocracy."
While asserting that her country
lis solidly behind the war efforts ol
the United Nations and has no
closed its eyes to NaI activities,
Sonora Carmen de Lozada of Bo-
liyia made a plea for better under.
standing of her country's present
predicament.
1.-THE Bolivians have suffered thu
greatest economic strain in thi.
war of any people of the Western
Hemisphere" she declared. PRO.
duction of minerals and other stra.
| tegic materials has been carried or
at the expense of food. My people
are not in search of an theology
but of food" she added.
Other speakers told of their coun.
tries contributions to the war eff.
fort, of the increasing realization
among Latin American women o1
their responsibilities in improving
social conditions among their peo-
pie, and of the effectiveness of CO.
operation of women in bringing bet
ter understanding among the ma
tions of the Western Hemisphere.
Considerable laughter followed
the good-natured sallies between
Sonora Maria Currea de Aya oi
Colombia and Senorita Nina Lopez
of Guatemala as each, enumeratine
important exports from her coun-
try, declared her country's "coffee
the best in the world"
Others who spoke included Sen.
hora Violeta Flor de Figueredo O.
Brazil; Senorita Magdalena Petit
Chile; Senorita Consuela Reyes Cal
deron, Costa Rica; Sonora Elens
Mederos de Gonzalez, Cuba; Senors
Piedad Castillo de Levi, Ecuador
Senorita Marta Elena Solano, E
Salvador; Mile. Rachel Artaud
Haiti; Doctora Ofelia Mendozs
Ide Barret, Honduras; Sonora ANAL,
lCaballero de C. Ledon, Mexico
ISenora Enid Eder Perkins. Mica
raugua. Senorita Julia MacLeal
land Sonora Aurora de Caceres
Peru, and Sonora Isabel Sanchez d
Urdaneta, Venezuela. Miss Mary NJ
lCannon, newly appointed Unite,
States delegate, successor to Mis-
Mary Winslow, who retired recent
'ldue to illness, expressed her conf
dence in a growing solidarity of tn
Western Hemisphere nations.
| A short address by Senoriti
Minerva Bernardino, chairman o
the Inter American Commission o
Women, preceded the introduction
of the visiting delegates.
Reviewing achievements of tn
commission since it's establishment
in 1928, Senorita Bernardino mad
a plea that women be represented
at the peace table, so that they may