Evening star., 1945-11-30

Roosevelt. The declaration upholdS
the independence and integrity OF
Iran and pays tribute to the valu-
able assistance of Iran in the prose-
cution of the war.
The Iran government purchased
the house at 3003 Massachusetts,
avenue from Mrs. Alanson B.
Houghton, widow of the former
United States Ambassador to Eng
land. The house was built by the
Houghtons, who were the only oc-
cupants until its purchase for the
Iran Legation, now an Embassy.
The Yugoslav Embassy was
opened again yesterday for one OF
the large and interesting receptions
for which Embassy row" is noted,
and again Yugoslavia's representa-
tives added laurels to their already
well-established reputation for cor
diality. The occasion was the sec
ond anniversary of the proclamation
of Democratic Federative Yugo-
slavia and also marked the open
ing in Belgrade of the two-chamber
Constituent Assembly, elected No
vember IL. The party. yesterday was
given by the new Ambassador, DR..
Stanoje Simic, who came in May
and has been back to London for
conferences much of the time and
who recently arrived from visit IN
his homeland. Nine. Simic, whose
name also was used on the invita-
tions, did not reach this country IN
time for the party and with their
daughters still is in London. They
are hoping to get transportation in
time to join the Ambassador for
Christmas.
Nine. Makiedo, wife of the Coun-
selor of the Embassy, acted as host
ess for the ambassador and received
the several hundred guests with him
in the wide hall of the Embassy.
She wore becoming gown of white,
the bodice embroidered in silver, the
skirt long and slightly f1aring, and
the sleeves long and fitted. The
rooms of the Embassy had bowls and
vases filled with chrysanthemums in
autumn hues and the center of the
buffet table in the dining room was
filled with a low mound of similar
blossoms.
Members of the cabinet, the ST.
preme Court and the Congress, as
we'll as the heads of diplomatic mis-
sions and high-ranking officers Of
the services, were among the sev-
eral hundred guests, and there were
q number from out of town.
Among those from New York were
Nine. Zinka Milanov. Metropolitan
Opera soprano; Zlatko Balokovic,
famous violinist. and Mrs. Balokovic;
Mrs. Marshall Field, Louis Adamic,
writer. and Mrs. Adamic; Mr.. and
Mrs. Burgess Meredith (Paulette
Goddard, and Stella Adler, actress.
Democratic Federative Yugoslavia
was proclaimed at the second ses-
sion of the Antifascist Council of
Liberation (AVNOO, the provi-
sional government, meeting in the
small mountain city of Jajce, Bosnia,
on November %, 1943 Many of the
hundreds of delegates from all parts
of Yugoslavia who attended this
historic session had to cross enemy
lines to get there.
The Colombian Ambassador and
Sonora de Santamaria entertained
at dinner last evening in honor of
the United States Ambassador to
Colombia and Mrs. John C. Wiley.
The Brazilian Ambassador and
Senhora de Martins, the retiring
Peruvian Ambassador, Senor Don
Pedro Beltran; Senator Joseph F.
Guffey and the Misses Ida and
Paulette Guffey, Senator Alben w.
Barley, Mrs. Claude Pepper, the
Assistant Secretary of State and
Mrs. William L. Clayton. Mr.. and
Mrs. Wayne Chatfield-Taylor, the
Colombian Counselor and Sonora de
Vargas, Mrs. Robert Low Bacon,
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Feis, Maj.
Gen. and Mrs. Robert L. Walsh, Mr..
and Mrs. Turner McBaine and DR..
Etgene de Savitsch were in the