Evening star., 1953-07-06

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pictures are especially well ar
ranged on screens in the Hall of
the Americas and after greeting
the hosts guests went on into the
great hall to see the views Of
Venezuela.
Stoirwoy Opened
For the first time in some
years the handsome marble
stairway from the Hall of the
Americas to the Aztec garden
was opened. and many went di-
rectly to the Garden for their
refreshments. Others went back
into the Hall of Flags, where a
buffet table was laid in the
center.
The great liberators of North
and South America, Gen. George
Washington and Gen. Simon
Bolivar look across this hall at
each other from the exquisitely-
executed bustS placed there in
their memory.
Gen. Washington was an in
spiration to Gen. Bolivar in his
struggle to free the Latin Ameri-
cans from Spanish rule. He
succeeded in freeing his native
Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, and
Bolivia in addition to Venezuela.
Pretty Costumes
Sonora de Gonzalez wore a
shantung taffeta frock. with full
street length skirt and a slightly
off ff-the-shoulder neckline. The
material was a turquoise blue
with a small figure outlined in
black. She wore wide brimmed
picture hat of black and pearl
necklace and earrings.
Sonora de Lepervanche also
wore a street length frock of
gray organza with small black
hat and her ornaments were
sapphireS.
There were fewer guests yes
terday than there would have
been had it not been Sunday of
a holiday week end, but the
popularity of the hosts was at
tested to in the number present.
Chiefs of Missions who ac-
cepted the invitation were Italian
Ambassador and Signora Tar
chiani, Ell Salvador Ambassador
and Sonora de Castro. Chinese
Ambassador and Nine. Koo, Do
minican Ambassador and Sonora
de Thomen. and Peruvian Am
bassador Fernando Berckemeyer.
Others were South African
Ambassador and Mrs. G. P.
Jooste, Irish Ambassador John
j. Hearne, Nine. Popovic, wife
of the Yugoslav Ambassador;
Portuguese Ambassador and Sem
hora de Esteves FernandeS, Bur-
mes Ambassador and Mrs. James
Darlington, Spanish Ambassador
and Sonora de Lequerica, Uru-
guayan Ambassador and Sonora
de Mora, and japanese Ambas-
sador Eikichi Araki and his
daughter, Miss Tomiko Araki.
Still others expected were In
dian Ambassador and Mrs. G. L.
Mehta, Syrian Ambassador and
Nine. Zeineddine, British Am
bassador Sir Roger Makins and
Egyptian Ambassador and Nine.
HuSSein.
Congress Represented
The Congress, being on holiday
recess, mustered little more than
a corpora's guard at the party
yesterday. Senator and Mrs. H.
Alexander Smith and Senator
and Mrs. Mike Mansfield, both
gentlemen being members of
Foreign Relations Committee.
were there. Others included
Representative and Mrs. Clark
Thompson. Representative and
Mrs. John Dempsey and Repre-
sentative Lawrence H. Smith.
Officials of the State Depart
ment expected to attend yester-
day were Assistant Secretary
and Mrs. Thruston Morton.
Deputy Assistant Secretary and
Mrs. Thomas C. Mann, the
United States Representative in
the Council of the OAS and Mrs.
John c. Drier, Mr.. and Mrs. Rob-
ert Woodward and Mr.. and Mrs.
cambridge Davis.
The Lepervanches and their
children and Sonora de Gonzalez
and her son and daughter will
sail Friday for Caracas. The
younger members of the Leper-
vanche family will enter school
in Caracas and do not expect to
return with their parents in the
fall. Sonora de Gonzalez and the
children will join the ambasSa-
dor in September.
The election for the chairman
of the council will be held in the
autumn and the officials are not
eligible for reelection.