Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-02
EXCLUSIVELY YOURS
Financial Parties Continue;
Opera Society Opens Season
BY BETTY BEALE
Star stan Writer

~ dhy OAlC Lldu ally uOuDOo
as to the influence of the
men with money, he should
sit back and observe the
winning and dining going on
in their honor this week.
This is not to suggest any
mercenary motives behind
the constant parties for fin
anciers attending the World
B a n k and International
Monetary Fund Conference.
LAST EVENING PER
JACOBSEN, the delightful.
PROFESSIONAL Swede who di-
reefs the Monetary Fund.
gave a large dinner at the
1925 F Street Club; French
Ambassador Herve Alphand
gave a stag dinner for his
Foreign Minister Couve de
Murville and Finance Min
-, lister Antoine Pinay; Turk
ish Ambassador and Nine.
Urguplu gave a cocktail
party in absentia for their
Finance Minister and Mrs.
Polaskan; Finnish Ambas-
sador and Nine. Seppala en-
tertained their former Prime
Minister Rainier Won Fieandt,
governor of the Bank of Fin
land at a 6-to-8 gathering;
and the Minister of Finance
Festus Okotie-E boh of Nj
geria, which will attain ma
ton status next year, gave a
cocktail party at the Shera-
ton Park.
On top of all that, the
Opera Society of Washing
ton. which could use a little
of the money that's being
spread around for reconstruc-
ton and development, OPEN
ed its season with an excel
lent performance of Mozart's
Don Giovanni" at Lisner
Auditorium. In the cause of
culture. this too precipitated
a party afterwards in the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Hobart
Spalding,
THE TURKISH RECEP-
TON came first on the
calendar. Here no less a per-
=, son than handsome Foreign
Minister Zorlu was host be-
cause he had sent Ambassa-
dor .Urguplu abroad on a
mission. Nine. Urguplu went
with him.
Secretary OF the Treasury
and Mrs. Bob Anderson were
there.
The Andersons went on
from the embassy function to
a farewell party for the Treas
ury's General Counsel Nelson
Rose. who is quitting Gov
eminent to enter private
business.
The President of Turkeys
grandson, Atilla Byar, down
from New York where he is
attending New York Univer-
sity Business School, chatted
with the William Culbertsons.
Jean de PArgentaye of the
Monetary Fund said Brazil's
finances would be stabilized
in a couple of weeks.
Someone else noted that
whereas the International
Bank for Reconstruction and
Development loans money for
such things as pipelines, the
funds loans are inadvertently
political. That's not their
purpose, of course, but they
help whoever's at the head of
Government to remain in
power.
THE FINNISH EMBASSY
party drew a familiar figure
to Washingtonians. Former
Swedish Ambassador Erik
Bohemian, who is now a men,
Der of his country's senate,
is a member of the Swedish
financial delegation. He
leaves today for Paris, where
he will be Joined by his wife.
That very handsome British
couple. Lord Cromer, Eco
nomic Minister of the En-
bassy, and lovely blond Lady
Cromer were there. So was
Mrs. Douglas Dillon, Swedish
Ambassador and Nine. Jar
ring, Austrian Ambassador
Platter, Secretary of Com
merce Fritz Mueller who was
heading for the French En-
bassy dinner; the Rafael
Oreamunos, Richard Service
of the State Department, and
the Daniel Bells who said
their daughter Kathleen re-
ceived an honorary MA. de-
gree from Smith College.
The Seppalas' party was
the unwilling of their newly
renovated residence. During
the past months they have
had two drawing rooms
added to the first floor and
had the whole reprinted and
redecorated. The result is
both spacious and attractive.
Finnish Finance Minister
Won Fieandt was CARRIED in
black tie for the cocktail
party as he was going from
there to Mr.. and Mrs. ia
cobssen's dinner.
Also in last nights party
schedule for monetary off,
Gals was a reception for the
Cambodian Deputy Prime
Minister. Son Sam, given by
Cambodian Ambassador and
Nine. Nong Kimny. Minister
Sam is also Foreign Minister
and Governor of the Bank of
Cambodia. He was accom-