Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-16
AUTOMATICALLY SPEAKING
Cool Reception
Given Delegates

IF President Kennedy
gets this excited about a
Yale professor, think what
would happen If he were
from Harvard" quipped the
only top official to attend a
reception last night for the
visiting Soviet cultural dele
cation.
Alaskan Senator Gruening
had more to say about the
Kremlin's arrest Of Yale
Prof. Frederick Barghoorn:
"Russia's actions knocked the
cultural exchange program
into a cooked hat, and
they've got no one to blame
but themselves"
He sketched events since
the signing of the test ban
treaty and charged the
Russians with upsetting the
better "people-to-people re-
lationship" which resulted
first with the autobahn crises
and then the arrest.
The Senator said he prob
ably was a guest last night
because of his wife's affilia-
ton with the Women's Inter-
national League for Peace
and Freedom. Mrs. Gruening
accompanied him.
Soviet Ambassador and
Mrs. Dobrynin's reception
had a late start because one
large room had been con-
verted into a huge conference
room, packed with men and
equipment for yesterdays
hastily called press confer
ence with the visiting intel
lectuals.
Weary in Conflict
Weary from an hour-long
tangle with reporters. the
delegation mingled with
guests, made up primarily of
press and embassy officials,
diplomats from the eastern
European nations and lead
ers of several church and
pacifist groups.
Mrs. Dagmar Wilson,
founder of the Women's
Strike for Peace organiza-
ton, said with a wave of her
hand she hoped people will
take this lightly" that it's
all merely part Of the cold
war, that anything so absurd
should be treated casually
and not dignified with serious
consideration.
Reporters never were quite
sure whether she referred to
the arrest itself or the cold
reception being accorded the
visiting cultural delegation
in the wake of the arrest.
Either way, she was asked
why she felt ut" should be
taken lightly. She waved off
the arrest, then, with an cts
a mere bureaucratic blooper"
on the part of the Soviet
government.
The president of the D. c.
branch Of WnPF, Mrs.
Gregory Hankin. attended
with her husband. And the
head of the D. C. Committee
for International Friendly
Visits. Mrs. Dorothy M. Rob-
inson spoke of another Sow
let delegation arriving to-
morrow.
All women, the four will
tour the United States at the
invitation of the committee.
They are a deputy of the
Supreme Soviet, an author
critic, an English teacher and
a biochemiSt. Mrs. Dobryn-
in will honor them at a tea
Monday afternoon.
Mr.. James Symington, son
of the Senator; Mr.. Burrus
Chalmers of Davis House;
DR.. A. A. Bates, director of
building research in the
Commerce Department and
chairman of a delegation of
construction experts which
visited the Soviet Union
three years ago, and the E.
Raymond Wilson's of the
Friends Committee on ma
tional legislation were more
to attend.
Reason for Tea
Iranian women mean busi-
ness.
They we're granted the
right to vote and used it to
send two senator's out of go
and six out of 200 represent
atives to the Iranian Parlia-
mental in 1868.
These first women parlia-
mentarians were the reason
for a tea yesterday afternoon
at the Iranian chancery. The
busy Iranian Women's Or
ganization didn't really need