Page 10 University Daily Kansan Monday, Dec. 11, 1961
Latin Ladies Show Interest in Politics
By Gay Pauley UPI Women's Editor
NEW YORK - Women's interest in politics grows steadily in Latin American countries, says a group of women from Latir America who have just completed a visit to the United States.
"Once, we women didn't pay too much attention to politics," wa the way Mrs. Soffy P. de Zuloaga of Colombia put it during an interview. "Now, we are interested, as a result of the work of many citizens . . .."
Mrs. de Zuloaga is one of nine women leaders who have been in the United States since early October, criss-crossing the country to talk to U.S. women about politics and ways of improving South American women's participation in it.
Their visit is under auspices of the U.S. State Department and the Overseas Education Fund of the non-partisan League of Women Voters. Mrs. de Zuloaga acted as spokesman for the group at a reception which ended their formal visit. Their host was David Rockefeller, president of the Chase Manhattan Bank.
"We women in Latin America had not realized how active your women are in local, state and national politics," she said. "nor had we realized how much you want to help us. Now, we know."
She cited the work the Colombian Union of Women Citizens is doing to educate women to their responsibility in government. The group, patterned after the League, actively studies the workings of local governments, hears lectures from economists and educators, and just generally keeps tabs on the political scene, she said.
Mrs. de Zuloaga is president of the Manizales branch of the Women's group, is a trained psychologist, and is active in the Red Cross and the Anti-Tuberculosis League.
The eight other visitors proved extremely active women both in careers and in community projects also. Mrs. Marinette Boucas of Rio de Janeiro is director-general of the magazine "O Observador Economico e Fianceiro," director of the Rio Sorotimistra, a service organization, was vice president of the Pan American Round Table of Brazil, visited Formosa on official invitation of that government, and has received a special award for outstanding services in the field of Pan Americanism.
Dr. Betty Borges-Fortes of Porte Alegre, Brazil, is president of the city's soroptimists, is an author and critic.
Mrs. Avelina Salles Haynes of Sao Paulo, Brazil, is a member of the board of directors of the Association of Political and Social Development for Women of that city, has been active in social work with juveniles, and is owner of a magazine for women.
Mrs. Celina A. de Martinez of Buenos Aires is chairman of the city's Women's Center of Civic Culture, has been on the commission for women, department of labor, and president of the United Nations liaison committee for non-government organizations.
Another Colombian, Alicia Avendano is a math teacher, is active in the Union of Women Citizens, and is a member of the Public Welfare Association of Cucuta, Venezuela.
Mrs. Maria Cristina Beltranena de Von Feldt is Guatemala's representative to the Executive Committee of the Inter-American Commission of Women. She is an economist, currently residing in a Washington, D.C. suburb.
From Peru came Dr. Isabel de Calderon, a professor of education at the Catholic University in Lima, and frequently a representative from her country at international cultural conferences, and Dr. Rita Castro Ramos, professor of education at San Marcos University, Lima, and author of several textbooks in education.
Rockefeller told the women that the "hope of survival of society and of western ideals depends on how well we can establish the ideals of
democracy . . . " He praised the League for its help in teaching "the man in the street his role in government," and welcomed the women from Latin America who "are doing the same thing there as the League is doing in the U.S.A."
Fund Set for U.N. Diplomat
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — In the spirit of the Christmas season, this essay is to report on the Povl Bang-Jensen Memorial Fund. The address is P.O. Box 3206, Grand Central Station, New York 17, N. Y.
Sen. Thomas J. Dodd, D-Conn., is honorary fund chairman. The 100 or more sponsors represent almost all shades of political opinion from left to right as, for example, from socialist Norman Thomas to columnist George Sokolsky.
Powl Bang-Jensen left five American-born children, aged from 5 to 15 years. The memorial fund is to send these Bang-Jensen children to college. We owe them that much, at least. Their father, of course, is dead. He was a Danish diplomat attached to the United Nations. By way of introduction:
"Povl Bang-Jensen gave his life for his belief in human liberty," Sen. Dodd said. "The least we can do is to guarantee the proper education for his five charming children."
The fund appeal for gifts contains this:
"It was just two years ago that Powl Bang-Jensen's body was found lying by a foot path in a Queens, New York, park. His death climaxed a long and harrowing struggle, virtually alone, that began when Bang-Jensen refused to surrender the names of Hungarian freedom fighters who had testified in secret before the United Nations committee on Hungary.
"As an official of that committee, Bang-Jensen had promised these witnesses that their identities would be revealed to no one. Because of his refusal to hand over the names, Bang-Jensen was dismissed by the United Nations."
This courageous man was convinced that the Communist espionage apparatus had infiltrated the top level of U.N. administration. Hence, he argued that to turn over his list of names would simply be to give them to the Communists. The fate of the families and friends in Hungary of the listed witnesses can be imagined.
Bang-Jensen's death was listed as suicide but there is evidence ignored by the New York Police Department that makes it reasonable to suspect that Bang-Jensen was murdered, liquidated as a Communist trigrammer might say. There is evidence that Bang-Jensen may have had information vitally important to the United States that Communists believed they must suppress.
There was plausible motive for Bang-Jensen's murder, if it was murder. There is more than plausible reason to contribute to the memorial fund for him.
Rebecca West was asked to contribute to the fund and in complying, wrote this: "There is no way of effectively grieving for the dead except by being good to the living."
"If his stand (on withholding the list) was an obsession," wrote Time Magazine, "it was a magnificent one."
WASHINGTON —(UPI)— An attorney for the U.S. Communist Party pleaded not guilty Friday to a charge that the party failed to register with the government as an agent of the Soviet Union.
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Red Party Pleads Innocent on Charge
Communist party leader Gus Hall, who came from New York, took no part in the proceedings.
The party was arraigned on the charge before Chief Judge Matthew F. McGuire of the federal district court in the District of Columbia. McGuire set the trial for Feb. 1.
AFTER THE HEARING, Hall told reporters he had nothing to say about the present status of the party but handed them a two-page mimeographed statement.
The not guilty plea was made by Washington attorney Joseph Forer. The government was represented by Justice Department attorney F. Kirk Madrix of the Internal Security Division.
The statement said the indictment was "the first time in American history that a political party has been summoned into a criminal court."
It said that "for years the slander that the Communist party is an agent of a foreign power has been peddled by political bigots. At no time were they able to prove this charge in open court.
THE INDICIENT said the Communist party had failed to register with the Justice Department by the Nov. 20 deadline in compliance with the Internal Security Act of 1950. The party faces possible fines of $10,000 a day for each day it fails to register.
I remember your name perfectly, but I just can't think of your face. —William Archibald Spooner
SUBURBIA, U.S.A. — It came on suddenly, just a week or so ago, in our suburban community. We found our neighbors had ceased thinking of nuclear attack as a vague possibility.
By Jack V. Fox United Press International
One Suburban Town Stresses Cooperation in Fallout Shelter
Instead, they were talking seriously about building backyard bomb shelters; about whether fire from a blast over the city would set wooden homes ablaze in the suburbs; whether children should try to get home from school or stay in the buildings.
Up to that time, there had been a general attitude that it simply won't happen.
A few men had a spare can of gasoline in the garage in case a sudden long trip might seem advisable. Transistor and battery radios were checked.
There had been some half-hearted precautions. Women stocked in a few dozen cans of food and liquid in basements and made a bit of a joke about it. One housewife confessed that she had put aside quite a supply of food but left out one essential item—the can opener.
But now the whole neighborhood is beginning to take this danger far more seriously.
One family down the street has decided definitely to build a backyard shelter. They have three small daughters and the father decided it simply was his duty to do everything possible to insure that they and their mother have the best possible chance of survival.
Some friends who live nearby think it would be wise to build a shelter. But they are putting a son through college and the man in the family says he would have to borrow money to build a shelter. He's not going to do that.
The schools are making preparations to keep the children there for days, if necessary.
They are drawing up a list of essentials and the first question is where the money comes from. The school board figures a blanket for each of the 10,000 children would cost $3 apiece—a total of $30,000. Food would cost $1 apiece a day—or $10,000 a day.
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