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Parade from Africa By DOROTHY McARDLE North American Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON — Washing ton’s red carpet will welcome more VIP visited from over seas in the coming months than during any previous time in American history. One reason for the steady maren of very important rest down that red carpet is that the presidents of so many new African nations have gotten scurred away in their new role at home and are ready to go visit to the richest nation in the world. Some 20 heads of state from Africa are expected here dur ing the current social season. The ambassadors of Guinea, of Mali, and of Ethiopia were discussing this the other night as a party given by the minis ter of an Iron Curtain country. The party was held at the lega tion of the so-called People’s Republic of Bulgaria. From the way these envoys talked, it was obvious that Afri can heads of state want to see America first before journey ing closer to home in Europe or to the Soviet Union. The nation to lead the big parade of visitors here will be the ancient land of Ethiopia Emperor of Ethopia Haile Se lassie is due here Oct. 1. He will not arrive the new stream lined way of most visitors here, landing by heli copter on the White House lawn. Instead, he will come by train from Philadelphia, and President Kennedy will welcome him here at Union Station. Brig. Gen. Godfrey T. Me. Hugh, who is President Kenne dy's Air Force aide, has been acting as the White House ad vance man for the enpero's forthcoming visit just back from Addis Ababa. Gen. McHugh has some fasci nating tales to tell of life at the ancient court here. He felt his hand being nuz zled at one point as if a dog were sniffing him over. Look ing down, he snatched his hand back fast when he discovered a strange “wild” animal taking his scent. He never did get quite used to seeing lions strolling about the gardens with the stately tread of oversize cats. No one else seemed in the least co cerned by these monstrous crea tures basking in the domestic sun. Mrs. Orville Freeman, beau tiful and dynamic wfe of the secretary of agriculture, has taken to her personal soap box here at Washington party time. Jane Freeman was deeply concerned by the lesson in hate =¢ handed down from father to son in some of the Iron Cur tain countries she recently vis ited with her husband. At the party at the Bulgarian Legation, she drew quite a si lent little crowd about her as she told of seeing a German concentration camp in Poland on view to the public as a new, kind of modern museum. She does not want hatred of the Nazis to be passed on to mod ern «ldoon as hatred of all Germans through such exhibits as these “If we keep impressing our hate on our children, they will grow up hating other nations as other generations have done before them,” she said. She said that her husband, a Marine Corps officer during the war, had had reason to hate the Japanese during World War II, but they did not feel that this was any reason to pass on hatred of the Japanese to their own children today. As if to illustrate Mrs. Free man's soap boxing against hate, a couple of US. Army officers made a gesture of friendshp to our cold war ene mies at a party at the Soviet Embassy the same night. Maj. Gen. Alva Fitch, assist ant U.S. Army chief of staff for intelligence, and Dr. Walter Kostecki, U.S. Army surgeon at Ft. Myer, knew all about concentration camps, too. Both spent years in the same Japan ese prison camp. Both were in the Bataan March together. Both went down to skin and bones. Gen. Fitch came out weigh ing 85 pounds and Dr. Kostecki a mere 90 pounds. Both the general and the phy sician brought gifts to the re tiring Soviet military attache here, Lt. Gen. Vladimir A. Du bovik, Gen. Fitch presented Gen. and Mme. Dubovik with pictures taken of them at a farewell party for them at Ft. McNair a few nights before. The farewell gift brought by Dr. and Mrs. Kostecki was more symbolic. In a red, white and blue-wrapped package were pale blue percale sheets. “The blue is for forget-me nots,’ said Mrs. Kostecki. “The sheets are to wish that they may always sleep in peace, and that we may, too,’ said Dr. Kostecki. The very social Junior League of Washington gave an inte grated children’s party here re cently at Klingle House, the league's fashionable headquar ters. Negro children and sons and daughters of Social Register members sat down together for ice cream and cake, balloon popping, easy chatter, and a dandy time for all. All this, minus any self - consciousness over racial differences. Social Register league mamas beamed. The Negro children are parti cipants in the after - school pro gram which the Junior League sponsors at St. Stephen's and the Incarnation Episcopal Church here. When the league program gets under way here some 150 to 200 working mothers will feel easy about their children. The young sters will be taken care of at the end of the school day at S. Stephen's from 3 to 6 p.m. under a supervised play program. Money for this program is being raised by the Junior League's annual Christmas shop to be held here the end of Oc tober Outlook for old age? Horizons unlimited. Some 300 men and women, who are 55 years old and over, went back to school here yes terday. They attended first ses sions of the newly formed In stitute of Lifetime Learning. The are reeducating them selves from typing to interna tional affairs, from politics and government to art, and from ulosophy to restyling ‘‘old adyish clothes. The institute was started here by the National Retired Teach ers Association and the Ameri can Association of Retired Per sons. Both groups were founded, and are now headed by, Dr. Ethel Percy Andrus. Dr. An drus is a dynamic, enthusiastic 79 years old. She looks 560. Fourteen courses are being given retired people over a 10 week period. The older folks can pick and choose what most in terests them, and they need no special educational background to enroll. A woman in Connecticut tele phoned the institute and asked that a place for her to live be lined up for her here .I want to take all the cours es, said this sprightly lady of 70.
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Las Vegas Sun
Las Vegas, Nevada, US
Fri, Sep 20, 1963
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