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President Mayer was assisted in the receiving line by the other three members of his entourage. They were Dr. Pierre Url. director, economic division, European Community for Coal and Steel: " Mr. Tony Rollman, director of the market division, and Mr. Fernand Spaak, special assistant to President Mayer. The latter, incidentally, is the handsome young son of Belgian Foreign Minister Henri Spaak, and is following in the footsteps of his father, a noted advocate of European unity. These four visitors are men with a sense of mission. They feel the success of the supra national coal and steel community which embraces the countries of France, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, and Italy that Europeans can work together for their common good. They hope to see this extended to other economic endeavors, especially in the field of atomic energy. Distinguished Guests The French Ambassador and Mme. Couve de Murville were among the early arrivals, she wearing a dramatic red and gold coat of Oriental brocade trimmed with mink, and topped with a matching mink hat. The dean of the diplomatic corps, Norway’s Munte de Morgenstierne attended, as Open Thuri, 12-9. To add real polish to your velvet, 12.95. To add real polish to your velvet, 12.95. To give quality, 12.95. Charge Accounts Invited Did the British Ambassador and Lady Makins, the Dutch Ambassador and Mme. Van Roijeri, the Italian Ambassador and Signora Brosio, the Ambassador of Luxembourg and Mme. Le Gallais, Germany's Ambassador Krekeler, the Austrian Ambassador and Mme. Gruber, Sweden's Ambassador Boheman, Nicaragua's Ambassador Sevilla-Sacasa. and the Belgian Charge d’Affaires Georges earlier. Prominent Americans included Mrs. John Poster Dulies, wife of the Secretary of State, who was accompanied by her sister, Mrs. Kenneth Segerman; Secretary of the Treasury and Mrs. George Humphrey, Mr. Harold Stassen, Mr. and Mrs. John Simmons, Mr. and Mrs. Douglas MacArthur, Assistant Secretary of State and Mrs. Livingston Merchant, former Ambassador and Mrs. George McGhee, Ambassador W. Walton Butterworth, and Mr. Stanley Cleveland. Others from the diplomatic corps were French Minister Pierre Millet and Counselor Francois de Laboulaye, both Just back from trips to Paris; Minister and Mme. Charles Lucet and Counselor and Mme. Jean de la Grandville, also from the French Embassy; Signora Ortona, wife of the Italian Minister and Georg Fedeier, the departing Counselor of the German Embassy. Burma—A Woman’s Paradise Ladies, if your husbands tell you that no woman has as many rights and privileges as the American woman you now have an answer! According to Daw Mya Sein, a delightful Burmese woman educator who was entertained here yesterday by the Burmese Ambassador and Mme. Win, her fellow countrywomen know how to keep men in their place. To begin with, when a Burmese Club in honor of former Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Lemuel C. Shepherd. (See story on Page B-3.) —Star Staff Photo. These women marries, she does not change her name. “We don't sink our individuality,” she laughed. Thus, on an invitation, for example, both a man's name and his wife's are listed separately. If a man and his wife own a business, both names are used to indicate ownership. When a husband dies, all the property automatically goes to the wife. There are no feelings against a married woman's working. Daw Mya Sein’s own daughter is married, working as a tutor in Rangoon University, studying. Law, and has a 2-year-old baby. Divorce Simple Divorce is simple—by mutual consent. But the man must support all his children and his ex-wife. However, she said, divorce is quite rare—the big deterrent being social disapproval. "I don't think I've ever heard of a well-known divorce case in Burma—with everyone lapsing up the account in the papers," she said. Marriage is even easier. Two people simply declare they want to live together. There is no ceremony. There's no ceremony. There's no such thing as illegitimate children, she added, for when two people live together, they are married. A Burmese man can have more than one wife, she reports, although now it is frowned on. To which one reporter exclaimed, "This sounds like a paradise for men, too!" And Daw Mya Sein sagely replied, "I can assure you it's not a paradise for him if he tries to take two wives. It's not just the expense, but he can find it quite uncomfortable around the house!" These rights for women are not just a recent phenomenon, says Daw Mya Sein (whose name translated literally means Aunt Emerald Diamond). For centuries they have had noted women poets and writers. Now they are going more into the field of social service. There are more women than men studying medicine at Rangoon University today, she said. Women also are teachers, lawyers, head of large businesses. “Historians have been trying to find the reason for this high place of women in Burma society," she said. “Some think it is because it stems from our original Austro-Asiatic culture where women held a high status, which goes back some 2,000 years.” Selected by U Nu Here for a 10-month lecture tour of America, Daw Mya Sein was selected personally by Prime Minister U Nu of Burma, to give these lectures sponsored by the Asia Foundation. When the Prime Minister was in this country on a state visit last July, the foundation set up the “U Nu Lectureship on Burmese Culture,” in honor of his visit. She is the first of these lecturers. 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However, if a Senate Democrat is on the fence about Mr. Stevenson, it doesn’t follow that his wife is. Mrs. Robert Kerr raved about Adlai when she met Mrs. Ives yesterday for the first time. She said she was so glad to meet her because—and she launched into generous praise for the man who was nominated from the same platform in 1952 from which her husband’s name was tossed into the race. Other senator's spouses who attended the delightful affair were Mesdames Lyndon Johnson, Walter George, William Fulbright, Paul Douglas, Lister Hill, Herbert Lehman, Tom Hennings, Albert Gore, Hubert Humphrey and Richard Neuberger. The dernier cri—or if you prefer to be pedestrian about this sort of thing, the last word—in fashionable foot and headgear was in evidence. Pauline Gore was sporting the new type of high heel that’s metal half way up and with a base not much bigger than a pinhead.... Elizabeth Henning was wearing one of the new big-crowned hats which are coming into vogue of dark brown satin, it had almost a bonnet-shaped depth to it. Mrs. Wilson, the Honey? Mrs. Woodrow Wilson was definitely the flower in the crowd if not the honey. Pinned to her customary, graduated necklaces of pearls, and also to the bodice. Of her brown dress were a dozen or more bees of varying sizes. She denied, however, that she was the honey, despite the evidence to the contrary. The bees had no history, she said, just came on another dress. The dowager First Lady, who is one of the most dignified and respected persons in Washington, asked Mrs. Ives how long she would be in town, because, she said, “I would like to come call on you.” Completely taken back by such a thought, Buffie Ives exclaimed, "You call on me! Why I should call on you!" But her departure today settled that question until her return in April for a couple of days. Another highly respected Washington dowager and an admirer of Mr. Stevenson was there—Mrs. J. Borden Harriman. “Mrs. Democrat” was wearing a sapphire blue velvet hat that exactly matched her eyes.... Still others were Mrs. Dean Acheson, Katie Louchheim, Mrs. George Ball, whose husband is a close friend of Mr. Stevenson's; Mrs. Jesse Donaldson, Mrs. Paul Magnussen, Mrs. Clare Engle and Mrs. Omar Burleson, who dropped her voice to a whisper every time she mentioned Republicans. Being president of the Congressional Club, where politics are taboo, she can’t get back into that feel free attitude. Ribbons for Seating Rank How were all these women of rank seated? The answer is with charm, satin and the book, “My Brother Adlai,” which was written, of course, by his sister, Mrs. Fred Morrison, passed around the book which was dripping with colored ribbons from which guests were invited to choose one. The ribbons were in four colors—yellow, mulberry, rose and White. When everybody proceeded into the dining room, they found four tables of 10 each with a big centerpiece of tulips that matched the ribbons. During lunch, Mrs. Ives told about her longtime desire to get out a cook book on behalf of the Moore County, (N.C.) Historic Association. To that end, she’s been collecting recipes and asked the women at her table on the spot to contribute one each. Her only problems about publishing were just about ironed out then and there when she heard about the Women’s National Press Club’s experiences with their masterpiece “Who Says We Can’t Cook?” She also recalled the time she stopped at the Shamrock Hotel in Dallas in the spring of 1652. Adlai Stevenson’s name had already been mentioned as a presidential possibility but the hotel wouldn't accept his sister’s personal name check in payment of her bill. 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The Russian Embassy led in attendance with almost full representation including the Military Attache and Madame Kolkin, the Naval Attache and Madame Presnakov and 54 others counting wives. It was reported as one of the largest “black tie” at the Pan American Union. 