SUKARNO SHAKES MORE HANDS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP68-00046R000200250038-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 19, 2014
• Sequence Number: 38
• Publication Date: May 19, 1956
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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AND TIMES HERALD
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rTOwn Topic,
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Sakai ito. Shakes
By. Mar. ie McNair
INDONESIA'S President
"Sukarno who has iinpressed,
official Washington, as few'
other foreign dignitatties?have
'during his .
three ,day; Ofg?:*!:?,03,9n
stay here ?:.?
leaves -today:
for. 'Chariot.:
tesville,.Va.
on the first-
lap of: .his
American
tour.
Aresterd a y
afternoon, he .
r e c -e iv ed Mrs. McNair
Chiefs of Mis-
sion of the diplomatic corps
and their wives at the Indo-
nesian Chancery, stayed .on
for another hour to greet sev-
eral hundred more guests:
Indonesian Ambassador and
Mme. Notowidigdo were hosts
at the' reception and with
President Sukarno in the line
1, was the Minister of Foreign
1Affairs Roeslan Abdulgani.
i Other members of the Presi-
dential party stood about in
the great rose and gold
frescoed walled drawing room
which now has 'new pale pink
draperies.' .
? Mme.. Munt h e Morgen-
stierne, wife Of the dean of
the Diplomatic Corps Was
there to:'represent her hus-
band. The vice dean of the
c orp s, Guillermo Sevilla-
Sacasa, was without his wife.
Few 'of the diplomats . lin-
gered, but I did see later .Vie
Charge d'Affaires of Uru-
guay and Senora ' de Ber-
mudez, and tiny Mme. Tran
Van Chuong, wife of the
Viet Nam Ambassador, wear-
1 ing pale-blue brocade, and
without the Ambassador who
is on a speaking trip.
' Justice and Mrs. William
0. Douglas, Justice and Mrs.
Harold Burton, Justice and
Mrs. Stanley Reed were. all
there.
1 AND QUITE the hand-
somest couple were Briga-
, . ..
dier P. C. Gupta, ? Military
Iand Naval Attache of the In:.
dian.Embassy in his starched 1
white tunic, navy blue trou-
sers striped in red, and Mme.
Gupta in a flowered sari.
Mrs. W a it e r 'Robertson,
wife of the Assistant Secre-
tary of State, and Mrs. John
' Simmons, whose husband,
Chief of Pioto'col, had aecom-
- pani ed' President Sukarno.
from Hawaii, chatted in the
'hall. ? , .
' Sen.' Theodore Green and
Hank Fort , and Bill Brend
were I conversational three-
some.- Lt. Gen. Charles P...
Cahell..:was accompanied ;1133r;'
gisCanelrwlip:more:Flong,
.vividLblue
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THE LARGE Portrait of
'President Sukarno standing.
on an easel in the drawing!,
. room, was matched by . a
smaller photograph ov.er, the
mantel in the, dining,rotim.
" Indonesia's colors---,red and
white-I?were 'displayed On the
buffet table in bouquets of
carnations; in ? -the huge
square cake iced with the .In7
donesian flag.' . -
The 'Soviet -Am 13 a shilOr
Georgi .aroubiii left Pearfre
but left-behind his Naval At-
? tache?Goindr. Fedor Presni:,
koy, and his Gnenselor,
? StrigatioV,',.as well as, the As.-:
sistant.sMilitarY Attache Cold.
'Sergei Edeinsky.? '
.SA S: prineth Young; ,
Mis.:Rfabb,: who left her
ad-
missioi.card thoinebithad'
nb difficulty -getting 'and. ,
Max Rabb Who "pined her
. there, .and Whb had $1)toUght'
? '
? Jack: Logan tiiere and
Mule. ,,VladipurS,I.Ryloar . was
h a ded for.lwo niere',4 parties.' ,
,Mrand Mrs. flarold'Cooli e-
Were .circulating and others;
there were Mit'rdward
kenstaedt, :former. Ambassa-
dor ..'ha Mrs. Myeon' Cowen,
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