ROMULOS FETE THEIR DEFENSE SECRETARY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP68-00046R000200190076-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 19, 2014
• Sequence Number: 76
• Publication Date: August 25, 1960
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Romuips Fete Tirdeir Defense Secretary
- Visitors Here at Invitatioti of ;Secretary Gates
By DAISY CLELAND
Star Staff Writer tete`, vox,
There was an'.;!'unofficSial
adjOtirmnent" of Congress
last 4'.evening to' take a trip
to the Philippines'
The destination was the gay
party . given by 'PhilipPine
Ambassador. and Mrs. Romulo
in honor of their country's
Secretey of Defense and
Mrs. Santos.
Scores. of..members of the
military: and -their wives
tinned out to pay tribute to
the Philippine Secretary, and
almost as many members of
the United States Congress
came by a' favorite Embassy.
Where in somei,corners of
the room there was talk of
"when" I was stationed in the
hiliPpines" there were oth-
er spots where the conver-
sation Was nothing but 'cam-
paigns ? America's political
ones.
The 'host,' himself, who for'
diplomatic reasons lutist be
bipartisan, is campaigning for
a product of his own country.
"I have heard that k6n-.
nedy and Nixon -both' have
__,Vely'r well-oiled machines?
dloym glad ?but. I hope,
Philippine
that will1761p Us!" said the
Ambassador with his :usual
big grin. ,
On the other hind Mrs.
? Oscar Chapman,. wife of the
former. Secretary of Interior,
?was chatting about plans for
' a huge fund-raising dinner
for the Dernocrats.
\ Kennedy Teleeast
This $100-a-plate dinner
will take place on September
.20 and will feature Senator
Kennedy as speaker on, ac-
cording to Mrs. Chapman, his
first national telecast. '
Two 01 the congressional
? favorite "oldsters" were,on
hand early for the .`party;
Senator Theodore Francis
Green and former Speaker. Of
the House Joseph Martin. .As
one guest put it "their greet:
ings of one another give hope
that regardless of what party
comes into power, the world
won't ante to an end."
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And the wide spaces of
Texas were represented ik
Representative "" and Mrs.
Clark Thompson and Repre- '
seritative and Mrs. Albert '
Thomas. ? ?
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Hollands Attend
Representative Thomas was '
also introducing ithe well-
known Dr. Ruben Flock, who
is currently a profesor at the
University of Iowa and is
known for his "golderi can-
cer'" operations where he Tei:
? portedly used :for the first -
time radiated gold for such :
surgefy. ? ?
Senator ad Mrs. Spessard
Holland were also among
the congressional lions at
the party, the Senator say-
ing that he planned to do
, a lot Of campaigning for the
...men in his own State' but..,
nothing of a national na-
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ture.
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Secretary Santos said that
he had ben in this coun-
try at the special invitation
' of Secretary of Defense
Gates and added "I have met =
with the top brass of the 1
Pentagon and I have .en-
Ijoyed every- minute of it." 4
And on the feminine side
Mrs. Skiltos . said, "I have
1 done only a little shopping '
here and I would like to do 1
, , ... .
more." The visitors leave for
New York today and then '
return to their homeland. 1:
, Gen.; , iind ,-"Mrs. .0 m a r
firadley were there sampling
the rbuffet which was filled
with good things to eat and',
not just colorful. thing's to '
see, and others Were Mrs.1
Thomas -7Kinkaid, ,fASsistant :
Secretary of Statpl,an'd Mrs. i
and Mrs. Homer g?gerguson-
J. ? Graham Parsoni,I Judge i
(he is a former Ambassador 1
to the Philippines); Gen. and i
Mrs. Albert 'Pierson and As-
sistant , Secretary :of the .1
Army and Mrs. Dewey Short. i
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Speechmaking
Alaska 'Senator ? Ernest
Gruening was there, as were !
Senator Mike Mansfield,i
Representative and Mrs.
'John Dineell, former Am-
bassador. and Mrs. Emmett
O'Neal, former 'Korean Am-
bassador and Mrs. Yang, +
gen. and Mrs. Wills CilH
_tenberger Vice Chief of' NaL,
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val Operations and - Mrs.'
James S. Russell, who gave'
-Secretary Santosw a speCiall
greeting from Naval Chief of
Operations Arleigh Burke,
? and Col. and" Mrs.' Daniel
Torrey.
. Mrs. Murray SnYder, Wife
of the-As-WWI-it Seeretall or!
- Defense, was there, sayingl
that her hUSband was off to
Salt Lalqii.,7 City makingI
speeches ; :'and. :others were
Undersecretary of the Army;
Milton, Mrs. Charles -Finul
cane, wife , of the'Assistant
Secretary of Defense;.Deputi
Director of CIA and?filiS1
ChTifer4F7 dtirelt'arialSe-prj
utY'Seltereirir riCefense and
- Mrs. James H. Douglas on
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their Way to 'a dinner party.4
One of the guests having
an especially good time at-
the party was Mrs7-"Charlie"i
Nivera. Mrs. Nivera is the
social secretary to ?Mrs. Gar-'
cia, the first lady of the
Philippines, and her husband
a well-known4 newspaperman
in his own country, was presi
secretark to the' President ?
when he made his official
visit to this country.
Mrs. Nivera admitted' to
several pfojects bringing her ,
to this country.,. The ultra-'
efficient secretary has been
given access- to the` White1
House social offices by her:
counterpart, Mary Jane Mc-'
Caffree, and has been study-'
ing the routine here.
From her boss she -has also
carried out assigninents to
look into slum - clearance,
projects here as Well as rec-
reational facilities since Mrs.',
Garcia is most interested in
these projects. However, the!
most important Nivera anis-!
sion- to'this country has been]
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to put their pretty. daughtel
Carolyn into college here.
So the popular Romulos
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gaVe "adjournment" to all?
from ?Congregs to college.
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