| Show y YANKEE WOMEN IN OSLO Declared Highly Efficient in in inv Professional and nd v Home Life f fe OS April 23 AP P AP American R women OJ ien represent the highest class t. t of I efficiency both In professional and and d homo home life believes Madame f. f J Alexandra Kollantay Kollantay and this Is one ono rr l t 0 of the reasons she would like to tol torje l the first soviet diplomatic representative rep rep- re en aUve to the United States t A bolshevik minister here Madame Madame Ma- Ma fa- fa dame Y I has S headed he the rge lt Russian delegation that has hast hasI t I es spent Pent four years cars negotiating neg a t comfit com corn 4 mer dl fit mercIal lal treaty between soviet Rus- Rus Q a and Norway She recently was T recalled 1 r. r A I know so 80 much of ot the United and the population from my t ex there in n all aU about eleven It yes she said I have tra tray trav- rr n I from coast coaRt to coast and alt ail ire the country Immensely eh It is Is-a Is a aT T j eat t l land to with a great preat future The J way of ot living appeals y t nrY much to me t pAS BOBBED HAIR ek i I t Madame ll Kollontay Was as vas seated In if v iJ her office as she talked Her Ifer hair hall a teas nEf s bobbed In n the latest mode land r i s I C Wore a simple dark Parisian gown frown She Is divorced d and nd has no no I t with her In Norway Her lIEr 1 O y son is married arid and living In n England gland d father was wag a General D monto- monto of ot the old Russian nobility r fi 1 served in n the general staff stort of ot fc the armY under the czarist regime an O o largo large estates in the c rr 1 e Her mother came from t nd ad and M Madame dame Kollantay if 6 pen of ot I her er t In Fin Fin- Jn i t itnA A l pit was there here that she he developed l- l P t hY for the Finns and the theY they y Y Finnish socialist narty with which i j affiliated In 1898 Later sho beij be- be ij a communist while a student w nt university In Zurich Swit- Swit w r ORGANIZES i WORKERS Pon her ber return to Ru Russia sla she shei i t 1 a prominent part In Y jq t ith the t female mal workers i t 1 b ti ha d 3 to leave Russia R In 1908 t to toe 0 e cape capo prosecution by the the czars czars czar's y i ir r p Hc ice f j or nine years she lived abroad political 1 refuges refuge most mOlt ot of the if th time e. e in Berlin She also visited r y an and l went to the United f In 1 1915 at the Invitation of m. m Jn erR of nf the American M socialist at party f Rhe he toured the country for forr rj arly eIe eleven en months maki making l L' L 4 r a n v anda speeches against the World Worlds s nR wat r. r i When the Rus Rusian nU Ian revolution broke out In 1917 Madame radame Kollan- Kollan i c tay returned home and soon became a prominent member of ot the VIAt party ij J In 1922 she she- came rame to Norway as f. f head cI I of ot Russia's delegation dele dele- gation and two years later lat r. r when r reco recognized sized the the Russian f soviet republic rep Madame Madam Kollantay 1 f was made minister ter the first woman r minister In history t King Haakon received received received-fier h r with the toe same ame formality accorded to M ministers and there was not nothing ii about the Russian leJ legation in Oslo which would indicate that It t was not z presided over by y a man |
