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Show ' lf Women Work for Peace Play Important Roles in U. . Setup . 1 1 to work in an office filled only with English. And then I don't want to sound too high minded but there's a great satisfaction in working for peace. After every difficult time, we seem to have made a little progress prog-ress and it makes you feel good to think you have had even a small part." Dynamic Mrs. Trudy Veit, Austrian Austri-an born art editor of the visual information in-formation service, directs the production pro-duction of posters, exhibits and charts, some of which are produced in 16 languages. British born Mrs. Audrey Langston, mother of seven-year-old twins, as U. N. photo liaison officer, directs a photographic staff which snaps pictures for U. N. posters post-ers and exhibits. One of the toughest U. N. jobs is held by French born Lucie de Vienne Blanc, head of a four language typing typ-ing pool of 200 girls, most of whom came from Europe. Mme. de Vienne Vien-ne Blanc, who used to be a concert singer, keeps harmony and clockwork clock-work order while English, French, Spanish and Russian documents pass from translator to stenographer to reviser to typist to reviser, etc. She says the girls love America, like American men better than Europeans Eu-ropeans because they treat them better, are fascinated by New York shops and rejoice in pretty clothes at relatively low cost. Among the girls working hard for peace is a large quota headed toward to-ward interesting personal careers. Take Mary Ronay, University of Michigan graduate, who is credentials creden-tials officer in charge of press accreditation ac-creditation cards and seating arrangements. ar-rangements. She worked in a Detroit De-troit bookstore to earn $200 to come to New York, and now is working and saving to study music in Paris. Then there is Senorita Orellana of Chile, Spanish translator, who holds a Ph. D. degree from Columbia university, uni-versity, taught three years at Smith college, and now is headed toward a career in Chile's diplomatic service. Doreen Feng, daughter of the Chinese Chi-nese ambassador to Mexico, pores over paintbox and pencils, making U. N. posters and charts, but some day she hopes to be a great painter. Add to the list Marie Bordy, tiny Russian photographer on Audrey Langston's staff, who speaks five languages and chalked up some kind of a record when she not only got a good picture of camera shy Soviet Delegate Andrei Gromyko, but also made him smile. Her ambition is a studio of her own. By HELEN BECKWITII (Guest columnist lor Kathleen Norris.) Bell Syndicate. WNU Features. 1 Additional evidence of the progress beirg made by women in world affairs af-fairs is offered in the role being played by women in the United Nations Na-tions setup. Main achievement, insofar as women are concerned, was the establishment es-tablishment of the commission on the status of women. The group was created as a result of the demand de-mand by prominent feminists that the new international agency should give recognition to women's interests. inter-ests. The United States representative on the commission is Miss Dorothy . Kenyon, New York attorney and for-mer for-mer municipal court judge. Long ac-, ac-, tive in women's organizations, Miss Kenyon served as a member of the League of Nations committee on the legal status of women voters. The movement for U.N. recognition recogni-tion of women was launched at the San Francisco conference, when they succeeded in getting the principle princi-ple of equal rights incorporated in the U.N. charter. They also got the proposal for a commission for women put on the agenda for the London meeting in the winter of 1946. At this meeting the economic and social council set up a sub-commission on the status of women in the commission on human hu-man rights, of which Mrs. Eleanor .Roosevelt is the chairman. The commission outlined a program pro-gram calling for civil, political, edu-catioriai edu-catioriai ar.d social equality for wom- . f VX'.' They asked that an executive office of-fice on women's affairs should be set up as a part' of the United Nations secretariat. They recommended expansion ex-pansion into a larger independent commission. The economic and social so-cial council approved the suggestion sugges-tion and authorized establishment of a separate commission. At their meeting in New York in October, 1946, the council designated the countries to be represented on the new commission. Work in Secretariat. Although they seldom appear before be-fore the public eye, another group of women is playing an important role in telling the United Nations story to the world. This group is comprised com-prised of members of the U.N. secretariat, sec-retariat, who accomplish a major mission even if their work is principally prin-cipally behind the scenes. Among members of the secretariat secretari-at are many of the new twentieth century women who have risen from jfiTe5i.llr,s f, war. At first glance these glTPTTook like smart young women you could see almost anywhere any-where pretty North Americans in flower-toned sweaters and blouses, slender Chinese in short skirted versions ver-sions of Oriental dress, olive-skinned South Americans with liquid Latin eyes. Lipstick, smart hats and all that. But watch them awhile and you will find they are different. There is less party talk and drinking, more hard work for a purpose. Not that ; - they are any less interested in men than women always were; they simply sim-ply seem to think and talk about them less. These women hold what is probably the world's largest feminine fem-inine collection of university degrees. de-grees. Many speak from two to five languages lan-guages and can translate or take shorthand in several. Others are wizards with paintbrushes. Yet many are working for far less money Hum they have made before on a heavy schedule that sometimes extends ex-tends to 10 or 12 hours a day, six or seven days a week, with a three hour daily commutation added to that. During the general assembly they were "soaked in a bath of work" that left virtually no time for shopping, shop-ping, hairdresser, friends or play. Why do they do it? Let Marion Dix tell you. Miss Dix, a former scenario writer, turned down $1,000 a week in Hollywood Holly-wood to work for $10? a week in the United Nations as chief of the film and television section, which is producing pro-ducing a film on the functions, purposes pur-poses and goal of the United Nations. Na-tions. Miss Dix says succinctly: "If the United Nations fails, there will be no world. It must succeed. A job to help It succeed is tha best job you can have right now and no work seems too hard." Constance Rhodes adds a few words to that. Miss Rhodes is an English girl who studied at the Paris Sorbonne, worked for the ILO In Geneva and now is secretary to Andrew An-drew Cordier, right hand man to Trygvie Lie. Says Miss Rhodes: Satisfaction In Effort. "This kind of work gets in your blood, once you've done it. It's fascinating fas-cinating meeting people of all nationalities. na-tionalities. It would bore me now "A job to help V. A', surceefi isjhe ban job you can have riht note." |