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Evening star., 1952-03-23
News Of Art and Artists
Exhibition of Works BY Young~Artists Of Austrio
] At Wtyte GoIIery Under Embassy. Sponsorship

rounded out by large, strong.
toneful water colors Of land
scapes and harbor scenes by
William G. Evans, former in
structor at the College of Fine
Arts, Syracuse University.
All of these artists have par
ticipated in local and national
exhibitions. and many have won
prizes and travelling scholar
ships and are represented in
museum collections.
Schwartz at Alden
Only nine Gays remain to see
the exh;hiijcn Of e.:pressionistic
abS&acticns by 1llerese M.
Schwartz at E&Gnett Alden CAL
lery. This is her third solo ex-
hihition, her first having been
held at Howard University in
1916. and second at the
AVG headquarters. She has
also participated in group shows
at the Alden Gallery. Corcorfn
winning the second prize In
oils at the fifth area exhibition
in 195D. the Washington He
brew Congregation, and with
the Washington Water Color
Club and Washington Print
makers Society. Twenty-four
Of her water colors are now on
national circuit of colleges,
the tour being sponsored by
Howard University.
Mrs. Schwartz studied art
extensively at the Corcoran,
American University and the
Brooklyn Museum School. and
under individual Artists George
Picken, Boris Margo and Min
ma Citron of New York City.
Doni at College Park
Olga DAM, who exhibited
landscapes and urban scenes Of
Cuba and Georgetown at the
New Georgetown Gallery in De-
cember and January. is now
showing in the gallery Of the
Department of Art, University
of Maryland. College Park.
This post-impressionist paint
er, whose adventurous career
was reported In The Stars news
and art columns during her
Washington showing. is now
conducting art courses at Ber-
wyn Heights. Md.
Her exhibition is open to the
public through next Friday, 10
to 4. (Closed today.) hA
Evening star., 1952-03-23
Chinese-Americon Prints

Wood engravings and wood
block prints by Way Lane Choi,
on view in the print gallery of
the Division of Graphic Arts,
Smithsonian Building, through
March 80, display an interesting
fusion of Chinese and Occi-
dental forms and influences.
Born in Canton, China tl916),
the artist came to the United
States in his mid teens. He
studied art at the Boston Mu-
scum School, New York Art
Students League and the Chi
cago Academy of Fine Arts. At
the age of 81. he began to make
wood engravings inspired by
modern English engravers,
whose craftsmanship he adj
nnired. His subjects were roofA
tops. alleys and other urban
themes which provided unusual
shapes and textures. Gradually.
however, his work took a quasi
Surrealist direction with robot
like figures, traplike structures
and war-littered landscapes.
Examples Of the two theme
groups are on view, done in
black and white engravings.
with careful attention to tex
lures and craftsmanship.
Mr.. Choi served in the Amer
ican Army from 1943 to '46,
two years Of which he spent in
the China Burma Indian the
ater of operations. At intervals
during this period, he was able
to renew his early contacts
with Eastern culture and made
q particular study Of Chinese
calligraphy.
Evening star., 1952-03-23
Stanley VestoI Gives Dodge City Its Due
In This ZestfuI Piece Of Americana
QUEEN OF COWToWNs: DODGE CITY
BY Stanley Vestal. Harper; $780,

Reviewed by Hornett 7. Kane
Author Of Gentlemen, Swords and Ptstolsl"
Evening star., 1952-04-20
G. O.. P. Delegate Race Norrows Down

played an important role in some
past G. o. P. conventions by the tim
ing of their decisions. That State
already has chosen its 10 delegates
at large, at least half of whom are
said to be waiting to see which way
the Governor goes.
A week ago an Associated Press
tabulation of Republican delegates
who have indicated preference
gave Taft 202, Eisenhower 81 and
StaSSen 81.
Gen. Eisenhower piled up the i'm
preSsive lead of 158, 900 in New Jer-
sey. His popular vote totaled 385, ITO.
giving him at least 81 of the 38 dele
gates. Senator Taft's vote was 226,-
512 and he got at least four delegates.
Mr.. Stassen received only 23,029
votes and one delegate. Two dele
gates were listed as undecided.
Present Delegate Strength
The New Jersey balloting brought
Taft up to at least 206. Eisenhower
to 118 and StaSsen to %.
If Gen. Eisenhower gets IS or more
of the New York delegation this week
he will climb over the 200 mark and
right on the heels of Senator Taft.
The following week Eisenhower
forces will be looking hopefully to
Massachusetts,, when it selects 38
delegates on April %. But a week
later, on May 6, Senator Taft is ex-
pected to be the chief beneficiary
when his home State picks 56 dele
gates.
Thus, the pendulum will swing,
first toward one and then the other
of the two leading contenders, but
even when all of the primaries are
over there probably will be enough
uncommitted delegates to keep the
Republican race in doubt until they
begin to answer the roll call at the
convention.
Evening star., 1952-04-20
By Belmont Fories

ing the next three years. This was
considerably more business than he
had bargained for. but he said he
hoped something might come of it.
American officials were sure nothing
would.
Edmund Won Henke of Chicago,
who said he was looking for metal
working machinery, was named with
Mr.. Vickery to the permanent COM
mittee. Other Americans took no
prominent part in the proceedings.
VlP Treatment
Big names or not, all the delegates
got the big-shot treatment. They
were quartered at the de luxe new
Sovietskaya Hotel. Fleets of autos
were available to speed them to Mos
cows Trade Union House. There the
Hall OF Columns was equipped like
United Nations assembly room.
Seated at blond birch desks, dele
gates could plug in earphones for
running translations in any of six
languages.
One of the things they heard was
a grandiose Soviet offer of $75 to $40
billion in trade with capitalist coun-
tries in the next two or three years.
Mihail Nesterov, president of the
Soviet Chamber of Commerce. out
lined a detailed country-by country
plan.
Gosh or Barter
Russia, he said, was interested in
either cash or barter deals. The
Soviet Union would take payment in
local currency It would spend the
proceeds in the country of origin
Such deals held out the prospect
of increased employment for Western
industry, improved foreign trade bal
ances and easing of dollar deficit
troubles. There was only one little
difficulty-those Western restrictions
on trade. Mr.. Nesterov made it clear
that all forms of discrimination, in
Guiding the ban on shipments of war
materials to Red China, must be re-
nounced.
II Russia was blufhng, the bluff was
not likely to be called. Western ex-
perts doubted that the Soviet Union
could roduce the large quantities Oh
Evening star., 1952-04-20
Nostalgia for Stevenson Co|ors Tribute to Hartman

of honor was deeply touched when
he responded. Averell Hartman had
come long way from the days when
as an eight-goal player with the
famous Meadowbrook polo four, along
with Devereaux Milburn, Tommy
Hitchcock and Winston Guest. Then.
as 24-year-old vice president of the
Union Pacific, he was considered a
dilettante in business as he was to be
considered in his initial contributions
to public service. He was thought of
as the heir of the man whom an
earlier Roosevelt called "a malefactor
of great wealth."
Still the athlete in appearance,
looking far younger than his go years.
his brow shining with moisture the
paeanS of praise had brought to it,
he stepped to the microphones.
Nothing he said would indicate
that he considered himself a candi-
date for what politicians term "the
greatest honor within the gift of the
party" He spoke slowly, as if with
great effort. He was properly uncom-
plimentary in what he said about the
Republicans, and what he said was
well received. But. as a speaker,
Hartman is apt to remind listener
little of DR.. Samuel Johnson's re-
mark about a woman preaching.
johnson said it was like dog walk
ing on its hind legs. It is not done
well; but you are surprised to find
1t done at all"
Stevenson Wos Mobbed
It was Gov. Stevenson who was
mobbed by the autograph seekers
after the dinner. Kefauver and Har-
riman had no difficulty in making
their way out of the room. But Sen
ator Benton of Connecticut had to
run interference for the Illinois Gov
ernor to get him through the crowd.
Hope you change your mind" was
the constant remark he heard over
his shoulder as he headed for the
elevator
One Democrat stalwart completely
blocked his path.
Governor" he said, Il just want
to ask you one question. What's more
important. being Governor of Illinois
or President of the United States?"
THE latter" said Stevenson. But
I have lot of people in Illinois to
take care Of"
Then he disappeared. One senti-
mental diner was moved to quote
Whittier's Maud Muller:
OF all sad Uords of tongue or pen,
The Saddest are these: ut might
haUe been."
Evening star., 1952-04-20

President and you will go over big
Now" said Stevenson, II propose
to send this letter to Mrs. Roosevelt
with the respectful comment that I
think it an excellent idea, but after
all this is Leap Year."
After that, he had them eating out
of his hand. He even got away with
considering the possibility of defeat.
Rather we lose this election" he
said. than mislead the people by
representing as simple what is in
fnitely complex. by representing as
safe what is infinitely precarious.
For there are no painless solutions
to war, imitation, communism, i'm
perialisrn, hunger, fear, intolerance.
and all the hard. stubborn problems
that beset us.
And no living American knows
more about them, or has given more
wisdow, patience and relentless ef-
fort to their solution, at home and
abroad during the whole span of
these two great decades, than great
Democrat, your guest of honor,
Averell Hartman"
1t was plain to see that the guest
Evening star., 1952-04-20

Russia's drive for increased for
eign trade is not likely to pay off
in strategic materials, but it appar-
emily has hit a propaganda jackpot.
The 5000 million in deals worked
out at the recent Moscow Economic
Conference will amount to lot less
than that in actual deliveries. Very
little of value to the Red war po-
3 tential is likely to get through the
Vests close screening of shipments
to the Soviet bloc. Nevertheless, from
a Soviet point of view. the con-
ference was great success.
The Russians had no difficulty
in convincing All delegates from
40 nations that they really wanted
more trade. New sources of machin-
cry and raw materials must be found
if the industrialiZation of the satel-
lites is to continue at its present
pace Despite loopholes, the Vests
strategic blockade has been tight
enough to hurt.
Economic Logic
All the economic logic is on the
side of greater interchange Of goods
between East and West. No real
solution to Europe's problems is likely
to be worked out without it. Euro
pean governments have blocked trade
channels reluctantly, acting only be-
cause of fear of Soviet aggression.
Some have been kept in line only
by the threat of withdrawal of Amer
ican aid.
Unemployment in the Netherlands,
Belgium, Italy. West Germany and
in Britain's textile industry gave
the Russians another talking point.
Soviet trade offers we're skillfully tai
lored to meet each country's needs.
Similar proposals were made to
Asiatic and Latin American nations.
During the conference the Soviet
propagandists practiced an unaccus-
toned moderation. Rules of proce-
dure were designed to bar political
discussions or attacks on other
economic systems. All the more un-
usual. nobody made point of order
when an American, Oliver Vickery of
San Francisco, boosted free enter
prise.
Although the United States, as
chief sponsor of the strategic goods
ban. was obviously the target, Com
Evening star., 1952-04-20

Fresh from their victory in New
Jersey last week. the hackers OF Gen.
Eisenhower for the Republican preSi-
dental nomination are looking for
ward to their biggest prize in New
York Tuesday.
The Empire State has 96 delegates
and, with Gov. Dewey in his corner,
the general is expected to corral most
of them On Tuesday only the 80
district delegates will be elected.
Later, six delegates at large will be
chosen.
Taft managers have been predict
ing the Ohio Senator will get 20
votes from the New York delegation.
get more than 8 OF 10.
Cop May Close
If Gen. Eisenhower gets IS or more
of New York's big contingent. he and
Senator Taft will be running almost
neck and neck for the first time. Each
would then have a few more than
200 convention votes among dele
gates whose positions have become
known unofficially
This, however, accounts for only
third of the 1,205 delegates who
will assemble in Chicago July to
nominate the Republican ticket.
It also means each of the leaders
has only about a third of the 603
convention votes required to win the
nomination.
Pennsylvania Picks so
Pennsylvania also will select so of
it's 10 delegates Tuesday, but the
situation in that State is not as clear
as in New York. The only outright
contest between Taft and Eisenhower
delegates is for the eight seats from
Allegheny County Pittsburgh). All
the others are running on an unin-
structed basis.
In addition to picking their district
delegates, PennSylvanians will have
Evening star., 1952-04-20

There was considerably less enthu-
slasm for the proposal in London.
Othclals pointed out that Britain was
checking export licenses for China
against a United Nations list of war
materials. All metals and most
chemicals were on the list. AS for
textiles, warehouses in Hong Kong
were full Of them. The Chinese could
have all they wanted without long
distance negotiating in Moscow.
Most of the deals made by the
British with Russia and the Eastern
european countries are likely to come
to very little for similar reason. All
OF the NATO members have official
lists Of strategic materials. Most of
the goods the Russians are asking
for will be on the NATO lists.
Not AIwoys Obvious
To the responsible British Official.
the Importance of keeping strategic
materials out of Russian hands is
obvious. But it may not be so OBJ
Vlous to the unemployed mill worker.
who sees big deal in textiles blocked
because of a tie-in with strategic
machinery.
Politics may take hand. too. The
Bevanite wing of the resurgent Labor
Party has long favored more trade
with Eastern Europe and less depend.
ence on the United States.
In Western Germany, the For
eign Policy Committee of the Federal
Bundestag has demanded restoration
OF trade with the Soviet bloc. In
other countries pressure for doing
more business with the Reds is in
creaSing.
The Russians could ask no better
propaganda setup for weakening
Western unity. They can be de-
pended on to make the most of it.
Next step will be a request to the
United Nations for the calling of an
international conference to study
ways Of easing trade restrictions.
Should that fail, the conferences own
permanent committee will carry on
the fight.
More trade. more jobs, more pay
that's hard slogan to buck. It looks
a little as If the Reds have us behind
the propaganda eight-bau. 4
Evening star., 1952-04-20

was just about the same as that
which had greeted his introduction.
Vice President Barkley received a
fine ovation. It was impossible to
tell whether it was a tribute to the
Office, the man or the candidate.
ModeStly. he devoted his talk to
praising Hartman: "All he has ever
asked is, How can I serve my
country?'"
Stond Up for Stevenson
When Gov. Stevenson was intro
duced, some of the diners stood up
to applaud. None had stood for Sem
ator KefauveD. He vowed them
with his opening:
Il think" he said, that have the
answer to all of our perplexities here
tonight. I found this letter on my
desk just before I left Springfield,
ILL.,, this afternoon:
Honorable Gov. Stevenson,
"'Sir,
"'You should marry Mrs. Franklin
D. Roosevelt and you should run for
the presidential nomination and put
Mrs. Roosevelt on the ticket for Vice
Evening star., 1952-04-20

grain, timber. coal and machinery
needed to pay for the purchases it
proposed.
But there was no chance for a
major relaxation of Western re-
strictions. Russia obviously had the
resources to finance all the imports it
could hope to get through the block
ade.
While Mr.. Nesterov spoke in gilt
tering generalities, members of the
various delegations were getting down
to cases. British businessmen were
by far the most active, making ar
langements with Russia, China, Ro-
mania and East Germany for deals
totaling $50 million.
0stentotious Deoling
Biggest of these was a deal with
Red China for total of $50 million
in trade by the end of this year.
Under it British textiles, chemicals
and metals were to be exchanged for
Chinese coal. eggs and agricultural
products. Seven members of the
British delegation decided to con-
tinue on to Peiping to work out the
details.
Evening star., 1952-04-20

things up. He was fanked, as he
spoke, by Senator Lehman and Mr..
Hartman. Both these gentlemen are
former members of banking houses
which have added to the fame of
certain thoroughfare in downtown
New York-Lehman Bros. and Brown
Bros. Hartman, respectively. But
young Mr.. Roosevelt did not bat an
eye as he opined that the people
would never allow the Republican
Party to return the Government to
Wall Street.
One by One
Senator Kerr was the first of the
candidates to speak. A tall. power
fully built man, he thundered Wig
OrouS message of another Demo-
cratic victory to come.
Senator Mcmahon, whose voice
has great production capabilities.
was almost equally vigorous His
selling talk was that the atomic
stockpile and atomic weapons will
mean security and, in time, less
military appropriations. He is, as
it happens, chairman of the Joint
Committee on Atomic Energy.
America does not want leaders
who rattle the saber on Monday and
vote to cut vital defense appropria-
tions on Tuesday," he said.
Then came Senator Kefauver's
turn. He was given a bit of an
ovation. But he read his speech in
a fiat voice and failed to get the
applause which usually can be OBJ
tanned at Democratic rallies in the
metropolis by mention of the men
the city has given to the party in
recent years. He called them the
Four Horsemen, ALFRED E. Smith.
Robert F. Wagner, Herbert H. Leh-
man and Franklin D. Roosevelt"
The applause at the end of his talk
Evening star., 1952-04-20
By George Kennedy

The dinner for Averell Hartman
in New York last Thursday night was
probably the greatest beauty contest
in the history of American politics.
But it seemed quite obvious to those
of us who watched it that none of
the candidates for the Democratic
presidential nomination wholly sue
ceeded in infatuating the politicos of
the audience into undying devotion.
1t was sort of addition. The can
didateS had come to sing the praises
of the Mutual Security Administrator
each in the hope of personally
capturing the admiration of the
crowd by his charm, tact and vocal
qualities. With the exception of
Russell of Georgia, about all the
possible candidates were there. And
they all made speeches. Barkley OF
Kentucky. Mcmahon of Connecticut.
Kerr of Oklahoma, Kefauver of Ten
neSsee and Hartman himself
they all did their best. But there
wasn't any doubt about it: The
man who rang the loudest bell that
night was the man who had de-
clared himself out of the race the
day before, Stevenson of Illinois.
When it was all over, as had been
anticipated the As New York State
county chairmen indorsed Mr.. Har-
riman as their States candidate for
the Democratic nomination. Sen
ator Lehman went so far as to insist
this was mot a gesture or a holding
operation" New York, he said. would
make an all-out effort to get Mr..
Hartman on the ticket. Maybe so.
But that was not exactly the feeling
one got at the dinner. There the
atmosphere suggested only that the
politicos we're feeling pretty nostalgia
about Stevenson, and were left
pretty much at loose ends by his
withdrawal.
1t Wos q Show
Anyway, it was a show: in the
longest memories in the assembled
throng, there had been nothing quite
like it before. Like high-school boys
at the senior oratorical contest, these
Would-be Presidents stood up one by
one and did their Stints. To fit the
television schedule, they were limited
to r-and-a-half minutes each.
The scene was the grand ballroom
of the Waldorf Astoria, and it was
decked for the occasion.
New York, which does not have as
many Federal civil servants as Wash
ington, does not attempt to compete
with the Capital in attendance at
these $100 dinners. The Waldorf ball
room seats 1000 for dinner. The at
tendance of $1O0 paying guests was
about 1000. Here they get 5000.
The dinner started off on a some
what gloomy note in the prayer by
the Most Rev. Joseph F. Flannelly,
Auxiliary Bishop of the Roman Cath
olic Archdiocese of New York: Press
ing is our need for Thy blessing at
this moment, because we are prodigal
children who have left our Fathers
house Dark days have overtaken
us. the night of sin and shame, of
guilt and fear, of hatred and wars,
has descended on U.S."
Franklin D. Roosevelt, jr., the
POSTMASTER, moved quickly to cheer
Evening star., 1952-04-20

to exercise our best judgment as to
how to reach sound solution in the
interests of both parties to dispute"
Mr.. AcheSon said when asked for an
explanation at his Wednesday news
conference 1T seems to us that the
sound way to proceed here is to give
time for the French authorities and
the TuniSian authorities to discuss,
negotiate. and find solution"
He pointed out that if they can't
do that another situation is created"
and I'VE can always reconsider"
whether it is the appropriate time
for the Security Council to take up
the problem. In other words, the
United States has not said never"
1t has merely said mot now
Back of his decision, although he
did not say so explicitly, was a con-
viction that Security Council airing
of the problem would only make mat
ters worse and delay any settlement.
France has insisted she would not
negotiate at all with the Tunisians
under U. N. pressure. And the Tu-
niSian nationaliStS could be expected
to drag their feet even if the French
did enter negotiations, hoping to
better their bargaining position in
the U. N. if their complaint was put
ON the agenda.
Powerful Lever
The State Department isn't talking
at all about another important fac
tor. This is that the abStentlon in
the Security Council vote gives the
United States powerful lever for
increased pressure on the French to
move ahead with their TuniSian re-
form plan.
Undoubtedly this Government has
made clear to the French that it has
put itself on the spot before world
public opinion and must insist that
France make good on its promises
to give the TuniSians home
rule. The world hasn't been told
this for fear of wounding French
pride and stirring resentment against
such pressure.
France now has agreed to set up
a mixed French-TuniSian commits
sion 70 start negotiations April "a.
The plan is that the commission will
have seven French and seven Tu-
nisian members The latter are to
represent all shades of TuniSian
opinion. But chances of the Tunisian
nationallStS' agreeing to Cooperate
in the commission appear slim.
French Have PIon
American officials have not ex-
pressed Judgment on the French re-
form plan, except to say that it ap-
pears to offer basis for negotia-
tionS.
The program calls for two-cham-
Der legislature, entirely Tunisian.
for handling all internal matters ex-
cept financial France would retain
equal representation in deciding
financial matters because of its 40
per cent contribution to the Tunisian
budget.
Administrative posts within Tuni-
sia would be reserved entirely for
Tunlsians. Some ministries would
be turned over to Tunisian direction
Immediately. The French propose to
retain control of public instruction
and public works for five years. Ma
tional defense and foreign affairs
would remain under French control
Indefinitely. r