Evening star., 1953-09-15
He Talks Back to the Russians
By Donald MfchoeI Rouh

cation TO the United Nations, AM
bassador Henry Cabot Lodge, jr., has
locked horns on a. number of occasions
with RuSsia'S Andrei VishinSky, man
with a monumental gift of CAB. In
most Of their forensic roundelays the
former Republican Senator from Mas
SachuSettS has made the Splenetic
Kremlin lawyer look like a callow high
school debater.
Take for example his recent stinging
rebuttal to the Soviet representatives
threat to boycott the U. N. political con-
ference on South Korea. Declared
Ambassador Lodge:
mo filibustering, pettifogging and
hairsplitting on how we of the free
world have decided to set up our own
side will fool any one, and the world
will place the responsibility right where
it belongs-and am not pointing to
Sir Gladwyn Jebb (the British repre-
sentative).
ITO paraphrase an old American
saying, the Soviet representative, when
he talked about a master race in
America, missed another one of several
great opportunities in his life to keep
quiet"
Ambassador Lodge has not wasted
his caustic ripoSteS on Mr.. ViShinSky.
Last March, when. Russian Delegate
Andrei Gromyko accused the American
Army of committing atrocities in-Korea,
the Gibraltar-like Mr.. Lodge excited
spontaneous applause when he an
swered the charge with cutting sar-
casm:
1.-THE United States Army you seek
to smear is the same United States
Army which stood behind the Russian
Army to defeat the NaZis in Europe.
The United States Army was good
enough for you in 1912. 1943, 1914 and
1945. 1t would be the same today had
not the policies of the Soviet govern
ment so tragically changed
Suave as tradition dictates dip
lomat ought to be, Mr.. Lodge-like
his no-nonsense predecessor Warren
Austin-can rise to towering heights of
dignity whenever the need crops up to
exercise the political sophistry prop
agated by the Soviet delegation. Young
looking as he is-Ambassador Lodge Is
53-he presents an imposing figure in
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Guignol histrionics frequently provoke
as much mirth as gravity among the
delegates.
Once, when Mr.. ViShinsky had
harangued the U. N. for hours and Is
minutes in a bombastic attempt to dis
credit the Americana plan for
atomic control, Ambassador Lodge took
the floor and demanded to know
whether the Russian delegate was
frightened, and suggested bitterly that
Mr.. Vishinsky stop being "conspiratorial
and childish" The face of the raffish
Russian turned brick red.
The job of chief American delegate
to the international assembly, which
places him head of about 200 delegates,
advisers, technicians and clerical work.
erS, has assumed even more Importance
today in the Eisenhower administration
than in the late Democratic setup.
Where former u. N. Ambassador War
rem Austin functioned chiefly as an
implementer of foreign policy, Mr..
Lodge is one of the Republican admin
istration's principal advisers in the
formulation as well as the conduct of
American foreign policy
Ambassador Lodge, unlike Mr.. Austin,
has been invited to attend cabinet
meetings every Friday, the first time
permanent representative to the U. N
has had inside contact with the White
House.
Mr.. Lodges experience in foreign af-
fairs is considerable. His grandfather,
Henry Cabot Lodge, ST., was a member
of the Senate Foreign Relations Com
IN oIyoi ,ictr
Young Lodge followed in his grand
fathers footsteps two decades later on
the same committee.
After finishing Harvard. young Lodge
worked for eight years as newspaper
man with the Boston Transcript and
the New York Herald Tribune, both as
a Washington correspondent and a
writer in international affairs.
He was the first United States Sen
ator to enter military service since the
Civil War when he took leave of his
Senate seat in World War II. When
he resumed his place in the upper
chamber Mr.. Lodge, member of the
liberal wing of the Republican Party,
identified himself with the late Senator
Vandenberg, with whom he collabo-
rated closely to build bipartiSanShip for
such programs as Greek-Turkish aid,
the Marshall Plan and the North At
lantic Treaty Organization.
Ambassador Lodge was among the
first Republicans to back Gen. Eisen-
hover for the presidency and served
as his campaign manager after his
nomination. When Mr.. Lodge was de-
feated for reelection by Massachu-
sets young John Kennedy, he was re-
warded with the U. N. ambassadorial
post by President Eisenhower. He had
previously served in the U. N. as mem
ber of the United States delegation along
with fellow Republicans Warren Austin
and John Foster Dulles.
Sometimes imperious of manner.
Mr.. Lodge refused to shake hands
with Russian Delegate Vishinsky at
the opening of the General Assembly
earlier this year. When pressed by