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Porker- Higdon
Mrs. Clarence Leroy Parker
announces the engagement Of
her daughter Jane Montgomery
to Mr.. Maurice Anthony Higdon.
SON Of Mrs. Paul Bernard Higdon
Of Easton, Pa. and the late Mr..
Higdon. Miss Parker Is the
daughter Of the late Mr.: Parker
Of Washington.
The bride-elect attended Sid
well Friends School and George
Washington University. Mr..
Higdon attended st. Mary's of
Royal Oak, Mich. and st.
Francis Seminary Of Cincinnati,
Ohio. The wedding will take
place June 10.
Kelly conor
MFR. and Mrs. Francis j. Kelly
announce the engagement of
their daughter Carolyn to Mr..
]. Russell O'Conor, son Of Mrs.
Justin v. O'Conor and the late
Mr.. O'Conor.
The bride-elect was gradu-
ated from immaculate Seminary
and Georgetown Visitation jun
ior College. Her fiance was grad
uated from Archmere Academy
In Wilmington. Del. and at
tended Mount Saint Mary's Col
lege.
Hobbs Wilson
Capt. Allen Hobbs. U.S.N. re-
tired. and Mrs. Hobbs announce
the engagement Of their daughter
Helen to Cadet Charles Everett
Wilson. He is the son Of Maj.
Gen. Roscoe Charles Wilson,
U.S.A.F. and Mrs. Wilson. Gen.
Wilson is the Commandant of
the Air War College, Maxwell
Air Force Base, Montgomery. Ala.
The wedding win take place on
June 10.
The bride-elect Is a graduate
Of Sidwell Friends School and
Penn Hall Junior College. She
will be graduated from the Uni
versity OF Pennsylvania In June.
Cadet Wilson was also graduated
from Sidwell Friends School and
will be graduated from the
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Engaged

Mr.. and Mrs. Henry B. Ajello
announce the engagement of
their daughter Helen Louise to
Mr.. Robert Edward Allgaier, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. John A. Allgaier
Of Belmont, Mass.
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MilIer-Riee
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert c. Miller
Of Indian Head, Md. announce
the engagement of their daughter
Yvonne Lorraine to Mr.. David G..
Rice, son of DR.. Carl E. Rice
and the late Mrs. Lois Rice,
formerly of Chevy Chase, Md.
The wedding will take place
in June.
Blackwell Mckenzie
Mr.. and Mrs. Warren A. Black
well of Bethesda announce the
engagement Of their daughter
Virginia Ann to Mr.. Donald K.
Mckenzie, son of the Rev. and
Mrs. Alexander Mckenzie Of
Tampa, Fla, formerly of Hough-
ton, N. Y.
The bride-elect is attending
Bob Jones University. Mr.. Nc
Kenzie attended George WASH
ington University.
Dykstro- Stevenson
Mr.. and Mrs. r. P. Dykstra
of Baton Rouge. La, and Ar
lington announce the engage
ment of their daughter Janet
Marie to Mr.. Willard D. Steven
son, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Willard
j. Stevenson of Pocomoke City.
Md.
Miss Dykstra is attending the
University of Maryland, where
Mr.. Stevenson received his Mas
ter's Degree in Agricultural
Economics last month. A June
wedding is planned.
Rich-Kohn
Announcement is made by Mr.
and Mrs. Max Rich Of the en-
gagement of their daughter Syl-
via Edith to Mr.. Jack Kahn. son
nf Mr. and Mrs Charles Kahn
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Rich-Kohn

Announcement is made by Mr..
and Mrs. Max Rich Of the en-
gagement of their daughter Syl-
via Edith to Mr.. Jack Kahn. son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Kahn.
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Fletcher Knebel
Potomac Fever

Senate Democrats outlaw the Communist Party.
Democrats have had sneakng
that there something they weren't mad enough They've
got a bunch now it may have been communism.
Ike reports that the business decline has been halted
People have back tired sitting
home waiting for times the Republicans claimed
they
Democratic Headquarters claims the main Republican
is payoh to big business" Well that's Improvement
Under the Democrats the only paid on be
appointed tax collector.
Republican
defense policy AS Teddy Roosevelt used Speak ofy
and carry bailiwck."
Soviet Premier Malenkov women "overnnodes"
For instance the only saples evening
Is to show how little they have left after taxes.
Ike entertans his cabinet in the Catocn Mountains Of
Maryland Republicans have learned to love the outdoors
they usually spend much time out than in
Library of Congress staff bols down Counsel jenkins
00000word summary Of the hearings to
10000 words AS digest has been made of the
densation of the the final will read Cohn out
Mccarthy safe. Stevens left on base"
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Thomas [. Stokes
Herbert Hoover Back on Stump
President of Depression Times Will Be Big Gun
For Republicans in Forthcoming Elections

administration. though per-
haps that was unknown to
those who had arranged for
WILDER M. Brucker Of the De-
Tense Department to repre-
sent the administration at the
event when Vice President
Nixon was unable to go. as
originally planned.
Mr.. Brucker was Governor
Of Michigan during the 1882
presidential campaign. Some
Of us can remember the De-
troit appearance Of Mr.. Hoo
yer, some of us who we're in
the campaigns newspaper en-
tourage. We went to Detroit
from New York where, In his
Madison Square Garden
speech, Mr.. Hoover had fore
cast that grass would grow in
the streets II Democrats won
the election.
Gov. Brucker met President
Hoover at the station the night
the special train arrived. The
party was detained for some
time in the station until
mounted police could disperse
a shouting, jeering mob that
had gathered outside in a
demonstration that was repre-
sented as staged by Com
munists. From that noisy
affair we rode in q parade
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through caverns Of ominous
quiet-throngs along the street
which stood grimly silent ex-
cept for an occasional ur1-
complimentary shouted re-
mark. It was an ugly, eerie
experience, luckily relieved
eventually when we got to the
hall packed with loyal, bois-
ferrous Republicans where the
President made his speech.
That whole campaign was an
ordeal for Herbert Hoover that
he endured resolutely.
Fortunately, all Of that now
is long behind Mr.. Hoover and
all Of us. It is hard to under
stand those times unless you
lived through them. It is even
difficult to recapture the feel of
the era that followed, the
exuberant activity here in
Washington to get ourselves
out of depression and the
gradual change from gloom to
buoyancy among our people as
we rebuilt our economy under
the direction Of Mr.. Hoover's
successor in the White House.
To listen now to Mr.. Hoover,
who was not here when that
was going on, it all sounds like
something entirely different
from what we saw.
His view will be his contribu-
ton to the campaign.
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Dovid Lawrence
Talking to Press Demands Tact
Harm Pory and Foreign Policy Seenin News Conferences
Giving Eisenhower No Time to Prepare Studied Answers

no assurance in each and
every case of White House
assistance.
1t isn't clear at all whether
the President is backing away
from support Of all nominees
of the Republican Party and
means to be choosy about
those who don't entirely sup
port his program. thus prefer
ring to let some Democratic
nominees win. This could con-
ceivably mean a Democratic
Congress if the voting is close.
What seemed worst of all
at the press conference was the
revelation that the President
and his principal assistant,
former Gov. Sherman Adams
Of New Hampshire. are not
working as closely together as
might be imagined. The Presi-
dent was asked about the
statement by Mr.. Adams on a
television program implying
that the President might not
run again in 1856. Gen. Eisen-
hover replied that he didn't
know why any member of his
staff was saying these things,
that Gov. Adams had never
2 spoken about it to him nor
had any one else on his staff.
He did say they had a right to
speculate, but that whatever
facts Mr.. Adams had he
wished he would give them to
the President. for he (Mr. Eli
senhower) had none.
If this were the first time
Mr.. Adams. had discussed the
subject publicly, it might be
surprising, but he has made
previous speeches on that sub
ject. One would think by this
time the President and his
assistant would have had a
heart-to-heart talk about the
danger Of raising doubts inside
the Republican Party as to
whether it is to have the bene-
fit Of Gen. Eisenhower's leader
ship in a second term. It is
conceded that politically-and
especially in Congressany
doubt about running for a
second term materially weak
ems an incumbent President.
Caution at press conferences
or. perhaps better, briefings
for the President ahead of
time-might spare the Repub-
lican Party q lot of headaches.
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Dorothy Thompson
Russio Profits,by y. S. Errors.
Red Diplomatic Successes Attributed to inadequate
Analysis BY Us Before Making lmpetuous Moves

popular. as we knew when
we took IT'D that those who
do not advance too far are
not compelled to retreat so
far; that power spread too
widely is power frittered; that
not the first but the final
rounds Of boxing matches win
or lose decisions: and that it
Is better to keep ones OPP
pOnentS guessing about what
one might do than to hand
them the diplomatic weapons
with which to Illustrate what
one loudly announces one is
going to do, and without
accurately assessing who or
what in the long run are
likely to be reliable or useful
partners in the undertakings.
The Soviet diplomatic of
fensive holds deadly dangers
becauSe-we regret to say-it
is formidably intelligent. But
We have made it relatively easy
for the Soviets to be intelli-
gent. Theirs is the offensive
Of a chess player who already
knows his opponents game
and has measured his capac-
ity for surprise moves. They
conduct their diplomacy rather
like they conducted the war:
First let the enemy take q
lot of paWns, expose himself
on many fronts. and then take
the offensive where he is most
vulnerable. and when he
seems to be winning but Is
overextended.
In forthcoming columns we
will try to analyze the strength
and weakness of the Soviet
offensive as expressed in the
last note. But we doubt that
we will change our opinion
that Soviet diplomatic sue
cesses are chiefly attributable
to inadequate American intel
lectual analysis in advance Of
impetuous moves that seem to
be thought up by public re-
lations counselors rather than
by responsible statesmen.
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Alliance police closed out the
case of the disappearing corpse
yesterday.
They investigated after fright
ened motorists reported q dead
man lying in the road, and ar
rested four 18-year-old prank
Sters.
The youths. said police, fash
Toned and clothed a straw man
and put it on the highway with
q rope attached. When any
startled motorist stopped, the
boys jerked the dummy away.
Sebring Mayor j. w. Hopes
Jerked them into jail for 80 days
and fined them $50.
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On July Is the Soviet gov
eminent addressed q note to
France with copies to Great
Britain and the United States.
simultaneously inviting all
three to a new enlarged con-
ference to draft q treaty en-
bodying the principles and
procedures proposed in the
note.
Since these amount in bare
" yelled terms to excluding
the United States from the
Eastern Hemisphere and con-
tanning the United States as
e world power. the proposal
will not be rejected here as
the Soviets certainly antici-
pated.
The note, however, is not
aimed at influencing the
American Government and
people but those Of other
countries. It's purpose Is to
put the United States in the
position Of being a potential
aggresSor and menace to
peace; to call for q quarantine
Of the United States by coll
lective security system Of over
whelmingly superior force, and
thus exactly reversing the poll
Icy beginning with Churchills
Fulton speech, followed by
President Truman's contain
ment policy. and enhanced by
the present administration.
We wish we could agree that
the note and those that pre-
coded it are just Soviet "propa-
ganda." One of our diplomatic
weaknesses is to attribute our
own political defects to our OPP
ponentS. One such defect is
to make policy subservient to
propaganda instead Of the
other way around. Another is
that American foreign policy
must continually be submitted
to poll Of Congress and pub
lie opinion. It must be sold"
at home before it can be i'm
plemented abroad. 1T must.
therefore, be popular whether
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or not it is possible or wise.
Since presenting unpleasant
facts or admitting failures or
errors is never popular; since
it is all but impossible to con-
duct q saleSmanSlip campaign
for several alternate policies
to deal with various possible
Developments: and since it is
difficult to unsell a policy once
it has been effectively put
across, American foreign policy
however boldly and adventur-
ously started tends to harden
in its tracks even when events
are overtaking it.
That has been happening in
the past year. And now at a
time when those responsible
for American policy-and des-
tiny-lnust think fast, and
above all think, they are
paralyzed by their own prop
uganda about American power
and world leadership. by the
disposition of their own for
eign service officials not to
stick their neckS out lest their
heads be chopped Of, and by
calculations of the oncoming
congressional elections.
Such factors have always
made it difficult for the
United States to pursue any
successful foreign policy but
one: NeutralitypoWer which
is uncommitted in advance
but fairly certain to be used
if Haunted beyond an un-
defined point. This policy in
the past has encouraged
other nations to WOO us in
stead of treating us as q
wealthy sutton to be exploited
and then possibly rejected.
At the same time American
power in reserve has been
moderated or miscalculated
by other states to their own
undoing as everybody, includ-
ing the Russians. has, we hope,
learned during two wars.
It has been the position Of
this column (not currently
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-13
David Lawrence

Presidential press confer
ences are getting no better
in fact, they are doing in
creased harm not only to the
President and the Republican
Party but also to the influence
abroad of the foreign policies
Of the United States.
. Unfortunately much of the
damage is done because some-
times the President isn't told
the full story behind the
questions fired at him.
Thus this week Gen. Eisen-
hover was asked about re-
current suggestions that the
United States sever diplomatic
relations with Soviet Russia.
and he was told that the most
recent one came for Gen. Mark
Clark. The fact was that the
general was q witness before
the Senate Rules Committee
on other subjects, and Senator
Jenner of Indiana, chairman,
read to him a resolution, in
troduced by himself and SEN
ator McCarran Of Nevada.
which would simply express
the sense of the Senate that
It would be desirable for the
United States to sever diplo-
matte relations with Soviet
Russia and the satellite gov
erfments. Gen. Clark was
asked what he thought about
1t. and he replied briefly that,
If he were a member Of the
Senate, he would vote for 1t.
Now, Gen. Eisenhower ut his
press conference was not told
that fact nor was he told that
q committee Of nine members
of the House of Representa-
tives, both Republicans and
Democrats, had just filed q
report unanimously recon-
mending that the President
convene an international con-
ference to seek agreement with
our allies on the severance Of
all diplomatic relations and
the termination of all trade
with the Communist countries.
This committee has been tax
ing testimony in Europe and
elsewhere for several months
from persons Of prominence
who have escaped from the
Communist regime and who
are In a position to tell Amer
leans how influential such q
policy would be In encourag-
ing the peoples behind the
Iron. Curtain.
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Thief Cun't HondIe
Whisky Anymore

70 W
The thief who took IS half
pints and six fifths of whisky
from the Giuliani Liquor store.
2159 P street NV. last night
doesn't seem to be able to handle
the stuff any more.
Within 80 minutes after the
theft was reported, Police Pvt.
c., E. Brown found 40 of the
half-pints and one fifth in two
sacks about a block away. Owner
Giuseppe Giu1iani, IS. of 591T
Arlington boulevard, said the
store was entered between 9 pm.
last night and am. today.
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Executive Appointed
To New Navy

William Birrell Frank, New
York accounting firm executive,
was nominated by President Eli
senhower late yesterday to DO
Assistant Secretary Of the Navy
for Financial Management.
This is a new position created
by recent legislation.
Mr.. Frank. so, q Republican.
served under the Truman ed.
ministration In 1951-52 as .
special assistant to the Secretary
of Defense. He now Is a partner
in the accounting firm Of Frank.
Harmon and Whitney.
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Thon1os L. Stokes

The top level Of Republican
campaigners for the congress
sional elections will cover q
wide age range from q COM
paratively callow IL - that
would be Vice President Nixon
to a venerable 80-that would
be Herbert Hoover, and with
President Eisenhower sand
WICKED in between.
It has long been known that
the Vice President would carry
a heavy assignment. But the
emergence Of ex-President
Hoover as a big gun in the
campaign is q late develop
ment, though foreshadowed in
q recent, obviously planned
build-up for him. That cul-
minated in his 80th birthday
celebration at his West Branch.
Iowa, birthplace this week.
After his heavy bombardment
of the last two Democratic adj
ininistrations in "a speech on
that occasion, 1t needed only
his own announcement on his
return to New York that he
expected to make some cam
paign speeches to confirm a
more active part for him in
this years campaign than any
since his own futile campaign
for reelection in 1882.
AS q political asset, MIR.
Hoover has come a long way
since that drear March 4.
1882, when he rode down
Pennsylvania avenue to the
Capitol in a car with the In
coming Franklin D. Roosevelt
for the Inauguration of the
latter. The gloom Of the day.
dark skies that spit intermit-
tent cold rain, was matched by
the gloom Of a nation In the
grip of its worst depression,
with breadlines, failing banks,
and foreclosing of mortgages.
That was labeled "the Hoover
depression" by Democrats IN
the election of 1882 and it has
been recalled with that label
in every national election since.
including the one two years
ago. But as a campaign issue
it seemed finally in 1852 to
have been drained Of its orig
inal efficacy-at least Demo-
Gratis lost the election along
with the White House and
Congress.
Now Mr.. Hoover. himself,
has become our elder states
man. It is an interesting
transformation and evidently
Republicans think 1t not only
significant but also potent po-
litically.
An important contributor to
the restoration Of the Hoover
political prestige, aside from
Time. the healer. was-strange-
" enough Democrat. We
refer to former President
Harry S. Truman. He brought
MIR. Hoover back into public
service and the public atten-
ton ernanating therefrom BY
appointing him chairman OF .
special commission to draft
plans for reorganization OF the
Federal Government. q post he
still holds in the Eisenhower
administration.
Herbert. Hoover returned 70
washington for the first. time
since he had left 1t on March
1, 1882. He never set foot
in the city during the II
years that Mr.. Roosevelt was
In the White House. In the
Truman administration he
again became Q familiar figure
here, In and out on the as
signment to which the last
Democratic President had
called him.
At his birthday celebration
this week was Q link with
the troublous days Of his own
n
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But Gen. Eisenhower, with
out going into. the merits Of
this very dificult and compile
Gated question. rejected OFF,
hand any consideration Of it.
He said that If any one would
sit down and study the con-
fiicting considerations objec-
lively and not merely shoot
from the hip on such ques-
tons. they would arrive at q
similar conclusion.
But how do the nine mem
bers Of the House committee
who have spent many months
on this problem feel? Have
they been shooting from the
hip. or has the President him
self been doing that very thing
because he has not been prop
erly briefed on how the mani
festation by him Of a closed
mind on this subject can bring
encouragement to the en-
shaved peoples? Why. did he
have to discuss the question
at all?
In domestic affairs, the Pres
ident also stumbled along at
his press conference, leaving
in its wake antiquities that
cannot possibly do his party
any good. He was asked
whether, in view Of his state
ment in the past that he felt
an obligation to support all
nominees OF the Republican
Party in the congressional
elections, he would give heed
to a protest from Republicans
in New Jersey who want the
regular party nominee, Cliff
ford Case, to withdraw from
the race. Gen. Eisenhower
made a confusing answer. He
said that congratulations he
had made in the past do not
stand up. This might permit
the inference that he was
backing away from his previ-
GUS position. Then he added
that he stood behind the party
nominee. Mr.. Case.
AS q result Of his press-con-
ference information, the New
York Times had a headline
the next day on its front
page: President to Back Own
Candidates, ignoring Fac
tions." Beneath it was an
article saying the President
made it clear that the nom
Eisenhower and anti-Eisen-
hover Republicans could have
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Very Undemocrutic

DENVER, Aug. IS R.-The
management said 1t was sorry,
but a spokesman for Mayor
Quigg Newton had an explana-
ton yesterday when Newton-for-
United States Senator headquar-
tiers moved from the Shirley
Savoy Hotel to the Albany
Hotel.
We've been practically sur
rounded by Republicans" said o
Newton spokesman.
Adjoining Mayor Newton's
former headquarters were offices
of the State Republican organi-
zation, G. O. P. gubernatorial
candidate Donald G. Brotzman
and G.. q. P. Senatorial candi-
date Gordon Allott.
Amt Go No Body
ALLIANCE, Ohio. Aug. 10 up.
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Life in the u. S.
Friday, 18th,
IsLuckyD Day
For This Pair
By the Assoeio,ed Pres.

CHICAGO. Aug 13.-Friday
the 18th may scare of some
superstitious folk, but not Gum
mar w. Erickson and his wife
Lilyan. Here's why:
The day means q birthday
celebration for both Of them.
Gunnar was born August IS,
1904, a Tuesday, and Lilyan on
the same date in 1909, also a
Friday the 18th. He weighed an
even Is pounds.
They were married on Friday,
the 18th of August. 1887, in
Winslow, Ariz., and he enlisted in
the Seabees in World War II on
August Is, 1943, also a Friday.
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picked in the big city. BUT all
he lost was a big roll Of imita-
ton Confederate 500 notes
the Charleston Chamber Of
Commerce is distributing ais .
good will stunt.
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