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Evening star., 1954-04-25

contact" with the eerie side of
the White House.
Its the same thing in all creaky
old houses" she declared. IF
you're prowling around late at
night you get a feeling that some
one is there Old-timers in the
White House are more conscious of
Lincoln than of any other past
President because each room he
used is marked by a plaque. My
own sitting room had been his bed
room. Sometimes when l worked
at my desk late at night Id get
feeling that someone was stand
ing behind me. Sometimes I'd have
to turn around and look"
Mrs. Roosevelt then volunteered
another strange incident.
"One day, Carl Sandburg, a man
stepped in Lincoln lore, dropped in
to the White House for a chat with
Franklin. The poet and the Presi-
dent soon drifted to the subject of
Lincoln, speculating as to which
room he had used to compose GER
tain letters and documents. Mr..
Sandburg said he had always felt
the work had been done in the Oval
Room - so they decided to 90 in
there.
Sandbuxg's Intuition
WHILE Franklin sat meditating
in silence, Sandburg stood quietly
at the window that faces the
Potomac Flats - the very window
where Lincoln often stood during
the Civil War, moodily gazing
toward the front in Virginia. For
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fully ten minutes MIR. Sandburg
looked out into the distance. No
word broke the silence. Then. sud-
denly. he turned around and, with
great finality, said: MIR. President,
this is the room.
The story had an additional un-
canny twist. 1t seems that in the
past half century. several employ
ees have reported seeing Lincoln's
gaunt apparition standing at that
very Oval Room window.
Presidential Spoolxs
AT THIS juncture sent a letter to
James c. Hagerty. press secretary
to President Eisenhower, asking
for the Republican viewpoint on
ectoplasm. While awaiting an
answer, l searched musty library
shelves for reference to supernat-
ural doings in the White House.
There was hair-raising evidence
aplenty.
The memoirs Of Ike Hoover,
Chief Usher Of the White House
for over 40 years, abound with
specters. The household of William
Howard Taft, for instance, was
shaken by ghost scare from cellar
to rafters. 1t was sparked by the
most prolific ghost-glimpser in the
Mansions history, a janitor named
Jerry Smith.
''Old Jerry" as he was called,
had feather-dusted the premises
since the days of Ulysses S. Grant.
He swore the place was haunted
not only by Lincoln but by Grant
and William Henry Harrison twho
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out what terms that enemy will
grant.
It seems incredible that
French public opinion would
sanction any abject surrender
and it is logical to assume
that the new French Premier
knows that too. But what he
is gambling on evidently is
that the Red China premier
will perceive his difficulty and
will give a demonstration OF
fairness which might win
friends in the Western world.
A clever strategist on the Red
China side might see an OPP
portunity to divide the allies
and win admission to the
United Nations at the same
time if a reasonable plan Of
settlement is offered.
The French Premier hasn't
any trump cards to offer but,
at the same time. in the back
ground is the prospect that. if
he alienateS American opinion,
he may lose financial aid for
his plan for internal reforms
something to which he gives
high priority in his concept OF
a legislative program. The
French Premier told this cor
respondent about three weeks
ago at his home in Paris that
he thought France was suffer-
ing internationally because she
had neglected her domestic
situation and that. if the Indo-
China problem could be solved.
it would~enable the Frenchmen
to turn their energies in the
direction of internal reforms
long overdue.
But Mr.. Mendes-France is
by no means an appeaser or
man who will take anything
that is offered. He will not. on
the other hand, fail to canvass
every opportunity for a settle
ment in Indo- China. If the
proposals made to him are
utterly unacceptable. he will
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amounted to a wholesale loot
ing campaign largely for the
benefit of private interests:
contempt for the lack of
French patriotism which the
Germans had ample opportu-
nifty to observe during the war
and their own occupation Of
France, when, as one former
soldier put it: 1.-THE French
were only too ready to collabo-
rate with us"
But these reservations were
answered by the stubborn
logic: Nevertheless, we must
think as Europeans. for only
united Europe can survive
in a two-power world"
However, the question has
always been at what point
Illustrations might precipitate
a radical revulsion Of feeling,
as we'll as a change of orienta-
ton compelled by stark neces-
sity.
The events in ndo-China
have contributed to creating
German doubts about the
EDO. Even in government
circles the protection by the
United States of interallied
intervention in Indo-China
has raised this argument: II
the European Defense Com
munity existed within NATO
and should NATO Gas recon-
mended by Dulles and Nixon
intervene in Indo-C China. the
commander Of NATO would
instruct the EDO to put Euro
pean contingentS at his dis
posal. These would be selected
from the combined forces on
a neutrality-suspicious. basis.
the largest number being Ger
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-23
Dons Fleeson-
Maine Verdict on the Hearings
Senator Smiths Victory Is Seen as Voter Reaction,
Not Against Mccarthy but Against the Show

argument or whether he re-
sented Senator McCarthys
failure to come in and help
him, was not disclosed.
Senator Smith resisted the
strong temptation to complain
about what she well recognized
not as a serious effort to de-
feat her but as a tormenting
gesture. She stuck to her knit
ting here and campaigned
week ends on the motto, Don't
trade a record for a promise.
Only in the last few days did
she change it to Don't trade
a record for a smear"
Her confidence in Maine was
gloriously justified. Included in
the Unexpectedly large turn
out of voters were many
women.
The Senator has always been
a favorite Of her sex. but this
also serves to verify trends
reported from others States.
A skilled and experienced
politician. Mrs. Smith feared
only apathy. She knows there
is always an ANTI" vote
against an incumbent, no mat
ter how little he is known. In
Maine she thought it might
run to 10000. Mr.. Jones got
10000.
She had no expectation of
another 1876, 900 total vote like
the one in 1913 when she de-
feated the then Governor, a
former Governor. and an I'M
known with 1000 votes, near
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Constantine Brown
Chinese Reds Seen Benefited
Establishment of Communist China Big Power in Asia
Declared to Be Net Result of Geneva Conference

matte mission to London four
years after the British had
sent theirs to Peiping. To ex-
press their thanks for this
gesture the leaders of the Brit
ish Labor Party who initiated
the recognition of China in
1850 announced that they
would pay a state visit to
Peiping in August. The i'm
portance of this gesture" was
overlooked in the West more
than in the Far East. In mat
tiers of foreign affairs the OPP
position party in Britain does
not take such steps without
the advice and consent of the
party in power. Hence the
prospective visit of the Labor
leaders is justly interpreted by
all Asiatic governments as the
final stamp of approval Of the
British government to the Red
regime in China.
The fact that all the prin-
cipals at Geneva-Gen. Walter
Bedell Smith and Foreign
Secretaries Eden, Molotov and
Chou-have left the Swiss city
does not mean that the ques-
ton of Indo-China has been
left in allegiance.
Before his departure, Chou
the central diplomatic figure
in the last 10 days-summoned
to a friendly dinner at his
hotel the representatives Of
Laos, Cambodia and the Wet
Mimi. Heretofore there had
been no contact between the
Communists and non-Com-
munist Indo-ChineSe. The lat
ter felt that even if Wet Nam
was lost to the Communists.
their own countries, with the
expected assistance from the
United States. could erect q
barricade to oppose the fur
ther drive Of the Reds toward
Southeast Asia. They became
convinced, however. that they
were mistaken. They agreed
to discuss some kind of I'M
derstanding with the Chinese
and their Wet Mini satellites.
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SinqIe-Honded Negotiation
Mendes-Fr and Chou En-oi Meet in Switzerland
To Discuss Terms for Forced Sole of ndo-Chino

60 back to France with q frank
statement of all the factors
and doubtless will come to
Washington to ask for Amer
lean help. The Red China
premier knows this. too.
Between now and next Sat-
urday is not a long time in
which to feel out the situa-
ton but, if the French Pre-
mier gets nowhere in his talks
with Chou En-lai, that fact
will be important information
for President Eisenhower to
have when he sits down this
coming week end with Prime
Minister Churchill and An
thony Eden, British Foreign
Secretary.
Big decisions, therefore, are
in the making, and it is con-
ceivable that the Red China
government is about to cross
the Rubicon. If it doesn't
present a plan that can save
face for France and insists
instead on an extreme point
of view, the Communist cause
inside France will lose ground
and the Moscow government
will have reason to be greatly
concerned about the course
of her Asian ally. If, on the
other hand, the Red China
government gives Mr.. Mendes-
France an out" the settle
ment of the war in Indo.C China
will be very popular in
France even if it is closer to
appeaSement than the kind of
settlement America got in
Korea.
The stopping Of a war on
almost any termS-or what is
sometimes called peace at
any price" is at this time
what many people in the
world seem to want. IT. was
that way back in the sos.
but in the end the appeaSe-
ment brought on World War
II. History could repeat itself.
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Fletcher Knebel-
Potomac Fever

The Government reports the cost Of living has gone up
again administration takes its theme from that
old Porgy and Bes number Summertime. when the Twin
is easier said than done"
Mrs Smith wallops Joe McCarthys boy. Jones. hve to
in the Maine Republican senatorial race Up in Maine
they like old Joe-up in Wisconsin.
blast Agriculture Secretary Bensons stiff
Democrats aren't afraid of farm SURPRISES
They heard of one yet that could vote.
Studebaker and Packard They bust all sales
by adding just to the auto
matte parking space
It's apparent why Counsel Ray jenkins wants Joe
McCarys help for the Senate Tennessee
is about far away from Maine as he can get.
the United States of being the
Guatemala. United States bushes to admit -but this
Russian statement is all too false
Pvt Schine begins duties MP instructor at
Camp Gordon An MP. is fellow who knows how to make
the other fellow do KIP
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Doris FIeeson-

The results of a senatorial
primary campaign waged COIN
cidentally with the Mccarthy
Army hearings are in. 1t shows
an unusually bad voter reac-
ton against the recent show
In the Senate caucus room.
Maine Republicans nomi-
mated Senator Margaret Chase
Smith, an avowed foe Of Sem
ator Mccarthy, by better than
5 to ! over a Mccarthy protege,
Robert L. Jones. Furthermore
the turnout was much greater
than anticipated, and it was
all in her favor.
The Smith-JoneS results are
q verdict on the hearings rath-
er than on Senator Mccarthy
personally. Senator Mccarthy
encouraged Mr.. Jones to run,
then never entered the State
personally. But he was there,
week after week, during all the
crucial period of the campaign,
on the television screens in
the homes, cafes and inns of
Maine.
Nobody said much about
him, including Senator Smith,
whose declaration of conscience
against McCarthyiSm has been
imprinted on the States re-
collection for four years. Even
Mr.. Jones. who began by
insisting the issue was Amer
icanism which he equated with
Senator Mccarthy, quit men
tioning him. Whether he felt
the hearings were hurting that
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rieS on a trend against "the
selfish political exploitation of
fear, bigotry, ignorance and
intolerance" Earlier, down
South, we saw the exploita-
ton of racial prejudice fail
in two notable cases. It was
tried. but did not work, against
Senator Jim Sparkman of Ala
bama, who was renominated,
and former Gov. Kerr Scott
of North Carolina, who won
nomination to the Senate.
These two Democrats are rec
ognized leaders in Southern
progreSsiviSm.
Names people have a repu-
tation for common sense and
independence. This they ex-
hibited once again. There's
something deeper, too, typical
of Maine as of all New Eng
land, which is the heritage of
freedom, freedom of con-
science, of speech. of press. of
religion. In this hour when all
Of that is threatened. New
England again has taken the
lead. There is Mrs. Smith
Maggie" Smith of Maine.
There is Senator Flanders of
Vermont who started the
movement to strip Senator Nc
Carthy of his committee chair
manShips. There is Joseph N.
WEIGH, Lawyer WEIGH of BoS-
ton. who put the finger on the
Mccarthy cruelty and reck-
lessneSs" for the whole Nation
to see dramatically on tele-
vision.
The exposure of Senator
Mccarthy to the American
people, including those of
Maine. was going on while the
Maine primary campaign was
in progress. Maine, in fact.
had a double exposure-the in
vestigation here and expound-
ind of the doctrine on the
ground by Mr.. Jones. The vote
in Maine came after the spec
tacle in the Senate caucus
room here had ended. We take
it from Mondays results that
most folks in Maine did not
care for what they saw with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-23
Thonos [. Stokes
Down last Returns AnQIvzed
Senator Smiths Victory in Maine G. O. P Primary
Seen os Turn in the Tide Aouinst McC orthvism

their eyes and heard with their
ears. Their reaction might be
taken as poll Of sorts, and
maybe it's even pardonable to
recall, hopefully. that old
political axiom:
"As Maine goes, so goes the
Nation"
Mr.. Jones went about Maine
talking about "Americanisrn."
It's wise to scrutinize carefully
those who speak as if they were
the sole proprietors of "Ameri-
caniSm." which is what the
Maine folks did. In her speech
in the Senate on June /, 1850,
when she presented the
Declaration Of Conscience" as
it came to be called, Mrs.
Smith had something to say
which seems to 1it the present
occasion, to wit:
Those OF us who shout the
loudest about AmericaniSm in
making character aSsassina-
tons are all too frequently
those who, by our own words
and acts, ignore some Of the
basic principles Of American
ism:
THE right to criticize.
1.-THE right to hold unpopular
beliefs.
THE right to protest.
1.-THE right to independent
thought"
There we may find the eX-
PLANTATION of Maine on Monday.
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According to Geneva sources
it would amount 70 y situation
similar to that in which Czech
oslovakia was placed between
the end of the last war and
her incorporation behind the
Iron Curtain three years later.
The French are now ready
to hand over the whole Of
Indo-C China to the Commu.
nistS under one form or an.
other. Mendes-France is more
convinced than his predecessor
that regardless Of the trends
in America to halt the Red
advances, Britain will defi-
nitely not play along. And he
firmly believes that America
will not bulge in any major
international matter without
London'S cooperation.
The visit of Chou to India
where he will meet his warm
friend Prime Minister Nehru
is of equal significance. De-
spite the occasional mild de-
malls from New Delhi. India
is definitely in China's camp.
The Indian leader prefers by
far Red domination to the
remnants of Western colonial.
ism. Like most orientals, he
has been impressed in the last
few years by the growth Of the
Red might and the paralysis
of the Western powers. Our
one diplomatic argument. IDOL.
lars and more dollars" has
failed to influence his thinking
and his leaning toward the
new masters Of Asia.
Nehru is reported to have
told one of his many "coddlers"
from the United States that
if he had to choose between
a domination Of Asia by the
Reds and o mere Western in
fluence on that continent he
would prefer Red domination.
The Asiatic tragedy started
with our laundering agreement
to go to Geneva to discuss
Indo-C China. It is by way Of
ending with Western expulsion
from the Far East.
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constcntine Brown

Let's face frankly the un-
pleasant fact that the net re-
suit Of the Geneva Conference
has been the establishment OF
Communist China as the para
mount political and military
power in Asia.
This event, which will affect
history as much as the fall OF
Constantinople to the Turks
in the 18th century, occurred
within the same weeks that
America was breathlessly fol-
lowing congressional hearings
to establish whether Com
munists or Pvt. G. David
Schine had been "coddled" by
the Army.
We went to Geneva primarily
to find a settlement for the
Korean war. Nothing hap
pened in that direction. What
did happen, however, was that
the French government headed
by the Laniel-Bidault team
was overthrown. Premier La
MEL, who refused to swallow
the uncoated bitter pill of sur
render in Indo- China, was
succeeded by a moderate So
cialist, Pierre MendeS-France.
who, realizing the hopeless
British-American disagreement
over the Far East. decided to
come to terms with the enemy,
represented in Asiatic affairs
by the Peiping regime.
China became the moderator
at Geneva. Its Foreign Minis
ter Chou En-lai showed states
manship far superior to that OF
the Western diplomats. He
used skillfully the soreness OF
the French against the Ameri-
can "talk much and do moth
ing" policy. He is also credited
with having further whetted
the appetite of the British for
the immense" Chinese mar
kets.
It was during Chou's nego-
tiations with Foreign Secre-
tary Eden at Geneva that he
offered the British a new car
rot: the sending Of a diplo-
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ly 5000 more than all the
others combined. Her calcula-
tions ran like this:
IF I get 10000 and Jones
10000 I shall be satisfied. but !
have some fear that the issue
is little understood. If I get
10000 and Jones 10000, I
shall be very happy, certain I
have the States confidence"
Mrs. Smith got 96.159 votes
in nearly complete returns. It
is a handsome tribute in any
election, much less an off-year
one. Though the Democrats in
Maine are picking up strength.
she is now assured of re-elec-
ton.
Mrs. Smith had the gener-
Gus support of her colleague,
Senator Payne, and the Maine
House delegation. They spoke
up instantly ana strongly a1Cer
Mr.. Jones announced his can
didacy.
Some of the other flowery
tributes paid her after she won
today will only make her smile
politely. She and her Maine
organization won her race, not
the Eisenhower administration
nor its congressional leader
ship.
It is of course true that
Margaret Smith walks down
the road dictated by her New
England conscience with that
independence men admire in
men but can't seem to get used
to in women politicians.
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Soviets Deny Stationing
A.Cannon in East Germany
BY the Asseeicted Press

BERLIN. June 23.-The press
Office Of Soviet Zone Premier
Otto Grotewohl last night en-
phatically denied Western news
paper reports that Soviet
atomic cannon were stationed in
East Germany.
The West German Frank
furter Neue PresSe reported
Monday night that the first
Soviet atomic cannon, which
it said topped American A-gunS
in range, caliber and weight.
had arrived in the Soviet Zone
The press Office denial was
published by the official Adm
news agency. It did not refer to
the Neue PreSSe report but
singled out a similar dispatch
carried by a Swiss newspaper
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Dovid Lowrence

Irrespective of the final out
come, the most extraordinary
event of the year in the realm
of international affairs is the
single-handed negotiation be-
tween Premier Mendes-France
of the new cabinet in France
and Chou En-lai, the foreign
minister of the Red China
regime, in their meeting held
at Berne, Switzerland. to dis
cuss the fate of Indo-China.
First of all, it's ironical that,
despite all the talk about a
colonial war" and the aspira-
tions of the people of Indo-
China for independence, the
principal personality Mr.. Men
des-France sees across the ne
gotiating table is the head OF
a government formally de-
nounced by the United Nations
as an aggreSsor in Korea and
now in a sense conceding it
has been a belligerent in the
war in o-China.
The other governments
Britain and the United States
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES drawn a.
part, watching the game with
grave concern and wondering
whether Indo-China is to be
given over to Communist con-
troll because of the ardent de-
sire of a French cabinet to
liquidate an unpopular war
after eight years of fighting.
For the French Premier has
announced that, unless he gets
a settlement within 80 days,
lie will resign. This is tanta-
mount to an announcement by
a person who has some prop
erty to sch that he has to sell
it within that period. Every
body knows how readily the
buyer can insist on his price
when that kind of a "negotia-
ton" occurs. This is generally
known as a forced sale" 1t
means that France is today
consulting her enemy to find
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In West Germany, judging
from press comments, the
European Defense Treaty is
believed to have died and been
buried by France beyond hope
of resurrection no matter what
government may emerge in
unstable France.
Ten months ago the AIDE
nauer regime was reelected by
the greatest majority ever
given a German government in
a free election. This govern
ment, the most pro-French of
any in German history, was
committed to the European
Defense Community and con-
stituted the firmeSt American
bulwark on the European con-
tinent.
Mr.. Adenauer held the ma
jority Of West German opinion
to this policy despite repressed
doubts and discontents. Last
summer this columniSt found
in Germany less positive en-
thusiaSm for the policy than
resigned admission that there
was no alternative; that
Europe must unite or perish.
Recognition that the whole
balance-of-power situation had
been radically altered by World
War II and that nothing less
than the freedom Of what is
left Of European civilization
was at stake overcame pain
full mental reservations: That
the unification Of Europe i'm
piled for the Immediately fore
Seeable time the division Of the
German nation itself: resent
ment against the behavior Of
the French occupying forces
whose postwar activities
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-23
Life in the U. S.
Benson Solves
One 75-Foot

By the Assoeicied Press

STATE COLLEGE, Pa, June
%. Secretary Of Agriculture
Benson knows how to make milk
go a long way.
Mr.. Benson, touring the farm
buildings at Pennsylvania State
University yesterday, was asked
by a picture Intent photographer
if he knew how to milk a COW.
Mr.. Benson seized the udder Of
a nearby COW and squirted the
surprised photographer. standing
what he thought was a safe is
feet away.