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limited laughter Of course he said you've got under
stand old boy III want you to keep pretty well behind
Don't like getting other chaps into danger He took deep
swallow of his drink chucked Particularly of the chaps
I've been engaged to protect"
Carton Gray glanced at Mcky She was looking off into
the darkness her face carefully expressoness that he
dered if inside she laughing at him. He put his hands
behind him. cenched them into fists in the gesture of badly
hurt child trying his brave best not to in public He could
not believe this happening to him that this quiet
unassumng with that absurd hat Topping his back
simply by being what he had stripped him Of the last
vesges of glamour in front of Micky He made desperate
effort recoup and lit cigarette with elaborate casuaness
Mice of you to offer to show me how it's DONE TMoop
he said ut happens h0ren had any experience with tigers
Again he gave his actors laugh Had jolly good tane with
Continued on page 80
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DOTS FTeeSOn-
Specter Of War Huunts Britain
Britons Found Thinking of ABob More Than u S. Keeping
Strong Military Effort but Needing Active Leadership

Tense budget-prefer not to
think about it at all.
The American Embassy here
is authority for the statement
that, despite their pessimism,
the British are keeping up a
military effort that compares
very respectfully with that Of.
the United States. There also
is strong Tory opposition to
the concessions Prime Minis
ter Churchill has been making
in Egypt to keep the peace.
The controversial Attlee-
Bevan journey to Moscow and
Red China is taking place In O
kind Of political vacuum. Par
lament Is in recess, August is
the holiday month and the
first important political meet
ing takes place late in Sep
tember-the Labor Party con-
ference. So public opinion is
forming without much leader
ship, except as it is afforded
by the press, which is as much
divided here as it is at home.
The first question of the
visitor to Britain is about
Prime Minister Churchill. who
is presently on holiday in the
country. Nobody pretends to
know either how well he actu-
ally Is or when he plans to
hand over his leadership.
There is some restlessness
about the situation. since it is
obviously unsatisfactory. But
no one careS-or dareS-to
make q move.
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Thomas L. Stokes
Thon1os [. Stokes
No '4th-H Hand Vote for District
Residents of Nations Capital Called Goots After Presden
Vetoes Bill for Election Of Delegates to Conventions

We inhabitants of the Ma
tional Capital who are old
enough to vote have become
the goats in another comedy
of errors. It's the sort of thing
that has happened so often
as we here have tried to join
the Union of States, to get
naturalized and become full
fedged American citizens, so
that we could vote and manage
our own affairs.
This latest comedy of errors
revolved about a small matter.
It was a bill that Congress
passed to let us vote in primary
elections here for delegates to
the national conventions of
the two major parties which
nominate candidates for Presi-
dent and Vice President and
formulate party platforms.
But we are denied even that.
President Eisenhower vetoed
the bill for what he considered
good reasons that will be
discussed later.
All Congress was trying to
give us was q third or fourth
hand vote, a very diluted
franchise. In such q primary
as contemplated we could vote
for delegates to the national
convention of the party of our
choice. Ordinarily such dele
gates are hand picked by local
party bosses. The District of
Columbia has three votes at
national conventions. putting
the National Capital in q class
with the Virgin Islands, Puerto
Rico and other possessions.
But that by-proxy partici-
patton in national conventions
would be all we would get.
For in the presidential elec-
ton itself we who are citizens
of the District Of Columbia
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Driver Fined $50,
Gets Six Months

William Anthony Life, 49,, Of
1859 Forty Second place, Hyatts-
vile, yesterday was sentenced to
six months in the Maryland
House of Correction and fined
$50 on two charges Of driving
on a revoked operators permit
and one charge of speeding.
1t was one of the stiffest SEN
fences on traffic charges handed
down by Judge Theodore l.
Manga in ! Hyattsville Police
Court. Judge Manga said that
since Life was unable to pay the
fine he will have to serve 100
days in Jail in addition to the
six months.
Life was arrested by County
Police Corpl. @. I. Thornberry
last May "a on Defense highway
at Ardmore road for driving al
unreasonable speed. It later
turned out that the man also
was driving on q permit which
had been revoked for a long
series Of traffic convictions.
Two days later, while he was
free under 81 200 bond, Life was
arrested again by Corpl. Thorn
berry while driving on Defense
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sons.o11nns 61oW.7-
British Weaken Pact in Pacific
Because Of London Objections South Koreu Foosu japan
And Their Miitoy Forces Will Be Kept Out Of SEATO
Constantine Brown

Because Of strong objections
from London, Nationalist
China. South Korea and Japan
will not be included in the
South Pacific defense pact to
be set up under the. name Of
SEATO.
Free China has available for
immediate action some 16
American :. trained divisions
and modest but efficient air
and naval forces.
South Korea has 40 battle
experienced divisions and In
tends to increase this number
to rs within a year. provided
America supplies the material.
Yet these stoutly anti Com
munist countries with proven
records as Red haters must
stay outside the Pacific de-
Tense organization which will
be set up at the Manila con-
ference next month.
The proposed South Pacific
alliance will differ in character
and philosophy from the
NATO. The NATC is weak in
comparison with the strength
Of the Communists 1t faces in
Germany, Poland and the
u. 8. S. r. But 1t was founded
on the principle Of repelling
force with force. If the Reds
should start something.
The underlying principles of
the SEATO are love and
brotherhood. London contends
this new organization, sug-
gested first by Secretary Of
State Dulles when he hoped to
save Indo-C China by strong
means. should Offset the prog
ress Of the Reds in Southeast
Asia by a Galleries policy"
London believes the princi-
pal weapons against Soviet and
Chinese Communist expansion
should be relief, economic as
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Voters Always Vote Against
Eisenhower Urged to Use His Prestige and Poin
Out WI1ot g. O. P Considers Democratic Errors

what dissatisfied on economic
issues, however. they will often.
be swayed by emotional issues
such as corruption III ONCE or
Communist inflltration or war
What the Republican strate-
gists have failed to do is to
build up the prestige Of the
Republican Party and to at
tack the record Of the DEM
Gratis in the previous 90 years.
Gen. Eisenhower has soft
pedaled the attack and has
said he wants to- let bygones
be bygonesa generous but
naive attitude which Is not be-
ing reciprocated by the DEM
ocrats, who are already re-
minding the voters that they
consider the Republican Party
to be a party of unemployment
and depression.
It is a new confidence In
the Republican Party label
that voters have to feel, as
they need to be reminded and
assured that there will be no
return to the mistakes OF the
Truman administration. But
the White House has given
little inspiration to the party
workers. and 1t is they and
their organizations which get
out the vote in congressional
elections. It could be that the
Democrats will win Congress
this time. not by virtue of.
anything they will offer to do,
but by persuading people to
vote against the failures of
the Republican Party" as the
attack is being vigorously pre-
scented by former Speaker Ray
burn and others.
The negative habit is well
documented in the political
history of America. The people
voted against the high cost
Of living" in 1910, when they
elected a Democratic House of
Representatives in the middle
of a Republican Presidents
term despite a splendid record
OF constructive legislation by
Congress. The people were
against war" in 1916 when
they reelected a Democratic
President on a peace platform,
but in 1918 they voted in a
Republican majority in both
houses in protest against war
time irritations and against
the action of the same Presi-
dent for having entered World
War I.
Again, in 1920 the people
voted against the Democrats
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sistance and q bigger Point
Four aid program.
None of the nations which
will send delegations to the
conference In the Philippines
capital has any stable mill
tary forces In the South Pa
cific. And London has main
tanned in its preliminary con-
versations with our diplomats
that such forces are not even
needed.
The BIRTHS h government
strongly hopes that the visit to
Peiping OF former Prime Min
lister Attlee and his Laborite
Party will further improve
London Peiping relations.
Hence the British feel that
SEATO, while necessary to
discourage the Communist
doctrines per Sc" from spread
ing toward Malaga, Indonesia
and the Philippines, should not
become a coalition which Pei
ping might interpret as po-
tentially hostile.
Moreover. the British foreign
Office answered our demand
that Nationalist China be in
cluded in SEATO by pointing
out that 1t has withdrawn rec
ignition from that government
and consequently could not
accept it as q partner In polit-
ical-military collaboration.
The State Department Is not
happy over the British stand.
It is willing, however, to &C
cept it in order to avoid an
other breach in the drive to
stop communism across the
Atlantic as well as the Pacific,
But our acceptance of the
British Caspar Milquetoast
version of defense against Red
expansion in Asia does not
mean that we intend to let
our guard down.
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Fletcher KnebeJ-
Potomac Fever

Republicans either supremey confident they'll the
election they've given up hopeless Ike just
nounced he's going nshing-with Herbert Hoover.
More builders tell Of big FILA undan" profits under the
Democrats 1t took heap hbbin t. float
4
Civil defense headquarters from Washington to Battle
Creek Mich This is In line with high civil defense strategy:
In Of attack big CITY, make you have just
moved to a smaller one'
Mamie Eisenhower shopping like any other
housewife difference is that when complains
husband about prices he doesn't repy ts change"
charges that "bureaucrasm red tape
have held back Rusas goods program Well that's
start toward democracynow they just learn blame
all on the Republicans
Washington hotel strike threatens the
Legion convention. And legionnaires
reached when they little nap before breakfast
British Laborite leaders exchange
Chnas Peping Churchill hopes American Congress
will count 10 before twisting the British pig
tail.
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and do not have residences in
any State-and there are
hundreds of thousands of us
can not vote for President. or
anybody else.
It is not strange therefore
that those of us in that cate
CORY are Jumped together with
aliens in report just issued
by the United States Census
Bureau on the number of
eligible voters in the country.
That is proper. We are aliens
in a land that boasts Of its
democracy. We are distinctly
not eligible to vote.
We took this last slap in the
face on top of others we get
constantly; among them. tax
alton without representation.
Congress has just imposed
some new local taxes on us
voteless citizens here. This is
not to argue whether or not
they were needed or just; but
we had absolutely no say
about the taxes, what they
would be, and viii have
nothing to say about how the
money is spent. We have
Federal taxes, too, like every
body else, and we had no
representation in the assess
ment of those in the new
Federal Revenue Act.
For we have no representa-
tiveS in Congress which legis-
lates for us and is, in effect,
our city council. Congress
necessarily can give us and our
affairs very scant attention.
It'll has job enough with ma
tio.1al problems and with prob
lens of the constituencies of
itsI members back home. The
concern of members of Con-
gress naturally Is not here
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with us. We are only an after
thought. The administration of
government in our National
Capital is by three Commits
sioners who are appointed by
the President. We have no
voice In their selection. nor
any control over them.
To get back to the primary
election measure--the Presi-
dent vetoed it because OF q
provision that exempted Fed
eraf Government employees
here from the Hatch Act so far
as participation in that pri-
mary is concerned. The Hatch
Act, if you have forgotten.
forbids Government employees
from taking an active part in
politics, though they can vote
like anybody else if eligible.
The Presidents argument was
that exemption of the seven
per cent of Government work
ers who live in the National
Capital would be unfair to the
SO per cent who work else
where and would not be ex-
empted.
That reasoning seems far
fetched, and that Is said adj
viSedly by one who had some
part in paving the way for the
Hatch Act with an exhaustive
expose in the 1888 Kentucky
senatorial primary of exploita-
ton politically Of WPA work
ers. Participation in the con-
vention delegate primary
hardly seems the type Of po-
litical activity at which the
Hatch Act was aimed
But, at any rate. we are
foiled again. We here who.
would like to become full
fiedged American citizens have
to rely on Congress. which
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the United States. Such
Britons seem to feel their
children at least ought to have
some say in the future. and
emigration seems to them the
best way to achieve it. To
such infiltration the American
laws are, of course, very hos
pitable.'
Most strongly of all, the
shadow of the hydrogen bomb
hangs heavily over this island
kingdom, as Sir Winston
Churchill has confessed pub
licly. It's awful potentialities
were brought home to him, he
told Commons, by a speech
by Representative Sterling
Cole, chairman of the Joint
Congressional Committee on
Atomic Energy, describing
the results of the nuclear
fusion tests in the Pacific.
Britons do not at all think
they would never fight. They
know they will fight under
some circumstances. What
they say is they know what
will happen when they do.
What differentiates them
from Americans Is that they
seem to think about it a good
deal. Americans who think
about it know also how formi-
dable the prospect is. should
war come. Most Americans
las witness congressional
refusal to take civil defense
seriously while cutting the de-
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It is all right with US for
the British and some Of the
other future members Of the
SEATO to refuse the cooper.
alton Of the only two free ma
tions in the West Pacific which
have military forces worthy
Of the name. But that will
not prevent us from making
bilateral agreements - or
strengthen those already in.
existence-with Nationalist
China. South Korea and ia.
pan. These will be outside
SEATO, but II the countries
become targets Of Red Chinese
aggression we will rush to
their defense under the bilat.
eral treaties.
State Department and PEN
tagon ofiicials see nothing In
the creation Of q South Pacific
defense organization to- pre-
clude our continuing to build
up the military and air poten-
tial of Formosa and South
Korea. Nor will the new in
ternational agreement prevent
us from helping Japan to make
an adequate defense force for
herself.
The reappraisal now in
course in Washington applies
to our military more than to
our diplomatic policies. The
State Department will try. as
long as possible. to hang onto
the illusion Of unity among
the remaining free nations.
But Secretary Dulles is said to
be willing to further the mill
tary's defense plans for giving
Formosa, Korea and Japan q
greater role in the Pacific.
And direct agreements between
the United States and these
three Pacific nations will be
the first step.
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Strikes Increase in July;
Total Is Below Average
BY the Associated Press

Strikes were on the increase
last month but the total was
lower than usual. the Labor De-
partment's Bureau of Labor Sta
tistics reported today.
The bureau estimated SIS
strikes were in effect during
July, including 375 new work
stoppages and 200 carried over
from June, when the total was
$50.
An estimated 10000 workers
were idled by the July strikes,
most of which were brief. Six
involved 10000 or more workers,
including the Northwest Lumber
stoppage which began in late
June.
The July strike total was lower
than in any corresponding month
since 1850 and below the 1947-
| 40 average for July.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-27
Bryant Execution Put Off
Pending Court Review
BY the A$eeieisd Press

BALTIMORE. Aug. 27.-Eu-
gene E. Bryant's execution. set
for the week of September 5 for
the shooting of his teen-aged
pregnant girl friend, has been
postponed until the Court Of
Appeals reviews the conviction.
Circuit Judge James Clark Of
Howard County notified the
Maryland Penitentiary to stay
the scheduled hanging. 1t was
Judge Clark who sentenced the
21-year-old Bryant on July %
and set the execution week.
Bryant, who lived in Hillside,
Md. was convicted by jury Of
IL of having shot to death Joan
Marie Ruzza on April. 8. The
body of the 17-year-old girl was
found four blocks from her
home in Capitol Heights. &fi@
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Dovid Lawrence
A congressional campaign j.

A congressional campaign IS
so utterly different from q
presidential campaign that
persons familiar with the
strategies OF political warfare
are frankly amazed at the ull-
realistic attitude of the White
House toward the coming
elections for Congress In Mo-
vember.
The popularity Of a Presi-
dent has little or nothing to
do with the outcome. The
local popularity Of the Re-
publican or Democratic NOM
inee in each district or State
has a great deal to do with
the ultimate result. but mostly
the campaign turns on the
voters feeling for q political
party-his past Affiliations and
the grievances that may have
made him turn away from his
party. Voters are party
minded in a congressional
campaign. The Eisenhower
name will not be on the bal
lot, and only the Republican
and Democratic party emblems
will confront the voters in the
polling booths. together with
candidates names which are
largely unfamiliar to the av-
erage citizen.
No President has ever been
able to transfer his own popu-
larity or prestige or the weight
of his own political strength to
the nominees of his party in a
congressional campaign. But
an aggressive President who
fights hard against the oppo-
sition party, and doesn't spend
his energies fighting members
of his own party, can help
sway voters toward his party
label.
The evidence from past
campaigns, as privately ap-
praised by party leaders in
their post mortems after VIC
tory or defeat, points up the
fact that the voters generally
vote against things" rather
than for affirmative virtues.
This means that often a party
in power is continued in Office
not so much for what it has
done but because the people
are not yet ready to go back
to the party they threw out
they are still against" the
party they previously defeated.
Voters are influenced by
emotions and the pocketbook
appeal. Even if they are some
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Doris FIeeson-

LONDON, Aug. 27.-For the
first time since the war, the
creature comforts as SYM
bolized by the roast beef of
Old England are available,
not just to visitors, but to the
people here. For any one with
even a modicum Of q sense of
justice, that fact creates an
offsetting warmth to some Of
the most 1eaden skies these
isles ever have known since
they began to keep weather
records.
The drought-c o nseious
American Is shocked afresh
when every August day brings
downpours and temperatures
in the fifties. but that has been
the story here. Unless Sep.
TENDER produces the sun, Brit
aims summer will have been
about two weeks in May.
Perhaps the weather has
made it's own contribution to
the general grimness with
which these days of decision
are being faced. Even the
"muddle through" spirit
seems hopelessly dimmed as
the visitor hears his friends
counseling their children to
make their future in Canada
or America.
An element in this is a
very strong realism which, in
effect, says that the final
power of decision about the
free worlds course rests with
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on the war issue In resentment
against American intervention
in European affairs. and the
same attitude called ..isola-
tionisrnp then continued to
hurt the Democrats Ia 1924
and 1928. But four years later
the Democrats began swing
ing toward isolationism them
selves. and Franklin Roosevelt.
in order to be nominated by
the Democrats Ia 1882. had to-
repudiate the proposal for en-
try into the League Of Nations
which he had eSpoused as q
I vice presidential candidate In
1920.
The tendency to vote
against" was noticeable in
1882. when the people voted
against the Hoover depreS-
sion." In 1886. 1910 and 1914.
the negative attitude of the
voters toward the Republican
Party was so intense on ac-1
count Of the memories Of the
depression that an oratorical
reminder on the stump of
the unemployment issue was
enough to discredit the Re-
publican candidates.
In 1916. the country voted
against meat controls" by the
Democratic administration and
elected q Republican Congress.
Mr.. Truman In 194S, using an
attack strategy Of the give
'em hell" variety. succeeded in
convincing the country it
should vote against the do
nothing Republican Congress"
and he won. In 1852, the peo-
pie voted against Korea, COM
munism and corruption" Gen.
Eisenhower was a satisfactory
and popular alternative. but
Senator Taft could have won.
too, on the negative tide that
was rolling then.
This time the Republicans.
led by the President. should
have been strongly on the at
tack, reminding the voters Of
the issues which caused them
to forsake the Democratic
Party two years ago. But, in
stead, the Eisenhower admins
tration has avoided the attack
strategy altogether and Is rely
ing on what it calls q "posi-
tive" program. It clings to
the illusion that voters read
high-brow speeches about the
technical aspects of a legisla-
tive record. This is one way
to forfeit an election.
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| Central Indiana Hit
By Heavy Windstorm
By the Assoeioted Press

INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 27.-A
storm described by the Weather
Bureau as a marginal tornado"
dashed through Central Indiana
yesterday, causing heavy dam
age. No injuries were reported
Gusts reached 100 miles an
hour as the wind felled trees,
damaged houses. knocked out
utility lines and flattened crops
Rain flooded underpasses and
Easements.
The storm struck hard in
Fountain and Montgomery
Counties. A section on the
north side of indianapolis was
hit. The wind tore a copper root
| off the nurses home at st. Vim
cents Hospital. The hospita
reported 112 windows broken.
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alone has power to give us
home rule and a voice in cur
own affairs and the right to
vote for President. Unfortu-
nately we here have no in
fiuence on Congress. for its
members are not dependent on
us for their votes. The only
way to move Congress is for
the folks back home, whose Ma
tional Capital this is also, to
let their representatives know
that they would like to, see
justice for citizens of their Ma
tional Capital.
That's why this voteless
resident harps on this subject
every so often, for which par
don is hereby asked.