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Evening star., 1955-11-26

UNITED NATIONS, N. T., Nov,
I26 (R. - With IL working days
left before its scheduled adjourn
ment. the United Nations Assem-
bly, pressed today to break stub
born deadlocks over q disputed
Security Council seat and the
membership bids Of IS nations.
The Assembly must also push
Through debate within the next
two weeks on the tough disarrn-
Iament question and the colonial
issues involving Morocco and
West New Guinea If it hopes to
hit its December 10 windup
target.
India and q number Of other
countries who did not take part
lin the debate before the l2-na-
ton U. N. Disarmament Commits
sion have indicated they viii
have plenty to say on the arms
Question when 1t reaches the So
nation Political Committee.
Little friction is expected this
year on either Morocco or West
New Guinea. but the anti-co-
lonial powers undoubtedly viii
have aguments to present when
those items come up.
French Deadlock Broken
/ One major deadlock was
broken yesterday when France
was wooed back into the AS
isembly after that body voted
Ito drop the stormy Algerian
Question. The French walked
Iout two months ago when the
Assembly put the Algerian Ques-
Ition on Its agenda.
Delegates hoped Arab approval
LOT the maneuver which broke
the French boycott would speed
solution Of the complex men,
bership question.
The Arabs spearheaded the
original move to debate the Al
gerian question and It had been
feared that II France stayed
out, she might use her veto power
In the Security Council. where
she retained her seat, to bar
Jordan and the Asian applicants,
y. N. circles were also heart
ened by reports that the United
States had relaxed its opposi-
ltion to Communist Outer Mon
golia's bid for membership.
The Soivet Union has warned
Evening star., 1955-11-26

There's something for every
body in the comprehensive
Democratic legislative program
for the second recollection ses-
sion OF the S4th Congress, an
nounced In Texas by Senator
Lyndon johnson, the party's
Senate leader.
Included is one powerful busi-
ness interest which Is 3 ready
source Of campaign contribu-
tions for both Democratic and
Republican Parties.
That is Oil. Over the pro-
tests Of q group Of both Demo-
Gratis and Republicans In the
Senate from natural gas con-
surning States, the Texas leader
included In his catalogue the
bill to exempt producers Of
natural gas from regulation by
the Federal Power Commission.
1t needs only Senate approval
and the signature Of the Presi-
dent, which It's sponsors ex-
pect, to become law. Last ses-
sion it was showed through the
House, but won only q slim
victory that was attributed
chiefly to the influence Of
another Texan, Speaker Sam
Rayburn, who was energetic
on the bills behalf.
The measure wolild. .nullify a
United States Supreme Court
decision which held that the
FPC Is required to regulatepro-
ducers under the 1888 Natural
Gas Act, which q Democratic
Congress put on the statute
books, Consumers in the Mid
die West, East and New Eng
land are aroused because of
their fear Of increased natural
gas costs which experts say
are inevitable If the measure
Is approved.
A roar from consumer rep
-Fsentatiyes In the Senate. and
perhaps q prolonged fllibuster.
will greet the bill If Senator
johnson insists on pushing 1t
70 the floor. as he evidently
does. That would split the
Evening star., 1955-11-26
Adenouer and Heuss Act
AS Coalition Foces Doom

2. Loyalty to the governing
coalition until the 1857 general
election so as not to strengthen
the Socialist opposition.
The Free Democrats have not
yet answered Mr.. Adenauer's let
tiers, but members Of the party
today were minimizing the dis
pute.
The Bundestag dover house)
Is due to debate foreign policy
Friday Mr.. Adenauer wants to
firm up his position against the
Socialists.
Evening star., 1955-11-26

proval for his plan to hold early
elections.
The Assembly's agenda COM
mittee decided yesterday to
schedule q debate on a chal-
Ilenge to the government by
Francois Mitterrand. chief
lieutenant of former premier
Pierre Mendes-France Mitter-
rand tried to pin on the govern
Iment "the responsibility for the
paralysis Of parliamentary work. .
Premier Faure promptly an
Inounced he was demanding a
vote Of confidence on putting
debate on a new election Law
ahead Of the Mitterrand ques-
tion. He said the Assembly
Evening star., 1955-11-26

q Despite the curtain of si-
ience drawn by many colum-
nists and editors. now that
knowledge Of the failure of
the ''containment" policy is
finally filtering through to the
pubhc-Such as grants by the
Communists of economic and
military aid to some undevel-
oped countries outside their
area, their offer of these to
many others, and the parade
OF prime ministers ct al. to
Moscow w-perhaps you win pub
lish q few observations con-
cerning this policy.
We have for a long time
been offering and supplying
arms to many countries Large
and small, democratic and to-
talitarian, .'free" and slave"
ANY, in fact. that would join
!. with us or our other allies in
the ''cold war" against the So
Wet bloc. We even offered arms
: to Egypt under these terms.
All obviously in pursuance of
the .'containment" policy. In
dia protested vigorously over
the arms supplied BY us to PAX
istan, as did Israel over those
|. to Iraq. Why then should any
one be surprised that Czech
4 osiovakia, given the opportu-
nifty. should join the arms
''peddling" business. or doubt
J she would be given that oppor-
tunity eventually? What in
formed person really expects
the Russians to agree to Ger
man unification. with the whole
incorporated into NATO?
What have democratic cleo
tions to do with power politics
under the balance of power
theory Of the nation-state sys-
tenn? Certainly they would
have none with us If they in
volved our vital interest as they
obviously would those of Rus
sia. What then causes us to
think that we can properly
protest acts similar to our own
when committed by others: or
prove convincing BY crying
surprise" and preten ding
alarm" over events which any
one easily could have pre-
dicted? Or, finally, what in-
duces our leaders to believe
that this crude propaganda
will prove effective before an
informed world audience?
NATO, SEATo, ANzUS ct
al. had they been in existence.
might and probably would
have either delayed or pre-
vented World War II. but they
are almost certain to fail to
contain communism now. Two
thirds to three fourths Of the
human race want and demand
adequate food. shelter. cloth
ing and education. And they
want these now. U. N. Tech
rical Assistance, Point Four,
UNICEE and UNESCO make
better vessels for achieving
these purposes than do bombs
and airplanes. naval craft and
military alliances. And for
these reasons. ! believe. the
Evening star., 1955-11-26
LETTERS TO THE STAR

sooner the foreign policy
positive steps inside the U. N.
to deyelop q stable economic
makers of this country not
only recognize "containment"
for what it really is-the Dip
Evening star., 1955-11-26
Donish Exports Climb

COPENHAGEN DENIM ark
exported $3.50 million worth Of
live animals. meat and meat
products in the first half Of 1855
compared with $l56 million dur
ing the comparable period Of the
year before.
Evening star., 1955-11-26
Foure Needs Leftist Vote.
In New Assembly Test

PARIS Nov. 26 Q-Premier Edgar Faure today eyed
easily his dwndng parliamentary followers the face Of another
confidence vote He viii have unpaatabe Communist
support If he is to survive the test Tuesday
The Premier fighting National Assemblys ap-
Evening star., 1955-11-26
For d Better u. S. Policy

Nan r. Street
Evening star., 1955-11-26
Another Lincoln?

Vera Dole
, 1955-11-18

District Of Columbia. Mr..
Doyle stated that the aim of
the Academy is to train a Sc
lect group Of law enforcement
officers as police administra-
tors and instructors in order
that they can impart the
benefits Of their tweIve-week
training course to their fellow
officers upon returning to
their own departments.
, 1955-11-18
EGH1Y.ONE TO RECEIVE DIPLOMAS
FROM FBI ACADEMY IN WASH. TO-DAY

j. Edgar Hoover, Director of the Federal Bureau OF In
v~esitgation, announced that the members Of the Both Session
of the FBI National Academy will graduate at exercises to be
held in Washington, D. c., today. The e~ighty-one law enforce
ment officers attending the Seth Session bring the total OF
graduates to 3,o65 since the Academy's founding n 1885.
The graduation ceremonies will feature an address by
Stephen F. Kennedy, Commissioner of the New York City
Police Department. Commissioner Kennedy is himself is agra
duate Of the National Academy, having attended the 10th
Session. The Invocation and Benediction will be delivered
by DR.. J. Warren Hastings of the National City Christian
Church, Washington, D. c.. and Assistant Attorney General
Warren Burger will present the graduates their diplomas.
, 1955-11-18
CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC
WORK TO HOLD HEARINGS IN v. |.

The subcommittee on Public Works and Resources Of
the House Committee on Government Operations will arrive
in the Virnin Islands on December 9th TO commence two days
Of hearings in ST. Thomas. which are TO be followed by one
or two days hearings in ST. Croix.
James Lanigan, Subcommittee Counsel and Arthur
Pearlman, staff director, Public Works and Resources sub
committee, will arrive in ST. Thomas on December 4th to
make preparations for the hearings.
, 1955-11-18

from thirty-six states and the
Carroll Doyle, Special
Agent in Charge Of the San
Juan Division Of the FIJI, said
that Leandro Sanabria Cortes,
First Lieutenant, Puerto Rico
Police Department will be
among the graduates.
The eighty-one officers who
comprise the 56th Session in
clude men from Puerto Rico,
Alaska and Canada as well as
, 1955-11-18
Mujor Q. S. Wagner
Of Selective Service.
Visits ST. Croix

Major @. S. Wagner, Region
al Field Officer of Selective
Service System, was a visitor
to St. Croix yesterday. He
was accompanied by Colonel
Christmas, Deputy Director Of
Selective Service for the Viz
gin Islands.
Major Wagner, a direct re-
preventative of General Her
shey, met with personnel Of
the System in St. Thomas on
Wednesday and in St. Croix
yesterday.
He left for Washington to-
day.
, 1955-11-18

SOAAAAAA4VOSC1 49, ~
make preparations for the he
The hearings will be held
in st. Thomas on the 18th
and 18th of December extend
ing possibly to the 18th. The
committee will then come to
St. C4oix for a hearing on the
18th and they plan to leave
the following day. The hear
ings will be held in the Gov
eminent House in each Is
land.
The Committee plans to
look into various problems
confronting the Virgin Is
lands, particularly the opera
lions Of the Government I'M
der the revised Organc Act,
general economic conditions
Of the Islands, the water short
age problem lin st. Thomas),
the Virgin Islands Corpora
ton problems and possibly
the question Of a Virgin Is
lands representative in Con-
gress.
A visit to st. John in con-
nection with the proposed
National Park is also planned
by the Committee.
All parties interested
in testifying at the hearings
are invited to write to the
Honorable Earle chudoff,
chairman Of the Sub-commit-
tee on Public Works and Re-
sources in care of Governor
Walter A. Gordon, Govern
ment House, St. Thomas.
! These letters will be held un-
, 1955-11-18

opened pending the arrival of
the Committee.
, 1955-11-18
'Chdnber 81 Comm.
Executive Committee
10 Meet Mon. Nov. 81

The Executive Committee
Of the St. Croix Chamber of
Commerce will meet in its
headquarters on Monday
night, November q, at $3.50.
At the meeting the new
members will take their seats
for the first time. They are
Mrs. Dorothea Steadman, Vii
bert Armstrong and Cemente
|Cintron.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-14
A Rich Treasure Chest
Filled With Irish Gems

you in their tears and laugh
ter.
Tartness is a prevalent quail
ity here. The sense Of the
ridiculous rarely deserts the
Irish. Sometimes this aware
ness becomes a rather bitter
irony, as in the case Of Sean
O'Faolain, who Is not very
we'll represented in this col
lection. More often it results
in a kind of poetic justice, as
in Frank O'Connor's superb
The Drunkard." the story of
a little boy sent to shepherd a
bibulous father, who gets
drunk himself.
There are inevitably a few
fantasies. the reverse of the
coin of Irish realism. Some
how, these are not so success
full. The stories are better when
the writer is eying steadily the
happenings of everyday life
and seeing precisely the mean
ingful point. There is only
one even family sentimental
story. and that from Paul Vim
cent Carroll. There is one Won
derfully roguish contribution
from Donagh MacDonagh
called IAN the Sweet Butter
milk"
It's a rich collection, as any
cleaning from contemporary
Irish writing would be. One
hopes that many American
short-story writer's will read it,
particularly the ones who turn
out those wispy. vague word
for-word accounts of life in
New York which begin and
end absolutely nowhere.
M. Meg.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-14

The stories are simply writ
ten. indeed Babel has that
peculiar combination of the
simple and the rhetorical evo-
cation that goes much farther
back into Russian literature
than the era of the Soviets.
They are strange stories but
of real literary merit.
THE Trusting and the
Manned" stories on the other
hand. are of scant interest as
narratives or in their tech
nique. But they do give an
all-too-rare picture Of modern
Ireland. Mr.. Plunkett writes
of drifting or lost people sunk
in their own helplessness
against a somber Irish back
ground. AS is to be expected
in Irish stories, the symbol
ism is heavy. sometimes too
heavy. Perhaps his most sue
cessful story is the simplest, a
picture of a boy who came by
a half crown in an unworthy
way and who found that it
wasn't what he wanted after
all. EDWIN TREBLE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-14
It's q Mystery

There's been some discus
sion lately about what con-
stitutes good hot-weather read
ing. Some people can only
study dispiritedly the temper
atureS in Canada. or follow
with glazed eyes the progress
Of these cold fronts which
often seem to be heading this
way but don't always arrive.
There used to be a whole
school Of hammock reading"
at this time of year. You
could always count on a flock
Of novels about English house
parties and scrambled roman
ces. But they apparently went
out with the hammock. Or
maybe the people who I'M
ashamedly used to read them
are down in the cellar Sternly
coming their "how-to" books.
One tradition persists how
ever. That is that mystery
stories constitute light read
ing" The bedside table in the
guestrooms always has a lit
tie stack; reading racks in
planes are full of them. Why?
This is a mystery to some
people, a small. timid cult who
are unnerved by the action,
bewildered by the clues and
unenlightened by the solution.
Why the contemplation of
sudden death is supposed to
induce sleep is another minor
mystery that someone may
explain some day when the
weather gets cooler.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-14
THIS IS A FROLIC
THAT SHOULD
NOT BE MISSED
HAPPY RETURNS" B,

HAPPY rms" B,
choosy followers. M. o.
day & Co.; So
The two materializing
ghosts who rollicked through
Brief Candles" are more
sedate in their return ap-
pearance possibly because
the piquant idea Of shades
to the rescue loses some of
its shock value by repetition.
In their decorous way, the
vaporous Latimer cousins
who can appear and disap-
pear at will-cope with muir
der, smuggling. burglary and
q scheming female.
It is their materializing
monkey. however. who stars
IN this whimsy. Ulysses,
daring on too much wine.
visits an animal farm and
releases on an unsuspecting
European village a horde Of
fellow monkeys, two kan
garoos, an educated elephant
and a trained seal. The
sequence that follows is pure
farce, a delightful frolic that
shouldn't be missed.
MIRIAM GUTENBERG.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-14

young American Print
makers" at the Museum of
Modern Art, New York. 1858;
and he is represented in the
Corcoran Gallery and other
permanent collections.
James Caudle. now on the
art faculty of American Uni
versity and the Washington
Workshop. shows etchings and
block prints at the Bader Gal
lery. It seems to me they
might have shown to better
advantage in some other group.
Heads, figures and animals are
ruthlessly simplifled, some
times to the point Of crudity.
His Circus Riders" is perhaps
the best of his group.
Mart Groups
The Artists Mart (136l Wis
consin avenue. Georgetown is
having two group shows by
Washington artists this sum-
mer. More than 40 paintings,
watercolors and prints now on
view will make way on Au-
gust 20 for another selection,
to remain to September 6.
It is to be hoped that the
Mart will eventually have some
place where its changing ex-
hibitions can be shown more
advantageously. The large
number of miscellaneous cata-
logued works have to COM
pete with still larger numbers
also on view, necessitating
considerable concentration on
the visitors part.
One of the most effective
oils is by an artist new to me:
Richard Treston. His "Foun-
tain" splashes down from a
succession of basins, the spray
moonlit. George Bayliss' two
works, winter Snow" and
Nets" are quite different in
effect, but based on similar
compositional lines. Paul Stew
ems has turned the heads and
horns of steers into an all
over pattern in stampede"
Gustav Trois' Mystic Recum-
bent" appears nostalgia for
ancient Greece, and is as
romantic alphabetically as
Helen Costello's painting,
blue Mountain Home"
There are good watercolors
by Grace GorlitZ, Woodland
Spring" with Towering trees
bursting into color in a dark
frame of evergreens, and by
Richard Reasoner, whose
glimpse Of the sea is a vista
through lush tropical Jungle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-14
Stories From Rebel Russia
And Ireland Contrusted
THE COLLECTED STORIES,

THE COLLECTED STORIES,
by Isaac Babel. Criterion
Books: So
THE TRUSTING AND THE
MANNED. by James Plunkett.
The Devin-Adair Co.; So
Both these books of short
stories have the marks of the
nationalities of their authors.
Isaac Babels stories are
Russian-the Russia of the
revolutioniSts. The author
was a protege of Gorky's and
his work is relatively unknown
in this country. Beginning in
the early Dos, he wrote
we'll into the '30s when
he fell from favor of the Sta
linists and was sentenced to a
concentration camp where he
died in 1899 or 1910. This
volume has been edited with
an introduction by Lionel
Trilling. The translations are.
for the most part. by Walter
Morrison.
Most of the stories are about
the authors war service in the
Soviet army in Poland in 1920.
They are both realistic and
impresSionistic. They have a
fragmentary technique which
gives them a curious and fas-
cinating air. The violence and
brutality of the Russian
soldier is here, the impasSive-
ness of the peasant and the
brooding irony OF the intel
lectual. Babel is always the
intellectual, the detached on
locker, himself passing judg-
ment on nothing, although he
complains bitterly that in that
time and place everyone was
passing judgment on every
thing,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-14
Keeping japan
On Our Side in
Years to Come
JAPANESE AND AMERICANS.
A CENTURY OF CULTURAL
RELATIONS. BY Robert S.

A CENTURY OF CULTURAL
RELATIONS. BY Robert S.
SchWantes. Harper; So
DR.. Schwantes reminds us
that extensive cultural rela-
tons, contrary to a widely
circulated canard, do not in
sure peaceful relations between
countries. Japanese American
cultural associations before
World War II were as wide as
any between East and West,
he recalls in some detail. Ger
man-American ties we're SINH
larly no insurance against war.
After an extensive investiga-
ton of Japanese-American re-
lations, both pre-war and post
war, the author outlines paths
along which we might be able
to keep Japan on our side in
the years ahead. His principal
method would be to use cul-
tural relations-technical as
sistance. exchange of persons,
missionaries, and modern COM
munications techniques - to
help Japan solve her basic
political and economic prob
lens in her own interests DR..
Schwantes thinks our greatest
failure before World War II
was to allow cultural relations
to develop independent of ma
tional policies.
EARL H. VOSS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-14

1884" still remains the best
extant picture Of a slave state
based on current tendencies.
Perhaps because 1t depicts
what so easily could happen.
It is, admittedly, q relief to
get back to the present and the
recognizable in Nancy Hale's
collection of short stories,
"The Empress Ring" (Scrib-
ners; So.
Miss Hale, who has pub
lished several novels, among
them 1.-THE Prodigal Woman"
has mastered the brief story
which eliminates q character
through a situation or an
episode. While such stories.
dear to the New Yorker, where
indeed some Of these appeared.
have their limitations. they
also have a place in the liter
airy annals of any epoch.
In THE Place and the
Time" the author sums up III
a few pages a mans previous
marriage, which was ended by
death. A whole way Of life is
implicit in this summing UP,
as this man drives through the
little town in which his early
romance was wrapped. The
tragedy is not 80 much in his
loss as in his realization that
what he had wanted and
achieved was disappointing
and yet looked back on with
nostalgia sorrow.
Hardly Fiction
There is subtle, remembered
Characterization in People In
Places" The surviving. held
under one of two narrow-liv-
ing spinsters is depicted sharp
ly in How Would You Like
to Be Born. :"
Some of the stories are
mere sketches out of Miss
Hale's childhood. hardly, as
she explains in a forward. fic-
ton. but all ore deity done.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-14

. counterpart Of mechanical
dins and the acme Of
sculpture would come from the
shop Of the taxidermist." by
these standards, there could be
no literature A word 10
abstract. It calls to mind an
idea-for those who can read"
Granting the logic Of these
arguments, 1t would be inter-
esting to know Mr.. Hayes
opinion as to why a large pro-
portion of the population has
accepted and enjoyed litera-
ture and music (both abstract
from their beginnings) yet has
obstinately resisted in the past
century, abstract painting and
sculpture. The arts of the
ancients were abstract as well
as their music. AS Western
civilization advanced, litera-
ture and music continued alb
stract. while painting and
sculpture grew increasingly
naturalistic. so far as the skill
of the artists was able to make
them.
1t seems to me that the fact
literature and music are time.
arts. and painting and sculp-
ture space-arts, has major
significance. And books like
The Naked Truth" which set
the reader to thinking about 1t,
are to be warmly recom-
mended.
A CATALOGUE OF FRENCH
PAINTINGS, XIV XVIII
CENTURIES, in the Metro
politan Museum Of Art. BY
Charles Sterling. (Harvard
University Press; cloth, $50;
paper, So
The best way for the layman
to use this third volume of the
def1nitive catalogue Of paint
ings in the Metropolitan Mu-
scum of Art. New York City,
would be to visit the museum
over a long period, studying
each original painting with the
scholarly and authoritative
notes provided here. Every
painting is illustrated in half
tone tnone larger than 6 inches
long or S inches wide, most Of
them SmalleD with q single
color illustration on the jacket:
The volume should prove most
valuable to the student and
scholar who will find detailed
consideration of each work,
technical and biographical
notes, reasons for changes Of
attribution, and opinions Of
other authorities.
The author is curator of
paintings at the Louvre, was
research fellow in the Metro
politan's department Of paint
ing. l942-l946, and since then
foreign adviser.