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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-09
Back Door to u. N. Swings Open

ping out Of that organization.
The new setup would make 1t
even more difficult for Amer
lea to garner the necessary
voices when the next showdown
on the two Chinas" comes up,
probably next December.
It is true that if the pack
age deal is successful the
threat of a Communist agrees
sion against the Nationalist
held islands might be averted.
Communist China may feel
that her chances of being taken
into the U. N. have consider
ably increased and an agrees
sion in which she might come
out second best would be I'M
necessary. If she belongs to
the CLUB" she might even be
willing to agree to place For
mosa temporarily under a U. N.
trusteeship.
These moral and practical
reasons have caused Taipei to
turn a deaf ear to the Ameri-
can entreaties to yield to the
wholesale admission of SOW
ereign and satellite govern
ments into the U. N.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-09
DORIS FLEEs0N
We Are a Land of Many Races

up before the door and then
marched quietly in to take
their places on the benches
on the nave Women. some
with sleeping babies on their
backs, filled the two transepts.
The missionary. his wife. a
United States Information
Service officer and our party
sat on benches on the side
aisle by an open window. Such
musici The young, rich voices
had a rare quality with a per-
lection Of pitch and rhythm
which gave an effect that no
words Of mine can possibly
describe. They sang without
accompaniment Of any kind,
with a simple reverence that
brought tears to the eyes and
a great lump in the throat.
The service was in Chizizuru.
the native tongue. 1t is a Ian
guage of musical vowels and
phonetic pronunciation. 1t
was easy to sing the hymns,
especially when the third one
was set to that exquisite
Brahms Lullaby.
The preacher (who is
called the Baba) was a gentle
soul with tan suit, black vest,
and ecclesiastical collar. He
preached quite a long time
on the need for Christian edu-
cation. The missionary's wife
translated a sentence or two
for us and every once in a
while I could distinguish Bible
words. At the end he asked
me II 1 would care to bring
them "a message from the
people Of the United States"
This I did with quiet joy, re-
minding them that we are a
land of many races and are
indeed their brothers and
sisters.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-09
POTOMAC FEVER
FLETCHER KNEBEL

Ike confers with his money experts on the budget. They're
quite optimistic. A confidential survey shows that the taxpayers
have one or two more good years left in them.
=
Ikes cabinet flies to Camp David in helcopters again. They
say when Secretary Dulles stepped out, he whispered: If any
body gives us a kitchen mixer for Christmas, I'll scream"
Adlai Stevenson appeals to AFL-C1O leaders for support.
Adlai figures he'll win if he can get the farmers and the labor
leaders-and then an even split with the Republicans among the
lower classes.
Christmas buying is setting a new record. One guy went
shopping and came home with an armload Of toys for the kids
and three spare elbows for his wife.
The United Nations votes to admit 10 new members. Five
are Communist. The 10 others have no co-ordinated reason for
not liking us.
The Yuletide spirit is abroad in the land. Don't snarl at
the fellow who beats you to the parking space. II you irr1tate
him he may not borrow a nickel from you for the meter.
Comrades Bulganin and Khrushchev are still touring India.
They're making fast friends. Every time they open their mouths,
England and the United States rush into each others arms
again.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-09
DAVID LAWRENCE

At q time when public NOR
ais are on the decline and
when "expediency" is given
as an excuse for condoning
immortality in the behavior Of
aggressor governments, it is
a shocking thing to see dele
gates from So governments
voting to ignore a decision by
the Court of International
Justice which brands as lille
gal any package deal" for
the admission of members to
the United Nations.
Only the United States, Bel
GUM, France, Greece and Is
rael refused to participate in
the voting on a resolution
which asked the Security
Council of the United Nations
to consider" the application
of IS nations as a package.
Cuba and Nationalist China
voted against the resolution
itself. The position, however.
of the five that abstained
means that they refuse even
to agree that such a proposal
should be voted upon in the
General Assembly.
1t was on May %, 1913, that
the International Court, sit
ting at The Hague. handed
down an advisory opinion
requested by the U. N. General
AsSembly-and ruled that it
is illegal for a U. N. member
to make its consent for the
admission of one applicant de-
pendent on the admission Of
another and that 'considera-
lions other than those pre-
scribed by the terms and spirit
Of Article w (of the U. N.
Charter could not prevent the
admission of an applicant"
The ruling said:
THE provisions of Article
" necessarily imply that
every application for admis-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-09
CONSTANTINE BROWN
Toipei Opposition to Package Based
On Moral as Well as Practical Reasons

stubbornness on the package
deal might lose us the much
needed votes Of the Latin
Americans in the next show
down.
The answer from FormoSa
was that from the practical
point of view the Nationalist
veto will not materially inf1u-
ence the future. NATIONALIST
China's position in the q. N.
will be threatened If the United
States gives up opposing Com
munist China's entry. The day
we agree for expediency's sake
to overlook the past sins of the
Peiping regime in Korea, Indo-
China and elsewhere. Free Chi
ma will be ousted. Taipei feels
confident, 1t is said, that so
long as the present admins
tration is in Office in Washing
ton it will continue to fight
determinedly to keep the Com
muniSts out.
Moreover, say the Nation
alists. the acceptance Of the
package deal, in addition to
seating five Soviet satellites
which will obey Moscow's or
ders, will also admit a number
of countries which may adopt
the Soviet view on replacing
the Taipei regime by the Pei
ping regime.
Libya and Nepal. for in
stance. will not chance the
USSR's ire for the sake of the
Chinese Nationalist. Nor are
Austria and Finland likely to
line up with the United States
in such a controversy. And will
Japan which is seeking better
economic ties with Communist
China and the USSR want to
jeopardize her interests for the
sake of the Nationalist? And
for that matter, will Italy vote
against seating Peiping while
important economic deals be-
tween the two countries are In
the making?
II the powerful United States
Is willing today to adopt a
policy Of expediency how could
these lesser countries be ex-
pected to do otherwise when
either their economic or polit-
ical interests require them to
put expediency ahead Of prin-
ciple?
Thus, say the Chinese, the
package deal introducing 10
new members into the q. N.
might easily Offset the present
balance which has kept Pei
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-09
DOROTHY THOMPSON
Russians Tend Toward Gigonticism

daily cleaned by maids. (The
students make their own beds.)
In the many dining rooms
cold food is self-served from
Bullets and hot food at cloth
covered tables by maids.
Throughout the buildings all
floors not Of marble are Of
oak parquet-miles and miles
of them-some. in halls and
rotunda, inlaid with parti-
colored woods in various de-
signs. AS a housekeeper I
wondered how many workers
it took to maintain those
floors which should never be
washed with water, but waxed
and buffed. Obviously they
cannot be so treated. Women
were dousing them with rag
mops, leaving damp pools of
water behind them, and al
ready, though the building
plans are not wholly fulfilled,
the costly woods are beginning
to warp and their seams to
separate.
Why should a university. in
~cidentally with only 10000
students in the faculties here
housed, be erected as a regal
palace? What must be the
maintenance costs of all this
luxury even II half-properly
performed? 1 saw a woman
repolishing inch by inch by
hand a vast wall panel of dove
gray marble.
Is anything beautiful except
as it is appropriate to the pur-
pose it serves?
An amputee student limped
by on a crutch. So much money
for so much conspicuous waste,
but not money for artificial
limbs for war casualties?
What can be the purpose.
beyond the eternal imperial
wish to erect buildings as
memorials to a regime?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-09
Moscow's Architectural Style
Is Expression of Imperial Power

framed windows in an other
wise absolutely simple facade.
Characteristic of this new
giganticism is the waste of
space and the use of interior
materials inappropriate to the
buildings function. The pride
of the Soviets is the not yet
completed university to house
exclusively the science facul-
ties. The architects, headed by
Rudnev. are the same who
built the gigantic Palace Of
Culture in Warsaw, which
stands as a further example
Of the classification of the
satellite states.
I was told that the univer-
city cost 6 billion rubles. I
should not guess the figure
to be exaggerated unless its
stone was quarried and it's
walls erected under labor con-
ditions similar to those Of
Egypt's Grand Pyramids.
It's enormous columned
halls and wide stairs. down
which one anticipates the i'm
minent descent of an imperial
court, are of exquisitely COL
ored marbles. white feathered
with gray. gray feathered with
white, rose pink, porphyry.
and jasper, further adorned
with a frieze of the worlds
great scientists, their heads
sculptured in white marble on
porphyry medallions, bronze
statues Of the great Russian
scientists, golden chandeliers,
and lights mounted on stand
ing candelabra IL feet high Of
white, gold and cobalt porce-
lain.
The main assembly hall
every faculty I was told has
its own seats some 1000 stu
dents on chairs and sofas up
holstered in gold-colored vel
vet; its tall windows are
draped in gold silk damask. A
dance hall has an arched and
cofIered ceiling, marble busts
in inches, and brilliant bronze
chandeliers. A club hall, one
Of many, Is also upholstered
in gold velvet.
Within these walls live $500
students, In small but rather
elegantly furnished rooms.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-09
u. N. Action of 81 Governments
Ignores Finding of World Court

sion should be examined and
voted on separately and on its
own merits. Otherwise 1t would
be impossible to determine
whether a particular appli-
cant fulfiills the necessary
conditions. To subject an af-
firmative vote for the admis-
sion of an applicant state
to the condition that other
states be admitted with that
state would prevent members
from exercising their judg-
ment in each case with COM
plete liberty. Within the scope
of the prescribed conditions,
such a demand is incompati-
BILE with the letter and spirit
Of Article " Of the Charter"
How to carry out this deci-
sion presents a problem in
procedure. The United States
has never used and will not
use its veto power in the Sc
curity Council to bar any
applications for membership.
But the Soviet Union has
threatened to use its veto
power unless the entire group
of 10 applicants is admitted.
The position of the United
States is that the matter of
admission should be left to a
majority vote of the Security
Council. Since there is appar-
emily an assured majority in
the Security Council for the
so-called package deal" the
United States will abstain
from voting and will explain
publicly its viewpoint, which
is one of opposition to the
admission of the five satellite
countries-Albania. Romania,
Hungary, Bulgaria and Outer
Mongolia.
None of these five countries
possesses sovereignty. and each
is under the yoke Of the Soviet
Union. The United States Gov
eminent feels, moreover. that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-09

Nationalist China'S deter
mined opposition to the pack
age deal" which would permit
admission of 10 qualified and
unqualified new members into
the United Nations is based.
according to reports from
Taipei. on moral as we'll as
practical reasons.
The Chinese Nationalist
maintain that Article 4 of the
Charter provides specifically
that each applicant to join the
world peace organization shall
be judged solely on his own
merits. He must prove that he
is peace-loving and willing to
submit to all the provisions
Of the Charter. Outer Mon
golia, a province of the USSR,
definitely does not fulfill these
requirements.
In the past the Western
powers defeated overwhelm-
ingly Russia's attempts to bring
its stooges into the United Ma
tons by the back door. It is an
insult to compare Outer Mon
golia, which has even less free
dom than the other Soviet
satellites, with free and sover-
eign countries such as Italy,
Spain. Portugal or Ireland.
Our own Government fully
shared this point of view and
expressed it f~orcefully in the
past before Washington yielded
to a policy of expediency which
is highly unbecoming to a ma
ton which has assumed the
leadership of what is left of
the free world.
We have brought heavy
pressure on the Taipei govern
ment to abandon its present
position. Ambassador Karl
Rankin, on positive instruc-
tons from the White House,
warned Chang Kai-shek that
his attitude would seriously
affect his chances of remain
ing in the United Nations when
Russia, backed by Britain,
makes another attempt next
year to substitute the Commu-
mist regime for the Nationalist
in the U. N.
We have reminded the Ma
~tionalist leader that only
through our strenuous lobby
ing-particularly with the
Latin American republics
have we succeeded in the past
in keeping Free China in the
U. N. Chang was warned on
the highest authority that his
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-09
Solar Enerqy on WAY

OTTAWA, Dec. 9 (P0. - DR.,
J. L. Locke. stellar physicist at
the Dominion Observatory, pre-
diets solar energy some day will
replace natural gas, petroleum
and coal. He told a Royal As
Economical Society meeting the
suns rays on a lis square-mile
area in one day equal the energy
of the first atomic bomb dropped
on Japan. at Hiroshima, in l945.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-09

MOSCOW.-In the last COL
umn I advanced the convic-
ton that the spirit of every
epoch reveals itself in out
ward, formal expressions, i.e..
in style, and that is something
that cannot deceive the OPEN
eyed observer. The style Of
the Russian capital city is not
revolutionary. democratic, or
communistic. 1t is the ex-
preston of imperial power.
The only word I can sum-
mon to describe this style is
giganticism - cut aloof from
function, as though size had
a merit in itself. To this is
added costlinesS, the visible
expression of what Thorstien
Veblen termed conspicuous
waste" which is as much a
feature of modern Soviet ar
chitecture and decoration as
it is of the treasures of the
Tsars whose barbaric splen-
doris are awesomely displayed
in the Kremlin museum.
To create this splendid gi-
ganticism, Soviet architects
have invented nothing new
except to combine forms from
every imperial period with the
modern Skyscraper; here, also,
sacrificing grace, airiness, and
simplicity to mass. A MAN.
moth ~skyscraper will be ap-
preached by a porch of Ionic
or Corinthian columns, or for
variation with those who de-
rive their capitals from i'm
perial Egypt. A tower so nigh
that one cannot see the de-
sign without binoculars will be
surrounded by bas reliefs or
adorned with sculptures (or
what appear to be sculptures
reminiscent of a Gothic ca
thedral.
In contrast, the Kremlin
palaces, public buildings and
gold-domed churches are rela-
lively small and rather touch
ingly domestic. especially those
built. like the Bolshoi Opera
House. early in the last CEN
fury. with their sunshine-col-
ored walls and their gracefully
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-09
DORIS FLEESON

Representative Frances Boil
ton of Ohio will be able to
talk with Congress at first
hand about both the Egyptian
point of Soviet penetration
into Africa and what lies be-
yond it.
Egypt. now buying Soviet
arms and welding economic
ties with Moscow. is well
known to tourists. Mrs. Boil
ton journeyed south Of the
Sahara-West Coast, Gold
Coast. trust territories, the
Congo, Rhodesia. Ethiopia,
Kenya and the Sudan.
Cairo will be her last stop,
enabling her to evaluate events
there against an impressive
background Of personal expe-
rience.
DR.. Hodgson of the Mayo
Clinic is in her party on as
signment to study tropical
medicine. The United States
Army has contributed a Signal
Corps photographer, perhaps
in part for reasons Of its own.
Mrs. Bolton incidentally is
paying her own way but she
Is a staunch defender Of con-
gressional travel as absolutely
necessary to intelligent legis-
lating in these times. She says
she pays because she can af-
ford it, but many can't.
Her newsletters home are
Informative and deeply NOV
ing. "A Sunday to Remember"
dated December 3. tells its
own story. 1t is in the spirit
Of the season and it follows
in part:
I am far from cities and
towns, sitting on a hillside in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-09
Veteran to Recover
Bible Lost in Fighting

McALESTER, Okla, Dec. 8 tP),
years ago. Sam Hollo-
way Of McAlester lost his Bible
in the World War II fighting for
Aachen. Germany.
City Manager Harold Tippitt
said yesterday he had received
Ia letter from Joseph Franck of
IAachen saying that he had found
q Bible In the rubble Of an air
raid shelter and wanted to return
it. 1t had Mr.. Holloway's name
inside.
Mr.. Holloway has since moved
to California but his parents live
here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-09
Army Engineers Asked to OK
Toll Bridge to Assuteogue

Worcester County civic groups
and individuals oppose the build
ing of a private bridge. They
have advocated that a special
public authority be empowered
to build 1t and develop part OF
Assateague Island as a public
recreation area.
The office of the Army's dis
trict engineer here set December
81 as a deadline for objections
to the bridge corporations plans
insofar as navigation Is con-
cerned.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-09
Mrs. Bolton Tells of Sunday Visit
To Small Mission in Africa

the delightful country of
Southern Rhodesia.
On this little hillside. the
sun is very warm and bird
sounds are everywhere. To the
north the hills disappear in
the mist and l find myself
saying inwardly, II will lift
up mine eyes unto the hills,
from whence cometh my help.
My help cometh from the
Lord, which made heaven and
earth"
In front Of me stretches a
veldt or grassland which ends
in a great granite hill. curl
ously carved out by nature to
resemble an elephant. At the
other side of that odd noun
tain. I spent a Sunday that
will be long with me. We drove
about so miles from Salisbury,
where we are staying, to a
church service at the Meth
odist mission at the little town
Of Mrewa. How can I pos
sibly picture to you the low,
well-worn residence and the
charming. hospitable, young
missionary couple who greeted
us at the door? How can I de-
scribe the two large trees in
frcnt with their 2-foot hedges
of Grown Of Thorns" In
bloom?
AS the service was about to
start the young people who
attend the mission school
gathered for their simple drill
to the quiet. almost reverent
drumbeats. The boys were in
khaki shirts and shorts, the
girls in burnt orange smocks.
the choir in deep-red gowns
with white collars. All lined
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1955-09-21

broadcasts from Moscow,
since a Big-4 conference back
in 1947."
Worthy, however, kept
trying. And, August 1, at a
party given by the Swiss
legation, he approached
Communist party boss
Khrushchev with his tale of
woe - of six weeks of fu-
tile efforts to arrange a
broadcast circuit.
Khrushchev's attitude was
that he saw no reason why
Worthy shouldn't be permit
ted to broadcast. Whereupon,
the American reporter press
ed for a specific - chow
about a broadcast on the
meeting of the Supreme So
Wet Thursday?'
"Pozhalsta - Why not?"
At that, he tells us, Khru-
shchev put his arm around
his waist and said, "Pozhalsta
= why not?"
Another day passed, and
late yesterday, things began
moving in that Russian bu-
reaucracy. Today, Worthy
was told he could make a
broadcast. The time was set
for four o'clock this after
noon, New York time, and
Worthy set to work preparing
his script - a report on So
Wet Premier Nikolai Bulga-
nin's speech to the Supreme
Soviet.
"And then, promptly at
four, the broadcast circuit
from Moscow cracked
through the loud-speaker in
CHS News. Unfortunately,
atmospherics were heavy,
but we did salvage one par
agraph from Worthy's re-
port.
worthy did not have to
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1955-09-21

The enacting of a play,
Croatian or English, is good
for creating another sidelight
to our Lodge life. The prac-
tices leading to the day when
the general public sees the
play afford the members of
the cast a medium Of gath
ering oftener than the once
a month Lodge meetings.
Assuming a part in the cast
should fall to younger people
in the Lodge rather than, as
is often the case, the older
members. A part in the play
may give some American or
Canadian born member an
opportunity to all the better
acuuaint himself or herself
with the mother tongue, Gro
attain. Even taking part in an
English language play has its
merits and fits we'll into fra
ternal aspects.
For plays to embellish your
Lodge or Nest social pro-
gram, we ask that you write
to the Sports-Educational De-
partment at the Home Office
where same are available
with the compliments of the
Croatian Fraternal Union. In
many cases we can give you
sufficient copies of the play
YOU select to make unneces-
sary any transcribing by you
locally.
Frank Braidic, Director
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1955-09-21
From The Department OF Sports And Education
BV Frank BraidiC, Director

With bowling in our Soci-
ETY. via the C.F.U. Leagues
off with a brisk stride to a.
mother good season, we like
nothing better than to have
the leagues make full use of
the publicity which the col
umns of the Zajednicar make
available. We know from past
experience and from inquiries
that American and Canadian
born members were first in
doctrinated to reading the
official organ because the ap-
pearance of their loc a !
sports activity in the Zajed-
nicar.
1t is a we'll known fact too
that the league secretary is as
obsessed with his duties as is
the lodge financial secretary
is in his field. To ease the
work of the bowling league
secretary and with h e
thought in mind to give more
leagues coverage in the Ia
jednicar weekly we, this year
shall give them the choice of
two alternate forms of league
publicity.
First (1st) submit the
weekly reports in article form
which must come in such
style from the league itself
because we do not have the
Departmental staff to write
articles from scratch for the
league but whose submitted
articles we shall be only toe
glad to embellish; seconc
(2nd) to submit the compile
ted weekly reporter" form