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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-08
Cheese Dip
tablespoons olive oil

3 tablespoons olive oil
l cup chopped onion
l cup chopped green pepper
Glove garlic finely minced
y cups tomato Juice
u teaspoon thyme
Il bay leaf
"a teaspoon salt
ls teaspoon Tabasco sauce
Ia pounds American cheese,
grated
Heat oil in pan. Add onion,
green pepper and garlic and
saute slowly until tender but
not Drowned. Add tomato juice
and seasonings and simmer
covered, 10 minutes. Add grated
cheese and stir over low heat
until cheese is melted and
stir wot
blended with tomato Juice mix
ture. Keep hot over chafing dish
fire or candle warmer. Serve with
crackers, potato chips or fritos as
q dip. Makes about four cups.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-08

,hetti to 8 cups boiling water.
Boil rapidly. stirring constantly.
for Q minutes. Cover, remove
from heat and let stand 10 min
|utes. Meanwhile. drain shrimp.
Remove black vein from shrimp,
liz necessary, and rinse with cold
water. Melt butter or margarine
in saucepan. Add garlic and
onion. Simmer about 3 minutes.
Remove garlic. Blend In -four,
salt and pepper. Gradually stir
in milk. Cook gently, stirring
constantly until mixture is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-08

smooth and thickened. Stir In
cheese. parsley and shrimp.
Heat to serving temperature,
stirring occasionally. Rinse
spaghetti with hot water and
drain well. Spoon shrimp mix
ture over hot spaghetti. Makes
four servings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-08
Weekend Suppers
Are Easy to Fix

Easy Shrimp Spaghetti
{ ounces long spaghetti
1 cup cooked or canned shrimp
2 tablespoons butter
Glove garlic
3 tablespoons chopped onion
2 tablespoons enriched -four
" teaspoon salt
Dash pepper
IA cups milk
? tablespoons grated Parrnesan
cheese
2 tablespoons chopped parsley
Add 2 teaspoons salt and spag-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-08

and brown sugar and a generous
shake Of Worcestershire sauce.
Bake half an hour in a moder-
ately hot oven. Good with hot
dogs or pork chops.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-08
Olives

To add q gourmet touch TO
ripe olives. marirlate them in
enough red table wine to cover.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-08
AppIes With Ham

Tasty with broiled ham slices
are canned apple slices sauteeo
tenderly in the ham drippings
land given a generous shake Of
pepper.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-08
Master BIendmonship makes the difference!

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-08
Spicy Limos

Mix cooked large dry limas
with a spicy sauce made of u
cup catsup, 2 teaspoons horse
radish, tablespoon each vinegar
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-22

This new development, we are conf
dent, will not only benefit millions o.
owners of today's cars, but
it will also eliminate some of the
major barriers to your continued
Improvement of internal CON-
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-22
DORIS FLEESoN

SAN FRANCISCO. - Dele
gates to this convention tend
to equate political discussion
with eye-gouging at a tennis
match, but, nonetheless, a fas-
cinating study in politics is on
view here.
Vice President Nixon is Civ
ing a dress rehearsal in the
role of a young politician who
has come Of age-presidential
age, that is. He is doing it very
well, and his pretty wife is a
great help.
Nixon has been put in a
curious position here by the re-
fusal Of President Eisenhower
to walk that last mile in his
support. The President has
done enough to stifle a real
air-clearing contest, but at the
same time he has unleaShed
Harold Stassen to talk about
the need for one.
If Nixon challenges Stassen,
he too would be bringing to the
fore the issue whose existence
the President and Republicans
generally are absolutely de-
termined not to admit. This
is the question of the Pres
ident's health.
The delegates are handling
1t by Snubbing Stassen and
treating their four days here as
q romance between them and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-22
He'll Be Walking on Tightrope, However
Until Enormous Stakes Are Settled

San Francisco. This helps
Nixon but it does not solve his
problem.
There is a good deal of the
prize fight or bull ring in a
political convention and the
chance blow is an ever-present
danger. The Spanish proverb
says that you have no little
enemies, and nowhere is it
more true than in politics.
Nixon is thorough politi-
clan. He has not always been
farSeeing. but he works at his
trade. He knows what the
delegates will not concede-
that StaSsen has a point, that
important people within the
party support Stassen private
ly, that he will be treading a
tightrope until the last vice
presidential ballot is counted
here.
His solution has been the
one Nixon offered this week
a loyal lieutenant of the great
President, a sober man ready
to entrust himself to that
President and his fellow-Re-
publicanS for their wise and
considered Judgment.
He does not even permit
himself to smile at StaSsen
Jokes. Humor. of course. is not
one of Nixon's strong points;
he has hardly any.
In the view of Democrats,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-22
DOROTHY THOMPSON
Party Principles vs.. Platforms

The principles Of natural
science operate regardless OF
majorities.
Political principles ultimately
concern the growth, prosper
ity and survival of a nation
or civilization, or its decline
and eventual fall. The search
for such principles is in the
analysis of history corrected
by rational estimates of how
new developments modify the
lessons of previous experience.
The test of a good political
platform is not the judgment
of experience plus rational
analysis but the outcome Of a
single election. Genuinely to
seek a platform embodying
principles would be to defeat
the purpose Of the platform,
which is solely to contribute to
obtaining power.
Its principles" therefore,
are a reaffirmation of widely
accepted platitudes. Unlike a
principle. a platitude does not
have to be true. 1t merely has
to be popular.
Most people by now know
this. Only the platform COM
mittees OF conventions read the
platforms or remember them
overnight. They do not think
they will win or lose on them
but on the alignment Of inter-
eSts and the drawing power Of
personalities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-22
Selection of Nixon Appears Certain

would react favorably to
young Franklin" OF course
we all thought so. and that's
how FDR got his first nomina-
ton on the national ticket.
There have been such con-
ferences in other conventions
among the managers Of the big
delegations and the spokesman
for the nominee.
The Chicago contest on the
vice presidency last week, on
the other hand, was an ex-
ample Of what might be called
"open conventions, openly con-
trived at" for the open" Sc
lection was influenced covert
ly by Stevenson and his lieu
tenants. 1t can h hardly be
otherwise under the conven-
ton system in modern politics.
Out here they are talking
also about an "open" con-
vention for the vice presidency.
1t merely means that any del
egation can get the floor and
put anyone in nomination. But
a big majority Of the Re-
publicans want Nixon for the
vice presidential nomination,
and they intend to select him.
President Eisenhower has all
along carefully avoided any
appearance of dictation. But
it has been plain that nobody
else was likely to win the
prize. Harold Stassen's crusade
served only to emphasize and
delineate the strength Of
Nixon. In fact. as things have
worked out, it has assured the
denomination of Nixon.
For, as politicians have al
ways figured it, the President
in Office must be renominated
for a second term and run on
his record. If the record
doesn't appear to be good
enough for public approval at
the polls. then no other candi-
date could run as we'll and
defend that record.
A Vice President in Office is
theoretically in somewhat the
same position, and Nixon
particularly is because, wheth-
er in vigorous campaigning or
in presiding at meetings of
Government councils, he mas
acted always at the request of
or with the knowledge and
consent of President Eisen-
hover. So it's an Eisenhower
Nixon ticket again.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-22
Program Declarations Called PIotitudes
Intended Solely to Win Election

it to reason alone. But this
notion of the force of disinter-
ested reason was quickly dis
sipated by the facts of human
nature. in which interest, emo
ton and prejudice powerfully
contend against disinterested-
ness and considered Judgment.
And this has become more true
with the rise Of mass societies
and the organization of mass
interests.
In every political convention
these interests, commercial,
financial, agricultural. labor,
regional. and, increasingly,
those Of national and racial
minorities are represented. The
problem Of obtaining power be-
comes one Of estimating the
relative strength OF these in
terests to affect the outcome
OF an election. taking into &C
count the relative trend OF
the times" toward "modera-
tion," favoring in general
things as they are. or toward
radical change.
A political platform is, in
theory, q statement Of princi-
Piles.
But principles" have MOTH
ing to do with votes or power.
They are valid in themselves.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-22

A new and much-com-
mented-on book, THE Lion
and the Fox" purporting to be
a political biography of Frank
lin Delano Roosevelt, presents
him as a man Of high ideals
who nevertheless employed du-
bious means for their realiza-
ton, often including duplicity.
OF course he did, and unavoid-
ably. Lord Acton did not
merely say that Absolute
power corrupts absolutely" He
said also. "All power corrupts.
That is why so many fastidious
men shy away from politics.
The ambition Of politics is
to exercise the power of the
State-the ultimate power in
any society. Since the state is
a necessity, the power must be
exercised. The will to such
power may stem from a wide
variety of motives, conscious
and unconscious, egotistic or
humanitarian, from the am
bition TO command or the de-
sire to serve. from the urge to
promote specific interests or
from an idealistic vision OF a
better society.
But whatever the motive or
the combination OF motives.
power to be exercised must first
be obtained and afterward
sustained.
In ancient monarchies power
was obtained by legitimate
succession and sustained by
armies Of the kings men"
against possible pretenders. In
modern democracies, where the
will Of the people has be-
come heir to divine right. I"
power must be won by the suf-
frage Of a majority and sus-
tanned by its consent. The first,
inexorable, problem is there
fore how to obtain It.
In the eighteenth century.
which saw the birth Of this new
conception of legitimacy. It was
4 widely held belief that this
suffrage could be obtained by
,he appeals OF those seeking
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-22
CONSTANTINE BROWN
Diplomatic Post Expected to be Offered
When Nixon Foe Is Fused From Cabinet

taneous Republican demon
stration for the Vice President
the fine Italian hand of the
dean Of the Republicans in the
Senate, Styles Bridges, whose
influence and prestige in his
State is likened only to that
the late Senator Borah had in
Idaho.
After the New Hampshire
write-in vote, things began to
run Nixon's way until Stassen
took the bull by the horns and
decided to start an open OPP
position to the Vice President.
Because of the means available
to Stassen and the power of his
concealed supporters. 1t looked
as if the Nixon star was begin
ming to wane again. 1t was
then that Senator Knowland,
who was supposedly only luke
warm toward his fellow Cali
fornian, got into the picture
actively. He pointed out to
the Chief Executive that Stas-
sens overt actions might bring
about such a scuff1e on the
convention floor that the Re-
publican Party would emerge
seriously divided.
Outside his dedicated fight
against communism which
started during the Hiss in
vestigation, the Vice President
cannot be described as q con-
sentative. But in view Of the
prospective candidates his OPP
ponents were going to put for
ward, the right-of-center Re-
publicanS prefer him by far to
any other hopefuls. The fact
that in the primaries in Kan
sas and Utah two well-known
conservative Republicans had
won the gubernational nomi-
nations lent additional support
to the Knowland-B ridges
arguments that the progress
sive-conservative ticket of Eli
senhower and Nixon would
have a far better chance to win
in November than a purely
progressive nomination. AS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-22
DORIS FLEEsoN
Nixon Plays the Game AstuteIy

anything that happens to
Nixon is legal. Still, he has
been in a tough spot here and
he has handled himself ex-
tremely well.
The stakes for him are
enormous. If the Eisenhower
Nixon ticket is reelected, he
will be one heartbeat from
the presidency when it is held
by q man sworn in at IS with
medical history Of a heart
attack and major surgery.
Whatever happens. he will
be the top Republican and in
line for 1860. For this con-
vention is dominated by the
old faces in the party and
Senators whose chances for
national preferment are dim,
indeed. Nixon is its youth and,
as Of now, there are few
younger Republicans to chal-
lenge him.
An intimate friend of the
President, who saw him re-
Gently, says that Eisenhower is
determined to build q new Re-
publican Party of moderate
philosophy during his second
term. Eisenhower will be in
f1uential, given that term, Of
course. But the building Of a
party has a way of drifting
into the hands of its younger
men, especially when it's Pres
ident is in his last term or
has had it. Harry Truman
could so testify.
Hence the Importance Of
Richard Nixon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-22

Harold Stassen, who has
been the front-man for an
influential New York group of
political king-makers in an
effort to dump Vice President
Nixon, is not yet a dead duck
politically.
There is already a good deal
OF talk in informed circles here
that while he is unlikely to re-
return to the cabinet as Secre-
tary for Peace and Disarma-
ment, he will be offered q con-
ISOLATION prize in the form of
the ambassadorship to India.
The job has been vacant since
Sherman Cooper resigned re-
Gently to run for a Kentucky
seat in the Senate.
1t is believed that because
of his advanced social views
StaSsen would get along with
Messrs. Nehru and Krishna
Menon even better than Am
bassadors Bowles and Cooper,
the two other political am
bassadors who have filled that
post in the past.
The failure of Stassen's eff
forts is considered by the left
of-center Republicans as a
victory for the party's right
wingers. Indeed, had it not
been for strong intervention
in the dump-Nixon movement
by Senators Knowland and
Bridges who took UP the mat
ter in private talks with Essen
hover recently, the Vice Presi :
dents chances of denomination
would have been slim.
Nixon's star began to rise
again early last spring when
he got an impressive write-in
vote for President In the New
Hampshire primaries. 1t was
unsolicited by Nixon, himself.
who was as surprised as the
rest of the White House force,
including the Chief Executive
and his chief of staff. Sherman
Adams. But politicians in
Washington saw in that spon-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-22
DAVID LAWRENCE

SAN FRANCISC O.-To
those folks who are not famil-
lar with the techniques of ma
tional political conventions. it
should be explained that the
party in power always points
with PRIDE" while the party
out Of power always "views
with alarm"
II you read the text OF the
two platforms, you'll find the
Republicans proud of their
record and saying so quite
forthrightly, while the Demo-
Gratis are sure that distress and
disaster lie ahead unless they
are promptly restored to
power.
These contrasts are natural.
The Republican platform, for
example, is a calm and dispas-
sionate recital of the record
of the Eisenhower administra-
ton. Having almost no fac
tionalism within the party to
worry about. the platform
writer's had weeks and weeks in
which to polish their phrases
and condense their thoughts.
AS a result, the Republican
national platform is one of the
finest documents ever turned
out by any political party, here
or abroad. 1t is a masterpiece
OF idealisnn and practically
woven together in a simple re-
view Of the efforts of the ad-
ministration to meet the spirit
of the times-to maintain both
peace and internal prosperity.
Whether it be in the field
Of labor or agriculture or civil
rights or in any Of the other
fields of domestic legislation,
the approach is not extreme
or radical or socialistic. 1t is
an attempt to put into effect
the doctrine of Abraham Lin
coin, who said that govern
ment should help only where
individuals cannot help them
selves and should not interfere
in what individuals can do best
for themselves.
This principle. whether it
be called moderation" or
middle of the road" philoso-
ply, Is not novel. 1t has been
the underlying aspiration of
both political parties for dec
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-22
)NSTANTINE BROWN
Stdssen as Ambassador to India?

soon as Eisenhower became
convinced Of the political
wisdom of his two leaders in
the Senate, some Of the sup
porters on whom Stassen was
counting heavily in earlier
days either dropped out or
actually switched to Nixon.
Whether the Secretary for
Peace and Disarmament will
accept the reported offer to 60
into a highly honorable exile
among peoples whose overall
policies Of social improvement
and disarmament he shares
remains to be seen. Stassen
has had in his political career
many ups and downs--mostly
downs. Yet he has always
dubbed up again. According to
those who claim to know him
well. it is said that he aims
much higher-at the Secre-
taryship of State.
Political star gazers predict
already that If the Republican
administration is returned in
November there certainly will
be a change in the Presidents
cabinet. Secretary Dulles, they
prognosticate, will agree to
retire. Those close to the
White House maintain that
the Chief Executive is fully
satisfied with the services OF
his Secretary of State who,
despite much criticism and
ridicule heaped on him by
Republicans and Democrats
alike, has done more than a
creditable job under the pres
ent difficult circumstances. He
is ikened to the late Henry
L. Stimson who was bitterly
criticized while he was in the
Hoover administration but was
later praised even by his
critics as one Of the best men
to handle our foreign rela-
tons.
But in the event that do
nestle political considerations
demand that Dulles be sacri-
feed, Stassen is not only ready
but keen to take over the posi-
ton he has coveted for some
time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-22
Crusade by Stossen Seems to Emphasize
Strength and Assure His denomination

AIDES when they do get into
power, however extravagant
may have been their criticisms
when out Of power. 1t is sig
nificant that Adlai Stevenson.
too, talks of moderation"
nowadays.
The Republican conclave
this week, of course, resembles
many another convention of
the past held by the incumbent
party. There is always more
excitement when the party out
of power holds a convention
rs in Chicago last week.
because there is usually n
scramble for the presidential
nomination. When Franklin D.
Roosevelt was being renom-
mated in 1886. 1910 and 1914,
there wasn't any competitive
factor for the top Office and
the platform was written long
in advance. It followed each
time the usual pattern of
claiming credit for everything
good that had happened and
ignoring any mistakes that
had ham mazda
AS for the vice presidency,
the nomination, as a rule, is
controlled or influenced by the
man at the top of the ticket.
Sometimes his managers do it
for him. This correspondent
remembers how, in 1920, just
after the Democratic conven-
ton at San Francisco named
James M. Cox for the presi-
dency, there was q huddle of
a small group under the
rafters of the auditorium.
Those participating were the
bosses Of the big State dele
cations.
The man being proposed by
the nominee and his manager
was Franklin D. Roosevelt. 1t
was believed that he would
add strength to the ticket
because he had been anti
Tammany in New York State.
Charlie Murphy, boss of Tam
many Hall, was present and
agreed to swallow the plan,
though not until he and others
asked a few of us among the
newspapermen, who were
standing around and watch
ing, if we thought the public
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-22
POTOMAC FEVER
FLETCHER KNEBEL

SAN FRANCISCO
The big question at this Republican convention how the
leaders going justify their expense accounts
The Republican convention saying Harold Stassen is
a who let failure go to his head.
Cocktail party gathering people whom hostess
doesn't like well enough to to dinner
Both the Republicans the Democrats sing the Star
Spangled Banner indicate that Old Glory their
The only difference is that the Republicans believe it,
Stassens dump Nixon" drive makes progress time
another delegate declares Nixon Sassen claims that proves
his wife should never have let him leave home.
Proud of Eisenhower prosperity, Republicans have
campaign slogan: Keep the change"
Republican Chairman Hall decided that Harry Truman
is greater than Herbert Hoover after all Harry the first
ex-Presdent to say Adlai couldn't win
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-22
An Open Letter
to the Manufacturers of Motor Cars
the Designers of Automobile Engines

Gentlemen:
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The effect of this new gasoline additive-
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