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Evening star., 1956-03-30
School Children Rate
"A as Good Neiqhbors

the need to save the children
OF a lost generation.
This is the generation"
say the founders. which to-
morrow will influence the fate
of Europe and of the world"
Evening star., 1956-03-30
Has q Time With Toes
j. C., 'WdShiflgto1

I spend superfiuous time
each day lis to 20 minutes)
putting shoes on my 6-month-
old daughter. She curls up
her toes very tightly which
prevents me from getting the
whole foot into the shoe. Can
someone who has had to cope
Evening star., 1956-03-30

pletely open before lacing?
Any advice win be greatly ap-
preciated.
Evening star., 1956-03-30

with this problem offer a sane
solution? Is there a manu-
facturer who makes shoes with
q front that is almost COM
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-09

and General Assembly with men
from dictatorial governments
who would sabotage the IAPA
from inside.
This group of disSenters would
band together in opposition to
any program IAPA sdopted in
Havana. Mr.. Stahlman warned.
Plan Seen LudicrOus'
The Nashville publisher said
the IAPA regards the plan as
"ludicrous' and impossible Of
consummation'
1T is the proposal of a die
tator and his tottering regime"
he said. lin an effort to turn
back the tidal wave of public
resentment against oppressive
tactics of this two-bit imitator
of Hitler and Peron, who VIII
ultimately go the way of both
these tyrants."
Mr.. Stahlman said Gen. Rojas
Pinilla's stooges had prepared
for the Havana onslaught by
almost daily abuse of the IAPA,
charging its staff members
with Communist affiliations. Mr..
Stahlman said such charges, re-
futed by the aims of the aSso-
citation for free press, were the
"purest rot"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-09
DORIS FLEEsON

CHICAGO. - Democratic
thermometers have taken con-
troll of the writing of the party
platform. The drafting sub
committee named by Chair
man John w. Mccormack is
dominated by men on both
sides who really want unity on
civil rights and other issues,
But the war will not be over
until the candidates for Office
examine the subcommittee
product on which they will
have, TO run. Gov. G. Mennen
Williams of Michigan. for ex-
ample, can't be reelected on
words SO weaseling they will
bring roars of protest from
Walter Reuther of the CLIO.
Win, lose or draw. Williams
and people similarly situated
would have to fight again.
The South's dilemma is that
it has no practical alternative
to Adlai Stevenson's candi-
dacy. If Southerners make it
too tough for him and split
the convention, they can do no
better on civil rights and may
do worse.
This is admitted by the in
tellectual leader of their plat
form cohorts. former Gov. John
S. Battle of Virginia. 1t is the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-09
DORIS FLEEsON
Hormonizers Write the Platform

problem is that it doesn't do
him any good if the Southern
ers can be induced to take out
their Illustrations on Steven
son. All that would happen
would be to open the way for
a dark horse.
The Hartman technique is
to approach each and every
delegate with a request for his
consideration. The New Yorker
has been almost totally un-
able to do anything with other
Governors and leaders Of dele
cations.
Thus he has not been able
to announce important Access
sions of strength. Unless he
can do so rather soon, he is
finished.
His aides say they find a
very great uneaSlneSS over
Stevenson's ability to wage a
fighting campaign and win.
There is substance to their
charge that Stevenson is be-
ing accepted by the convention
as the best of the possible
choices, rather than with
great enthusiasm.
The reasons vary. Some
think him indecisive. Others
find him too intellectual. His
divorce worries Eastern, not
Southern, conservatives. Others
just hate the idea of running a
man who got beat before.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-09
South Believed Without Alternative
To Stevenson's Candidacy

reason the Governor of Missis-
sippi is being amazingly re-
strained and that Senator
Samuel j. Erwin, jr. of North
Carolina is beating a retreat
from his outburst against
Stevenson's call for a strong
civil rights plank.
Unlike 1862. there simply are
no Southern f1rebrands present
here who want to walk out and
will find a reason why. Had
Cows. James F. Byrnes. Allan
Shivers and Robert F. Kennon
four years ago not been pre-
sented with the loyalty oath
alibi, they would have found
another excuse. They we're
envenomed against Harry S.
Truman: they wanted to raise
the Eisenhower tidelands oil
banner in their States.
A few days spent here in
watching, and in conversation
with, the Southerners now
struggling with the civil rights
issue give a totally different i'm
preston. The 1856 group is
mad at a Supreme Court de-
cision. not at people they can
get at in a political convention.
This is a great difference, and
they see it.
Gov. Averell Harriman's
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-09
Bridges, Called Shrewdest Manipulation
In Senate, Due to Be Floor Manager
CONSTANTINE BROWN

Executive is concerned. But
both Eisenhower and Hall
have said the convention will
be open" and a number of
names can be presented for
the vice presidential job.
There is a unanimous belief
among the Nixon supporters
that Harold Stassen is using
Gov. Herter as stalking horse.
But when the chips are down
at the convention it will be
Sherman Adams. the Presi-
dents chief of staff and facto-
tum since early in 1852, whose
name will be put up as the real
contender. This belief is based
ON several premises:
Cd President Eisenhower
stated at his August l news
conference that he believes
in an open convention.
(2) The Stassen movement
was not the cerebration of the
Secretary for Peace and Dis
armament but was well-con-
ceived plan evolved by a num-
Der of so-called liberal" Re-
publicans who have financed
the movement and the alleged
poll taking. That list is still
kept, by and large. a secret.
Former Assistant Secretary of
the Army John McCloy, now
president of the Chase Man
haitian Bank in New York, had
been mentioned among those
influential in StaSsen's cam
paign But he denied emphati-
cally last Monday any connec-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-09
DAVID LAWRENCE
On Rejecting Reds New Lure

at their own risk, It might be
asked If this would satisfy the
State Department. The answer
would be negative. For other
American businessmen might
choose to apply for the same
privilege. and the result would
be commercial intercourse of a
clandeStine nature which the
American Government could
not even tacitly encourage.
Some news is coming out of
Red China through newsmen
whose governments have es-
tablished diplomatic relations
with the Peking government.
But no newsman would prob
ably be able to see during
30-day visit the things which
were described recently by
Lucian Taire. a European
businessman who has just
come out of Red China after
more than 80 years of resi-
dence there. Excerpts from his
book. which were published
recently by U. S. News &
World Report. revealed an
amazing story of how Commu-
mist China has been SovietiZed
and enslaved.
1t is doubtful whether much
real news will be lost to the
world by the failure of Amer
lean newsmen at this time to
make a 30-day trip to Red
China.
For about all they would get
is what some Australian and
British newsmen already have
gotten on their 30-day trips
some generalities about the
situation obtained in guided
tours restricted in area and
many quotations reiterating
the propaganda of the Red
Chinese leaders.
1t is more important for the
American newsmen to support
their own Governments efforts
to secure compliance by the
Red Chinese with international
obligations. and particularly
adherence to agreements al
ready signed with the United
Nations. than to assist the Red
Chinese in attempting to en-
barrass the American Govern
ment.
For the Red Chinese, who
have never atoned for their
crime in killing $500 and
wounding 100000 American
boys in the war of agrees
sion in Korea. have achieved
their objective. They see
American newspapers severe
ly criticizing their own Gov
eminent for erecting a bam-
boo curtain" and all this
because the State Department
can make no exceptions be-
tween businessmen when the
stakes are so great and the
moral issues so clear
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-09
Colombo Chief Charged
With Plot Against Press

NEW YORK. Aug. 9 (Special
The Inter-American Press AS.
ISOLATION said today that Presi.
dent Gustava Rojas Pinilla Of
Columbia is plotting" to sm-
barrass, if not ultimately destroy
the influence" of the association
at its annual meeting in Havana
next October.
/ IAPA President James G.
Stahlman. president and pub
Usher of the Nashville (Tenn.)
Banner. said the association
would not be swayed from its
ideal of free expression and a
free. press in all Western Hemi-
sphere countries.
Sabotage Effort Charged
Mr.. Stahlman said Gen. Rojas
Pinilla was trying to organize
a meeting of editors and news
paper managers at Havana or
some other location who would
be controlled by "stooges and
sympathizers of his dictatorial
government outside the sphere
and influence of the IAPA."
Should that prove impossible,
Mr.. Stahlman said. Gen. Rojas
Pinilla plans to pack the Oc-
tober 26-November 4 meeting OF
the IAPA's Board Of Directors
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-09
POTOMAC FEVER
FLETCHER KNEBEL

It's funny political year People less
who's be President than about who's going
Vice President.
signs bill for public housing Ike is Republican
middle roader That's fellow who the mo
Left Turn signs in election years.
In Air Force lingo, any girl close
to the base
Democrats prepare platform that will assal foreign
policy They Republicans have got the confused
that nobody knows what to to about
Ada StevenSons stand civil rights Southern
Democrats But his hackers he's still moderation
has merely changed in the middle of the
The further a foreigner from plumbing the
more likely he is to criticize lack of culture
Ted Williams of the Boston is fined SIS 900 for
splitting at baseball fans Too bad he didn't sidewalk
under him He'd have saved 81. 995.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-09
THOMAS L. STOKES
The Southern Democrats Course

gress, even should it lose the
presidency. This means they
would keep the key posts Of
power which give them a
dominating influence in Con-
gress.
Republicans still are weak at
the grass roots, though strong
at the top because of one fact
Ike"
There are other circum-
stances that encourage South
ern adhesion to the national
party. For one thing. they
really have nowhere else to go,
since they can get no balm on
civil rights from the Repub-
licans.
They could form a third
party, but that would shut
them out of all the benefits
they would enjoy if they can
hold Congress and maybe win
back the White House, which
would be possible only with a
united party.
Practically, too. they stand
a better chance to prevent
civil rights legislation with a
Democratic Congress than
with a Republican Congress.
All Of these factors explain
the very earnest desire re-
vealed by Southern leaders
here to keep the peace.
The Hartman forces are
whispering in Southern ears
in the effort to try to split of
the South from Stevenson-a
tactic designed TO bring about
the nomination Of the New
York Governor.
This strategy is as fore
doomed to failure as the nomi-
nation Of Stevenson is assured.
especially since former Presi-
dent Truman. who has been
sympathetic with Hartman.
has acquiesced in renomina-
ton Of the 1852 candidate as
inevitable.
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Nixon Prepares for Showdown

ton with the dump Nixon"
movement.
90 Nobody knows definitely
the attitude of Henry Luce,
who has at his command the
propaganda medium of his
two powerful weekly maya
zines. But late in July, Life
came out with a multi-page
story with impressive colored
pictures on Sherman Adams
life and family connection
with John Quincy Adams. The
Republicans in Nixon's corner
regard this as more than an
interesting magazine feature.
and as a minor boom to build
up a following in the country
for Eisenhower's chief of staff.
To these three factors must
be added the ample supply of
money which the so-called
New York group" has at its
disposal. And money has be-
come necessary not only in an
election campaign but also at
conventions.
The Vice Presidents friends
and supporters tsome of whom
have not always agreed with
him in the past but consider
his candidacy essential for the
Republicans should they win
the present contest do not
want to leave anything to
chance. TIL y.e are closing
ranks fast behind the Vice
President in the belief that
their unity will counteract
some shrewd manipulation on
the part of the liberal" group
which also has inspired Stas-
sen and made possible his
0rncaYt naYnnoio.1
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-09
Marine League
To Protest Custer
of Serqt. McKeon

SOUTH BEND. Ind, Aug.
(R.-William D. Webster. ma
tional commandment of the Ma
rine Corps League. says the or
ganization of 10000 former
Marines will appeal to Secretary
of the Navy Thomas to keep
S Sergt. Matthew McKeon in
the corps.
Mr.. Webster. employed by a
South Bend bank. said yester-
day the league would ask reduc-
ton of a court-martial sentence
as it relates to a bad conduct dis
charge for the Paris Island drill
sergeant who lost six men on a
night march through a tidal
creek.
The league commander said he
had no comment on Sergt. Nc
Keon's sentence to nine months
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-09

CHICAGO. - Impressive in
the preliminaries of the 1856
Democratic convention is how
two figures-one here in the
flesh in his characteristic
breeziness. the other in his
grave of glory at Hyde Park.
N. Y.-have left their imprint
on the party so indelibly and
have changed its course and
direction.
These two-Harry S. Tru-
man and Franklin d. Roose-
velt-offer an example of how
a political party can be re-
shaped and put to use by yet
another political leader who
is trying to reshape his party.
President Eisenhower has had
only four years thus far: the
two Democrats had 20 years.
We see here in two ways the
results of the Roosevelt
Truman handiwork in i'm
planting the New Deal-Fair
Deal philosophy in their party.
which before their entry was
falling back on its Southern
conservative redoubts. A ques-
ton ELIMINATES one.
What is the principal source
Of contention between the
front-runner for this years
Democratic presidential nomi-
nation. Adlai Stevenson. and
the only challenger left in the
field, Gov Averell Hartman
Of New York?
II boils down to which is
the best exemplification Of the
New Deal-Fair Deal pattern
which Franklin Roosevelt and
Harry Truman left as a
heritage.
That the two contenders vie
for the Roosevelt Truman
trademark tells the story OF the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-09
They Can't Beat Party, So They'll Join II
And Try to Keep Control of Congress

success of the two past Presi-
dents in making their party
into a national instrument
that stayed in power for two
decades and now is making a
bold and confident bid for a
return to power.
From the sidelines. Truman
is enjoying the compliment
paid to him and his prede-
ceSsor.
Here today we see a striking
contrast in the temper of
Southern leaders with that of
the l948 rebellion, or even with
that Of 1852 when there was so
great a detection to Eisenhower
south of the Mason and Dixon
line. But the provocation to-
day is direct. plain and factual
in the Supreme Court public
school indignation decision.
Today. Southern leaders are
calm. comparatively speaking
in fact, almost tame.
There is plenty Of resent
ment about the Supreme Court
decision, Of course. But nov
Southern leaders recognize
that they can no longer chal-
lenge successfully the strong
national party built up in the
Roosevelt-Truma era and
come out with anything for
themselves. whereas in this
year. because Of special cir
cumstances. they have much to
gain by staying in the party
Because Of Democratic Party
strength at the grass roots.
demonstrated in repeated local
and State election triumphs
since early in 1858 and culmi-
mating in the recapture OF Con-
gress IN 1854, united Demo-
cratic Party has a good chance
OF keeping It's control Of Con-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-09
Peiping Holds u. S. Coptives and Bid
To Newsmen Is Plot to Embdrross Us


ment has refused to release
imprisoned Americans, not
withstanding solemn promises
given more than a year ago
that this would be done. An
other reason is that the United
States, as a member of the
United Nations, is really in a
state of war with the Red
China government. Even mem
bers of the neutral commits
sion, like Sweden and Switzer-
land, who were supervising the
Korean war armistice signed
at Panmunjom have not been
permitted to go north of the
armistice line to make the in
spections which the armistice
agreement expressly provided
for.
Under such circumstances,
the invitation by the Red
China government is plainly a
propaganda trick which the
United States Government
must expose as such and must
insist is transparency insin-
cere. For there are hundreds
of Americans still in Jail there
the exact number is I'M
known-and Red China re-
fuses to let any neutral Red
Cross personnel go in to find
out the truth.
Strictly speaking, the United
States Government is obligated
to protect the lives and prop
erty of its nationals abroard. If
those citizens to whom pass
ports are issued are made
captive, they can, in accord
ance with tradition, rely on
the armed forces of the United
States to come to thsir rescue.
1t doesn't help the State
Department at this time to say
that in all probability the Com
muniSt Chinese wouldn't really
harm the American newsmen
if they went to China. The
State Department couldn't
make a convincing case to the
American people later on if
harm befell the American news
men-it couldn't say that the
department let them enter a
war area on the supposition
that the Red Chinese leaders
would refrain from doing them
harm. The record of the Pc
king regime is the record of
gangs ters in government.
Pledges and agreements have
been broken right along.
But supposing every Ameri-
can newsman would sign a
waiver of liability and free his
government from any obliga-
ton to protect him or to inter-
cede for him if he were taken
prisoner. so that all newsmen
who entered would be doing so
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-09

Secretary Dulles is getting
some brickbats for it. but he
is eternally right in insisting
that American newspapermen
should not be granted any
preference over other Ameri-
cans who wish to pursue their
particular businesses on the
territory of Communist China.
The Government of the
United States has a definite
policy, which is to refuse pass
ports to any Americans who
wish to go to the mainland
of China. Permission, for eX-
ample. was refused to the
parents of the American flyers
who were imprisoned by Red
China. The Red China gov
eminent invited them. 1t was
a tough thing to have to re-
fuse parents a chance to see
their loved ones.
Similar permission has been
withheld from businessmen
seeking to make deals with the
Red Chinese in disregard of
existing embargoes on trade.
Newsmen naturally feel they
are in a different class and
that, in seeking information,
they are not engaging in busi-
ness; but, so far as the Depart
ment of State is concerned. it
must treat all Americans alike,
whether they are in the pub
fishing business or the grain
business.
1t cannot today let Ameri-
cans engaged in the newSpa-
per business pursue their work
in Red China and tomorrow
turn down the requests for
similar privileges sought by
other Americans engaged in
other businesses who may
wish to enter Red China for
brief or prolonged visits.
An argument can. of course,
be made that the newsmen
will bring out new facts, that
they will not be brain
washed" and that they will be
objective and impartial. But
the State Department cannot
be concerned with the quality
of the work that might be
done by any American. 1t is
not refusing to validate pass
ports just because it is in any
way afraid that American
newsmen will be unduly influ-
enced.
What it is afraid of is that,
if the doors are opened to one
set of Americans, they must be
opened to all other Americans
in business. and this is not
considered a desirable step to
take at this time,
One reason for the policy is
that the Red China govern
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-09
Ex-Dictutor Peron
Goes to Venezuela

CARACAS. Venezuela. Aug. 9
(P.-Ex-P President Juan D. Peron
OF Argentina arrived here last
night from Panama, where he
has been living in exile for eight
months.
The deposed dictator was
greeted at Miaquetia Airport by
exiled Argentine Gen. Raul
TANGO, exiled leader of the most
recent Peronista revolt against
Argentina'S provisional govern
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-09

at hard labor.
Mr.. Webster attended five days
of the court-martial.
In view of the testimony and
spotless record of a fine career
Marine, we feel that he should
not be given a bad conduct dis
charge" Mr.. Webster said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-09

Senator Styles Bridges is
expected to be Richard Nixon's
floor manager in the event
things threaten to turn sour
for the Vice President at the
San Francisco convention.
Senator Bridges, chairman
of the Republican Policy Com
mittee. is acknowledged as the
shrewdest political manipula-
tor in the Senate, excelling in
reputation even the Demo-
cratic Majority Leader Lyndon
Johnson. AS a rule, during
conventions Senator Bridges
has operated behind the
scenes. But Republicans who
have become concerned over
the antics of Presidential
Assistant on leave Harold
StasSen have urged Senator
Bridges to throw his full pres
tige in the balance on the floor
to counterfeit the Stassen
plot"
1t is true the Minnesotan's
campaign does not appear to
be making much Roadway
with the rank and file of the
party. But the regular Repub-
licans. and especially their
leaders. remember what hap
pened to Robert Taft at Chi
cago in 1852 when he came to
the convention with some 500
pledged votes lin his pocket"
They fear the same thing may
happen to Nixon. who is sup
posed to have the promise of
a large number of delegates
that they will vote for him.
The Vice Presidents sup
porters say, Once bitten,
twice shy" and fear a sur
prise at San Francisco more
than they did four years ago
at Chicago.
They are not lulled into a
feeling of security for their
vice presidential candidate by
the soothing words of Presi-
dent Eisenhower. who has re-
peatedly stated that he ad-
mires Nixon and is fully salts.
fed with has activities during
the 1852 campaign and during
the nearly four years he has
been his teammate. Neither
do they share the conviction
of Chairman Leonard Hall,
who never misses an occasion
to say the ticket will be EiSen-
Nixon. but has said re-
peatedly, when pressed on
the Chief Executives attitude,
that he cannot speak for the
President. There is no doubt
about his Sincerity-as there
is none in so far as the Chief
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-09

ment, and about $50 cheering
fellow countrymen.
When he left Panama. Gen
Peron told airport reporters he
was flying to Venezuela Ito get
farthern South"
Asked his plans. the deposed
dictator said, Il don't know
whether I am going to some
other country latter Venezuela
or return here (to Panama..