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Evening star., 1956-12-03
Old Fight With Northern Liberals Flares
Amid Signs of Rising G. o. P. Strenqth

fights in both States played a
part in these returns. they at
least indicated that there, as
elsewhere. extreme party loyal
ties are waning. West Virginia
also elected a Republican
Governor.
Nor is this all the story.
Members of Congress from
Texas. Florida and Louisiana
have returned to the Capitol
with rueful admissions that
the like-Ike voters of their
States show. no signs of dis
,persing quietly to their homes.
They are instead showing a
disposition to get into State
politics and they display none
of the traditional aversion to
being called Republicans.
The reasons cited are gen.
orally the same and they stem
from the economic and social
changes so apparent through
out the South. A prosperous
middle class is emerging from
the Increased industrialization
of the area and it is joined
by the Negro voter in the cities
who does not like the pro-
segregation attitudes Of most
Southern Democratic spokes-
men.
During his campaign, Vice
President Nixon noted with
Evening star., 1956-12-03
DORIS FLEESON

1t is beginning to appear that
Southern Democratic poll
ticians, who are so much more
powerful nationally than their
actual numbers would indi-
cate, are going to have to
make some fundamental de-
cisions on several fronts.
To start with, their leaders
in Congress are faced with a
direct and personal challenge
from the Northern and West
ern liberals of the party. This
is an old fight, minimized until
lately by the powerful and
successful presidential per-
sonalities of Franklin Roose-
velt and Harry Truman.
What is new is that the
Democratic South can no
longer lead from undisputed
strength at home. President
Eisenhower has broken its
solid front not once but twice
and the second time more dra-
matically and powerfully than
the first. At the same time,
Democrats. while still control
ing Congress. failed to unseat
a single one of seven Republi-
can House members.
Republicans also elected
three border State Senators,
two in Kentucky and one in
West Virginia. While factional
Evening star., 1956-12-03
Something for Reds to Think About

and around Formosa in
stantly-without further con-
sultation. This was an un-
precedented grant of authority
and seemed imperative in a
nuclear age.
Something of the same type
of authority may some day be
given to the President by Con-
gress to act in Europe and in
the Middle East if the Soviet
Union keeps on arming small
countries and inciting them
to war, and persists in using
its own army to destroy the
freedom of small nations. For,
while mission of liberation
as such will probably never be
initiated by the United States,
there may come a time when
the United Nations will au-
thorize an international police
force to act and then America
will be going along with the
other powers.
A third world war isn't as
impossible as it seems, and So
Wet policymakers ought not to
be under. any illusions as to
the manner in which a free
people can be goaded into war.
Four times in the last SO
years war has been sanctioned
by American public opinion
the Spanish American war,
World Wars I and II, and the
Korean War. In every instance,
America sought to uphold a
moral principle directly related
to human liberty and freedom.
The latest pronouncement Of
moral principle by the United
States Government - issued
yesterday at Augusta, Ga, by
the President and Secretary of
State-SayS:
"a particular responsibility,
we believe. lies upon those
members of the United Nations
which. by adhering to the At
lantic Charter. pledged them
selves to the principles of self
government for those who had
been forcibly deprived Of it,
and the assurance Of a peace
which would give freedom
from fear"
The foregoing words signif-
icantly remind the Soviet
Union that it signed the At
lantic Charter for whose ideals
America fought in World War
II. These same words may be-
come prophetic of a statement
Of objectives for which Amer
ica may feel compelled to fight
some day in World War III.
It's worth thinking about in
the Kremlin.
Reproduction Rights Reseryed)
Evening star., 1956-12-03

| He said he used the word
political" in the sense that he
will seek to help plan better
ways to resolve differences
among member nations through
consultation.
Senator George said he be-
lieves crises in Suez and Cyprus
and the explosive Hungarian
situation have taught NATO
member nations new lessons
about the risks Of trying to go
lit alone in world plagued by
a cold war.
Amended Statement
After Britain and France sent
troops into Egypt. he had pro-
tested that by doing so without
consulting this country and
against United States advice,
they had virtually walked out
Iof NhTO. Since then he has
amended the statement. But he
said he still thinks the French
British action docs complicate"
efforts to strengthen NATO.
Senator George said the West
Iern nations which formed NATO
were tending to lose sight of
the value Of united action" un-
it'll war scares flared out of the
Hungarian revolution and Suez.
He said these tensions produced
IAN acute awareness" of the po-
tential value of such an organi-
zation as NATO.
Evening star., 1956-12-03
Rhee's Fear of a Powder Keu

possibly more clearly than you,
In the recent United Nations
Communist war right here"
President Rhee permitted
himself to speculate a little.
Our army is now $4,000
strong. All are faithful ia
our national cause. But we
could double this number with
trained men who now form
our reserves if America would
only give us the hardware and
gasoline. the ammunition, and,
particularly. more planes"
Mr.. Rhee realizes that the
ROK army has been placed on
very strict rations Of ammuni-
tion because many in the
American Government con-
slider him a warmonger who is
looking for trouble.
IF the unity Of my country,
in keeping with the pledges OF
the United Nations, constitutes
warmongering. then ! confess
to it," he said.
II have never signed the
cease-f1re but accepted it un-
der dureSs. 1t formally pro-
vided that political discussion
leading to the unity of Korea
would be started within 80 days
after the shooting ended. Four
teen times 80 days have now
elapsed and we are still With
out any political discussions.
Let's be realistic. When the
Chinese and North Korean
puppet governments were so
anxious for a cease-fire more
than three years ago, defeat
was staring them in the face.
They have tricked you. They
have now a new aggressive
force.
do you really imagine that
under these circumstances they
will accept anything except a
unification of the whole penin-
sula under the hammer and
sickle?"
Evening star., 1956-12-03
DAVID LAWRENCE
Terror of H-Bon1b Won't Prevent u. S.
From Going to War for Just Cause

Maybe this is a dispatch
that the Kremlin's monitors
who watch American public
opinion ought to read very
carefully. 1t may come as a
surprise to them, as it did to
this writer, who gathered the
information. For the Soviets
are playing with fire and prob
ably don't know it can result
In a blaze that would spread
far and wide.
The other day, this corre-
spondent began talking to the
man on the street" about the
happenings in the world. One
conversation out Of several is,
Of course. not typical but, be-
cause it resembles so closely
comments that became typical
prior to the outbreak of two
world wars, 1t is reproduced
here for whatever point it may
convey to readers here and
abroad:
What do you think of the
world situation?" was my first
question.
Pretty bad. I'd say. I feel
sorry for those poor Hungar-
ians," was the reply Of a taxi
driver.
We'll, what can we do about
it,"
II don't know, but I don't
like it,"
Would you have America
60 to war about it?"
Il just don't like to see us
get pushed around"
Would you favor sending
our American boys into war in
this situation?"
We'll, I was in the Second
World War and in Korea, and
Jnere comes a time when you
got to do something"
Have you any sons?"
eyes, two in the Navy and
one in the Army"
Aren't you worried about
the big bomb-the one they
say will destroy us all on both
sides II it's used in warp"
"No-then we'll all be dead
anyway-so what"
The conversation may not
by any means reflect present.
day thinking in America. But
1t is significant of the way a
determination to go to war
slowly but surely develops over
a period of time, 1t happened
this way twice before.
There is something indefin-
able and even awesome about
Evening star., 1956-12-03
Alarmed at South Koreo's Weakness
And Communists Military BuiIdupf
CONSTANTINE BROWN

SEOUL. Korea (By AirmaiD
President Syngman Rhee sat
in his living room, slipping a
cup of tea and munching a
raisin cookie made from a
recipe which Mrs. Rhee had
clipped from an American
magazine.
This reporter was reminded
that this scene was in the
home of a president whose
nation is at war when he saw
through a window the camou-
f1age net which covers the en-
tire house. The enemy is only
five minutes away by plane.
Mr.. Rhee's voice was not
excited but anxious as he told
Of the powder keg on which
the South Koreans are sitting.
Il have sent repeated appeals
to President Eisenhower" Mr..
Rhee said, about terminating
the armistice of 1858. Its effects
on your country and mine are
extremely dangerous.
"The arrnistice Strangles my
country. because the enemy
holds vital South Korean ter
ritory - Kaesong, the Onjin
Peninsula and the Han River
delta-and it still permits the
Communists to build up an
imposing force while we and
the United States forces are
compelled to rely on obsoles-
cent weapons and we are not
allowed to increase our fire..
power"
But Mr.. Rhee was even more
alarmed at the conditions of
his people in the North. THE
Chinese Communists" he en-
phasized, ARE applying the
'resettlement' doctrine with re-
venge. It's a trick they learn
ed from their Russian men,
tors. What is happening in
Hungary today happened to
North Korea some time ago
and is still taking place.
when the 38th Parallel was
established. there were 8 mil
lion Koreans living in the
North. There are about 4 mil,
lion left now. Two million
have managed to escape to the
South. The rest have been
sent to the mines in Siberia,
Manchuria and Sinkiang.
Women are forced to marry
Chinese in order to comply
with the wishes of Chou En-
lai to form an entirely new
Chinese population in a coun-
try which for thousands of
years has been inhabited by
Koreans"
Although there is a cease
fire in effect, all indications
point to a possible Communist
surprise attack. And President
Rhee, whose spryness bellies the
belief that age necessarily
slows down an individuals
mental and physical faculties,
pointed out on a map the
enemy's air bases.
He shove how Red jet
bombers could be over Seoul in
five minutes and attack PuSan
within is minutes from takeoff.
There is no question in the
minds Of American and ROK
military men that both cities
will be the first targets of the
superior enemy air forces
Seoul for morale reasons and
Pusan to deny us the only
satisfactory port of entry for
American supplies.
The Importance Of Pusan
can be easily appreciated when
one realizes that the ROK
army has supplies for less than
Evening star., 1956-12-03

1885. These figures compare with
q total Of $57.5 million. or $27.44
per capita, in 1946.
In Virginia in 1856 the State
tax collections were $226.5 mil
lion. or $63.29 per capita, against
$79.6 million. or $24.94 per capita,
in 1916.
The data applying to local
taxes is for fiscal 1858. In that
year taxes collected by cities,
counties and other local units in
Maryland totaled $142.7 million,
which was $57,25 per capita. The
Virginia figure was $126.6 million,
or $36.40 per capita.
Evening star., 1956-12-03

three weeks of fighting and
our own two divisions for less
than twice that long.
IT certainly appreciate and
share your Presidents longing
for peace" Mr.. Rhee con
tinued. But we have to be
realists and understand that
there is only one way to CO.
exist with the CommuniSts-to
yield to them and accept their
domination.
"The problem Of Korea has
apparently become Of second
ary Importance to you because
you bear on your shoulders the
heavy weight Of the entire
globe. Yet it is my belief that
the fate Of the world hangs
more in the Pacific than in any
other area.
"It is here that the unholy
Moscow-Peiping axis can exer-
else its might. And the free
nations in this area, South
Wet Nam, Nationalist China
and the Korean republic, are
your advance posts which will
fight to the bitter end because
their very existence depends
on it."
1T is true" he went on,
that the enemy has much
larger forces than these three
countries have. But don't for
get that the military forces of
the Asian nations which be-
long to the neutralist bloc are
dedicated soldiers who know
what they are fighting for
while the Reds are composed
of men who have been i'm
pressed into their vast armies.
with the first major set
back, these men will desert to
our side. We have seen this,
Evening star., 1956-12-03
Cory Awarded Frances
Top Literary Prize

PARIS, Dec. 3 (P.-Romain
Gary. French consul in Los
Angeles. today was awarded
Frances top literary prize. the
Prix Goncourt.
The award-winning book is his
sixth and latest. Les Racines
du Ciel." IT'S title translates
roughly as THE Roots Of the
Sky"
Evening star., 1956-12-03

the way a nation makes up
its mind to go to war. Having
tried negotiation. having tried
appeasement. having tried Co
existence" having tried every
thing, there comes a time
when the demand is that mill
tary force be used.
1t has been generally as
sumed in the last few years
that because of the terrible
destruction the hydrogen bomb
could wreak on both sides,
there would be no global con-
flict again-neither side would
allow it. History proves, how
ever, that terror does not pre-
vent war. Indeed. before 1899,
the bombing Of civilian popu-
lations was known to be
certain consequence of the
outbreak of any war. The
people of England submitted
to bombing for many years
rather than surrender. The
human spirit can bravely risk
death If there is a basic con-
viction Of the business of the
cause.
Just when do peaceful people
make up their minds to 60 to
war? At what exact moment
does their patience become ex-
hausted and do they fling
themselves almost recklessly
into a war that they become
convinced must be fought and
won if human liberty and free
dom are to survive?
Nobody can answer that
question yet, with reference to
present-day events. The men
in the Kremlin are making
the same mistake the Kaiser
made in 1917 and that Hitler
made in 1889. They both be-
lieved American military
power would never be brought
to bear on the side of Britain
and France.
Unfortunately. part Of the
error Of the Soviet Unions
rulers today is based on an
undue emphasis they can note
in American policy statements
concerning Remuneration of
the use Of force" This, how
ever, must be read as a hope
applied to all sides rather than
a self-prohibition. The most
significant evidence of this is
the overwhelming vote given
by the Congress of the United
States last year in authoriz-
ing the President under cer-
tain contingencies to use
American military force in
Evening star., 1956-12-03
POTOMAC FEVER
FLETCHER KNEBEL

Crisis ootnote Nobody Ike being able
to see the woods for the trees He stays the faway
Democrats hint that Ike ought little abroad
How can the Democrats become the party of Ike
doesn't get us into a warp
The Labor Department says homes getting larger
family needs two extra One put the
one in which to hide from it.
Republican Chairman Hall may get Cabinet post-as
reward for not letting Republicans this year
than was absolutely necessary.
AS the college football Closes says that
losing builds character he's got IL AAmean characters
Vice Admiral Brown 9Th Fleet skipper says Russian sub
marines getting thicker The comrades closed up
the Communist underground-and under water
Evening star., 1956-12-03
Government More in Red
Despite Bigger Tax Yield

Government - Federal, State
and locals taxing and taxing,
spending and spending. and go
ing deeper into debt, according
to figures compiled by the Tax
Foundation.
Adding up the spending of all
levels Of government, the Foun-
dation came to a total of STA
billion for fiscal 1856. This was
about 81 billion more than in the
preceding year and was about a
quarter Of the Nations total pro-
duction Of goods and services.
Tax receipts in fiscal 1856 were
about 500 billion. or about $l2
billion higher than in 1855. In
the earlier year the three levels
OF Government went $8 billion
more into the red. with total
debts reaching a peak Of 1919
billion.
The Tax Foundation is an or
Eanization engaged in research
on Government spending and
taxation. II is headed by Roswell
Magill. New York attorney and
former Undersecretary Of the
Treasury.
Spending Outstrips Revenue
The figures given are from
Facts and Figures on Govern
ment Finance. a book crammed
with l73 tables. issued today by
the Foundation.
In q foreword. Mr.. Magill
wrote that while Federal reve-
nues are increasing rapidly de-
spite the general tax reduction
Of 1854, expenditures are in
creasing almost as fast. This
leaves little room for additional
tax or debt reduction. At the
state and local levels. increased
spending Is outstripping in
creased revenues and State local
tax problems are becoming seri-
Gus"
Spending in 1856 amounted 10
s694 80 per person. the Founda-
ton estimated On a per capita
basis each Americans share OF
the overall debt is sla3e. That
comes 70 ST,75s for family Of
four.
The estimate Of all Govern
Evening star., 1956-12-03
George Will Continue
AS US. Envoy to NATO
BY the Associated Press

Senator George, Democrat of Georgia said today he
agreed to continue as President Esenhower personal
sentative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
He said the Job has been challenging by
which he said nearly Western defense alliance
Evening star., 1956-12-03

ment tax receipts in 1856 is al
most 10 times the amount taken
in 20 years ago. Federal taxes
rose to $72 billion, or about SO
billion more than in 1855. State
taxes increased from $l3 billion
to SIS billion. Local taxes in
creased by about 81 billion from
slightly under $12 billion in 1855.
ID. c. Collections Jump
Federal internal revenue COL
lections in Maryland and the
District of Columbia in fiscal
1855 amounted to Sl.88 billion
against S13s.6 million in 1899
In Virginia the 1855 collections
we're sl.05 billion against $2l2.s
million in 1899.
State tax collections, excluding
unemployment taxes. in Mary
land amounted to s24S.6 million
or S90.62 per capita. in fiscaI
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release, produced BY Michael Balloon,
directed BY Michael Truman, original
story and screenpiay BY william Rose
music BY John Addison. at the Mac
Arthur Theater
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invited to the premiere Of Away
All Boats" by Jack Diamond,
U-I's publicity boss, she wrote
back: Dear Jack: If the baby
doesn't come before s pm. on
the day. wen be there"
It's final that goth Century
Fox wants Marilyn Monroe for
1.-THE Jean Harlow Story" Now,
all they have to do is talk her
into doing it. and that won't be
easy. Marilyn plans a long vaca-
ton after THE Sleeping Prince, .
and isn't interested in doing
another picture until late next
summer. She also has to APP
prove the script.
\ \ ~
Kirk Douglas, with his boys at
Catalina. was slightly chagrined
when q lady fan gushed, "Oh,
you're that marvellous acrobat. .
She meant Burt Lancaster in
Trapeze." "But anything can
happen in Catalina" said Kirk.
Apropos of ex-wife Diana's re-
See GRAHAM Page CT
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1t Rains in Spain

HOLLYWOOD CNANA).-
Frank Sinatra. who gets around,
is getting around Carmen Sc
villa, star of Paramount's Fla
menca," now in Madrid.
Which reminds me, Director Don
Siegel drove $50 miles from
Madrid to Toledo to look for
locations, but it was raining SO
hard he couldn't get out of his
car. Even worse than Califor-
mia rain." he grumbled.
Macdonald Carey is buying a
farm in Bucks County. Pa. for
his family of six children and
wife Betty. But I can't figure
when they will live on it. Coming
up for Mac are 80 half-hour tele-
films on 1.-THE Young DIR. Chris
tian." The late Jean Hersholt
chose Mac for the series.
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WHERE AND WHEN
Current Theater Attractions and Time Of showing

Ended: 11:15 am. 2. ass,
7:45 and 1885 pm.
Little - "Wayward Wife,;
lis. 4:05. 7. and 9:55 pm.
Macarthur - Touch and
Co.; $40. sos and 9:55 pm.
Metropolitan - "Crime in the
Streets; 1885 am. .1:35. 1885
$40, TAO and 9:40.
Ontario - THE Man Who
Knew Too Much; las, 3:45.
6. BIS, and 1890 pm.
Palace - Catered Affair;
1l:40 am, las. 1855, 6. S:05
and 1915 pm.
PlayhOu-e - Invitation to
Dance; II am, 1885, 2:35,
Ais. sos, 8 and $50 pm.
PIaza-"The Last 10 Days;
1915, 2:15, AIS, 6:15, 8:l5 and
1918 pm.
Trans-Lux - Picnic: Il
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Paddy Chayevsky, a writer
who believes better movies are
to be made out of the material
Of family picture albums. is. back
with another one.
This is 1.-THE Catered Affair"
new Palace attraction, which
breatheS the same Bronx air as
Marty" Like the latter. it is
a hand-me-up from television,
Chayevsky's home field as a
drafnatist.
"The Catered Affair" with
Bette Davis, Ernest Borgnine
and Debbie Reynolds, is destined
to create no such sensation as
MARTY" 1t is an Irish slice of
life and while it reaches for the
same emotional texture, it misses
its mark. BY seemingly trying
to say more. Chayevsky says less,
as if the Irish lacked the ebulli-
ence and bounce of Martyrs
Italians.
Nevertheless, Chayevsky has
observed his people closely and
is prepared to argue eloquently
that despite their appearance
of being drugged by poverty,
they can feel joy and pain like
anyone else.
This point he illustrates, with
a vehement assist from Miss
Davis. in the instance of a New
York cab driver whose wife wants
their only daughter to have a
catered wedding. In this tale
of a mothers revolt against the
drabness and emptiness of her
own life, the author again takes
the risk that dull lives must
photograph DULY. Again he
tends it off. though by no means
so successfully.
The key character in the film
is the soggy. shapeleSs woman
played by Miss Davis. Until her
daughters engagement, she is
resigned to the dreariness of the
family's life. Now, if it takes
the last cent OF the $4,000 pop
has saved to buy a cab of his
own, that is the way it will
have to be.
Gore Vidal adapted and Rich
ard Brooks directed THE Ca
tered Affair."" Both have quite
caught the feeling of the origi-
nal which is more somber than
1t need have been and more
mechanical in its effort to inject
realieving lightness into its FAM
lily tensions.
Apart from brogue trouble,
Miss Davis makes a dramatic
figure of the mother determined
to save her daughter from her
own fate. Her moving portrait of
defeat is the films best, but
there are several others. One of
these is Debbie Reynolds of the
daughter who just wants to get
married to escape a sordid home
Others are Borgnine, as the I'M
sympathetic father obsessed by
the idea of a cab of his own;
Barry Fitzgerald, as the elderly
bachelor brother of Miss Davis,
and Rod Taylor. as the fiance
whose common sense is imperiled
by the emotional upsets around
him.
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STAGE

STAGE
Carter Baron Amphitheater--
Ballet Russo de Monte Carlo:
$50 pm.
National - "Teahouse Of the
August Moon: $50 pm.
Shubert-Dark.
SCREEN
Ambassador-"Crime in tn e
Streets; 100. $3.50, $50, 7:3O
and $50 pm.
CapitoI-"B howani Junction;
l1:15 am, 1:20, 3:25, 5:35,
TAO and $3.50 pm.
Col0ny-'Doctor at Sea-; 6:I0
8 and $3.50 pm.
Columbia - Behind High
Walls; 11:15 am, 2:15, Sis,
and $40 pm.
DupOnt--"Tobacco Road; /,
4:35, 8:15 and 1850 pm.
Keith's - DAY the World