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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-14
DORIS FLEESON
Primaries Offer Only Solid Clue to How
Voter Feels About the Health Issue

Republicans ostensibly regard
the presidential preference
primaries starting this week as
mere formalities so far as they
are concerned.
Actually they will examine
all the returns with scrupulous
care for they afford the only
really solid clue to how the
voter, safe and secret in his
polling booth, feels about the
issue of President Eisenhower's
health.
OF course, the COP. re-
turns will be sweep" for the
President. Should the sweep
turn out to be something less
than sweeping, it can be
claimed with some validity
that this is due to voter apathy
in the face Of sure thing.
Nevertheless any important
falling off in places where
Eisenhower was so strong four
years ago will call for an ex-
PLANTATION. The comparative
strength of the two parties as
shown in the primaries would
have some meaning.
The primaries may indicate
that the Eisenhower name is
still magic. This would be the
best possible news for Vice
President Nixon. The doubts
about him in his party are not
personal; they are misgivings
rather that he will hurt the
ticket in a close election.
That is all a Vice President
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-14
Talk of DRAFTING Truman Studied

of Mr.. Stevenson in some Of
his comments, and he hasn't
quite forgiven Mr.. Kefauver
for once beating him In the
New Hampshire primary cleo
ton. The few remarks favor
able to Gov. Hartman that
have come from Mr.. Truman
are not Indicative of any great
enthusiasm for the New Yorker
and stem largely from unfor-
gotten contributions made by
Mr.. Hartman to the Truman
cause when the party treasury
was empty.
So it all comes down to the
same old query-who else but
Mr.. Truman? He is, of course,
eligible to run for another
term. since the. constitutional
amendment which limits a
President to two terms ex-
empts specifically the Presi-
dent who was in Office when
the amendment was being
processed for adoption in 1851.
In many respects, Harry
Truman is the logical nominee
of his party. He still stands
on both the Fair Deal and the
New Deal and is proud of his
record in international affairs,
including intervention in Ko-
rea and his dismissal of Gen.
Macarthur.
Mr.. Truman will be Y years
old on May 8 next, but Chan
cellor Adenauer is 80 and still
in power, and Churchill was
past 80 when he retired. So
the former President is being
looked over by the politicians
on the theory that, on the per-
sonal side, Humans age will
be no more Of a barrier than
Eisenhower's heart attack and
that the chief concern of the
Democratic National Conven-
ton should be basic issues and
the choice of the best man to
interpret them to the people. !
One thing is fairly certain
already-if Harry Truman
doesn't desire the nomination
himself, he will have more to
say about who the nominee
shall be than any other single
personality among the party's
bosses.
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Miss Lucy and Public Opinion

nots. But matters involving
intimate human relations re-
quire positive afflrmations.
No law can compel one person
to feel affection or even toll
erance for another. Passive
resistance, which cannot be
prosecuted. uses the weapon
Of ostracism. An ostracized
student is not a member of the
student body. She is out even
if she is in.
The argument that clinched
the Supreme Court decision
was that segregation produces
in our Negro population a
psychological injury. But the
law cannot deal with psyche
logical injuries. There is no
legal way to prevent one
human being or many from
injuring the feelings of others.
The judges may be excellent
lawyers. But they were bad
psychologists.
Law can refuse to legalize
divorce. That of at least one
nation does. But no law, nor
even the powerful disciplines
of the Catholic Church, can
enforce cohabitation or marital
happiness. To attempt to do
so would create a condition of
murderous cruelty.
Americans have too strong
a prediction to believe that
reform can be accomplished by
passing a law. Laws reflect
reform rather than induce it,
and laws that violate the cur
rent sense of a community
never bring social peace.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-14

normally means to a national
ticket. Nobody votes for a party
because they love and admire
the candidate for Vice Presi-
dent except his own family
and friends. But it is widely
believed at least that a con-
troversial candidate in the sec
ond slot can lose votes for the
ticket.
These impressions which all
politicians share explain why
they are so casual about the
vice presidency other than to
avoid controversy and achieve
some geographical balance.
This year the G. o. P. picture
is different because of the
Presidents heart condition and
Nixon's own personality.
There is not much Nixon
can do about the primaries
except to urge his supporters
in the States concerned to get
out a big vote there for the
President. The Vice President
has been put in an anomalous
position by the Presidents ad-
mission that II have asked him
to chart out his own course"
There are no existing guide
posts to voter reaction to a
President who says candidly
that it would be idle to pre-
tend" he enjoys his former ex-
cellent health but that he
can handle the job another
four years and is willing to
do so if the country wants him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-14
Move Partly Reflects Dissatisfaction
With Stevenson, Kefouyer. Horrimon


carefully in this regard, it will
be found that men like Sena-
tors George of Georgia and
Lyndon johnson of Texas are
not a bit different from many
Republicans in feeling that
America has gone too far in
appropriating billions for for
eign aid and that the time has
come to take a careful look at
the "give-away" programs, es-
pecially as they relate to Asia.
But the selection Of Mr.. Tru-
man to head the Democratic
Party once more would not be
altogether because of the pre-
ponderant influence which the
internationalists exercised dur
ing his administration. It is
related primarily to the Tru-
man kind of campaigning,
which some professionals on
the Democratic side believe
would be most effective this
year.
What is desired, according
to the Trumanites, is a give
'em hell" campaign, which
means recklessness of state
ment and impugning of mo-
tives. It's the pattern of So
called "McCarthyism," but no.
body in Congress ever arises
to condemn" it. 1t is felt that
neither Mr.. Stevenson nor Mr..
Kefauver fills the requirements
of vigorous campaigning.
Mr.. Truman is cocky about
his political proves and is
convinced that he could have
won in l952-and he implies
he could win in 1856. That's
what he tells his intimate
friends. This attitude is due in
some respects to the we'll
known habit among politicians
OF exuding confidence so as to
conceal altogether any signs of
weakness in a campaign year.
But some of it is actually be-
lieved by Mr.. Truman, whose
recently published memoirs
show that he doesn't think
much of the candidates now
being put forward by the Dem
ocrats. He has already brushed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-14

Advance notices have been
received by Congress that
when Secretary Of State Dulles
returns to Washington from
his three-week trip to Asia he
will present a big bill for
more money for undeveloped
Asiatic countries. regardless of
whether they play the Soviet
or Red Chinese political game.
The prevailing thinking in
administration quarters con-
tinues to be that vast OUTLAWS
Of American cash and sub
stance are necessary to pre-
serve the present rickety
peace.
India and Indonesia have
been selected to receive Amer
lean economic assistance de-
spite the fact that the new
Jakarta government is more
than leaning toward the Reds
and India has yessed almost
everything Moscow and Pei
ping have suggested.
midas Prime Minister
Nehru declares himself at
the slightest provocation as
"unalterably opposed" to
Western Imperialism. He leaves
no doubt that he includes the
United States, despite the fact
that it was this country which
forced Britain's hand to give
India it's full independence.
Similarly, Frances Foreign
Minister Pineau, after init
mating last week that the
United States is working be-
hind the scenes to take over
Frances North African pos
sessions, Is now asking this
country to provide the neces'
sary sums for a vast program
of social rehabilitation in Al
geria.
House and Senate members
are willing to spend some of.
the taxpayers money on for
eign assistance, but they have
come to the conclusion that
the most effective way of
spending is to help those coun-
tries which stand staunchly by
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-14
CONSTANTINE BROWN
Churning Water to Make Butter

no inhibitions in helping the
MoSlems from the Atlantic to
the Persian Gulf to shake of
the remaining vestiges Of
Western influence. They not
only encourage the Nationalist
tic moves from Morocco to
Saudi Arabia but also help
them effectively with modern
military equipment and money.
Early in 1853 we rejected
the suggestion of Frances
Marshal JUN that we consider
Korea and Indo- China as one
continuous defense front. This
resulted in Frances surrender
at Geneva and the loss Of
northern Indo-C China to the
Reds. A similar suggestion that
the Arab front from Morocco
to the Persian Gulf be re-
garded as one and indivisible
was turned down by the in
terested powers.
The Russians injected them
selves strongly into the Middle
East. President Eisenhower
had heard about the planned
arms deal between Cairo and
Moscow. But when he raised
the matter mildly with Bull
ganin and Khrushchev at the
summit meeting where the
spirit of Geneva was estab-
lished, he got the brushoff an
swer: only small business
transactions"
Despite the optimistic off,
cial evaluation that. we could
get together with the Russians
and agree on a small limita-
ton of arms program as a
starter, the situation in the
eastern Mediterranean, the
Middle East and the Far East
is far more serious than our
policy-makerS like to admit.
This is definitely the inn
preston of number of in
formed members of Congress.
Thus when the administra-
ton asks for another indis-
criminate program of foreign
aid. responsible House and
Senate members will insist
that the money be spent only
in those countries which have
proven themselves fully identi-
fled with the idea of resisting
Red expansion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-14

lndict. arraign, or try, a COM
munity by the normal process
of law enforcement.
These reflections are imper-
sonal. They do not register
the writer's prejudices or con-
vlctlons regarding segregation.
They are not moral but opera
tional judgments.
The State University of Ala
bama refused to admit a Negro
student and on more or less
meretricious grounds. Miss
Lucy certainly had "the law of
the land" on her side. But she
did not have the law or the
opinion of the State of Alaba-
ma on her side. The issue was
not. therefore. between Miss
Lucy and the university trus-
tees, but between two powers.
Miss Lucy's application, also,
was not that of an individual
seeking the right to an educa-
ton. She could have obtained
that at no greater cost in hun
dreds OF other institutions. She
appeared, in fact, not as a
student but as a tester of the
law in behalf of the NAACP.
The university's trustees
temporarily refused to receive
her on the ground that in the
climate of opinion of the COM
munity and university they
could not answer for her life.
This may have been, and we
hope was, an exaggeration.
Her life could, presumably,
have been protected by a body
guard of Federal police to
watch over her day and night.
In that case, she would have
been, in effect, a prisoner.
But 1t. would still not solve
the problem. For entering a
university means more than
physical presence. 1t involves
acceptance as an equal mem
Der of the student community.
If anyone. for any reason, is
rejected by a community,
which by its nature requires
intimate association, the pos
sibility of violence is always
present. But without violence
passive resistance can defeat
the content. II not the text
Of the law.
Law Is q series Of thou shalt
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-14
GO. P. Checking Its Political Pulse

The great public esteem for
him personally is indisputable;
he can win all the popularity
contests. The question is how
much more than that the vot-
ers attach to the presidency.
Within the last few decades
the Office has been greatly en-
HANGED. People expect Wash
ington, including the Chief
Executive, to do more than in
the past. They have ceased to
expect much from the States
as most Governors frankly adj
NIT Congress has increasingly
delegated its powers to the
executive branch.
In foreign affairs, above all,
the presidency has been ag-
grandized. Most experts at
tribute this to the nature of
the modern world and the
Communist challenge. Those
who don't agree and want the
trend halted rally behind the
Bricker amendment. which is
back again in a new form.
The campaign will produce a
great deal of talk about the
role of the President in mod
ern times. Maybe the voters
will take to it; maybe not.
Because of the personal
overtones they are not likely
to talk a lot about it even if
they buy the Democratic in
depreciation. That is why even
the confident Republican
chairman, Mr.. Hall, will study
all possible clues, including
those primaries, to voter re-
action to the unusual 1856
situation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-14
u.s.. Foreign Aid Fails to Get Results
For Lack of a Consistent Policy

Americas policies to create
a solid barrier against the
disappearing Communist en-
croachmentS.
Our legislators believe that
the cold war will continue de-
spite the smiles of the Soviet
leaders and that before long
we may find ourselves involved
one way or another in local
wars" inspired and assisted by
the USSR.
The weakness of the West
ern defense structure lies in
the fact that there is little if
any consistent policy. Each of
the three powers which con-
stitute the backbone of the
Western alliance is playing by
ear. Britain strongly disap-
proves our policy toward Com
munist China and gives every
possible help and comfort to
the Peiping Reds. At the same
time Britain wants our full
support in the Middle East
where she still has faint am
billions of controlling at least
some of the areas, such as Jor-
dan and Iraq.
The French are leaning in
creaSingly toward neutralism
and are smiling broadly in the
direction of Moscow. Yet they
want us to support them in
their North African policies
although they know that we
frown on imperialism.
Our own present policy
could be described easily as
one of churning water to make
butter. We take neither a
positive nor a negative stand
insofar as the particular in
terests OF our allies are con-
cerned in Africa or the Mid
die East.
The Russians are actively
demonstrating their military
and economic power and have
impressed Western Europe.
They declare that if war-weary
people there want peace and
progress (Moscow style) they
must go to the Soviet corner.
At the same time they have
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-14
Soviet Seen Running
Chinese Air Force

TAIPEI, Formosa. Mar. IA
I(R.-The official spokesman of
the Chinese Nationalist defense
ministry said today 1t had def
mite evidence that Soviet Rus
slams were directing the Chinese
Communist Air Force and man.
ming good portion of its
planes.
| Navy Capt. 'Liu Hoh-tu also
said in a news conference that
Russians were plotting MIG Jets
on patrols over Fukien province,
opposite Formosa.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-14
DAVID LAWRENCE

There's surprising amount
Of talk among the professional
politicians on the Democratic
side about the possibility Of
drafting Harry Truman to run
again for the presidency.
Part of it is due to a dis
satisfaction with the most
aforementioned candidates
Messrs. Stevenson. Kefauver
and Hartman. Part Of 1t is
based on the theory that no
other candidate would have
the solid backing that Mr..
Truman would get from labor
union and radical organiza-
tons as well as the big city
political organizations.
1t so happens that Mr.. Tru-
man will be travelling abroad
during most of the time when
the preconvention campaign
will be in full swing and will
avoid participation therein.
Europeans admire Harry Tru-
man. Under his regime the
biggest amount of money ever
given away by any country to
any other countries was sent
abroad out of the United
States Treasury, and much of
it was in the form of grants
not loans.
But there is another reason
for European admiration. The
Democratic Party itself is
much more highly regarded in
London and Paris than the
Republican Party. Even though
Gen. Eisenhower led the res
cue of France from Hitler'S
military power and saved
Britain from a similar fate,
most newspapers abroad
wanted Adlai Stevenson to win
in 1852. To this day, while
they like Eisenhower in Eu-
rope, it is only because they
think the New York City
clique which is influential in
the Republican Party will
keep the So-called right
wing" in that party from get
ting on top.
Actually, if the Democratic
Party's personnel Is examined
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-14
POTOMAC FEVER
FLETCHER KNEBEL

Southern Congressman threaten to form third party.
They'll nominate President to against Vice
Presidents to against the Supreme Court.
The baby who swallowed the IKE" campaign button has
recovered Some folks didn't fare well Senator Knowand
is still choking on his.
If presidential candidate has have an ament to earn
the sympathy vote this fall. Democrats say man will
qualify Running against Ike up with ulcers
Herter Massachusetts available for Vice President
Conservatives Heer is the Republican Ada Stevenson
the one who lost his joke book
One thing about Margaret marrying an editor At
long last there will be editor the country Papa
Truman has kind word.
The House votes high taxes corporations and
cigarettes Corporation president only way out
Either we give up drinking and smokngor join corporations
anonymous"
1852 Southern States year he needs
help In fact if he up with Democratic candidate
maybe they could win four Dixie States between them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-14
DOROTHY THOMPSON
A Law Has Little Chance of Enforcement
Unless 1t Has Support of Large Majority

In a democracy-a state
based upon continuing public
consent-law must reflect the
existing state of consciousness
and conscience. Otherwise it
will not be voluntarily upheld.
Law rests primarily upon pub
lie opinion, and only ultimately
upon force. If it does not have
the voluntary consent of a
large majority, it cannot be
enforced except by procedures
that violate the principle of
consent and hence the basis
of the state.
Laws can be enforced against
individual lawbreakers by in
dictment, arraignment, and
trial. But laws cannot thus be
enforced against a nation,
state, or community. AS Ed
mund Burke said long ago, II
know no way to bring an in
dictment against a whole
people"
1c On despotisms there are
ways, but not In states based
upon popular consent)
81 To indict a nation, state. or
community and enforce "the
law" against it, requires war.
That is the fallacy of the con-
cept of enforcing peace"
Innumerable historical in
stances illustrate these axioms.
Prohibition Of the sale of al
coholic, beverages was, for a
time, The 'law Of the land"
clearly embodied in a constitu-
tional amendment. But the
law did not reflect the exist
ing conscience of a majority
or large minority. To have
enforced it would have re-
quired a policeman in every
pantry. Ultimately, therefore,
the amendment and the law
had to be repealed.
Yet there are still total alb
stainers. and prohibition
States and communities where
the law is easily enforced be-
cause it commands public
consent.
The attempt to enforce a
Federal law upon States with
differing conditions of con-
seriousness and conscience
brought on the Civil War-an
illustration that one cannot
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