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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-05
Firing of Club Is Soviet Victory

more major gains. A small
war" in the Middle East would
serve Moscow's ends admira-
bly,. Every day the danger Of
such an outbreak increases.
Britain and the United
States must learn. If 1t is not
too late, to deal with the facts
of Arab Nationalism and ma
tional aspirations. Only that
way can we keep our remain
ing friends on our side Of the
fence.
Dollars and give-aways do
not necessarily make admir-
ers. The Russians are doing q
quick and effective job, at al
most no cost to themselves.
simply by behaving quietly as
friends and protectors of the
Arab nationalist movement.
The British Cabinet met in
emergency session Immediately
upon learning Of Glubb's dis
missal. The gravity of the
situation is therefore per-
fectly apparent in London, and
the Eden government plans q
full airing Of the situation in
Parliament.
But the Club incident is
only a result Of a long CON
tinuing state of affairs. I'm
less there is a basic change in
approach, more and heavier
blows can be expected by the
free world in the Middle East.
so vital an area in the grow
ing conflict with Red imperi-
alism for the control of the
world.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-05
DORIS FLEESON
Bridges Sends Gore on Paper Chase
In Play for Curb on Lobby Probe

The Senate investigation Of
lobbying may well be its victim
but Senator Styles Bridges of
New Hampshire Is undeniably
giving the Capitol a glittering
demonstration of the politician
practicing his art.
Senator Bridges is the rank
ing Republican on the equally
divided committee. His aim is
to see that the committee takes
no turn and travels no road not
subject to his veto.
To this end he has subjected
the ranking Democrat, Albert
Gore of Tennessee, to a raking
mortar fire of conversation
about presidents, rules and
procedures. Senator Gore is, as
Senator Bridges knows we'll,
earnest and conscientious,
eager to shine in his role as the
scheduled chairman of the
investigation.
So Senator Gore has gone
hurrying off on the Bridges
paper chase, considering each
argument, looking into each
proposal. He is now reported to
be just starting to come out OF
the ether and to be realizing
that Senator Bridges was only
laying down points for bargain
ing purposes with the central
aim of dominating the commit
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-05
Jews to Honor
|'Pro-Americun'
|Duvid Lawrence

David Lawrence. editor OF
u. S. News and World Report
and columnist for The Evening
Star and other papers, has won
the annual award for "outstand-
ing pro-American accomplish
ment" given by the American
Jewish League Against Com
munism, it was announced to-
day.
Mr.. Lawrence will be given
a plaque at a public luncheon
lat the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in
New York on April is, George
Il. Sokolsky, president of the
league, said in making the an
Inouncement.
On the executive committee of
the league, besides Mr.. Sokolsky,
are Victor Emanuel, president
and chairman of AVCO Manu-
featuring Corp; Roy M. Cohn,
committee chairman; Eugene
Lyons, Readers Digest senior
editor; Lawrence Fertig. adver-
Using executive; Alfred Kohl
berg; Rabbi Benjamin Schultz,
executive director. and others.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-05

tee counsel, his choice and his
powers.
A proper counsel, properly
supported, free to pursue the
interests of the Senators with
out fear or favor, would in
sure a valuable investigation.
At best he would be hard to
find.
Lawyers with regulations
and prestige have important
connections by now: the oil
business, which kicked off the
proposed probe, is especially
pervasive. A young man who
has his future ahead of him
is subject to the charge that
he is unseasoned.
If it appears that there is
going to be a good deal of
controversy within the COM
mittee, lawyers will shy away.
They may indeed already be
noticing that the probable
chairman is having his
troubles.
Senator Bridges is formid-
able in controversy for several
reasons. He is we'll placed to
deal with his fellow Senators
as ranking Republican on the
Appropriations and Arm e d
Services Committee. He is a
cheerful partisan and his OPP
ponents can depend upon 1t
that when the chips are down
he is not a gentleman.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-05
Nixon's Role in G. 0. P. Campaign

dent has announced that he
will not go transforming" and
would make few appearances
in person before the voters.
leaving his campaign efforts
largely to radio, television and
printed speeches.
Who then will do the active
campaigning? If Vice President
Nixon were the nominee for
second place, once more he
could take on in debate the
presidential nominee of the
other party. The present con-
troversy may provide the build
up in public interest just as
it gave Mr.. Nixon a television
audience of many millions
when he was attacked in the
1852 campaign.
Strangely enough. though
Mr.. Nixon explained every de-
tail Of his campaign fund,
Adlai Stevenson, the Demo-
cratic nominee for President
in 1852, has to this day never
explained two of the four
campaign funds which he had
while Governor Of Illinois.
Vice President Nixon is an
excellent debater and an ef-
fective campaigner. He would
draw big crowds and attract
large television audiences. He
is one of the ablest men in
public life today and knows
the issues better than any man
who could be selected as run
ming mate to President Essen
hover.
He has been "smeared"
openly by Democrats and
clandestinely by a group on
the Republican side who think
that whatever pleases the
Stevenson point of view will
get Republican votes. It's an
illusion which has never
PANIED out-for the independ-
ent voters are not a collection
of intellectual liberals" but
merely a group that shifts
from party to party depending
on the vital issues. Candidates
in a personality sense are i'm
portant but their ability to
expound the issues is even
more important.
Unless the Republican Party
can get all of its regular vote
to the polls and retain the
Democrats who shifted in 1852
on the communism, Korea
and corruption" issues, it will
be a closer race than most
people today, even in the
Eisenhower camp, are ready
to believe.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-05
DORIS FLEESON
A Politician Procticinq His Art

He is not easily embar-
raised. For example. he has
leaped for dominance on the
lobby committee although a
major reason why he is a con-
troversial figure here is his
own past connections with
the famous go-between, now
in prison, Henry (The Dutch
NAM GruneWald.
Washington does a lot of
pious deploring of the profess
sional politician IN action as in
the present instance. But polit-
ical parties-both of them
find their infighters extremely
useful; this factor is a prin-
cipal source of Vice President
Nixon's strength in the G. o. P.
Democrats who really want
a lobby investigation-not all
do-hope that their side will
develop a counter force to
Senator Bridges, adept also at
smokescreens and other tactics
if need be.
The basic difficulty, of course,
is the equal division of the
committee. Democrats control
Congress: it was their respon-
sibility to take charge of the
lobby investigation. But the
conservative Democrat-Repub-
lican coalition which has so
long operated the Senate re-
CARELESS of who is in the White
House decided its interests
would be better served by a
committee which represents
the coalition more than it does
the majority and minority.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-05
CONSTANTINE BROWN
Britain Suffers New Disastrous Blow
To Prestige in Explosive Middle East

expulsion of all Western influ-
ence from the whole Arab
world.
The bloody and destructive
rioting in Jordan attendant on
the efforts of the government,
encouraged by Club, to asso-
ciate the kingdom with the ma
tons Of the Baghdad Pact,
sealed his fate. The Legion
ended the rioting, but the gov
eminent backed down and now
appears to be headed for close
association with Egypt, Syria
and Saudi Arabia in their anti
Western moves.
There is ample evidence that
Communist agitators played no
small role in pouring fuel on
the flames when the riots
over the Baghdad Pact-the
MEATO alliance of Britain,
Iraq, Turkey, Iran and Paki-
stan - broke out throughout
the kingdom.
The dismissal of Club is the
direct result of those riots. The
young King Hussein resisted
the pressures of his National
list advisers as long as he could,
but the demands for Arab lead
ership to replace the British
were too much.
Those Arabs who are fiery in
their eagerness to attack Israel
feared that when war came,
the influence of Club Pasha
would restrain the employment
of the Arab Legion in a
planned military pincers play
in CONJUNCTION with the Egyp-
tians. They pressed strongly
for his replacement with the
argument that he would be af-
fected by London's policy in
the event of war.
Thus the custer of Club
increases the likelihood of
war. That is the primary Com
munist aim in the Middle East.
Already, through the agitation
for nationalism, the Soviets
have all but won over all of
the major Moslem countries to
their side. Because of the
shortsighted policies and foot
dragging actions of the West,
the Soviets will probably make
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-05

The peremptory firing of
1t. Gen. John Bagot Club,
head Of Jordan's army and
legendary "Glubb Pasha" of
the famed Arab Legion, is in
directly a major triumph for
the Soviets.
Club, who had been in the
service of the Hashemite King
of Jordan for 80 years and
had organized and trained the
GOODMAN Legion to dis
ciplined perfection, was sum-
marily dismissed along with
his chief British aides.
Jordan has long been Brit
aims firmest friend in the
explosive Middle East. First a
British protectorate after the
defeat of the Turkish Empire
in World War /, the present
dynasty was established and
independence granted by the
British with a $40 million
annual subsidy which is still
being paid.
The dismissal of Club
comes at a time when Britain
stands in need Of every shred
of prestige she can retain in
the Arab world. and when
Communist agents are busily
promoting anti Western senti-
ments among the fanatical
Nationalist elements through
out the Arab world.
Club Pasha, a wiry little
man who knows the Koran by
heart although he remains a
Christian, won the trust and
affection of the Bedouin tribes
of the desert in his long years
of camel-back rowing while he
built the Arab Legion.
During the reign of the late
King Abdullah, Club was
known as the unofficial King
of Jordan" so weighty was his
influence and so high was the
regard in which he was held.
But the Palestine War of
1948 was the beginning of his
downfall. Jordan had to alb
serb hordes of Palestinian Arab
refugees who blamed Club for
the Arab defeat and who sup
ported the more Jealous Ma
tionaliSt leaders who want the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-05
DOROTHY THOMPSON
Stronoe Fall of a Soviet Hero

ner. I suppose many of these
could be melted down for es-
sential Warehouse me, peace
materials. Or will pranksters
now be permitted to ridicule
the idol, clap a battered hat
upon the disgraced head or
paint a leer on the grave. COM
handing mouth?
To what extent did the
presence of all these icons and
idols exert a hostile psychology
ical influence upon the hero's
survivors, who found his eyes
gazing upon them wherever
they sat or went?
The temptation to turn the
picture to the wall must have
become obsessive. Even a low
ing son could hardly endure a
portrait of Papa in every room.
and gazing at him in his bath!
Getting rid of so many idols
won't be altogether easy. There
are too many to interest col
lectors of curios. They are too
huge to be pasted in stamp
books. They are valueless as
works of art. Think OF the
walls that will have to be re-
painted, and the squares that
will have to be erased!
How many places will be re-
named? How many Stain
grads, Stadts, and Allees?
But the embalmed body rep
resents the most delicate prob
lem. We leave 1t to Messrs.
Khrushchev and Company
with sympathy.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-05
How to conquer
Illustration

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seek to do, we feel pent up and
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work off these feelings by lash.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-05
Stains Enshrined Body Is Problem
For Those Who Now BelittIe Him

the most delicate dialectic.
Then there are all the other
symbols.
Stain, I was told by the
most honored painter of con-
temporary Russia, Academl-
clan Gerossimov-a brother
in-law of Voroshilov-never
sat for a portrait. Every paint
ing of him was made from
photographs. But if the por-
traits in oil that hang in
every public institution were
taken from their massive
frames and laid end to end
I'll bet they would encircle
the globe.
Gerossimov himself made
one of the most famous-Sta-
lin strolling along the Krem-
lin wall deep in conversation.
With whom? You've guessed
Voroshilov!
Many of these paintings are
exact duplicates. Ubiquitous is
one of Stain, with a trench
coat draped neatly over his
arm, gazing across a wheat
field, out of which rise electric
towers-symbol of the Master
of Agriculture and Industry.
Stain as the war Marshal,
Stain among the Elders. Sta
lin as the friend of little chill
dren, always GREAT - in
every school, hotel. minis
try. subministry, Office, factory,
legation, embassy: miles of
hanG-rairted chromos or
even hand-embroidered on
canvas. on glass-the ever
present, unacceptable Icon.
How many painters ex-
pended how many years of de-
cades of time, how many silos
of paint, and bales of canvas
were used? 1t would be a fas-
cinating statistic.
Then there are the life sized
busts and statues, in cast-iron,
bronze, cement, stone, that one
encounters around every cor
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-05
POTOMAC FEVER
FLETCHER KNEBEL

One voter says yet he tolerate Re-
publican President working part time but he's convinced he
could never afford President working time
Weather Bureau film shows how to protect yourself in
tornado If you don't get Weather Bureau warning
don't worry. That's no tornado That's hurricane.
Campaign Director Humphreys says the Republican Party
needs some nteectuas that they've got peace and
prosperity Republicans need couple of eggheads to explain
the accident.
Democrats say only issue in this campaign where
do they find
One candidate who'd hoped to for the Senate Is dis
couraged doctors examine him. but none OF them
would admit there was anything wrong with him.
Women Republican leaders in Washington Women
are better qualified for politics than Even
they had the cash, they'd charge 1t.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-05

Now that the Soviets' Com
munist Party has abolished
the Cult of Stain. one Won
ders what will become OF the
hundreds of thousands OF
visible symbols Of that cult.
II Crowds are still standing in
long queues on the Red Square
to enter it's curious metropolis
shrine, where, alongside OF
Lenin, Stains body is like
wise laid out in a condition
of eternal embalmment.
The mortal remains Of all
other Soviet heroes who have
passed on, not to their Maker
whose existence is denied, but
into history or oblivion, are
dust in urns or disintegrating
in unmarked graves. Two
bodies alone lie under glass,
perpetually lighted for the
gaze of pious pilgrims. If there
is an epitome Of cult" this
Is it.
How will those who heard,
or read, or remember the fu-
neral orations over Stain, the
like of which had hardly been
uttered since Antony's address
on the dead Caesar. now view
the body of the unwreathed
hero?
What will they think of the
living leaders. some of whom
made the most sonorous of the
tributes, and now have made
the most contemptuous of the
reappraisals?
How will the pilgrims. in
formed Of Lenin's testament
warning against Stain, ex-
plain to themselves the con-
tinuing proximity in equal
majesty of the two bodies?
The dead past may bury its
dead, but this particular dead
has not been buried. Its public
presence accuses the accusers.
The problem of how to get
rid of it or explain its continu-
ing disbursement must require
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-05
|USO Month Gets
Presidents BACKING

President Eisenhower. in a
message to the United Service
Organizations, Inc. has expressed
his personal interest in the de-
signation Of April as USO month,
Speaking Of the USO, Mr..
Eisenhower said: Through USO,
the people of this country are
able to- express their pride and
appreciation to the members Of
the Armed Forces-with the
warmth, friendship, recreation
and religious influence that USO
gives them"
During April. all USO opera
tons at home and abroad will be
open to the public.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-05
Seen Needed as Running Mate to Head
transforming, Prevent Split in Party

For he helped to expose Alger
Hiss and hasn't been forgiven
by the liberals" for that serv-
ice to his country.
While Vice President Nixon
and Senator Knowland haven't
seen eye to eye in California
politics, it is unlikely that Sen
ator Knowland would be stirred
to enthusiasm if his fellow
Californian, with whom he
maintains a close personal
friendship, is ditched through
Misrepresentation by the very
same crowd who have been
fighting Senator Knowland and
trying at times to Gust him
from the leadership of his
party in the Senate.
This correspondent well re-
members the maneuvering that
went on in the California dele
cation just before Mr.. Eisen-
hover was nominated in 1852.
At that time the then Senator
Nixon was leading the fight for
Eisenhower support and Sena-
tor Knowland was leading the
battle for Taft votes. The Cali
fornia delegation was the CEN
ter of a real struggle. Immedi-
ately after the balloting which
nominated Mr.. Eisenhower.
this writer said to Mr.. Nixon:
There is talk of nominal
ing Senator Taft for Vice
President so as to bring har-
mony to the party. What do
you think of it?"
II would be for it," said
Senator Nixon. You can tell
that to anybody"
But the cleavage was too
deep and some Of the managers
of the Eisenhower pre-con-
vention campaign said 1t
wouldn't do.
The significant thing is that
Mr.. Nixon from that day on
has devoted himself to healing
the breach in the party. He
had the confidence of the late
Senator Taft. Mr.. Nixon GER
tainly gave no comfort in
either the 1852 or 1854 cam
paign to those who were soft"
on the Communist issue.
The biggest problem that
faces the Eisenhower ticket is
getting disaffected Republican
voters to the polls. This will
mean precinct-by- precinct
organization and an effective
campaign. Already the Presi-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-05
Egypt Will Let Women
Vote, Swiss Refuse

CAIRO, Mar. 5 P. - The
Egyptian cabinet has approved
Ia law which gives women the
vote for the first time in Egyp-
tian history. The law also re-
duces the voting age from 81 to
I18. Voting is compulsory for
males but women may vote or
mot, as they choose.
BERN, Switzerland, Mar. S up.
The voters of the canton Of
Bern-men only-refused yester-
day to grant voting rights to
women. Referendums in other
Swiss cantons also have always
rejected suffrage for women in
the past.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-05
DAVID LAWRENCE

Efforts are being made in
the most subtle fashion to
persuade President Eisen-
hover to desert Vice President
Nixon and agree to someone
else for second place on the
ticket.
Some Of the same people
who tried to convince Mr.. Ell
senhower to abandon his run
ming mate In the midst Of the
1852 campaign are active
again in the plot. They know
little or nothing about ma
tional politics. They don't
realize they could split the
Republican Party wide open
and imperil its chances of
victory this year.
For there's only one way to
defeat Mr.. Eisenhower-and
that's to develop an emotional
issue such as wrecked the Re-
publican Party in 1912 and
gave the Democrats the presi-
dency on a platter.
If economic conditions are
favorable the party in power
usually wins but when there's
a deep-seated emotionalism
among the voters. which
causes any substantial seq
ment to protest, then defeat
is inevitable, irrespective Of
all other considerations.
The Republican Party has
already had one experience
with Stay-at-home voters.
This was in the 1854 congress
sional campaign in certain
States. Governor Hartman.
Democrat, owed his victory
and Senator Ives, Republican.
lost the gubernatorial race be-
cause disaffected Republicans
stayed at home in key counties
in New York State.
Throughout the Nation in
several pivotal states it is the
regular Republicans on whose
enthusiasm the party nominees
must depend. It is going to be
hard enough to bring that fac
ton into line and only the
yeoman efforts Of the indefa-
tigable Senator Knowland of
California will be able to &C
complish that result.
If Mr.. Nixon isn't on the
ticket, this task will be doubly
difficult because Mr.. Nixon
symbolizes the fight against the
Communists in Government.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-05
Robbis Will Speak

Rabbi Harry Silverstone, spir-
itual leader of Tifereth Israel
Congregation, will speak on
Love and Courtship" at $3.50
pm. Wednesday in the syna-
gogue, Fourteenth and Euclid
streets NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-05
Music of Israel

Music Of Israeli will highlight
the third program of the Jewish
Arts and Heritage Festival of the
B'nai Birth Hillel Foundation of
George Washington University
at 1880 am. next Sunday at
2129 F street NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-05

You can't vote in the Dis
trict if you don't register. Now
is the time to qualify. Regis
tration headquarters on ground
floor Of the District Building.
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