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Leishman's Career

the Scottish international
team in 1949. He's an enthu-
siastic golfer and enjoys shoot
ing and fishing.
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NOW APPROACHING THE
MID-STREAM of his diplo-
matte career. Mr.. Leishman
says: Il love it. I've never had
a moments regret. This
careers got room for initia-
tive, it gives one a feeling Of
public service. puts one in
touch with extremely pleasant
people and takes you to inter-
esting parts Of the world"
The son of a country doctor,
Mr.. Leishman says the British
Foreign Service is no longer
the prerogative Of the we'll
born and well-to-do but still
has tremendous prestige.
Today, the British service
has no politically appointed
ambassadors. This, Of course.
makes for high morale among
the young career men. Each
can hope and aspire to reach
ing the top of the diplomatic
ladder--an ambassadorship.
Mr.. Leishman represents
the high caliber Of men the
British service attracts. Thus
far, his career has progressed
along normal. expected chan
nels. He is noted by his col
leagues and associates as
Woodworking and extremely
able.
And who knows? Tomorrow
he may we'll be one OF
Her Britannia M ajesty's
Ambassadors
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resign, there's such a high pro-
portion who have American
wivesl"
A PHI BETA KAPPA, who
manages to hide it admirably.
Mrs. Leishman says they feel
so much at home here that
sometimes they run into prob
lens with their American
friends who try to draw them
into heated discussions about
American politics.
They sometimes forget"
adds Mr.. Leishman, that it
is improper for a foreign pub
lie servant to express opinions
on your domestic politics. Our
job, Ultimately is to explain
and interpret your admin
istration, whether Demo-
cratic or Republican, and to
foster better Anglo-American
relations. The fact that there
Is so much basic agreement
between our two countries is
q good thing. But the strength
of the relationship is that we
can also have our differences
and live with them"
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MIR. LEISHMAN REPRE-
SENTS that very effective
combination so often found in
Englishmen great intellect
along with a fondness for
sports and the outdoor life.
With his rugged six-foot
build he played Rugby for
Cambridge; captained the Lon
don Scottish Rugby Football
club; and was a reserve for
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Trinity College
Benefit Plunned

The Trinity College Aux
iliary Board will sponsor a card
party Saturday for the benefit
Of the college. The dessert
bridge will take place at pm.
In Alumnae Hall.
The Board. made up Of a
group Of Catholic women orr
ganized to help the college, has
since its organization in 1898
worked to earn funds to aid
in erecting and equipping col
lege buildings. They have also
organized scholarship grants.
Those who wish to purchase
tickets to the party and thus
assist in the Boards work. may
call Mrs. Edward c. Moynihan
or Mrs. Edward A. Tamm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-01

In st. Johns Parish Hall, 3240
o street.
Tickets, which are $3.50.
may be purchased at. the Will
lard and Statler Hotels, Amer
lean Automobile Association,
Francis Scott Key Bookshop at
Twenty-eighth and o streets
and at other Georgetown
shops. Tickets will not be sold
at the houses this year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-01

Visiting in Nassau
Miss Stephanie Yates Is
spending the Easter Holidays
at The British Colonial Hotel
In Nassau Bahamas with other
girls from Vassar College.
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HOW'S YOUR BRIDGE GAME?

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-15

Secretary Dulles has q much
clearer view on this trip to
London as to how far this
country is willing to 60 in
support of the British and
French than he had last month
when the Suez crisis broke and
he had to rush from Lima,
Peru, to the British capital,
hazy about the whole unex-
pected situation.
We are prepared to go pretty
far in supporting our two
major Western allies.
La st Sunday. President
Eisenhower had a successful
conference with Republican
and Democratic congressional
leaders. He not only briefed
them on the current political
military developments, but
outlined the Egyptian dicta-
tors gigantic plan. His as
sistants who had been study
ing President Nasser's book
OF faith" (the Arab leaders
equivalent of Hitler's Mein
KampD in recent weeks point
ed out that the Egyptian
leaders aims go far beyond
Matchmaking the Suez Canal
Co. which is only a first
STEP"
The majority Of our diplo-
matte policy makers and the
representatives of the Ma
tional Security Council have
reached the conclusion that If
Nasser is allowed to get away
with it," his prestige will be
so increased that the French
will have no hope but to sur
render Algeria. The loss of that
French province in North
Africa would mean inevitably
a bloody revolution in France.
Moreover, the Arab countries
on whose territories are To-
Gated the oil supplies which
Western Europe needs so des-
perately might also decide to
follow Nasser'S example and
nationalize the concessions
given to American, British,
Dutch and French companies.
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MudsIinging Campaign in Prospect

Gov. Clement deplored a
lack of bipartisan co-opera-
ton on foreign policy. Maybe
he didn't notice that a former
President of the United States,
Harry Truman. made a state
ment only a few days ago that
tends to weaken the hand of
his own Government in a
delicate negotiation and that
could give aid and comfort to
the Communists.
Speaking before the plat
form committee here last
week, Mr.. Truman said that
at Potsdam he recommended
the Observation-Disclosures of all
canals, including the Panama
Canal" This is precisely what
the Communist regime in
Moscow a few days ago
publicly proposed in order to
embarraSs America. Mr.. Tru-
man says sit is a matter of
the record" that he made such
a statement at Potsdam. But
James F. Byrnes, who was
Secretary of State at the time
and was at the PotSdam con-
ference too. said to this cor
respondent today:
THE fact is that, at the
Potsdam conference, neither
Mr.. Truman nor anyone else
made such a proposal. After
we got there, a suggestion re-
lating solely to the control of
the Danube River was made by
us. 1t did not receive serious
consideration. Churchill and
Stain asked that it be re-
ferred to the foreign ministers.
AS to the Panama Canal, had
any such proposal been made,
I would have dropped in my
tracks,"
This writer has verified at
the State Department the fact
that there is no such record
in the PotSdam proceedings
or in any other International
conference-of any proposal
to any foreign government to
internationalize the Panama
Canal.
Yet factual errors OF this
kind are embedded in political
speeches in which the Demo-
Gratis claim to know more about
how to run foreign policy than
their opponents. Although
there is today great danger of
war in the world, irresponsible
statements are made that do
not uphold the President of
the United States in his earnest
efforts to avoid American in
velopment in shooting war.
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West Faces Defeat in Suez PorIev

director was always to be APP
pointed by the Egyptian gov
eminent.
And incidentally assur-
ance Of neutrality in peace or
war has been violated in the
past, and against Egypt. When
the British occupied Egypt
they used the canal as a base
for operation against Egyptian
troops. It's approaches were
blocked by Great Britain dur
Ing two world wars. In the
Spanish-American War, Great
Britain, though not a partici-
pant. refused passage to Span
ish warships rushing to the aid
OF their fleet in the Philippines.
This helped Admiral Dewey to
gain perhaps the easiest naval
victory in history
Egypt can invoke legal
grounds for holding up Israeli
ships or Israel-bound ships
carrying strategic materials.
Israel and Egypt technically
still are at war, and under the
convention of 1888 Egypt is
empowered. in respect of the
canal, to take whatever meas
ures are necessary "for Sc
curing by their own forces the
defense Of Egypt"
These legal niceties would
hardly enter the debate il
Egypt were standing alone.
But the lineup of the worlds
states in advance of the con-
ference indicates the Western
powers have formidable OPP
ponents.
Can the situation be resolved
by force? And at what cal
culated risk? Do we really
want to put the Soviets in as
coadministrators? DO we think
they would be safer "neutrals'
than the Egyptians?
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DAVID LAWRENCE
Democratic Praise for Clements Keynote
Seen as Setting Tone of Election Rivalry

CHICAGO, Aug. is. - Do
the American people really
want a mudslinging and vi
Imperative campaign, and was
the speech of Gov. Clement of
Tennessee a keynote" that
other Dem ocratic Party
speakers now are to echo on
the stump?
Judging by the unanimous
praise which came from Gov.
Hartman, Adlai Stevenson,
former President Truman,
Speaker Rayburn and almost
all the other leaders, this type
Of campaign met with enthusi-
astic approval.
Yet. even in his most fanati-
cal moments, Joe Mccarthy
never perpetrated a speech as
violently partisan. Also, by
comparison, the vigorous cam
paigning in 1854 by Vice
President Nixon seems tame
and gentle.
But If the Clement speech
is to be the pattern, the Re-
publicans will have to get
busy and trot out their most
outspoken denunciators and
arm them with all the devices
of invective and innunendo so
skillfully used by Gov. Clement.
There's Just a chance, of
course. that the Tennessee
keynoter lost votes for the
Democratic Party, especially
among independents" who,
according to the spokesman for
moderation" in campaigning.
are supposed to have been
shocked in recent years by the
guilt by association" and
character assassination" tao
tics OF various speakers in
Congress.
After all the Democratic
complaints about how the
Eisenhower administration has
lowered American prestige"
abroad, one wonders why-at
a time when the Secretary of
State is getting ready to go to
London to help solve a crisis
that could mean Wharf.-The
temporary chairman of the
Democratic National Conven-
ton tells the peoples of for
eign nations, including the
Communist countries, that MIR.
Dulles is "a wandering min
strel" and "unquestionably the
greatest unguided missile in
the history of American
diplomacy"
But the most extreme por-
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Western nations into war
against Egypt to cut the hos
tile ring against Israel. THE
Democratic Party is more
likely to yield to them than
the Republican,
We differed over Abadan
with the British, who wanted
TO hold the great British oil
refinery by force; we pressed
Great Britain to retire from
the Sudan; we urged her to
yield to Nasser and withdraw
from the canal zone; we
backed anti-British interests
in the dispute between Saudi
Arabia and her neighbors.
Had all these steps been
taken with a view to assuming
leadership, responsibility and
authority in the Middle East,
they would have represented a
consistent national policy. But
there has never been any clear
purpose in our Middle Eastern
policy.
Now. in the present crisis,
the legal position of the West
is dubious. The history Of the
Suez Canal and the Suez Canal
Co. which goes way back to
1854, is bound to be unrolled.
1t is a story of fabulous in
trigues in which one Of the
smartest Frenchmen who ever
lived. NJ. De Lesseps. took two
successive yiceroys Of Egypt
Egypt then was within the
Ottoman empirel for a fam
tastic financial ride.
From a legal point OF view,
both the canal and the private
company that administered 1t
have always been under Egyp-
tan law. BY agreement, the
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DORIS FLEEsoN
In Defense of Stevenson Choice

largely been. not Roosevelt or
Truman holdoverS, but new
faces on the Stevenson order.
There is resentment among
the delegates at the ammuni-
ton Truman is giving the Re-
publicans to throw at Steven
son should Stevenson prevail.
1t could break out in the
clincheS.
The position of Senator
Lyndon B. johnson of Texas
remains an enigma.
johnson built his reputation
as majority leader on party
unity. He is the matchmaker
who brought Senators Walter
F. George of Georgia and
Hubert H. Humphrey of
Minnesota together. Yet, he
is still visiting friends" while
Truman RACES and Northern
liberals try to tip the balance
toward Stevenson and cement
party harmony.
johnson has not told close
friends what is in his ear. One
tactical move he made failed.
His old colleague and pred
ecesSor as Senate leader,
Gov. Ernest Mcfarland, flew
here and tried to get Arizona
to yield to Texas so johnson
could be nominated as a ma
tional candidate.
The Arizona caucus went
for Stevenson. johnson always
has said he knew a Southerner
with national aspirations had
to have a broader base than
the South.
Texas has a powerful bloc of
votes. But in IL starts it has
been with the winner only
twice. AS time runs out, Texans
are saying privately and
glumly that it may happen
again.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-15
POTOMAC FEVER
FLETCHER KNEBEL

The Democratic platform assails Republican prosperity
as an Illusion The Democrats nothing in any
direction but profits and good times.
Following his keynote at the
on Gov Clement of Tennessee being hailed champion
of the people--lightweight division.
The prison warden get to sleep without
first counting his black sheep.
One Democratic delegate Chicago is dangerous
city Every time he enters restaurant gang of Averell
HarTimans agents downand demand pay for his
dinner.
Ask civil question at this Democratic convenon-and you
get civil rights
Capital punishment: What woman gets for marrying
Congressman.
Liberals at the Democratic demanding that
Frank Snara amend the Star Spangled by adding
clause And this is the law Of the land"
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DOROTHY. THOMPSON
diplomatic Coup for Egypt and Reds
Seen Stirring Repercussions in West

AS things look now, the
forthcoming conference on the
Suez Canal crisis is likely to
result in another serious dip
lomatic defeat for the West
ern powers. If that should
occur, the domestic repercus-
sions in the West also would
be serious. Prime Minister
Eden's "Nasser must go"
might turn into eden must
go" And If a war crisis in
yolving America is to be pre-
cipitated. a national campaign
year is just the time to choose.
To a considerable Though
not precisely calculablel ex-
tent, President Eisenhower
owed his victory in 1852 to
the conviction that he would
clean Communist influences
out Of the Government here.
end the war in Korea, and
keep America out Of further
military adventures abroad.
These considerations still will
influence the voters, unless
the President is forced into
another policy.
The Suez crisis also in
wolves relations between mem
berS Of the Western alliance.
In nothing has the United
States been so criticized in
Great Britain as in her Middle
Eastern policy. We did not
see eye to eye with Britain
over Palestine. As a result of
preSsures from here, Britain
threw up her mandate, and a
war broke out between Arabs
and Jews that has not yet been
resolved. Now. again. power
fm interests are pushing the
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badly financed and obviously
miSmanaged, piled up a popu-
lar vote second only to that
achieved by two men-Eisen-
hover who beat him and
Franklin Roosevelt in 1886
when Roosevelt lost only Maine
and Vermont.
The fresh Stevenson imprint
was further fastened on the
party when Stevenson, not a
rich man, dropped everything
in 1852 to help pay off the
campaign deficits. The then
national chairman, Steve
Mitchell, sold the Stevenson
eloquence at Embarrassing din
ners like a Hollywood agent
dispensing the box-office at
fractions of Marilyn Monroe.
The result was that Steven
son spoke for the Democratic
Party in most States of the
Union. He proved so great a
drawing card that practically
every Democratic candidate
since of any consequence has
begged him for help, including
Gov. Harriman-and got it.
What has happened since
1852 is a political phenomenon.
The party out of power, con-
tending with one of the most
popular Presidents in history,
has won practically every cleo
ton since 1852 at the local.
State and national levels. It
has taken nine statehouses
from the Republicans and re-
gained control of Congress.
The caliber of the Democratic
winners is, Of course, impor-
tant-they have been above
average. They also have
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Firn1er Support for Allies on Sue;

present conflict the possibility
of their remaining business
going to pieces. Arab unity.
our intelligence reports point
out. is something extremely
loose and superficial.
If, however, Nasser is al
lowed by the West to win his
battle his influence with the
people will be such that the
Arab rulers will not dare OPP
pose fanatical nationaliSm.
The British government, de-
spite the open opposition of
the Labor Party, has informed
Washington that it is deter
mined to remain unyielding on
what it describes as Col. Mas
ser's unlawful seizure of the
Suez Canal Co. 1t is proceed
ing. in close cooperation with
the French to complete its
military preparation for a pos
Sible showdown.
A study by the British i'm
perial staff is said to point out
that the chances of Soviet
intervention-and thus Of a
third world warfare so re-
mote that they are not worth
considering.
Under these conditions,
Dulles is fully empowered to
support the British and the
French in their endeavor to
restore an International super
vision, with Egyptian partici-
patton. over the Suez Canal
administration. S h ould
Shepilov and Krishna Menon,
the two spokesman for Col.
NaSser, want to make the
London conference into kind
of free-for-all fight and thus
attempt to delay any concrete
decisions, Dulles is expected to
side with our allies and press 7
for an early decision on what
the diplomats call 1.-The sub
stantive matter" ~
In the meantime, to show
the Egyptian people that
America is not hostile to them, :
shipments under the American
economic assistance program
continue to flow to Egypt de-
spite the present crisis.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-15
CONSTANTINE BROWN
U. S. Policy Makers Believed Convinced
Dictotori0I Nosser Must Be Blocked

Nasser, according to reports
from our officials in the Mid
die East, is dreaming of a vast
Arab empire extending from
the Atlantic to the Persian
Gulf. If he succeeds in what
the British and French de-
scribe as an act of "interna-
tional piracy" his prestige in
the Arab world may become
such that he could fulfill his
ambition.
NasSer does not have any
physical power to speak of.
But behind him - as behind
Hitler in 1939-are the Rus
slams who are urging him to
try his hand. They care little
for the Arabs and even less
for Nasser. But they hope to
further weaken the prestige of
the West in Asia and Africa
through a spectacular diplo-
matte victory of the Egyptian
leader. At the same time,
Russia would like to deny oil
supplies from the Middle East
to the Western European
countries. This could be done
by an intermittent closing of
the canal by the puppet
Nasser.
The decision to stop Nasser
before it is too late is also the
result of a number of reports
recently received from our in
telligence agencies, not only in
Egypt but also in the other
Arab countries. The populace
which does not know what is
at stake for the citizenry adj
mireS and applaudS the little
colonels courage. But other
elements, such as businessmen,
a number of ranking army
people and politicians, are
frightened at the consequences
of his daring.
Under the impact of popu-
lar frenzy they don't dare OPP
pose him openly. 1t would be
very unhealthy for any re-
sponSible Arab to criticize
Nasser these days. There are,
however. many who see in the
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DORIS FLEESON
Record of Performance in 81 and Since
Cited Against He Can't Win Claim

CHICAGO.-Adlai Stevenson
at this point resembles Eliza
crossing the ice.
The solid footing grows
steadily under his feet. For
example, Ohio and Michigan
want to abandon their favorite
sons and plump for him. New
York is FESTIVE. The farther
shore is In sight.
But Simon Legree" Truman
is cracking his blacksnake
whip, trying to throw Steven
son of balance and keep him
from reaching safe harbor I'M
til a rip-roaring civil rights
fight can soften the harmony
ice.
Working to avert it is the
unlikely combination of South
ern leaders and such powerful
Northern liberals as Eleanor
Roosevelt and Walter Reuther.
Truman has nothing but
scorn for their efforts. He won
without the South and he
thinks his candidate, Gov.
Averell Hartman of New York,
can, too. Or maybe Truman.
Meanwhile, the former Pres
1dent is holding the line-or
trying to-by ringing the
changes on the cliche that
Stevenson. because he lost in
1852, can't win. Truman, of
course, sincerely believes this.
The charge does not bear
examination on the record.
Fair-minded observers have
long said that no Democrat
could have beaten President
Eisenhower in 1852. Yet
Stevenson. relatively unknown,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-15

ton in the Indictment"
speech, as one newspaper here
headlined it, was the follow
ing:
I'VE are not afraid to fight
and we are not going to sit
back and watch one Of the
Republican candidates snug
ly attempt to lift himself
above and beyond his party,
meantime holding hands with
the vice-hatchet man Of the
Republican Party who-with-
out interference from Gettys-
burg-charges 20 years of
treason to the Democrats, and
accuses the membership of
the Democratic Party-that
means you and that means
me, my friends and fellow
Americans-with treacherous
conduct!
IAN they try to do to de-
fend such an outburst of
political intemperance from
the most politically intem-
perate individual in the his
tory of modern American
politics is to peep from behind
the curtain of confusion and
guilt long enough to wave a
check for a thousand dollars
and say, Prove it!'
We'll, we'll prove he said
it, and Wen prove much more,
too, before this campaign is
over. We don't want their
thousand dollars. All we want
is to serve the. cause of decent
political debate!
THAT kind of double-faced
campaign by the opposition
the vice-hatchet man singing
SANDER and spreading half
truths while the top man peers
down the green fairway of in
difference-will not be toler-
ated by the Democratic Party"
Nobody in the administration
ever charged the Democratic
Party or its membership with
treason. President Eisenhower
referred in his Milwaukee
speech in October, 1852, to the
reasonable activities of GER
tain Government employees
such as Alger Hiss-who had
inf1ltrated the Democratic
administration. This very week
1t was disclosed that Hiss, who
played a part in Far Eastern
intrigues, wrote for FDR's
signature in 1910 a personal
letter on foreign policy that
went to the American ambas-
sador in Japan.