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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-15

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-10

emergence of Thomas E.
Dewey as an influence at the
White House since the Presi-
dents heart attack. Dewey
men are numerous and strong
in the White House regency
and his pipelines are said to
be equally effective.
While the Old Guard has no
use for Dewey nobody can say
they underestimate him; he
has beaten them too often
for that. There seems to be
no solid evidence of their
charges that he is seeking
second choice commitments
among the convention delega-
tionS or limiting that he is
available for Vice President
with Eisenhower. 1t is still true
that the old Dewey team of
expert convention organizers
could be mustered into service
at short notice.
Knowing this, the strategy
of the right-wingers will be to
protect their influence so far
as possible by arranging ia
vorite-son delegations In case
Eisenhower does not run. This
Is a frustrating task at the
moment; it may be doomed to
final Illustration but 1t is being
attempted. in New Hampshire.
Ohio. Wisconsin and other
States.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-10
THOMAS L. STOKES
Coolidge Would Be FIobbergosted

ated farms. He recommended
that Congress set a dollar limit
upon the size Of price support
loans to any one individual or
farming unit.
What the President is seek
ing to reach we may see from
figures published in the Con-
gressional Record that show q
few Of the big payments in the
year 1858, topped by 81, 269. 492
10 Delta and Pine Land Co. of
Scott. Miss, and 81 ,246,516 to
Giffen. Inc, Of Huron, Calf,
and so on, with % others re-
ceiving sums over 5000. 900 and
ranging up to over $500. 900.
While there are only about
100, 900 corporate type or fac
tory farms, In number. they
contribute IS per cent Of all
farm sales,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-10
DOR1S FLEESON
Other Republicans Needn't AppIy

A major problem Of the
Republican fight is 1t has no
present symbol; the place 50
long occupied by the late
Senator Taft is vacant. Sena-
tor Knowland is trying to NIL
that vacuum; he will try
harder If an Eisenhower with
drawal becomes o fact, but he
has still to prove he can do so.
Vice President Nixon Is
caught in the underestimate
cross-fire. Nixon Is not really
a hero to either faction Of the
party, though he has sup
porters in both. He can only
stand and wait: trying hard
not to offend anybody.
The Democratic vacuum lies
in the party's failure to pro-
duce a conservative candidate.
Not in years. even during the
long period Of Roosevelt's
popularity, have Democrats
been without q conservative
symbol in presidential nomi-
mating campaigns and con-
ventions. Such men repre-
sented a minority but they
were articulate and respon-
Sible. Former Vice President
Garner. James A. Farley and
Senator Russell Of Georgia are
examples.
Stevenson therefore stands
as the most conservative
Democrat now in the field. He
is not conservative enough for
many unhappy Democrats but
so far he will have to do.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-10
Eisenhower's Stand on Farmers
Far CRY From G. O. P. View of '20s

bring production into balance
with existing and new markets.
at prices that yield farmers a
return for their work in line
with what other Americans
get"
No agrarian radical-of that
other era or this-could be
more ELUSIVE in his harangues
from the stump about that fig
ure called by one of our poets
"the man with the hoe" and
by others less refined "the
horny-handed son Of toll" than
our Republican President who
piled on the eulogies. among
them:
mo group is more funda-
mental to our national life
than our farmers"
Beyond the change in atti-
tude toward the farmers claim
upon our economy, another
change that has come over ag-
riculture itself In the inter-
vening years was recognized
by the President in his special
message to Congress-:
Farm organization and farm
operations are undergoing pro-
found change as science and
technology rapidly alter the
structure of agriculture. Great
care must be exercised that
these changes do not result in
huge corporation farms on the
one hand and in unrewarding
subsistence units on the other"
Yet that has happened al
ready to a degree. This the
President recognized in his OBJ
Servations in his message on
the rapid increase in size of
farms and in the remedies he
proposed to check the disinte-
grafton of the family size farm
and to improve the condition
of small. low-income farmers
who now constitute about
three fifths of our farm fami-
lies.
To help the latter he asked
Congress to enact the full pro-
gram he submitted last April
26, some of which still is pend
ing in Congress.
The President took cogni-
zance of another development,
the payment Of huge price sup
ports in some cases to big, cor
porate-type farmers which, he
said, is "a threat to the tradi-
tional family farm" to the de-
gree that 1t removes the risk
for large farm businesses. It
is not sound government pol
Icy, he said. to underwrite at
public expense such formidable
competition with family -oper-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-10
DORIS FLEESON
Bridges Said to Have Told KnowIond
New Hampshire Is SoIidly Eisenhower

No surprises developed as the
filing period opened for the
Nations first presidential pref
erence primary, which is In
New Hampshire.
President Eisenhower is in
the picture sufficiently to head
of other aspiring Republicans;
the lines of his supporters are
holding easily 1t is understood
that Senator Bridges, the SEN
Tor Republican of the State and
the Senate, took some sound
ingS for his close associate,
Senate Leader Knowland, and
warned him off.
So long as Eisenhower is in
the running. Bridges told the
Californian, no other Republic
can need apply in New Hamp-
shire.
Adlai Stevenson's decision
not to risk much in a State
with few electoral votes where
Senator Kefauver is strong had
been forecast. Stevenson will
prudently make his initial
strike in Minnesota where the
organization is for him.
Beneath the surface calm
Of the campaigns technical
opening. deep and emotional
currents are running.
The Republican right wing
mortally hates and fears the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-10
Rodfofd Inspects
korean Front

SEOUL. Jan. 10 P.-Admiral
Arthur w. Radford, inspecting
the Korean front, said today the
United States probably would use
atomic weapons If the Commun-
lists attack again in Korea.
The admiral, chairman Of the
United States Joint Chiefs oil
STAFF. gave a blunt Eyes" wher
asked If he felt the same way
about using atomic weapons as
he did last year.
Admiral Radford is winding ur
a two-day Korean visit on a
swing through the Far East.
He went to the front near Pan
munjom and looked at Com.
munist territory from an advance
observation post just outside the
demilitarized zone that separates
the two sides.
The scene was Outpost Maize,
not far from the hills where
United States Marines fought of
some OF the last Chinese attacks
of the Korean war.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-10
Eisenhower Open to Persuasion

are many precautions that he
has to take In the next IL
months. Maybe he must not
take so many airplane rides.
Maybe he must not swing q
golf club too vigorously. Maybe
he will have to avoid the stress
and strain of any controversy
in public Office.
For obviously there is no way
Mr.. Eisenhower can safeguard
the Nation against a sudden
change in government be-
tween now and January 20.
l957-more than a year hence.
The logic Of what he said could
be applied to a recently. dis
cussed suggestion that, being
a fortnight individual, Mr..
EiSenhower-if he felt inca
pacitated to perform his full
duties-would resign. Inciden-
tally. there is a law on the
statute books which provides
that a President may submit
his resignation at any time to
the Secretary Of State. who
then notifies the Vice Presi-
dent.
The converse is also plausi-
BILE. For. If Dwight Eisenhower
feels well enough to serve the
fourth year of his term. why
wouldn't he endeavor to serve
a second term?
So the President will have to
answer it all himself-and he
has promised to take every
thing into account, the argu-
ments for and against-and by
March at the latest will give
his answer.
II the decision announced Is
negative. the Republican Ma
tional Convention can still
formally ask him to run, espe-
cially If by August his health
has shown considerable i'm
provement. The world situa-
ton at that time could well
have a powerful influence on
any final Judgment both the
convention and the President
might render.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-10

An American-British Mar
shall Plan" for the Arab coun-
tries to counterfeit the recent
powerful inroads of Moscow
and Peiping has been heartily
Endorsed by top policy advisers
in the White House and State
Department where, other in
dications notwithstanding, it
is still believed that commu-
nism takes root in economically
hard-pressed countries.
Indications are. however,
that the administration win
have a hard fight to put over
it's point of view in Congress.
This is despite the fact that
two of the Democratic hope
fuls, Adlai Stevenson and
Estes Kefauver, also advocate
solving the world Communist
problems by continued indis-
criminate financial and eco
nomic support.
The reason a large number
Of Senators frown on the new
scheme is that they doubt
greatly that the spread of
communism these days Is due
to bad economic conditions in
the affected areas. They point
to the spectacular victory of
the Communists in France
who have increased their seats
in the National Assembly from
SO to $50. This was not due
to economic conditions; France
is today more prosperous than
she was before the outbreak
of World War II. Yet many
Of her citizens voted for the
Moscow puppets.
On the other hand, If the
theory that communism thrives
in countries where peoples are
broke and desperate were ac-
curate, Germany should have
become Red in the days imme-
diately after the war when
Germans were homeless and
starving. The armies OF occu-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-10
Remarks Most Likely Mean He Hasn't
Heard Anything Definite From Doctors

of an unfavorable nature later
on, he wouldn't have referred
to it as a topic on which he
would have the freedom to
change his mind either way.
What the Presidents reply
most likely means is that he
hasn't heard anything definite
thus far from the doctors and
realizes that he himself will
have to make up his own
mind.
There are some indications
that the President as yet has
not thought through all the
implications of the decision he
has to make. It is that there
is no sure way he can prevent
the unexpected" from hap
pening even if he decides to
serve the fourth year of his
term.
After conceding that his
health would be an important
factor in his eventual decision
about running for a second
term, he said:
Now, 1t is not merely what
the doctors say to someone
else. what the doctors say to
me. 1t is a very critical thing
to change governments in this
country at a time that 1t is I'M
expected. We accustom our
selves and so do foreign gov
misunderstanding our gov
eminent every four years-but
always something happens
that is untoward when a gov
eminent is changed at other
times. 1t is a rather startling
thing. They tell me that even
some disturbance in the stock
market at the time got sick
I didn't know it till six weeks
later-they told me there was"
But If Mr.. Eisenhower wants
to be sure the country is pro-
tected against sudden change
in the middle Of a term, there
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-10
CONSTANTINE BROWN
Arab Aid Faces Stiff Opposition

the Kremlin's extended hand.
1t was from that time on that
the anti-Western and espe-
cially anti-American waves
began to spread.
Last weeks disturbances in
Jordan, when the American
flag was trampled under the
feet Of the mob and American
offices we're stoned, were not
the result of any economic
distress" Jordan was until re-
Gently one Of the staunchest
supporters of the West.
The present tense situation
was caused by the strong and
positive foreign policy Of the
Soviet Union and not by her
phony attempt to help econom-
ically her friends" (actually
the intended future victims).
The rebellion against France
in Morocco and Algeria is not
the product of hunger and
physical misery. 1t is def
nitely political. Russia injected
herself skillfully among the
freedom seeking Arabs while
we were passive onlookers for
more than three years. We dis
avowed colonialism but did
nothing to prove our disavow-
ais. When the Moroccan ma
tionalists, through the free.
Arabs, asked to present their
case to the United Nations we
abstained from voting lest we
offend our French ally.
Despite these object lessons.
from which we should have
learned something, our policy
makers still believe that eco
,nomic and financial aid will
help us solve the Middle East
ern situation which is def
nitely political. Senator Rich
ard Russell, chairman Of the
Armed Services Committee, de-
scribed the State Department
as sterile" Of ideas. And many
other legislators in both parties
believe with him that the give
away policy which has cost the
American taxpayers nearly $50
billion in the last 10 years Is by
no means the answer to our
present troubles.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-10
Political Moves, Not Hunger,
At Base of Mid-Eost Problems

patton were intent then on
crushing naziism but they did
not discourage Communist
propaganda in the slightest.
Yet communism made little
Roadway either in Western or
Eastern Germany.
The present conditions in
the Arab countries are due to
political developments and not
to hunger. Egypt is better of
than 1t was under the previous
regimes. Saudi Arabia is a
rich and prosperous country.
Its oil resources exploited by
the Arabian-American Oil Co.
have helped develop the coun-
try in an unprecedented man
ner. Last week the Saudi Ara
bian government was able to
lend Syria $40 million at nomi-
nal interest. Jordan is in
equally good shape. And so is
Syria. There is no lack Of en-
ployment in any of these coun-
tries. There is a need for tech
nicians which could be pro-
vided by the West to give the
Arabs the necessary industrial
and agricultural know.how.
The success of the Russians
in the strategically vital Mid
die East is due to politics. The
Arabs are dedicated to the
eventual destruction of Israel,
which they consider an alien
body in Arab lands. Israel had
been, until Russia injected her
self into the Middle East,
somewhat overconfident be-
cause it relied on Western
backing and on the superior
quality Of its military forces.
The Soviet wedge in the
Middle East was not obtained
by economic but by military
assistance. AS soon as the
USSR announced that 1t was
ready to provide Egypt, Syria
and all other neighbors of Is
rael with military equipment,
these governments accepted
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-10
DAVID LAWRENCE

There were three very sig
nificant pieces of news in that
conference which President
Eisenhower had with the re-
porters who Intercepted him
at Key West.
First, the President is in a
flexible state of mind about
running - whatever inclina-
tions he has are tentative and
can be changed.
Second, no final decision has
been reached by the President
whether to run or not to run.
Third, the President is open
to persuasion on all the argu-
ments, factors and recon-
mendations that may hereafter
be presented to him both by
the doctors and his personal
advisers on public affairs.
This all adds up to the con-
clusion that. since the Presi-
dent is the soul of candor. he
would have told the American
people if he had already
ach ed a d decision he
wouldn't try to be Coy about
it," as he expressed it. The
exact words of the question
and answer on this point were:
Reporter: II find myself
somewhat confused as to
whether you have made up
your mind at this time on
whether you will run for a
second term?"
The President: mo. My
mind at this moment is not
fixed. If it were, I would
say so right here this second.
But my mind is not fixed to
such an extent it can't be
changed"
Plainly there is a hint here
that the President himself is
disinclined to run but that he
Is open to argument as to why
he should run. II Mr.. Essen
hover were thinking about
what the doctors might say
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-10

The thousands Of words ex-
pended by President Eisen-
hover in the last few days
about the plight of the farmer
and his proposed remedies for
it are a reminder Of how far
the Republican Party has
moved in the % years since
1t was last In power.
Then Calvin Coolidge. the
second of three Republican
Presidents in that 12-year
span, 1928, remarked in
his dry way:
Farmers never have made
money. / don't think there's
much we can do about it."
Much? The sage of Plym-
outh, VT, perhaps would be
fiabbergasted If he could pore
through the pages Of Presi-
dent Eisenhower's farm mes
sage to Congress and what he
said in the annual message last
week and read how much is
proposed that not even the
most imaginative would have
dreamed of in Calvin Coolidge's
generation. So much more, for
example, than the favorite
panacea of the agrarian rebels
Of the 1920s IT the McNary-
Haugen bill-which Calvin
Coolidge vetoed, and so, after
him, did Herbert Hoover, the
last Republican President until
now, though that measure
was sponsored by Republicans
from the West.
In the depression that broke
upon us at the end Of the
.1920s the long-eroding state
of agriculture played a big
part, as we learned in the
years afterward. How that is
now recognized and how we
, have come also to recognize
another goal long sought by
farmers, that they are entitled
to the same living standard as
every other segment of our
economy, was very plainly
demonstrated by the President,
himself.
After explaining in his farm
message yesterday that the
farmers prices and income to-
day are depressed amid the
Nations greatest prosperity"
he said: unless corrected,
these economic reversals are a
direct threat to the well-being
Of all our people"
In his annual message last
week, in the section about
farmers, he had said on the
second point:
\ Our objective must be to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-10
POTOMAC FEVER
FLETCHER KNEBEL

proposes $1-bllon farm relief program. Republicans
decided to the farmers haway-and give them
as much the Democrats did.
poll shows that three out Of five heart specialists think
At again The other two-fifths probably
Democrat-and the mystery here how they nrated
the American Medical Association.
Leader Mccormack says Democratic unity is
strongest in years When Democrats looked upon the
robbed"
won't whether he'll again. But you be
Of thing He'll do his duty Mamie it,
Ike calls Bernard Stanley back to work appointment
secretary Somebody's needed handle the horde
who is minutes with the President tell him
to take 1t easier
Republican Leader Knowand leads the Senate congra
ulating Vice President Nixon his 43d birthday Knowand
wishes him happy reurnschehy in the direction Of
California.
Evening star., 1956-12-27
The Captive Hunqorions

There is no reason to doubt that the
problem Of caring for the Hungarian
refugeeS-the 175,000 men, women and
children who have been fortunate enough
to escape from their Communist op-
pressors-can and will be solved.
Vice President Nixon has said that
Mr.. Eisenhower has made the question of
our own country's part in this task a
top priority" matter for presentation to
congressional leaders on January l. Pre-
sumably we will enlarge our present
refugee quota of 81 500 and will extend
additional financial assistance Mr.. Nixon,
IN his televised report, also urged dou-
bling of the scale Of volunteer donations.
There is no doubt that we can do these
things and perhaps more. Nor are there
any inSuperable obstacles in the way Of
caring for all of the refugees and relocat-
ing them in new homes-asSuming that
the nations of the free world will work
together to this end
But what Of the millions of Hungar-
ianS who did not or who could not escape
the terror in their homeland? What, If
anything, can be done for them? They
live in a land whose economy has been
wrecked, where food is scarce and where
factories are closing down for lack of
coal. This is going to be a desperately
grim winter for these captive Hungarians.
Is there anything that can be done?
There has been one unconfirmed re-
port that the government of Premier
JanoS Kadar plans to seek loan of $100
million from the World Bank. An official
Of the bank has said, however, that Hun
gary is not member of the bank and
therefore is ineligible for a loan. He adds
that he would not be prepared to recon-
mend loan to the Kadar government
even If Hungary were a member.
This sharpens the outlines of what
promises to become a cruel dilemma.
Kadar is stooge of the Moscow Commu-
nistS, and his government has been Inn
posed on Hungary by force Of Russian
arms. To extend economic or financial
aid to the Kadar regime probably would
be to strengthen his grip on the Hungar-
ian people. An alternative is to refuse
any aid, hoping thereby to bring him
down through internal pressures arising
from extreme economic distress. But
where does this leave the people of Hun
gary? What will they eat, where will they
find the other necessities of life?
1t is possible that the Hungarians.
having suffered so much, would prefer to
suffer more rather than see any helping
hand extended to their Communist mas
ters. But there is a limit to the suffering
that even desperate people can endure,
and the bitter months lie ahead. We may
have to give some further consideration
to the problem Of the Hungarians who are
still in Hungary.
Evening star., 1956-12-27
Lunotics at Work

The antisegregationists who picked
Christmas night as the time to bomb the
home of Negro preacher in Birmingham
come, we suppose. from the extreme
lunatic fringe.
We do not believe that any rational
person Of whatever race, in Alabama or
elsewhere, would condone such a de-
praved act as this. But 1t was not only
an act Of depravity; it also was sense
less thing to do. The intended victim,
the Rev. F. L. Shuttlesworth, is one of the
leaders of a movement to get rid Of seq
regation on Birminghams buses. Presum-
ably, the bombers thought they could
frighten him of. But Mr.. Shuttlesworth,
although two Of his children we're slightly
injured, has not been frightened at all
He intends to intensity his efforts. and
the same thing, one suspects, will be true
of the other members of Birmingham's
Negro community.
So the bomberS, who do their evil
work and then flee under cover of dark
ness, are defeating their own purpose.
They probably are incapable Of UNDER
standing this. But 1t will readily be ap-
parent to most Of the people Of Birming-
ham, including the city's officials, and 1t
may be hoped that they will find way
to deal with these would-be terrorists
before terror begetS terror.