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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-23
Inauguration a Symbol of Equality

The troops move by with
old-fashioned bayonets in their
rifles, and one wonders If ever
again they would have oc-
casion to fight with them. 49,.
What really will the next war
be like. Thoughts of war
come to mind as the military
proudly displays. its terrible
weapons Of destruction before
a man who had led the biggest
armies of history in a world
war. Yet here is a military
man dedicated to peace.
This week the words Of his in
augural speech, addressed to
"our friends, wherever they
may be-" are being transmitted
everywhere-to the remotest
areas-by cable and radio to
tell the world that America
wants peace and is willing to
make costly sacrifices to at
tain it.
The Monday night of cele-
bration-four inaugural balls
now, because no one audi
forum can accommodate the
thousands of guests !. Ike
visiting each for a few minutes
The people cheering and
paying homage to him with a
fervor and yet an affection
rarely witnessed in our times.
:. The nearest approach was
the idolizing of Theodore
Roosevelt. but this was because
of his virile manner Of speech
and his unique ways of Show
ing concern for the welfare Of
the common man. Ike is
loved for himself as much as
for his achievements as a SOL
der and statesman A
personality that gets across to
everybody-men, women and
children-largely because he
is so natural, so Midwestern,
so American. =.
A healthy look on Ike's face
despite his illnesses a vigor
that augurs well for a full
four-year term for he is
needed today in a world of tur-
MOL and danger. His is a
voice of patience and restraint.
yet he would not shrink an
instant from duty to fire back
If an attack came a Presi-
dent who has the confidence
not only Of his own people but
of all the free peoples of the
world !. Maybe an Inaugural
ton that spells not impending.
disaster but hope.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-23
CONSTANTINE BROWN
Declaration to Protect Middle Eost'
Called Preparation for Asian Drive

Little significance was at
tached by many in this coun-
try to the Bulganin- Chou
joint declaration of their
interest" in the Middle East
to counter the American
''imperialist goals"
The Interpretation of some
Washington officials that this
declaration is another proof
of the desperate plight of the
two Communist governments
is received specifically in quar-
tiers where the facts are
known and interpreted diff
ferently.
According to those who have
studied the declaration care
fully in the light of. recent
developments, the co-ordina-
ton of Soviet Chinese dip
lomatic actions in the richest
oil area in the world is only
a curtain raiser to joint mill
tary activities if and when
the Kremlin decides to move
into Iran or any other por-
ton of the Middle East.
Chou En-lai went to Mos
COW ahead of schedule after
midas Prime Minister Nehru
reported to him on his re-
turn from a long visit with
President Eisenhower tina t
the American Government
does not intend to bow to the
Communist wishes for a high
level conference between the
Chinese premier and Sec
rotary of State Dulles. This
meeting was considered es-
sential by Peiping to enhance
the prestige of Red China in
the Far East. 1t was to be ex-
plotted as tantamount to a
backdoor recognition of the
Peiping regime by the United
States.
Eisenhower answered with
his Middle East doctrine to
Nehru's warning that unless
We bow to Communist demands
there might be military action
in the Middle and Far East.
Chou's visit to the USSR,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-23
DOROTHY THOMPSON
U.S.. as a Successor Of Empires

speeches in the House of Com
mons. Nor could she have i'm
posed acceptance of a success
sor upon the other Arab states
except by controlling their
governments and armies also.
There is no vacuum of armed
force anywhere. On the con-
trary. never in human history
have there been so many sol.
diers or weapons everywhere.
But they are distributed, turned
against many fronts, instru-
ments of hostile and competing
nationalisms between which
there is no honest broker.
Yet the role of honest broker
is one that America must try
to play. 1t is the only one she
can play.
But it cannot be exercised
under the guise of "suppressing
international communism" For
that. in the Middle East. is
neither the issue nor the cause
Of disturbances.
The role must be to temper
national ambitions, create in
centives for cooperation, and
work steadfastly to alleviate
rather than inflame animos-
tiles and fears.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-23
Moscow-Peiping Not BIuffinq

Chou declaration. These gov
ernments continue to owe
allegiance in various degrees to
the Muscovites. The peoples
themselves, however, are look
ing only for a chance to shake
of their shackles.
The situation is different in.
solar as the Peiping govern
ment is concerned. The
Chinese Communists have the
potential to start an agrees
sion against Korea, South
Vietnam and possibly Formosa
as soon as Moscow decides to
move in the Middle East. Care
full analysis of the KremliI1's
detectives leaves no doubt to
those who don't want to apply
diplomatic Coue-ism that the
Moscow-Pe iping axis most
fruitful scene Of operation is
the Middle Eastern area.
1t will be some time before
the decisions and secret pro-
tocolS signed in the Kremlin
by the Soviet and Red Chinese
representatives are revealed to
the world. But it is safe to
conjecture-and this is being
done by the military-that an
agreement concerning a So
viet-Chinese common action
in the Middle East and Far
East has been reached with
America as the prime target
of the two conspiratorial re-
gimes. The Immediately in
tended victims may be our
allies in the Far East and
our friends and allies in the
Middle East. Insofar as the
men in Peiping are concerned,
Korea is their bridge to Japan.
And South Vietnam is the road
to Malaga, Singapore, Laos
and Thailand.
From the Soviet point Of
view. the denial of Middle
Eastern oil at the source itself
means a major victory against
the remaining free nations Of
Europe. And both Moscow and
Peiping believe that these two
detectives can be gained only
by military actions in which
they expect that under their
threats America will hesitate
to intervene despite the recent
strong statements by the adj
ministration and President
Eisenhower's own clear and
forceful inaugural speech.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-23
Choice of AIcorn, Called InternotionoIist,
Seen as Blow to Party conservatives

All that remains of the long
dominant Republican right
wing must now find its ex-
preston through the senior
members Of the Senate and
House who hold the leadership
positions and ranking places
on the powerful congressional
committees.
1t should be apparent be-
fore too long how far these
men are prepared to go in
defense Of the. orthodox Re-
publicanism that their twice.
elected President has swept
into the discard. They have
been holding fast for a long
time to a conservative alliance
with Democrats from the
South, but the forces they
lead have been turned in a
different direction now by the
President.
The tests ahead for the
Presidents policies are less
between Republicans and
Democrats than they are be-
tween conservatives and liber-
ais. There are few roll calls in
prospect to which party labels
can be attached in the manner
of the recent past.
The coming years therefore
will see a vigorous and often
confused scramble for per-
sonal power and prestige.
The Vice President rather
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-23

Without shot being fired,
the once stalwart citadel of
Taft conservatism within the
G. o. P.-the National Com
nnittee-has fallen to the new
Republican army of President
Dwight D. Eisenhower.
The word had come as FORE
cast from the White House
that H. Meade Alcorn. jr.. of
Connecticut was the Presi-
dents choice for National
Chairman. The unhappy Taft
remnants ceased from trou-
bling and helped to make AL
corn's election unanimous.
Alcorn speaks for the East
ern internationalists who de-
vised and achieved the Eisen-
hover nomination and cleo
ton in 1852. 1t is already
being said in Republican cir
cles that his job is to promote
the nomination and election
in 1860 Of Vice President Rich
ard Nixon for President and Of
Secretary of Interior Fred Sea-
ton of Nebraska for Vice
President.
A publisher with wide Mid
west interests who served
briefly by appointment in the
Senate, Seaton is an original
Eisenhower man. He is AZ.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-23
DORIS FLEEsok
The New COP. Chairman

immodestly staked out his own
claim to be the Presidents
successor in a press conference
q few hours before the in
augural ceremonies began. Re-
porters who talked with him
then were agreed that he was
setting of with what one de-
scribed as confidence, a sense
of maturity and a clear sense
of mission"
The Vice President leads
from strength in that he is
within the citadel of Execu-
tive power in the National
Government. He will, how
ever. find himself being shot
at and subject to all the haz-
ards of the political front
runner.
Orthodox Republicans also
have their candidate in the
field. Senate Republican Leader
william F. Knowland of Cali
fornia. Senator Knowland
acknowledged his own sense
of destiny when he recently
announced that he would not
seek to return to the Senate
next year but would return to
California. which is also Nix
on's home State.
1t is believed Knowland will
seek to take a California dele
CATION to the 1860 Republican
convention as Governor of the
State and delegation chairman.
Thus it may be that the fate
of both Knowland and Nixon
will be decided not in the East
but on the West Coast.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-23

Poland and Hungary where he
backed strongly the need for
close cooperation between the
Communist countries (even
those on whom communism is
imposed by force of Soviet
arms had a twofold objec-
tive: Cd To place the Peoples
Republic" in a position of
world Importance and (2) to
warn the United States to
keep out Of the Middle East
and let. that area fall into
Communist hands by default.
The men in the Kremlin
have taken a page from Hit
ler's policies during the last
war. In october. 1910, Hitler's
Foreign Minister Won Ribben-s
trop informed his Russian COL
league and ally Molotov that
Germany was at the point of
signing military alliance with
Tokyo. He explained to the
Kremlin foreign minister that
this was necessary to warn the
American "warmongers" away
from helping Britain and the
few remaining. opponents of
naziism. He said that if
America went too far in its
assistance to the free world
it would have to reckon with
the combined power of the
Nazis and Fascists in Europe
and the Japanese in the
Pacific.
Molotov applauded the skill
full maneuver of the Reich and
Endorsed fully its policies
against the American war;
mongers." OF the old Ribben-
trop Ciano TOTO Molotov
team, the Russian Communist
alone is still alive and in a
position of power. The others
have been executed.
Russia is seeking allies to
break down our efforts to
maintain freedom, at least in
areas which have not yet been
flooded by communism. Mos
cows satellites are extremely
doubtful allies in the event of
a showdown. Poland, East
Germany, Hungary, Romania
and Bulgaria are seething. So
is Yugoslavia. which has fully
Endorsed the recent Bulganin-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-23
Honest Broker Role Left to America
After Decline of Colonial Powers

after a period Of isolation,
entirely recovered her old en-
pire after World War II, and
totally supplanted Western
influences and alliances in
Eastern Europe.
Now, by historic irony, the
last Of the two great Western
empires-France and Great
Britain-are going down as
the result of the forces they
initially modified against their
imperial challengers, under
such war aims as self-deter-
mination.
1t is this collapse of Western
imperial power-all within As
years-that now shakes the
United States, and led the
President to speak of the vac
uum in the Middle East. 1t is
this which has created the idea
that the United States must.
somehow or other, police" the
world "for peace" and awakens
the charge that America
aspires to the role Of the
former Western empires.
But 1t must be obvious that
this role is not something that
can be passed from hand to
hand. Even were there an
American will to do so, the
conditions for it have disap-
peared.
Imperial authority rests upon
force, not force in reserve, but
on force in being, on the spot,
and as the instrument Of gov
ernments under direct i'm
perial control. Because Russia
was resolved to make or UNI
make the government of Hun
gary she could put down in
ternal revolt either by the
army Of a submissive govern
ment, or use her own army to
reinstall such a government.
That has been done by every
empire in history. Were
Egypt a colony of Britain in
the sense that Hungary has
been demonstrated to be q
colony OF Russia, Britain could
have gotten rid OF Nasser. She
could not get rid Of him by
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-23
POTOMAC FEVER
FLETCHER KNEBEL

Ike holds his first conference
that Ike is running down It's just that he running period
H. Meade Acorn jr of Connecticut elected Republican
chairman G. O. p dty: Men starting their with
initials make awfully impressive party officials
The Government rules Grace Kelly's baby will be an
American citizen Treasury Secretary Humphrey up
for taxpayers he has started signing up
the Stork.
House Democrats vote to investigate the
Democrats money tight people won't bet nickel
the election of Democratic President in 1860.
Meade Acorns election Republican chairman a
matter of pure chance. They put all the
then misplaced all those that Ike didn't want
Charles Van Doren. college professor reaches record
$lO450O on TV quiz program AS patriot he can't quit
He'd be called Stacker by collector in the country
Harry Truman Ikes inaugural address nice
collection Of beautiful words Harry really thinks deal
OF Ike. And the he thinks, the madden he gets
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-23

NEW DELHI, India.-The
outstanding historical event of
the twentieth century is the
progressive demise of all the
Western empires.
These empires, for better or
worse. exercised authority and
maintained a degree, at least,
Of order over large regions Of
the globe. Directly or in
directly, partly by interest and
persuasion. but ultimately by
force. they ruled. With or with
out the existence of native
governments and parliaments,
there was no question where
the seats of power lay. The
congress Of nations of Eastern
Europe, from the Elbe to the
Adriatic and down into north
ern Italy, were ruled from
Vienna; the whole Middle
East from Istanbul; North
Africa, Indo-C China and many
South Sea islands from Paris;
Central Asia and the peripheral
Baltic peoples right to the
borders of Sweden from Mos
cow or Leningrad; Korea and
many East Asian outposts from
Japan; and almost all Of
Africa, and all the subpenin-
Sulas Of Asia, including the
vast one from which ! write.
from London.
I These empires were the
great powers. and both world
wars grew out Of challenges to
or between them. In each war
these great powers allied them
selves with and against each
other. and after each the VIC
tors expanded their rule, d.
rectly or indirectly, at the
cost Of the conquered, either by
setting UP new independent"
states within their power or
bit. or by frankly dividing the
spells Of the empires they had
destroyed.
One can tick off these de-
funct empires one by one;
Austro-H ungary, the Ottoman
empire, the short-lived Ger
man and Italian, the Dutch,
the Japanese. Only Russia,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-23

Thoughts that come on wit
Messing the Inauguration of a
President of the United States.
a.. Thoughts that tend to fash
back to similarities and diff
ferences in eleven other such
ceremonials through the span
Of years.
First, the solemnity of the
occasion as always. What
. thrill Of patriotism courses
through the spectators as they
reflect upon the freedom Of
choice which tens of millions
of people enjoy in free Ameri-
lea. What a contrast today
with so many parts of the world
where slavery and coercion
prevail.
The inaugural ceremony it
self a symbol of the equal i'm
portance of religions and races.
A Protestant utters the
opening prayer, then in the
middle moments of the pro-
gram an archbishop of the
Greek Orthodox Church, next
q dignitary of the Jewish faith,
and finally a cardinal of the
Roman Catholic Church. =.
1t was wise to ask a repre-
sentative of the Greek Ortho-
doX Church to pray before this
aSSemblage. 1t is the faith
Of tens of millions of people in
Eastern Europe and particu-
larly of those behind the iron
curtain. inside Soviet Russia
and the satellite states. Z.
Never before has a priest of
this religion been asked to
participate in an inaugural
ceremony.
Now comes Marian Ander-
son, the great singer. mani
Testing the part that the Negro
citizen plays in the life of the
fepublic. for she is selected to
sing 1.-The Star Spangled Ban
ner." And Brian Sullivan.
an Irish tenor, sings Amer
fca."
But these rituals which tell
the story of equality before
the law Of every race or creed
or color are to a large extent
in themselves an American
political custom. What is
unique and individual is the
personality of the President
who is being inaugurated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-23
Bi-RocioI and MuIti-ReIigious Roles
In Services Seen as Signal to World

Looking back at the scenes
when other men have stood on
the east front of the Capitol,
or, in the case of F. D. r. in
1945, when the inaugural cere-
monies were held on the bal
cony of the south side of the
White House, it is character
istic of them all that the on
looking officialdom-both par
ties of Congress-appear, for
this occasion at least, devoid
of partisanship. 1t is an
American day and, as again
and again Presidents have said
in their inaugural addresses. it
is not to be regarded as
day of political triumph. !.
Time was when the inau-
gural parades themselves were
more political than today
when Tammany Hall sent its
marchers as a Republican or q
Democrat took the oath
More modern this time are the
floats. with State pride ex-
pressed in banners that speak
Of achievements. agricultural
or industrial.
The man Ike seems so nat
ural through it all a self
less rSon without the
sternnesS that characterized so
many of his predecessors .
Ike man without stage fright
or a manner that manifests
any sign of self-importance
nor seemingly weighed
down by the cares of Office. .
partaking of the fun and
frolic of an inaugural parade
-. standing at rigid attention
as the military units march by
What nostalgia as the
West Point cadets pass in re-
view. still the straightest Of
the straight.
4 The military aspect of the
parade is different from any in
past inaugurations. Always
there have been bands and
soldiers and sailors and
Marines. But this time
there are guided missiles. huge
and menacing. -. The crew of
the Jet bomber reminding US
that they few around the
globe in As hours. What a
vivid demonstration of the
smallness Of the world to-
day and of what the new in
struments of death can do. -.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-15

ting Edge" A young Army
private is determined to re-
tain his individuality. TV key
previews: "Often Engross-
ing"
$3.50, WTOP (9) - The Red
Shelton Show: (ColorJ Guest
is Mickey Rooney. Red and
Mickey portray penniless
shipmates and try their luck
on a Hollywood television
show.
1890, WTOP (9) - Celebrity
Playhouse: After dreaming
that her only son, killed in
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the Unknown Soldier, a
mother awakens to find part
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Faith" stars Edward Arnold.
l1:1O. WTTG ~ = Washing
ton Movietime: "Hangman' S
Wharf" stars John Witty.
l1:l5, WTOP (9) The Late
Show: House of Fear" is
a Sherlock Holmes Mystery.
A murder club makes out in
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TODAY'S RADIO
HIGHLIGHTS

600, WIDOW, WASH-FM- In
the Concert Hall: Handel,
Concerto No, 10 and IA for
Organ and Strings.
1900, WMAL-FM - Concerto in
F: (Gershwin). Oscar Levant
is piano soloist with the
New York Philharmonic
Symphony.
8:35, WRC-College Basketball:
Jim Simpson and Ray Mi
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mond VS.. George Washington
basketball game to conclu-
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$500, WOL-Good Music Time:
Paul Hume begins three hours
of music with Beethoven's
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800, WGMS-Concert Master
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Overture No. Q: Mozart, Vio-
lin Concerto No. 3 in G.
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stronghold. TV Key says:
"Slow starter. but q strong
finis."
500, WTTG (5)-Movietime,
U. S. A.: THE Fountain" A
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men. Ann Harding. (1934o
$50, WMAL (7)-Wyatt carp:
Wyatt and the Captain"
Marshal carp gets involved in
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$500, WTOP (9l-To Tell the
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900, WRC (N-The Jane Wy
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A registered nurse working in
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surance policies to the last
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Bruce. (1945.)
1:20, WMAL (T-The Night
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Manuel Condo. The story of
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son Rash with a 5-minute
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1900 WTTG (5)-Steve Dono-
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Land Beyond the Law
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TODAY'S W
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