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tience of the junta was thinning
a clear threat of direct action.
Apparently the efforts of Pres
ident Coty, of former President
Vincent Auriol, and of the lead
ers of the major political parties
to get advance guarantees from
Gen. de Gaulle had failed. Their
aim was to obtain pledges from
the authoritarian-minded gen.
eral that republican institutions
would be respected and that no
dictatorship would be possible.
They were unsuccessful; Gen. de
Gaulle held the right cards, and
was content to await events he
seemed confident would make
concessions unnecessary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-01

MAN, Richard Nixon. whose am
billions would be damaged by a
Democratic victory. The top Of
the Democratic ticket is occupied
by Attorney General E nun d
(Pat) Brown, who wants to be the
States second Democratic Cover
nor in this century, and Represen-
tative Clair Engle, the challenger
for the Knowland seat.
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erosion along the borders are to
be discussed by the Security
Council tomorrow. A French
counter-charge. asserting Tunisian
violation of the agreement by
which France maintains military
bases in Tunisia, will also be
taken UP by the council.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-01

The political shapes and forms
that will become realities in the
1860 Presidential election year
were being given a clearer define
alton in pre-primary maneuver-
ings in California and Alabama
last week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-01
WE HAVE NO CHOICE
France May Force
Neutral Belt on us
BY WILLIAM r.. FRYE
special Writer for The star

UNITED NATIONS N Y-The solution to the cold which
the United States resisted nightly the last two
disengagemen with neutral belt between the two wordsnow
to be imposing itself chanceoe of the free world
The element to each of the three major crises Of
the France North Africa and Lebanon been obvious
and alarming drift toward just such an outcome.
In France the foundations of western military solidarity
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-01

are being hacked away. Final
results are unpredictable, but it
seems entirely possible that all of
Western Europe will become a
zone of neutrality andIor weak
ness vis-a-vis the Soviet empire.
In North Africa, not merely
French influence but the influence
of the North Atlantic alliance as
a whole hangs by the slendereSt
of threads. That thread could be
snapped by a single incorporate
act. either in the military or diplo-
matte spheres. Already French
men and Tunisians are at each
others threats. both on the battle
field and in the U. N.
Western bases along the North
African coast are vital to the
southern tier" of NATO defenses.
Their loss would produce another
power vacuum in what is, stra-
logically speaking, an East-West
border area.
In Lebanon, at this writing,
the chances of survival for a
strongly pro Western policy
whoever may run the government
ARE rated very low. The best
that is expected is a Lebanese
Switzerland of the Middle East;
the worst, engulfment in Canal
Abdel Nasser's expanding empire,
is still possible. Either outcome
would involve a form or degree
of neutralism.
Outlook Is Gloomy
All Of these pessimistic fore
casts could prove wrong. Cou-
rageous, imaginative action could
save the situatio min all three
places. But there is at this mo-
ment no visible prospect of such
action.
1t is tempting to seek a scape-
goat for this sad turn of events.
Critics of the United States and
of the Eisenhower administration
no doubt will leap eagerly at John
Foster Dulles, nominating him by
reclamation.
But the real fault is not in any
one person or circumstance; it is
in the tendency of all, or virtually
all. Western peoples and govern
ments to confuse means with ends,
and to cling grimly to the means
long after they cease to serve the
desired ends.
Enmeshed since the Geneva
summit conference of 1855 in
complicated, difficult and frus-
trating effort to negotiate a cold
war peace treaty with the Soviet
Union. we of the West have al
most completely forgotten that
the North Atlantic Alliance and
our other military positions
abound the periphery of the So
Wet empire are a means, not an
end in themselves.
The end is threefold: Security
against major Soviet attack; the
prevention of minor Soviet incur
Sions and coups; and the eventual
rollback Of Soviet power and in
f1uence from advanced positions
where the Kremlin has no moral
right to be-Eastern Europe, for
example.
NATO was originally intended,
not primarily as a military shield,
although. its role in that respect
was important. but as diplomatic
bargaining power. 1t was impoS-
sible to negotiate, Western leaders
pointed out. except from posi-
tons of strength"
For Bargaining Purposes
Unlike steps to unity Europe
economically and politically, mea-
SureS to coordinate Europe'S mill
tary might were taken, not for
their own sake Except for an in
term period but because they
represented money in the bank, to
be used one day to purchase from
the Russians the kind of world
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-01
The Better Course

Rather than waiting for small
scale civil war in Lebanon, and
then bringing a complaint against
NasSer into the U. N. Security
Council, the West would have done
better long ago to have sought
economic stability for the area
through a Middle East Develop
ment Fund, preferably under U. N.
auspices, and to have pressed a
lot harder for the Arab-Israeli
rapprochment which is a precon-
dition for any long-range stability
in that part of the world.
1t is very late to begin focusing
on the substance rather than the
mechanisms of Western power
and influence in the Middle East.
But, as in Algeria, some optimistS
believe it just possibly may not
be too late.
The weeks events will be bene-
fetal in the long run, it is said
here, if they jolt the West into
recovering its lost perspective.
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we would be able to live in salts
tactorily.
When the time came, however,
that the Russians seemed ready to
consider a transaction, we had
become so attached to our bank
account that we refused to part
with 1t, except on impossible
terms. George F. KEENAN, and
others who proposed that even
part of NATO-West Germany
be placed on the bargaining block
and spent" to purchase some
equivalent from the Russians were
attacked as fuzzy headed dream
erS. or worse.
It might never have been pos
sible to strike a satisfactory bar
gain. But the tragedy, as U. N.
observers see it, is that we did
not really try. Now. from all in
dications. the opportunity is van
ishing in the turmoil and 'ipheaval
in France. Barring miracle, we
will lose our position of strength"
in western Europe without OBJ
tanning anything whatever from
the Kremlin in return.
Fronee Wonts Prestige
Similarly, in North Africa means
are swallowing up ends. Frances
real goal, her real purpose in
the whole bitter Algerian conflict,
is to retain some of her prestige
as a great power and to win
for her people the better life
they could have through develop
ing Sahara oil.
Military measures against the
rebels are means to that end.
The legal fiction that Algeria is
France is a device to preserve
popular support for, and to give
moral sanction to, the military
measures.
But the Salan- Massu-Soustelle
faction has made French Al
geria. won through total military
victory, the goal. BY thus focus
ing on now-futile means, the pro-
De Gaulle faction is losing what
ever opportunity there was to
attain the real goal. Prestige and
economic strength could have been
had through negotiation and mag
nanimity. Possibly, U. N. people
say just possibly - they still
could be had.
1t is much the same story,
though with different overtones,
in the Middle East, where the
objective of keeping oil resources
and transportation channels out
of Soviet hands, lest they be used
to throttle the European economy.
has been subordinated to the task
of retaining friendly or malleable
men in power, in formal alliance
with the West.
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Robert Smith
Steps Forth

TRANSACTIONS FROM
THE ENGLISH. BY Rob-
ert Paul Smith. (Simon e.
Schuster; $l.95.)
Robert Paul Smith, who
in Where Did YOU Co."
What Did You Do?" Moth
ing" acted as a kind Of
liaison between youth and
age is broadening his services
to the human race. Here he
gives helpful. illustrated
pointers on how to under
stand wives, doctors. teen
ayers and other more or less
English-speaking people,"
Here is a sample transla-
ton from the wife.
Are you ready to go?"
This must not be inter-
preted as I am ready to CO.
1t is an inquiry signifying alb.
solutely nothing. II you rise
to your feet. ready to 60. she
will put the cream away,
check the back door. put
some lentiles on to soak. knit
. few rows Of q Balaclava,
apply green eye shadow.
change her shoes and mend
her slip"
M. Me q.
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the Pan American Unions
most interesting shows since
1856. Both remain to Febru-
airy 10.
Nearly all of Martins works
are drawings-but such draw
ings! He has a superb pen
and ink technique, and the
majority of these drawings
are also brilliant with water
color. Yet one does not miss
color in the black and white
drawings, because of their
rich tonal values. Martins
obtains his striking effects
with myriad fine pen lines.
These f1gurative distractions
of people, birds. fish, animals,
also landscapes. and coast
scenes are drawn clearly and
precisely, and are in every
instance ineligible. His
fecund creatively has been re-
warded with such covetable
prizes as the international
first prize for drawing at the
last Venice Biennial 1850
and q one-man show in
BuenoS Aires last year was q
complete sell-out. The Unions
illustrated catalogue Of the
show available on request)
has q comprehensive biog-
raphy.
18th Century Sculptor
Lishoa, best known as Alei-
jadinho. because Of the Grip.
ping effects of a serious dis
ease akin to leprosy, was an
18th century sculptor whose
whole life was spent in his
native Minas Gerais. Yet be-
cause of the wide dissemina-
ton of prints reproducing
masterpieces of European
art. Aleijadinho assimilated
elements of Northern Europe's
Gothic sculptures, Italian
Renaissance and German
baroque works.
His most famous sculp-
lures. the figures of the
prophets on the monumental
staircase before the church
Of Bonn Jesus de Matos, are
strikingly captured in the
series of nearly so photo
graphs taken by Hans Mann,
a German photographer who
specializes in recording sculp-
ture and architecture. The
catalogue Of this show, too,
has an absorbing introduce
ton.
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ObeIisk Shows

Two Italian painters whose
work has been regularly ex-
hibited at The Obelisk CAL
lery, 3241 p street, George
town, are having one-man
shows there through next
Sunday, along with a group
OF sculptures by Stanley
Kearl.
Aldo Pag1iacci's exquisite
little tempera paintings are
a continuing delight, with
their glowing colors. precise
detail and aura Of surrealism.
Eighteen works in the cur
rent show include some of
his Ethiopian landscapes with
figures The served in Eritrea
more than 20 years ago. sew
eral Of his bull fight series
and a new collection from
Bolivia.
Ivan Mosca's eight paint
ings are larger than those
shown heretofore, but broad
ly treated as usual. with a
palette knife technique. His
crepuscular 'Laguna di Vene-
zia" is particularly appealing.
f. Best Works
The best of Stanley Kearl's
is small bronzes are his gold
washed Dionysus and Magyar
masks, and his witty, simple
ned, angular little animals.
Some Of mis- figures appear
to be tiny armatures and ac-
ton sketches. casual and in
complete. And several torsos
are extremely fragmentary.
To deliberately give a work
the shattered appearance OF
having been buried for CEN
turtles seems skin TO boring
"wormholes" in new furni-
ture to create a spurious an
tiquity.
No deception is intended, Of
course. in contemporary
sculptors' fragmentary fig
ures; they consider them es-
thetic objects, according TO
their own statements. Never
theless. I cannot forget the
evaporation Of an architec-
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BishopOxnom
Gives Views
A TESTAMENT OF FAITH.

BY q. Bromley OMAN.
Little. Brown g. Co.; So
Methodist Bishop G. Brom-
ley Oman is an outspoken
person who presents his views
vigorously and with con-
viction.
These views range over q
multiplicity of topics, some
Of them exceedingly contro-
versial. In his new book the
Methodist Bishop Of WASH
ington gives his testament Of
faith in the same vigorous
and direct manner as he
does other views.
Its basic concept is reg
istered in four short sem
fences. This I believe.
Prove it? I cannot. Act upon
1t. ! can"
From there he goes on to
illustrate how he has arrived
at his faith and how he has
acted upon those things
stemming from that con-
viction.
Bishop Oman is a bril-
liant speaker who has a spe-
cial gift for illustrating q
telling point with q good
story. He has carried this
technique over into this
book, giving it an interesting
quality that too many auto
biographies lack.
-CASPAR NAMES.
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Free Press
In America
PERIL AND PRONIISE-AN

PERIL AND PROMISE-AN
INQUIRY INTO FREE
DOM OF THE PRESS. BY
Gerald w. johnson. liar
per; $2.75)
Mr.. johnson, neatly side
stepping the two pitfalls
awaiting q book on this sub
Misrepresentation and ex-
cessive handwriting, pro-
vides another Of his pene-
trating commentaries on
Americas life and times.
Since his thesis is that mo
nation ever had q free press
except one that demanded a
free press" he devotes a good
bit of his book to the tenn
parament Of the American
. people, with special atten-
ton to the sickness he says
infects millions of them-a
fear-ridden conformity that
has almost stified the expires.
sion Of unpopular views.
His finding is that while
it would be fatuous to deny
that freedom Of the mind,
which includes freedom Of
the press. is in peril. 1t is by
no means doomed. Perhaps,
he says. the old American
love of liberty is only
browsing.
A Baltimore newSpaperman
and magazine writer. Mr..
Johnson has q pungency that
is stimulating no matter how
tenuous the readers con-
nection with or interest. in
the press. A sample: He notes
that from the conviction,
which he shares, democracy
Is the best form Of govern
ment so far devised by the
wit Of man, two equally valid
differences may be drawn.
"One is that democracy is
good government; the other
is that the wit Of man is a
feeble instrument. To my way
Of thinking. the fact that
millions of Americans have
drawn the first inference
without even considering the
second is one Of the great
weaknesses of democracy"
CHARLES B. SEIB.
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HTANS ALL
New Light
On Dumas
Canvas
BY I. WILLIAM HILL
stat stan Writer

THE TITANS by Andre
Maurois (Harper $3.50 pre-
sents a 500-page valentine to
energy. For his latest venture
into biography. Mr.. Maurois
deals with three extraordi-
narily energetic men, all
named Alexandra Dumas.
The first Alexandra Dumas
was a soldier, a violent man
whose athletic and warrior
feats made him famous in
the army Of Napoleon. What
other fighter could contend
single handedly against 80
men? Who else could thrust
four fingers into the barrels
Of four muskets and raise his
arm?
The second Alexandra Du-
mas was the well-known au-
thor Of Three Musketeers"
and at least 800 other vol
umes Of plays, novels and
memoirs. What other writer
has ever written. played and
loved so energetically?
The third Alexandra Dumas
was the suthor Of 1.-THE
Lady Of the Camellias," a
man plagued by the exploits
Of his famous father and har-
assed by moral questions into
a lifelong analytical pre-
occupation with love. What
other author has so ener-
getically poured his anxiety
into novels and plays?
Needs Larger Canvas
Titans all--men bigger
than life. Even 500 pages
isn't a big enough canvas.
Mr.. Maurois provides us with
a mine of facts but obviously
lacks the space to dramatic
the almost incredible adven-
lures of the three Dumas. We
have minute detail Of how
Dumas pere came to write
"The Three Musketeers" and
"The Count Of Monte Cristo."
how an unfortunate love af-
fair led to Dumas fils writing
THE Lady Of the Camellias,
but somehow the Dumas
swagger is missing.
Mr.. Maurois has done a
painstaking job, one that will
give you many keys to the
lives Of three fantastic men;
but If the Tilt Of D'Artagnan
is what you seek, you'd best
turn to your Dumas shelf.
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ture Dust opened, to be re-
viewed later).
Mr.. Calder's unique crea-
tions were first exhibited
nearly 30 years ago, and
were soon recognized as a
universal language" He has
been copied extensively; mo-
biles by imitators are to be
seen everywhere. Further
more, his show is drawing
the largest crowds. An in
terview with him and a de-
scription of his work were
published in The Stars
news columns January 25
the day after his show
opened page A-16).
Abraham Rather began
his study Of art at the Cor
coran School more than 40
years ago. He later went to
the Pennsylvania Academy
Of the Fine Arts. A travelling
scholarship took him to
France In 1919, where he
spent 20 years. He has ex-
hibited extensively in the
United States and abroad,
has received coveted honors
(12 or more since 1944) /.
During the 1865 he has
been visiting professor or
artist in residence at the
American Academy in Rome,
Yale and Illinois UNIVERSE
ties and is now at Michigan
State. He is represented in
q public collections, mostly
museums, including the Phil
lips Gallery.
Like Stained Glass
Mr.. Rather is an abstract
eXpressionist whose work used
to have a 'flgurative base.
This latest show at the Cor
coran. covering the past dec
ade, is almost wholly abstract.
These large polychromatic
paintings 1.-TWO are IL by 8
feet are heavily pigmented
in mosaics of blazing reds,
blues. greens and yellows,
predominantly. Dark areas
form diagonal, swirling, rec
tangular and other patterns
Of copious variety. His paint
ings have been likened to
stained glass.
Mr.. Rather is highly re-
garded by the avant-garde
as one of the great painters
Of our era. His work, which
has been given mutually ex-
elusive interpretations by
different critics. has also in
spired some of the most
baffiing and esoteric prose I
have read. including the
foreword to the Corcoran
catalogue by Dean Weller of
the University of Illinois.
Toward the end he quotes
Rather in part as follows:
with much hard work,
sacrifice Of ones time, large
ness Of mind and great
warmth Of heart, the inner
sensibilities will manifest
themselves into an appreci-
alton that will surpass all
UNDERSTANDING"
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Confederate
Collections
CONFEDERATE ARMS. BY
William A. Albaugh III.

Wnllam a. Alpaugn III.
The Stackpole Co.; $l2.50.)
In this book-his fourth
Mr.. Albaugh writes on every
phase Of Confederate military
collecting. Previously his
widely read books were con-
cerned primarily with pistols
and swords of the South.
His present book is CO.
authored with Edward N.
Simmons. Mr.. Albaugh, of
Falls Church. Va. is today
the foremost author of South
ern guns. edged weapons and
accoutrement Of the War Be-
tween the States.
In addition to much fac
tual data and hundreds
Of illustrations. Confederate
Arms contains 50 pages Of a
directory Of gunmakers, gum
smiths. dealers and others
connected with Confederate
ordnance.
JAMES MoSER.
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Louis B. Wright

Another genial fulminator
was in evidence this week.
That was Louis B. Wright,
the director Of the Folger
Shakespeare Library, who is
sued one Of his irregularly
periodic reports. He had this
to say by way Of abrasive
New Year greeting:
THE dramatic events Of
1887 revealed to Americans q
truth that they had long
neglected: A Nation that
scorns its men Of learning
Is doomed to destruction. /.
In 1857 we reached the ulti-
mate in vulgarity when our
engineers lavished their best
efforts on the backsides Of
motor cars and the high
priests Of Madison avenue
drenched the airways with
smooth and honeyed banal-
tiles
But 1857 was merely the
GROWING year Of a long pc
riod during which we had
heaped ridicule on learning.
Americans have been trained
to regard the 'highbrow' as
an undesirable citizen unfit
for the society of good fel-
lows. We have caricatured
the professor either as a
comic character in cap and
gown, Intellectual and impo-
tent. or as a sinister villain,
bent upon burning the Cap
itol and overturning the Re-
public. We have paid teach
ers less than day laborers and
harassed them with regula-
tions that would disgrace a
police state In the
decade ending in 1857 we
struggled and achieved a cul-
tural vacuity that would have
won the acclaim Of Jim Fisk
and his fellow Titans Of the
Gilded Age"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-09
READING AND WRITING
Robert Graves Seems
More Lamb Than Lion
BY MARY McGRoRY
Star stan Writer

there formidable figure in the world Of letters
Robert Graves the fierce and prolific crtcpoet novelist
historian bographer His craggy forbddng face glow
cred forth from countless his prose bristle with
contention Poets from Milton to Ezra Pound have felt the
lash of his tongue
Mr. Graves who here this week lecture to the