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The Economy:
Incomes Up

The level of personal incomes Is
one factor that is important in de-
termining the duration of a recess
sion. When incomes of consumers
fall sharply, consumer buying
drops, setting off a cycle that can
delay recovery interminably: Sales
drop, orders decline. production
slows, production line layoffs in
crease. hitting more pay checks.
which in turn, causes further
sales declines-and on through
the cycle again.
In the current recession, per-
sonal income has been one Of the
very few important barometerS
that has fallen less than in the
1913 and 1854 recessions. This
was instrumental in the recent
decision at the White House and
the Capitol against tax reduction
this year.
Last week the Commerce De-
partment had some good news on
this major prop Of the dragging
economy. The annual rate Of per-
sonal income in May, the DEPART
ment reported. rose by $1.2 billion,
putting it at a level less than l
per cent under the figures Of last
September, the month the recess
sion really set in.
Since the February low, the
total rise in personal incomes has
been $2.6 billion at the annual
rate.
There were other welcome signs
Of economic Improvement last
week:
OThe average number Of hours
worked in manufacturing climbed
in May to 38.5 from 1913 in April.
In May. 1857, the level was 1877
hours.
OAlthough manufacturers sales
dropped $3.50 million in May, in
ventories-the high level Of which
has contributed to production de-
clines--were reduced by $685. mil
lion.
o Industrial production turned
slightly higher in May after eight
months Of depressing declines.
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Timetable in Nusser's'Quest

Oct. 81, 1856: Britain and France
enter war on side Of Israel.
Nov. "a. 1856: United Nations
orders withdrawal Of British,
French and IsraeliS from
Egypt.
March 6, 1851: U. N. force enters
GAIA Strip and Israeli troops
withdraw.
Feb /, 1858: Nasser announces
formation with Syria Of
United Arab Republic.
Feb. IA. 1858: Iraq and Jordan
unite in opposition to United
Arab Republic.
March 2, 1858: Yemen joins the
United Arab Republic.
May 9, 1858: Foes Of the pro-
Western government Of Leb-
anon begin series Of riots.
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A Bipartisan Success

Success of the measure. a key
stone to the Administrators for
eign policy, was made possible py
the rare spectacle of bipartisan
performance on Capitol Hill and
in the administration.
In the House. men occupying
two of the three most important
positions of power in that body
Speaker Rayburn and Chairman
Mills of the Ways and Means
Committee put the enormous
weight of their prestige behind
extension.
At the White House, the Presi-
dent stood firm by his original
request, and more, fought for the
program - something his Capitol
supporters have learned they can't
always expect. Able help came also
from Interior Secretary Seaton
and a former high protectionist,
Commerce Secretary Weeks.
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The Committee Acts

But the angry French "colons"
of Algeria, backed by military and
rightist groups throughout France,
failed to heed the De Gaulle ad-
jurations. After a few days OF
some confusion. during which the
dilemma confronting the junta
members was plainly apparent to
all observers, the All-Algerian
Committee Of Public Safety APP
parently decided to take the bit
in its teeth.
After a few somewhat tentative
acts of defense. the top commit
tee in Algeria announced that
military members of the AL
Algeria Committee and all the
subordinate committees would not
be required 10 withdraw from
participation in what, in effect.
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His Legendary Influence

Throughout it all. the basic de-
Tense of Mr.. Adams and the adj
ministration was that the Presi-
dents assistant had exerted no
influence, despite Mr. Goldf1ne's
lavish hospitality and Mr.. Adams
friendship with the industrialist.
But there was this big question
in the minds of many in Wash
ington:
Did not Mr.. Adams realize that,
because of his legendary power
in the White House. even the most
prosaic query from his Office to
a Government agency was suffl-
Gent to make officials Of any
such agency determined to find
out what Sherm wants?"
Some reporters who were
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SousteIIe CooIs Heels

Gen. de Gaulle, imperturbable
as usual, exhibited no signs Of
yielding ground to the increasingly
threatening insurgents. He sum-
moned jacques Soustelle, long a
Gaullist leader in the National AS
sembly and a prime mover in the
Algerian affair, to Paris. But he
pointedly let his former parlia-
mentary aide cool his heels. Land
ing in Paris on Thursday. Mr..
Soustelle did not obtain an au-
dience with the Premier until
yesterday. Although there was no
eyewitness report or official press
release on the conversation be-
tween the two men. official sources
limited strongly that Mr.. Soustelle
had gained not an audience but
an earful No one expected
Frances modern Joan Of Arc to
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threatened. Nothing Moscow has
said suggests that Lebanon Is re-
garded in that light.
Why No Soviet Veto?
Why, since it was being out
unanswered, did the Kremlin not
veto the dispatch of U. N. OBJ
servers to Lebanon? many here
are asking.
There appear to have been two
basic reasons. First, the plan was
put forward by a neutral power,
Sweden, which the Kremlin did
not care to affro1t. CThe West
owes Sweden a considerable debt
of gratitude for running inter-
ference in this case.) The plan
was so obviously virtuous there
was no convenient pretext for a
veto.
Second, and no doubt more inn
portant, there was no sign that
Nasser was prepared to pay Mos
cows price for diplomatic aid.
Russia's "Nyet" in the Security
Council is not given away for
nothing; it is sold, and Cairo OF
late has been showing little ir1eli-
nation to get still deeper into
hook to Moscow. Indeed. Nasser
recently cracked down on Com
munist propaganda in the United
Arab Republic.
There may also have been a
third important reason. BY back
ing Lebanon, the United States
affronted Nasser and thus mini
mixed the danger, as Moscow
must see it, of reconciliation be-
tween the United States and the
United Arab Republic. So there
was no impelling need for Moscow
to befriend Nasser in this case:
Nasser had no other great-power
friend to which to turn.
BY a strange combination OF
circumstances, therefore. the UN
Security Council was able to per-
form its proper function this
week as protector of world peace
and security. A watchdog"
team, to act as the eyes and ears
of the world community, was
whisked off to lebanon with
speed reminiscent of the crash
formation of the UN Police Force
in 1856.
AS the men took up stations
the world watched to see whether
they would prepare for. OF
whether they would render I'M
necessary, a test of the United
States ability to fight small
war in the atomic age.
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June IS, 1858: With King Fa-
rouk Ousted by q military
junta headed by NaSSer, Egypt
Is proclaimed a republic.
Nov. IA, 1854: Nasser becomes
head Of government as Naguib
is Ousted.
Sept. 81, 1855: NaSSer announces
Egypt will get some arms.
June Is. 1856: Last British
troops leave SueI.
June %. 1885,, NasSer elected
President of Egypt.
July rs, 1856: NaSser announces
SueE Canal naturalization.
Oct. 20, 1856: Israel invades
Sinai Peninsula ito eliminate
the Egyptian fedayeen tcom-
mandol bases"
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with the letter to the committee.
the matter was CLOSED" as far as
the White House was concerned.
Asked if the President would dis
miss Mr.. Adams. he replied, "of
course not"
He said that he could see no
similarity between Mr.. Adams
troubles and the influence" cases
in the Truman administration.
He, like Mr.. Robb and Mr.. Adams
himself, insisted that the "Presi-
dents good right arm" had never
asked any favors for Mr. Goldfine
or used his tremendous influence
in his behalf.
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Senators Speak Out

BY yesterday, some Republicans
in Congress who face reelection
this year were becoming a bit edgy
about it all. Senator Potter OF
Michigan and Senator Goldwater
of Arizona, for instance, recalled
that they had campaigned against
the Truman mess" in 1852 and
might have a difficult time try
ing to explain the Adams-Goldflne
affair to their constituents in this
falls campaign.
They called on Mr.. Adams to
answer the reports about the coat
and rug, and limited that if he
didn't come up with a good ex-
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For the five and a half years
since the Eisenhower crusade be-
came the Eisenhower administra-
ton, Democrats have been grasp
ing for the kind OF personalized
political issue that swept them and
what their Republican opponents
called "the Truman mess" out Of
Washington.
Sometimes they thought they
had it. There were Wesley Rob-
erts, the Republican National
Committee chairman, and Air
Force Secretary Harold Talbot,
both Of whom made their exits
amid Democratic shouts of con-
sternation over the low state of
public morality.
Agriculture Secretary Benson
has come close to what the Demo-
Gratis have been looking for in the
way of the personalized issue that
the voters can understand, but he
has been valuable only in certain
farm areas.
The late Senator Mccarthy,
after many long years. finally be-
came worthwhile Democratic
campaign asset. but his ruination
came about partly at Republican
hands, and now today, many Re-
publicans can speak Of NC
Carthyism" as though the famed
Red hunter was bipartisan prop
erty.
But last week the Democrats
had reason to believe that their
search for the Big Personalized
Issue might be over. And, iron
ically, the search had ended in
the White House, in the very resi-
dence of the general who had in
sisted in 1852 that everybody
around him had to be "as clean
as a hounds tooth.
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Lawyer Claims Smear

The Adams oldfine side of the
story at first came from Roger
Robb. "the White House lawyer"
who is attorney for Mr.. Goldfine.
The whole thing, said Mr.. Robb.
was a smear" He explained that
when Mr.. Adams passed through
Boston. Mr.. Goldfine would put
him UP at the Sheraton-PlaZa,
where Mr.. Adams understood that
Mr.. Goldfne maintained a con-
tinuing suite. Mr.. Robb added
that there could be nothing
wrong about this, repeating that
Mr.. Adams and Mr.. Goldfine were
long time friends, and that Mr..
Adams had never used his infiu-
ence in his friends behalf,
Mr.. Adams, when he returned
to town from a New England
fishing trip, maintained the same
cold aloofneSs that has been his
mien throughout his five and one
half years in the White House. He
feIuSeQ b1lIOukll GACoAASAtbA0A
Press Assistant James Hagerty-
to even discuss the matter with
the press, a refusal that reporters
have come more and more to
expect but less and less to accept
graciously.
His defense was further ex-
banded upon by two press confer
ences held by Mr.. Hagerty and
letter from Mr. Adams to the
House subcommittee which called
the subcommittee 'insinuations'
"unwarranted and unfair"
Mr.. Adams maintained that he
did not know, until the hotels
records were subpoenaed by the
committee, that Mr. Goldfine did
not then maintain an apartment
on a continuing basis" He wrote
that in 1853 Mr.. Goldfine showed
him a letter from the FTC's Woo
Labelling Division and asked hin
] 4 A
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around town in pre-Eisenhower
days recalled a statement made by
Senator Fulbright to Donald Daw-
son, Truman White House aide,
who was under fire for accepting
free hotel accommodations from
a Miami hotel which had been
an RFC borrower.
When Mr.. Dawson denied that
he had exerted any influence on
anybody he telephoned, Senator
Fulbright observed While you
may not have been conscious of
any influence, my feeling is that
you had the power of life and
death over them Iagency officialsl
in an economic sense"
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Rumors on Gift of Coat

Meanwhile, reporters had heard
rumors that Mr.. Adams had &C
cepted a $500 coat made of wool
from a vicuna ian Andean cousin
to the llama as a gift from Mr..
Goldfine. At the Thursday press
conference, they asked Mr.. Hag-
erty to obtain from Mr.. Adams
either confirmation or a denial
of this new report, and Mr.. Hag-
erty said he would. But on Friday,
Mr.. Hagerty, repeating the White
House position that the case was
closed, refused to confirm or deny
the story about the vicuna coat.
Friday aftrnoon, the New York
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THE WEEK IN PERSPECTIVE
Bio Issue + or Democrats

PLANTATION, he should leave the
White House.
But from the White House there
was only silence on the matter. It
obviously was the only place IN
town where the subject was con-
sidered closed"
AS for President Eisenhower. he
had gone to his Gettysburg farm
for the week end, still, presumably.
refusing to turn his back on
Sherman Adams.
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AS THE UN STEPS IN
Outside Aid Needed
To Save Lebanon
BY WILLIAM r.. FRYE

UNITED NATIONS worst, and the United
que the proNasser
the moral justification for that well have
established in train here last week.
happened in the United
Nations Security Council informed diplomats here
The watchdog OF observers dispatched to the Lebanese
able to
running crossings certainly will not be able
by the Damascus radios
to detect spotlight these activities
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Post, vocal critic of the admin
-istration, reported that Mr.. Adams
was given a $2,400 Oriental rug
by Mr.. Goldfine two years ago.
But once again, the White House
and Mr.. Adams-again through
Mr.. Hagerty-refuSed to confirm
or deny the report, although
Chairman Harris of the House
committee indicated that neither
the report about the coat or the
one about the rug was new" to
the committee.
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Troubles Mount

Gen. de Gaulle was in trouble.
Despite the firm hand he had
displayed in his visit the week
before to Algeria. and in open de-
fiance Of his warning to the in
surgent Committees Of Public
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Tor all the WOrlQ 10 Sees plklnlnS
the responsibility upon Canal Ah-
del Nasser with authority and
conviction which no other person
or organization in the world
could command.
Pressure Of World Opinion
Many U. N. diplomats believe
this exposure. by itself. will be
enough to induce Nasser to call
of his smugglers and saboteurs.
Pressures Of world opinion mobil-
lied through the U. N. pried him
out of the Sudan last February,
and might do so again in Lebanon,
they say.
At this writing, however, there
is no sign Of a Nasser retreat. In
deed, the military position Of the
Beirut regime is pegilous to an ex-
IRENE. Every sign is that outside
help. In very tangible form, will
be needed II that pro-Westerr
bulwark in the Middle East is MOI
to fall.
High :. ranking sources here
credit reports that the National
Security Council in Washington
has decided, in principle. to send
GIs to Lebanon If there is no other
way TO keep that country In the
Western world. Intervention by
Turkey andfor Iraq might be tried
first, or might come simultane-
ously, they add.
The reason for this decision is
that Lebanon is seen as the first
in a series Of delicately balanced
dominoes. If it falls, the others
are expected to topple also.
Lebanese ports represent the
last remaining outlets through
which Iraq can sell oil without
Nasser'S permission; to give Mas
ser control of those ports would
be to bring the whole oil-based
economy of Iraq under his thumb.
Iraq's stability, in turn, is the
critical pillar upon which Jordan
precariouSly rests. Were both
Iraq and Jordan to fall into Mas
ser's orbit, such remaining indie
pendence as Saudi Arabia pos
sesses would become ephemeral
indeed, and even sturdy Turkey
would begin to feel serious pres
sure.
World Empire ldeo
Nasser, in short, would be vel
on the way toward his long
sought goal Of an empire from
the Atlantic Ocean to the Sovie
Caucasus if Lebanon were to top.
pie. This is the significance of thu
present crisis, as key UN diplo'
mats see it.
To save Lebanon, therefore. 1
decision to use force apparent.
has been made. But if force is t,
be successful, it must not backfire
it must not bring world condera
nation and the threat of Sovfe
volunteers down on the heads o
the United States, as British
French intervention in the Sue
did for those countries Is month
ago.
The critical ingredient whicl
Britain and France did not pos
seSs, and which the United State
is now well on the way to obtain
ing, is the moral approval of tn
organized world community.
This is the real function Of tn
UN observer team. It's report
pinpointing Nasser's responsible
before all the Notwithstanding til
skeptical and the, confused-ca
be expected to cast potentii
Western intervention in its trI
defensive light.
The very fact that the Unite
States is obtaining this moral e
bow room may be enough to det'
both Nasser and the Kremlil
Russia's desire to WOO the AFR
Asian peoples impels her to mali
tain a superficial pose of legalit
and virtue. The pose is abal
doned only when, as in Hungar
the Kremlin believes its securi
or essential interest immediate
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threatened. Nothing Moscow has
said suggests that Lebanon Is re-
garded in that light.
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EGhuno Visitor
Is Honored
AT Luncheon

Mrs. Alice K. Leopold. AS
sistant to the Secretary Of
Labor. was hostess at a lunch
con yesterday honoring Lady
Kate, Ethel Amanuah Korsah.
wife Of the Chief Justice Of
Ghana and president Of the
Ghana Children's Day MUIR
series.
&, The visitor is in this coun-
try as q participant in the
Foreign Leader program Of
the State Departments In
ternational Educational Ex-
change Service.
The luncheon guests In
cluded Miss Mary M. Cannon.
chief of the international Di-
vision Of the Women's Bu-
reau. Department of Labor;
Mrs. Maurice Goodman, head
Of the Washington Office Of
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the evening In addition to all
the service marches, they
played selections from MY
Fair Lady, South Pacific, -
"Oklahoma." "Carousel."
.Brigadoon," the usual por-
ton Of Viennese waltzes and
Mrs. Eisenhower's favorite,
"Tammy."
So enticing was their
popular music that Admiral
and Mrs. Burke danced their
way out on the red carpet
of the front hall.
Reception guests included
all the Little Cabinet of the
Defense Department, MEM,
bers of the Atomic Energy
Commission and Of the Ma
tional Advisory Committee
on Aeronautics. and numer-
Gus others. Former Governor
of Arkansas and Mrs. Francis
Cherry were there, and Mr..
and Mrs. Fletcher Plumley,
the Deputy Director of Cen
trail Intelligence Agency and
Mrs. Charles Cabell and the
President of the Association
of United Scientists and
Mrs. Lloyd Berkner.
Asked what she thought OF
a special dinner for scientists,
one scientists wife replied,
II am a Democrat and any
thing I might say would
sound like sour grapes.
During the reception DR..
Hagen and an unidentified
Air Force officer toasted the
Vanguard with-"Here's to
our baby!" Since it is really
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that she is entitled to her
reputation as the funniest
woman alive.
Her program followed the
arrival of l55 additional
guests at 10 o'clock. Mrs.
Eisenhower and the ladies
had already had coffee.
liqueur and cigarettes in the
Red Room decorated with
white gladiolas) and the
President and gentlemen had
had the same plus cigars in
the Green Room pink gladi-
olas).
AT 10 MR.. AND MRS. Ell
SENHOWER WENT TO THE
BLUE ROOM yellow gladio-
las) to receive the new ar
rivals. Then the entire COM
pany assembled in the East
Room yellow .carnations).
The hosts had never before
heard Miss Russell and they
laughed with the rest at her
KILN g interpretations of
Texas Carmen-"the Haba-
nera with a Hoedown":: the
lady president of a woman's
club: q passionately senti-
mental song; a madrigal
quartet in which she took all
parts, and a skit entitled
wind instruments ! Have
Known" in (which she put
together a bagpipe. with APP
propriate remarks and vo-
calizing.
Except for her perform
ance, the Marine Band,
headed by Capt. Albert
SchoeppeB. played throughout
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Scientists Are feted
AT White House

or knew each other by repu-
tation.
The military were far
from strangers to the White
House scene. In the dinner
roster Of Pentagon guests
were Secretary Of the Army
and Mrs. WILDER Brucker.
Secretary of the Navy and
Mrs. Thomas S. Gates, jr.;
Secretary Of the Air Force
and Mrs. James Douglas,
chairman Of the Joint Chiefs
Of Staff. Gen. Nathan Twin
ing and his wife: Army Chief
of Staff and Mrs. Maxwell
Taylor, the Chief Of Naval
Operations and Mrs. Arleigh
Burke and the Air Force
Chief Of Staff and Mrs.
Thomas D. White. the latter
topping her white gown with
a delicate little diamond
tiara.
The Marine Commandant
and Mrs. Randolph Pate
we're also present. and Ma
rine Gen. and Mrs. Gerald
C. Thomas (National Secur-
ity Council, special assist
ant to the President for air,
Gen. "Pete" Quesada and his
wife: the United States Rep
resentative on the Military
Committee of NATO. Gen.
Leon w. johnson and Mrs.
johnson; the chairman for
the National Advisory Com
mittee for AeronauticS, 1t.
Gen. James Doolittle and
his wife. and the vice chiefs
of staff. Army Gen. and
Mrs. Lyman L. Lemnitzer,
Air Force Gen. and Mrs. Cur
tbs LeMay and Admiral and
Mrs. Harry D. Felt.
THERE WERE TWO
GENTLEMEN PRESENT who
fell in neither the Pentagon
or scientific category. One
was the chairman Of the
Federal Reserve Board. Will
liam McChesney Martin. jr.,
and the other was Gen.
Alfred M. Gruenther. presi-
dent of the American Red
Cross, both accompanied by
their wives.
Obviously the Red Cross
has a close tie to the military.
And Mr.. Martin. who can step
up imitation or defation with
his monetary policies, has
much in common with the
men who are doing the big
gest ending Of United
States funds, the military.
On the subject Of the
scientists and military being
teamed up at one social func-
ton, DR.. Rabi said the scien-
fists were very glad to be
with the military. although
we could be grouped with
anyone.
The only remaining din
ner guest was the woman who
staged the after-dinner en-
tertainment and caused the
rafters of the East Room to
rock with laughter.
Miss Anna Russell. both q
singer of note and a come
jianna nr0vad again last
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the Carrie Chapman Gait
Fund: Miss Elsie Austin, ex-
ecutive secretary OF the Ma
ticnaf Council Of Negro wom-
en-, and Miss julie Bouchard,
director Of the Barney Neigh
borhood House.
Others were Mrs. Leora L.
Conner. director Of the Flor
ence Crittenten Home; Miss
Marie Yaryan. co-ordinator
Of rehabilitation Of the Good
will Industries: Miss Virginia
Geiger, woman's affairs ON
Ger Of the United States In
formation Agency. and Mrs.
John w hington. board
member Of the Family and
Child Service Agency.