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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-05
DAVID LAWRENCE

How big an obstacle to UNI
Outstanding between nations
is the language barrier?
A conspicuous example Of
faulty translation has just
been given In the Khru-
shchev visit. There were sew
eral instances in which the
questions asked by Americans
were inaccurately translated
and several instances in
which the American people
were not given a true trans
lation of what the Soviet
Premier said in reply.
Whether there was an at
tempt by the Russian inter-
prefers to soften" the words
Of Mr.. Khrushchev is beside
the point. The truth is that,
to furnish a correct transla-
ton, it would have been nee
essary to use more time. Only
an interpreter who knows
shorthand and could take
down every word and then
have a few minutes to trans
late his notes carefully
could have done a 100 per
cent job.
Then, too, there are diff
ferences as to the fine mean
ings of words. Naturally. the
Soviet Premier preferred his
own interpreters, and both
the men he used, although
they took notes as he spoke,
necessarily condensed his re-
marks in translating what he
had said. Again and again,
the Soviet Premier talked at
length but the translation
was only half as long. The
gist. to be sure, was given,
but, in anything so impor
tant, many listeners prefer
to get the whole phrasing so
that they can form their own
impressions.
Thus during the question
and-answer period at the
National Press Club on Sep
TENDER Is there was a sharp
question about Hungary. The
interpreter said Mr.. Khru-
shchev's reply was as fol-
lows:
I'VE, for our part, could
think of quite q few ques-
tons Of similar character"
Actually, according to a
tape-recording examined lat
er by expert translators-
naturalized Americans who
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basis the balloting can go Ell
ther way.
Laborites claimed Mr.. Mac
milan is playing fast politics
with the prospects for a summit
conference. They recalled that
the Prime Minister predicted
last Wednesday a date for such
a top-level meeting would be
fixed in a few days.
Then came the cautious
statement from President Eli
Senhower's vacation headquar-
tiers in Palm Springs, Calf,
that there had been no agree
ment yet to hold summit talks.
In boxcar type the Daily
Herald said: like Rebuffs Mac"
The story said United States
officials privately were irritated
by Mr.. Macmillan's attempt to
rush Mr.. Eisenhower into issu-
ing a summit statement to aid
the Conservatives election
chances.
Morgan Phillips, Labor Party
secretary, told a news confer
ence it would be tragic if pros
poets for summit talks we're
worsened by Mr.. Macmillan's
clumsy attempts" to make the
subject a campaign issue.
The Liberal News Chronicles
latest poll indicated that the
two major parties were each
backed by 3712 per cent of the
nations 1854 million voters.
With the Liberal Party sup
ported by only 4 per cent, the
poll showed a huge 201a per
cent had not made UP their
minds. When these don't
knows" were asked which party
they were more inclined to sup
port. they put Labor ahead
4212 per cent to Al.
When the campaign opened
just over two weeks ago, the
national opinion polls gave
Labor little chance of victory
The Conservatives popularity
then appeared sufficient to send
them back with as big or bigger
majority than the 52-seat
margin they won in 1855. There
are $50 seats in the House.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-05
Visit of Premier Khrushchev Seen
As Sparkling Possible Change
RALPH ..McGILL

What about this new Ike
anyhow?
He had not been long at
home after a triumphant
tour of Europe and Britain
when he met with Mr.. Khru-
shchev. On the continent and
in the realm Of Her Majesty,
the young Elizabeth. he was
received with cheers and
tears. They were not inspired
by the ONCE he held but
because he seemed a man
genuinely bent on finding a
way to peace. (This is an old
search, and to date, a some
what futile one. But If man
ever ahandons 1t he is FIN
ished.)
This new Ike startled most
Of the world.
He had been President for
six years. They were not tri-
umphant years. There had
been errors and failures. Ad-
visers had gone sour. A few
had proceeded on to corrupt
ness. There had been illness
es. a heart attack, a stroke,
and an abdominal operation.
These sidelined him for weeks
on weeks.
His administration seemed
to have jelled into a routine
Of do-nothingism. It lacked
imagination. 1t was uninspir-
ing. Confidence in it drained
away.
And then-there appeared
1.-THE New Ike"
Premier Khrushchev, whose
mouth, to employ a familiar
phrase, is no prayerbook,
nonetheless was almost ex-
travagant in his praise Of the
President to his own people.
He was convinced, he said, Of
Mr.. Eisenhower's sincerity Of
purpose.
There is, I think, a key to
this puzzle.
The key is this-there is
not really a new Ike. Even
before he took Office he had
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intimidations cease" Mr.. Nehru
wrote.
The firm tone of the letter
dimmed prospects for negotia-
lions urged by the Soviet Union
on both New Delhi and Popping
to seek a peaceful settlement Of
their f1ve-year-old border dis
pute.
Mr.. Chou had suggested to
Mr.. Nehru on September 8 that
friendly negotiations" could
begin if India took steps to
stop "trespassing" on Chinese
territory.
Mr.. Nehru retorted by blam-
ing Peiping for creating the
tense situation along the bor-
der. He declared. 1T is the
Chinese who have trespasseo
into Indian territory across the
traditional border at a number
of places"
Mr.. Chou had expressed hope
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-05

made up his mind to be a
President Of all the people.
We dwell in a cynical age and
this sounds trite. But look
ing back at notes made in
several conversations with
him on hunts in South
Georgia when he was back
from setting up NATO, it is
plain this was then his firm
concept Of the Presidency.
In the period when he pri-
vately had made up his mind
his politics had to be associ-
ated with the Republican
party. he talked Of the Presi-
dency in those terms: Of
being President of all the
people. True enough, it fell
then, as now, somewhat
naively on the ear. But this
is how he felt. Obviously 1t
now motivates him.
It is perhaps closer to the
truth to say that this is the
old Ike. After a bit more than
six years Of attending poll
teal classes, as every Presi-
dent must do who is unskilled
in this art, he has in a very
real sense, shelved what he
learned Of politics. He is now
back at trying to be President
of the people. He is free of
Sherman Adams. the political
Schoolmaster. Mr.. Dulles's
policy was at ropes end. So,
Mr.. Eisenhower is freer.
It should not go unnoticed
that he no longer promotes
remaking the Republican
party. He is. to be sure, for"
it. But ne does not spend
any time urging on modern
Republicanism. He is now
trying to be President not
the President and the head
of the party.
1t almost certainly was this
prediction conviction which
made him almost irritatingly
neutral at times Of great
public debate. This was per-
haps an error. 1t made him
seem weak. It did some dam.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-05

/ people are getting bored with
| it."
Mr.. Gaitskell said in ar
article in the pro-Labor Daily
Herald:
1.-THE class barriers have
crumbled but not disappeared
There are still indefensible
inequalities of wealth in our So
ciety. One in 100 owns as much
as the other SO between them
The false values of snobbery
still distort the personal rela.
tionships with each other which
we should enjoy"
Wants New Climate
The article elaborated or
charges Mr.. Gaitskell made il
Leeds last night, when HI
characterized the Conservative!
as snobs and said only thu
Labor Party could produce &
new social climate.
Mr.. Gaitskell arrived ir
London at the conclusion o.
his 2,000-mile whistle stol
tour and told reporters he hac
been received with enthusiasm
everywhere.
Though I am not complacen
and everything turns on thu
last few days, I believe we shall
win," Mr.. Gaitskell said.
If that happens he will sue,
coed Mr.. Macmillan as Prim
Minister.
On the basis of public opin
ion polls, usually accurate il
Britain, Mr.. Gaitskell's Labor
ties and Mr.. Macmillan's Con
servatives appear to be neck
and-neck.
But as the polltaking pro
crossed, more and more peopl
answered they had not We
made up their minds. Now i
is estimated that something
like 7,250,000 voters are in thi
don't know" oup. On thi
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-05
How Serious Is Language Barrier?

lated accurately now for the
benefit of historians.
No blame should be placed
on the interpreters. They did
the best they could consider
ing the speed required under
the circumstances, though a
distinct difference between
the first and second transla-
tors used by Mr.. Khrushchev
was noted. The second one
speaks English colloquially
and with a Midwestern ac-
cent.
Transla ton difficulties,
however. are not confined
to debates between the lead.
ers Of the East and West.
West Germans are still talk
ing about an error made by
a German interpreter when
President Eisenhower made
his memorable trip to Bonn
a month ago. AS he concluded
his speech, the President said
to the big audience, God
bless you'll" But Chancellor
Adenauer's personal interpre-
ter gave the following phras-
ing to the crowd: II wish you
all the best"
Many OF the German people
who saw the event on tele-
vision and who understood
English noticed the error and
wrote to the newspapers
about it. One newspaper, in
a front-page editorial, SYM
pathized with the interpre-
ter's problem on the ground
that the same phrase in
German, "Gott segne sie," has
a deeper religious meaning
than is. common when the
phrase is used in the United
States. But the editorial also
said that the translator's
words were too weak and fail
ed to convey a meaning that
was "typically American and
typically Eisenhower"
With all the electronic de-
vices now being invented to
speed the transmission of
human language. m aybe
somebody will find a way to
achieve accurate interpreting.
But, for the present, the best
solution is to have tape re-
cordings made and let a group
Of language scholars write
the translation afterward,
when there's time to consult
dictionaries and settle the
fine points of the language
meanings.
(copyriRht. 1887
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-05
Is There a New Eisenhower?

age to the public image Of
the Presidency. There were q
few times when he appeared
almost callously, unaware Of
any need to speak out and
give leadership. -
He was made to appear
the more paradoxical, and
uncertain, because he would
in private speak out with
conviction on problems be-
fore the nation, but would
not do so publicly.
All this is more UNDER
standable if we keep in mind
the mans personal philoso-
ply, strongly held we'll before
the convention Of 1852.
Now, with something more
than a year to 60, he plainly
has determined to dedicate
himself to the job of trying
to reach the Kremlin. He
knows very well that II the
arms race goes on there al
most certainly will be a war
by 1865. or sooner.
In trying to- reach the
Kremlin's Mr.. Khrushchev.
he has tremendous public
support. We are, Of course,
because of the record, fear
full of trusting the Russians.
But it should not be over
looked it is not merely the.
Americans who support him.
The West Germans support
him perhaps more than their
own leadership. There is
criticism which can be made.
But most of it seems some
how petty. in the face of the
objective, and the people
likely will shush down the
querulous. New Ike or not,
they want him to keep try
inc
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-05

for peace and friendship along
the border.
Mr.. Nehru replied he shared
this view but declared:
This hope and this promise
could be fulfilled only if China
would not bring within the
scope of what should essentially
be a border dispute claims to
thousands Of square miles of
territory which have been and
are an integral part of the ter
ritory of India"
India is standing firm on the
boundary with Tibet known as
the Mcmahon line. It is named
for the British official who drew
it in 1914. Peiping refuses to
accept this line, and Chinese
maps show thousands of miles
across this border as Chinese
territory.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-05
Two British Candidates
Clash on Class Issue

LONDON, Oct. S (AP). -
Prime Minister Harold Mac
milan and Labor Leader Hugh
Gaitskell clashed today on the
issue of class distinction as
candidates began final cam
paigning for Thursdays cleo
ton Of a new House of Com
mons.
This mention of class was
temperature rising stuff. It's
the oldest issue in British poll
tics, one with great emotional
impact on the Nations $780,
900 eligible voters.
Mr.. Gaitskell claimed Britain
still is snob-ridden.
Mr.. Macmillan deplored this
suggestion.
Speaking in Kings Lynn in
the heart of a rich agricul-
tural area of Eastern England
the Prime Minister said:
mfr. Gaitskell is becoming
quite desperate. Last night he
said the whole of the Conserva-
tive Party and their supporters
were servile and stuffed shirts
and all the rest of it.
SCOT to Live Together"
whatever happens in this
election about half the people
will vote one way and half the
other. I do not think it is much
good one half saying that the
others are crooks and rascals
We are all Englishmen and We
have got to live together. In the
past some have died together
ut is just bunk to get up anc
talk that kind of stuff in the
second half of the goth century
1t might have been all right 10C
years ago, but it is just not true
today. We know that this ole
class war stuff is dead anc
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-05
DORIS FLEEsON

BY now it is generally
known that the State De-
partment fielded its third
team on the Khrushchev
tour and that the cost was
appalling.
The worst aspect will not
be realized until the Commu-
mist propagandists get going
on it, as they certainly will
do. The present milder trend
of East-West relations offers
hope that they will exercise
some restraint, but should
that trend not continue, any
propaganda inhibitions of
the Soviets will be an early
casualty.
The agony is that all the
really bad features of the
tour were largely avoidable
by men determined to make
a success of the journey and
working as hard at that goal
for as long a day as Khru
shchev himself put in for the
greater glory Of tn Soviet
Union.
Public attention has TO-
cused on the conflict between
reporters and the bureaucrats
who got between them and
their story. 1t had its comic
moments all right, and no.
body enjoyed them more
than Khrushchev. Like all
politicians-and probably the
public-he enjoys the dis
comf1ture of the men and
women who ask those mean
questions and have the last
word in the newspaper and
on the air.
But the conflict between
American reporters and their
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-05
Red Propogondists Seen CopitoIizing
On lnodequoey of u. S. Arrangements

State Department is a private
fight. If reporters lack the
will to win it, so much the
worse for them. They know
that officials on whom they
had the right to rely FUN
bled overwhelmingly, disap-
peared when most needed,
played favorites and gave lit
tie evidence of realizing that
they were engaged in a gam
BILE for the peace of the world.
For this their superiors
must take the blame. What
happened was that the Eli
senhower administration set
up the Khrushchev Eisen-
hover visits. then went
through a very obvious COOL
ing-off period when public
reaction blew hot and cold.
1t was during these indeci-
sive moments that Vice Pres
ident Nixon preached his
talk back" gospel at the
White House which was to
stick United Nations Ambas-
sador Lodge with his truth
squad role, one of the trips
major fiascos. But the results
appeared everywhere in our
sensitive governmental ma
chine, where the White House
sets the tone to a degree that
must be long experienced to
be believed.
BY the time the show hit
the road nobody was around
but us chickens. The admin
istration's communications
expert, Press Secretary Hag-
erty, had bowed out. nor had
anyone put the trained White
House travel staff at the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-05
S100, 900 Fire Fought

MILWAUKEE,, Oct. 5 (AP).
"A ree-alarm fire caused an
estimated 100000 damage to
a four-story brick building on
Milwaukee's South Side yester.
day and routed scores of resi-
dents from Is apartments on
the top three stories. No one
was reported injured. -.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-04
Records Cost Doubt
On oldest Vets Claims

were supporting letters from
two Texans who said they had
known Mr.. Williams for IS
years or so at a time when he
was then about 80 years old.
They referred to him as "a
creditable person" and "a very
deserving old Confederate vet
eran."
Most officials here were in
clined to let that description
stand. after ALL" said one. re-
ferring to the gold medal
award. Congress made him a
veteran whether he was or not. "
Mr.. williams is too old and
feeble to comment on the con-
flicting reports, his daughter
said yesterday.
Mrs. Willie Mae Bowles, with
whom Mr.. Williams has made
his home for several years,
said in Houston "he doesn't
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-04
Norfolk Liberals
Forming Purty

NORFOLK, Va, Sept. 4 (AP)
"A political organization pat
termed after the Liberal Party
Of New York is being formed
in Norfolk.
Like the New York party,
the organization here will in
clude liberal elements of or
ganized labor, professional peo-
pie, liberal voting people and
people in the educational field.
That's the word from Arthur
Walters, one of the persons
active in the group forming
here. A Norfolk resident, Mr..
Walters formerly was active
In the labor field.
Plans call for election of an
executive secretary this month
and the opening of an Office
in october, Mr.. Walters said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-04
Body Of Girl Found
In Potomac Identified

-he body of a 17-year-old
girl. found in the Potomac River
yesterday, has been identified
positively as 10 Ann Slattery.
police said today.
Miss Slattery was the daugh-
ter Of DR.. and Mrs. Edward j.
Slattery Of 1920 Forty-seventh
street NV. Police said she
drowned Tuesday after slipping
of a rock on a canoe trip near
Fletcher's Boathouse.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-04
$4,000 Left
By Vessels

John w. Vessels, president
Of the Universal Transportation
Co.. who died August 7 of a
heart attack in Baltimore, left
an estate valued at more than
$500, 900.
A petition for probate of his
will was filed yesterday in the
Register Of Wills Office at Dis
trict Court.
Under terms Of the will, after
q few special requests are
taken care of, one-half Of the
remainder of the estate is to be
placed in trust for his widow,
Mrs. Lenita. B. Vessels of the
home address. 1000 Cathedral
avenue NV.
The widow is to receive in
come from the trust fund for
life.
The other half Of the re-
mainder is to be placed in trust
for the benefit of brothers.
sisters and a siSter-in-law of
Mr.. Vessels, each Of whom is to
receive one-seventh of the in
come from that trust.
The brothers to share are
George and Joseph Vessels of
Payneville, KY. and Sebastian
Vessels Of Georgetown, Ind.
The sisters are Miss Emma Lii
Ian Vessels Of Payneville, Mrs.
Louise Downing of 3289 Worth
ington street NV. and Miss
Catherine Vessels of 1000 Ca
thedral avenue NV. The sis
ter-in-law is Mrs. Lillian YES
sells Of Chicago.
Special requests included
sums Of $4,000 each to the
mother of Mr.. Vessels wife,
Mrs. Lora Hill, and to his wife's
sister, Mrs. Ellen Durosko. Mr..
Vessels also willed a co-opera-
tive apartment unit at 1000
Cathedral avenue to his wife,
to whom he also left a parcel
Of real estate in Virginia. He
left a bequest Of $1,000 to re-
tired Judge Henry A. Schwein-
haut Of District Court.
The will named the Riggs
National Bank and Mr.. Vessels
brother-in-law, c. Wade Down.
ing executors and trustees of
the estate.
Mr.. Vessels, who was 81, had
been a Washington resident for
many years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-04

Members Of Congress who
have been quick to honor Walter
@. Williams of Houston, Tex,
as the last surviving veteran of
the Civil War found today they
have little in their files to back
up Mr.. Williams claim to that
honor.
Neither has the Veterans
Administration. which has been
paying Mr.. Williams a pension
Of $l35 a month since July /.
1858.
Officials here checked their
files after published report
questioned whether Mr.. Will
liams, now seriously i'll. was a
veteran at all and whether he
was 1l6 years old. as he has
claimed.
Trails Led to Texas
They found, as did the Vet
Grams Administration earlier.
that all trails regarding Mr..
Williams claim to fame led
back to the State of Texas
which has been paying him a
pension since 1882.
It all began, as far as WASH
ington is concerned, in 1854
when Congress approved gold
medals for Mr.. Williams and
a dwindling few veterans Of the
Civil War.
Then in 1858 Congress APP
proved legislation which en-
abled Mr.. Williams to CAIN q
Federal pension. Only last July
Congress adopted and President
Eisenhower signed a resolution
providing for a day of mourning
with flags to be flown at half
staff on the day Of his death.
Evidence UnQuesticned
The Veterans Administration,
o spokesman said, accepted as
prima facie evidence that Mr..
Williams was entitled to a pen
sion on the fact that ne had
been receiving one $500 a
month for the last few years.
from the State If Texas. The
agency was not disposed to
question Congress On that score.
Records indicate that Mr..
Williams applied for the Texas
pension in 1882 and supplied
an affidavit saying he had
served in Hoods famed Texas
brigade as a forage master. The
only other supporting evidence
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-04

eral years. He was critically
Ill most Of last month from
the after-effects of a bout with
pneumonia earlier this year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-04

understand anything these
days."
Mr.. Williams has been vir-
tually blind and deaf for sew
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Points for Parents "'''" T''... w.H...

Son--I sure hated to tell
you that, Dad.
Father II should think
you would I thought you
had more sense than to get
in such q mess.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-04

Father-I am glad you
told me, Son. We all make
mistakes sometimes. Now let
us see what can be done to
correct the one that you
made.