Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-27
Not Without Hope

This is a solemn and sad day, but
1t has a meaning that inspires hope.
For the burial of John Foster Dulles
serves in its own way to remind the
world not merely of his rectitude and
genius, but also of the greatness, the
nobility, and one might even say the
Immortality of the principles and ideals
he espoused so vigorously and so elo-
quently until his last illness came and
the breath of life left him.
Let us not minimize the extraordi-
nary fact, the unique fact, that states
men from all parts of the globe on both
sides of the Iron Curtain-statesmen as
different from each other as Chancellor
Adenauer of West Germany and Foreign
Minister Gromyko of the Soviet Union
have flown thousands of miles across
the oceans to participate personally in
the ceremonies attendant upon Mr..
Dulles interment in Arlington Gene
terry. They have done this, Of course, in
tribute to the man himself, but they
have done 1t also, If only by indirection,
in tribute to what he stood and fought
fora view of human existence that may
best be summarized by saying, in the
spirit of our own Declaration of Inde-
pendence and Constitution, that peoples
everywhere have an inalienable right to
life, liberty and the pursuit Of happiness,
and to decent and enduring peace.
True, it may be argued that Mr..
Gromyko's flight here has been mott
waited primarily by the Kremlin's desire
to do the right, the clever, the appealing
and the rewarding thing in the field of
propaganda. But we like to think other
wise. We like to think that this gesture
has been made in a mood of genuine
respect for the late Secretary of State,
and also because the Khrushchev gov
eminent, even though it is Red totali-
tartan dictatorship, realizes that it must
at least pay lip service to the free way Of
life defended by Mr.. Dulles. AS to that,
we are confirmed in our feelings by what
seems to US to have been ring Of
sincerity in Soviet Deputy Premier Mi
koyan's warm praise of Mr.. Dulles char
acter and ability.
Another point worthy of some note
is the fact that this day, the day of Mr..
Dulles burial, has long been marked in
the calendar as the deadline of Premier
Khrushchev'S So-called ultimatum-the
date he fixed last November for Fore
ing the withdrawal of Anglo-French-
American troops from free Berlin. Well,
the time is here, and the Western forces
are not pulling out, and the Kremlin at
the moment-in the person of Mr.. Gro
rnyko--is paying its respects to the Sec
rotary of State who made clear, months
ago, that there would be no surrender
to the totally unacceptable demands put
forward by the USSR, which has since
indicated that the demands should not
have been taken too seriously in the
first place.
So we come back to the matter
of hope Later this week the Anglo
French American-Sovi foreign minis
tiers will resume their negotiations in an
effort to find some common ground and
pave the way for fruitful heads-of-
government summit conference. 1t is
not inconceivable that some progress will
be made along that line, largely because
of the prior work done by Mr.. Dulles.
In any event, may he rest in peace, and
may the major powers yet be able to
agree on building the decent kind of
world he wanted.