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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-02-18
POTOMAC FEVER
FLETCHER KNEBEL

may orbit forever First they couldn't get the Vanguard
up-and they can't get the darn thing down.
Dick Nixon tells California Republicans to work harder
Is this Nxons theory of right-towork-or wokothe
right?
With Mamie in Arizona Ike took look at the pile Of
dirty dishes in the White House kchenand fed to Mexico
Democratic presidential candidates have canyon
plex Symngton wants to close the missile gap Kennedy
wants to widen the church-state gap.
No wonder United States statesmen yearn for world
leadership You'd want to get too you'd spent years
in futile effort to chase the starngs of Washington build
ings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-02-18
Democrats Study SO Results

reversal Of the trend. plus
deaths or retirements, could
give Republicans the Senate
majority next time.
But National Chairman Al
corn is demonstrably correct
in arguing that good candi-
dates could put the g. o. P.
well along the road back.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-02-18
WILLIAM S. WHITE
G.O.P.Leoders Back Dulles Stand

bassador between the domi-
nant Republican conservatives
and the overshadowed but
aggressive Republican liber-
ais in the Senate. Neither
wing has ever quite captured
him; but neither wing has
ever quite lost hold Of him, or
he of it.
In short, John Foster Dulles
has not only overshadowed
his own President in making
foreign policy. He has also
far overshadowed his own
President in the tricky task
Of giving to that Presidents
party the strictly political
leadership required to keep
that party's diverse wings
reasonably united for that
policy.
This is why Mr.. Dulles be-
came the indispensable man,
or so nearly indispensable as
to make no difference. The
traditional practice has been
for a President to let a Sec
rotary Of State run the State
Department, subject to presi-
Dental high-policy guidance,
while the President made
himself solely responsible for
providing the necessary polit-
ical protection for the Secre-
tary to do his job.
Mr.. Dulles has done the
whole business. He has done
it with plodding courage and
o kind Of puritan resolution,
And-in order honestly to
balance the whole set Of
books-he has occasionally
done it with q massive tact
lessness. The old gentleman,
himself, probably would &C.
knowledge this in this wry
hour when those who used to
have no single good word fol
him now positively drench
his hospital bed with uncriti-
cal praise.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-02-18
Republican Senators Warn Against
Easing of Firm Policy on Reds

Powerful Republican Sena-
tors have warned the Eisen-
hover administration that the
illness of Secretary Of State
Dulles must not become the
occasion for any softening
Of our policy in the cold war.
Through their leader. Sena-
tor Styles Bridges Of New
Hampshire, they have let the
White House know:
/. That they will keep a
special surveillance over State
Department actions and atti-
tudeS in Mr.. Dulles absence.
2. That if the Secretary's
cancerous condition forces his
total retirement, any sue
cessor nominated by the Pres
ident would have to satisfy
the Senate Republicans that
he would not propose to
liquidate the tough" position
Mr.. Dulles so long maintained.
These representations have
been made by the orthodox
Republicans because they are
perfectly aware of a most
significant fact Of life. This
Is that almost any forseeable
change in top command at
the State Department would
bring In q man much less
deeply committed than Sec
rotary Dulles to the line Of
giving no real ground to the
Russians, over Berlin or else
where.
For Mr.. Dulles personally
has been that policy, even if
he appeared to be turning
slightly more flexible before
his most recent illness struck.
He has literally embodied
that policy. And it is for this
reason, and this alone, that
as foreign minister for a
modern" Republican adj
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-02-18

ministration he has never
theless been able to maintain
the consistent support Of the
party's Old Guard wing in
Congress.
John Foster Dulles, in a
word long has been very
close to being the indispensa-
able man to the Republican
Party IN the United States,
just as now be begins to look
to be very nearly the ire
placeable man in the West
.ern alliance.
This is one Of the underly-
ing reasons why all con-
cerned-the President, the
congressional Republicans -
are almost desperately hop
ing that any formal sup
planting of Mr.. Dulles can be
avoided, or at worst long
postponed. Such a changing
Of the guard. so late in the
Presidents term and quite
apart from its effects abroad,
would bring something APP
preaching a CONFUSION with
in the United States Govern
ment.
For John Foster Dulles
widely discussed personal
diplomacy" is not the only
unexampled aspect Of his
tenure. Another is the
uniquely personal bridge he
has formed between the con-
sentative and the liberal
wings Of his party. Because
he has Symbolized the hard"
line against imperialist COM
munism, he has made 1t
necessary for the Old Guard
to back the administration in
foreign affairs generally far
more than 1t might have
done-and sometimes more
than the Old Guard really
wished to do.
He has been a peculiar am
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-02-18
DORIS FLEESON

A Democratic tabulation of
the so called marginal
House districts in 1858 shows
the amazing scope of the
Democratic sweep, but it also
advertises the fact that the
Republicans have no place to
60 but UP.
Marginal districts are those
won by SIS per cent or less Of
the total vote. In 1858 there
were 104 of them as COM
pared to only IS in 1852, "a
in 1854 and SO in 1856.
After admiring the job
they did last fall, Democrats
looked a little more closely
at its geographical shape.
They now realize that they
are so deep into enemy ter
ritory, only historic G. o. P.
bastions. many Of them forth
fed by the gerrymander, are
left to conquer.
Their main task In 1860,
in fact, must be to hold onto
what they have. Short Of an
utter Republican collapse
which Is not now foreseen,
the present House majority
can be very little enlarged,
even with party unity and a
strong candidate for Presi-
dent on the Democratic
ticket.
1t is true that some Re-
publican House veterans in
key places-including the new
minority leader, Representa-
tive Charles Halleck-got by
last time with only q few
hundred votes to spare or q
very, very small percentage
plurality.
Less than one per cent Of
the total saved Representa-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-02-18
DAVID LAWRENCE

What's the use Of having q
foreign ministers conference
about Berlin or anything else
with the Soviet government,
when 1t has deliberately told
the world q lie about the
murderous assault on II
American airmen aboard an
unarmed transport plane last
September?
Again the Soviet govern
ment has refused to listen to
q tape recording which re-
veals in detail the. CONVERSE
ton Of the Soviet airmen as
they killed the II Americans.
Though the Moscow govern
ment calls the tape record
ing q fake, It doesn't explain
why 1t will not permit any Of
its representatives in this
country to listen TO the tape
or why 1t has consistently re-
fused to let any American
representative visit the scene
Of the crash to examine the
wreckage.
The State Department has
challenged the Soviet gov
eminent to listen to the tape
recording, and there can be
only one inference from the
Kremlin's refusal-that the
Soviets do hot wish to ac-
knowledge the existence of
such a tape because they
know they cannot deny every
thing in it.
Thus, in an article pub
lished in a Soviet aviation
journal just after the tragedy,
there is q story about a So
called practice flight" of
Soviet airmen, but it is signif-
icant that some of the num-
bers used in identifying the
planes in that episode are
mentioned in the tape re-
cordings made at the time
the American plane was shot
down.
The Soviets think there is
never going to be any further
proof available and that
hence they can continue to
call the tape recording a
fake. But what is very much
more important is that the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-02-18
Leaders Feel Republicans Could Start
Comeback With Good Candidates

tive Chiperfield Of Illinois,
Representatives Smith and
Rees Of Kansas, Representa-
tive Adair Of Indiana, Rep
resentative PRIME of New
York and Representative Ca
hill of New Jersey. But by
far the greater burden rests
upon the A Democrats in the
skin-of- their-teeth category.
Forty Of their places we're
held by Republicans as late
as 1856. Three were lost to
the G. o. P. in 1854. Only one
has been continuously held
by a Democrat for any length
Of time. It Is the Sd Min
nesota which has been Demo-
cratic since 1913.
The possibilities open to
Republicans who can get an
attractive can didate and
finance him are obvious. The
picture is equally cheerful
when they survey their own
so marginal seats.
OF that total, 40 have
either never been held by q
Democrat or have not been
so captured since the historic
Roosevelt 46-State triumph
Of 1896.
OF the remaining 20, Dem
ocrats have held only Is at
any time since and including
1913. They did manage to
win seven in this group be-
tween 1916 and 1858.
The prospect still Is for
Democratic control of the
House in 1860 with the politi-
cal picture shaping Is 1t now
seems. The Senate story Ia
even palmer. statiStically
speaking. Only Q Smashins
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-02-18
Soviets; Shooting Down of u. S. Plane
Raises Question of Porley's Value

United States Government
knows the tape isn't O fake.
This means that another
piece Of evidence has been
presented In the long list Of
incidents in which the Soviet
government has falsified the
truth.
Moscow dispatches say the
Soviet government is dis
turbed because the United
States revealed the story Of
the tape recording at all, and
that this action supposedly
aggravates the tension Of the
cold war. But tension Is some
thing produced when one side
doesn't trust the other. II Is
removed only when both
sides begin to trust each
other.
Here was an opportunity
really to take away some Of
the tension Of the cold war BY
admitting the truth. There
was no good reason for con-
cealment. To have admitted
the facts might have been
the start of an era Of mu-
tually satisfactory relations.
Now, however. with the
United States In full possess
sion Of facts which the Soviet
government denies. everyone
must take with a grain Of salt
the statements or promises or
pledges made by the Moscow
regime or its ambassadors or
agents abroad. There is evil
IDENTIFY a blindness in the
Kremlin to the true state
of opinion throughout the
world about the veracity of
the official statements issued
by the Soviet government.
The only possible conclu-
sion that can be drawn is
that the Communists think
propaganda is q substitute
for truth, and that, If q dis
torted statement Is widely
enough publicized and then
repeated often enough, it will
serve the purposes Of an evil
minded diplomacy.
But, if any more proof
were needed that the Com
munist propaganda is not
getting by in America, 1t can
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-02-18

to finance urban renewal prof.
ects. That bill was passed by
the Senate two weeks ago and
is expected to be reported out
soon by the House Banking
Committee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-20
Muy | Proclaimed
Child Health Day

AUGUSTA. Ca. April 20
tAP). - President Eisenhower
today designated May / as
Child Health Day.
Il invite all citizens TO re-
assess on that day the ways to
provide full opportunities for
healthy growth and develop
ment Of our children" the Pres
ident said in a proclamation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-20

Committee in testimony to the
House Foreign Affairs Com
mittee.
Spokesman for the group
were its chairman, Walter Har-
nischfeger, president of the
Harnischfeger Corp, Milwaukee,
and its national director, re-
tired Army Brig. Gen. Bonner
Fellers of Washington.
The group, which says it is
not isolationist, earlier had
asked that foreign aid be cut
in half now and abolished in
three years.
The Foreign Affairs Commit
tee is hearing testimony on
President Eisenhower's $780,
100000 foreign aid program.
Would Help Korea, FOrmOsa
Gen. Fellers said his group
recommends that limited mill
tary assistance be continued
"in countries which at present
are actually unable to survive
without our help, which are
threatened with Red aggression
and which we are morally obi
gated to defend" He mentioned
Korea and Formosa as exam
Piles.
Bue he contended that many
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-20
Vote Full Foreign Aid,
BowIes Urges House

ior changes in the program,
among them a de-emphasis of
the Communist aspects of
the program.
a. For purposes of quail
flying for American dollars, we
have officially turned commu-
niSm into a natural resource
like oil or uranium" Mr.. Bowies
said.
"In the marketplace of the
cold war, a noisy Communist
minority has become worth its
weight in gold"
Under the present logic of
the program, Mr.. Bowles said,
countries can be grateful to
Moscow for the money they
receive from Washington.
He proposed that Congress
insert in the foreign aid bill
this year a statement that
says the United States major
aim is:
g. To encourage free
peoples to stand on their own
feet, to make their own choices,
to defend themselves against
overt aggression, and to create
economic and political condi-
tons under which the princi-
Piles of liberty and human dig
nifty can take root, grow and
ultimately flourish"
Mr.. Bowles' other proposals:
l. A check of each country
receiving military aid to make
sure the aid does not upset bal
anceS of power in the country's
area and does not burden the
country with IAN excessive mil
itary load"
2. New standards for coun-
tries receiving economic aid to
make sure the recipients have
a self-sacriflcing financial pro-
gram, comprehensive economic
detectives, a competent civil
service and a stable govern
ment with popular roots.
3. A shoft in foreign aid
funds so that the money ear
marked for the Development
Loan Fund be increased from
$500 million, as requested by
President Eisenhower, to 81
billion in fiscal 1860.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-20

of our allies are now more
prosperous than before World
War II. AS a consequence. they
should shoulder their full share
of the defense burden"
Mr.. Harnishfeger said, II be-
lieve that the measures we take
to clean up the slums of Har-
lem are more significant to the
well-being of the world than
what we may do to clean up the
.slumS of Calcutta.
THE measures we take to
keep our money sound and the
dollar honest and more ;nflu-
.ential upon world monetary sta
bility than sums appropriated
to balance the payments of
India and Brazil"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-20
Former Envoy Is Hunted
AS Ponomo Rebel Chief

PANAMA, April 20 (AP)---
Psnamanian sea forces today
hunted former Ambassador
Roberto Arias. husband of
famed British Ballerina Mar
got Fonteyn. with a warrant
charging him with revolu-
tionary activity.
Mr.. Arias, former Ambassador
to Great Britain, and his wife
were reported on a fishing trip
in the Gulf of Panama. Min
lister Of Government Max Heur-
tematte said their launch was
spotted once yesterday but dis
appeared.
Mr.. Heurtematte said Mr..
Arias' arrest was ordered after
an informant said he planned
to lead an attack on the Ma
tional Guard post in Chorrera,
about 20 miles from Panama
City.
Mr.. Arias, 41-year-old son of
ex-President Harmodio Arias,
is the latest prominent politi-
clan implicated in a revolu-
tionary wave which President
Ernesto de la Guardia. jr.,
charges is building up against
his regime.
Three small rebel bands,
mostly Of students, began OPP
Grating from mountainous Sec
tons of the country early in
April, apparently trying to ape
the guerrilla tactics Fidel
Castro used to overthrow the
Cuban dictatorship of Fuleen-
clio Batista. -Four of the rebels
have been killed and six cap
tured in skirmishes with the
National Guard, Panama's
army and police.
Mr.. de la Guardia last week
charged that Panamanian rev.
dictionaries were plotting an
invasion from Cuba using hired
troops. National Guard troops
have been stationed on likely
landing beaches, and the United
States Caribbean Command has
increased security measures in
the United States-controlled
Panama Canal Zone.
Mr.. Harmodio Arias split
with Mr.. de la Guardia last
year and his newspaper chain
began attacking the President.
One Arias son, Gilberto, re-
signed as finance minister be-
cause of the break, and Roberto
quit his post in London.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-20
Criticism of Timing

British newspapers have crit
icized the United States for the
timing of the high altitude
flights. However, the British
government has backed the
United States in asserting that
the allies in principle have the
right to fly at any altitude.
West Berlin's Socialist mayor.
Willy Brandt, said on a visit
to London today he does not
regard it as provocative for the
United States planes to fly at
any suitable height.
1T is mainly a question be-
tween our allies" Mr.. Brandt
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-20
star star Writer

Representative Bowles, Dem
ocrat of Connecticut. said to-
day Congress should reshape
the administrators So billion
foreign aid program, but should
vote the full amount.
In a prepared House speech,
Mr.. Bowles proposed four ma
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-20

said. II understand the feelings
OF those who are worried about
the flights but there are. after
all, no legal bases for imposing
a limitation on the height at
which allied aircraft can fly in
the corridors"
Mr.. Brandt went to London
with British Labor Party Lead
er Hugh Gaitskell for a three
day visit after attending a Eu-
ropean Socialist conference in
Stockholm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-20
Chamber to Meet

A business and promotion
meeting will be held by the
Greater Falls Church Cham
Der of Commerce at 8 pm.
tomorrow in the multipurpose
room of the Mount Daniel
Elementary School. North Oak
and Greenwich streets, Falls
Church.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-20
'Giveowoy Philosophy
In Observation-Disclosures
BY the Associated Press

citizens group told Congress today there is give
away philosophy" in foreign aid which encourages waste
extravaganza and corruption at home and abroad.
1t criticized military aid the grounds that f comes
there strong possibility that to survive Of allies
will elect neutrality lest they be ncinerated."
The YneY of criticism came from the Citizens Foreign Aid
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-20
Patrol Denied
OF Air Lanes
Over Berlin

BERLIN. April 20 (AP).-
The Soviet Embassy denied to-
day that Russian MIG fighters
have begun regular patrols in
the air corridors linking iso-
lated West Berlin and West
Germany. There was a similar
denial from American officials.
The Soviet Embassy issued
its statement in East Berlin
after reports circulated abroad
that a Soviet fighter squadron
had been assigned to patrol
West Berlin's air lifelines.
This report is not true"
said j. w. Beburov. the chief
Soviet spokesman. There has
been no change in the air COR
ridor situation on our side. The
only change has come from
the American side"
The Russian was referring
to United States insistence that
its air force planes have the
right to fly to West Berlin
above the Soviet-specified TO-
000-foot ceiling.
Three Transports Buzzed
Soviet MICS have buzzed
three United States Air Force
transports within the last four
weeks when they few at alti-
tudes above 10000 feet, which
Moscow claims must be reserved
for Communist aircraft cross
ing the corridors.
The United States holds that
its new turboprop transports
operate more efficiently at
higher attitudes and will be dis
patched to Berlin at high alti-
tudes whenever necessary.
1--WE cannot accept this
technical explanation at this
time Mr.. Beburov said. Not
when these flights are leading
to a sharpening of the world
situation before the Geneva
foreign ministers conference
(opening May-1D.
There is concern over these
flights not only in the Soviet
Union but also in such Western
countries as Great Britain,
where the flights have been
denounced as provocations and
irresponsible"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-31
Stabilized Flight
For Thor Cone
Reported by AT
BY the Associa ted Press

The nose cone of a Thor
intermediate range ballistic
missile fired from Cape Can
averal last Friday achieved the
first stabilized, non-tumbling
flight recorded, the Air Force
said today.
The nose cone, controlled in
flight by heat detecting ant
horizon viewing gadgets. flew
without pitching. yawir1g or
spinning during its trajectory
of 316 miles above earth.
The Air Force issued a series
of photographs made auto
matically by a camera in the
nose cone showing clearly the
outline of Florida and portions
of neighboring States and de-
tpicting the curve of the earth
The cone was built by Gen.
eral Electric Co.
Tbs film made during the
flight was recovered when a
capsule was elected from the
nose cone and picked up from
the Atlantic Ocean.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-31
Stock-SeIIing Aim Seen
In Oil Job of Ex-Cooch

he could be of assistance to Mr..
Leahy in such a program and
felt that he knew several
people in high tax brackets
who would be interested. :.
Thornton particularly ex-
pressed a desire to contact
Randolph Scott Cunidentified)
without delay"
Leahy's Test Run
The minutes also showed Mr..
Leahy had made a test run on
the Embarrassing drive that
never achieved hoped-fory re-
suits.
The drive had as a main
feature theGpromise that the
first money from a new oil well
would go to contributors.
According to the minutes. g
letter from an Archbishop
Cushing to Mr.. Leahy was reac
to the directors to demonstrate
the good reception Mr.. Leahy
was getting on his test run.
Archbishop Cushing was not
identified further, but Richard
Cardinal Cushing of Boston
formerly was an archbishop.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-31
Labor. Reform
Backers See .
Chalnlceto Win
BY LEE M. COIN
stare star Writer

Backers Of a stringent union
reform bill expressed more and
more confidence today, as
organized labor's forces strug-
gled to block House passage Of
what they call punitive" legis-
lation. co %
Were going to win" Repre-
sentative Landrum, Democrat
Of Georgia, predicted fatty. He
co-sponsored the bill that
worries union leaders most.
His Republican co-sponsor
representative Griffin Of
Michigan, was more cautious
saying: II think right now
we're behind, but we've got 9
good chance"
Some opponents OF the
Landrum- Griffin bill admitted
they were concerned about the
sentiment apparently building
up for passage of strict legis-
lation. The outcome Of the
House battle remains in doubt
Many Divisions
The House Labor Committee
filed its formal report on re-
for mlegislation last night. II
is one of the strangest reports
in recent House history.
Rejecting the extreme fac
tionalism permeating the labor
issue, the committees 80 men,
bers split into eight or more
overlapping groups to- press
their views on the. House.
The various factions have
kept the Capitol cloakroomS
and phone lines buzzing with
their efforts to swing votes
Lobbyists of the tough" and
soft" bill wings are exerting
more pressure than Hill old
timers have observed in years.
The House Rules Committee
which must clear the bill for
floor action - postponed its
hearings from yesterday until
next Tuesday at the earliest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-31

Nothing has been bought for sale pur-
poses-you'II find the merchandise that
has made the D. J. man the leader in
fine fashion mems wear,