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Evening star., 1959-12-08
Lady AttIee, 63,
Has 5th Smushup.
But Still Drives

LONDON. Dec. 8 (AP).-
Although she's had six traffic
accidents in the last five years,
Countess Attlee will continue to
chauffeur her husband.
The 63-year-old Countess
husband is Earl Attlee, the for
mer Labor Prime Minister. He
has never learned to drive.
Three Of Lady Attlee's
smashups have happened since
May.
The latest was on Saturday
when she drove to London air
port to meet her husband. lust
back from a lecture tour in the
United States.
A few minutes before Lord
Attlee arrived. her ladyship's
car tangled with an oil truck.
The accident dented the body
Of the car.
people are just picking on
me-" she said in an interview
at the Attlee home, Cherry Tree
Cottage, in nearby rural Buck
inghamShire.
They're making a fuss Just
because it's me-" she continued.
One paper suggested the
Countess is accident prone.
"I'm not a bad driver" said
Lady Attlee, "and I'm not ac-
cident prone. But I've had this
run Of bad luck"
Last year she passed a test
given by the Institute of Ad-
Ivanced Motorists.
Evening star., 1959-12-08
The Value of Eisenhower's Tour

representatives In their
countries.
Considerations Of high
policies. such as not Offend
ing unnecessarily - India's
Prime Minister Nehru,
caused us to give only scant
military supplies to Paki-
stan. The belief in certain
civilian quarters in Wash
ington that "the Iranians
never make good soldiers"
and that the country was
rotten with corruption" has
prompted the various admin.
istrations since 1947 to pro-
vide the willing Iranian
army with only token mill
tary equipment.
The Turks urged us dur
ing the early stages of the
Korean war to start indus
trializing their country be-
cause we did not know how
long the Mediterranean
might remain open. They
followed our advice besides
maintaining a force of 500,-
600 men under arms. The
cost was stupendous despite
the military and economic
assistance we gave. The re-
suit was the collapse of the
Turkish currency and a near
catastrophe economic situa-
ton after 1854. Their re-
quests for increased aid
were answered with what a
high Turkish official de-
Scribed as lectures and SER
mons on political economy"
A GOODNESS with nations
which are more likely to go
to bat for us than the pros
porous Western allies devel-
oped. This, it is hoped, has
now been erased by the visit
of President Eisenhower to
our Asian friends.
Evening star., 1959-12-08

Adlai Stevenson and former
Gov. Averell Hartman of
New York are other Russian
travellers and Khrushchev in
tervieweeS who feel the
tubby. cold-eyed Premier
puts political acuteness of a
high order at the service of
communism. They do not
expect the slightest overt in
reference from him with the
1860 campaign but are sure
he is deeply sensitive to its
potential for him.
1t should not surprise any
body that the leading spokes-
man for the utter damna-
ton" strategy for meeting
the peace offensive dilemma
should be former Secretary
of State Dean AcheSon. It
was tried out on him with
considerable success by many
Republicans, including the
leading contender for their
1860 nomination. Vice Presi-
dent Richard Nixon.
Most Americans like to
forget those excesses, but
naturally the victim cannot.
He was beaten back after a
hard fight in the weekend
deliberations here, however.
Instead, the mood that
seems to be emerging is
Something like this: Demo-
Gratis are the majority party,
armed and led by 36 Cover
nors and big congressional
majorities. Their primary
task must be to avoid dis
harmony and quarrels, unit
ing rather on any one of their
candidates after all have
had a fair shot at the nomi-
nation.
A note of unity comes hard
to Democrats, no matter how
strongly self-interest appears
to dictate it. They have been
described as a loose con-
federation of warning tribes
and with even more pene-
trating ridicule. Nor is it
probable that the delegates
at Los Angeles are going to
Evening star., 1959-12-08
DORIS FLEESON
Democrats Look for a Villain

cal stance to hold ina hard
fought campaign. Some ask
If they can win such q cam
paign without a personal viii
lain and are frankly doubt
full that they can.
They expect the Eisen-
hover peace offensive to
spread over all the precon-
vention period and even
blanket their nominating
convention. Senator Hubert
Humphrey Of Minnesota gave
an interview to this effect.
He is also among the Krem-
lin visitors to whom Mr..
Krushchev complained that
the greater military expendi-
lures demanded by Demo-
Gratis would mean a tighter
financial straitjacket for him
instead Of that better life he
has promised the Russian
people:
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Evening star., 1959-12-08
CONSTANTINE BROWN
People of Nations We Aided Impressed
BY Presidents Salute to Them

Many who questioned the
Importance of President
Eisenhower's visit to three
continents now admit that at
least in the Asian areas he is
leaving a definite and lasting
impression on the masses.
State visits frequently have
only a perfunctory signifl-
canoe in sophisticated West
ern countries where consid-
erations Of high policy and
certain resentment over the
clumSiness or indeciSion Of
Americas foreign policies
weigh more than the warm
words Of friendship spoken
by visiting chiefs of state.
But in the less sophisticated
areas such as Turkey, Paki-
stan and Iran the visit of an
American President is an
event of unprecedented i'm
portance. In the past they
have been treated as peoples
Of secondary Importance to
whom the great powers of the
West turned only when in
great need. Otherwise these
countries were ignored or ex-
plotted. We were never guilty
Of such actions.
The Turks realize that
America has stood by them
at all times. And this does
not apply only to political
men such as CeIal Bayar and
Adnan Menderes or the leader
Of the opposition, Ismet mo
nu. but actually the rank
and file of peasantry which
fiocked to Ankara to give
Mr.. Eisenhower a tumultuous
reception.
We refused to declare war
on the Turks when we Joined
the Western allies who
fought in World War I.
There is no Turk these days
who does not remember that
when Mustapha Kemal
raised at Sivas his flag of
insurgency against the Sui
tan in ConStantinople the
United States alone refused
to join its associates, Britain,
France. Italy and Greece, in
military measures against
the ''Kemal bandits" and for
partition Of Turkey.
Some chicken-hearted men
in President Harding's State
Department wanted to sup
port the Allied plan to divide
Turkey. We were offered a
mandate over Armenia. But
1t happened that we had an
independent thinking" am
bassador in Admiral Mark L.
Bristol, who succeeded in
convincing the White House
that the Turkish empire was
dead: that a partition was
against American principles
and policies and that Kemal
was representing an irresist-
ible force backed by some
18 million inhabitants in
Anatolia. His gamble that
Kemal would create a pro-
gressive republic proved cor
rect. The United States has
since : been on a higher
pedestal than any other
country.
During the last war, Pres
ident Roosevelt, who un-
fortunately yielded to Stain
on such vitality important
matters as the Balkans, the
Evening star., 1959-12-08
Nomura's View of Pacific War

population, something drastic
had to be done-even If it in
volved military aggression-to
provide outlets for japanese
industry and trade.
Business and militarism
were close allies in those days
inside Japan. and it was nat
ural for the exponents of
nationalism there to team up
with the ruling groups in
Germany, where fascism un-
der Hitler was beginning to
grow powerful in the early
1930s.
Japan could have been kept
from joining the alliance with
Germany, and it is unfortu-
nate that London wasn't more
active in this respect, too. for
there had long been an inti-
mate relationship in diplo-
macy between the British and
the japanese.
It will be recalled that,
prior to the naval armament
treaty of 1921, the Anglo
Japanese alliance had been
criticized as likely to lead to
a situation in which Britain
might someday have to be
aligned with Japan as against
the United States. A four
power treaty-between Japan,
Britain, France and the
United States - was Substi-
tuted, but its detectives were
not energetically pursued. In
the end, Japan was alienated
from both Britain and
America.
In the light OF what is hap
pening today-with China in
the hands Of the Commu-
nistS and Japan reduced ma
terially in military and eco
nomic strength-the United
States and Britain have no
really powerful ally in the
Far East and must depend
on the slow rebuilding Of
Japan or eventually on the
possible overthrow Of the
Communists by the Chinese
people.
It is q long. long road
ahead, and the 1941 remark
Of Admiral Nomura can well
be rephrased to say that "war
settles nothing that peaceful
negotiation at the opportune
moment could not have set
tied much better"
(copyright. 1950
Evening star., 1959-12-08
strotegists Feel Yes, but Position
On Foreign Policy Isn't Strong One

might discredit "the spirit
of Camp David"
Nobody believes or would
charge that President Eisen-
hover is not sincerely work.
ing for peace. 1t is conceded
that he is doing his duty as
he sees it. even by those
most skeptical about the
value Of his present and
contemplated travels. In
fact. the opinion which pre-
vailed easily in the Demo-
cratic Advisory Council was
that negotiations Of all kind
with the Russians, particu-
larly in disarmament mat
ters, must continue.
But the party strategists
are bitterly aware that the
"yes, but" position is not
the strongest possible politi-
Evening star., 1959-12-08
POTOMAC FEVER
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

Ike gets rousng welcome in Asia thing about this
Eisenhower team 1t gets lots of mileage
age.
Senator Kefauver investigates drug prices Kefauver
can't get the high cost Of those took after
the '56 election.
Chairman Morton says Ike has given the Republican
Party lift real sooty work too Of those deep
shaft mining operations.
One 6-year-old hestates to tell his dad about Santa
Claus He the shock Of finding about the TV quiz
shows almost killed the old man.
Adai Stevenson raps Ike travelling salesman"
Poor Ike he stays home the Democrats claim he's sick
II he steps out the door, they claim he's gadabout.
Gov Rockefeller challenges Nixon to settle the steel
strike BY goy Rocky President he'd settle this
thing II he had to buy the steel mills and absorb the
union pay raise himself
Evening star., 1959-12-08
Vice President Viewed as Biding Time
As Rockefeller Takes Risk in Corn Belt

waters to see how chilly they
are.
One can hear many things
from the West Coast, few cal
culated to cheer the Rookie
feller recruits. The consensus
is, and a surprising one it is,
that the Governor Of New
York probably is the worst
formal speaker to appear in
national politics since Her
bert Hoover's monotonous
platitudes dulled the ear. He
reads his speeches and he
does not do this well. In
informal conversations Mr..
Rockefeller is charming. His
television performances in a
studio are better because
there he can read the script
as it unrolls above the cam
era. Thus, he is looking at
his unseen audience. But on
a platform, before a podium,
he does not make the blood
to stir nor the scalp tingle as
he bends his head and reads.
A San Francisco political
writer insists that the 20 ty-
coons who dined with the
Governor in the solemn and
exclusive limits of the Union
Pacific Club in that city said
they went with open minds.
"Or," amended the political
editor, with minds as open
as such powerful men can
have them" They were, &C
cording to his informant,
Evening star., 1959-12-08
RALPH MeGILL
Nixon Keeps Ear to the Ground

unimpressed and somewhat
disappointed.
But this, Of course, is Mr..
Nixon's home State. The Re-
publicans there are not one
big happy family. The Know
land faction, like that of the
Old Guard everywhere, is
bitter. So is that of former
Gov. Knight. But there is no
real revolt in sight.
Gubernatorial friends Of
the Vice President mean
while have lighted a grow
ingly successful brush fire
against those who are trying
to set one to the tune that
Mr.. Nixon can't win. 1t is
that, Of course, Gov. Rookie
feller will some day be the
G.. o. P. nominee. But not
now. He isn't ready. He can't
speak. He is an amateur. He
promised to stay out his term
as Governor of New York.
So the counterf1re blazes
merrily and crackles as it
burns: "Sure, Gov. Rookie
feller is a great choice, but
for a later year say 1868
he will still be young
enough. Let him earn a
chance"
This line is being peddled
persuasively. It Is finding a
certain acceptance. Unless
Mr.. Rockefeller can stir up
some interest in the Middle
West-and win the New
Hampshire primary in March,
he, too, is likely to bow out
and say he'll try for the bus
the next time around.
Evening star., 1959-12-08
RALPH McGILL

With the President pres
: emily far away, the Nixon ear
is held closely to a somewhat
quiet earth.
There is no sound Of
Rockefeller footsteps making
the earth to tremble. He is
walking about, but he is not
one of the gods of the noun
tain with great stone feet.
The political hills are not
quaking. Toilers in the Nixon
headquarters here and there
try not to smile, but inwardly
they are beaming. 1t looks
almost too good.
This week Gov. Rockefeller
is to make an appearance in
the great Corn Belt where
pigs grunt, chickens cluck
and crow, the wheat and
corn cribs groan and the
farmers grumble. Farm prices
are down. The prospect is
for further decline. There
are few kind words for the
COP.
This, incidentally, worries
the Nixon strategists. They
will watch with traditional
bated breath while Gov.
Rockefeller takes the Repub-
hcan banner in the bread
basket States. He will hear
the voices of discomfort. He
will make reply. There will be
an insight into the mind Of
the wheat and corn farmers,
those who feed our cattle and
swine, and the raisers of
poultry.
The Vice President can
wait. Since he cannot do
otherwise than run on the
administration record, he
will be silent, at least until
Mr.. Eisenhower returns. The
President already has said he
will send to the Congress a
new farm bill which, will
make more profit for the
farmer and divorce him from
some Federal control. The
Vice President can wait for
this to be introduced early
in the glad new year and see
what reaction develops.
The composers of this leg
islation believe it to be
music calculated to soothe
the savage breast of the
angry men who farm the
vast acres of the Midwest.
When that time has come it
=, will be easier, and more SEN
sible, too, for a Republican
to go traipsing where the tall
corn grows. But not until
then. Meanwhile, Mr.. Rookie
feller can wade into the
Evening star., 1959-12-08
DORIS FLEESON

NEW YORK.-Democrats
, were privately warned here
by party leaders that they
cannot expect the Commu-
nists to bail them out of the
political dilemma posed for
them in 1860 by the Eisen-
hover peace offensive.
Instead, the thinking Of
major party spokeSmen is
that Soviet Premier Nikita
Khrushchev prefers the Re-
publican emphasis on budg-
et-balancing to Democratic
demands for better defense
and increased efforts to
catch up in space. They rea-
son, therefore, that Mr..
Khrushchev will not create
fresh crises or take harsh
and repressive measures in
the satellite countries which
Evening star., 1959-12-08

East European republics and
China, refused to agree to
his demand that we get the
Turks into the war on our
side 'by the scruff of the
neck If necessary"
Similarly the Iranians con-
tinue to be grateful to us for
the support given them di-
rectly or indirectly when their
sovereignty was threatened by
their Communist neighbors.
Five years ago the Soviet
intrigues and subversive ele-
ments succeeded in causing a
coup in Teheran by using as
their tool the senile Premier
Mossadegh. The Shah left the
country but returned shortly
after the Iranian people man
aged to overthrow the Krem-
lin puppets. Our part in this
popular uprising which re-
stored the Shah to the throne
was a determining factor.
Pakistan, which must worry
over the hostility of the Rus
sian and Chinese Commu-
nists as well as that of their
Indian neighbor. is also rely
ing on the traditional Ameri-
can friendship to survive.
Until last year conditions in
that country were chaotic.
But in October, 1858, the
army headed by the present
President, Gen. Ayub Khan,
overthrew the corrupt poll
ticians and established an
honest and strict administra-
ton.
Turkey, Iran and Pakistan,
which some shortsighted poll
ticians in Washington would
like to throw overheard for
the sake of relaxing tensions
with the international Com
munists, are hungering for
American friendship. 1t is no
exaggeration to say that they
would do anything, would
make any sacrifice provided
they firmly believed it would
serve the cause of freedom.
But their leaders were fire.
quently disappointed in the
treatment they received from
certain high officials in Wash
ington and from our various
Evening star., 1959-12-08
DAVID LAWRENCE

The Japanese Ambassador
to the United States in 1871,
Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura,
is quoted as having just said
that the attack on Pearl
Harbor was a great blunder"
for Japan, forced on our
responsible people by young,
audacious elements" This is
not hindsight on his part,
either. For no man worked
harder than he did in those
days to prevent hostilities
between Japan and the
United States.
"You will win, but war
settles nothing" he said
privately to this correspond
. ent in discussing the pos
sibility of war. This was just
: a few days before the break
came. He was convinced that
the Far East would not be
: peaceful for decades to come
If America and Japan went
to war.
Ambassador Nomura's views
on the unwisdom of a con-
1lict with the United States
were known to the foreign
Office in Tokyo, and this is
one Of the reasons why he
was never apprised in adj
vance that there would be
an attack on Pearl Harbor.
But, to be realistic and
e fair, it is necessary to point
. out that there were blunderS
: in American policy, too. A
large share Of the blame for
the war must be taken by
. those in Washington who did
r. not fully grasp the funda-
. mental reasons that led to
the rise in power Of the
militaristic bloc in Japan.
Cabinet crisis after cabinet
crisis should have been a
warning that the truly liberal
groups in Japan were losing
out because the passions Of
nationalism were being in
famed by attacks on Amer
lean policy toward CHINA
policy which was regarded
then as hostile to Japan's
commercial expansion on the
Asian mainland.
The United States was
right, to be sure, in opposing
Evening star., 1959-12-08
Former Ambassador Quoted as Saying:
You'll Win, but War Settles Nothing

japanese aggression in Man
churia and other areas in
China. Commercial develop
ment, on the other hand,
should have been possible
without the necessity of in
terfering with the aspirations
of each nation to be free
and independent. American
policy might well have been
pursued in that direction.
Possibly the biggest op-
portunity for a peaceful solu-
ton of the Far Eastern
dilemma came in 1884 when
the japanese government an
nounced at a London con-
ference with special ENJOYS
from Britain and the United
States that the treaty limit
ing naval armament, spon-
sored by the late Secretary of
State Charles Evans Hughes,
could no longer be adhered
to by the Tokyo government.
One Of the reasons given was
the build-up Of American
military and naval bases in
the Philippines. Unfortu-
nately, the minds of the
American people, and par
ticularly the officials Of the
administration of Franklin D.
Roosevelt, were occupied
prim arily with domestic
affairs in those years. In
stead of pointing out that
the United States would have
to build up its naval
strength, too, if the existing
treaty were ended. and that
this would precipitate a
period of tension, nothing
was done to promote a differ
ent solution. Also. America
failed to keep up its naval
armament.
Certainly there we're enough
peaceful elements in Japan
at that time which could have
rallied to the idea of a new
treaty of friendship with the
United States and the crea-
ton Of new commercial prof.
ects in the Far East. The
United States and Japan
could have shared in these
ventures and thus have over
come the arguments Of the
militarists who insisted that,
in view Of Japan's growing
Evening star., 1959-12-08
Advent Quiet Duy

The Daughters Of the King
will sponsor an Advent Quiet
Day for all Episcopal Church
Women Of the Diocese of Wash
ington at 10 am. Thursday in
st. Stephens and the Incarna-
ton Episcopal Church. Six.
teenth and Newton streets NV,
Evening star., 1959-12-08

let a handful Of old pros tell
them what to do. But here,
at least, no attempts are
being made to soft-pedal the
difficulties they have and the
need to get smart about
meeting them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-24
BY LYDIA LANE
Times Mirror syndicate

HOLLYW OoD-I took
Barbara Rush to visit the
paraplegic wards at the vet
Grams hospital in Long
Beach, and she was show
cred with compliments. Pa
tients wheeled all around her
in admiration. On our way
home Barbara reminisced
about the attention.
"You know" she said,
"I've lost rs pounds and I'm
never going to let myself
get plump again. I'm five
six and used to weigh 1876,
but I'm small-boned and I
look so much better at no."
Barbara was wearing q
beautiful sheath and when !
complimented her she said:
Loves OtOtueS
at bought this eight years
ago, but when I got hippy
I had to put it away. If
I follow the figure line and
avoid extreme styles my
clothes stay in fashion.
Sophie of Saks made this
dress. Her designs are always
feminine and conservative,
and that's why I like them.
81 love fashion," Barbara
exclaimed. II modelled when
/ was in college. The stores
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countries. ! have worked IN
England. France, spain,
Greece and India. And I've
learned much from living in
these countries
Most people gain weight
when they travel. did you?"
I asked.
.'It's more difiicult to COM
troll your eating habits when
you are a guest she replied.
sAnd. I was visiting FREE
quently. But I think my main
trouble was getting too little
exercise. If you are active
you can eat more without
gaining.
Il don't like to exercise.
but I discipline myself now to
a routine every morning for
20 minutes. I'm inclined to be
heavy below the waist. but If
/ do my hip and leg exercise
I can stay slim. Even though
I lost rs pounds I'm not q bit
fiabby."
/ wanted to know about
her diet and exercises which
enabled her to lose so much.
"It's quite a deal. I'll send
it to you," Barbara offered.
when you are dieting syou
can't let yourself get too
hungry. You have to know
how to fill your stomach with
low-calor4e foods. MY doc
tor let me have lots Of APP
Piles. / carried them around
with me so often I was leased
by my friends at the studio.
mo two people react exact
~ the same to any diet,
Some will go several weeks
without losing very much and
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then all OF q sudden they'll
drop q pound q day. ! lost
5 pounds the first week.
4 the next and then !
seemed to stand still. AT the
end OF 10 weeks ! had
reached my goal.
Nov I weigh the first thing
every morning. because this
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Is said to represent your true
weight. II I 90 up more than
2 pounds. I cut down on
my calories. 1t Is 50 easy TO
regulate your weight, Bar
bara concluded, III youac catch
it right away. AS far as ex-
ira pounds are concerned it is
easy come easy co."
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GLAMOUR is THEIR BUSINESS
Apples Every DdY
For Barbara Rush

allowed discounts on every
thing I modelled, SO ! could
afford really good clothes.
Once you know the pleasure
and economy Of a well-made
dress you'll never be satisfied
with assembly-lin things.
Charles LIE Marie of Goth
Century-Fox was so helpful.
When I was first under con-
tract to this studio I had
to go on a personal appear
ance tour which ended in