Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-04
Governors, With Few Exceptions,
Expect Visits to Be Helpful
BY JACK BELL
Associated Press stan Writer

4.-The coming American visit
OF Soviet Premier Khrushchev
turned the attention of the
Nations governors today to
international affairs and away
from their favorite domestic
political topics.
With a couple Of notable ex-
ceptions, Democratic and Re-
publican governors agreed they
would like to have Mr.. Khru-
Shchev take a searching look
at democracy at work in their
States.
Gov. Paul Fannin said he
wouldn't move a step out Of the
way to bring the Soviet premier
to Arizona. And Gov. Clinton
A. Claussen said he is not par
ticularly interested in having
Mr.. Khrushchev visit Maine.
But the majority of COVER
nors, alive to the political
aspects, felt some advancement
of the prospects of world peace
might come out of Mr.. Khrush-
chev's visit in September and
President EiSenhower's recipro-
cal trip to the Soviet Union
later in the fall.
Visit Plans Applauded
The political-minded COVER
nors laid aside party considera-
tons to applaud the exchange
of visits, which will take Mr..
Eisenhower to a country where
he remains one of the heroes
of the last war Of survival.
One by one governors stepped
forward at last nights State
dinner of their 5lst annual
conference to register their ap-
proval of a KhruShchev visit.
They included Gov. Nelson
Rockefeller of New York, a
hesitant aspirant for the 1860
Republican presidential nomi-
nation, and several who are
plugging Democratic prospects.
Behind this apparent gen.
eral agreement on International
affairs, deep differences over
domestic politics continued.
Feud Developing
There was a developing
Democratic feud for instance,
between Connecticut's Gov.
Abraham A. Ribicoff and Cali
fornia's Edmund G. (Pat)
Brown.
Gov. Ribicoff, who is sup
porting Senator Kennedy OF
Massachusetts for next years
ocratic nom nation,
shrugged off Gov. Browns as
sertion that, by putting his
State behind Senator Kennedy,
the Connecticut Governor was
in effect picking a candidate in
a "Smoke-filled room"
Gov. Ribicof previously had
tossed such an allegation
against Gov. Brown because OF
the latter'S avowed intention to
sequester CALIFORNIA; 78 con-
vention votes by becoming a
favorite son. Gov. Ribicof made
clear he feels the growing
favorite son movement is de-
signed to pinch Senator Ken
nedy out of the nomination.
Gov. Brown made no bones
about his plans to line up
Western State Democrats in a
bloc which would have some
definite things to say about
the nominee at the Los Ange-
les convention. He said he in
tends to work on the Western
Governors at a conference in
Sun Valley, Idaho, next month.
Turns on Charm
On the Republican side, Gov.
Rockefeller turned on the per-
sonal charm he summons
easily. He tried it out for an
hour on Indiana's Gov. Harold
w. Handley, chief exponent at
the conference of Vice Presi-
dent Nixon's candidacy. The
result was unofficially recorded
as a draw. Gov. Handley re-
manned a staunch Nixon sup
porter, but he conceded that
Mr.. Rockefeller's charm was
something special.
Gov. Rockefeller took the
Governors into camp yester-
day, hauling them to visit the
lush Ell Dorado Beach Club,
which his family built in a
former swamp Is miles from
this humid city.
Complying with photogra-
piers requests, the host swan
briefly in the coral green At
lantic. Later he stood in a
receiving line in a sweat
stained shirt to shake hands
with and flash a grin at all
corners.