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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-24
BY CHARLES L. HOFFMAN
Contributing Writar


BALTIMORE. - Indefatigable
George P. Mahoney, loser in his
last two political races, has made
a comeback that virtually forces
Democratic leaders to seat him at
party conference tables in the
future.
Mr.. Mahoney, perennial can
didate himself, has disappeared
from the political scene tenn
porarily. 1t is in the role of king
maker that he now is basking in
the limelight.
There no question that it was
Mr.. Mahoney who put together
the organization that led to j.
Harold Grady's crushing defeat Of
ex-Gov. Keldin in this city's recent
mayoralty election.
Election night was a busy one
for the trim 6-foot. 100 FOUNDER
who, at So, has the energy Of an
18-year-old. His job was accepting
congratulations from all sides for
his role in the Grady victory.
Mr.. Mahoney may not be the
only one who can say he asked Mr..
Grady to get in the political ring
with three-term Mayor Thomas
D'Alesandro, jr., in the primary.
But while others were scoffing
at or still talking about the idea
of putting up the affable but
little known States attorney, Mr..
Mahoney was busy lining up sup
port.
An inveterate telephone poll
tician, Mr.. Mahoney says he
must have talked to q thousand
persons about backing Harold be-
fore his candidacy was a fact"
Mystifies Leaders
The tall. grazing man whose
big smile, booming voice and OUT
stretched hand were familiar at
every cross roads in the State has
always mystified Old Guard lead
ers with his vote-getting ability.
In his first bid for public office,
Mr.. Mahoney, angered by his re-
moval as State racing commits
sioner by Gov. William Preston
Lane, jr., tackled his ex-boss and
outpulled him at the polls only
to lose the nomination under
Maryland'S unit rule.
That was in 1850 and every two
years since then Mr.. Mahoney's
name has been on the ballot.
Twice he won the Democratic
nomination for the United States
Senate only to lose in the general
election as the Eisenhower coat
tails swept across the State. But
even in losing he polled a big vote,
outstripping Adlai E. Stevenson.
j. Willard Tawes, now Governor,
jumped the Old Guard traces in
1856 to support Mr.. Mahoney over
ex-senator Willard E. Tydings
but then left him out in the cold
last year as he formed his own
ticket.
Despite the Tawes support of
Mr.. D'Alesandro in the primary
MFR. Mahoney lost by only 5000
votes in a seven-way race. He
then threw his campaigning eff
forts behind the winning ticket.
Nevertheless, Mr.. D'Alesandro
lost to Senator Beall in November
last year while the Democrats
were sweeping the Nation and
Maryland. Mr.. Mahoney started
looking for someone to oppose the
Mayor in the city election.
Other names were suggested
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THE NATIONAL SCENE

McElroy as Secretary. probably
early next year after the next de-
Tense budget has been submitted
to Congress.
His promotion to the number
two Pentagon post coupled with
the return to duty of Admiral
Radford came as a surprise to
some military observers.
AS Nav Secretary, Mr.. Gates
advocated greater stress on pre-
paredness for the limited or
brush fire" wars requiring heavier
manpower and more conventional
weapons. The Radford appoint
ment drew some criticism in Con-
gress last week because of the adj
miral's espousal of the massive
retaliation doctrine that critics
charge has left the United States
unable to meet the Soviet threat
in anything short of full-Scale nu-
clear war.
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but Mr.. Mahoney, realizing he was
facing two Of the States most
colorful and irrepressible political
figures in Mayor D'Alesandro and
ex-Gov. McKeldin, took Mr..
Grady.
"Why?" Mr.. Mahoney was asked.
''He was a dignif1ed gentleman,
an ex-FBI agent and States At
torney. He was good, clean-cut
young man, the type the public
likes to see.
I'VE knew we had to have some
one clean-a fresh face-and
Harold fitted the picture per-
fectly. He had pleasant smile,
an informal, easy-going manner
and had not been in politics long
enough to make lot of enemies"
They All Go to Work
Once Mr.. Grady had been
tapped, Mr.. Mahoney and others,
including his city lieutenants. Will
liam Mahoney (no relation and
now Mr.. Grady's press secretary
and Paul Reed, put the candidate
to work.
When it was all over, Mr..
D'Alesandro had been swamped
and two months later Gov. Nickel
din went down in 2-to-1 defeat.
Mr.. Mahoney is a likeable man
who in his earlier campaigns
played it rough and tumble and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-24
Bitter Debate Seen

The narrowness of the commit
tee vote foreShadowed another
round of bitter debate when the
Senate takes up the nomination,
probably in about 10 days, and
leaves the final result of what has
become President Eisenhower's
first serious confirmation show
down with the Democratic major
ity in Congress in doubt.
There are ga Democrats and
81 Republicans in the Senate. One
Republican, Senator LANCER of
North Dakota, has already an
Iiounced that he will vote against
Mr.. Strauss. This means that II
Democrats must support Mr..
Strauss to assure nomination,
assuming that the remaining Re-
publicans hold ranks.
The extent to which the floor
battle will be fought on party
lines depends largely on the
Majority Leader, Senator Lyndon
johnson, Democrat of Texas.
johnson has denied that he will
make a party issue of the Strauss
nomination. His own vote, how
ever. will be a bellwether for party
regulars and may determine
whether Mr.. Strauss becomes the
first cabinet nominee since
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-24
Strauss:
One Round

The opposition to the nomina-
ton of Lewis L. Strauss as Sec
rotary of Commerce began as a
personal feud between two SEN
ators. Clinton Anderson of New
Mexico and Estes Kefauver of
Tennessee, and the controversial
former chief of the Atomic Energy
Commission.
It has turned into the most
violent political battle of the cur
rent Congress, with overtoneS of
acrimony and bitterness that
inperil the bipartisan harmony
essential to the completion Of a
constructive legislative record.
BY a vote of 9-to-8, the Senate
Commerce Committee last Tues
day recommended confirmation of
Mr.. Strauss, who has been serving
by recess, appointment since last
November.
Three Democrats joined the six
Republicans on the committee to
provide the one-vote margin. They
were Senators PaStore of Rhode
Island. Thurmond of South Caro-
lima and LauSche of Ohio.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-24

is easy to accuse a person Of being
a Communist" II he favors what
a Soviet regime sponsors, e.R.. So
cialized medicine.
Communism. as viewed on the
home front. is a dismal and miser-
able affair, revealing no accurate
measure Of its potential for evil.
One has to travel the world to
see how truly virulent and danger
GUS it can become. But even in
the dreary and far reaches Of the
world where 1t has grievances
without number to exploit. II has
succeeded in fastening itself on
a country only in extreme situa-
tons. No Communist regime has
yet ever taken over a democratic
nation. In Kerala, a state in
India, the party won an election
in l957-its first parliamentary
victory in world history. But that
is a young democracy; and there
were special grievances, including
an average annual income of S24
per person. The Communists
have been able to take over a ma
ton by force and violence only
under one Of two conditions. First
are situations like China where
grievances and sufferings piled
high. where morale dropped low,
and where there were no demo-
cratic means to effectuate re-
forms. Bloody action seemed the
only way out. Second are those
instances where Communist Party
members were propelled into posi-
tons of power las in Eastern
Europe) by the Intervention of
an army from neighboring Com
munist country.
Faith in America is faith in her
free institutions or it is nothing.
The Constitution we adopted
launched a daring and bold ex-
pertinent. 1t was bold and dar-
ing because under that compact
we agreed to tolerate even ideas
we despise. We also agreed never
to prosecute people merely for
their ideas or beliefs.
We lawyers should be more alert
to these infringements than other
citizens who may not be so well
trained in history and political
science. We should know that
total security is possible only in
totalitarian regime. Then all
clasSrooms can be patrolled. all
professors tested for unorthodoXy,
the press censored. and radio and
television scripts edited so that
there will be no theological strays
in America. Then judges can be
hand picked to carry out orders
and removed if they fail to obey.
Then we will have security" in
the Communist sense of the term.
But we will have lost that passion
for freedom which has made
America the great inspiration Of
oppressed people the world over.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-24
Politics.:
Stossen Again

Politics has been likened to a
roller coaster where the thrill Of
the ride is tempered by the
thought that fatal spill may al
ways be lurking around the next
curve.
Harold E. StasSen fell off the
roller coaster in 1856. That was the
year Of the dump Nixon" move
ment. when the former Mime
sofa Governor tried vainly to con-
vince Republicans that President
Eisenhower could not win a second
term with the handicap of Richard
E. Nixon as running mate.
Mr.. Stassen's political fortunes
have been in a steady decline
since. In the face of strong and
outspoken opposition by COP
leaders he sought the party's NOM
nation as governor Of Pennsyl-
vania last year and suffered q
thorough trouncing in the primary
election.
Last week Mr.. Stassen, who was
governor of Minnesota when he
was 80 years old and is still only
81, bought another ticket on the
roller coaster.
Backed by party leaders this
time, he won the Republican NOM
ination for mayor of Philadelphia,
polling more than twice as many
votes as his two opponents.
Before agreeing to enter the
race Mr.. Stassen exacted prom
Use that he would be one of Phila-
delphia's IL delegates to the Re-
publican National Convention next
year. There, it is expected, he will
be among the leaders of new
dump Nixon" movement aimed at
winning the presidential nominal
ton for Gov. Nelson Rockefeller
Of New York.
And If Mr.. Rockefeller should
become the @. o. P. candidate
and the next President of the
United States? Harold E. Stassen,
as determined a man as there is
on the American political scene,
might emerge as a member of the
Rockefeller cabinet and a new
power in G. o. P. politics.
Mr.. Stassen's political prospects
in Philadelphia are somewhat
DINNER than those of Mr.. Rookie
Teller on the national scene. His
opponent in the mayoralty race
will be incumbent Democrat Rich
ardson Dilworth. Philadelphia has
become a Democratic stronghold
in recent years and registered
Democrats outnumber Republicans
by more than 100000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-24
Defense:
Sense of Duty

When Neil H. McElroy disclosed
several months ago that he
planned to resign as Secretary Of
Defense, President Eisenhower ex-
pressed confidence that the Penta-
gon chief would not abandon ship
in moment Of crisis.
II know his sense of duty, and
if things got tighter think
he would forget the rest of it
because he wouldn't want to break
UP the team then for anybody"
Things have been getting pro-
greSsively tighter" at the Penta-
gon ever since. The sudden death
of Deputy Secretary Donald
Quarles two weeks ago followed by
the illness of Gen. Nathan Twin
ing, chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff, imperiled the military
chain of command at moment
when the Berlin crisis made a
show of strength imperative.
Last week the crisis was resolved.
Secretary McElroy agreed to re-
main on the job at least through
the end Of the year. Secretary of
the Navy Thomas S. Gates, jr.,
who also planned to resign, was
elevated to Deputy Secretary of
Defense, to succeed Mr.. Quarles.
Admiral Arthur w. Radford, for
mer chairman of the Joint Chiefs,
was called out of retirement to
serve as a special adviser to. the
Secretary of Defense during the
absence of Gen. Twining, recover
ing from a cancer operation.
Mr. McElroy, who stands to lose
substantial stock benefits by post
poning his return to the presidency
Of Proctor & Gamble, soap manu-
facturers, accepted the additional
financial sacrifice graciously.
IF you can't afford it. stay
home. If you can, come here and
work and shut up about it," he
said philosophically.
Speculation now is that Mr..
Gates will eventually succeed Mr.
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Of Barbara's guests took the Fifth
Amendment when called upon to
explain their presence. Several
have been deported, others ar
rested on various charges.
Last week the Federal Govern
rlent tried a new approach. Armed
with indictments charging con-
spiracy to obstruct justice, mar
coticS agents began a synchronized
roundup Of ~ Of the participants
Id the Apalachin meeting.
The roundup, which covered
nine States, was the first big prof.
ect of the special Justice Depart
meTlt group assigned to war on
racketeers. Most of the 81 were
taken in custody the first day.
The charge Of obstructing JUS
tice is based on the refusal of
those seized to tell the truth
about the Apalachin meeting. If
it can be made to stand up in
court, the riddle of Apalachin
may yet be solved.
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u. N. REPORT
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in Berlin is now a trip-wire which
Russia dare not cross.
Such a step would reinforce the
moral deterrent provided by the
force. Moscow would not be likely
to attack Indian or Burmese or
Egyptian troops. in any event,
because of the tremendous polit-
ical and propaganda damage such
an attack would involve; but with
a Western treaty obligation to
boot, an attack would be virtually
inconceivable.
Whether group of neutralist
countries would want to be put
IN the role of guarding Berlin,
even with such treaty backing, is
highly doubtful.
From their point of view. a
Soviet attack, plus a Western
counterattack on their behalf,
might bring Soviet atomic bombs
down on their capitals. Mr.. Ham
marskjold says there certainly"
would not be any troop contribu-
tons from outside Europe.
There is also the not incon-
siderable problem of cost. Unless
the great powers were prepared
to pick up the check-in which
case it would be less of U. N.
force-the money would be very
hard to raise.
If all these obstacles could be
surmounted-if the political pre-
conditions could be agreed upon.
If the troops could be found, and
the money could be raised--then
a second U. N. Emergency Force
would be major addition to the
U. Ms power and prestige.
1t would be long step toward
the permanent peace force which
President Eisenhower, the Amer
lean Congress and leading Cana
dams, among others, have urged.
There is considerable skepticism
here, however, that U. N. machin-
cry will in fact be used in such
dramatic fashion.
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Election Of Grady in Baltimore
Returns Mohoney as Kingmoker

was bitterly denounced as a party
wrecker by the Old Guard with
whom he still is considered an
outcaSt.
The youngest of IL children of
a Baltimore policeman he grew up
on the streets of East Baltimore.
Aleer-like Hero
His life story reads like plagiar-
ism Of Horatio Alger. Leaving
home at an early age he went to
New York and got job as a wa
ter boy with construction gang
working on the New York subway.
"They must have thought was
pretty energetic with the water
bag because they soon put me in
the office" he explains. He then
went from timekeeper to draft
ing boards and engineering aide
while going to night school.
In about four years he returned
to Baltimore and with his savings
bought truck and began hauling
sand and gravel. In a short time
he owned his own sand and gravel
pit and then set up his own
firm, Mahoney Bros.
A wealthy man today he still
goes to the Office every day in the
Knickerbocker Building overlook
ing City Hall.
He operates also, and at a
profit. a A00-acre dairy farm in
fashionable Worthington Valley
Just outside the city. And for
years he has raised and bred
prize winning show horses,
He invests heavily in real estate
and has substantial holdings in
Florida.
Mr.. Mahoney obviously talks the
language Of the people-"the little
guy" as he put it in his campaign
ing.
His campaigns always have been
based on getting out and meeting
people. He fathered the tough
shoe-leather type of campaign
that has nearly wrecked some
candidates in Maryland.
Busy Doy-Even on Clutches
Last year, for example, Mr.. Ma
honey was on crutches but never
theless wore out more than one
newspaper man in a campaign
day that would begin before 3
am. and rarely ever end before
midnight.
His undertakings either in
politics, where he was an active
national committeeman, or in civic
affairs-have won him praise as "a
man who gets things done" Once
he starts job he takes little rest.
Just where he is going now is
anyone's guess. One thing is GER
tain he is unlikely to stand still.
He obviously wants and feels he
deserves some official recognition
from the powers that be-mainly
Gov. TaweS.
He had his eyes set on returning
to. the racing commission where
his service in the 1940S won him
praise from both FBI Director j.
Edgar Hoover and Federal Marco
tics Chief Harry j. AnSlinger for
his work in cleaning up the tracks
and battling dope peddlers and
doping of horses. But Gov. Tawes
announced the Commission Thurs
day without his name.
A lot of observers feel that
his part in the city election means
he must be considered seriously as
a potential contender for the gov
ernorship in 1862.
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rulings Of judges who insisted on
the observance of procedural safe
guards at least when so-called
subversives were at trial exalted
technicalities to the detrirnent of
the security of the Nation.
Thoughtful lawyers never indulge
in that pastime. Thoughtful law
yers never downgrade procedure
to the touchstone of ourafree So
ciety, that it is the very essence
of due process.
Courts in recent years have had
many rulings to make on matters
of procedure in cases involving
the so-called "subversive. Should
the regulations of an agency be
suspended and the agency allowed
to act lawlessly merely because a
so-called subversive is involved?
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~NN@~~-@
The other day. while being in
tefwewed by students In WASH
ington. d. C.. ! was asked by a
serious looking young man: what
is the attitude Of the Court these
days toward labor9"
I was rather surprised by the
question. For 1t seemed TO assume
that judges sat not TO dispense
justice but to administer their
prejudices.
Any American court is supposed
to be pro-First Amendment. pro-
Fourth Amendment, pro Fifth
Anne DIN emit, pro-Fourteenth
Amendment. and so on. For 1t
is the Constitution the judges are
sworn to defend. But it is some
what shocking to hear that an
American judge is supposed to be
pro or against anyone who stands
before him for justice.
The legislature Of course passes
laws that are pro or against GER
tain groups. Judges. however, who
enforce these laws according to
their terms cannot fairly have at
tributed to them the Partially of
those who passed the laws. It is
the very essence of government
OF laws that the predictions of
judges not carry the day, that the
law as written by the lawmakers
be applied equally to all. This I
had assumed to be elementary.
likewise assumed that the pro-
visions Of our Constitution had the
same scope for everyone. But
after being questioned by the
young student and after reading
some commentators who proclaim
that at least in security cases the
courts should use an abbreviated
form of due process Of law, Won
dered If the hysteria Of a few had
not made new demands on us.
recalled Hutheesing's book on Red
China entitled The Great Peace,
where he describes a trial of So
called -revolutionaries. The
victims stood with their eyes to
the ground. their hands behind
their backs. Long streamers hung
over their shoulders reaching to
their feet and proclaiming them
to be criminals and traitors. The
prosecutors address was inter-
rupted by the crowd which clam
ored for retribution. When the
prosecutor finished, the people
shouted for the blood of the VIC
tins. They even threw eggs, to-
matoes. and stones at the accused.
And the defendants were given
no chance to reply to the charges.
The moral is: Those whom the
public condemns the judges should
execute. Certainly. that is not the
kind of justice America wants even
when the courts deal with people
as despised here as counter revo-
lutionaries" are despised in Com
munist lands.
Early in our history John Mar
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Should the presumption Of inno-
: cence be denied those who COM
NIT offenses against the security
of the Nation? What kind of
notice should a citizen have be-
fore he is charged and convicted
of contempt either of the courts
or of Congress? Contempt is a
criminal offense. Should that no.
tice be as definite as the notice
or warning required in the case
of other crimes? Notice is deeply
embedded in our concepts of due
process both where liberty and
property are involved. There is
sometimes pressure to lower the
standard when security cases are
before a court. 49,.
There can be no more impor-
tant case before any court than
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Men Should Be Prosecuted for Acts, Not Ideas

Burma. India and Israel and you
will see how judges are great rocks
over which the waves OF hysteria
break. They stand their own in
times of storm and stress. They do
not become agents Of public pas
sion.
Often there are segments of
society that want courts to be
agencies Of retribution, not dis
pensers Of justice. II is against
those groups that the bar must be
opposed. 1t is 10 them that the
bar should extend lectures and
classes in the true Americanism
Of our Constitution and Bill Of
Rights. The educational program
must reach every public forum,
every classroom. 1t must re-em-
phasize to each generation that
in America a man is to be con-
demned only for what he does,
not for what he thinks or believes.
Those who would convict any
so-called "subversive," taking any
necessary shortcuts to reach their
ends, often point to Lenin's die
tum that 1--WE will build COM
munism with Communist
hands" With that as a starting
point they conclude that anyone
who insists that fair trials be
given those who are charged with
subversion are aiding commu-
nism. In an earlier day Judge An
derson, writing Of the obnoxious
arrests, searches, and prolonged
detentions, incommunicado, of
hundreds Of innocent people in
one of the FBI's red raids, de-
cried the "lawlessness" of sup
posedly law-enforcing officials"
who acted with "such disregard of
law and of properly verified
facts" 1T may, however, be fifty
observed" he said. that a mob is
a mob, whether made up of Gov
eminent officials acting under in
structions from the Department Of
Justice, or Of criminals, loafers,
and the vicious classes" Colyer v.
Skeff1ngton, 265 F. Is, 43.
The Power of the Free
The strength of a free society
is in it's free institutions. There
is tremendous power in those who
dare to be free. A nation gets I'M
told strength when every COM
munity knows that its courts are
not agents of passion, that justice
is administered impartially. We
cannot generate strength by
adopting totalitarian methods.
Every shortcut against procedural
and constitutional safeguards is
an awful precedent. The victim
may be a dyed-in-the-wo Com
munist today. Tomorrow he may
be one who only knew Com
munist, or one who believed in
socialism, or one who was opposed
to the segregation of the races.
Once this tactic is approved, it