davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-05-18

sonably assume the aerial spy
ing was meant to continue.
And such an Interpretation
was an insult to Mr.. Khru-
shchev and the Russians. It
meant this country intended to
ignore Soviet sovereignty over
its own air space and send in
spylplaneS. No matter how the
Russians felt about it.
Cloudy Language
Two days later this Govern
ment had still another chance
to say this was an. erroneous
interpretation-if it thought so
This was when Mr.. Eisenhower
held his news conference last
Wednesday.
But he talked in future terms,
without actually saying more
planes would be sent in over
Russia. This became one of
the things Mr.. Khrushchev
wrapped around MI. Eisenhow-
er's neck when they met at the
summit in Paris Monday.
In understanding this it is
important to remember no one
in this Government ever act
ually said spy flights would
continue. But Mr.. Khru-
shchev, like the newsmen-and
maybe he got his interpreta-
ton from the uewsmen-inter-
preted the high-hlown State
Department statement as
meaning the flights would
go on.
How Would We Feel?
AT the summit, among other
things, he demanded Mr.. Eisen-
mower call of the flights. Then.
to the surprise of a lot of
people in the State Depart
ment, Mr.. Eisenhower told Mr.
Khrushchev the flights had
been ordered stopped.
Mr.. Khrushchev made other
demands which Mr.. Eisenhower
couldn't have agreed to without
crawling before the whole
world. For example, he wanted
Mr.. Eisenhower to apologize for
the flight already made and
punish those directly respon-
sible for it.
Just how much the State De-
partment statement had to do
with inf1aming Mr.. Khrushchev
before he got to the summit
may not be known for a long
time.
But it was one of the things
which gave him torpedoes for
sinking the conference. And if
you don't think he had some
reason to be irritated about it,
just ask yourself:
How do you think Mr.. Eisen-
hover would have acted at the
summit if Mr.. Khrushchev had
sent spy planes over the United
States and had let the impress
sion get out that he'd keep on
doing it?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-05-18
Fail to Interpret

| In short, was Mr.. Herter say
ing such aerial spying would
continue? Reporters asked Lin
coin White. Mr.. Herter's chief
press officer, exactly that ques-
ton. Mr.. White said: well, I
will leave it to your interpreta-
ton"
So, the reporters did the in
terpreting-since they took Mr..
Whites answer to mean yes
and said Mr.. Herter had indi-
Gated the spy flights would
continue. All this information
State Department statements
and American newspaper inter-
pretationS - was available to
Mr.. Khrushchev.
Since the department had
had a chance to correct any
wrong impression but chose not
to, Mr.. KhruShchev could rea-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-05-18
She Goes Too Far
AssuiIinq Red Chief

PARIS. May 10 (AP.-
French police last night ar.
rested a 30-year-old woman fol
shouting Death to Khru.
shchev" in front Of the Soviet
Embassy.
Rolande Anon was picked ur
when she stopped her car in
front of the embassy and yelled
Down with Khrushchev :.
death to Khrushchev."
IF she had only yelled Down
with Khrushchev,' we would
have let her go tonight" a. po-
liceman said. But, after all
she did go a bit far"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-05-18
McNumuru Enters
Hospital for Checkup
By the Associated Presg

Senator Mcnamara, Demo-
GRAFT of Michigan, has entered
"a Detroit hospital for "a COM
plete physical examination and
rest" his Office said yesterday.
A spokesman said Senator
Mcnamara had been trying
unsuccessfully to dislodge a
virus condition since the first
Of the year"
The spokesman said Senator
Mcnamara entered the hospital
because he felt he lowed it to
himself and his constituents"
to be in top physical condition
before embarking on his cam
paign for reelection this year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-05-18

planes land or take of from
Orly. Frances largest CONNER
cial airfield. Mr.. Khrushchev
probably was disturbed by the
dozens Of commercial jets of
various nations that take of.
and land there every "a hours
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-05-18

Premier Nlklta KhruShchev
lead for his blackjack; and Mr..
Khrushchev. whatever his mo-
tives, distorted the facts
First, the department per-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-05-18

mitted another Government
agency to say the U-2 Ameri-
can spy plane downed over
Russia was on an innocent mis-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-05-18
What Sank the Summit?
Here's q Breakdown
By JAMES MARROW
Associated Press News Analyst

When the skn-dvers of history probe around in the
Wreckage OF the 1860 summit conference they'll find lots
reasons why it blew and sank than known
But some stick out like barnaces
For instance The State Department a little
clumsy little too cute President Eisenhower helped give
Evening star., 1960-04-10
Provinq the Obvious

The Treasury Department has found
out in the surest possible way that there
is very little investor interest in long
term Government bonds providing the
maximum allowable return of 4.25 per
cent. 1t has found out by being unable
to sell them, in any meaningful volume.
Trying for the first time since April,
1859, to sell security maturing in more
than five years, the Treasury few days
ago offered SIS billion in 25-year bonds
bearing the highest interest rate per-
mitted under the 42-year- old statutory
ceiling. Unoficially there was specula-
ton that the market would pick up at
least $500 million of the bonds as the
minimum needed to demonstrate worth
while investor attention at the 4.25 per
cent return. Even this modest objective
proved out of reach as subscriptions to-
tailed only $370 million. Greatest disap-
pointment, since it Stemmed from the
greatest hope, was the fact that savings
type institutions such as pension funds
subscribed for only $187 million of the
total.
The result is not surprising to those
willing to face facts. The principle Of
statutory interest rate ceiling in free
economy is contradiction in itself. To
those who need to borrow money, in
cluding the United States Government,
interest is the price that has to be paid.
AS long as the economy remains a free
one, there is no way to compel the own
erS of money-which means individuals
as we'll as institutions of many kinds
to lend it to the Government at lower
price than can be obtained elsewhere
Actually, this price moves, either up or
down, with market forces not directly
controlled by law Government financ-
ing under a ceiling fixed in 1918 has
succeeded only when the free market
forces have concurred When they have
not, when the competition for funds has
run up against the really prevailing
law of supply and demand, the money
has been unavailable even to the Federal
Government.
This has been the case for the past
year or more, with the result that
Treasury borrowing has been confined to
Short-term securities (under five years.
where there is no statutory ceiling. This
short-term borrowing has been costly,
potentially inflationary and has made
more difficult an orderly management
of the tremendous public debt. The ad-
ministration has asked Congress to re-
move the, ceiling, but the issue has been
made political football by deter
mined band of Democratic liberals" in
Congress.
Senator Douglas of Illinois un-
doubtedly spoke for this bloc in his COM
ment on the current test of the free
market, when he said: "The Treasury
may gleefully think it has won battle,
but they are going to lose the war"
The Treasury has not, of course, won a
battle, and it will not be the Treasury
that will lose "the war" if the outdated
ceiling remains. 1t will be the Nation
and the taxpayers who will lose, because
those who are charged with the respon-
sibility for prudent management of the
Governments fiscal affairs are left i'm
priSoned in legislative straitjacket.
Evening star., 1960-04-10
Public Victory

After long famine, Fairfax County
has enjoyed feast during the last week
In the sudden acquisition of spacious,
attractive public parks. First came the
300 magnificent acres of Great Falls
Park, leased to the National Park Service
by the Potomac Electric Power Co. Now
comes 242-acre tract of great natural
beauty, including the huge lake of the
old Fort Belvoir reservoir, which the
Army has made available to the Fairfax
County Park Authority for a 25-year
period of public recreational USE
In each instance, through the re-
markable coincidence of the arrange
mentS, the public will reap the benefits
without the expenditure of large sums
Of money to buy the land. True. the
perpetual use of the tracts for park
purposes is not assured, and Fairfax
sooner or later must face the fact that
this can be brought about only by
spending tax funds. For the time being,
however, Fairfax residents can be CRATE
full that good fortune has given healthy
boost to their fledgling park system.
A vigorous struggle for use of the
Belyoir reservoir tract has been under
way for couple of years, ever since the
military installation stopped using it
as source of water supply. The Army
Engineers decided to retain ownership
Evening star., 1960-04-10
Law Enforcement Threat

We agree with Senator Heating
and Representative Celler, both of New
York, that State law enforcement off,
GERS, under certain conditions, ought to
have the right to listen in on criminal
communications by wire and radio and
to use any evidence so gained in court.
We also believe that similar use of wire
tap evidence by Federal agents is even
more essential, since the national Secur-
ity may be involved in some inveStiga-
tionS by the FBI and other intelligence
agencies.
1t is surprising, therefore, that the
New York legislators have introduced
identical bills which would make it
legal, under the Federal Communica-
tionS Act, for State investigators to use
wiretap techniques and evidence-but
without any mention of Federal agents.
The limited legislation was proposed as
result of warnings by high New York
officials of a possible breakdown of State
and local law enforcement arising from
tentative ruling by the United States
Court of Appeals in New York that a
State overlapping law is in conflict with
the FEC ban on "interCeption and di-
vulgence" of communications. State
commission was told that if the ruling
is made permanent the police will be
gravely handicapped in their war on
crime.
What the New York authorities have
said about the dangers of thus shackling
the police is equally true of the dangers
of tying the hands of Federal agents
engaged in detecting and rounding up
spies, kidnapers and other violators of
Federal laws. Under Supreme Court
rulings, no evidence obtained by caves
dropping on criminals plotting by tele-
phone, telegraph or radio may be used
against them in court. Senator Heating
last year introduced a broader and better
bill which would legalize overlapping
by both Federal and local authorities,
under court supervision. There has been
no action on it as yet. However, if any
legislation to validate wiretapping and
use of wiretap evidence is to be passed
by CongreSS-aS it ought to be-the bill
should apply to Federal as we'll as State
and city investigators. 1t would be
patiently absurd to permit local police
to tap wires and use the evidence in
court, while denying this important in
vestigative technique to the FBI.
Evening star., 1960-04-10
Thanks From USO

On behalf of the Metropol-
itan Washington USO Com
mittee, I wish to express our
appreciation Of your recent
editorial noting that USO is
attaining age as an organiza-
ton serving our armed forces.
AS you indicated, many
people seem surprised that
USO, formed in l941 for serv-
ice through World War II. is
still in operation. Actually,
there are two active USO op-
erations in Washington-USO
Lounge in Union Station,
serving the transient military
personnel around the clock,
and the Lafayette Square
USO Club, which last year
alone recorded 307,567 visits
OF service people for its varied
programs.
Both of these USO opera
tions involve hundreds of
community volunteers and
organizations in extending
services and hospitality of
the National Capital Area to
Evening star., 1960-04-10
Class Distinction

Thank you for your edito-
rialS favoring correction of
legislation that creates two
classes of retired military Of
flcers, the privileged and the
underprivileged. I refer to
those of April 4 and January
20, and a letter commencing
your stand from Gen. John
E. Hull, retired, chairman of
the Presidents Board of Con-
sultants on Foreign Intelli-
gence Activities, of January
"a. 1860.
Congress had precedent
for the cleavage created by
the Military Pay Act of 1858,
that placed on an inferior"
list those who had previously
retired. United States Foreign
Service officers of career who
are dedicated to duty for life
outside of the United States
have been similarly divided.
With the prospect ahead of
perhaps 83 new countries
within the next few years to
staff with embassies and
consulates, the State Depart
ment is battling the depress-
ing effect on recruitment, of
an underprivileged retired
officer class, and would well
come the correction of mis-
takes of Congress that created
it, especially the Foreign
Service Act of 1856.
Mrs. Lynn Franklin,
Widow Of Consul General
Lynn Franklin.
Evening star., 1960-04-10
After the Battle

When the last verbal shot had been
fired, the Senate, to no ones surprise,
settled down and passed a moderate
civil rights bill by an overwhelming vote.
Since it is moderate bill, it will not
satisfy everyone. The NAACP doesn't
like it, the Northern liberals don't like
it, and the Southern conservative don't
like it. But no bill could have been
passed which would have satisfied all
of these elements
Z, The bill, as shown by roll call after
roll call, conforms to the wishes of a
large Senate majority, and this means
that it is the best civil rights measure
which could be adopted at this time.
1t also means that the civil rights "is-
sue" has been resolved without leaving
heritage of bitterness which could
easily have plagued the Senate's work
throughout the remainder of the ses-
sion. Credit for this goes to that COM
bination of skill and f1rmnesS with
which Majority Leader Johnson, ably
assisted by his Republican opposite num-
Der, Senator Dirksen, piloted the meas
ure through and around the pitfalls and
the BOBBY traps.
The test of the bill will come, of
course, after it has been accepted by
the House and signed by the President.
Its primary purpose, however, is to shore
up Negro voting rights, and it seems to
us that, with time and determination,
it will be an effective measure in this
respect.
Evening star., 1960-04-10
Hurdle Ahead

Word that revised legislation will be
sought Immediately to enlarge the legal
boundaries of Washington's proposed
National Cultural Center is hardly
surprise. This technical change is an
absolute essential to accommodate the
imaginative and widely accepted plans
designed for the center by Architect
Edward Durell Stone. For the most part,
the effect is to authorize the use of
additional Federal park lands-with the
full concurrence of park off1cials-and
there is no reason to assume that Con-
gresS will balk at this.
A more serious problem is posed by
the disclosure that trustees of the CEN
ter also must seek small Federal ap-
preparation to complete the acquisition
of private property needed for the Gull
tural Center site. The reasons for this
request, hoWever-increaSed land values
in Foggy Bottom and the need for
slightly more private land than origin
ally was contemplated-are entirely un-
derstandable, and we hope the needed
funds will be granted quickly.
To delay would only add to the
eventual cost of acquiring the needed
land. Failure to grant the money this
year, furthermore, would seriously harm
if not poStpone-plans to launch the
center's major Embarrassing drive this
summer Under the financing arrange
ments, the Federal Government is to
provide only the site for the center;
construction funds are to come entirely
from private contributions The Dis
trict government, however, already has
agreed to pick up most of the tab for
the land costs. Payment of the slight
additional amount needed is small
enough burden for the Congress to
carry.
Evening star., 1960-04-10
Rops Bell Tower

That monstrosity near Ar
lington Cemetery called a
bell tower looks like a tenn
porary scaffolding similar to
those frame structures used
during the erection of large
Office buildings.
Bells and the sound Of
bells are beautiful and should
be housed in a beautiful
structure. This is one oc-
casion where the modern
functional" design is en-
tirely out of place. 1t is bad
enough that all our con-
temporary large Office and
apartment buildings are very
much alike, that is, purely
functional building blocks
and matchbox-like structures
without even the slightest
a t t e mpt at architectural
beauty.
Even John, my little seven
year-old next door friend,
does not like this so-called
bell tower. He confided to me
he is going to call on his
friend. Superman, and some
dark night the two of them
will remove those lovely bells
from the scaffolding and
hang them up either in that
nice Lincoln Memorial or
maybe in the jefferson Me-
mortal! After that they will
pull that ugly scaffolding
down and throw 1t in the
Potomac!
w. o. Schrader.
Evening star., 1960-04-10

and hereafter are one there
is a nationality about the
universe that otherwise is
denied. Shut in with the
evident injusticeS of mortal
life what one sees of human
suffering stabs and lacerateS
ones sensibilitieS. No wonder
if what we behold this side
of death is all there is in any
reckoning of justice that it
cannot be squared with any
belief in the ultimate pur-
poses of a brooding love.
But if at the end of the here
there is written Concluded
in the next chapter" then
that means that all un-
finished and imperfect things
may yet come to fruition.
But some say that belief
has its mysteries. St. Paul
admits that. He cries, Be
hold, I show you a mystery"
When this mortal shall put
on immortality God will give
1T to a body which pleases
Him. The fact that that in
wolves a mystery does not
dlfferentiate the here from
the hereafter. Even a birth
here has as much wonder
and mystery as does a birth
into what we call immortality.
Every baby new to earth and
sky nesting in its mothers
arms has passed over an
hereditary bridge to a pre-
pared world to which it
brings the characteristics and
even the features of some
lar of, dead ancestor.
Wrapped in that baby bundle
trailing clouds of glory are
potentialities which are to
unfold from strength to
strength. witnessing that.
why should we question the
permanence Of that in us
which ties us to the Eternal
Spirit who is even now the
invisible setting of all we
see and touch? What
happens at death, as we 90
from life to life. is no more
mystery than what happens
at birth. Birth means ex-
tension and expansion. which
is what gives the brief DAYS
mere zest and wonder.
For a baby to remain a
baby would be a tragedy. To
stretch life out endlesslv at
Its earth level would be bore
dom for multitudes. But the
risen life with Christ here
and there is a life of new di-
mensions, of enlarged capa-
ollitleS. 1t is the full OPEN
ing OF life Godward. It is a
chance for Victor Hugo to 90
on with the thousand poems
and dramas he felt throbbing
IN his soul when there came
the hour for him to explore
the other side of death.
Never does a Lenten Jour-
ney emerge into the dazzling
splenoor Of the third day
but what l find words ringing
in my heart, written by a
young minister who once was
my colleague in a church of
the Risen and who. early,
went through death to its ra-
diant other side:
/ knoU not hon that JoSephs
tomb
Could solUe deaths mystery.
/ only knoW a lirtno Christ,
Our Immortality.
Evening star., 1960-04-10

of the area, for possible use in later
years, but offered to lease 1t for Is years.
Apart from the Fairfax park agency, the
strongest bidder was the Air Force,
which wanted to set up a gun club on
the property. Since the area is to remain
in military ownership, it is quite remark
able that the Air Force bid was rejected.
Happily, it was, and for this Fairfax
owes strong thanks to the Army and
to members of the Virginia congressional
delegation who worked hard for the
decision.
Evening star., 1960-04-10
FROM THE STAR FILES.

the north. 1t was declared by
real estate experts to be des-
tined to become the choicest
part of Washington's North
west residential section. .
1t is only three minutes
ride on the electric car
from the magnificent million
dollar Connecticut Avenue
Bridge"
Evening star., 1960-04-10
'Contrite' Parent

Now that the White House
Conference on Children and
Youth has completed its Ma
tional Clobber the Parent
Week" this contrite parent
of three asks forgiveness Of
the WHCCY for the following
sins:
For allowing television to
be invented; for permitting
my children to have a voice
in what they want to do and
become; for moving my fam
lily to the suburbs to take ad-
vantage of the best school
system in the United States;
for not accepting 100 per cent
of the responsibility for my
children's study habits; for
trying to set a good example
for the children in the light
of my education, knowl-
edge, experience and train
ing; for allowing my children
to watch television, provided
homework and other chores
are completed; for believing
in a freedom break" to allie
viate the steady grind of
school, Sunday school, Girl
Scouts, piano lessons, dane
ing lessons, special projects"
and educational TV; for stub
born insistence that our To-
cal, State and Federal gov
ernments share some of the
responsibility for juvenile
delinquency and other social
ills; for trying to do my best
in a world I never made, my
parents never made, my
grandparents never made. in
fact a world no one seems to
have made and everyone but
me seems to regret.
sydney r. KaSper.
Evening star., 1960-04-10
Forund Bill

One gets the impression
that the Democrats will stoop
to anything in their attempts
to win an election.
Representative H ollan d
Democrat of Pennsylvania,
brands the President as "our
No. l recipient of socialized
medicine, but who has seen
fit to turn his back on Is MIL
lion other elder citizens in
their quest for free hospital
ization and medical care"
1t might be that the PreSi-
dents attitude toward the
Forand bill is the result of
some deep thinking and con-
sideration for younger en-
ployed people who would be
called upon to finance this
program with increased So
cial security taxes.
Mr.. Holland probably goes
along with the wishful think
ing that the f1rst-year cost of
this program would be Sill
billion, in spite of the fact
that leading insurance &C
tuaries have stated this esti-
mate is far too low. They
estimate the flrst-year cost
will run between $2.l and
$2.7 billion and climb rapidly
upward to between S3.9
and SIT billion by 1880. And
those fellows know what they
are talking about; a gift
sadly lacking. l fear, in some
of our Congressman.
If the benefits promised
by the Forand bill are estab-
lished, the burden on the
earnings Of employed Amer
leans would be increased
over the years to a point
where a total of social secu-
rity taxes of $500 per year
could result. Not a pleasant
outlook for a youngster on
his first job to contemplate!
1t might be well for Rep
resentative Holland to take a
second look and to bear in
mind that congressman do
not fare too badly themselves.
c. A. Hanneman.
Fredericksburg, Va.