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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-11-20

Commenting on the American team, MIR.
Leonov says the players are as good as most OF
those from the Soviet Union, but they need more
experience especially in front of large crowds,
which can only be gotten in rugged international
competition.
: And Walter G. Keim, co-ordiriator of the
exchange visits says table tennis apparently is
more popular in the Soviet Union, where it has
come to the forefront only in the last 10 years,
than it is in the United States, where the game
has been played for about go years.
1.-THE Russians just seem to 60 at it more
seriously than we do" Mr.. Keim admits Our
team clearly doesn't have the same training and
experience Wen have to work lot harder il
we're going to equal them"
He hastily adds "But we're working"
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And they are encouraged to play in as many
tournaments as possible to get them accustomed
to crowds.
Gennadi who has been playing table tennis
for about six years, says he plays just about every
can who is studying law at Moscow University.
Zigmund, who also likes boxing, has been play
ing for four years, and Nikolai, an all-around
sportsman, has been playing three years.
In the Washington match, played at the
Jelleff branch of the Washington Boys Club,
1926 street NV. on November IL, the Russian
players met Paul Hudson, IS, a Western High
student; William Keim, IT, a Woodrow Wilson
High student, and Clarke Goldstein, ID, Mary
land University freshman. .-.
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PING PONG
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sights of the Capital from atop the Washington
Monument Then, while waiting for the elevator,
word from their coach sent them obediently
scampering down the 1913 steps of the 555-foot
structure.
otis good for them," the coach said through
an interpreter. why should they ride down
when they can walk?"
That same evening, after rigorous day of
sightseeing, the Soviet team resoundingiy de-
feated their American opponents, winning all
nine of the exhibition matches they played.
How do the Russians prepare for victory
studded exhibition tour of American cities?
The coach, Nikolai Ivanovich Leonov, vice
president of Russia's Olympic committee and
it this way:
After the Soviet Government accepted an
invitation from the United States Table Tennis
Association to participate in its State Depart
ment-approved cultural and sports exchange pro-
gram, the Table Tennis Federation of the USSR
called upon the junior ping pong champions
year-long controlled training program.
Recently, turnament was held in Moscow
to pick team to tour the United States. The
winners of the two-week tour, who will fly back
to Russia tomorrow are Gennadi Avern, ID, a
first-year biology student at Moscow State Uni
versity who is the topranked player in the entire
Soviet Union; Zigmund Kalnin, II, 10th-grade
student in Riga, Latvia, and Nikolai Novikov, Is,
a seventh-grade student in Baku.
81 will try to explain how coached the boys
in Riga and Baku for instance, while was in
Moscow" Mr.. Leonov says each boy has
coach in his own community. When we prepared
for the match with the American team that came
over this summer, we called for these coaches
to come to Moscow. Together we worked out the
assignments for the players and we co-ordlnated
the plans for making them physically fit and
technically good through training programs in
their own communities"
He says they provided for the players to par
ticipate in all the major table tennis events they
possibly could without hurting their school
marks, which must be kept high to qualify them:
The Russian players practice usually about
Evening star., 1960-01-17
Victory Predicted

At first, it was regarded as most
likely that Senator Kennedy would
run in Wisconsin. A variety of
polls repeatedly showed he could
win a clear-cut majority of the
delegates.
A Kennedy victory might very
well knock Senator Humphrey,
who has said Wisconsin is the key
to his campaign plans, right out
Of the race for the nomination.
While some seerS saw dark lin
ing in this silver cloud-(a de-
,feated Humphrey might throw his
support to Adlai Stevenson. a
strong compromise possibility -
the Massachusetts Yankee was be-
lieved ready to compete.
Now, the Senator is not so sure.
His brother, Robert Kennedy, has
told him Wisconsin would be IAN
unfair test" and he plans to give
serious consideration to this
brotherly advice. When the Sena-
tor suggested that perhaps he and
Senator Humphrey should COM
pete in neutral Nebraska, OBJ
servers drew the inference that
Wisconsin was out.
Whether Senator Kennedy de-
cides to run in Wisconsin or not,
he has taken some of the gilt off
the image of the bold, courageous
candidate he had created with his
challenge to let the rank and file
select the standard bearer.
To be sure, only l6 States and
the District of Columbia have
preferential primaries and the
total convention vote is less than
half those to be cast: 6l3 of 1872.
This means candidate could not
obtain the nomination even if he
won all the primarieS-lt he had
no other delegates backing him.
1t takes 76l to nominate.
And it can be said that Senator
Humphrey will doubtless pick and
choose carefully the State pri-
maries he will enter. 1--WE have
already noted that the other hope
fulS are stunning such contests
altogether But Senator Kennedy
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has been goaded into playing his
critics game. in part, at least.
He has decided to ask for funds
to produce 10 more fixed-base
ICBMs than had been originally
planned. This means a total Of
270 TCBMs in the program.
But for the mobile Polaris sys-
tenn no change has been made.
The three submarines year
schedule is to be kept. Each Of
these ships will carry l6 hydrogen
weapons with ranges of at least
1870 miles. The administration
program calls for 10 combat-resdy
Polaris subs by the end Of 1868.
Admiral Arleigh A. Burke, Chief
of Naval Operations, has said the
Navy could have Is such vessels
at sea. armed with total Of
400 missiles, by that time if the
decision were made now to do
so. Such a fleet would, in itself,
be a tremendous deterrent force.
Even on the matter Of bombers,
the administration has been feel
ing the heat. Gen. White, Air
Force chief of staff, has made
it clear that he is most unhappy
with the decision which virtually
cancels the BIO supersonic
bomber and he has loud support
for his position OH Capitol Hill.
His point: Manned pombers will
be needed fol- years to come de-
spite the progress on long-range
missiles.
The administration last week
got unexpected help on this mat
ter from Premier Khrushchev who
announced that the Soviet Union
would halt all bomber production
and concentrate on missiles and
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For De GduHe:
Cabinet Woes

Antoine Pinay was replaced
as Finance Minister of the
French Republic last week. He
rejected an offer of another
cabinet post in what was called
the first serious political crisis
since the return of Gen. Charles
de Gaulle to power.
If the five-year-old rebellion in
Algeria has been the chief chal-
lenge 10 the French Republic, the
second has been the task of restor-
ing stability to the economy. Presi-
dent de Gaulle'S choice of Antoine
Pinay to head the national eco
nomic revival proved, by the re-
suits, to have been a happy one.
When Gen. de Gaulle assumed
the presidency of France under
his own constitution, imitation and
the war in Algeria. plus serious
unemployment and an unfavora BILE
balance Of trade, had put the
French economy into danger Of
total collapse. Mr.. Pinay welded
a firm and bold hand. With full
support from Gen. de Gaulle and
with good cooperation from busi-
ness and financial circles, the FL
nance Minister directed a recovery
program that has been Spectacu-
larly successful.
But Mr. Pinay. it developed. dis
agreed most emphatically with
Gen. de Gaulle's economic philos-
ophy. His protests against the in
creasinglv large role of govern
ment in economic affairs proved
unavailing. President de Gaulle's
program calls for wider control by
the government of business and
industry; Mr.. Pinay, an economist
of the old school, resigned. Offered
the post of Minister of State, he
declined.
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the Common Market group, con-
cerned lest their economies be
frozen out of competition, formed
the Free Trade Association, some
times called the outer seven"
There were signs of a damaging
rivalry between the six and the
seven" and the United States and
Canada, heretofore aloof from
European associations and trading
under the old rules, began to show
concern.
There was another factor, too,
impelling American and Canadian
interest in Europe'S economy. With
the hearty expansion Of prosperity
in the West came the realization
that the gulf between the haves
and the have-nots Of the world
was widening dangerously. Trickles
of foreign aid" were not enough
to narrow the gap. or even
enough to keep the underde-
veloped nations from slipping
backward.
In Paris last week Undersecre-
tary of State for Economic Affairs
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c. Douglas Dillon took the lead in
proposing a major economic re-
organization. The Organization for
European Economic Cooperation,
the Common Market Commission,
and the General Agreement for
Tariffs and Trade will he the basis
for a new. widened and strength
ened economic attack on the non-
Communist worlds trade problems.
A total of 20 nations will par
ticipate.
Negotiations will begin in a
month or six weeks, with the
United States and Canada as full
members. Tariffs, currency con-
vertibility, duties. gold reserves,
trade balances will be studied for
acceptable avenues of cooperative
endeavor, a broadening of free
trade areas. and a step-up in
international commerce. Wit h
enough agreement on the funda-
mentalS, the nations involved ex-
pect to work out a systematic
program for effective aid to under
developed areas of the world.
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ing the underground problem to
the last.
AS first step, under the Wads-
worth plan which has the backing
of Britain's delegate, Sir Michael
Wright, agreement would be
reached on banning testing Of
the types that would be readily
detachable. This would halt such
tests as those conducted in the
Pacific and in Nevada. In a Sec
ond step, testing in the upper at
mosphere would stop; in a third,
outer-space tests.
Soviet Delegate Semyon K.
Tsarapkin continues to insist on
an immediate, all-inclusive test
ban. In Moscow, Mr.. Khrushchev
repeated his belief that agreement
can be reached, Scoffed at the
Vests fears of Soviet cheating,
and deplored President Eisen-
hower's action ending the volun-
tary suspension of tests. The So
Wet Union. he said, would con-
tinue to refrain from tests so long
as no other power resumed test
ing.
Mr.. Wadsworth has been re-
ninding the Soviet delegate that
any treaty resulting from the
Geneva discussions will have to
win approval in the United States
Senate. To present the Senators
a test ban agreement that lacked
effective detection and control
features would be to insure its
rejection, he has assured the Rus
sian. But Mr.. Tsarapkin has not
been persuaded; such talk is "po-
litically motivated nonsense" the
Soviet delegate protested.
Evening star., 1960-01-17
Eden Memoirs:
On the Brink

In the first installment of his
memoirs published in The Times
of London, former Prime Min
lister Anthony Eden wrote that
Britain's objections prevented
American military Intervention
in IndO- China and possibly a
World War HI.
The late John Foster Dulles was
once quoted as saying that the art
of cold war diplomacy consisted
OF going to the brink of war with
out falling over the edge. When
the French in Indo-China were
losing the tragic seige of Diem
Bien Phu in 1855. Mr.. Dulles was
known to favor American military
intervention. His views were re-
portedly backed by the Navy and
the Air Force but opposed by the
Army.
United States aircraft carriers
lay off the Indo-C China coast ready
to strike, but the strike did not
come. According to former Prime
Minister Eden. American inter-
vention did not occur because
Britain fatty refused to support it.
Mr.. Eden wrote that in Mr..
Dulles view, immediate action
was necessary to stem Communist
advances in Southeast Asia. The
alternative, Mr.. Dulles believed,
would be steady penetration in
volving Indonesia, Thailand,
Burma. Ceylon and eventually all
nations in the area. In the Brit
iSh view. however, it was believed
that American intervention in
1ndo-China would mean war with
Communist China. Since the
Soviet Union is by treaty bound to
come to the assistance of Red
China in case of war, the begin
ming of World War III would have
been made.
In subsequent inStallmentS of
his memoirs, Mr.. Eden wrote at
length on Mr.. Dulles insistence
on a tough" policy toward Mos
COW. The late Secretary's ago
nizing reappraisal" remark, made
in Paris when the French National
Assembly refused to ratify the
European Defense Community
Treaty, was, Mr.. Eden wrote, a
real threat to take United States
support out of European defense
arrangements and withdraw to a
Western Hemisphere fortress
America"
Evening star., 1960-01-17
THE NATIONAL SCENE
Defense Problems and the Numbers Game

ing this. to insure our ability to
destroy the enemy.
The administration believes that
such a deterrent-retaliatory force
does not require the United States
to match or excel the Soviet in
every weapon. whether it be in
tercontinental ballistic missiles.
bombers or combat divisions.
The criticism by congressional
Democrats has been, and will be,
centered around what they call
"the missile gap" This gap is the
difference between the number Of
ICBMs the United States is plan
ming to produce in the next few
years and those the Soviet is
capable of producing.
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Wise Men

Representatives Of Is nations
met at Paris Tuesday to discuss
economic cooperation and aid
to underdeveloped nations.
When the guns fell silent in
Europe in l945. the nations Of
Western Europe, both victors and
vanquished, were economically
PROSTATE after five years of war.
Industrial production for the needs
of peace was almost existent.
Plants lay in ruins. Trade and
commerce was disrupted, railroads
shattered, shipping decimated.
But the predictions of the pes
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The Vests Position

Most diplomats in Washington
last week were agreed that the
Kremlin's announcements had
certainly put the West ION the
spot" on the disarmament ques-
tion. To declare. unilaterally, a
major reduction in armed strength
even before a summit conference
was, in the opinion of many OBJ
servers, sure technique that
would almost guarantee similar
slashes by the West.
Mr.. Khrushchev did, however,
indulge in something of the
carrot-and-stick routine. He
talked of the benefits to the Soviet
economy inherent in a sizable re-
duction in the armed forces. But
he at the same time took pains to
stress that the overall defensive
posture Of the Soviet Union was
stronger. rather than weaker, as
a result of the reduction. The
money saved by a reduction in
ground forces, it was readily ap-
parent, would be almost certainly
devoted to increased emphasis on
Soviet missiles. guidance systems,
and pace-exploratory projects.
And he pressed once again the
prospects of peaceful co-existence.
Having disposed of the stick, the
Soviet Premier was at pains to
stress also the carrot. He talked
in terms of glowing optimism of
the prospects for a summit meet
ing. The international climate, he
told his Supreme Soviet colleagues,
was beginning to clear" al
though so far the clearing was too
slow to be satisfactory.
At the Pentagon military men
were quick to point out that the
khrushchev pattern for Soviet
strategy was basically the same
as that already in effect in the
United States. Even the Soviet
Premier's words, the brass de-
clared. we're often the same as
those employed by American de-
fense chiefs to describe United
States strategy.
What 1t all means. the Penta-
gon spokesman said, was that
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Trade Association

In the process of recovery, how
ever, it was quickly apparent that
the old national patterns of
tariffs, duties, currency restric-
tions and protective devices were
inadequate to the times. In
major advance toward the old
dream Of a united Europe, six
nations came together to create
"the Common Market" a Coop
erative attack on the restrictions
and restraints burdening COM
merce and industry.
In turn, those nations outside
Evening star., 1960-01-17

President Eisenhower last
week defended defense policies,
scored critics who seek to make
partisan" issue of Nations
military preparedness and
moved to speed missile and
space programs.
Gen. White, Air Force Chief
of staff, made a bid for restOra-
tiOn of the BIO bomber pro-
gram and Congress prepared
series Of inquiries into United
States military-space position
vis-a-vis the Soviet Union.
For long time 1t has been
clear that the Democrats were
planning a massive assault on
the Administrators defense poll
cies as a key issue in the 1860
presidential election year.
The continued success of the
Soviet in rocketry and outer space
experiments, plus the disenchant-
ment on the part of several top
level former members Of the
Presidents own Pentagon family,
has given them substantial lever
age and increasing public atten-
ton. Each Of the four Democratic
presidential aspirants in the Sem
ate has attacked what he calls
national defense deficiencies.
1t has been the contention Of
these critics that Mr.. Eisenhower's
views on defense are controlled
too much by budget-balancing
considerations. In the main. they
believe we are not spending
enough and that we are headed
for second-place status as a
military power.
They point to predictions that
the new budget. to be announced
tomorrow, will call for stand-pat
expenditures for the armed Serv-
ices. The spending for the current
year is estimated at $40.9 billion;
predictions for the year beginning
next July l are for around SAL
billion.
Evening star., 1960-01-17
Politics.:
BoIdness

Senator Kennedy said last
week he is undecided about
entering the Wisconsin primary
race against Senator Humphrey.
Vice President Nixon opened
his campaign with a formal ad-
dress in Florida.
When young Jack Kennedy for
mally announced his candidacy
for the Democratic presidential
nomination. he urged other con-
tenders to compete with him in
primary elections.
Let the voters decide" - this
was the challenge issued by the
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Missile Advantage

The cutback in manpower, the
Premier asserted, would be more
than compensated for by the So
Wet advantage in missiles. He told
the cheering delegates that the
Soviet Union holds, as Of today.
q formidable stockpile Of nuclear
weapons, many well concealed
rocket-launching bases, and a
fantastic" secret weapon that
would be the ultimate in modern
warfare.
The Soviet Premier's statements
were viewed in the West as %
new evidence that Moscow seeks,
with sincerity and with intensity,
a detente with the West and (2)
that Mr.. Khrushchev. in advance
Of summit conference, wants to
apply as much pressure as he can
to assure that the Western pow
ers be susceptible to summit pro-
posals for major and significant
disarmament.
In swift response to the Khru-
shchev speech, the State Depart
ment said officially that the pro-
jected Soviet reduction in her
massive" armed forces could
lessen one of the causes Of exist
ing world tensions" But Lincoln
White, the departments chief
spokesman. at the same time
warned that there would be, in
the nature of things, mo verifiable
means Of checking" the announced
Soviet cutbacks.
Although figures vary consider
ably, the Khrushchev disclosure of
manpower cutbacks would bring
the Soviet standing armed forces
to a figure somewhat less than
that projected by Pentagon Off
Gals for the United States forces.
If the figures are correct, the So
Wet argument against strength
ening of the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization would be greatly
enhanced.
Evening star., 1960-01-17
Atom Test Ban:
In Phases?

The Geneva Conference on a
nuclear test ban resumed dis
cussiOns Tuesday after a long
Christmas recess.
Still far apart on the issue of
detection methods and 3heir ef-
fectiveness in revealing under
ground testing of nuclear weap-
ons, the United States, Britain
and the Soviet Union sent their
delegates back to the conference
table for continued negotiations
last week. Cautiously skirting the
issue Of possible cheating, Ameri-
can delegate James J. Wadsworth
pushed proposals for a stage-by-
stage cessation of testing, leav-
Evening star., 1960-01-17
THE WEEK IN PERSPECTIVE
Arms and World Power SUPREMACY

Soviet Premier Khrushchev
told the Supreme Soviet last
week that:
Soviet armed forces would be
cut by One-third.
Defenses Of the Soviet Union
would not be weakened BY the
manpOwer cut.
A fantastic" weapon was "in
the Matching stage"
On October 4, 1857, the Soviet
Union launched the first artificial
satellite in the history of the
world. Whirling in space, inStru-
mented and vocal in q steady
"beep-beep," this spherical ennis
sary of world communism was
more than a harbinger Of change.
Indeed, Sputnik I marked the
advent Of a new era, the begin
nings of the conquest Of space.
the success Of mankind in racing
out to new horizons.
But, in the context of immediate
international relations, Sputnik I
meant a great deal more than
that. Since the melancholy
windup of World War II in 1945,
supremacy in the nuclear field
meant supremacy in the world
power struggle. For a few years,
the United States was the
monopolist in the possession Of
the nuclear weapon. There could,
at that time, have been a pax
Americanus" in which the United
States could have been the
supreme arbiter of world affairs.
Last week Soviet Premier Khru-
shchev's words to the Supreme
Soviet demonstrated how far the
pendulum has swung. Speaking
confidently and with a proud as
surance. Mr.. Khrushchev an
nounced that the Soviet Union
would not be weakening its de-
fenses by slashing its armed forces
by a third. A cut in Soviet stand
ing armed forces from 3.6 to "a
million men, the Premier told his
comrade delegates. would not in
volve "any weakening whatsoever"
in the nations defense potential
against any possible attack.
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Guesses on BUDGET

If the guesses prove accurate,
then it may be said with justifi-
cation that the new budget will
actually call for less real spend
ing than the current one. This is
because of initiation, which in
creases prices about per cent
a year, and the fact that pay for
retired personnel probably will
be increased by 500 million.
The aim of the Eisenhower ad-
ministration clearly has not been
to compete with the Russians
across the board. 1t has been,
rather, to provide just enough to
deter the USSR from aggressive
adventures, either an all-out war
or peripheral conflict, and, fall
Evening star., 1960-01-17

simists that Europe had entered a
new dark age were swiftly proved
wrong. With a boost from such
American programs as the Mar
shall Plan, Western Europe rebuilt,
expanded. repaired and impro-
vised. Today industrial production
is far ahead Of the pro-World War
II levels. Employment and incomes
are at record highs.
Evening star., 1960-01-17

man the public opinion polls
showed was'his partys most popu-
lar candidate.
Senators Symington and john
son, two unannounced aspirants,
made it clear they wanted no part
of such contests. But Senator
Humphrey, the energetic, fast
talking man from Minnesota, pick
ed up the Kennedy gauntlet. He
pushed plans to vie for Wiscon-
sins 81 convention votes and in
dicated he would enter races IN
several other States.