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Evening star., 1960-07-21

agents disguised as diplomats
and trade emissarieS. The
Soviet Embassy in Paris, for
instance, indulged in opera
tions which normally would
have called for its expulsion.
The handsome 18th century
building was transformed in
to a prison for hundreds of
White Russians who were
kidnapped by the GPU agents,
placed in jails enjoying dip
lomatic privileges until they
could be smuggled out of
France, and sent to Moscow
for execution.
The American administra-
tions under Presidents Will
son, Harding, Coolidge and
Hoover held out against
recognizing the lawless Red
government. President t
Roosevelt changed all this.
Not only did he recognize
the Reds, but shut his eyes
to the Subversive activities of
their agentsSwho had become
more daring than in the pre-
ceding years when we had
no relations with Moscow.
The Russian lie continued
while the West insisted on
ignoring it. Hitler launched
his attack on Poland and
started World War II only
after he had been assured of
Russian support through the
treaty of alliance with Stain.
Although the Russians were
as guilty-if not more So
for World War II and for
cruelties against the Polish
people for whom the West
ostenSibly went to war, we
took their side when Hitler
and Stain jumped at each
others throats. We lavished
on Russia all kinds of mill
tary and economic assistance
sometimes at the expense
of our own defense prepara-
tions.
Moreover, because they
were killing Germans" we
handed to them under the
secret executive agreements
at Teheran, Yalta and Pots
dam, vast new territories
and populations in Eastern
and Central Europe and in
the Far East. The West made
the Kremlin brigands re-
spectacle by receiving their
bosses with open arms as its
honored guests.
Now we are reaping the
rewards" of this unbeliev-
able blindness and Wishful
thinking of our leaders.
There are many politicians
in both our parties, especially
among the Democrats, who
Evening star., 1960-07-21
DORIS FLEEsON
Kennedys Build New Party Setup

porter who wrote a good lead
on his story and contended
that nobody read the second
paragraph, the political press
agent who only drinks with
the boys is out of date. Mr..
Salinger has still another
quality besides efficiency
which endears h m to the
working press; he looks after
them instead of making pol
icy, and let's candidates and
campaign manager speak for
themselves.
The unsentimental Ken
nedy approach has also ap-
peared in the women's divi-
sion of the national commit
tee, where Mrs. Katie Louch-
helm, a Kennedy-supporter.
has been kicked upstairs to
a name job and replaced by
Mrs. Margaret Price Of Mich
igan.
Mrs. Price was part Of the
Mennen williams team which
won six terms for him and
control of that once-Repub-
lican bastion. She held her
own there in policy-making
and in the orchid bearing
public appearances which so
many politicians wistfully re-
gard as women's place in
politics.
Because of her interest in
social problems and educa-
ton she is an appropriate
olive branch for Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt, who believes wo-
men should be heard in the
policy take-offs in those
fields.
Evening star., 1960-07-21
Fundamental Drive Found Outweighing
DISADVANTAGE of Senator'S Age

Gated men and women who
have never been able to make
use of what they learned.
1t is something more than
that. Here is a man intensely
ambitious. He long ago knew
where he wanted to go. He
stayed with the Democratic
Party. Most of the friends he
had, and classmates who wer9
of Irish ancestry, left the
party of their fathers in the
college years and went over
to the COP. because it was,
and is, the status party"
He is mentally tough. He
has one of those steel-trap
minds. He is patient. He is
not afraid to ask for advice,
and he takes it once he trusts
the source. He is, as has been
said, IAN organization man."
He makes use of all the latest
techniques for probing into
the mind of man. He believes
strongly in motivation. He is
deeply convinced it is impor-
tant the public have the
proper image of him and his
family, his campaign, his
policy. He spares no time or
expense to make this image"
available to the public.
Religion is a factor in this
campaign. So, in his accept
ance speech he moved boldly
into it. He took note of the
fact that many Protestants
are angry because of persecu-
ton, real and alleged, in
lands dominated by Catholics.
1T is not relevant (to me
and this campaign what
abuses may have existed in
other countries in other
times" he said. 1T is not rel
evant what pressures, if any,
might conceivably be brought
to bear on me. I am telling
you what you are entitled to
know: That my decisions on
every public policy will be my
own-as an American, a Dem
ocrat and a free man."
Senator Kennedy is an at
tacker, He moved quickly to
Evening star., 1960-07-21
Boys Club to Get
$4,000 Pool

A swimming pool donated by
five civic groups will be con-
structed Soon at the Jellef1
Branch of the Boys Club OF
Greater Washington, club d.
rectorS announced last night
At it's quarterly dinner meet
ing at the Congressional,
Country Club, the directors ap-
proved plans for the $26,00C
outdoor pool and said con-
struction would begin in a few
weeks.
The pool is a gift from the
National Capital Optimist Club
the Washington Civitan Club
the Rotary Club of Washing
ton, the Georgetown Big Broth
ers Club and the Georgetown
Optimist Club.
In other business, the club
named Robert A. Marmet q
director.
Evening star., 1960-07-21
PurochioI School
Objections Heard
By Zonine Board

Vigorous opposition was ex-
pressed yesterday at a zoning
hearing to construction Of q
two-story building for a paro-
chial school at Twenty ninth
and Garfield streets NV.
Residents in the neighbor-
hood said at the hearing, held
by the District Board of Zoning
Adjustment, that the site is too
small for the nearly 300 STU
dents who would use the new
st. Thomas the Apostle School.
The board took the case un-
der advisement. The board
previously rejected the original
proposal that it permit three
one-story buildings and in
sisted on one two-story struc-
ture instead. The site is now a
playground for the old school
two blocks away.
Since the plans were changed
to conform with the Zoning
boards suggestion, the board
Evening star., 1960-07-21
DAVID LAWRENCE

SAN FRANCISCO. - All
over the country there's a
deep curiosity as to what's
behind the tactics of Gov.
Rockefeller of New York as
the Republican National Con-
vention approaches. Is he
really trying to be drafted
for the presidential nomina-
ton? Would he positively re-
fuse the vice-presidential
nomination if drafted for it
by the convention or if per-
sonally requested to accept
it by both President Eisen-
hover and Vice President
Nixon? What would be Gov.
Rockefeller'S reasons, under
those circumstances, for de-
clining to take second place
on the Republican national
ticket?
The answers that some of
the professional politicians in
both parties give in their
conversations are significant
of the weakness Of The con-
vention system itself as a
means of rejecting public
sentiment. .
There is. of course, little
If any chance that Gov.
Rockefeller actually will be
drafted" for either place on
the ticket. The only nomina-
ton that's really open is for
the Vice Presidency. The
delegates at the Chicago con-
vention next week will not
do the picking to fill that
spot. The selection will be
made by the presidential
nominee, Richard M. Nixon.
This has been the custom
and the practice.
But if Mr.. Nixon were to
decide to ask Gov. Rock
efeller to run, he would
doubtless do so only after
conference with President
Eisenhower, so that it would
be a Joint request.
With what arguments
would the Governor be con-
fronted as he turned over in
his mind such a request?
First, he would have to
Evening star., 1960-07-21
Most Efficient Organization
Since New Deal Expected

these States or the other, and
preferably both.
Here, if nowhere else, he
must placate his enemies
with the favors he owes his
friends, or he will be In
serious trouble.
His press problems will be
acute. Already the effort has
begun in publications friend
ly to Vice President Richard
M. Nixon to insist there Is
really little difference be-
tween them. Senator Ken
nedy is said there. to admire
Mr.. Nixon. 1t is more correct
to say that he does not
underestimate him. This is
why he has already started
on him.
The Democrats have not
had even a moderately effec-
tive press organization Of
their own since the days Of
the late Charlie Nicholson.
but they are headed toward
one under Pierre Salinger,
who did the pre-convention
job for the nominee. 1t will
be a different kind; Senator
Kennedy, no more than Adlai
Stevenson, would let a ghost
writer fix the terms of his
argument. But It will be
technically efficient, designed
to wiring the utmost from the
present communications
maze.
Like the old-fashioned re-
Evening star., 1960-07-21
RALPH McGILL

Los Angeles Notebook:
Fingers of light searched the
skies. Trumpets sounded.
Bands played. And into the
flood-lit spotlight about the
huge podium, itself encum-
bered with .electronic devices
and a small elevator to make
short men tall and tall men
short, came the choices OF the
Democracy - Jack Kennedy
and Lyndon johnson.
A brief few days ago their
names were regarded as un-
likely ever to be linked in
anything save a power
struggle.
But there they were. Sena-
tor Kennedy, 43, looked
young enough to be the son
of Senator johnson. 81. 1t is
almost impossible to accept
the fact of Senator Ken
nedy's age. 1t is an appeal to
the feminine voters. The
older ones wish to mother
him. The young ones think
in terms of the ads for con-
vertible cars and imagine
how nice it would be to be
riding along the beach with
the reddish -thatched young
man.
But there is a fine mind
under that thatch. And there
is a boldness in the approach
Of this mind. 1t may be he is
bold because he always has
had the poise of wealth and
position. A millionaire at 81
years of age. he has been
able to think and venture
with confidence. And yet,
this cannot be the reason.
The shores of life are strewn
with the wreckage of the
men who had wealth and
opportunity and did not
know how to use either.
He has a splendid educa-
ton. He was given excellent
preparatory schooling and
attended one of the more
notable of our universities
where a student may find a
superior faculty. But the
world is crowded with edu-
Evening star., 1960-07-21
st. AIMS Perish
To Bless Sick

The annual blessing of the
sick, crippled and infirm with
relics of st. Ann, their patron
ess, will be held at 7:45 pm.
Saturday at st. AIMS Catholic
Church, Wisconsin avenue and
Yuma place NV.
Other special blessings of the
novena include blessing of
mothers and daughters at 7:45
pm. tomorrow and of children
at 4 pm. A general blessing
will be given following the 7:45
pm. service Monday, which
marks the close Of the novena.
The Rev. Henry O'Meara of
Holy Redeemer College, Cath
olic University, is conducting
the services. assisted by priests
from st. AIMS.
Evening star., 1960-07-21
The Enigma of Rockefeller

he is thinking only Of the
public welfare. Does anyone
think a Governor at Albany.
N. Y, can influence Federal
policy better than a Vice
President who sits in the cab
met in Washington, attends
the meetings of the National
Security Council, and is in a
position every day to confer
with leaders in Congress?
Then there is always the
contingency that fate some
times makes a Vice President
into a President overnight.
Accidents do happen in these
days Of airplane flights in
all kinds of weather. Would
Nelson Rockefeller ever for
give himself if he turned
down the Vice Presidency and
someone else-perhaps for
mer Senator Henry Cabot
Lodge-thereafter became the
Chief Executive?
1t could be that Gov.
Rockefeller is absolutely con-
vinced that, unless he runs
at the top spot. the Republi-
can Party cannot possibly
win in November and that
the acceptance of second
place would tie him too tight
ly to a defeated administra-
ton, whereas, If he is not on
the ticket this year, he would
have a free hand in 1864
to criticize and differ from
the present Administrations
policies.
If Gov. Rockefeller is sure
in his own mind that the
Republicans will lose this
time, he of course, has every
right to keep out of the con-
test. But politicians have
long memories. and much will
depend on how earnestly and
effectively he campaigns dur
ing the next three months
for the Nixon ticket, as he
has promised to do. 1t re-
mains, however, to be seen
whether the Governor will be
forgiven If he declines to run
for Vice President in 1860.
even though asked by the
present President and Vice
President. Maybe that's why
Gov. Rockefeller is hoping he
will not be asked next week.
tcopyrisht 1e60
Evening star., 1960-07-21
DORIS FLEESON

Senator John F. Kennedy
and his personal campaign
manager, brother Robert. are
swiftly putting together the
first efficient national party
organization the Democrats
have known since early New
Deal days.
The public is probably less
interested in this aspect than
any other, but it is vitality
important to the nominee. He
can work on his own strategy
and concentrate on the
enemy's only when his own
troops are organized, fed and
commanded by leaders they
themselves know and trust.
He starts with many ,ad-
vantages. His alter ego,
Bobby, has an experienced
campaign force ready to use
as a cadre on the larger ef-
fort now before him. They
seem to regard the new or
ganization less as a spoils sy-
stem than as cement to bind
the stones together.
There are many stones in
the path, too, especially in
California and New York
where divided factions are
fighting, talking and fusSing
in a manner decidedly un-
helpful to party prospects
next November. Yet history
indicates that Senator Ken
nedy must carry one OF
Evening star., 1960-07-21
Governors Declining to Take Place
On Nixon Ticket Found PuzzIinq

convince himself that his own
chances of becoming PreSi-
dent some day would not be
adversely effected by his re-
fusal. If both Mr.. Eisenhower
and Mr.. Nixon, as the top
leaders of the Republican
Party at present, should ask
him to run in order to help
the party and he nevertheless
declined to do so, he would
have two strikes against him
with the rank and file of the
party workers in 1864 if Mr..
Nixon were defeated in No
vember. Surely there would
be another attempt by Mr..
Nixon to run four years
hence. as he's only Al years
old. The probabilities are that
a declination this time by
Gov. Rockefeller might even
cause such feeling inside the
Republican Party in New
York State as to impair his
chances Of being reelected
Governor two years hence.
If he were defeated for Gov
ernor in 1862. his political
future would be dim indeed.
But why should Gov.
Rockefeller decline? 1t is
understandable that, just as
Lyndon Johnson kept on dis
couraging all talk of a vice
presidential nomination while
there was still a chance of his
getting first place on the
Democratic ticket, so also the
New York Governor has to
keep attention focused on the
Republican presidential nom
ination until the balloting has
actually been completed.
But when the time for de-
= cision arrives, will the New
York Governor really refuse?
Political logic would seem to
say that he cannot refuse.
He speaks. for instance. Of
wanting to serve the Nation
and his party, He declares
he is deeply concerned about
public policies in a critical
period in American history.
He has expressed himself re-
Gently in a forceful way on
current issues and has said
Evening star., 1960-07-21
Veterans Celebrate
Both Anniversary

The thirtieth anniversary of
the consolidation of several
veterans organizations into the
Veterans Administration will be
celebrated at a banquet tonight
at the National Press Club,
Fourteenth and F streets NV.
Harold J. Russell, star Of the
Academy Award-winning film.
THE Best Years of Our Lives"
who lost both of his hands dur
ing World War II. will be a fea-
tured speaker. There will also
be a presentation of the final
lists in the Miss Virginia con-
test.
Evening star., 1960-07-21
Western Dealing With KrenIin OutIows
As Equals Criticized as Blindness

The Soviets are directing
their most dangerous mis-
siles-subversion and inter-
national intrigue-at the
West. The United States is
selected as their prime target
because we continue to be,
despite waverings and mis-
takes, the main obstacle to
world Communist domina-
tion.
The present lamentations
in Latin America, in Africa
and in the Far East are the
products of the activities of
Moscow and Peiping. Yet the
Western world, which is
carrying the torch of free
dom in a somewhat shaky
hand, insists that it must
deal with the Red outlaws
as equals.
1t forgets that the Rus
sian bolshevism was born in
a lie and has lived in lies
during the 43 years it has
been in existence. The rul-
ers of the Kremlin have posed
as the representatives of a
social revolution of the Rus
sian people who brought
them to power. This is a
great lie. The revolution in
Russia was brought about by
the unrealistic dreaming of
Socialist Alexander Keren-
sky, who exploited the rot
tenneSs of the Imperial
Court. The Bolshevik leaders
who took advantage of his
weakness and established
themselves as the ruthless
rulers of the millions of Rus
sian people were brought in
to the country late in 1916
from Switzerland, in sealed
railway cars. by the German
General Staff. 1t was easy
for a handful of men headed
by Lenin and Trotsky to
overthrow the weak Kerensky
and establish the most cruel
dictatorship known in his
tory.
The murderous regime
eventually was recognized
by Western Europe. The
arguments were similar to
those we hear these days
from a number of American
politicians in regard to Com
munist China: I'VE cannot
ignore a vast country with
hundreds of millions of peo-
pie" France and Britain
recognized the Kremlin in
the expectation that they
could deal profitably with
the Kremlin by selling their
economic surpluses. London
and Paris shut their eyes to
activities of the Russian
Evening star., 1960-07-21
POTOMAC FEVER
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

Congressman Judd the Republican keynoter, has
tough assignment He told to point with prde-but
nobody told him at what
Democrats hope to win this fall. trusting the Nations
vision is as long its memory is short
The Kennedy clan is keeping Papa Joe quiet until after
the election They're afraid he opens his mouth he may
indorse Nixon.
Nelson Rockefeller apparently wants you to vote
Republican out Of gratitude. If the world any
off, wouldn't be here.
Money may not be everything. but every time
Democrat Kennedy he shouts I'VE want jack"
OUTLAW: An in-law who stays the second week.
Evening star., 1960-07-21
BROWN
BoIshevisn q 43-Yeor- Old Lie

still talk about the urgent
need for summitry, and about
ways and means to placate
international communism. as
if you could argue with a
rattlesnake. All our present
difficulties, including the
cold war and a $40 billion
defense budget, stem from
only one source-interna-
tional communism.
Evening star., 1960-07-21

held the second hearing yester-
day to listen to objections to
the revised plans.
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1960-08-11

Priestley's famous treatise on
air, and made bigger and big
ger bags of hot smoke until on
June S of that year, feeling
confident at last that they had
hold of real discovery, they
put on a public ascension before
a thousand spectators In the
market place of their home OF
Annonay, near Lyons. This first
fullsize balloon was made of
linen and paper, los feet in
circumference and buttoned to-
gether in cores. The Montgol-
fiers built q fire of straw and
wool under it, filling it quickly
with thick yellow smoke. Then
they cut the cords and it rose
impressively for several thou
sand feet, landing ten minutes
later about a mile and a half
away +. This demonstration by
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the PETAL PAPER

the Montgolfiers made q ire
mendous sensation and within a
week was the talk of all Eu-
rope. On their second try the
balloon rose on schedule and
disappeared into the low clouds.
An hour later some peasants
near Concise saw a strange
globe miraculously desce end
from the clouds and bounce
upon a field. Frightened but
fascinated, they gath ere d
around the mysterious buoyant
object. When one jabbed it with
his pitchfork it Kissed forth a
dangerous smell, so the others
all joined in killing the evil
creature with spa des and
scythes. When nothing remained
but shreds, the corpse was
dragged off tied to the tail of
a horse.
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HICHLlCHTS
FROM READING
by
Mory Einsel

Although mans great victory
over air has come largely in
nv own half lifetime, it is al
ready complete enough to be
accepted casually by many pro-
fessional flyers. (From Guy
Murchie's interesting book,
Song of the Sky) I personally
find it hard to share their care
free forgetfulness of the mean
ing of flight. Perhaps it is from
having spent so many years en-
tirely on the ground between
flying jobs that the sky still
slaps me fresh in the face at
every take-off 1t hit me
especially hard one night while
climbing over San Francisco
Bay into the vast moonlit Pa
cific Ocean of the air with a
load of human blood for Korea.
sensed anew then the boldness
of this upper world of the fu-
ture that we are just managing
to peek at through its slightly
opened door. Casual as they
are, the flying men of today
have a rashness of spirit that !
feel in my every bone as ! slant
upward over the sparkling
cable-car hill of the gold-rush
city. Of course the men Of last
century were bold too in their
way, but they were dealing
with the homely things they
knew: marlin spikes and axes
and muzzle-loading guns, cross
trees and whales and the great
waves of the ancient deep. To-
day the instruments we use and
invent are SO strange their
strangeness alone is frighten-
ing. and the very waves of our
ocean have scarce begun to be
understood It is plain that
life on earth has suddenly
quickened. One generation has
leapt off a horses back and
through the sonic wall. Life
moves naturally upward In a
spiral, but here the spiral is
bent strangely, before continu-
ing it's accelerating, buoyant
course. 1t is the way OF things
important to life. It is irregu-
lar, not entirely practicable, but
continuing: the motion of air
under wings that hold up air
planes and birds, the flow OF
blood, the breath of conscious
ness, the growth of stars, even
the prophetic revelations OF
God In 1888 two French
brothers In the paper-making
craft noticed how a fire watts
pieces of paper upward on its
hot clouds of smoke, and they
tried filling paper bag full
of the same kind of smoke to
see if it would rise too. 1t did.
Even better than they had ex-
pected! And so Joseph and
Etienne Montgolfier got started
In ballooning. They looked up
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Published by East Publications Co.,
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under Act Of March 8, 1879.
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SUBSCRIPTIONS
Evening star., 1960-11-08

weekly poll on one day -. 1t
could happen again, and sew
eral Of the clubs in the select
circle this week face rugged
opposition.
Top-ranking Minnesota, for
one. The Golden Gophers meet
unranked Purdue. a much
better team than its record in
dicates. Mississippi, No. 4 now,