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Aid to Laos:


The United States resumed
paying the salaries Of the Lao
tian Army last week after a sus.
pension over a month.
When financial assistance and
military aid to Laos was cut of
last month. the reason seemed
obvious enough: Which of three
factions in that Southeast Asian
nation ought to be assisted?
Efforts by the State Department
to get guarantees from the neu-
tralist government of Prince Sou
wanna Phouma failed. Washing
ton and the Southeast Asia Treaty
Organization had sought to have
Premier Prince Souvanna Join
forces with a right-wing move
ment led by Gen. Phoumi Nosa-
van in order to foreStall further
successes by the Communist
Pathet Lao.
In Vientiane yesterday it was
still unclear whether the Ameri-
can payments would go to the
troops under the rebel Gen.
Phouni as well as to the forces
backing the Premier. The an
nouncement Of the resumption of
aid said merely that payments
were to be made to Royal Lao
tan government forces"
It was obvious that the decision
to resume payments was made as
a direct result Of a formal offer of
aid by the Soviet Union, whose
first Ambassador to the mountain
kingdom arrived in Vientiane a
week ago. Prince Souvanna has
been negotiating for a coalition
government with the Pathet Lao
and has announced a strictly neu-
tralist policy in foreign relations.
II Gen. Phoumi's troops want
to be paid. the Premier said yes
terday, the general would have
TO send his paymasters" to Wen
tiane.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-23
Renewal Demands

As for the United Nations it.
self. Mr.. Khrushchev reiterated
his demands that Secretary Gen.
eral Dag Hammarskjold, who has
a capitalist-oriented mentality"
resign and that he be replaced
by a three-man executive body
representing the change in the
world power situation since the
U, N. Charter was adopted in
1945. But the Khrushchev re-
marks on the world organization,
although repeating the same
charges he had made in New
York, lacked the bombast and
belligerence that characterized his
very dramatic appearances in the
Assembly.
For the City of New York, how
ever, Mr.. Khrushchev reserved
some words of contempt and con-
domination. Recalling Maxim
Gorky's comment made SO years
ago on New York. This is the city
of the yellow devil" Mr.. Khru-
shchev said the teeming town
was "repellant repulsive :.
demonstrates the ugliness and
degeneracy Of capitalism. :"
Although lacking the fire Of
the U. N. speeches. the Premier's
Moscow report was nevertheless
pessimlstic on the hopes for
peaceful co-existence. Led by the
United States, he charged, the
Western allies were deliberately
blocking genuine efforts to achieve
an EaSt-West detente and effec-
tive disarmament. Life will
teach them" he warned, wag-
ging finger and Scowling, "the
wind is not blowing in our face"
Close observers have been fas-
cinated by the volatile nature of
the Khrushchev behavior during
and since the General Assembly
session. A bear with cleaning
fangs at times when he berated
the u N. from the rostrum,
gesticulating heckler from the
Soviet desk when he disliked the
remarks of another speaker in
the Assembly, Mr.. Khrushchev
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A New Outlook

But last week his fortunes
changed. The President of the
province Of Leopoldville. Cleophas
Kamitatu, demanded that Col.
Modulus soldiers cease footing.
raping and numbering" If the
troops loyal to Col. Mobutu were
not confined to barracks, he
threatened, the province of Leo
poldville would secede.
Col. Mobutu appealed to the
U. N. administrator for the Congo,
RajeShwar Dayal. But after scv-
eral conferences. he returned to
his fortified army post and an
nounced that the U. N. was
treating me like a child" and
his speciality created commission
Of government technicians as
".schoolboys."
With the formal charge that,
the U. N. was actively backing
ex-Premier Lumumba, Col. Mo-
butu yesterday broke of relations
with the u. N. command. The
pro-Western colonel. a Catholic
former journalist, said he will
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-23

young army officer who had come
between the Lumumba faction
and that of President Joseph
Kasavubu severed relations with
the United Nations command and
declared he would fy to the
United States to seek support.
Col. Mobutu had appeared to
be gaining ground in his efforts
to end factional strife, keep out
Communist influences. and es-
tablish q strong Congo govern
ment. He had achieved a truce
with Noise TShombe, President
of secessionist Katanga province.
He had expelled the stats of the
Soviet and Czech Embassies and
the hundreds of Soviet techni-
clans sent to help Lumumba. He
had made some progress in bring
ing order to the chaotic govern
ment offlceS and in controlling
bloody tribal warfare,
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press disagreement with Mr.. San
chez Piedras.
Mr.. Sanchez PiedraS, Mexicans
insist. is just one man. True, his
diatribe received warm applause;
but that may not mean much. It
is a fact. however. that a substan-
tial part of Mexican public opinion
is left Of center. Former President
Lazaro Cardenas is still q force to
be reckoned with. A few months
ago he visited Castro in Cuba. Mr..
Lopez MateoS must think Of do
nestle political repercussions be-
fore he publicly chastizes Sanchez
PiedraS.
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An InYosion:?


Castro expedition. consisting of
Cuban exiles and refugees, was
ready to attempt an invasion Of
Cuba were given official credence
by Havana last week. The Castro
government protested officially to
the United Nations that such an
invasion force, financed secretly
by the United States, was being
prepared in Guatemala. The ru-
mors, without confirmation, spoke
Of over So million being spent by
United States agencies to organize
the counter-revolutionary army"
And the Havana government
promised that If the invasion took
place, there would be an "annihi-
lation" operation that would leave
no survivors except two or three,
who would be taken to the U. N,
General Assembly as evidence of
United States aggression"
On Thursday, the United States
Ambassador to Cuba. Philip w.
Bonsal, was recalled to Washing
ton for extended consultations.
He is not expected to return to his
Havana post durin" he remaining
months of the Eisenhower admin
istration. Although the State De-
partment declared that Mr.. Bon
sails recall and the trade embargo
had no connection, it was believed
generally that both actions were
part of a calculated policy shift
toward Castro's Cuba that had
strong connections tn the campaign
of Vice President Nixon in the
presidential election.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-23
BACK OF PRESIDENTS VISIT t9- u
Where We Stand With Mexico

their chief, while the Cathedral's
deep-throated bells tolled.
And, from his balcony he, for
whom the bells tolled, proclaimed:
Mexico Is every day more sover-
etgn, more Independent, more free
:. Forward, Mexicol" The crowd
roared as q papier maehe, green
Glade figure of a capitalist In top
hat, plastered with dollar signs,
was hanged from q crane and
burned.
Long Way to 60
So the revolution continues. It
still has a long way to go. Between
the rich upper class and the mass
es there is a growing middle class.
But there is still vast gulf be-
tween the sockless workers and the
upper-class businessmen, bankers
and, above all. politicians and rich
ex-office holders. who live in the
plush suburbs and have additional
homes in Cuernavaca and Aca-
pulco.
The revolution has materially
benefited only about fifth Of the
population-after half a century.
Mexico, it is said there, is con-
trolled by not more than $50 ire
mendously wealthy men. In a re-
cent book a Mexican economist,
Mrs. Ifigenia Navarette, wife of a
government official, shows that
while the rich get richer, the poor
gets poorer. In 1850 families con-
shutting the bottom fifth of the
income scale got 81 per cent
share Of the total income; in 1857
they got "A per cent. Meanwhile.
families constituting the top 80
per cent increased their real in
comes by 80 per cent. The top
most per cent of all Mexican
families garnered 81 per cent Of
the national income in 1857.
Poor Distribution
The gains of the rich have been
at the expense of the plodding
masses of factory workers and
farmers. Not for them are the
glass-walled apartments and sky
scraper Office buildings Of the
capital; the soft luxuries of Aca-
pulco; or the lava-rock domiciles
of the Jardines del Pedregal de
San Angel. with their private
swimming pools and duck ponds.
Is the revolution now complete?
Will the fruits Of the ever
expanding Mexican economy be
spread to the four-fifths of the
people for whom life and toll still
is not much different from the
days of Diaz: the taxi driver who
nets the equivalent Of SIG a week;
the family with an income Of $40
a month; the Swear -old newsboy
who hops on and of moving buses
late at night?
To Americans this Is more than
an academic question. For one
thing we have $760 million in
vested in factories, mines and
other businesses in Mexico. IN
Cubas case we have Just seen 81
billion Of like investments 60
down the drains as the door
opened to communism. And the
Communists are hard at work In
Mexico.
From Ciudad Acuna, perhaps,
President Eisenhower will bring
back a word Of reinsurance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-23
Always q FoetOr

There is always certain sedi-
ment Of anti-Americanism in Lat
in America. Just as many Ameri-
cans can't forget the Revolutionary
War and the War Of 1912, so Mex
leans remember the Mexican War
and more recent invasions from
the north. Despite our close eco
nomic ties and present friendship
for Mexico. differences in language.
culture and religion still exist.
Among the various Latin Ameri-
can peoples there is always q sym
pathetic tie. Hence, in the begin
ming at least. the Castro revolu-
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Khrushchev:
Report on u. N.

Soviet Premier Khrushchev
Thursday told his peoples that
DULLES brinkmanship" was
United States policy, and that
the U. N. must be revamped.
Moscow's Sports Palace, crowded
with some $4,000 officials and civil
servants Of the Soviet government,
didn't seem much like the great
hall Of the General Assembly of
the United Nations Thursday. The
man who had banged on his desk
with his shoe at the U. N. was, in
Moscow, serious, restrained, and
undemonstrative.
The occasion was Mr.. Khru-
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was able to say, when he left
New York, I'VE are leaving in a
good mood; there is a glimmer
OF. hope :, as to the friendly
feelings Of the American people
and their concern for peace, we
have never doubted this and do
not doubt it now"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-23

come to the United States for
direct assistance.
In his well-protected villa in
Leopoldville, Mr.. Lumumba was
watchfully awaiting his moment,
and his chances appeared good.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-23
In the Conqo::
MobutuOut?

Hopes for peace and stability
in the chaotic Congo were dim
last week as Col. Joseph Mo-
butu, the strong man who had
seemed to be achieving q settle
ment Of factiOnal strife, broke
on relations with the U. N.
The ousted Congolese Premier
Patrice Lumumba may be back in
power in Leopoldville, capital Of
the Congo, at an early date, diplo-
mats were specializing yesterday.
His big chance came when the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-23
Maverick Jondreou
|StortIes Own Union
BY TRUMAN r. TEMPLE
star stan Writer

I
Probably the most controversial
imam in the world today to 10000
Iunion workers at General Electric
Co. is q labor leader named Leo
IJandreau.
Turning maverick. a role he
knows to perfection, MIR. Jandreau
last Monday broke with the top
brass Of the International Union
of Electrical Workers and led
Ibis own local--biggest and most
powerful in GE-back to work.
The shock of this detection
reverherated all week through
1.-THE unions ranks as it strug-
Igled to continue its national
strike against G. E.
If you want patsy" he told
the 1UE president, James B.
Carey, you can blame me-"
Mr.. Carey did just that. In a
burst Of his well-known temper
Inc called Mr.. Jandreau a Judas
goat" but seemed unable to do
Imuch about 1t.
IAN Importont Locol
Because OF its location and size
(now $500 workers. Mr.. jan
dreau's unit has always had a
national importance. Local 301
is the mother local" situated in
the city where GE makes its
headquarters. Mr.. Jandreau is
well aware that psychologically
1t is the keystone to the TUES
strength. and that his move dealt
q serious blow against the strike.
What kind OF man is Leo jan
dreau? Why did he abandon Mr..
Carey at this critical time?
To those familiar with Mr.. jan
dreau's history. last weeks ma
neuver fitted into familiar pat
tern, He has feuded with Mr..
Carey at least dozen years, and
his opposition to the national
union has been demonstrated be-
fore.
His myopia regarding the ma
tional picture has been partly
forced on him by the hard facts of
local union politics. He has beaten
of many assaults within ranks on
his leadership, some of them by
razor margins, and is sensitive to
members opinions. If sentiment
blew against the GE strike in
Schenectady, he would be the first
to smell It.
Mr.. Jandreau is IS years old, of
French-Irlsh descent, and speaks
In a hoarse raSp on the platform.
He drinks vast amounts of coffee,
dresses conServatively, wears horn
trimmed eye glasses. and generally
is mild and courteous with re-
porters.
How He Began
He was born In Schenectady, a
rather volatile and unlikely prod
uct for this staid manufacturing
city. and helped organize Local 301
during the depression. In 1887 he
was elected its business agent, the
real seat Of power in the local,
and has held this job ever since.
To understand the hostility be-
tween Mssrs. Carey and Jandreau,
It's necessary to digest a bit Of
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Continued From Page CT

Of the diversion of consumer goods,
industrial equipment. and other
relatively scarce items to Mr..
Castro's island.
But the output of the Commu-
mist nations, growing apace though
1t is. is considered almost totally
inadequate to make up the Cuban
demand for essentials. Unless Maj.
Guevara is correct, and black
marketers do make the embargo
meaningless, or unless other ma
lions Of the Western Hemisphere,
through expensive double ship
mentS, make up the difference,
Cuba's economy is in for trouble.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-23
His Greet obsession

There's another explanation of
what makes him tick. He has a
single great obSession-Local 3Ol.
He founded 1t, built it. has run 1t
% years, and knows how to settle
its disputes with GE.
Add to this the memory Of the
disastrous IUE strike at westing-
house in 1856. which cost that
company $3.50 million in direct
production and lost strikers SIS
million in pay. and you furnish
Mr.. Jandreau a powerful argu-
ment for settling locally with GE
last week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-23
BY GERALD WARING
Contributing Writer

OTTAWA. - With the deadline
becoming dangerously imminent
now, the Canadian oil industry
appears likely to miss by a wide
margin the target that a royal
commission set for it last year:
The marketing by the end of 1860
of 100000 barrels of Canadian oil
a day. much of it in the United
States.
The Canadian government Is
thus faced with the problem of
what to do as a result Of the fail
ure of this voluntary" marketing
program.
Priority Task
Trade Minister Gordon Church.
Ill told Parliament recently that
the marketing of Canadian crude
oil will be a priority task" for gov
eminent consideration during the
next few weeks. Reliable inform
ants say this is likely to mean
government regulations requiring
Eastern Canadian oil refineries,
particularly those in the Montreal
district. to use a minimum of Ca
madam crude.
The crux of the problem is the
import of about 100000 barrels
daily of foreign oil, mainly Vene-
zuelan, into the Montreal area at
a cost Of some 400 million United
States dollars a year. Western
Canadian oil producers, whose
output is limited by lack of mar
kets to about 40 per cent of their
wells capacity, point to the drain
on foreign exchange reserves that
these heavy imports constitute.
But at the present time there are
no facilities for delivering any
thing like comparable quantities
of Western Canadian oil in the
Montreal market at a competitive
price.
Pressure on U. S.
The royal commissions advice
to the industry about finding
markets was understood by all
concerned to mean putting pres
sure on American parent COM
panies to buy more Canadian oil
for refining and sale in the United
States. It was also understood as
the alternative to construction of
$3.50 million pipeline from Al
berta to Montreal, with accom-
panying sharp restriction on
Montreal imports.
In the year since the royal
commission issued its marketing
advice as virtual ultimatum to
the industry, use of Canadian
crude has increased only in the
order of $4,000 to 10000 barrels
a day. This is about 165, 900 bar
relS a day short of the 100000
barrel target. Moreover, leading
figures In United States indus
try and Government have told
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We Cannot Accept i.

We Cannot Accept
AS related by Senators Kenneth
Heating and Thomas ]. Dodd and
Representative John j. Rhodes In
a September II press release in
Mexico City, Mexican Deputy
Emilio Sanchez Piedras-leader Of
the Mexican lower house-in a
floor speech implied that the
Cuban people were engaged in a
revolution to free themselves Of
outside forces as sinister as those
Of Naziism. Fascism and Franco
ism. The speaker left the clear inn
preston that this outside infiu-
ence, in the cast of Cuba. was the
United States. The legislators
added: I'VE cannot accept what
appeared to us to be unfriend-
illness bordering on discourtesy to-
ward our Government"
They were not the only ones
upset. All American investors in
Mexico-and their stake Is large
were disturbed. Doubtless the
Mexican government was cha
grined over this sour development
during the independence festivities.
Certainly leading Mexican busi-
neSSmen. who have close relations
with the United States, disap-
proved. The Mexican Senate i'm
mediately invited the offended
United States legislators to
friendly reception and the Ameri-
cans grasped the extended hand in
the spirit in which it was offered.
Up to now. however. President
Lopez Mateos. the only one who
can speak with authority for the
Mexican government and for the
revolutionary party, the PRI,
which fills almost all the seats in
the Mexican House and Senate,
has said no word publicly to ex-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-23
BACK OF PRESIDENTS VISIT
BY HERBERT BRATTER
contributins Writer

Tomorrow President Eisen-
hover, on his own initiative, Is
going to Ciudad Acuna, Mexico,
for visit with Mexico's President
Adolfo Lopez Mateos. The Eli
senhower trip will be something
more than vacation, however.
1t is being viewed in diplomatic
policy quarters as an important,
highest-level step in the iflcreas-
ingly determined United States
campaign to improve relations
with Latin America.
Fidel Castro's course in Cuba,
the alarming extent of Com
munist penetration In the Castro
regime, and the open sympathy
for. the Fidelistas' anti United
States policies in many Latin
American nations have spurred
the State Department to pay
closer attention to our diplomatic
fences. Mexico, probably more
than any other single Latin
American nation. is q vital key to
the strengthening Of those fences.
Relations between Mexico and
the United States have been ex-
cellent for many years. But there
have been developments recently
OF a disquieting nature; one Of
them resulted in a formal protest
by three United States lawmakers
last month during the celebration
OF Mexico's l50th independence
Day.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1960-02-26

yellow satin damask cloth, was
conferred with an exquisite floral
arrangement of white and pink
carnations, white and pink snaps,
pink roses and greenery. Crystal
candelabra on either side holding
white tapers, gold flat silverware
and the beautifully decorated birth
day cake made by Mrs. Alonzo
Lee, added to the picturesque table
setting.
Mrs. Lee, the former Martha
Withers, was married to Mr.. Lee
in Butte, Mont, February 20, 1912.
They were both former residents
Of Butte, moving to Minneapolis
in 1918, where they have made
their home. In addition to their
sons, they have five grandchildren,
Beverly, Warren, Cassie, Clifford
and Steven Lee.
Extending congratulations for 4S
years of marriage and for their
continued happiness were Rev. and
Mrs. John Young and family, Mes
srs and Mines. L. Riess, Orville
Drake, Charles White, Turner Mel
son, E. Glover, Frank Gonzales,
Arthur Lee, D. ]. Wade, o. T.
bearing, William Wade and chill
dren, Leroy Copes, John Norris,
William Threats, Mines. Mae Mar
shall, Martha Clayburn, Jessie
Shepard, Helen Underwood, Mr..
and Mrs. L. Morrow, Miss Era
Walls and Mr.. Albert Hurt.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee received many
gifts and cash tokens.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1960-02-26
HANK HAZLETT is
HONORED WITH PARTY
ON HIS BIRTHDAY

1t was an evening of merriment
for a group of friends Of Lawrence
Hank Hazlett at a birthday party
given for him by his wife Marion
on Wednesday, February 10, at
their home, 364S Portland Av.
Pastel colors Of green, yellow
blue and pink was the motif car
ried out in decorations. The theme
carried out was Back to Childhood
Days and guests wore paper hats,
played various children's games in
GLIDING dropping the clothespin in
the milk bottle; pinning the tail
on the donkey; carrying peanuts
on a knife; cotton on a knife and
the men pushed peanuts with their
noses, all adding up to a wonderful
evening of fun. Prizes were award
ed to each winner as well as TO
the losers.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1960-02-26
Parents Honored On
48+h Weddino Dote

The lovely new rambler home
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Alonzo Lee, 4535
seth Av. s., was the scene of a de-
lightful affair on Sunday after
noon, February 81, when the two
brothers and their wives, Mr.. and
Mrs. Edward Lee Jr. and the Alon-
70 Lees surprised their parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Lee Sr. OF
1880 Hiawatha Av. with a lavish
dinner party and reception in cele-
bration of their 48th wedding an
niversary.
The Senior Lees were unaware
that anything unusual would hap
pen when they were invited over
to their sons home for dinner.
When they arrived and were greet
ed by guests who had arrived earl
Ter, it was then that they knew
what it was all about.
The buffet table, planned by the
daughters, was an epicurean's de-
light, artistically set with a menu
that would whet the taste of the
most discriminating gourmet. The
dining table, spread with a soft
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1960-02-26
MINNEAPOLIS BIRTHDAYS

Feb. 27-Doris Grigsby, S74 AL
drich Av. N; Mrs. Jerry Sisson,
1929 Portland Av.; Rosaind Lou
Use Freeman, 1909 18th Av. N;
Dick Carlos Smith, 1901 Bryant
Av. N; Mrs. Jessie Jackson, 72O
Humboldt Av. N.
Feb. 2S-John Napue, 1921 Port
land Av.; Frances Anderson, SIS
Fremont Av. N.
Feb. 2e-Mr. Earett Glover,
$500 Fifth Av. s.; Mr.. William J.
Head, 1912 Fifth Av. S.
Mar. Mrs. Ida C. Wagner,
1899 Fifth Av. S.; Jack Parson,
706 Oak Lake Av. N; Mrs. Har-
riet Jones, 1921 Aldrich Av. s.;
Mrs. Gladys Simms, 900 Fremont
Av N; Virgil Hadley, 715 Logan
Av N; Mrs. Annie Coleman, 1902
E. 2sth St.; Mrs. Betty Cunning
ham, 1929 Fourth Av. S.
Mar. 2-Mrs. Bessie Green, 3437
Fourth Av. s.; Mr.. Jid Crews, 912
Fremont Av. N; Carl Wade Jr.,
1887 Fifth Av. s.; Freddie Lee
Luster, 523 Colfax Av. N.
Mar. 3-Lorraine Lewis, 1859
Humboldt Av. N: Curtis Chivers,
4O17 Clinton Av.; Carl Micah War
rem, 3648 Third Av. s.; B. l. Greer,