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Evening star., 1960-06-23
CONSTANTINE BROWN
Our Faulty Political Intelligence

most excellent kind is worth
less unless correctly analyzed
and then correctly acted
upon. The role of the CIA in
political intelligence is prop
erly that of gathering it,
eValuating it at least in a
preliminary sense, and see
ing that the results go to the
right people. But in the &C
ton sense, it is not for the
most part function of CHA
to direct a sound course.
That is the responsibility for
the Nations leaders.
And again true, it is easier
by far to evaluate and act
upon military intelligence in
formation than on political
intelligence. The resources Of
a nations military establish
ment can, with a fair degree
of accuracy, be discovered
and measured. Political af-
fairs, however, are too in
tangible, unpredictable some
times, and always subject to
unmeasurable factors.
But it appears demon
strable, in the face of the
facts of the political develop
mentS over the past decade,
that American political in
telligence has been some
thing less than satisfactory
in many important areas.
Too many near-cataStrophes
have occurred. The balance
sheet is poor, and The condi-
ton cannot be ascribed to
happenstance alone.
World communism, we GER
tainly ought to realize, has a
far-flung system of political
espionage that, Judging by
results, really does deliver
the goods to The Kremlin.
Confronted by such a reality,
can we afford to continue the
not very convincing effective
ness of the political intelli-
gence system we seem to
have?
Evening star., 1960-06-23
Non-MiIitoy Information System Called
Ineffective and in Need of Action

irreparable disaster before
the significance of the
Mossadegh directions were
realized. That crisis was con-
tained in time.
There were many others.
We were either uninformed
or misinformed, or someone
somewhere m ade a very
faulty analysis, on the true
situation in Iraq in 1858. We
have been caught without
adequate appreciation of the
political realities in Algeria,
in Egypt. in Lebanon, even
in France and Italy.
Sometimes these deficien-
cies were extremely danger
Gus. More often, fortunately,
they have been only embar-
RAISING, but to lose prestige
in this divided world today
is dangerous enough. Leader
ship depends on confidence
of those who need leading.
If the United States cannot
or does not command con-,
fldence, the opposition will
take over the minds of those
we seek to lead.
Vice President Nixon
earned admiration and praise
for his calm and courageous
conduct in the face of a
splitting, rock-hurling, mur-
derous mob in Caracas, Vene-
zuela, three years ago. On
that same trip there were
other, happily less violent,
demonstrations. Could none
of these have been antici-
pated?
And right now there is the
matter of Fidel CaStros
Cuba. Why is there any
doubt in the administration
as to the nature and extent
of Communist leadership in
Castro's government?
True. intelligence Of the
Evening star., 1960-06-23

The cancellation of Presi-
dent Eisenhower's visit to
Japan raises again an i'm
portant question as to the
effectiveness of our political
intelligence. Can it not be
asked logically why the
White House did not have
enough information, or in
formation of sufficient ac-
curacy. in advance of the
Presidents departure for the
Far East to have made a
better analysis of the Tokyo
situation possible?
There appears to be little
question that the military
intelligence service provided
by the Central Intelligence
Agency has been effective.
The fact, for example, that
weather observation" planes
have been taking pictures for
some four years all over the
Soviet Union and that on
May l. when the U-2 was
downed, there was actually
another weather" plane in
the air proves that military
intelligence is efficient, thor
ough and daring.
But time after time, the
United States and the West
have been caught either nap
ping or grossly in error on
political situations existing in
danger areas of the world.
There was the violent upris-
ing, under Communist lead
ership, in Bogota, Colombia,
when the Western Hemi-
spheres leading foreign min
listers were there for an
important conference. There
was the business of Iran,
where the free world very
nearly suffered an almost
Evening star., 1960-06-23
China Schooling

HONG KONG, June % (AP)
The New China News Agency
reports Communist China plans
to send every child over 6 to
primary school by 1862 and
every youngster to secondary
school by 1867. The Peoples
Daily recently reported illit-
eraCy among Chinese laborers
had dropped from 80 to 20 per
cent since l949.
Evening star., 1960-06-23
Clothing Need Met
For Chilean Relief

officials Of the District
Chapter of the American Red
Cross have announced that all
clothing needs for Chilean re-
lief have been met.
Edward Burling, jr., co-ordi-
nator of disaster relief activi-
ties in the Washington area,
said cash contributions are
still needed.
Evening star., 1960-06-23
DORIS FLEEsoN
Aftermath of the Far East Visit

port in diplomatic circles,
even among this country's
closest friends.
Even while Senator SAL
tonStall was speaking, the
Prime Minister of Peru, Pc
dro Beltran, was giving a
private luncheon of the Sen
ate Foreign Relations COM
mittee the benefit of his ex-
tremely somber expectations
regarding the months ahead
in Latin-America.
He warned that the dis
turbances in Cuba represent
only the first bridgehead in
the area, with many more to
come at times and places of
the Kremlin's choosing. The
personality of Fidel Castro,
he said, was less important
than the pattern itself which
will be often repeated.
Significantly, none of his
hosts seemed disposed to ar
que with him but listened at
tentively and in silence.
Secretary Herter also as
sured the Senate Appropria-
tions subcommittee that the
Presidents travels abroad
were ended and that empha-
sis would be returned to ira
ditional diplomacy" Sena-
tor Saltonstall said such di-
plomacy had continued "un-
abated."
The hint is faint but un-
mistakable that the President
may be proving a little OBJ
stinate about ending his
Journeys on the sour Japa-
nese note.
Evening star., 1960-06-23
Khrushchev to Visit
Cubu in AUGUST

MEXICO CITY, June %
(AP).-Soviet Premier Nikita
Khrushchev will visit Cuba
some time in August, Soviet
Ambassador Vladimir I. Bazikin
said here yesterday. He did
not specify the exact date.
Mr.. Bazikin said earlier the
Soviet Union would open an
embassy in Havana before Mr..
Khrushchev's visit. The Soviet
Premier announced June 3 that
he had accepted Cuban Prime
Minister Fidel Castro's invita-
tion to visit.
Evening star., 1960-06-23
DAVID LAWRENCE

What really happened in
Japan-and who was at
fault? The headlines say
Secretary of State Herter now
comedies that an "error" was
made and that the informa-
tion as to what might be ex-
pected from the mobS if Pres
ident Eisenhower went to
Japan led to a "misjudg-
ment."
When a Secretary of State
testifies before the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee,
he can hardly accuse a friend
ly government of committing
errors. Yet the all-important
fact is that the government
of Japan was not able to
maintain law and order and
was not capable of assuring
the safety of a foreign digni-
tary whom it had invited for
an official visit.
In the midst of Japan's
humiliation, it was embar-
RAISING for the American
Secretary of State to be asked
to fix the blame. 1t was much
better for him to do as he
did-to take the blame him.
self for misjudgment.
But the story of the events
leading up to the withdrawal
OF the invitation to the
President now is very clear.
The Japanese government
wanted Mr.. Eisenhower to
come to Japan and hoped
that there would be no dis
turbanceS. The newspapers
reported hostility and threats
of demonstrations. But the
japanese government was
reluctant to admit or to rec
ognize the danger.
Even when Presidential
Press Secretary James Ha-
gerty was surrounded by a
mob in Tokyo, there was a
feeling that the Communists
had done their worst and that
they surely would not actu-
ally prevent the Eisenhower
visit. Stories began to be
circulated that there was a
possibility the Presidents
life might be endangered.
American security officials
privately expressed their
fears. To refuse to 60 would
put Mr.. Eisenhower in the
position of being afraid. 1t
Evening star., 1960-06-23
RALPH McGILL
Group Believed Ready to Go Back
To Party for Johnson-Kennedy Ticket

Most of the conservative
Southern Democrats in buSi-
ness and the professions who
became Eisenhower Repub-
licans in 1852 are willing to
come back to the party if it
will but nominate Lyndon
Johnson and Jack Kennedy.
in that order.
They think Senator Ken
nedy is "a fine boy with a
future" a descriptive sem
tence which will infuriate
the forces behind the gentle
man from Massachusetts. But
they do not think he can be
elected. They are candid
enough to admit that SEN
ator Johnson cannot be
elected without Senator Ken
nedy. But they do insist that
the combination would can
Gel out the liabilities attached
to each individually. Thus,
Senator johnson could carry
the South and some of the
Midwest and Western States
where the Catholic religion
may be a political liability.
And Senator Kennedy could
take the Northern and New
England States where his
religion is an asset and
where Senator johnson alone
would not be able to win
votes from the minority
groups.
Southern conservatives are
not alone in devoting at least
Is minutes each day to
dreaming about such a COM
bination and its possibilities.
Senator johnson is the favor
lite of many of the old Taft
Republicans. There long has
been a close political blood
relationship between the two.
They are fearful about Mr..
Nixon, viewing him as a man
who is not to be trusted be-
Evening star., 1960-06-23
Weakness of the Tokyo Government,
Not u. S. Error Called at Fault

would also imply that the
United States couldn't rely
on the japanese government
to maintain order and protect
the President.
The Monday morning quar-
terbacks now are saying that
the President shouldn't have
agreed to go in the first place.
But the invitation was ex-
tended at a time when Nikita
KhruShchey was on friendly
terms with the United States
and long before the events
occurred that started the
Soviet Premier and his agents
on tactic of demonstrations
unfriendly to America. But
then, it is asked, why couldn't
the President have Cancelled
the trip Immediately after
the summit" conference in
Paris collapsed? If he had
done so, he would have dis
appointed the peoples of the
Philippines, Form osa and
Korea. He could, on the other
hand, hardly have gone to
some Far Eastern countries
allied with us and not to
Japan.
Hence, the question of just
how to abandon the trip be-
came a delicate one. Mr..
Eisenhower was ready to take
the risks. but the japanese
government finally admitted
that it might not be able to
control the mobs.
Was this chain of events,
then, the American govern
ment's responsibility? OBJ
vlouSly If friendly relations
were to be maintained with
Japan, it would have been
unwise for the President to
decline to 60 to Tokyo. Also
when members of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee
unfortunately insisted, for
partisan political reasons, on
forcing Mr.. Herter to discuss
a delicate matter like the
cancellation of the Presi-
dents visit to Japan, it was
natural for the American
Secretary of State to use di-
plomacy in avoiding any un-
pleasant comment about the
japanese government.
AS Senator Saltonstall of
Massachusetts,, Republican,
said yesterday after Mr.. Her
Evening star., 1960-06-23
Citizens Transit Unit

The Citizens Transit I'M
provement Association will hold
its monthly meeting at 7:30
pm. tomorrow at 1915 L street
NV.
Evening star., 1960-07-03

the know-how of the only man around with the
skill to do the job "a Negro slave named Philip
Reed The original plaster cast pictured on this
page) now stands in the Smithsonian Institution.
At exactly noon on December 2, 1868, the Statue
Of Freedom was raised by steam hoist to the pin
nacle of the justcompeed iron dome of the Capitol
The unveiIing of the statue heralded by 35gun
salute from Union Army battery = just about the
last burst of notoriety the lady got
Only handful of men have touched her garments
since she went aloft. One was Charles F. Thomas,
mechanical engineer, who rode up with the steam
hoist at the unveiling in 1868. With hammer and
steel dyes, Thomas stamped words on the topmost
feather of the plume. He predicted that no man
would see for thousand years what he had written
there. So far he's right.
Mike Parise, bronze 6nisher who crawled inside
the statues hollow body during the recent physical
examination, made another discovery: Freedom was
ringing with the buzz of million mad hornets.
The hornets have been dispossessed. Starlings
who nestle on the lady's feet the next target.
1--WE thinking of installing electronic screen
to shock the starlings,' Capitol Building spokes
man told me. I'VE hope to drive them over to the
Supreme Court Building"
By strange quirk of city planning, the Statue of
Freedom, though on direct line with the Washing
ton Monument and Lincoln Memorial, has her back
turned to both these landmarks.
Evening star., 1960-07-03

statue on the Capitol Dome was good friend of
his - Grandma Reeves"
Unable by now to glance up at the statue without
seeing composite of Pocahontas and Grandma
Reeves headed straight for the Capitol archives.
Capitol building experts quickly helped to clear
away the clouds around the lofty lady's identity.
The figure is now officially known as the Statue of
Freedom, although its sculptor christened it EARNED
Liberty" 1t is l9 feet inches high, weighs l4985
pounds and cost $23, ,7o6 = $236 900 less than her
more popular sister, the Statue of Liberty, whose
Evening star., 1960-07-03

senting group. They insist the statues Hiawatha.
We also ran across veteran sightseeing guide
who for 33 years has been telling visitors to
nations capital that the bronze figure up there on
the dome is pregnant Indian girl" He says the
statue was originally called Birth of Nation, and
was meant to symbolic the fact that the Indians
gave birth to a nation on this continent
An Internal Revenue Service a MONDAY
stroll sneered at the Indian maiden theme. That's
Chief Sitting Bull, y he said. Same man who's
the nickel" Another passerby said it was an Indian
Chief of the Iroquois tribe praying for rain.
Here are some of the other answers we received:
Taxi driver: That's Queen Isabella offering the
royal Jewels to Columbus before he set sail for the
New World
MGiIman: tits Carry Nation, the woman who
used to go around chopping down saloons.
Insurance suIesman: "It's Balboa discovering the
Pacific"
Tourist from Pittsburgh: ri don't know her name,
but it's that woman who said, Shoot if you must
this old gray head"
We also recorded scattered votes for Dolly Madi-
son, Joan of Arc, Paul Revere, Captain John Paul
Jones, Betsy Ross and Miles Standish.
Towards the end of our sidewalk survey, we saun-
tered up to an elderly, gray-haired lady whom we
had noticed standing behind tripodbased camera
on the spacious Capitol lawn. Her name was Mrs. M.
E. Reeves. Almost every day for the past Is years,
she has been taking official class pictures of visiting
school children with the Capitol dome as perma-
nent backdrop We asked Mrs. Reeves what the
Washington guides official line when children
asked questions about the statue.
'Why, they tell the kids it's me up there" she
said. ''You see, I've been here SO many years, the
guides think of me as fixture. So they tell the
children, That's Grandma Reeves up there One
little boy put in a school composition that the
Evening star., 1960-07-03

right is twice long the dome statues torso.
The statue is that of a woman clad in flowing
draperies. Her right hand rests on the hilt of
sheathed sword. Her left hand clasps the shield of
the United States and a laurel wreath denoting
triumph and honor. At the waist, brooch bearing
the letters ''U.S." holds the drapery in place.
The head is covered by helmet encircled with
stars and surmounted by a crest composed of an
eagles head and bold arrangement of feathers. The
sculptor, Thomas Crawford, originally designed it in
1855 with wreath on her head. But to Secretary
of War Jefferson Davis, who had commissioned
the work, Crawfords pagan" wreath suggested
liberty-cap, the recognized badge of freed Roman
slaves. This too strong dose of freedom"
for Jeff Davis and he instructed Crawford to outfit
the lady in a different hat. The noncommittal
feathers we're the result.
The ssusve encounters trouble en- route
Crawford, one of the outstanding scu ptors of his
day. got So 900 for the job He executed it in clay in
his studios in Rome, supposedly using his daughter
as the model of freedom. A plaster model of the
statue was shipped to America in April, 1853, but
didn't arrive until year later The bark on which
it was travelling, the Emily Taylor sprung leak and
was sold for kindng wood in Bermuda, where the
statue langushed for eight months After its arrival
in the U.S. the statue cast in bronze, thanks to
Evening star., 1960-07-03

However, the lady at least has something to look
forward to. A new $l2-million athletic park, the
District of Columbia Stadium, will soon be built on
27-acre plot east of the Capitol. By 1862 she'll
be able to watch the ball games
Although the Statue of Freedom isn't as big as the
Statue of Liberty, she's been standing % years
longer And though circumstances have made her
recluse the Creta Carbo of sculpture - she has
one consolation: nobody has scrawled ''Kilroy
was here'' on her noble anatomy The End
Evening star., 1960-03-27
TOP Tunes
By HARRY BACAS
star Staff Writer

"This Magic Moment"
continues a long series
of hits recorded by the
DrifterS.
This time the song is
a ballad done in an opu-
lent style with lots of
strings. 1t was written
by a couple of New
Workers, Mort Schulman
and Doc PomuS who also
published it in their own
firm.
They sold Jerry Wex-
Ter of Atlantic Records
on recording it and he
called in Jerry Lieber
and Mike Stoller to pro-
duce the record.
Lieber and Stoller are
a very successful song
writing team who sew
eral years ago got into
the business of pro-
ducing records as well
as writing songs. Before
coming to Atlantic they
worked for a while for
RCA Victor.
Lieber and Stoller got
Stan Applebaum to ar
range "ThiS Magic Mo
ment." He orchestrated
it for piano, drums,
bass, two guitars Zone
Spanish, one electric),
two saxophones, flute,
trombone and II strings.
The session was held
at the Bell Sound Stu
dioS, one of the busiest
in New York, on West
55th street. The DrifterS
recorded four different
Evening star., 1960-03-27

songs at the session.
Two of them appear on
this record and the
other two will be the
next record.
''ThiS Magic Moment"
was done about IL
times. The seventh t h
''take" was the one that
was finally used. The
directors tried different
tempos and rhythms
and changed some of
Evening star., 1960-03-27

vivaD I predicted was a very
good one, and I'm glad he
brought it up. The letter he
saw in TEEN had been cut to
save space. In its entirety it
stated that this would not be
a good religious revival. 1t
will be a Billy Sunday-Sweet
Daddy Grace type revival.
1t will be a wild evangelical
revival Resembling the flcti-
tious one described in the
book, Revolt In 2100. and will
bear very little resemblance
to. any of the perfectly re-
spectacle forms of religion
around today.
Any more questions?
ID. N.
Evening star., 1960-03-27
Nolan Replies

On February % you pub
lished a letter of mine in
which I said anyone with
more than four children
should be shot. This past
Sunday there appeared sew
eral replies. Please publish
the enclosed letter. which is
in reply to those replies:
Having said in my letter Of
the 28th that I would back
up my statements. I will.
Richard Moss brought up
some very good points and
presented them we'll. He Is
correct in assuming that by
"shoot" I meant severely
punish" but if some action is
not taken within 20 years. it
will have to be shoot"
literally.
At the present rate Of pop
ulation growth there will be
6la billion people crowded
onto our planet by 1000 AID.
This crowding would have
disastrous effects, as can be
seen by looking at China.
which is already vastly over
populated.
AS for ORCHARDS complaint
that my statements concern
ing censorship and overpopu-
lation (being contradictory =,
they are. The main difference.
of course, is that population
control is necessary and CEN
Sorship isn't.
Now for Sue A.
I'm tempted to skip her
sticks-and-S stones letter. but
I won't. Sue A. no doubt
comes from a family with lots
of children. or else plans to
have lots herself. y merely
hope that when 1000 AID.
rolls around with its huge
population that she and her
numerous children don't
starve to death.
Finally. the letter from
r. F.
He Cor she) says he does
not want to talk about any
thing more than Milt Grant,
country music, clothing and
so forth. But just where has
r. F. been that he has not
heard about the population
problem. Probably reading
True Trash Magazine.
The question r. F. raised
concerning the religious re-
Evening star., 1960-03-27
SIocks?

I disagree with Joe'S ideas
on girls wearing slackS. It
would be very hard to wear
skirts or dresses while horse
back riding. shedding. bowl
ing and sometimes skating.
But to the movies and when
going out to eat, I think girls
should wear dresses or skirts.
&c
I feel slackS have their
place only for bowling, horse
back riding and houSework.
Some girls go to the movies
in slacks, obviously only for
the attention Of the opposite
sex.
AS for lipstick. the color
would depend on the girls
complexion. but there are
now many hideous colors that
don't look good on anyone.
The same goes for those awful
green, blue and lavender nail
polishes. From what l hear
the boys say, girls that wear
these types of lipsticks and
nail poliSheS are Immediately
claSSed as cheap.
r. C.
Evening star., 1960-03-27
FubuIous?

Can someone please tell
me what happened to that
fabulous disc jockey from
WARL, Stan the Man? He
hasn't been on the radio
lately and l notice that he
has been excluded from the
disc jockeys top 10 list.
NANCY NEWELL.
Stan has SWITCHED to
WIDOW. The topic disc
jockey at that station is Don
billiard.
Evening star., 1960-03-27

the musical figures be-
fore they were satisfied.
They had the violinS
stand up while they
played, to give them
greater volume.
The session was re-
corded in stereo, on
three different tape ma
chimes and the three
tapes were later mixed"
to make the record mas
ter.
Evening star., 1960-03-27
PL AY BACK
From TEEN Readers

Letters the Editor must carry Drtters correct names
addresses and telephone numbers Pen names DH be
used requested An letters subject to condenSd-
tton. Address letters to TEEN The Washington Star.
Washington ;, D. C.
Evening star., 1960-03-27

The DrifterS, who were
formed originally as a
showcase for singer
Clyde McPhatter, have
been working as a
straight quartet since
he left them in 1855.
Their lead singer, Ben
E. King Second from
left) has been attract
ing a lot of attention,
however, and he may
soon be billed as a SoliSt.
Evening star., 1960-03-27

Record
5. Mountain Of Love
6. At My Front Door
!. Theme From a
Summer Place
8. You Don't Know Me
9. Clemcntine
10. Think Me a Kiss
Evening star., 1960-03-27

Nobody Loves
Me Like You
FlomingoS
Evening star., 1960-03-27
AREA DISC JOCKEYS PICK TOP TEN RECORDS
Consensus the RATINGS of D. is

Record
1. l Love the Way You
Love
2. Sink the Bismarck
3. Footsteps
4. Stairway to Heaven
Don't Throw Away
All Those TeardrOps