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May Go to Cuba

The impending visit of the Rus
sian chief, who may go on to Cuba
to visit his American-hating
friend, Fidel Castro, provoked ex-
pressions from both Republicans
and Democrats that his state
ments-and he is a man of many
statements-be ignored as far as
the presidential campaign is con-
cerned. For example:
Senator Javits, Republican Of
New York: HE (Mr. Khrushchev)
has fantastic reputation for say
ing what he does not think and
thinking what he does not say"
Senator Monroney. Democrat
of Oklahoma: 1.-THE timing of
his visit in the midst of our
presidential campaign indicates
that he is more interested in
propaganda than in peace" =
On the other hand, Senator
Kennedy, the Democratic nomi-
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ing than last-minute furry over
the question Of Dominican sugar.
Sugar legislation passed last
July, before the pre-convention
adjournment, gave the President
authority to reduce the Cuban
sugar quota, but prescribed ex-
actly the countries from which he
might seek replacement sugar and
how much he might buy from
each. When the Cuban quota was
later reduced by more than
100000 tons, the Dominican Re-
public, under the congressional
formula, was assigned 1922, 900 tons
of replacement sugar in addition
to its normal United States sales
quota of 10000.
After the Conference Of Ameri-
can Foreign Ministers in Costa
Rica this country broke diplomatic
relations with the Dominican Re-
public. To buy the sugar now, the
administration felt, would have
disastrous repercussions. Under
the July bill, however, it appeared
to have no choice but to authorize
the purchase before December 81,
1860. a
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The Sugar Issue

The President asked for author
ity to cut off the bonus allotment.
The Senate approved bill which
would relieve the President of the
obligation to buy the sugar or
give him the option of buying it
from other nations. The House
. refused to go along. It wanted
to tie onto the bill conditions the
Senate would not accept. An all
night session resulted but no way
could be found to bring the House
into an agreement. Fears were ex-
pressed that if the Trujillo gov
ernment fell in the Dominican Re-
public the Communists would
move in. House Democratic Leader
Mccormack gave this explanation
of its position:
"The White House has declared
war on the Dominican Republic
and I don't think Congress should
be a party to it,"
President Eisenhower issued a
statement after Congress failure
to act saying he regarded it as
extremely serious" Feeling was
so strong that there were reports
there might be a special session
called by the President on the
subject but they were mostly dis
counted.
Speculation was considerable
that he might be able to ignore
the congressional directive of July
on the ground that it conf1icted
with a foreign policy emergency.
Congress never dies, it just
changes. Already thoughts were
turning toward the first session
of the 87th Congress next January.
For five Senators and 19 Repre-
sentativeS the question was aca-
demic: They're retiring volun-
tarily. For the others they hope
to be back.
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Defiant Answer

On Friday night before an esti-
mated 300, 900 screaming partisans
in Havana, Castro shouted his
defiant answer to OAS. AS the
chant, Cuba, 81; Yanquis, nor,
so reminiscent of the Nazi'S "Sig
Heil!", rang out, the bearded
demagogue declared that Cuba
would recognize the Peiping re-
gime.
He provoked more frenzy by
making it clear that he would ac-
cept rocket support from the So
Wet Union and military aid from
Red China in the event of an
"imperialist" attack on Cuba.
Then he dramatically tore into
little bits copy of the United
States Cuba mutual defense
treaty Of 1852.
But Castro still was not finished.
If the United States continued
economic aggression" against his
country, he would order the
American Navy out of its big base
at Guantanamo Bay.
Washington diplomatic officials
say that Castro's recognition of
Red China comes as no surprise.
This may be so, because Havana
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REPORT FROM The u N.
How u. S. Could Seize the Initiative

fensive - and win considerable
world acclaim in the process.
President Eisenhower's speech,
If he does indeed make it, would
launch the offensive. Among
other things he would lay before
the Assembly the new and updated
open-skies and open-space plan
he wanted to present to the Paris
summit. This would provide a
handle, starting-point, for the
AsSembly's debate on disarma-
ment, competing in that respect
with whatever Mr.. Khrushchev
may be planning to offer.
In recent weeks, both the United
States and the Soviet Union have
recovered objects which had been
rocketed into orbit-the United
States, capsule of instruments;
the Russians a flying menagerie.
This means that both could put
hydrogen bomb, or a hundred
hydrogen bombs, in orbit and re-
lease them onto relatively small
targets at any chosen moment.
The era of push-button warfare
has arrived with a vengeance.
Disarmament Interest
World interest in disarmament
accordingly has intensified, giving
the United States ready audi
ence for new ideas on the subject.
Africa, and specifically the Con-
go crisis, is sure to be prominent
on the Assembly agenda. No fewer
than IA new African countries
are due to be admitted to men,
bership on opening day. What they
see and hear will profoundly in
fluence their future conduct. Many
of them look to the u. N. as
children look to a father.
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come by cargo aircraft, outside all
supervision.
Approximately $50 Congolese
have had an indoctrination tour
of Russia in the last four months
in Moscow. Some score or more
Soviet doctors are working among
the natives.
The Russian government has
made down payment on an in
vestment it hopes will return huge
profits later on. 1t has sent in
more than 100 trucks, 10 trans
port airplanes and shiploads of
food and goods, including arms
and ammunition, in recent days.
These gifts" could play an i'm
portant part in Mr.. Lumumba's
planned campaign against his
most serious enemy Premier
Noise Tshombe of the mineral
rich Katanga Province.
On Thursday, Secretary of State
Herter, who had been busy for
the previous two weeks with Latin
American problems provoked by
Dictators Castro and Trujillo,
spoke out on the Soviet course.
Russia is trying to "complicate
rather than assist" United Ma
tions efforts to restore order in
the Congo, he said. The Soviet
goal, he continued, was a "col-
lapse of order" and then Com
munist domination.
There was one cheering note
on Congo developments last week.
A conference of representatives of
newly independent African ma
tions, meeting in Leopoldville at
Mr.. Lumumba's S invitation, warned
him that abuse of U. N. personnel
by his troops must stop. They
urged him to cooperate with the
U. N.
Whether Mr.. Lumumba will ac-
cept this polite rebuke with good
grace remains to be seen. If he
does, it would be out of character,
but it would be for his peoples
own good,
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Some Casualties

There were these serious casual
ties:
. The minimum wage bill. The
House passed bill for an in
crease from 81 to $1.15 an hour
and the Senate passed one for an
increase to SIPS. They were un-
able to agree and no bill emerged.
. Senate and House versions of
legislation for Federal financial
aid to build schools and to increase
teacher salaries was stopped in the
House Rules Committee by Goa
lition of Republicans and House
Democrats.
. An omnibus housing bill was
also blocked by the Rules Com
mittee.
o In spite of talk about doing
something about the farm pro-
gram-especially some action to
curtail the wheat surpluS-noth-
ing was done about it.
Nothing the session did = or
didn't do-brought stronger feel
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The Reasons

The reasons for the Khrushchev
visit, of course, are open to wide
speculation. In August, when he
said he would consider it "a great
honor" to head the Soviet delega-
tion-as though it were not his
decision to make - Mr.. Khru-
shchev indicated he still dreamed
of a general East-West Summit
meeting on disarmament this
month. He had voiced this hope
last year when he laid before the
U. N. his total disarmament"
proposal.
Last night, in Helsinki, where
he received cool rece-' lion, Mr..
Khrushchev urged that the heads
of state of the big powers meet at
the U. N. to work out a disarma-
ment pact.
Although Summit meetings are
hardly thrown together in three
weeks time, there is no reason
to believe that Mr.. Eisenhower.
Prime Minister Macmillan OF
Britain or President DeGaulle of
France are interested in sitting
down with the Soviet dictator at
this point.
Mr.. Khrushchev, according to
a good many tangible straws in
the wind, is having a serious ideo-
logical conflict with Red China,
the very formidable Junior partner
of the USSR. Mr.. Khrushchev, de-
spite his turbulence and his de-
termination to stir up world ten
sions, has been beating the propa-
ganda drums for peaceful cock
iStence."
What Soviet peaceful coexis-
tence" would mean to the West
if instituted on Mr.. Khrushchev'S
terms has been set forth many
times. Nevertheless, he has
slapped at Peiping for its un-
adulterated Leninism, which it in
terprets as meaning that war
against capitalist States is in
evitable.
With the gulf between the part
ners widening, the West could
hardly select worse time. psy-
chologically, for adding to Mr..
Khrushchev's prestige. And
Summit meeting in New York,
coming so soon after his out
rageous behavior to the United
States, would certainly be regard
ed as a victory for the Russian.
But Mr.. Khrushchev can gain
victory enough, presumably. if he
can use the U. N. forum to show
the neutral nations of the world,
particularly the Is or more new
African states who are joining the
international body this year, that
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another all-out attack on the
United States, inscribing on the
assembly agenda an item under
which they can revive the U-2
and RB-47 cases.
To set up a target and zero in
the guns is not necessarily to
guarantee there will be serious
firing. But in this case it seems
very unlikely that the Russians
are bluff1ng.
Crisis Mongering
Some U. N. analysts believe the
whole Soviet performance since
the Paris summit-crisis-monger-
ing in the four corners of the
earth-has been designed to show
the United States how unpleas-
ant things can be if the cold war
continues. The idea is to make
Washington more eager for a set
tlement, and hence softer at the
bargaining table, the next time
negotiations on Berlin, central
Europe, and disarmament get
under way.
Since such negotiations are not
likely before next spring at the
earliest, this analysis would sug-
gest at least six months more Of
intensive cold war, and hence a
General Assembly as explosive as
anything the U. N. has seen since
the Korean war.
The United States. however,
U. N. people say. does not have to
stand by helplessly while the Rus
slams create a crisis atmosphere.
Washington has a splendid oppor-
tunity. they say, to catch the Rus
slams OF balance with peace Of
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governments army attempted to
crush tribal Secessionists in Kasai
province and met stiff resistance
from jungle fighters armed with
spears, machetes and bows and
arrows. 1t was noted. however,
that U. N. troops-Moroccans-
used their guns for the first time
in the Congo when they fired at
armed civilians who attacked
them.
AS rioting and rebellion racked
the disorganized country, many
an observer was willing to concede
that perhaps Gen. Alexander, the
British head Of the Ghanaian
contingent, was right in recon-
mending weeks ago that the U. N.
troops disarm the Force Publique,
as the Congolese army Of Premier
Lumumba is known.
It was the Force Publique which
mutinied against it's Belgian Of
ficers on Congo independence day,
July /. This essentially leader
less group committed brutalities
against Canadian, American and
Swedish soldiers, among other
things.
There appears to be little
chance that the U. N. would at
tempt such vigorous action at this
late hour. OF course, it would be
questionable, legally, because it is
hardly likely that Mr.. Lumumba
would willingly allow his army to
be disarmed. But with the present
trend of events, drastic action is
needed if the Congo is not to pass
into the Soviet camp, lock, stock
and uranium fields.
There are, it is estimated, at
least 125 Soviet, Czech and other
Communist bloc advisers" already
in the Congo, at Mr.. Lumumba's
invitation. These men are NOV
ing into an administrative vacuum
in this sadly disorganized govern
ment which, naturally, gives them
power far beyond their numbers.
But this apparently is just the
early contingent. New arrivals are
reported daily and the truth of
the matter is that no Westerner
knows exactly how many are in
the country. These Communist
agents do not all come in by pas
senger plane, where they can be
seen and counted. According to
and last week a Soviet cultural
mission granted $50 scholarships
to Congolese students to attend
the new University Of Friendship
a Wall Street Journal report, they
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Cuba:
More Trouble

FideI Castro announced on
Friday that Cuba will recognize
Communist China.
When the foreign ministers Of
the Organization Of American
States met late last month they
decided to do something about
the growing intervention of Soviet
and Red Chinese influence in
Cuba.
But what they decided to do
was not much. Against United
States wishes, the ministers
adopted resolution which failed
to mention Cuba by name in con-
demning the acceptance of extra
continental Intervention by any
American State"
There apparently was an idea
held by a minority of the minis
ters-who prevailed because the
OAS is dedicated to unanimity-
that this softer stratagem would
leave the door of friendship open
to Castro and somehow bring him
to his senses.
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Congo::
Civil War

Civil war ragged in the Congo
last week as Soviet infiltratiOn,
with Premier Lumumba'S bless
ing, increased sharply.
The prospects for stopping the
onrush of Soviet influence in the
strife ridden Republic of the
Congo were black. and growing
blacker, as the new week dawned.
More than 1900 United Ma
tions troops were in the country,
under orders to maintain law and
order and protect the civilian pop
ulation.
But they we're helpless specta-
tors as elements of the central
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Out Of some practical maneu-
vering-and those who maneu-
vered most spent almost as much
time crying "Politics!" as they
spent maneuvering-came this
legislation:
. A modified plan of Federal
financial assistance to States for
Medical care for the aged, with
funds from General Treasury
revenues rather than through
Social Security taxes. Senator
Kennedy had come out for the
Social Security approach.
. A 12-nation treaty banning
nuclear weapons development in
the Antarctic and freezing present
territorial claims there.
. A $500 million authorization
to help Latin American countries
in social and economic develop
ment and a 500 million authori-
zation for Chilean earthquake
rehabilitation.
-. . A 1852 million supplemental
appropriation bill restoring $65
million Of the $215 million previ-
ously cut from the foreign aid bill.
Total mutual aid funds were
thereby raised to $3.7 billion,
which was $3.50 million more than
appropriated last year.
. Five appropriations bills
totaling more than $5 billion for
the State, Justice, Labor and
Health, Education and Welfare
Departments and the Federal
judiciary.
o A $3.5 appropriation bill for
public works in all States.
Q A series of reforms in the
regulation of television and radio,
including suspension of trouble
some equal time" provisions
which will enable the major polit-
ical candidates to have televised
debates.
Q A stop-gap housing bill to
continue home-repair loan insur-
ance authority and provide $500
million for college dormitories and
$50 for community facilities. The
bill was designed to keep the
housing program alive until Con-
gress returns in January.
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BY WILLIAM r. FRYE
Contributing Writer

UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.-The
97-nation u. N. General Assembly,
which convenes here September
20, will have virtually all the
worlds major problems dumped in
its lap, and many lesser ones as
well. It bids fair to be the most
important International convoca-
ton in years.
Soviet Premier Khrushchev will
attend, and President Eisenhower
and Premier Fidel Castro are ex-
pected to appear at least long
enough to make major speeches.
Other heads Of state may also be
on hand.
1t will not be the gigantic 97-
nation summit conference which
Mr.. Khrushchev proposed. But
with Mr.. Khrushchev in this
country, U. N. observers would be
surprised if the two men did not
get together in some manner for
a bit of miniature summiteering.
Sweetness and Light"
This is not to say that there
will be another major reversal of
Soviet policy, back to sweetness
and light. The spirit of Waldorf
Towers almost certainly would be
very different from that of Camp
David. Mr.. Khrushchev might
even use the occasion to fling
down a kind of ultimatum to the
President.
The Russians invariably tele-
graph their punches in the weeks
before General Assembly. This
time, they have set the stage for
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THE WEEK IN PERSPECTIVE
A Visit With a Purpose

Premier Khrushchev will head
the Soviet delegation to the
United Nations in New York,
September 20, Moscow an
nOunced on Thursday.
The news came as no surprise.
A hint had been dropped weeks
ago.
The official announcement, how
ever, that Premier Nikita Khru-
shchev would come to the United
Nations General Assembly meet
ing in New York later this month
failed to soften the suspicion reg
istered publicly and privately by
Government officials, members of
Congress and the press of America.
It was the case of an unlimited
guest coming to the country whose
leaders. including President Ell
senhower and the two contending
presidential nominees, Senator
Kennedy and Vice President
Nixon, he has reviled since he
broke up the Summit conference
last May.
Mr.. Khrushchev is no stranger
to the United States. He came
here as the guest of Mr.. EiSen-
hover last September. Then, at
the request of the President. Mr..
Nixon and other leaders, the
American people gave the Russian
boss polite, correct reception.
There will hardly be such a plea
this time and although he will
be here for the last day Of sum-
mer, the ice may be as thick as
Mr.. Khrushchev would find in his
own port city of Murmansk in late
January.
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The Russians have been Gre
ating, in the Congo. an important
part of the crisis atmosphere they
seek. Here again, U. N. people say,
there is an opportunity for the
United States to neutralize Rus
sia's crisis diplomacy with peace
offensive-a display of generosity
and a program of progress for
Africa which will at once spike
Moscow's guns and teach the At
ricans to look to the United States
for leadership.
FinoneioI Support
Financial support for the Congo
operation could be a part. The
United States could score a ten
strike, it is said here, by offering
to pick up, say, so per cent of the
$3.50 million check on condition
the Russians pay their reasonable
share.
Algeria, Cuba, Tibet, Hungary.
atomic testing. and-this year for
the first time-the Tyrol and Maui
ritania will also be among the
issues before the Assembly. Many
of them will be very hot po-
tatoes, especially for the United
States.
But there is this consolation,
U. N. people say: Given minimum
ingenuity on Washington's part,
the Russians are much easier to
handle in the U. N. when they
are kicking up a rumpus than
when they are mouthing sweet
nothings. At times they very nearly
climbed into the drivers seat in
1858 and 1859 ON the strength of
Mr.. Khrushchev's program for
peaceful coexistence."
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THE NATIONAL SCENE
Congress Clears Way
For the Real Fight

Adjournment on Thursday
night ended the 24-day- -Old spe-
cial session Of the seth Congress.
The recessed-or hot-weather-
session of Congress lived up to
expectations by satisfying nobody.
In terms Of legislation the rec
ord was clear. If unimpressive.
In terms of practical politics,
both sides were frustrated.
When the Democratic leader
ship decided in July that the
lawmakers would have to come
back to enact part of a program
they hadn't been able to get across
in the regular session they were
taking chance on emphasizing
the split within the Democratic
Party. This happened.
In the beginning, President Eli
Senhower made a gesture of
leadership by sending up to the
session a program of 81 pieces
OF needed" legislation, covering
everything he'd tried to get out
Of Democratic Congresses for
years. This was loudly ignored.
The Republican leadership tried
lin a manner more irritating
than outrageous to their oppo-
nents-to get some action on ex-
tension Of civil rights, something
proclaimed in July at the con-
ventions of both parties, but
sternly stepped upon in August.
The Democrats, with their nom
inee, Senator Kennedy, very much
present. sailed boldly forth on
several politically safe issues,
notably an increase in the mini
mum wage and extension of med
ical care benefits for the aged.
They ran into a road block set
up by Republicans and Southern
Democrats. They never hurdied it,
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tober 20 at 10 a I'm. in the assem-
by room of the Maysville Presby-
terrain Church; and to continue
ne pantry shelf shower for Shell
tering Arms Hospital in Rich
mond in November: and to make
a visit by the club members to
the Crippled Children Hospital
in Richmond. It urges every
member to have a yearly physi
cal examination.
The American Home Depart
ment with Mrs. Blackwell HaneS
as chairman has adopted as the
main objective for the year to
encourage family devotionals in
the homes and family church at
tendance each Sunday.
Projects adopted for the year
are to continue the response
bility for the devotion at each
meeting, and to have the home
demonstration agent, Mrs. Har-
old Bailey, as guest speaker for
one department meeting during
the year.
The American Home program
in November will feature the
Rev. John Adams. pastor Of the
First Baptist Church Of Dillwyn.
as guest speaker, whose topic
will be Family Devotions."
Mrs, George Reynolds kinder
garten will also participate in the
program.
The Ways and Means Commit
tee with Mrs. B. D. LeSueur as
chairman has planned the follow
ing money raising projects for
the club year 1960-6l: sponsor a
talent show which will be held
at Buckingham Central High
School Friday, October IA, at
pm: the annual Christmas
dance at the DillWyn Elemen-
tary School, Tuesday. December
81; and teenage dance Satur-
| day, December 81.
At the end of the business ses-
sion members enjoyed a tea.