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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-11-27
For AIgerio:
New Leader

President Charles de GaulIe
Tuesday. named Louis JOKE,
veteran diplomat, to be Minister
of State for Algeria.
When the tall man who sits
busily in the ElySee Palace in
Paris decides to do something, he
wastes no time. Last week Gen. de
Gaulle, ignoring the rumbles and
roars of the opposition, pushed
his program for IAN Algerian
Algeria" faster toward realization.
The angry "colons" in Algeria
and their supporters in France
we're handed swift and serious set
backs during the week in their all
out effort to keep Algeria
French" The President, in a series
of moves, stepped up the already
brisk pace of his program by:
Q Naming Mr.. JOKE to be the
guiding organizer. with full
authority, of the redistricting of
the huge North African province
planned by the President:
. Relieving Paul Delouvrier as
Delegate-General in Algeria. and
named Jean NORM to the post
the top administrative job in
Algiers. Mr.. NORM arrived in
hlgiers less than "a hours after
his appointment. and 20 minutes
before he arrived, Mr.. Delouvrier
had departed.
0 Advancing the date of the
referendumS to be held both in
France and in Algeria on the De
Gaulle program to the early part
of January. The exact date has
not been set.
. Announcing that he himself
would spend a week or 10 days in
Algeria before the referendum.
to explain his program and muster
as much European support as ne
can as we'll as Moslem backing.
The acceleration in the Presi-
dents action on Algeria was being
viewed as rejecting Gen. de
Gaulle's determination to push
through his program before the
opposition could organize a power
full resistance.
The power of the European
colony in Algeria has been DEM
onstrated before, notably when
the "colonS" were instrumental
in topping the Fourth Republic
and bringing Gen. de Gaulle out
of retirement, and again when
they staged bloody revolt in
Algiers after the De Gaulle poll
cies failed to please them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-11-27
Outlook in Congo

Today. there is more optimism
in the Congo than there has been
at any time since Independence
and almost total breakdown -
came last July. The hope of most
diplomats is that the President,
with the prestige of his U. N. vic
tory as a weighty support, will be
able to establish enough authority
in Leopoldville to make a Congo
government a reality.
If Mr.. KaSavubu can do this,
he will need the support of Col.
Mobutu and the Congolese army.
In addition. he will have to find
other backing in the secessionist
provinces of Katanga and Kasai,
where the prospects of Lumum-
Uncontrolled Congo regime have
brought armed revolt. Few OBJ
servers yesterday were willing to
predict that the President could
be successful in this, but most
agreed that the Kasavubu chances
were better than they have ever
been.
Just before leaving New York,
Mr.. Kasavubu declared that the
Cancellation Commission might be
helpful, but that only a round
table of Congolese leaders" could
bring stability to the nation. He
said, however, that such round
table should include all factions,
with secessionist Katanga Presi-
dent Noise TShombe and tribal
chieftains participating as we'll as
the Leopoldville leaders.
Yesterday the President chalked
up another significant gain in his
political battle. 1t was announced
in Elisabethville, the capital of
secessionist Katanga, that Presi-
dent Tshombe and three top min
listers of the Leopoldville govern
ment had achieved "a perfect
identity of views . on the in
ternal affairs of the former Bel
gian Congo"
The round table" planned by
Mr.. Kasavubu appeared certain to
be organized with the support and
participation of Mr.. Tshombe. The
meeting will also include Mr..
Lumumba, Mr.. Kasavubu said in
Paris where he stopped over en-
route to Leopoldville.
All indications point to cooper
alton by Col. Mobutu with the
thus-far triumphant President
Kasavubu. The attitude of Mr..
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-11-27
Congress-:
Coalition Set

Republican House Leader
Halleck asserted last week that
the conservative G. o. P
Southern Democrat coalition is
primed for the new session of
Congress.
We're going to have to be
reckoned with not just as road
blockers. but for sanity in Gov
eminent. I'm not going for a lot
o. radical, wlld-eyed spendthlIft
proposals that will do the country
severe damage"
Representative Charles A. Hal
leck, House Minority Leader, was
the speaker and he made it plain,
in an interview with the New
York Times, that the pertinent
personal pronoun in the first
sentence above meant the Repub-
lican-Southern Democrat coali-
ton, fact of life in Congress for
many years.
Mr.. Halleck's confidence was
buttressed by the fact that the
recent election increased the Re-
publican membership in the House
by % seats-from 154 to 176.
Although these Republicans
rarely vote in a unanimous, mono
lithic bloc. it is probable that the
conservatives among them and
among the SO Representatives from
the IL States of the Old Confed-
eracy will be able to muster a
ore-vote majority of PIG of the
437 total House membership &C.
casionally. at least.
Mr.. Kennedy is likely. however,
to take a realistic approach when
it comes down to the actual rec
concentrations he sends to Con-
gress early next year.
The fact that the recent election
was the closest of the century has
been mentioned as a restraining
influence against any lavish well
fare program, if such was the Ken
nedy intention at any time. So
has the fact that the two most
powerful Democrats on Capitol
Hill-Vice President-elect John.
son and Mr.. Rayburn-are mod
erately conservative men.
Another major restraint has
developed in the past week or
two. This concerns the so-called
dollar gap and the Nations seri-
Gus international balance of pay
ments deficit.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-11-27
Sympathy Only

The talks in Paris and London
were almost incidental to those
in Bonn, seat of the troubles.
They produced nothing, either,
except some sympathy. The Brit
ish press was almost unanimous,
however, in criticizing the German
attitude and backing the Amer
lean position.
After the Anderson-Dillon mis-
sion's failure became known, there
were many reports in Washington
that the State Department and
the Treasury Secretary had neg
lected to coordinate their pro-
grams with respect to the German
problem. The reports were denied
on Friday by the State Depart
ment and by the White House.
Nothing could be further from
the truth" observed James Hag-
erty, White House press secretary.
There is, however, divergence
of views among Government econ
omists and others on the serious
ness of the dollar problem. Some
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-11-27
The WEEK IN PERSPECTIVE
Conqo as Cold War Battle

The United Nations General
Assembly on Tuesday voted to
seat the Congo delegation, rep
resenting President Joseph Kas-
avubu.
When the Afro-Asian bloc of
nations in the U. N. General AS
Sembly votes solidly with the Com
munist bloc. the West is beaten.
On many important subjects, the
Afro-Asians can be expected to
vote almost as a unit, with the
emphasis on neutralism in the
cold. war.
But last week there was no
such unity among these newly
emergent nations of the world. AS
a result, after bitter and lengthy
debate the West-backed Presi-
dent of the Congo Republic, Jo-
Seph Kasavubu. had his delegation
approved as the legitimate repre-
sentation of his chaotic country.
There were several friends of
the West who supported, in the
final vote, the delegation sent to
the U. N. by ouSted Premier Pa
trice Lumumba. Mr.. Lumumba,
strongly supported by the Soviet
Union and the other nations of
the Communist bloc. also had the
approval of India, Ghana, Guinea
and 81 other nations, but the
vote for Mr.. Kasavubu's contin-
gent was SO, with 19 abstentions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-11-27
Dollar Talks:
No Progress

Treasury Secretary Anderson
and Undersecretary of State
Dillon returned to Washington
after talks in Bonn, Paris and
London failed to bring European
aid in stemming ''the dollar
drain"
Political leadership requires eco
nomic soundness. and the United
States, cast unwillingly after
World War II into the role of
leadership Of the West. has en-
joyed that SoundneSs in full
measure.
But there have been dangerous
signs and portents in the fact
that the outgo of American dol
lars has become far larger than
the trickle coming back to these
shores. Some estimates put the
disparity at 81 billion a year.
Whatever the amount, however,
the imbalance has threatened the
soundness of the dollar in inter-
national trade. and any weaken
ing of United States currency
would have serious domestic as
we'll as international implications.
President Eisenhower. after con-
ferring with Secretary Anderson
and other top fiscal officials. has
already ordered drastic measures
to reduce American dollar spend
ing abroad. About half of the
100000 dependents in the mill
tary services now stationed over
seas will be brought home, and
other measures taken to slash ex-
penditures of dollars in "hard cur
rency' countries.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-11-27
Slowing Drain

Following the Presidents &C
ton. Mr.. Anderson and Mr.. Dillon
journeyed last week to Paris,
Bonn and London to seek some
assistance in slowing the drain.
Their mission, apparently, was
almost totally unsuccessful.
Focus of the talks was West
Germany's share of the costs of
keeping a strong deterrent mill
tary force in Germany and West
ern Europe. Mr.. Anderson sought
to have the Bonn government as
sumo a major part of the costs of
keeping large United States mill
tary forces in Europe. Bonn re-
jected the proposal, Offering in
stead to make a few immediate
payments, such as 5000 million on
advance debt repaymentS.
But Mr.. Anderson and Mr.. Dill
Ion turned down any temporary"
alterations, insisting that the
trouble was structural and
needed permanent measures such
as the assumption by West Ger
many of the cost of keeping Amer
lean troops there.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-11-27
Chinese Attitude

Liu Shao-chi, Chinas foremost
Communist theoretician, repre-
sented Mr.. Macs hard" point of
view. He was supported in general
by Albania, North Korea, Indo-
nesia and repeatedly by several
Latin-American party leaders.
Other party chieftains backed
compromise. accepting peaceful
co-eXistence but on tougher terms,
arguing that communism would
be certain to emerge victorious
from a nuclear war.
But MI. Khrushchev held his
majority. Warsaw reports said the
Soviet Premier had once again
won acceptance of his demand that
the Soviet Union be looked upon
as the doctrinal, tactical and stra-
tegic leader of international COM
munism. When even the Chinese
accepted this, the Khrushchev
peaceful co-eXistence policy be-
came the party line.
The deliberations appear to have
produced, however, more of a doc
trinal truce" than a Soviet vic
tory. Acceptance by Communist
China of the Khrushchev policies
is believed to indicate that conces-
SionS were made to Picking in
other areas. One such concession
could have been the acceptance of
Peking's leadership in the Commu-
mist movement in Asia and the Pa
cific.
"Dogmatism and sectarianiSm,
said pravda on Wednesday, "can be
the main danger at certain stages
in the development of one or an
other party" Diplomats saw in
this a schoolteacher's chiding OF
a bright student (China who had
not yet gained adult maturity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-11-27

to see the trends. Despite their
announced hostility to the De
Gaulle program because it makes
no direct provision for FIN par
ticipation in the proposed "Alger-
ian Algeria" the hope persists
that, following a successful refer
endum, Gen. de Gaulle would well
come negotiations with the rebels
following a ceaSe-fre.
Almost all the predictions last
week were that Gen. de Gaulle
would score another resounding
success with the French people
when the referendum takes place
AS for the vote in Algeria, there
is less confidence but the Presi-
dent remains the favorite. Most
observers are waiting. in varying
degrees of tenseness, for the next
move by the embittered Euro
peans in Algeria.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-11-27
Some Optimism

Safely seated, Mr.. Kasavubu re-
turned to his violence-ridden and
confusion-reigned homeland. He
was optimistic that the schismS
and bloody factionalism that have
turned the former Belgian COL
ony into Shambles Of incredible
proportions might now be re-
solved through a determined at
tempt at compromise.
The General Assembly's debate
was, in effect. another chapter in
the forensic contest between East
and West. another skirmish in
the cold war between the Com
munist world and the non-Com-
munist world. Both the Soviet
delegate. Valentin Zorin. and the
United States delegate, James j.
Wadsworth, accused each other
of using the Congo to further cold
war provocations.
The Afro-ASian nations sup
porting Mr.. Lumumba's pre-
eminence in the delegation battle
insisted. with strong logic, that
the deposed Premier's rights were
based on the fact that he had
been elected by his people at the
last polling. and that he had the
support of the since-dispersed
Congo Parliament. Although Mr..
Lumumba has been classified as
a leftist with pro-Communist pre-
elections, all his support did not
come from nations with similar
tendencies.
But the majority backed Mr..
Kasavubu. and their reasons were.
in the aggregate, that the Presi-
dent, supported by Col. Joseph
Modulus military commission of
experts" regime. could somehow
bring order out of the civil. po-
litical, and economic wreckage
that is the Congo today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-11-27

have said, to make room for the
Kennedy clan-increased last week
by the birth of a son to the Presi-
dent-elect and his wife, Then,
when and if the need arises. he
will add other staffers.
An Eisenhower innovation, the
post of secretary of the cabinet
(f1rSt Max Rabb and now Robert
Gray ,sprobably will be retained by
Mr.. Kennedy, but the holder win
have more limited duties.
Under Mr.. Eisenhower, the Sec
retry outlines the caDinet agendas
and receives and digests position
papers when policy disagreements
between the various agencies of
Government are indicated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-11-27
Kennedy's Plan

The proof of the pudding, of
course, will be in the eating. Mr..
Kennedy is not welded to any
rigid plan; nevertheless these are
the changes he is ready to make
in the operations at the White
House, as reported by Mr.. Clifford:
. He will eliminate the post of
chief assistant to the President,
a post held in previous admins
trations by the controversial Mr..
Adams Eisenhower, DR.. John
Steelman (Truman) and James
Byrnes (Roosevel).
. He will cut sharply the size of
the current 51-man White House
staff.
. He will limit the scope of the
secretary of the cabinets posi-
ton.
For weeks now, it has been clear
to some observers that Mr.. Ken
needy, despite his incredibly close
victory over Vice President Nixon
and the fact that he will be the
second youngest man cat 49, ever
to sit in the White House, plans
to be his own boss, with a cap
ital B.
He will be Commander-in-C Chief
Of the armed forces. He will take
charge of the conduct of our for
eign affairs, no matter who is Sec
rotary of State. He will want to
exercise authority as directly and
as Enthusiastically as possible.
Thus. Mr.. Clifford'S disclosure
last week of some of the Presi-
dent-elect's feelings about the
White House staff should cause
no raised eyebrows. Nor should
there be great surprise if some of
the most talked about candidates
for the various cabinet posts are
left out when he announces his
choices within the next week or so.
After comforting at length with
Mr.. Kennedy at his Palm Beach
vacation retreat on Monday, Mr..
Clifford explained that the Presi-
dent-elect would not have an AS
sistant to the President" because
he did not want a man who
would act between him and his
staff" Then he divulged the
Kennedy philosophy when he said:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-11-27

take the view that the ilnbalance
is temporary, and could reverse
itself easily. Others agree with
Mr.. Anderson that continuation
of the outgo means weakening of
the dollar, economic depression
and a dangerous decline in Amer
lean prestige abroad.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-11-27

some reports said, were stimulated
by liberal quantities of marijuana,
yelled an order to open fire. The
exact number Of dead and wound
ed has not been determined, but
the Congolese lost their deputy
commander.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-11-27

Lumumba, however, is an open
question. The course he pursues if
and when he is invited to partici-
pate in the round table" might
determine the future of the Congo.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-06-17
Telephone Courtesy

nR. Walter C. Alvarez, who writes
- an interesting column, suggested a
remedy for telephone gossip recently,
which is worth passing on.
The good doctor recalled that he had
often tried to reach person or patient,
sometimes with an important message,
on long distance - only to find that the
: line was busy, and stayed busy
DR.. Alvarez thinks the telephone COM
pany might sound musical tone on a
line when long distance call is waiting
tone which the speaker could hear
as he or she talked on local call.
There may be good technical reasons
why this i'll not be done, but it prob
ably could be done - if the idea
catches on and if it appeals to officials
of the major telephone company
1t is frustrating to be calling long
distance, perhaps hurriedly on long
trip, and to be forced to wait helplessly
while local call or calls drag on and
on. Moreover, the operator will only try
the call maybe once every five or ten
or fifteen minutes, and if the line hap
pens to be tied up on these occasions, a
longer wait is necessary.
The musical tones are good idea -
maybe something will come out of it,
eventually.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-06-17
John Temple Graves
Communist Are Not Bows

And first / tell thee, naughty
peer,
Here in thy hold, thy vassals
near
This country's soldier Presi-
dent is too much the soldier and
President to go in mere bravado
to Japan. 1t is beneath his dig
nifty and apart from his nature to
think he must show he is not
afraid.
But wisdom, surely tells him
what harm to his country might
come of headlines such as Ike
Under Cover All the Way And
they will keep him under cover,
we may be sure.
Or what world holocaust of a
headline: The President AS
sassinated by Communist Riot
erS."
THESE ARE NOT SCHOOL
BOYS with whose riots the gov
ernments of many lands, includ-
ing Japan's and our own, are
having to deal.
They are eXploiters of school
boys, of youths ardor, idealism
and total inexperience.
It isn't like the situation at
Birmingham Southern where a
naive young divinity student gets
nowhere in a cause he doeSn t
comprehend and is proved so
much younger than the ones he
tries to lead that many Of us
come to be sorry for him.
Rather it is like the Vanderbilt
situation where a trained, expert
enced agitator named Lawson,
with police record lengthening
every year, is exploiting the
youthfulness of students and the
ivory-toWered idealism of certain
faculty members to destroy the
School of Divinity.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-06-17
Double Check

We are working on a sorter
new hook up divide and
conquer and if you can't
beat EN- jine up with EN-. Since
Rockefeller dropped the bumb
on the COP it's been real excit-
ing in that camp Nixon
don't even want him as run
ming mate but they are good
friends SO far as outsiders can
see. Nixon Just wants the New
York votes.
AS this goes to press one
agency gets a new name. They
took the "UN" out of Employ
ment. That unemployment is
getting to be a racket its
built for economy and it really
struts.
They have finally found a way
to break up this juvenile de-
lnquency put the boys on
TV programs. Them what don t
get notion to make good. get
sick and tired of seeing them
selves becom e beatbicks. :"
Them WhiSkerS will kill YOU.
I'm more convinced that the old
type of Whoopee making was the
best after all All you got then
W h n you got caught was a
whipping now you have to
become an object of SOMEBODY'S
affection sometimes it lasts
and lasts.
They are doing away with one
room schools. There is where
you really get educated. It's all
mass production these days.
Well mass destruction follows in
line SO thanks for reading
Yours,
j. Marvin Brown
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-06-17

dation schools for the coming session
Details for handling the buttons have
not yet been completed.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-06-17
REALLY LAZY

"Rastus, your dog seems to be
in pain"
NC sub, he amt in pain. He's
Just lazy. !"
But surely he must be suf-
fering or he wouldn't howl like
that"
"Jes' plumb laziness, jes' lazi-
ness; he's sittin' on a thistle. 7
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-06-17
On The Telephone

While telephones ore fine at times,
They quite often fret me;
Because when it less suits me most,
To the phone folks get me.
Sometimes when am deep in thought
And musing oil alone,
Ny wife will yell and tell me that
I'm wanted on the phone.
And often when I'm working on
A most important thing,
1t seems to me, the phone elects
That very time to ring.
And when ! am coIIed to the phone
BY some ioquocious friend,
I'm bored with senseIess chatter
While wishing it would end.
And Of the phone, it seems to me,
Much time my wife will spend
Exchanging CAB and gossip With
A telephoning friend.
A wonnon's work is never DONE"
A lot of women moan;
1t might help them lot if they
Would disconnect the phone.
n MJlliTAkEp
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-06-17
Whot This Means

1t means that if you make a contribu-
ton to q priUdte school prince Ed1Dard
School Foundation or any other nonsec-
tartan school in the County of Prince Ed
10ard) you can be exempt to the extent of
$50 OF the real and personal property
tares due the county,
Contributions are not to be confused
with tuition. Contributions may be made
uoluntarily to furnish buildings and facili-
ties, or for operation if necessary
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-06-17
Sing me a song
OF a lad that is gone >"

I'VE women" writes one every
inch, think Nelson Rockefeller
far better looking than Senator
Kennedy
-Four years ago, however, the
Senator was more beautiful than
today. That was when the South
kissed him in the dark at Chi
cago. not knowing who or what
he was but only that he WASH t
Kefauver.
AS he strobe up the aisle to
ask sportingly that Kefauver's
nomination for Vice President be
made unanimous, he was a
dream boy, slim. modest, long
checked, tousel-haired, eagerly
Overwhelming, Harvard's best.
Brooks Brothers most tasteful.
Today the horizontals have
crept upon the vertical. as ever
in the middle years. There are
JoWls. His eyes have bulged and
got themselves a glitter. Efforts
to control the mop Of hair have
produced travelling salesman
portliness. The boyish smile has
turned store-bought.