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, 1961-12-13
Henle's Show Opens
In The Ballroom of
Government House

Fritz Henle's exciting show,
Caribbean Journey, an ex-
hibit of seventy pictures, in
in both color and black and
white, openedfyesterday after
noon at 500 in the Ballroom
at Government House, Chris
tiansted. A large and appre-
ciative audience has had moth
ing but praise for the show.
The Henle Show, bling pre-
scented in what many have
called the most beautiful room
in the Caribbean, is under the
sponsorship Of Governor and
Mrs. Ralph P~aiewonsky.
Word from the office of the
Governors Representative is
that this is but the first of a
series of cultural events which
will be presented in the his
toric ballroom.
In recent weeks there have
been reports that plans are
under way to hold a ball, of
the strictly formal type in the
historic ballroom.
The Fritz Henle Show will
be open every day from 800
am. to 500 pm. until Sunday
aftrnoon, December II.
, 1961-12-13

notice how accomplished a div
er he is. It's his world"
Whatever Sanger's love for
water, it was the area itself
that kept him talking. Il just
can't get over this visibility"
he said. In New England, ten
feet is considered good. Here
I could spot fish and the mere
dible coral formations from so
feet.
"And what fish, he continu-
ed. "They had the. size and CO.
Tor of something out of a
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u. S., French Ndvdl
Ships To Visit ST. Croix
December IA to l8

Government House has been
advised of the visit to st. Croix
Of two United States and one
French Naval ships during the
period December IA through
the 18th.
A French m~inesweeper with
twenty officers and thirty en-
listed men are due here on
December IA through 16. Two
United States minesweepers,
each with a complemnt of ap-
proximately seventy-five men,
will be here from December
Is through 18.
The French minesweeper
is presently on maneuvers
with the U. S. Navy.
, 1961-12-13
Record Number of
Slated For
Grund Festival Par.

Indications are that a record
number of floats will be in the
the grand festival parade. Re-
ports from the Festival Com
mittee state that registrations
of floats, floupes and troupes
are coming in continuously
and that all things point to a
very colorful closing for this
years Christmas Festival ac-
tivities.
Among the registrants thus
far are: Hamilton House, The
Buccaneer Hotel, Cane Bay
Plantation, The jumbo, Ay Ay
Shop, VICORP, Business and
Professional Women's Club,
The Craft Shop, St. Croix
Beauticians Association, st.
by the Sea, Grapetree
Bay Hotel, Virgin Islands Ma
rine Industries and St. Croix
Super Market.
, 1961-12-13
st. Croix Waters Spectacular
Commercial Diver Says

~
that prevailed at the time. For
Sanger, who lost his right arm
and left leg in a childhood ac-
cident, it seems somewhat
more than amazing.
Technically it was no pic
mic, of course" said Sanger,
"but It was worse than several
other jobs we've undertaken.
But there were human lives
involved. That makes a differ
ence in a job.
There's little rest for a man
who is an expert in such a
specialized field, but the wat
ers Of St. Croix have afforded
Sanger the chance to relax and
enjoy a vacation more, com
pletely than he has in years.
It'll be tropical vacations for
US from now on" said Sanger.
I've heard stories of the near
perfect temperature and visa
bility Of the Caribbean wa
tiers. They were most emphati
cally not lies,
Sanger's first experience in
the 79-degree waters was with
the 28-foot motor yacht Gret-
chen, captained by 1--WE Boil
low. They spent an entire day
free-diving off Buck Island,
going deep after the big lob
ster which have made the area
famous, and just snorkling
AROUND the wildly colored
coral reefs.
BolloW, a German-born r
sident Of Christiansted, is him
self well known in skindiving
circles, both here and in Eu-
rope where he was director Of
a prominent French diving
school. Since 1857, he has
skippered a charter boat out of
Yacht Haven, St. Thomas.
It's uncanny to see this man
in the water" Bollow said.
HE has the endurance and
technique that few men in the
world can match. When he I'M
buckles his plastic leg & slips
into the water you just have to
, 1961-12-13

Commercial [
: st. Croix,
Dec. II = One of Americas
top commercial divers yester-
day took a pleasure dip in the
clear waters off St. Croix in
the u. S. Virgin Islands and
said that this is the most spec
tacular diving area he has ever
seen.
Frank Sanger, 28-year-old
native of Beverly, Massachu-
sits. and his wife have been
visiting St. Croix on an an
rual vacation. And despite an
occupation that keeps the in
ternationally known diver in
the water virtually every day
of the year, he has taken every
opportunity to free-dive off the
coral reefs surrounding this
Tropical Island.
Sanger knows the water as
perhaps few men in the world
do, Desrite the use of only one
arm and leg, he heads the
crack New England Divers,
Inc, an outfit that has been in
volved in nearly every major
underwater operation on the
Atlantic seaboard during the
last ten years.
"But this is the place." said
Sanger. II haven't seen every
major watering spot in the
world, but this one is good
enough. It's more than good,
it's fantastic"
Sanger has been involved
with diving and swimming all
his life, professionally since
1851 when he left a chemical
engineering occupation to join
New England Divers.
1t was Sanger who led a
team of four men in the des-
perate attempt to save lives at
ter the Inflated Texas Tower
1 tumbled into the Atlantic
last January.
It was an amazing thing for
any man to attempt, consider
ing the gale-force winds and
below freezing temperatures
, 1961-12-13

ST. Johns to Present
Christmds Pageant
Thurs. December 2lst
The St. Johns Anglican
School will give a Christmas
pageant on Thursday evening,
December 21st, it was an
nounced.
The pageant is an annual af-
fair to which all parents and
friends are cordially invited,
It will be presented in St.
Johns Church at 800 o'clock.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-01
By WILLIAM r. FRYE
Contributing Writer


UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.-East
and West at last seem to be
coming together on the basis of a
negotiation to ease the cold war
in Europe.
Premier Khrushchev long has
insisted that such a negotiation
must ratify the division of Ger
many. This last week, here at the
U. NJ, President Kennedy wrote
off German Identification.
The West. for its part, has long
insisted that settlement to ease
the cold war must stabilize all of
Europe, if not the world; that it
certainly must not be limited to
Berlin. Last week, at the U. NJ,
Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko
agreed to talk on that basis.
East and West, therefore, have
agreed to seek a settlement in
which the West would concede
what Mr.. Khrushchev most wants
the permanence of his empire
II he would give the West real and
lasting relief from the danger of
nuclear war.
Policy Departure
To put the proposition in these
terms is, of course, to simplify
what actually happened. Diplo-
macy rarely is this clear-cut. It is
wrapped in layers of indirection
and subtle inference.
But that is the net effect, ex-
perienced observers here agree.
The. most striking policy de-
parture was that of Mr.. Kennedy.
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and the geographic locale Of Syria.
Surrounded by two additionally
hostile non-Arab countries and
three Arab countries, all at odds
with each other, Syria has been
torn by croSs-current Of forces
that have been constantly trying
10 influence its people.
Non-Arob Neiehbors
The two non-Arab countries,
Israel to the south and Turkey
to the north, have been regarded
as a menace with which the
Syrians could not deal without
support from other Arab coun-
tries. On the other hand, Jordan
and Iraq, then under Hashemite
rule, were exerting pressure on
Syria to join them in a Fertile
Crescent" federation. Conse-
quently, each of the succeeding
Syrian military cliques had to
turn either to Iraq, the stronger
Va Vic WV 1AdoGCLIllJC hl1lBQOIIlS,
for support, or to Egypt to avert
being taken over bysIraq. Finally,
with a third menace, now a Com
munist internal menace, threat
ening to become a real threat, the
Syrians chose the only way out,
a union with Egypt under Presi-
dent Nasser.
The next question is why did
the union fail?
It. is no secret that, the great
appeal of Arab nationalism to the
masses of the Syrians notwith-
standing, the seeds Of failure OF
the merger were sown since the
very start Of the Inflated expert
ment.
In less than four years Presi-
dent Nasser through a series of
plumbers managed to antagonize
the three groups that traditionally
welded power in the country; the
political parties. the middle class
and the military.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-01

ment of John A. McCone, former
Chairman of the Atomic Energy
Commission, as the new Director
Of Central Intelligence, he ex-
pressed his profound regret -.
that Mr.. Dulles should. he re-
firing" after more than eight
years as CHA chief.
Mr.. McCone. a Republican who
served in both the Truman. and
Eisenhower administrations, takes
over at a time when the CHA re-
portedly is undergoing substantial
change. No details have been an
nounced, but the poSt-Cuba reports
Of the Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor
Robert Kennedy survey and of the
board of study headed by DR..
James R. Killian have long since
been completed.
One thing appears likely. The
recent unification of the armed
services intelligence branches
means stronger Pentagon voice
in the sections of the National In
telligence Estimates dealing with
Sino-Soviet military strength. If
it does. there obviously would be
correSpondingly smaller voice for
CHA in this area.
Mr.. McCone is considered
tough" in his ideas on how we
should deal with the Soviet Union.
His persistent pleas over the last
year or so that we promptly re-
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sumo nuclear weapons testing is
cited in this regard. The man
who soon will become chief of the
silent, super-secret organization,
began work as a riveter in a
boiler shop.
On Tuesday, Mr.. Kennedy had
dipped into Republican ranks for
a man to head another top ad-
ministration post. He nominated
William C. Foster as first director
of the new United States Arms
Control and Disarmament Agency.
Like Mr.. McCone, Mr.. Foster
served under President Truman
and joins these other Republicans
working for the Kennedy admin
istration:
Robert Mcnamara, Secretary of
Defense; Douglas Dillon. Secretary
of the Treasury; Arthur Dean, dis
armament negotiator; Gen. Lhcius
Clay, diplomatic representative in
Berlin, and McGeorge Bundy.
White House aide.
In the event of armed conflict,
the President has a good running
start on a national unity Govern
ment.
In the event of verbal conflict
with the Republicans-and this
appears inevitable-he has added
ammunition to meet any charges
that his administration is soft"
in dealing with the Russians.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-01

incident of May, 1860, made po-
litical campaign fodder it did not
make the creator Of the highly
successful spy-plane program an
outcast in the eyes Of the new
administration.
Mr.. Dulles, So, advised the
President-elect that he would stay
on for about a year. The year will
be up in November, allowing Mr..
Dulles to see his dream uf new
CHA headquarters (at Mclean,
Va come to fruition.
Earlier this year, following the
Cuban invasion debacle, Mr.. Dull
les imminent departure was
widely forecast in the press and
on Capitol Hill. The CHA was in
charge of the operation and. al
though some important signals
repeatedly were switched by higher
authority at the last minute. Mr..
Dulles and his agency bore the
brunt of the criticism.
But the President was deters
mined that the man who served
eight Presidents in a remarkable
career of service would not leave
Washington as scapegoat. Not
that the CHA was faultless on the
Cuban fiasco, but advice received
from other quarters was lar from
perfect.
And so. when Mr.. Kennedy an
nounced last week the appoint
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GA Change:
M'Cone Chief

President Kennedy on
Wednesday named John A.
McCOne, former Acc chairman,
as Director of Central IntelE-
gence. A day earlier, Mr.. Ken
nedy nominated William c.
Foster TO be the first head Of
the new Disarmament Agency.
Last November 10, two days
after the balloting, but a week or
more before he was certain he
won, President-elect John p. Ken
nedy announced that he had
asked Allen w. Dulles to remain
as head of the Central Intelli-
gence Agency.
1t was one Of Mr.. Kennedy's
very first appointments" and be-
spoke the bipartisan support and
respect the brother Of the former
Secretary Of State commanded.
In taking this step, Mr.. Ken
nedy praised the career intelli-
gence operative and made it plain
that while the unfortunate w.
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Foreign Aid

Perhaps the most important
action Congress took in the closing
days was passage Of the foreign
aid appropriations bill. Here
again, the House probably won out
although the administration is said
to be satisfied and the final figure
was one which Just about split
the difference" between the Sen
ate and House versions.
The Senate originally voted $40
billion, the House $3.50, 900 900.
The final appropriation was
$3,877, 100000. President Ken
nedy had asked $4S billion.
The first year record of the 87th
Congress is now being debated.
1t turned out mass Of legisla-
ton. 1t broke some new ground,
but not great deal. It did win
the title as the biggest peacetime
Spender in American history, with
total of sos ,684 ,236,912.
The President is proud of the
record Of the overwhelmingly
Democratic Congress. although he
has graciously given Republican
members credit for help.
Last week he was reported con-
sidering the dispatch of several
cabinet members and other admin
istration officials around the
country this fall to inform the
public Of the impact of newly
enacted legislation and solicit views
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-01
Senate Quits

But the Senate finally decided
the greater wisdom would lie IN
swallowing the bitter pill and ad-
journing. too. This they did at
GIG am
Experience is a good teacher"
said Senator Mansfield, who was
winding up his first year as Ma.
jority Leader a Sadder and wiser
man.
He vowed that what happened
to the Senate would never happen
again. He had agreed Tuesday
evening to passage of the final
adjournment amendment, allow
ing each chamber to quit when
ready.
If the present resentment should
persist, there is trouble ahead for
the administration. There is a
host OF controversial legislation,
such as medical aid for the aged
and tax and tariff revision, to be
taken up next year.
Such subjects are hard enough
in the odd-numbered years; they
are doubly so in an election year.
Internecine warfare en- Capitol
Hill would doubtless make even
more difficult the task of getting
them through.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-01

He bet wrong on his great ap-
peal to the masses who saw in
him the great champion of Arab
nationalism destined to lead the
Arabs back to their ancient days
of glory. NaSser'S big mistake
was his unwillingness to realize
that in nations unaccustomed to
democratic rule, the masses could
be easily swayed with the tide
of events. Moreover the Syrian
masses became disillusioned in
NaSser when he failed to fulfill
his promise of "liberating" Pales-
tine and uniting the Arab world.
Nosser's First BIunder
Nasser's first blunder was his
dissolution of Syria's political
parties in favor of one National
. Union Party. as in Egypt. This
measure, in one stroke, antagon-
lied not only the Communists
and the Ba'athists who offered
him Syria on a platter, but also
the right wing Syrian National
Party and the Arab Nationalist
Party. In less than a year after
the union, the leaders Of these
parties took refuge in Russia,
Turkey and neighboring Arab
countries where they began fever
ishly working towards his event.
ual overthrow.
Among other things, they &C
cused NasSer Of being a dictator.
of deceiving the masses with
promises he was unable to fulfill,
and OF replacing Syrian officials
with Egyptians.
Then Nasser committed his
second blunder, a more serious
mistake, when he proclaimed two
years ago his Land Reform Law,
followed by other laws restricting
the free flow of trade in and
out of the country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-01
U. N, Eager for Sign, Has Peace Hope

Identification of Germany has
been an article of faith for the
United States ever since the late
1940s. Long after virtually every
one else had ceased to regard it
as practical, Washington pre-
tended to believe it could and
should be achieved.
This stand was, in large part.
payment of a debt of honor to
Chancellor Adenauer. whose po-
litical future depended on pre-
serving the illusion. The West
German elections September II
relieved the United States of that
obligation. Mr. Kennedy, last
week. seized upon his new freedom
and offered to live with two Ger
manys.
THE Western allies are not
concerned" he told the u. N. Gen
eral Assembly. with any paper
arrangement the Soviets wish to
make with a regime east Ger
many of their own creation. =.
I'VE recognize that troops and
tanks can, for time. keep a ma
ton divided against its will, how
ever unwise that policy may seem
to U.S."
1t may be that John Foster
Dulles in fact abandoned all real
effort to reunify Germany as
early as 1853 when he said (from
the same U. N. podium) that "the
United States is not engaged in
the export Of revolution or vio-
lence." By that statement, he ap-
peared to disavow liberation of
Eastern Europe as policy actively
to be forwarded on Western initia-
tive.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-01

From the beginning Of the
merger the business community
of Syria, the big industrialists
and merchants, had misgivings
about the union. Syria had a
stable currency; Egypt had not.
Syria had a free competitive
economy; that of Egypt was con-
trolled.
In less than a year the Syrian
pound, which was equivalent to
the Lebanese pounds dropped Is
per cent in value. While neigh
boring Lebanon. that enjoys a
free economy, prospered. Syrias
economy, once the most viable
in the Middle East, was on the
decline.
Demonstrations against the new
laws in Aleppo, the industrial
capital Of Syria, were put down
with ruthless force. Many land
owners and businessmen were put
in jail and many others fled the
country. Beirut. the capital of
Lebanon, became the refuge of
hundreds of disowned landowners
and businessmen who joined the
expelled political leaders in con-
spring against Nassers rule.
Then Nasser committed his
third and most serious mistake
when he began replacing Syrian
officers with Egyptian officers. No
longer trusting the Syrian middle
class and military, NasSer believed
that he could retain control of the
country through his hand-picked
officers and the masses. He gave
his envoy Abdel Hakim Amer full
executive powers in Syria despite
the fact that Amer was greatly
disliked
DepoSed Syrian officers, many of
whom were ancient enemies and
had worked against each other,
now found common cause in con-
spring to overthrow NaSser. They
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-01

ognize and ratify what the United
States cannot, with acceptable
risk, alter. He will live with a
divided Germany land hence a
divided Europe if Mr.. Khru-
Shchev will make the other con-
ditionS of East West life tolerable.
Gromyko Agrees
Mr.. Gromyko agreed last week
to talk about the other conditions
of life. This is by no means the
same thing as agreeing to make
life tolerable; but at least the
possibility of a bargain energies.
Acceptance of an item on a diplo-
matte agenda implies willingness
to make it part of the final deal.
Nothing is easy in dealings with
Moscow. There will be a long, hard
row to hoe before the West can
know how high a price Mr.. Khru-
Shchev will pay for ratification of
the partition of Europe-that is,
ratification and acceptance Of his
empire.
But now, at last, the ground
rules for negotiation are being
agreed upon. A process which be-
gan fitfully at the first Geneva
summit in 1855; which careened
dangerously through talk of dis
engagement and European inspec-
ton zones in 1857 and 1858, and
which ran Spectacularly on the
rocks in Paris in 1860 following
the w. incident-this process fl
nally is coming to fruition.
Last week at the U. N. the cur
tain rang down on the prologue.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-01

found their chance in the quarrel
between Amer and NaSser's Vice
President Col. Abdul Hamid Serial
when the latter was stripped Of his
powers.
Perhaps it is still too early to
make full evaluation of the new
regime which has overthrow Mas
ser's rule and taken over control
in Syria. But, judging by the men
who have formed the provisional
government. it could be fairly as
sumed that Syria will now veer to
the right with emphasis on Syrian
nationalism rather than on Arab
nationalism or pan Arab unity.
Union With Iroq
President Abdul Karin Kassim
of Iraq, no friend of Nasser, will be
sure to WOO Syria into an alliance
against Egyptian rule. He may
even go more than that in sug-
SCobAAl6 q uAAAO1l Will II az WLlICu ID
more natural proposition than
the Egypt-Syria union because of
their joining boundaries. More
over, the Syrians and the Iraquis
belong ethnically to the same
group of people as against the
alien Egyptians.
But whatever course Syria will
now take, two important factors
which have always had great in
fluence in shaping it's destiny,
must be borne in mind.
First-No Syrian government,
since the independence of that
country following World War II,
has been able to maintain its
status quo without outside support.
Second-No matter how "Syr-
ian" the new regime would like
to be. the forces of Arab national
ism, under different guises. will be
always at work to destroy Syria's
independence.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-01

Whether this is so or not-and
1t can be Standardization and
reunification clearly are not now
American policy. Gen. Lucius Clay
let drop the first hint. Mr.. Ken
nedy then said, with obvious re-
luctance and regret, that East
Germany is a fact; that Russia
may ratify that fact by means of
peace treaty without Western
protest; and that Soviet troops
and tanks" cannot be prevented
from perpetuating the existing
state of affairs.
Liberation Not Policy
They might be prevented from
doing so. at great risk, if liberia
ton were active American policy.
East Germany could be whipped
into revolt if the United States
wished. or dared, to go to the aid
of the freedom fighters thereafter.
But liberation is not American
policy-not in the shadow of the
hydrogen bomb and the guided
missile. Mr.. Kennedy made that
crystal clear to U. N. people
skilled in DECIDING diplomatic Ian
guage.
This Kennedy policy has the
virtue of logic and consistency;
its supporters argue. Whereas Mr..
Dulles may have abandoned Ger
man Identification in fact, the
Eisenhower administration con-
tinued to urge it in theory, and
efforts to negotiate a European
security treaty with Russia broke
down as a result. Russia simply
would not negotiate on that basis.
Mr.. Kennedy has agreed to rec