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Evening star., 1961-12-10

.
have been split on this so far
The assistant presidential
press secretary. Andrew Hatch
er. said Mr.. Kennedy confer
red with Secretary Rusk at
the White House for about an
hour Immediately after the
Presidents return from q
trip to Florida. Mr.. Rusk ar
ranged to leave for Paris early
today by jet plane.
French President Charles de
Gaulle. who met during the
day with West German Chan
cellor Konrad Adenauer, holds
the key to allied agreement or
negotiating strategy over Ber-
| lin. He has been resisting pres
sure from his Western col
leagues to make overtures tc
the Reds toward a negotiated
settlement.
Declines Comment
Mr.. Hatcher said he had seer
news stories saying Mr.. Alden
auer had been unable to shift
Gen. de Gaulle's view, but he
declined comment.
The White House spokesman
would say only that Mr.. Ken
nedy and Mr.. Rusk discussed
Mr.. Rusk's forthcoming week
long trip.
If Gen. de Gaulle blocks de-
velopment of a Joint allied dip
lomatic effort at this stage ir
the prolonged German crisis
the United States, Britain ano
West Germany will have to de-
eide whether they should pro-
ceed without French co-opera-
ton.
There has been some talk In
official quarters here that the
United States might decide tC
move on its own to initiate new
exploratory talks with the
Soviets if there seems to be ne
other choice.
The Paris meetings Monday
and Tuesday will be among the
foreign ministers of the Unitec
States. Britain. France anc
West Germany-the four West
ern powers primarily concerned
with Berlin. The latter part oi
the week will be devoted to ses'
sions of the 15-nation NORTH
Atlantic Treaty Council.
Mr.. Kennedy and Mr.. Ade'
nauer repeatedly agreed that il
is desirable to work toward 6
negotiated Berlin settlement, a!
an alternative to possibly in
creaSing risks of an East-Wes'
nuclear conflict over West Ber'
lin.
Mr.. Kennedy and Mr.. Rusl
hope that with Mr.. Adenauer'
position thus decided. Gen. d.
Gaulle might be willing to mod
ify his own view and thus pu
an end to a split In allied rank
which for months has threat
ened a kind of paralysis II
Western diplomacy,
Critically Important
Mr.. Adenauer's talks wit
Gen. de Gaulle in Paris thl
week end are regarded as crit
ically important.
Gen. de Gaulle's view is tina
the Russians created the crlsl
with their demands for an en-
to the presence of allied force
| in West Berlin and for a me-
| international status for tn
j city. He has taken the positio
that the Soviets therefor
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!
West opened the six of
spades, and declarer put up
dummy's jack. 1t would have
done him no good to play
dummy's low card, since East
would have finessed the nine
or so he said.
AS the play went, East COW
cred with the queer of spades,
and South Shrewdly refused
the trick. South could see that
he was going to make only
one spade trick whatever be-
fell. and he wanted to take
that trick as late as possible.
1t was, Of course. q sound
idea. If South wins the first
spade trick and tries the club
finesse he Is beaten by a
spade lead through the ten.
East gets the king of clubs.
and West gets four spade
tricks.
Returns Spade
East held the first trick, as
we have seen, with the queen
Of spades and properly re-
turned the nine of spades.
South swiftly put in the king
Of spades, and West found
himself playing the ace of
spades before he knew which
end was up.
Obviously, this was q fool
iSh play. If West had stopped
to think he would have known
that South had the ten of
spades. To begin with, South
would win the first trick with
the king Of spades II that were
his only chance to win a spade
trick. Then again, If East held
the ten as we'll as the nine
of spades, he would have re-
turned the ten rather than
the nine.
All very obvious, but the
fact remains that South
played his king very swiftly.
This somehow panicked West
into taking the ace as q sort
Of reflex, much as one auto
matically yanks back If some
body tries to snatch some
thing away.
The defense ended at the
second trick. South could af-
ford to take the club finesse,
for there was no longer q
threat.
West would defeat the con-
tract If he. refused the second
trick. East would later win a
club trick and return his last
spade.
Daily Question
Dealer, at your left, bids
one spade. Partner doubles,
and the next player passes.
You hold:
AAS762 054 11o9s ASS
What do you say2
Answer: Bid two clubs. You
need very strong spades to
consider passing for penalties.
Respond in your cheapest
three-card suit when you have
no longer suit.
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SHERWOOD
ON BRIDGE
Swift PIuy
Produces Effect
By ALFRED SHERWOOD

There's a certain kind of
hand that nobody misplays on
a restaurant tablecloth or on
a piece of paper. At the bridge
table, however, there is a diff
ferent story to tell.
South dealer.
North-S South vulnerable.
NORTH
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WEST EAST
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Rules of the game: l. Words must be
OF four or more letters. 2. Words which
acquire four letters by the addition of
s." such as bats" cats" are not
used. 8. Only one form Of q word is
used. 4. Proper names are not used.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-04-26

Answer: Bid two clubs. You
need very strong spades to
consider passing for penalties.
eSpond in your cheapest
three-card suit when you have
no longer suit.
(copyright, 1851, Gen. Features corp.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-04-26

Answers 10 RIVULET
rile. rite, rive, rivet, rule, tier, veil,
vile. vier, virtue, lieu, liver, lire, liter,
lure, Lutte. evil, tile, tier, tire, true.
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WORD GAME

Find 80 or more words In
INV r s z
meaning reversed, inverted.
Averaged mark, ~ words. Time
limit, IS minutes.
Evening star., 1961-10-30
DORIS FLEEsoN
Kennedy Adds Big Stops to Trip

has had the rather odd effect
of turning the old talk about
the dynastic potential of the
Kennedys from jest to earn
est conversation.
Suddenly the politicians are
asking whether 1868 will see
another Kennedy-the Attor-
ney General-running against
Lyndon johnson for the DEM
ocratic nomination for Presi-
dent. The thought Of start
ing to choose up sides on that
one is a rather chilling one
in some places-including
Texas.
The President will skip
Texas this time, but the Vice
President is there fighting
for that Bexar County seat
in the House and also mulling
over whether to put Navy
Secretary Connally, his old
associate. into the race for
Governor next year.
Evening star., 1961-10-30
Swing Toward Fovoring Weapons Work
AppIouded. Along With NeutroIs' Shift

ers among American COM
mentators and presidential
advisers to tie our hands
with those moist good inten-
tions which have paved so
many roads to a well-known,
four-letter place called He'll.
Now we are on another
road, the road of reason, the
road to resumption of nu-
clear tests whenever and
wherever and in whatever
form they are needed.
The chairman of the
United States Atomic Energy
Commission, DR.. Glenn Sea-
borg, has declared we must
begin anew to test in the
atmosphere unless we wish
to fall behind. He is a high
ly respected member of that
community of atomic scien-
lists which has, on the whole,
been on the side of no test
ing. No one can possibly say
he is a bomb-happy mill
tarist."
And Gov. Nelson Rockefel-
Ter of New York, a Repub-
lican presidential possibility
for 1864, has called on the
United States to get on with
the testing job. Rockefeller,
the leader Of the liberal wing
within the G. o. P, cannot
possibly be waved aside as
some trigger = happy Right
winger."
Indeed, some of the weep
ers, too, are making sudden
reversals and reckoning that
maybe we ought to resume
testing. Soon they will be so
loud as to suggest that this
was their position all along.
Finally, the neutralist ma
tions, so long in the van
against American testing as
stooges for the Soviet propa-
ganda line, are at least not
complete and utter stooges
any more. This is the real
meaning of the recent United
Nations resolution calling on
Evening star., 1961-10-30
POTOMAC FEVER
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

The Kennedy team it's running deficit of
81 billion this year. Motto: Let's pick this country up-and
pawn it,"
Former Soviet President Voroshlov admits "anti-pary
Under communism the worst crime in the book
being accused Of writing one of the chapters.
1t isn't really violence TV It's Just that all the
actors would rather drop dead than the commercial
There's of bad blood between Kennedy and
Nixon This is the Eisenhower Truman feud all again
Junior mems department.
thing troubles the young progressiveS of the day
How do you stage a sit-in at cookout?
The Kennedy outfit is in sweat. 1t is trying to appoint
73 judges-and not enough in-laws to go around
Evening star., 1961-10-30
WILLIAM S. WHITE

A great victory for COM
mon sense within America
on a stark survival issue is
at last clearly and most mar
velously on the horizon.
For years the somber truth
has been that this country
was gambling its very securi .
ty by agreeing to any sus-
pension of nuclear testing.
This was so because the one
true margin of power held
by the West over the Soviet
Union-with its massive con-
ventional military forces so
far outnumbering our own
has been our atomic su-
periority.
For years, nevertheless, this
mber truth has been
crushed to earth under the
lamentations of the pacifists
and half-pacifiStS. first in
the Eisenhower administra-
ton and then in the Ken
nedy administration. Because
fallout from testing in the
air is undoubtedly harmful,
they were able to convince
Western poIicymakers that
there should be no such test
ing.
They would not see that
while fallout was undeniably
bad, a progressive weakening
of the Vests whole survival
power was surely a great deal
worse.
So we agreed with the Rus
slams to halt testing in the
atmosphere. With character
istic respect for their agree
ments, the Russians recently
broke the armistice, though
they themselves had from the
first led the bowling against
such tests.
But this, as is now being
seen. is one of those in
stances in which Soviet bru-
tality has actually served
Western interests.
For it simply became no
longer possible for the weep
Evening star., 1961-10-30
California, New Jersey Candidates Get
Prestige of Visit by President

he has shown that he can
control his temper when it
is in his own interest.
Also, the President knows
we'll. having made a special
study Of the problem, that
Eisenhower's attention span
is short, his political responses
almost invariably turn inward
and he has no real taste for
the hard political infighting
which influences elections.
1t will take a more sustained
and telling political effort by
Eisenhower to draw Kennedy
into an attack that might
backfire. If he permits him
self some ripostes they will
not be impulsive.
II the President will en-
courage his hosts to talk as
freely to him as they do to
their political confidantes he
might learn quite a lot.
He and Mrs. Kennedy are
not using a tithe Of the tre-
mendous reservoir of goodwill
they enjoy in the country.
Television appearances do not
take the place of personal
contact; the voters like to see
the man they voted for and
his wife, too. Perhaps no one
will have the nerve to discuss
this with him but it is a COM
monplace of backstage con-
versation.
Then there is that Edward
Kennedy contest against
George Lodge for a United
States Senate seat from Mas
sachusetts next year. No one
takes it too seriously but it
Evening star., 1961-10-30
DAVID LAWRENCE
Peace Prospects Held Brighter

recognize that no construc-
tive purpose can possibly be
served by seeking to transfer
to East Germany the COM
plete responsibility for hand
ling relations between East
and West Berlin.
The SovietS, of course, have
said that once a peace treaty
we're signed, the East Ger
man government woul d
guarantee allied rights and
that things would be virtually
the same as before. Whoever
in Moscow thought up this
plan, however, completely
misconstrued Western psy-
chology and reactions. 1t was
a failure not to foresee that
by closing the East Berlin
crossing and erecting a wall.
the whole world would be
given a vivid demonstration
of the difference between a
posture Of slavery and one of
freedom. Things cannot
possibly revert now to the
previous routine as long as
the big wall" remains and
the East German people are
intimidated and prevented
from moving freely when they
wish to visit their families
and friends in West Germany.
The Russians might have
made more progress if they
had signed the peace treaty
first and established routine
conditions of travel and then
had called for negotiations"
But the Communists do not
understand the Western
mind, especially where a
principle involving human
freedom is concerned. It must
have been something of a
surprise to them when not
only American tanks moved
right up to the border last
week end, but when Ameri-
can armed jeeps actually
escorted the vehicles Of our
military personnel directly
into East Berlin and dared
the Soviets or anybody else
to interfere.
This is an example Of
simple courage reminiscent of
Generals Clay's firmness
when the Russians attempted
their blockade in 1948 and
1949. 1t looks like another
victory for the West.
(Copyright. 196D
Evening star., 1961-10-30
DORIS FLEESON

The heat from the old
pros of the party finally
penetrated the Presidents
oval study before he took off
on a trip none Of them
thought really necessary.
AS a result he added a
Trenton, N. j., rally and a
Los Angeles dinner to bis
schedule. Both are what
might be called working en-
gagements in contrast to
the back-slapping dates with
Senate pals who do not vis-
IDLY need help at this point.
Polls showing that Demo-
crat Richard Hughes was
pulling up in the New Jersey
governorship race possibly
influenced the President
there. Should Hughes over
take former Secretary of
Labor Mitchell next week,
no one in the Hughes camp
would be disposed to deny
Kennedy much credit.
In California, Gov. Browns
problem with Richard Nixon
is a year away from decision
but the campaign has al
ready started. AS usual the
Democrats are feuding and
the President will be well
come for his prestige, coun-
sci and unifying influence.
The White House has let
it slip that the President
feels he has been poorly re-
paid by former President
Eisenhower for all the def
erence displayed to him.
This is doubtless true but
Kennedy had his own pur-
poses in that difference and
Evening star., 1961-10-30
NucIeur Tests and Common Sense

the RusSians-vainly, it now
develops = not to explode
their so-called superbomb.
" And here is a final irony.
The weepers, who for years
had proclaimed the neutral
lists to be the wiseSt and best
of all men, now suddenly
complain that the neutralists
were not tough enough in
supporting the resolution.
The fact remains that they
did support it and that never
before had they been willing
to go even that far.
The fact therefore follows,
as this correspondent recent
ly suggested, that the United
States and Western position
in the U. N. is stronger, not
weaker, than before.
Evening star., 1961-10-30

Wisconsin and Western Branch:
1851 WISCONSIN AVENUE, N. W.
Evening star., 1961-10-30
CoromonIis Forces
Win Greek Election

The middle-of-the-road Un-
ion of the Center was runner
up to the ERE in popular vote
but the 54-year-old Mr.. Cara
manlis. who has headed the
Greek government for six years,
was assured Of a working
majority in Parliament.
Returns from 9,605 of the
9,752 districts gave the Cara
manlis forces 2.l45,834 votes
(49.6 per cent?, Union Of the
Center l ,486,723 (34.3 per cent?
and the Pandemocratic Agra
rian Front 65l,708 Q5 per
cent?.
Evening star., 1961-10-30
Industries Fires
Cost $500 Million

KANSAS CITY, Oct. 80 (AP).
Fires caused almost 5000
million losses to American in
dustry in 1960-an increase of
about SIS million over the pre-
vious year Loren S. Bush,
president of the National Fire
Protection Association said to-
day.
Mr.. Bush, of San Francisco,
spoke at the opening session
of the associations three day
fall conference, attended by
fire safety experts from the
United States and Canada.
Evening star., 1961-10-30

Chances Of averting a
war over Berlin are today
brighter than ever. The
United States won an i'm
portant test of nerves as
both sides in the last few
days sent tanks to the bor-
der line between East and
West Berlin to face each
other, and then the Russians
withdrew first.
The episode must have
demonstrated conclusively to
Moscow the utter futility Of
the Soviet plan for the sign
ing Of a separate peace
treaty with East Germany
in disregard Of the rights
and wishes Of the West.
For what good can such
a treaty do the Soviets now?
They can sign all the docu-
ments they wish with the
East German government,
but, since the Western gov
ernments have shown clearly
their determination to exer-
else their rights, any re-
sistance must nominally be
conducted by the East Ger
mans. And they alone DO
not have enough weapons to
challenge the Western allies.
Indeed. If a battle arose, the
East German government
might find most of its troops
actually welcoming a chance
to surrender themselves and
gain freedom in the West.
The moment the Russians
conceded the weakness of
the position Of the East Ger
man government by sending
their own tanks last Friday
to the border line of East
Berlin to face American
tanks, it was proof that East
Germany could not possibly
be delegated by Moscow to
deal alone with the West.
Hence, Of what avail is the
peace treaty? Why keep the
whole world on edge with
such a useless maneuver?
For to do so means constant
anxiety among the Soviet
people as well as the peoples
of the colonial states of Po-
land, Hungary, Romania,
Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia.
Evening star., 1961-10-30
u. S. Wins Test of Nerves When Reds
Withdrew Tanks in East Berlin

The significance, therefore.
of the successful demonstra-
ton of military force by the
West in the last few days can
hardly be overestimated. The
important point revealed to
the Russians now is that the
West will meet military force
in kind. The Soviets doubt
less instigated the blocking of
the first American autos
carrying military personnel
which sought to enter East
Berlin. In demanding identity
passes and imposing new re-
strictionS on members of the
United States Army and also
on travel by officials of our
State Department, the Rus
SLAMS may have assumed this
would meet with ready COM
pliance. They may have
reasoned that this would
sanction in the eyes of the
West the authority which the
East German government
now claims and would con-
tinue to claim if a peace
treaty between East Ger
many's government and the
Moscow government were
signed.
But it has become clear
that the Western govern
mentS will insist on exercis-
ing their established rights
of access to East Germany
and, if stopped, will depend
on military force to sustain
such rights. Thus, in effect,
the Russians have been noti-
fled that a peace treaty will
not insure peace between
East Germany and the West,
and that it will not relieve
the Soviet government of
primary responsibility for the
protection of Western rights
as written into inter-allied
agreements after the close
of World War II.
Undoubtedly this is the
line of argument that soon
will be aired in the "negotia-
tions" between Western
diplomats and the Soviet
foreign minister. Sooner or
later the Moscow govern
ment, it now appears, will
have to become realistic and
Evening star., 1961-10-30

ATHENS, Greece. Oct. 80
(AP) Greek conservatives led
by Constantine Caramanlis won
another four-year term today
in a firm Endorsement of the
governments pro-Western for
eign policy and economic sta
bility at home.
The Premier's rightist Ma
tional Radical Union (ERE)
surged toward a decisive victory
with the gains coming mostly
at the expense Of the Commu-
nist-line Pandemocratic Agrar-
ian Front (PAME).
Evening star., 1961-04-02

completed, they were visited this forenoon
by Gen Beauregard and the members of the
Convention la State convention to ratify the
Confederate constitutional The distinguished
party were received with high honors and
heavy firing in all directions. Gov. Pickens
was not in the company. -.
The completion Of the great work and the
satisfactory manner in which it has been ac-
complished is the theme Of much rejoicing
and congratulation on all sides, and all that
is wanting to make the JOY complete is the
evacuation of Sumter and its occupancy by
its rightful owners. the Confederate States
of America
Great anxiety is felt as to the AdminStra-
tons course about Fort Sumter. If nothing is
done soon, the fort will be attacked and cap
tured The sentiment ofthe people is entirely
in favor of action. 30.
Evening star., 1961-04-02
Background

III
ton harbor may have been in deep
doubt, but the thousands of Confederate
troops seemed ready and eager for a
collision of arms. They had been ac-
cumulating for more than three months,
so that by April they were practically
falling over one another. Most of them
were wholly unframed and undiSci-
plined which led to near-chaoS as far
as their officers were concerned. Con-
sequently, when the troops sought to re-
lieve the monotony of waiting, nobody
cared much how they did so-as the fol-
lowing account suggests.
From The Evening Star Monday. April l. 1861:
CAROLINA VOLUNTEERS AS SEEN BY
NORTHERNER.- R.-"Charleston under Arms"
is the title of spicy and very rel adable article
in the Atlantic Monthly for April in which
many of the social and political peculiari-
ties of the Charlestonians are sketched with
unprejudiced fairness, though with an evil
dent partiality for the more humorous phases
of the subject An incident Of the writer's re-
turn to Charleston from Fort Moultrie is thus
pleasantly related:
At o'clock we were steaming over the
yellow water of the harbor. The volunteers.
like everybody else in Charleston. discussed
Secession and Fort Sumter, considering the
former as an accomplished fact and the lat
ter as a fact of the kind called stubborn. They
talked uniforms, too, and equipment and
craftsmanship: and drinks and cigars and
other military matters. Now and then an
awkwardly folded blanket was taken from
the shoulders which it disgraced, refolded,
packed carefully in its covering Of india rub
ber, and strapped once more in its place, two
or three generally assisting in the operation.
Presently firing at marks from the upper
deck commenced. The favorite target was
conical floating buoy, showing red on the sun
lit surface of the harbor. some 400 yards
away With a crack and a hoarse whiz the
MIME balls flew towards it, splashing the
water where they first struck, and taking two
or three tremendous Skips before they sank.
militiaman from New York City, who was
one of my felIow-passengers, told me that he
never saw such good shooting" 1t seemed
to me that every sixth ball either hit the buoy
full or touched water but few yards this
side of it. while not more than one in dozen
went wild.
1T is good for a thousand yards" said
volunteer slappng his bright new piece
prnudlv
Evening star., 1961-04-02
The News in Brief

March o-Missssippi Stote Convention
rotfies Confederate Constitution;
lincoIn's cobinet with exception Of
Secretary Of Stote Seward ond In
terror Secretoy Smith, swings in fovor
Of holding Fort Sumter.
MoFeh 3o-LincoIn, without fonfore,
orders SEQ expedition prepored TO
Ieove Washington April 8 for un-
disclosed distinction
April 1-Seword writes Lincoln Some
thoughts for the Presidents considero-
tion," cheekiH suggesting foreign
wor TO unite oil the Sfotes, accusing
his chief Of hoVng no policy ond 3D.
Vsing him 10 do his Job or turn the
responsibilities over TO Seward Lin
coin ignores him.