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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-21
Peipinq's Cunning

Only Gne lnScruCdDle OIllQeS6 Oh
Peiping may know exactly why they
have offered at a moment of obvious
military superiority an end to their
invasion of India. And whatever their
devious reasons Of timing may be, it
is safe to assume that this is only a
tactical move in their grander strategy
of Asian conquest and domination.
1t is, on its face, a cunning ma
neuver launched on a statement filled
with falsehood and hypocrisy, twist
ing Of truth about the beginnings and
progress of aggression, and of Sancti-
moniouS protestationS about a love for
peace that was violated in fact only
by those who now demand 1t on their
terms alone. Even In the making Of it,
the men Of Peiping were unable to
restrain themselves from new threats
tation to use this platform for further
wearisome Communist ranting about
American imperialism"
Stripped Of these unattractive and
unpromising trimmings, Peiping'S pro-
posal comes down to an offer of giving
up secondary gains in return for keeping
others that have been a longtime OBJ
jective and are Of greater strategic
value. In terms Of land, they are
conditionally willing to withdraw from
areas occupied in the northeast and
central sectors but clearly unwilling to
surrender the over-run Ladakh triangle
in the northwest where they have built
connecting highways between conquered
Tibet and their Sinkiang province.
At this moment, official India
reaction remains uncertain despite JUS
tifiable initial charges of Chinese trick
cry. Prime Minister Nehru has held to
a position that negotiations must be
preceded by restoration of conditions
prevailing in early September, when
this phase of Communist invasion
began. Peiping's offer does not meet
this position, but Mr.. Nehru has added
that there will be further careful con-
Sideration of the Communist bid. AS a
practical matter, In the light of obvious
Indian military inferiority, it is prob
ably wise to leave the door to negotia-
tions this much ajar even though latest
reports indicate continued Chinese at
tackS.
Meanwhile, 1t is good that the
British and American governments are
sending qualified missions to India for
a rapid study of military needs. India
already has paid high price for It's
Northumberland failure to understand
the meanings of Communist ambition
To let it fall virtually by default would
vastly expand the dangers of this am
bition, to much more than India alone.
In this setting, it is important also, and
President Kennedy has emphasized it
wisely, that the interests Of neighboring
PakiStan, our first and stoutest ally
in Asia, should neither be overlooked
nor compromised in the process Of Joint
resistance to Communist Chinese ag-
erosion.
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BoWIes' Views
Charles N. Fellows.

Senator GoldWater charged
that Chester Bowles is soft
on Communism" Bowles
proved it. Speaking before a
Peace Forum audience at the
Jewish Community Center
Q1-15-62) the Presidents
special adviser on African,
Asian and Latin American
affairs, said he believed it
was unreasonable to expect
the underdeveloped, emerging
and non-aligned nations to
make a decision and identify
themselves with either the
free or the Communist
world, because to do so would
mean sacrificing their equal
ity, individuality and di-
versity.
AS former Ambassador to
India, Mr.. Bowles should
know as well as anyone that
midas non-aligned posture
literally invited Red Chinese
aggression. After years of
America batting" ". K.
KriShna Menon's favorite in
door pastime) Nehru finds
himself somewhat olsen
chanted by his phantom
friends in Egypt, Ghana, Yu-
goslavia and Indonesia.
The Indian people are und-
erStandably shaken by the
silence of their fellow neu-
trails and non-aligned coun-
tries. This, however, is the
price which India must pay
for Prime Minister Nehru's
double standard brand of
neutralism de. trying to
play two ends against the
middle. Hopefully other
countries playing this danger
GUS game will realize the
consequences before they too
get burned.
I submit, Mr.. Bowles, that
1t is not dollar diplomacy"
to expect a measure of moral
support from countries which
now or at some future date
will seek and receive Ameri-
can military assistance in
order to combat Communist
aggressors.
Certainly it is hypocritical
at best for a profeSsed neu-
trail like Nehru to berate and
condemn America for our
ability to marshal men, weap-
ons, and nuclear. power to the
point where we hold the bal
ance of power for the free
world, and in the next breath
ask us to hurry up and rush
supplies. planes and arma-
ment to save India from Red
China.
In spite of all this, Nehru
insists mon alignment is
right for us and is unlikely
to change because of fight
ing China"
George TWigg III.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-21
A BOOK FOR TODAY
PoTefoces Among the Redskins
By DONALD MIMI

thology. John Tanner, "the
White Indian" lived with the
Ottawas as one of them for
almost 20 years. When he re-
turned to white society, he
claimed that it was necessary
for him to relearn English.
Whether the interest Of his
narrative is the result Of his
own acuity or the skillful
leading of his amanuensis,
DR.. Edwin James, is not q
matter of concern to us.
What is important is the
detailed way in which the
day to day lives Of tie In
dams and aspects Of their
ethical and religious beliefs
come to life.
Tanner was aware OF the
extent to which these beliefs
influenced him. On one occa-
sion he visited an allegedly
haunted spot. Part Of my
motive was curiosity, but I
also wished to be able to tell
the Indians I had not only
stopped, but slept quietly at
a place they Stunned with
so much fear" But he, too,
saw the ghosts, and in addi-
ton had a dream which re-
vealed the place at which he
could find a horse the next
morning. THE account of
what I had seen and suffered
there confirmed the Indians
In their dread Of the spot"
PULLING is the appar-
ent inconsistency with which
the Indians treated their
captives. A partial explana-
ton is finally offered by
Charles Johnston, a Virginia
lawyer who in 1927 published
the story of his experiences
as a captive.
Then there is John Rodg-
ers levitt who spent two
and a half years with Moot
kaS of the Pacific Northwest.
Like Tanner and Johnston,
levitt was a keen and not
unsympathetic observer. I'm
like most of the men and
women represented in the
book, these three were able
to conceive of a way Of life
that differed from their own
and that was certainly more
primitive than their own but
which nevertheless had gen.
uine ethical values and was
not wholly unworthy Of re-
spect.
The final two selections,
relatively late writings by
women, are at the opposite
pole. The "savages" are fig
ures without life or hui
mainly, and in the words Of
these two, even a CHASTITY
massacre becomes an item Of
gossip.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-21

him an even stronger leader
than before.
In West Germany, and not
withstanding the present
domestic difficulties of his
government, Chancellor Kon-
rad Adenauer, another advo-
cate of doing plus talking,
has come more willingly into
the Western concert than
ever before.
Though tragedy hovers over
the Orient, it is mixed with
great hope. Though the
Chinese Communist invasion
of India is brutally costly in
Indian dead, the blazing light
it puts on the folly Of Prime
Minister Nehru's military I'M
preparedness brings positive
returns.
No Security in TOadying
The fact has gone deeply
home that Mr.. Nehru's Gym
ical playing Of Communist
East against Free West.
while actually favoring Com
munist East, has not bought
India even temporary safety
from the very Communist
powers to which he toadied
so long.
The Indian people today
are in no mood to hear about
"neutralism." When they re-
ject for good this soft and
m on trously irresponsible
doctrine, as they surely will
before this affair is over, we
shall see the end Of an era
of fatal nonsense which fol-
lowed the Second World War.
This, brought up to date,
was Just the kind Of nonsense
that led to the birth Of Hitler
the notion that because
power evilly used brings evil
results, power itself is al
ways to be summed. 1t was
said by one-book intellec-
tuals that there wasn't much
difference between Hitler
Germany and Chamberlain
England. Until recently. much
the same was said by the
same kind of people Of the
United States and the Soviet
Union-that, after ALL"
both had immense nuclear
power and so both must be
NOR or less evil in purpose.
The incredible Stiffness Of
this theory is. under Provi-
dence, dying now before it
has been necessary to spend
millions Of hves-as it was
before-to show its intellec-
tual rubbishness and moral
cowardice.
copyright, 1862
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-21
Red China and u. N.

Fuzzy thinkers who are
pushing the admittance Of
Red China into the United
Nations say. mo U. N. inspec-
ton team can be sent to YER
ify Chinese troop withdraw
ais as proposed in the Gu
ban missile controversy" u
Thant and his inspection
team were sold a bill of goods
and were not allowed to in
spect anything. Would the
Red Chinese be more amena-
BILE than Mr.. Castro?
We don't want Red China
in the U. N. The only pur-
pose it would serve would be
to give that murderous, in
humanitarian government a
political status it has never
proved 1t deserved, plus a
chance to run free in this
country and accomplish its
mischief right in our midst.
John P. BraddOck.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-21
Montgomery Schools

A letter writer states:
Il would like to offer sup
port and encouragement to
the professional staff of the
Montgomery County schools"
Is the writer aware that the
Board of Education is sup
posed to make the policy
governing our schools and
the staff is supposed to adj
minister it? If so, then
in what are you supporting
and encouraging these peo-
pie? To go over the heads of
and ignore the new members
OF the board elected by a
mandate of the people?
I am becoming increasingly
weary of reading letters from
liberal losers of the November
6 election, in which they claim
that the incumbents lost out
only because of the tax-weary
voters protest. Whom are
they trying to convince now
that money is the only thing
the Montgomery County tax
payer thinks about when it
comes to education? The ans
wer must be, themselves, be-
cause the taxpayers and
parents I met and talked with
before this election were thor
oughly convinced that the
difference between the in
cumbents and challengers was
two Numerically opposed
PHILOSOPHERS. The liberals be-
lieve in the progressive, life
adjustment, social welfare,
child-centered permissive and
all encompassing leave
nothing for Nom and Dad to
do - philosophy. Whereas,
the fundamentalistS believe
in the intellectual develop
ment and academic achieve
ment = the key to which is
the basic fundamentals -
leaving social welfare and life
adjustment in the home.
Where do these people
get the idea that because
"65 per cent" of our high
school graduates 60 on to
college that full credit should
go to the board of education
and staff? Shouldn't the
credit go to the parents who
send them simply because
they can afford it? Isn't it
strange that no figures can
be obtained either from Rock
vile or the State Board Of
Education pertaining to the
disportionate number of Drop
outs of Montgomery County
students in the colleges?
These letters by the liber-
ais, clearly, are sounding the
warning bell to the newly
elected board and their sup
porters, that, although the
liberal philosophy is repre-
sented in the minority on
the board, the staff is still
prepared to carry out and
push their aims and goals over
and under the new board,
come what may. Let us not
sit back and rest on our
laurels, for all that has been
won, thus far, is a small VIC
tory. The real battle is yet
to come!
Mrs. Ralph d. Xander.
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today. With all due respect
for the deceased, may the
Roosevelt's souls rest in
peace. However, we should
scrutinize and change some
Of those policies established
by the Roosevelts so that we
can develop a better Amer
lea and a better world.
George ii. Miller,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-21
Committing Time

While extolling the speed
by which its proposed rapid
rail transit system will carry
the commuter from outlying
stations to downtown Wash
ington, the National Capital
Transportation Agency fails
to recognize the time in
volved in portable portal
travel. This, it seems to me,
is the key to the unan-
swered question: Will people
patronize the rail system?
If everyone in this metro
politan area lived adjacent
to a rail station and worked
adjacent to its downtown
terminal point, we might
concede that the system
would attract customers.
But, the fact remains that
thousands upon thousands
Of commuters would have to
drive, be driven, or walk to
a station some blocks Cor
miles) distant, very possibly
await the departure of the
train. and then, once arriv-
ing at a downtown destina-
ton. make their way to their
place Of employment. In
many. many instances, the
portal-to-portal time would
be no shorter than it is to-
day even via crowded high
ways and streets.
Personal convenience is a
decisive factor. II the
NCATA's grandiose rail net
work ever is built. patron
age will depend upon its CAP
abilities to carry the COM
muter to and from his job
in considerably less time
than it takes by automobile.
portal-to-portal. Unless the
rail system can accomplish
that, at least, 1t will prove
to be the most expensive
white elephant in all history.
James L. Fieser.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-21
RooseVeItiono

Cabell Phillips letter dis
plays the usual impatient
sentiment and lack of his
torical objectivity Of the
Roosevelt cult.
1t was 40 years after the
death Of Washington before
a memorial was erected in
his honor. 1t was 81 years
after the death of Lincoln
before his memorial was
commenced. Why are the
promoters of the Roosevelt
cult so anxious to memorial
ize their leaders before all
available facts are made pub
lie? The papers involved in
negotiating with Russia dur
ing World War II at Que
bee. Teheran, Yalta and
Potsdam have not yet all
been made public. The evil
dence presently available is
enough for serious concern as
to whether a memorial
should be erected at all.
The Appendix to the Con-
greSsional Record of Septem-
Der %, 1850 contains an ex-
tension of remarks by Hon.
Harold H. Velde (Ill.) on
THE Communist Threat to
America" by Martin Dies.
Martin Dies was the first
chairman of the House Com
mittee on Un-American Ac-
tivities) According to this
reference, on August IL, 1898,
FDR told Dies in a private
conversation, well, if you
expose the Communists in
the CLIO, the CLIO will turn
against the Democratic Par
ty. If we lose the CLIO in some
of the Eastern States, we
cannot win. The Com
muniSts have as much right
in the CIO as anyone else"
(The CIO later cleaned its
ranks by its own actions
Later, Martin Dies obtained
the records Of several thou
sand Communists, agents,
stooges, and sympathizers on
the Government payroll.
Again, Mr.. Dies had a private
conversation with FDR
wherein FDR became angry
and said to Mr.. Dies, well,
I have never seen a man that
had such exaggerated ideas
about this thing. I do not
believe in communism any
more than you do but there is
nothing wrong with the
Communists in this country;
several of the best friends
have got are Communists"
When one understands che
political opportunism" dis
played in this conversation of
August II, 1888, and the ig-
norance of the Communists
tactics, strategy, and objec-
tives exhibited throughout
the entire FDR Administra-
ton, one can see that it Of
fers an explanation for the
predicament that we are in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-21
Questions and Answers
BY THE HASKIN SERVICE
mail, question Of fact by
NV washington
t-adod stamped envelope

groups attached to the oxy-
gen distinguish one ether
from another.
@. What French abbey is
surrounded by Quicksand?
"A. Y.
A. The abbey Of Mont st.
Michel, on a rocky islet a
mile off the coast of Nor
mandy, France. Until the
1905. it was reached by
crossing the strait at low tide
on a firm track surrounded
by quicksand on either side.
A causeway has now been
built from the mainland to
the iSlet.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-21
Profitable Boo-Boo

The action of Postmaster
General Edward Day in the
Dag Hammarskjold stamp
case is intriguing. The issue
of approximately $4,000 de-
liberate misprints reduced the
estimated market value of the
400 original misprints from
about $3.50 to about a dime.
OF course the unlucky holders
of the original 400 screamed
bloody murder and claimed
they had been clipped. But
let's look on the bright side:
other collectors gobbled up
the reissue and the Govern
ment turned a neat profit Of
about $4,000 on the deal.
Maybe it would be a good
idea for the Post Office De-
partment to run off a batch
of the celebrated upside
down air mail stamp. A few
collectors might scream but
think Of the financial benefit
to the Government. We might
even balance the budget. o
temporal o moresl
Angus Sinclair.
- -
I think it is fair to tell you
that I am a boy of IL, so my
opinion may not be fully ma
ture. I have collected stamps
for five years now and in all
this time I have never come
across a more discouraging
article than what our POST
master General has done in
the last few days. I am glad
that the editorial you wrote
stood behind us. What will
happen if those interested in
this widely enjoyed hobby
lose the chance of becoming
rich? Why do people collect
coins, art objects, or, stampsP
I am sure that there are
many people with feelings
like mine.
Charles N. Fellows.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-21

SCALPS AND TOMA-
HAWKS, TRUE EYE
WITNESS ADVENTURES
OF INDIAN CAPTIVES
WHO LIVED TO TELL
THEIR TALES: 175O-1S5O.
Edited, with an introduce
ton, by Frederick Drim-
mer. 378 PIP. Coward
Mccain; So
Frederick Drummer, edi-
torial director of the Famous
Artists School, has assembled
a collection Of tales that
covers a time span slightly
longer than the LOG years in
dictated in the subtitle, and
en- enormous geographical
range: from Florida to the
present Washington British
Columbia area.
The Indian captives who
lived to tell their tales" were
the prisoners of widely vary
ing tribes. they were cap
tured under varying circum-
stances and they themselves
were by no means similar
personalities.
There are Is items in the
volume, "seven full-length
books all considerably
condensed and eight shorter
pieces" Furthermore, says
the editor, 81 have revised
them freely to improve their
reliability"
Yet the book Dies not live
up to its promise. Some Of
the authors" had profess
sional help in recounting
their adventures and exploits.
But even with this help-or
possibly because of livery
few manage to communicate
their experiences. 1t all
proves that having bee n
there is not the only quail
fication of a good reporter.
Many who we're there failed
to observe, and some who OBJ
served failed to understand.
THE VIOLENCE and bru-
tally, the tomahawkings and
tortures, all become routine
in time. EndlesSly repeated,
they become endlessly weari-
some, for one accepts the ia
miliar even If it is hideous.
Moreover, the narrators of
these adventures were neces-
sarily concentrating on
themselves - their sufferings
and their plans for escape.
This common denominator
and possibly, too, Mr.. Drim-
mer's condensing and rewrit-
ing tends to reduce differ
ences, heighten sirnilarities
and all but erase personality
Nevertheless, there are
some fine things in the an
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-21

@. Is there more than one
kind of ether?-D. T.
A. There are many diff
ferent chemicals which are
classified as others. The best
known is ethyl ether, which
is used as an anesthetic and
as a solvent for several or
ganic compounds, for exam
pie. fats. Ethers contain an
oxygen atom to which two
hydrocarbon groups are at
tached. A hydrocarbon group
is one that contains carbon
and hydrogen; the number
of carbon and hydrogen
atoms in a group may vary.
Different hyd rocarbon
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LETTERS TO THE STAR

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letters carry toriters' correct
names and addresses. All let
tiers are subject to condenSd-
ton. Those not used tDiH be
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panied By self addressed,
stamped envelopes.
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THE PASSING SCENE.
A Fresh, New Air of Realism
BY WILLIAM S. WHITE

1t has, what with one thing
and another, been q dark
autumn thus far, but it is
now possible to see a certain
degree Of cheerfulness break
ing through. Nearly all over
the free woodland also over
a good deal Of that hitherto
neutral" world which will
never be quite so neutral"
again realism is replacing
woolly unrealism in the cold
war.
Men are throwing away
their empty dreams Of life
without risk and Of victory
over international commun-
ism without sacrifice or dan
ger. Can-do is repla Gin g
can't-do as the basis Of cold
war policy. The honorable
advocacy of hon ora Bile
power is coming into interna-
tional fashion again in the
West-and has, perforce,
been accepted in the nom
Communist East as well, in
the case Of erstWhile "neu-
tralist" India.
The non Communist ma
tons are at last acknowledge
ing the responsibilities Of
leadership. A terrible slide
away from those responsible
tiles among the decent coun-
tries-a slide very similar to
the one in the '30s which
permitted Hitlerism to rise in
all its horror and peril-has
clearly now been arrested.
This is the supreme new fact
Of our present days.
Unity From Action
President Kennedy's deci-
sion not to let the Soviet
Union get away with it any
more in Castro CUBA de-
cision taken alone because
others in the West would
only have higgled and "nego-
tiated" - has not merely
helped restore the position in
this hemisphere. 1t has also
actually produced more unity
among the very Western
Allies who were not consulted.
For they now grasp the hard
truth that mere negotiation"
is not enough in each and
every possible occasion; that
where vital interests are vi
tally challenged we must be
ready to DO as well as to talk.
In France. the symbol of
this policy Of being prepared
to do as well as talk. Presi-
dent Charles de Gaulle has
just won monumental vic
tories in elections which leave
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my nose. I can't help it, but
every night I pick a scablike
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and saw an enlargement that
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