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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-19
DAVID LAWRENCE

President K Kennedy has
stumbled again. He didn't
recognize the roadblocks
ahead. He could have gotten
a program through Congress
on medical care for the aged,
but he failed to size up pub
lie sentiment correctly both
inside and outside Congress.
There's no reason in the
world why the two political
parties should divide on the
question Of what part Gov
eminent can take in aSSur-
ing medical care for the
aged who cannot themselves
afford it or whose children
cannot provide it for them.
Everybody is agreed, more
over. that a needy person
should have medical care, ir-
respective of age.
But the President played
politics with the problem and
came a cropper. Even in the
statement he issued after the
Senate voted to defer the
issue until next year, Mr..
K enn e dy compounded his
original error. He profeSSed
to see partisanShip in the re-
suit and called for political
action in this autumn'S con-
greSsional elections on an
issue that divided his own
party as we'll as the Repub-
licans. The President said:
Il think the American
people are going to make a
decision in November as to
whether they want this bill,
and similar bills, to be passed.
or whether they want it to
be defeated. Nearly all the
Republicans and a handful
of Democrats joined with
them to give us today's set
back"
But was it just a handful"
Of Democrats? Twenty-one
out Of "a is a stable opposi-
ton. Ten Of the 81 Democrats
are chairmen Of major COM
mittees in the Senate. And
what of the handful of five
Republicans who saved Mr..
Kennedy's bill from a more
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RALPH McGILL
Organization Is Called Intellectual,
A Prisoner of Its Morxist Ties

TOKYO. When United
States Attorney General Rob-
ert Kennedy was in Japan
last February he met with
leaders of the Socialist Party.
At the end of an hour and a
half of talk, Mr.. Kennedy
said, I'VE have talked for 80
minutes. May I say it is
strange to me that in all that
time you, as leaders of the
Socialist Party, did not bring
up economic and labor prob
lens"
Japan's recent elections re-
vealed the Socialist Party as
having made no real gains.
The right wing Democratic
Socialists were Inundated by
a serious decline in strength.
Not event the most sanguine
of the Marxist- oriented So
cialists expected to win. But
that the results gave them
only one new seat and showed
the Liberal Democrats to
have gained was a shock to
the Socialists and a surprise
to all Japan.
When the Socialists talked
with Mr.. Kennedy they dis
cussed the atomic bomb.
They followed the Russian
line in asking for an end to
American imperialism. Not
once did they advance any
Socialist proposals for ma
tionalization Of industry or
recommendation for govern
ment management of the
economy.
It was not to identify them
as Socialists. They were, and
are, Marxists. 1t is this which
to date has made them inef-
fectual. Their platform is
one of dialectics and vague
ness. Russia suspects them.
Mao Tse-tung openly voiced
his distrust. The voters
showed no signs of wanting
to turn to them for govern
ment. They are, for the time
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-19
Reconciliation of Chancellor Adenouer
With Paris Is Called Spectacular
CONSTANTINE BROWN

GU , pCStOSuIOI
Gates, is definitely true. But.
it is added, there has been a
thorough review of NATO
policies, and they did come
under friendly and mild ciiti-
ciSm.
In this overall survey, in
Guiding the somewhat con-
fused American policy re-
garding the nuclear deterrent
power which France is by
way of creating. Chancellor
Adenauer has approved Gen.
de Gaulle's position. Both
men consider our objections
to the spreading nuclear
power as fallacious. Both zen
agreed. it is reported, that
the completion of the French
endeavors in the deterrent
nuclear field will be helpful
to the United States as well
as the free countries Of
Europe.
Both agreed, according to
reports from knowledgeable
sources, that the European
continent cannot depend ex-
cluSively on a decision by a
future American president as
to how and when the deter
rent should be used. An ad-
dition to the American nu-
clear power, the two heads Of
state agreed, would further
discourage whatever agrees
sive intentions may be held
by some of the more belli-
cose men in the Kremlin.
There also was full agree
ment on Great Britain. She
will become a member Of the
Common Market early in
1864. Her participation in the
political entity, however, Of
Western Europe (contem-
plated to come under dis
cusSion this falD will have to
wait much longer. Gen de
Gaulle considers London's
past political manipulations,
such as the naval agreement
with Hitler in 1886. must be
avoided. At this time the
name Of Hitler is being re-
placed by Khrushchev.
The prime mover Of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-19
Briton's Kennedy-StyIe Look Expected
To Give Him Run for His Money

Prime Minister, that a party
in power consents to such a
wholesale attempt to alter its
image, but Mr.. Macmillan
clearly believes his case is
desperate. Basically, the story
is economic: Britain is being
outdistanced by the Common
Market countries, and her bid
to join them has not yet been
met with any wild enthusi-
aSm, particularly on the part
Of France.
The Macmillan amputa-
tons are being dramatized by
the alert proprietor of Tas-
saud's waxworkS, who Topped
off the heads of the repudi-
ated ministers Just in time to
coincide with the visit to his
emporium of the President of
Liberia. William v. S. Tub
man. The severed heads, Tus-
saud's explained, would be
melted down and used to Gre
ate the likenesses of their
successors.
Pictures of the Tussaud
display are being echoed with
varying degrees Of cutting
sarcasm by leading common
tatorS.
"Supermac," as he is now
dubbed. is charged with plan
ming a further mo mercy"
purge. His firing of his Chan
cellor of the Exchequer, Sell
wynn Lloyd, is called by the
Observer IAN act of self.
preservation performed with
the speed of an assassin"
The Observer brings home
in cutting personal terms
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-19

being, at least, prisoners of
their Marxist connections.
Even so, Marxist influ-
enceS. both the new and the
old-faShioned 1890 types,
continue. They are strong
in the labor unions and they
are present in every student
group. Nowhere are they
openly in control, though the
teachers union and one or
two of those in the communi-
cations field are perhaps
dominated by MarxistS.
This condition is, believed
to be explained by the ma
tional revulSion against the
past. In the years before the
Second World War the Japa-
nese political liberals were
just about wiped out by the
police state methods and the
laws against dangerous
thinking" The tough, disci-
plined MarxistS lasted it out.
This excited some admiration.
At wars end, they were the To-
cal heroes. What is more, they
had the only existing organ
izations skilled in under
ground work.
Communism and non-Com-
muniSt-affiliated Marxism at
tanned prestige and influence
at the graSS-roots level. 1t
has not been able to gain
political power; indeed, it
presently is far from it. But
their organization is like that
Of the Communists every
where-tough and commit
ted. If economic disaster
and depression should come
to Japan, Marxist strength
would be quickly increased.
There are conservatives
who blame the United States
for making a democracy of
Japan and giving her a con-
stitution that localized
unions, freedom of speech
and assembly. I'VE are not
ready for it," is the familiar
argument.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-19
DORIS FLEESON
MocmiIIon's New Cabinet Face

what he has done to save
himself. pointing out that his
desire to bring a younger
look to the Government en-
phasizes that he is getting
on in years. The Prime Min
lister is So. The average age
of the old cabinet was SIS
plus; it is now 81.
The Observer also unkind-
ly cites a poll it took recently
in 19 suburban constituencies.
Of those questioned, SIS per
cent, it said, thought the
Prime Minister was tired;
far fewer thought the same
of the cabinet. "Supermac, "
it concluded has made him
self conspicuous just by being
SO much more venerable than
anyone else"
This makes lively reading,
and yet, there is little dis
position to suggest that the
situation is not urgent for
the country as we'll as for the
Macmillan party. The Prime
Minister'S new economic pro-
gram will be soon forth
coming in a debate in Parlia-
ment.
The emphasis in the new
cabinet appointments seems
to be on thinkers and &C
twists; they are being touted
as a real shift in power to
the contemporary generation
and its attitudes.
They include poet who is
a professor of Greek and an
intellectual who Is said to
make no concessions to the
humblest Of audiences but
"remorselessly informs them
about books they have not
read and thoughts they have
not thought"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-19
France, Germany Reach Accord

t cory of accommodation
with the Soviets has been the
Conservative government Of
Prime Minister Macmillan.
The past difficulties of Eu-
rope sprang frequently from
the British determination to
maintain a balance of power
on the Continent. Thus, for
nearly 100 years France and
Germany remained at drawn
daggerS. British diplomacy
threw its weight into keeping
Germany and France rivals
and the communication be-
tween their citizens unfriend-
ly. And modern history shows
that Washington usually fol-
lowed the lead of our British
cousins.
The Franco-German rival
ry has come tor an end. This
was not the work of any
outsiders, but that of the two
sages who head the once an
tagonistic governments. And
the peoples of the two coun-
tries themselves have come
to realize that in their close
cooperation and friendship
lies the security, not only OF
their own lands, but also that
of free Europe. Hence they
have accepted policies which
must go beyond the span Of
life of the two aged men.
But it is not only the gyra-
tions of the "Anglo-SaXon"
policies which have brought
about the French-German
unity. Chancellor Adenauer
observed in Paris: Russia
might one day want to flirt
with France or Germany.
This had to be. and has now
been, prevented"
There is no doubt that the
policies of Washington and
London over the past year
were so antagonizing to the
French and Germans that
Moscow had come to believe
Russia could step into the
growing vacuum with friendly
gestures and say: Look at
what your so-called allies are
doing to you. Forget them, and
let us make some friendly
trade agreements. Together
we can have great prosperity
and make them squeal."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-19
can foreSee as likely to happen
in the immediate future.
Reunited Germany Possible

can foresee as likely to happen
in the immediate future.
Reunited Germany Possible
@. Looking far into the flu
ture, what do you think ulti-
mately will be the status Of
Berlin?
A. Well, West Berlin has now
lived for II years behind the
Iron Curtain. Since 1947 it has
lived in an atmosphere Of a
Communist regime. In that
period, it has grown and pros
pered and become again a great
city. 1t has been able to do
this for Is years. I see no rea-
son why it shouldn't continue
to live and prosper as a free
city until there is a final So
tuition, even though it takes a
great many years.
Ultimately, it seems to me
that with peace in the world
there is certain to come a day
when we have a reunited Ger
many, reunited in the new
sense of a free and democratic
Germany as has developed in
the Federal Republic. Now when
and how this will come about
is certainly something that I
would not want to prophesy.
1t seems to me very clearly
that the free countries Of the
world have regained their
strength. their economic abil-
ity, their political stability and
that in their new growth and
particularly in the movement
of the great Western European
countries to unity, we have a
great new force for freedom
coming into the world which
is capable of so changing the
power arrangement of the world
as to ensure a peaceful world
for a long time to come.
Moreover. I believe that the
Communist countries, now
satellites, also growing. will be-
come less satellites and more
independent with the passage
of years. Thus it could we'll
be that in the growing economic
prosperity of both sides and in
the recognition of the horrors
of nuclear war that we're NOV
ing much more rapidly toward
a live-and-let-live basis than
seems possible from what you
read in the newspapers today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-19
Failure of Vital Bill Stirs Change
OF Kennedy Politics on issue

sweeping defeat? Every one
Of the 100 Senators was
present to cast his ballot. The
bill was defeated by a vote
Of So to AZ. But were it not
for the five Republicans; the
defeat would have been by
a vote of 81 to 43. Will the
resident this autumn
charge the Republican Party
with responsibility for the
defeat Of his medical-care
bill? The opposition to the
measure consisted Of 81 Re-
publicans and 81 Democrats.
in the Democratic Party it
self it means that one-third
of the Democrats IN the Sem
ate voted against the Presi-
dent. This was enough to con-
vert a Democratic strength of
"a votes in the Senate to a
vote of 43 Democrats.
Does the President mean to
tell the country now that the
81 Republicans alone were
responsible and hence their
party should be defeated this
autumn? Does he mean to
enter the Democratic prima-
ries and attempt to defeat
those Democrats from the
South, and West who voted
against his bill and are up
for reelection this year?
Conversely. would the Presi-
dent support any one OF the
five Republicans who voted
with him? Obviously not.
So it is politically impos-
Sible to t:v to make a ma
tional issue at the Novem-
Der congressional elections
out of the medical-care bill
vote.
The President seems OBJ
seSSed with the political ap-
proach, when a nonpartisan
effort on a subject like medi-
cal care would seem to offer
the better chance of getting
a constructive bill passed.
Mr.. Kennedy is rated as a
good politician largely be-
cause Of his manner Of stress
ing certain issues in his
previous campaigns, but his
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-19
If Reds Know Well Fiqht,
Peace Is Likely, Clay Says

self favoring stronger action or
reaction than they did?
A. Well. think it would be
very difficult for me to say
that it didn't follow that kind
of pattern because it's too well
known that my own views have
been that we must always take
a strong stand in dealing with
the Soviet government, a stand
which they can understand and
believe. Now this is to me eS-
Sential to prevent war because,
unless we make them under
stand where they are going to
be met with resistance, one of
these days they're going to go
too far and we're going to have
no choice but war. Therefore
l think we have to make them
understand that any step they
take over a special line - of
course. this is getting down to
much clearer definition than
actually eXiStS-that it means
they're going to be met with
force, that they can only cross
that line by using force. If we
can establish that understand
ing, then I think war is most
unlikely. l think that we have
in our minds pretty we'll drawn
that line. But I'm not too sure
that the entire allied organi-
Zation accepts the same line.
Wall Slated to Stay
@. Is there any possibility of
the wall coming down now short
of meeting MoScow's demands?
A. No. I don't think so. II
it did come down, there would
be a mass migration from East
Germany into West Germany.
This is something that would
destroy completely the Ulbricht
regime and the East German
economy.
@. Since it's too late to bring
1t down by force, we're not like
ly to negotiate it down?
A. I think that what we have
got is the possibility of work
ing out an. arrangement on a
humanitarian basis where at
least families from West Ber-
lin can go over and visit their
relatives in East Berlin and re-
turn in safety. This is all I
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-19
POTOMAC FEVER
BY FLETCHER KNEBEL

Doctors offices jubiant the SenateS defeat
of mediocre they're throwing the l0year-od magazines
and substituting the Congressional Record.
The Pentagon brings back from overseas That's
the kind of trend that turns girl like Liz Taylor against
the government.
JFK calls the 81 Democratic Senators who him
on medicare "a handful" Some handful too-a crowded
into the palm of the little hot hand of Senator Kerr
Dick Nixon predicts Republican gains this fall Oh one
Of those prophets of gloom and DOOM huh?
One fellow is the defeat of the
aged he to with the by refusing get
old.
Republican campaign slogan Let's pick this country up
and get it moving again-back to where it was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-19
Oldest Inhubitunts

DR.. Harry S. Benton will dis
cusS allergies at the next meet
ing of the Association Of the
Oldest Inhabitants of the Dis
trict of Columbia at 8 pm.
August /. The meeting will be
held in the Board Room Of the
National Savings and Trust Co.,
Fifteenth street and New York
avenue NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-19
DORIS FLEESON

LONDON. - President
Kennedy must be envying
the ease with which British
Prime Minister Harold Mac
milan has switched the sig
nails here from deflation to
initiation.
Warned by a recent by
election that the voters were
weary Of austerity, the
Prime Minister has ruth
lessly purged his cabinet Of
his contemporaries and
sought to impart a Ken
nedy-style look to the Con-
sentative Party. Good cheer
is the new order Of the day,
and the hell-fire economists
are relegated to the back
benches.
Is is rather as II Mr..
Kennedy were suddenly able
to confront Americans with
such Enthusiastically New
Frontier faces as Senator
Eugene Mccarthy and Rep
reSentative Richard Boiling
instead Of having to cope
with Senator Harry F. Byrd,
RepreSen a tive Howard
Smith and other senior
statesmen who run the pow
erful standing committees
of Congress.
The Kennedy program
thus given the green light
might not work, but at least
he would have a run for his
money, which he is now being
largely prevented from hav-
ing.
1t rarely happens, even
with the leeway accorded a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-19
BY SAUL PETIT
Associated Press Staff Writer

The man who broke the Sta
lin era blockade of Berlin warns
that the Kremlin must under
stand and believe the West will
resist with force If the Russians
go too far in their drive to evict
the allies.
Unless we make them I'M
derStand where they are going
to be met with resistance, one
of these days they're going to
go too far and we're going to
have no choice but war;" says
Gen. Lucius D. Clay, President
Kennedy's special representa-
tive to Berlin.
But Gen. Clay is optimistic
that war can be prevented and
that some day-he puts no date
on it-there will be a reunited
free Germany. Gen. Clay's views
are set forth in an exhaustive
question and-anSwer explora-
ton of the perennial Berlin
crisis, once again pushed into
the headlines by Premier Khru-
shchev's demands.
An Area for Give and Take
@. General, before you went
over last September you said
you thought there might be
some room for give-and-take
toward a Berlin solution. You
made clear you felt this might
be an area not involving our
basic rights. Do you still feel
that way?
A. I think there is room. II
the pride of the regime run
ming East Germany is so in
volved in policing the highways
that they would insist on TAX
ing over this responsibility from
the Soviet troops now doing it,
then there is a possibility this
could be made an international
highway. If it could be set
up under international police
with complete freedom of move
ment on the highway, except as
controlled by international po-
lice for both allies and Ger
mans, would think this would
be a trade we could we'll &C
cept.
Allied Accord Necessary
@. Has this area been ex-
plored?
A. This is one of the areas
which we have been exploring
am sure, with our allies. 1t
has not yet been explored with
the Soviet government because
the talks have not progressed
to that degree. Moreover, even
if the talks indicate that there
is some desire to give-and-take
on both sides, these are still
talks only between the United
States and the Soviet govern
ment. The United States can
not take its final position in
these talks until it has also
reached an agreement with its
British and French allies. And,
of course, I think we must add
with the general concurrence
of the Federal Republic.
Reaction Machinery Improved
@. Is the West prepared to
react simultaneously to any
new Soviet aggressive move?
A. The machinery to get
prompt allied reaction has been
greatly improved. And for a
great many contingencies there
could be and would be instant
reaction. There are still fields
in which the contingency plan
ming does not cover immediate
action in Berlin. These are
in the cases which are so close
to the instance which would
cause war as to require per-
haps a period Of pause and
consideration before instant &C
ton. But I would say that. by
and large, the ability of the al.
lies to react in Berlin is bet
ter now than it has been for
many years.
I would think that if there
were any real tampering with
the movement of goods to and
from Berlin and of Germans to
and from Berlin, that before
we use a physical means we