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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-25

that Papa knows best about what
should be printed in the public in
terest, the press rises UP and hits
back. In the controversy resulting
from government management of
news during the Cuban crisis, the
press including all communica-
tons medal was not disturbed by
a failure to obtain information
that any responsible person knows
should not be released. It has be-
come disturbed by increasing evil
dence that Government is ready
to use the press as another one
of its agencies and that when a
reporter at the Pentagon is look
ing for news, Big Brother must
go with him, and Big Brother
the Public Information Office
not the reporter, must decide what
should be reported "in the public
interest"
A Sylvester Dictum
Arthur Sylvester, Assistant Sec
rotary Of Defense for Public At
fairs, may not have meant pre-
cisely what he seemed to be say
ing when he told reporters that
News flowing from actions taken
by Government is part of the
weaponry" in the Cuban crisis.
But what he seemed to be say
ing was Immediately recognized by
newspapermen as containing more
truth than poetry. And what he
seemed to be saying was that he
was in a position to control the
news at its Source-news that Gov
eminent made sure would be avail
able nowhere else. Furthermore,
that he would select the news to be
made public, and that this selec-
ton of news would not be for the
single purpose of informing the
public but to serve what Mr.. Syl-
vester and his colleagues consid-
cred wise national policy, present.
ing desirable but not necessarily
complete or even accurate image
Of what was going on. That state
ment naturally started the press
shooting from the hip. The alarm
bell had sounded and the press
responded with great verve and
enthusiasm, as it must always do
when Government attempts to use
the press 'in the public interest"
to aggrandize its own policies.
During World War II the
Pentagon found itself wrestling
with the truth in what was, no
doubt, a genuine desire to serve
the public interest. On July 81,
1914, the War Department briefly
announced that 1t. Gen. Lesley j.
McNair had been killed "by enemy
gunfire" while observing action in
Normandy from the front line.
The Truth at Lost
A few days later Byron Price,
director of the Office of Censor
ship. received a visit from the late
Maj. Gen. Alexander Surles. Gen.
Surles informed Mr.. Price he had
been sent by Gen. Marshall to dis
cuss a matter of national security.
1t had been learned that Gen. Nc
Nair was not killed by enemy fire,
but had been killed by a bomb
prematurely dropped from one of
our own airplanes. The question
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-25
BY GERALD WARNG
Contributing Writer

OTTAWA. - Resembling VIC
tories for the Liberal Party in
two Canadian provincial elections
In the last 10 days have tipped
the scales still further against the
Conservative national govern
ment.
Likewise, the results in Que
bee and Newfoundland strength
en- the belief that a national elec-
ton in the near future would
finally GUST the Conservatives
and put a Liberal administration
in power at Ottawa.
In Newfoundland it was not
surprising that Premier ]. r.
joey" Smallwood's Liberal regime
was returned to office. The island
province in the Atlantic has been
practically a personal fief of the
diminutive premier since New
foundland Joined Canada Is years
ago. On Monday the fishermen,
miners and lumberjacks reassert-
ed their faith in Cap'n Joey
and gave him carte blanche to
spend $50 million on fisheries de-
velopment. 1t was to seek this
authorization. Mr.. Smallwood ex-
planned, that he had Unexpectedly
called the election.
Diefenboker's Position
The Quebec election Nov. IA re-
suited in the reelection of Pre-
mier Jean Lesage's Liberal ad-
ministration with a sharply in
creased majority in the Legisla-
tive Assembly. The election issue
was the governments plan to ex-
propriate II privately owned cleo
trio power utilities at a cost eSti-
mated by Mr.. Lesage at $500 mil
lion, and at close to 81 billion by
the companies to be socialized.
The incorporation Of these utili-
ties into the provincially owned
Quebec Hydro Electric Power
Commission system will, Mr.. Le-
sage said, give Quebeckers the key
to their own economic destiny.
The utilities concerned are owned
mainly outside the province; state
ownership would end foreign"
control of this basic resource of
hydro power, Mr.. LeSage's Liber-
ais contend. to the great economic
advantage of Quebec.
The converse of the Liberals
stk9ng Endorsement L.oy the Que
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-25
Canadian Liberals
Continue Upswing

bee voters was q demoralizing re-
lection of the Union Rationale
Party, which is the little Quebec
counterpart and ally of Prime
Minister John Diefenbaker's big
C Conservative Party at Ottawa.
The federal Conservatives pros
poets in Quebec have therefore
diminished at a time when Mr..
Diefenbaker is barely clinging to
office with a minority govern
ment. And the national Liberal
Party led by Lester B. Pearson
has had its Quebec prospects
greatly enhanced.
Mr.. Parsons party lost the
June Is federal election when the
Social Credit splinter party of the
far west Unexpectedly made big
inroads in Quebec. Social Credit
did not field any candidates in
the provincial election. From the
election results it is obvious that
many Of the Scored voters Of last
June voted Liberal on Nov. IA, to
the great encouragement of the
national Liberals hopes.
Trying for Election
All the party needs now, many
Liberals believe, Is for the voters
of the nation to have an oppor-
tunity to reject the Conservatives
and Socreds at the polls, and
elect a Liberal administration.
The Liberals have tried repeatedly
during the last two months to
defeat the government in the
Commons and thus precipitate an
election. They have failed because
on crucial occasions either the
Socreds or the socialiStic New
Democrats sided with the Con-
servatives to save the admin
istration. The Quebec election re-
suits may make the Socreds more
reluctant than ever to force an
election soon. As last resort the
Liberals can harass and obstruct
the government in Parliament in
the hope of goading it into an
election. Under much less diff
cult circumstances in 1858 Mr..
Diefenbaker declared Liberal lob
structionism" had made his gov
ernment's position "untenable,"
and called an election.
But Mr.. Diefenbaker shows a
tenacious determination to cling
to office until the political cli-
mate for lbs Tories improves,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-25

was whether to tell the truth. Mr..
Price asked Gen. Surles to explain
the security angle. 1t was that If
our ground troops learned one Of
our own bombs had killed Gen.
McNair, their confidence in the
air corps would be lessened and the
ever present suspicious of the in
fantry in working with the airmen
would be increased. This would
endanger security.
That may be, said Mr. Price, but
suppose some member of Congress
discovers that Gen. McNair was
killed by one of our bombs and
makes a speech about 1t. What
confidence will the American peo-
pie have in the veracity of our
Government?
The War Department decided to
come clean. 1t told the truth. The
truth shocked nobody. 1t was &C
cepted as one Of the tragedies Of
war that had cost the life Of an
able and distinguished soldier. The
question of what actually does in
volve national security and the
public interest is not always safe
ly to be left to somebody who
happens to occupy an authoritative
position in Government. The press
learned that as one of the facts of
life hundreds of years ago.
Beck Of the Suggestions
Despite the increasing skepticism
of the press toward this Admin
istration's handling of public in
formation, one is inclined to doubt
that a very convincing case could
be made in support of generaliza-
tons implying widespread news
suppression and manipulation. In
some respects, this administration
has been more responsive than
many of its predecessors in sup
plying information, with many
policy-makers available to help
clarity what lies behind the news.
Most of its troubles with the
press, curiously enough, seem to be
the result of this administration
extraordinary preoccupation. not
so much with what is actually
leaked" to the press by some I'M
authorized spokesman in Govern
ment as with the mere fact that
such leaks occur. Leaks to the
press have always occurred and
doubtless always will occur. Some
of them provide information that
the President would no doubt pre-
fer not to be printed. Some of the
leaks are self-serving. providing a
version of events which may be
incomplete, or inaccurate. Some of
them reveal to the President and
his assistants information they are
glad to get. The policy toward
such leaks in previous administra-
tons has been to ignore them or to
deny their accuracy. This admin
istration seems determined to stop
them, apparently unmindful of the
fact that trying to stop them can
cause it more trouble and create
more distrust than the leaks them
selves.
Early in his administration, and
with the Bay of Pigs fiasco freshly
in mind. the President made a
speech at a newspaper dinner. He
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-25
Foreign Aid Plan
With a Difference

increase American export markets
to underdeveloped countries by
more than SIS billion a year,
creating a million new jobs.
This is no operation rathole, E"
Mr.. Hoffman says. Foreign aid is
not charity. 1t is sound business
management in the same sense as
the more familiar forms OF prod
uct or market development.
1T is also a major contribu-
ton to political stability.
Ut Isl an investment in a more
peaceful world for ourselves and
our children"
Considering that the Cuba cri-
sis cost an estimated 500 mil
lion in the first three weeks alone.
this would be a good insurance
policy if it prevented even one
future Cuba.
And it would cost the rich
countries Just about l per cent
of their gross national product.
The reason why foreign aid has
not produced better results in the
past is that too much has been
wasted in hit-or-miss efforts to
buy friends and allies, he says.
There has also been too little
intelligent planning and too lit
tie use of the U. N. as a channel,
he feels. The U. N. can often be
tougher with a recipient country
than an individual donor state
can be, he points out, because
the U. N. is not subject to po-
litical blackmail.
Self Help Necessary
Mr.. Hoffman insists on self
help. Countries which get aid
from his Special Fund have to
match, and do more than match,
the U. N. money they get. He
would set the same standards for
all aid.
His thesis is summed up in a
few words:
1T is only in the last few mo-
mentS of time, as human history
is recorded, that science and
technology have created the
means to wipe out the poverty,
hunger, illiteracy, and chronic i'll
health that have been mans in
innate companions.
yet the realization that a bet
ter life is possible has already
spread to the far corners of the
earth. bringing with it an awak-
ening of explosive dimensions
revolution of rising expectations
Yesterday relief from grinding
poverty was a distant dream. To-
day, 1t is a practical possibility.
The ferment caused by this
fact is perhaps the most impor-
tant motive force of our time.
If the yearnings of thousands of
millions of people for a better life
are not realized, the future prom
ises one explosive outbreak after
another"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-25
Blunders

The pain that others give passes
away in their later kindness, but
that Of our own blunders, espe-
cially when they hurt our vanity,
never passes away.-WilliaHn But
Ter Yeats in DrumdtiS Petsurue.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-25
By WILLIAM r. FRYE
Contributing Writer

Contributing Writer
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.-The
fuse Is burning short for a whole
series Of new crises like the one
in Cuba, top q. N. diplomats be-
lieve.
One man who is making this
prediction is Paul G. Hoffman.
who as managing director of the
U. N. Special Fund and former
director of the Marshall Plan has
intimate contacts in more than
70 countries.
What he means-though, CIV
en- his position as an interna-
tional civil servant, he cannot say
so publicly-is that scores of pow
erty-ridden countries are nearing
the point where. unless some
thing is done, they will turn
Communist and spawn new Cas-
tros.
For some reason which u. IN.
people are at loss to explain,
the United States Congress and
other parliaments in the indus
trialized world would rather wait
until a crisis breaks out than
step In early-and effectively-to
prevent it from happening.
Every year foreign aid appro-
priations get cut more deeply. Yet
the only long-range answer to
demagogues like Castro, U. N.
people feel, is to wipe out the
four curses-poverty, hunger, ig-
norance and disease-which af-
flict two-thirds of the world and
which breed Castros.
The job of licking these four
curses is not insoluble If 1t is
attacked intelligently, Mr.. Hoff-
man believes.
Word Without Won't"
He has just written a remark
able new book called World
Without Want" Harper and
Rowe, New York; in which he
outlines the tactics for a war on
poverty which, he says, could lick
the problem in our century. The
book was published last week.
Unless such a war is waged, he
says, "seething unrest" in scores
of underdeveloped countries
have visited in the last few years"
may break out into violence and
produce other Congos, other
Cubas-indeed, 1t could plunge
the whole world into chaos"
He adds: This need not be;
but we cannot sit by and do
nothing"
What he wants to do is to in
vest-not give-S3 billion more
each year for the next seven years
in the 100 countries and terri
tories of the world where people
earn the equivalent of half a loaf
of bread day and see one out
Of every two Of their children
die before the age of 6.
At present, the worlds rich
countries are putting something
over SIS billion a year into loans,
grants and investments in the
poorer two-thirds of the world.
Mr.. Hoffman would increase that
amount by so per cent. and make
1t virtually all investment or
"pre-investment" money.
If this is done, and the money
is intelligently managed, he says,
average incomes in underdevel-
oped countries can be raised $50
per person by 1870 to a total Of
about $3.50 a year-a 8 per cent
increase for each year of the dec
ade.
Dividends as Well
This does not sound like much,
but it could mean the difference
between life and death for more
than two billion people. Mr.. Hoff-
man argues.
And it would pay good divi-
dends for the rich countries as
we'll. BY 1870, he says. it would
Evening star., 1962-10-07
TV MAILBAG

This is your chance to sound oft
and TV Critic Bernie Harrison
tUiH do his best to GnSl1er QueS-
tionS. Please keep letters brief.
Pen names ioil be used If desired.
Notes: Addresses of networks:
NBC, 80 Rockefeller plaza, NeD
York 20; CHS, 4S5 Madison GDenue,
NeW York %; ABC, z West StTty-
SiTth street, NetD York %.
Will you please explain why the
best shows on Monday and Thursday
evenings are scheduled SO that
person cannot see each one of the
features?
Monday, 10 pm, Telephone Hour,
NBC; Loretta Young, CHS.
Thursday: Perry Mason, CHS;
Leave 1t to Beaver, ABC; DR.. Kill
dare, NBC.
The arrangement does not seem
fair as enjoy each one. C. S. s.
You forgot Ben Casey on Monday,
same hour. These are nettOork de-
ciSionS; Dhy not let the networks
knoD your diSpleasure?
= &*
I agree with you generally about
Jack Paar's first show on the PIT
boat incident. He muffed it. But it
was fine idea; and he did have the
enterprise to spend a considerable
amount of money shooting interest
ing pictures of the area, even if he
Evening star., 1962-10-07
Viewers Complaints
on Conflicts Mount
LETTER OF THE WEEK
They Like Empire

Empire appealed to us as a first
rate effort, and we thought you dis
missed the premiere rather snap
pishly. The acting was excellent;
much of the dialogue had realistic
sound to it, and the varied activities
OH the ranch were graphically pre-
sented. We prefer Empire and
dramas, anyway, to the "hackneyed"
lineup of comedians on CHS.
IMPERIALIST
We didn't sag tDe preferred one
lineup to the other. II pe had, tOe
might haze recommended channel
rs for a real change.
Evening star., 1962-10-07

was in most of them. The networks
never thought of doing such a pro-
gram. That should count for some
thing. r. M.
A for Effort; A for Anguish.
= = +
Could you please tell me at what
time Adventures in Paradise will be
on? J.F.
Thursdays, 1880 p.m., WMAL-7.
(TheSe are not neW ShotOS-but
repeGtS.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-04
PREARRANCED
PROGRAMS

} The following package tours
(which include shore program and
, transportation COSTS all begin
aboard one of apis three Spring
cruise saiIings.
| 33.Day Orient
! By President Liner from San
Francisco to Honolulu and Yoke.
hama, then by air to Hong Kong.
! Side trip by ship to Macao. Re.
turn by air. From $l454.
q 38-Day Orient I59-Day
Around The. World
Escorted. By President Liner
from San Francisco to Honolulu
and Yokohama, then by air to
Hong Kong, Bangkok, Angkor, and
return via Hong Kong to San
Francisco. From $273l. Or con.
tinue around the world by air
from Bangkok to India, Cairo and
New York. From $3.50.
q 55.Day Around The Pacific
BY President Liner to Yokohama
and Hong Kong; then by air to
Bangkok, Singapore and Sydney.
BY ship to Auckland, Fiji, Samoa,
Honolulu and San francisco.
From $2625.
. 60 Day Around. The. World
BY President Liner from San
Francisco to Honolulu and Yoke.
hama, then by air to Hong Kong.
BY ship from Hong Kong to Sin.
gapore, CeyIon, Bombay, Paki.
stan, Alden, Suez- Cairo, Naples,
Genoa, then by rail to Paris, by
ship to New York. From $2l95.
q 6S-Day Around. The World
BY President Liner from San
Francisco to Honolulu and Yoke.
! hama, by air to Hong Kong, then
by ship to Singapore, CeyIon,
Bombay, Karachi, Alden, Suez.
| Cairo, Naples, Rome, Monte
catini, Genoa, Cannes, Gibraltar,
New York. From $2795.
| NOTE: All fares shown are sub.
ject to change. based on types Of
accommodations reserved and
specific itineraries requested.
I TO: AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES
. tSee address below
would like further information
on the tours checked above.
I Name
City-
/ State-
My Travel Agent -
'''''.2; 'l'1''''''H
! 1910 Conn. Ave. NV, Wash. s
Metropolitan $3.50
I'M IN @ @ IN @ @ "a IN @ q
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-04
Festival Due
In Lake PIucid

LAKE PLACID. N. Y.-The
seventh annual North Ameri-
can Festival gets under way
here February II to run
through March rs, loaded with
championship winter sports
events.
An Olympic Embarrassing
event In the Olympic Arena
leads off the program.
Accommodations are getting
scarce, although there are some
5000 beds scattered among the
50 hotels, motels and guest
houses. A detailed program of
events and where-to-stay hous-
ing folder may be obtained by
writing the Lake Placid Cham
Der of Commerce.
The North American Festival
gets under way on Mount Van
Hoevenberg's bobsled run when
teams representing the United
States, Canada and Italy test
their skill.
Ski Starlet Anne Heggtveit,
INanadi team Gold Mado1icf
will be crowned queen Of the
festival. The ceremony will be
q part Of the show that features
q hockey game between the
Roamers and Ottawa Straths
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-04
American u. Sets
81 Summer Tour

American University's school
Of government and public ad-
ministration will sponsor its
sixth annual Comparative Gov
eminent Workshop Abroad this
summer.
The 74-day tour will cover
Holland. Denmark, Germany,
Switzerland, France, Great
Britain. Austria. Italy, Morocco
and Yugoslavia. Departure
date is June %.
Professor and director Of the
course will be DR.. Emmett v.
Mittlebeeler.
Graduate and qualified I'M
dergraduate students with a
basic background in govern
ment, history, international re-
lations and political science are
eligible to enroll. The tour
price is about $1,450, includ-
ing round trip transportation
from New York, hotels, meals
and motorcoach transportation
on the continent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-04
Pageant Tops
Sarasota Bill

SARASOTA, Fla. - They're
expecting 100000 here for the
annual Sarasota County Page
ant set for March 1918.
The gala nighttime parade
has five themes telling the his
torical story Of Sarasota from
the time Of the Spanish ex-
plorations to modern-day de-
velopments.
Events will include other
parades. water ski shows, fire
works, a festive ball and many
sporting events.
The five theme sections of
the parade are:
Spanish. featuring Ponce de
Leon, who landed in the south
ern part Of the county in 1913
and 1922.
Scottish. commemorating
landing Of a Scot settlement
at the City Pier in 1885.
Circus, a tribute to John
Ringing.
Arts and culture, emphasiz-
ing Sarasota's large colony of
artists and writer's.
King Neptune, preSent-day
tribute to the city as a water
ski capital and boating mecca.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-04
ALL AT SEA
Take Those
Conventions
Out to Sea

Convention business could be
a lot easier to take under a new
plan being emphasized by Mat
son Lines-hold the conven-
lions aboard a luxury liner at
sea.
Matson and the E. F. Mac
Donald Co., worldwide sales
incentive agency, have launched
an intensive campaign to de-
velop shipboard conventions for
the resort liners Lurline and
Matsonia in the Pacific and
the Hamburg Atlantic Lines
Hanseatic in the Atlantic.
The luxury liner America has
scheduled two cruises to the
warm south-a seven day trip
from New York to San Juan
and st. Thomas March 8 and
a nine-day journey to St.
Thomas, San Juan and Ber-
muda March II.
50
An excursion to the seldom
visited city of Petra in Jordan
and a seven-day cruise through
the Aegean Sea highlight a 81
day eastern Mediterranean tour
being offered by the House of
Travel for this spring.
Members will sail from New
York in cabin class on the In
dependence April 2.
Cunard has announced a o.
day, Export, round the world
cruise of the luxury liner Car
onia for January Is of next
year.
The World Cruise will circle
the globe in a westerly direc-
ton, covering a total of 29,-
900 miles. A new addition will
be call at Jesselton, North
Borneo. Passengers wishing to
tour continental Europe and
Britain before returning home
may disembark at Naples or
Lisbon and enjoy unlimited
Istopover privileges.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-04

ioning a blanket arrangement
to make it as easy as possible
for the visitor"
There are II member airlines
in the group, but not all local
service operators belong
Trans Texas, Mohawk and
Frontier, for instance, are not
included.
Alaska has eight local serv-
ice lines, one Of which. Alaskan
Airlines, is operating a Con-
vair $50 jet-smallest airline
with the largest aircraft.
Hawaii has two airlnes and
there is one in Puerto Rico.
Among them, they have
brought airline service to more
than $50 communities and IS
military bases and substituted
short-haul air service to small
er areas abandoned by trains.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-04
GET UP AND GO!
Lots Of Ways to Get
From Here to There
BY CHARLES YARBROUGH

All the high powers of the busy local service
airlnes in town last week, sighting in on their
obvious place in the "Visit u. S. A." program.
Here for meeting of the Association of Local
Transport Airlines, they began drafting plans for
what should be attractive package" travel plans to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-04
:Gruce Line Will Launch
New Liner in Baltimore

Santa Magdalena and her sis
ter ships will be the largest
ever to serve this market.
Scheduled to enter service
early next year, the new YES
sci was dedicated to the Re
public of Colombia in keel
laying ceremonies last April
She bears the name of Colon
bias Magdalena River.
Built at a cost of SITS mil
lion, she will have an overall
length of SAT feet; a beam of
70 feet and a service speed of
20 knots. First-class accom-
modations total 1877 in so rooms
located on three decks.