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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-07
A BOOK FOR TODAY
Roots of Slave Nation Laid Bare
By DONALD MINTZ
HUNGARY. A Short History

HUNGARY, A Short History.
BY c. A. Mccartney. 262
pp., illus. (Aldine Publish
ing Co.; $4.50.)
If a history of Hungary
and a history Of, say, Bull
garia we're placed side by
side, most of us would reach
for the book about Hungary,
motivated largely by curios-
ity about the background of
the nation that rose against
its Communist masters in
1855.
Certainly this is legitimate.
But it is also true that our
idea of history is so strongly
conditioned by that of West
ern Europe and, of course,
the United States that any
information about any coun-
try outside the area is a well
come corrective.
The author of a short his
tory faces a difficult task. He
must offer a selection of pal
pable facts arranged in
chronological order. But he
must also find space for
sweeping concentrations
that find some support in
the text.
C. A. Mccartney, a re-
search fellow of All Souls
College, oxford, and for
merly professor of interna-
tional relations at the Uni
versity of Edinburgh, is a
specialist in Hungarian his
tory who has produced an
enormous work about the
history Of that country from
1929 to 1945. His Hungary,
A Short History" is a VOL
ume of a different sort. 1t is
entirely successful; har d
facts and bold interpre-
tations complement each
other perfectly. and the book
is written with a grace that
is rare in the United States
and apparently common in
Great Britain.
DIR. MCCARTNEY tells us
that the death of Andrew III
in 1901 ended the lineage of
St. Stephen, the first Hun
garian king. Furthermore,
ut was the singular misfor-
tune of the country that for
over two centuries after 1901
only one king died leaving
behind him legitimate male
issue. This meant that ex-
cept in the one case in ques-
ton, and in the two others
where peculiar circumstances
resulted, after all, in the
election of a national king
their chosen ruler always
came from some foreign, and
foreign-based dynasty. In
fact. until the 10th century
when the crown became per-
manently vested in the Haps-
burg dynasty, 1t was worn
(transitory and disputed
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THE POLITICAL MILL
Kennedy Faces Coalition
By GOULD LINCOLN

Negro votersp They appar-
emily can do so if they put
forward attractive candidates.
Perhaps the clearest cut
race between q Republican
conservative and a Demo-
cratic New Frontiersman was
run in Colorado-and the Re-
publican won. Peter H. Dom
mick, a newcomer in the
major political field, defeated
Democratic Senator John A.
Carroll. The same trend
carried the Republican can
didate for governor, John A.
Love. As years old, into the
State house over his Demo-
cratic opponent for governor,
Stephen McNichols. Dominick
is a nephew Of former Sena-
tor H. Alexander Smith of
New Jersey-by marriage. He,
too, is a comparatively young
man, AZ years of age, who
has served one term in the
national House of Repre-
sentatives.
New England Democratic
The Kennedy strength in
New MISUNDERSTANDING
Massachusetts, and Connecti-
cut-has been demonstrated
again. A Senate race which
held the widest attention
country wide-Ted Kennedy,
the youngest brother Of the
President against George
Cabot Lodge, son of former
Ambassador and Senator
Henry Cabot Lodge-Nixon's
running mate in the presi-
Dental election Of 1860, was
won by Kennedy by an almost
2 to vote. Young Kennedy,
who Is just 80 years old, had
never held an elective office.
Indeed, outside of helping to
manage two of his famous
brothers campaigns, he has
had virtually no experience.
1t has been evident, however.
for many weeks that the fact
he was the Presidents
brother would make him I'M
beatable. He ran on the
slogan that he "can do more
for Massachusetts," Further,
a former member of the Ken
needy Cabinet, Abraham A.
Ribicoff, won election to the
Senate-a seat now held by
Republican Senator Prescott
Bush who declined to stand
for reelection for health rea-
sons. Ribicoff carried with
him Democratic Governor
Dempsey. who was seeking
reelection.
The failure of former Vice
President Richard M. Nixon
in his try for Governor of
California had been expected.
This seems to eliminate Mr..
Nixon from the political
scene, at least for the time
being. He is still compare
lively young-49 years old,
and a hard man to keep
down.
Yesterdays off year cleo
tons held both bitter and
sweet for the Democrats and
for the Republicans. OBJ
viously, however, President
Kennedy and his party have
shown unusual strength in
a midterm election, and with
out the President campaign
ing in the last couple Of
weeks, due to the Cuban
crisis.
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cases apart) by two AngevinS,
one Luxembourger, one Haps-
burg and three Jagiellos;
with. intervening, two ma
tional kings, one of whom
ruled only in part of the
country"
This leads to a general dis
cussion of the relative adj
vantages and disadvantages
of a non-national monarch
during the waning of the
Middle Ages and some in
teresting details about the
reign of the Angevin, Lajos
the Magnificent (died 1922
Equally clear and convinc-
ing is the discussion of well
nigh two centuries of parti-
ton, when the Turks lorded
it over the heart of the coun-
try and reduced 1t to a near
desert; the Hapsburgs held
the western fringe of it in a
grip which at times was not
much less brutal than the
Turks; while the Pickering
lamp of the national indie
pendence survived only in
remote Transatlantic, and
there precariously."
THE RAKOCZI REBEL
LION that broke out in 1903
preceded an agreement with
Vienna, and the country was
quiet for most of the rest of
the 18th century.
Hungary's position between
East and West was advan-
tageous under some circum-
stances as the furnishing of
music and architecture prior
to 1925 show. Though DR..
Mccartney does not directly
say so, he conveys the i'm
preston that the essence of
the later, pre-World War I
tragedy of Hungary lies not
in its geographic position but
in the fact that despite men
like Kossuth, she never en-
joyed an effective alliance of
liberal and nationalist
thought.
DR.. Mccartney has sue
ceeded in choosing pictorial
Illustrations that are in
formative as well as decora-
tive. More important, he has
discovered a combination of
panorama and detail that is
ideal for the text of a short
history intended for the gen.
eral reader.
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Fiscal 'Brinkmonship'

The Stars recent series of
articles on the 1864 proposed
1925 million budget has
been excellent. Many resi-
dents of the District are be-
ginning to wonder why it is
necessary to increase the
budget more than 500 mil
lion over the 1868 budget,
when our population is re-
naming more or less static.
Why do we need 10000 city
employees, an increase of
2.287 over last year, at a time
when the budget is rapidly
GU I'D ist ancing revenue
sources?
The District Building staff
recommended that the in
come tax on D. c. residents
be increased by lowering tax
able income brackets from
$4,000 to $4,000. to be taxed
at 21a% to SO; increasing
the real estate tax zoe per
500 assessed value; subject
ing food for home consump-
ton to the basic 80 sales
tax; and imposing the so
unincorporated business tax
on doctors, dentists, archi-
tects, accountants and all
other personal service, bust
nesses or professions.
Not only are these tax pro-
posals regressive in that they
will increase the cost of liv-
ing for rich and poor alike,
but they will also aggravate
the flight" to the suburbs of
our taxpaying families, at q
time when our budget and
tax policies ought, to be en-
couraging suburbanites to re-
turn to the city. The District
Commissioners are drifting
to the brink of fiscal ire
sponsibility. A spend and
spend, tax and tax cycle
should not become the fixed
budget and tax policy at the
District Building.
If the 1864 budget increases
are unavoidable, they should
be financed without an in
crease in taxes on local resi-
dents. If the increase cannot
be financed solely out of a
larger Federal payment, the
Commissioners should con-
slider requiring all of the 3d.
600 District employees to live
and pay taxes in the District,
as is done in virtually every
other major city in the
United States, and the same
requirement should be made
for the Districts teachers.
Although a substantial pro-
portion of these employees
live and pay taxes in Mary
land and Virginia, District
residents are asked to pay
the cost of pay raises for
these people, amounting to
$19,7 million in 1864. Other
cities not only require that
employees reside in the city.
but many of them also i'm
pose a ~ withholding tax
on salaries paid to non-resi-
dents.
Carl L. Shipley, Chairman
Republican State Committee
for District of Columbia
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Going Home?

I wish to thank you for
your recent supplement on
the fabulous Roy Chalk's
fabulous D. C. Transit Sys-
tenn. 1 further wish you would
come out to Buzzard Point
and take my picture standing
on the steps at Tempo AS,
any day from 4 to 4:30 this
week. I shall be waiting for
an Alexandria cab to take
me back to Virginia. Prob
ably five other people will be
waiting there to take Mr..
Chalk's specially marked De-
partment of Defense bus on
official business to the Pen
tagon to catch a bus to their
homes. That bus will be coy,
warm, uncluttered with other
passengers to anywhere, but
it won't be for me or several
others who have equal status
of being on official business,
going home.
One will always remember
President Kennedy's words Of
advice to seek what one can
do for ones country, not for
oneself. One can wonder how
generous to the Department
of Defense Mr.. Chalk really
is. Does he charge Uncle
Sam any-or what-amount
at all for making that big,
wide circuit to the Pentagon
and home on official busi-
ness for five people? Would
Mr.. Chalk put me on official
business, tool wanta 90
home!
Pauline Hall.
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President Kennedy's re-
quest for more Democrats"
in Congress in order to put
through the New Frontier
program of legislation has
failed to shake the conserva-
tive coalition - Republicans
and Southern conservative
Democrats-which persisted
in the present Congress-and
which apparently will per-
sist in the Congress elected
yesterday. Indeed, in the
South the returns from many
States indicate that Mr.. Ken
nedy may have less support.
The Republicans picked up
five House seats in that area,
ran surprisingly strong in an
Alabama senatorial contest.
Further, in two border States,
Oklahoma and Kentucky, the
G. o. P. showed which way
the wind is blowing. In
the Senate races, however,
Democrats appear to have
won a net gain of two or
three, adding to their already
overwhelming majority in the
87th Congress.
The bright spot for Re-
publicans in the elections,
as was expected, came in
the overturn of the Demo-
Gratis in important State
Houses. Governor Nelson
Rockefeller of New York, also
won reelection defeating his
Democratic opponent, Robert
M. Morgenthau, by nearly a
half million votes. This is
not as large a margin of
victory as the Rockefeller
supporters had hoped-but
it is large enough to keep
Rockefeller well in the lead
for the Republican nominal
ton for President in 1864.
Big State Elections
Other Republican gains in
these big State gubernatorial
elections-where Democrats
were ousted - occurred in
Pennsylvania, in Michigan,
in Ohio. in Colorado and in
Oklahoma. William S. Scran-
ton, a first term Republican
Congressman, won the Penn
sylvania governorship by a
surprisingly wide margin over
his Democratic opponent,
former Mayor Richardson
Dilworth of Philadelphia.
Indeed, the whole Republican
State ticket triumphed. The
Democrats held control of
the Pennsylvania government
for eight years. In Michigan,
the Republicans elected
George Romney governor
the first member of the
Mormon church to hold such
high elective office in a big
state outside of Utah. This is
the first time in IA years
such a Republican victory was
chalked up Ohio, another big
industrial State, has placed q
Republican in its State house
James A. Rhodes, displacing
Democratic Gov. Michael v
Di Sale. Such G.. o. P. VIC
tories have answered one
question which has beer
troubling party leaders. This
is: Can the Republicans win
the big populous States where
Democrats have had strong
labor support and where there
are big concentrations Of
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Well Provisioned

l am wondering that with
the national crisis at a level
ing-off point, will the chain
stores take back all the
canned goods that my wife
purchased in panic and which
we didn't need in the first
place, still having some left
over from the last big war.
James Mcpherson,
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LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names may be used IT
letters carry tDriters' correct
names and addresses. All let
tiers are subject to condensG-
ton. Those not used tDiH be
returned only iUhen accom-
panied By self : addressed,
stamped envelopes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-07
Answers to Questions
BY THE HASKIN SERVICE

@. How much did Sonia
Henie earn in her profess
sional skating career?-D. T.
A. 1t was estimated in 1861
that the Norwegian born
skating star had made be-
tween $40 million and SIS
million during her 26 years
of professional figure skat-
ing.
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been expanding, the shifting of big
State administrations to control of the
party out of power in Washington sets
up real test of parties and PHILOSOPHERS
alike
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this Is no time to express
them. This Is no time to be-
come a carping critic, to as
sess blame, or claim victory
for either side. Mankind will
be the only victor if an agree
ment can be reached which
recognizes and protects the
rights and interests of all par
ties involved. And all man
kind will be sacrificed if this
is not achieved.
This is the time for each
of us to urge with all possible
vigor the necessity for truly
honest negotiations at every
level, especially at the very
top level, The Cuban crisis
demonstrates that violent
talk, display of military pow
er, or "get tough" policies,
II persisted in by both pro-
tagonists, can end only in
mutual suicide. Our only hope
is honest negotiations. our
only protection is peace.
Hugh B. Hester.
Brlgadier General, USA Gre
tired, Asheville, N. c.
Doesn't anybody remember
how Russia Withdrew" from
Hungary in 1856?
Halle NJ. FuImer.
The press has the RESPONSE
bility to the American people
especially in the times of
crisis of not creating panic
or fear. Why Saul Pett's ar
ticle October 2S), on the
reaction of the American
public to the Cuban crisis
was placed on the front page
OF The Star is a mystery. His
article used isolated instances
and made them appear
as if they represented the
general feeling of the public.
I find this piece of exaggera-
: ton hard to believe and If
the American people are as
timid as Mr.. PETIT depicts
them, we have no chance
against the Soviet Union.
Alan Swendiman.
AS Americans we are a
peace-loving people, and we
seek the same rights and
privileges that we enjoy in
our country for citizens of
the world. We know there
can be no freedom for any
while the yoke of slavery
hangs about the neck of
even one. We are not an ag-
gressive people. 1t is only
when our own security is
threatened that it becomes
necessary for the President
of our country to warn any
nation that a full retaliatory
response will be launched.
The policy of our country,
as our President has stated.
has been one of patience
and restrain as BELTS a
peaceful and powerful ma
ton" 1t is disconcerting and
heartbreaking that human
ity has weathered storms of
disease, hunger, illiteracy
and bigotry, only to come
face to face in it's most pro-
gressive hour with total de-
struction and humiliation.
Are these the fruits of our
labors. for even a victory
would be no more than
"ashes in our mouth"
Mankind has turned to
arms, and we have witnessed
In our generation an arms
race unparalleled in the an
mails of civilization-and to
what avail? It has brought
us no closer to the dream of
huInanity's survival, to live
under a tabernacle of peace
; spread over the world.
Let us pray that this peace
can be won not on the battle
field, but on the battlefield
If necessary-but rather al
the conference table of inter-
national dignity and not
under a veil of intimidation.
Rabbi Emmett A. Frank.
Beth Ell Hebrew
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-28
Picket Assault
Churee Dropped

An assault complaint has
been dropped against a IT.
year-old Fairfax County youth
who was accused of being in
volved in a scuffle June II with
anti segregation pickets in
front Of the Falls Church
Theater.
Arthur M. Hughes, of 76l5
Ridgway drive, Springfield, has
asked Falls Church police to
nullify a complaint signed
against the youth, Probation
Officer Brice Johnston. jr.. said
today. Mr.. Hughes was one of
the pickets.
The scuffle occurred when a
small group including the IT.
year-old youth. began to heckle
some pickets protesting Segre-
cation at the theater, the
picketS said. Charles D. Windle,
a professor at George Washing
ton University. the only other
person charged in the disturb
ance, was acquitted of a charge
of diSorderly conduct arising
from the event. Mr.. Windle,
who also was one of the pickets,
had been charged on the
youths complaint.
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Charged in Race Case,
Cafe Man Vows Fight

The manager of a Silver
Spring restaurant, target of the
first official complaint under
Montgomery County's new pub
lie accommodations law, said
today he will carry the case. if
necessary. to the Supreme Court.
I'm protecting my rights,
said Samuel L. Crivella. jr.
I'VE will go to the highest court
necessary to fight this thing. ="
The county's Human Re-
lations Commission yesterday
filed charges against Crivella'S
Wayside Restaurant, 1908 East
West highway. for refusing to
serve Negroes. Mr.. Crivella was
directed by commission officials
to appear at a public hearing
July IL to answer the COM
plants against his restaurant.
II don't discriminate against
anyone" Mr.. Crivella asserted.
Those people were refused
service because of the way they
approached u.s."
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Runaway Washer ToIe
Fails to Persuade Jury

PORTSMOUTH, Va, June
% (AP)-Housewives consider
the plight Of Mrs. Anna Bar
nette, who was chased around
her kitchen by a washing
machine.
An installation crew brought
1t In, set it down, fiddled awhile
with this and that adjust
ment. and then departed after
assuring Mrs. Barnett that all
she had to do was put in the
Clothes and punch the button. /"
Mrs. Barnett followed in
structions, and all seemed nor
nal until the machine reached
the spin" cycle, whereupon it
suddenly went out of its mind.
1t skittered across the floor.
careened off a wall, battered
the cupboard and all but de-
molished the sink.
Mrs. Barnette's problem was
to catch the machine without
being caught by it. Eventually,
she managed to hit the off
button. The machine subsidized,
but Mrs. Barnette's nerves kept
on jangling.
Unable to Talk
When her husband came, he
found her dazed and unable to
talk.
After Mrs. Barnette recov-
cred her speech and recounted
her adventure. her husband
sent her to a doctor. From
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Trial Dute Set
In Case Involving
Attack on Officer

Arthur Daniel Smith. Is.
appeared in Municipal Court
today on a simple assault
charge. stemming from the at
tack on an out-of-uniform
policeman on June %.
Mr.. Smith. of the 900 block
of Condor terrace Sc. was
held in the beating of Eleventh
Precinct Pvt. Ronald L. Suggs.
IS. who suffered scalp cuts and
a possible broken rib, police
said.
The incident took place. po-
lice said, in the park in the
$500 block of Livingston road
Sc. just outside the police
mans apartment.
Mr.. Smiths attorney. Frank
Oberg. asked for a jury trial
on the misdemeanor charge.
Judge Thomas c. .Scalley set
trial for July "a. Bond was
set at $500.
Earlier, three men who were
questioned in the caSe-Law-
renee Green. 10, of the 700
block Xenia street Sc, Alex
Close, of the 100 block OF
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there, in time, she went to
another doctor, and to another,
and another. and another
five in all, among them q
neuroSurgeon and q pSychia-
trist. The bills came to $255.
Mrs. Barnette has sued the
dealer for $4,000.
Testimony at the trial, held
yesterday in the Norfolk County
Circuit Court, established that
the installation crew had for
gotten to remove certain pack
ing bands. with the result that
the authorization features of
the machine we're left inopera-
tive. Thus, instead of jouncing
quietly on its arrangement of
springs and shock absorbers.
it took off across the room like
a wild thing.
Psychic Trauma
Mrs. Barnette's witnesses
said the experience had caused
an intense phychic trauma"
in the plaintiff. bringing on
traumatic neuroSis and severe
emotional disorder"
The defense commended that,
as exciting as the episode may
we'll have been, it couldn't have
caused a nervous breakdown of
the proportions claimed by the
plaintiff.
The all-male jury agreed.
After celebrating for about
two hours, it returned a ver-
dict for the defendant, the
dealer.
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The accommodations ordi-
nance, considered unconstitu-
tional by some county owners,
makes it illegal for restaurant
owners to refuse service on the
basis Of race or creed.
In the notice filed with. Mr..
Crivella. the commission said
his employees had refused to
serve Negroes on four occa-
sions. The charges we're filed
originally by five Negro en-
ployes of the Department of
Labor's Silver Spring office.
Under the ordinance the
commission must make efforts
to conciliate with restaurant
owners and can call public
hearings only after concilia-
ton proves fruitlesS. II the
hearing indicates a violation of
the law, and a restaurant OPP
orator still refuses to conciliate,
the matter can be referred to
either criminal or civil court.
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an 8 by s-foot unventilated
room. County law requires stor-
age Of such materials in metal
containers and in ventilated
rooms, investigators said.
Fire officials claim the blsze
May % started when 1t. Eisen-
berg dropped q glass jar con-
tanning acetone causing $4,000
damage to his home. The high
ly flammable chemical was ig-
nited by a pilot light in the
heater about four feet away,
firemen said.
Richard j. Sincoff, assistant
county attorney, said the
charges followed a routine in
vestigation. and had no con-
nection with the death Of Pvt.
Ronald E. Biggs, 81, of Rock
vile, a member of the Chevy
Chase Fire Department.
Another fireman, Pvt. Philip
Aravanis, %, Of Silver Spring
Department, was critically in
jured. and is still under care at
Suburban Hospital. He is listed
in fair condition.