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Evening star., 1962-01-04
French Chief Said to Feel Eurooe's Unity
Is Urgent Against Afro-Asion Bloc

ROME,-Is Gen. de Gaulle's
unwillingnesS to cooperate
with the English speaking
nations in their negotiations
with the Soviet Union merely
stubbornness caused by his
determination to prove France
has once more become a great
power whose voice must be
listened to?
This reporter has attempted
to unravel the enigma of how
the French President makes
decisions on foreign policies.
Is it in the manner of Presi-
dent Kennedy. who formu-
lateS his views in accordance
with the advice of his inti-
mate counsellors, or like the
British Prime Minister, who
carefully consults the mem
bers of his cabinet and lead
ers of the opposition?
People close to Gen de
Gaulle insist that he spends
hours in meditation. From
these meditations, which are
preceded by short prayers, he
gets inspiration on how to
set his sights. After he has
decided on the course of
action he discusses it with
either the cabinet or his two
closest collaborators (the
French call them rubber
stamps)-Premier Debre and
Foreign Minister Couve de
Murville. Rarely do they voice
any objection.
OF course, say this report
er's informants, before start
ing his m editations the
General has at his fingertips
everything of consequence
contained in military and
political intelligence reports
which he reads daily.
Once he has set his sights
nobody can make him change.
There have been occasions in
the recent past when his two
Evening star., 1962-01-04
RALPH McGILL
Kennedy's First II Months

munist territory and sur
rounded also by more than
IS Russian divisions, has be-
come a symbol of our resolve.
The President has not hesi-
tated. We will defend it.
President Kennedy has
carried great burdens we'll.
Conditions of the more fear
full mien have not distracted
him from a calm attention
to duty and the requirements
of it.
We have a saying in this
country that in time of ex-
treme crisis, Providence has
always raised up a man who
could cope with it. It might
be well to consider this prob
ability, rather than the al
ternatives of petty disunity.
Evening star., 1962-01-04
DAVID LAWRENCE

The United States Govern
ment has just made public
a document telling, in eff
feet, how Communist Rus
sia has taken over Cuba.
The facts disclosed show
clearly that the Soviet gov
ernment has completely dis
regarded the Monroe Doc
trine, which for nearly 140
years has warned that no
European power will be per-
mitted to establish a new
foothold in this hemisphere.
The Monroe Doctrine is no
longer just a policy of this
country but has been en-
bodied in resolutions passed
by the Organization of Amer
lean States. which is to meet
on January % to consider
the whole Cuban problem.
The State Departments
23-page report, issued just a
year after the United States
severed diplomatic relations
with the Havana government,
reveals that upwards of $100
million of military aid has
come from the Soviet-bloc
countries to the Castro re-
glme. Castro today, there
fore, has the second largest
ground army in this hemi-
sphere - exceeded only by
that of the United States.
The military force is esti-
mated at from 100000 to
100000, including militia.
This is three times what any
previous government in
Cuba ever had.
Approximately 300 Russian
and Czechoslovakian military
technicians are in Cuba to-
day training local forces.
Russia has agreed, moreover,
to train new pilots, artillery
men, ground crews and other
personnel.
What will the United
States Government do about
all this? Will it wait for the
Organization of American
States to adopt meaningless
Evening star., 1962-01-04

principal counsellors tried TO
soften his stand on the
United Nations. But they met
with no success. Gen. de
Gaulle considers that organ
ization not only incapable of
fulfilling the tasks for which
1T was created, but even
dangerous to Western civil
ization. He sees an enormous
tidal wave of non-white races
to engulf our Greek Roman
Christian civilization.
Recently-right after the
Indian invasion of the Por-
tuguese enclaves on the Asian
subcontinent-Gen.-d de Gaulle
is reported to have COM
mented that the League of
Nations died when the great
powers of the early '30s re-
fused to take positive action
against Japan's invasion of
Manchuria. They confined
themselves to talking and
demonstrating. The present
situation is considered by
him worse since the United
Nations is obviously domi-
mated by the Afro-Asian group
supported bllrdly by the
USSR and its satellites.
Nikita Khrushchev and his
minions do not realize that
they will eventually become
themselves the victims CT the
conspiracy representing a far
larger mass of manpoWer
dedicated to giving the whites
what is coming to them"
Gen. de Gaulle believes
the only possibility of avert
ing the tidal wave coming
from Asia and Africa lies in
a genuine cooperation be-
tween .he peoples represent
ing the present civilization.
1t is for this reason that he
has applied his best talents,
prestige and powers of per-
suaSion TO create that Eu-
ropean confederation which
Evening star., 1962-01-04

Karl Won Clausewitz, whose
volumes on the philosophy
of war, though written in
another century, are still
studied by modern strategists
of our time, once wrote:
Ordinary men become de-
pressed by a sense of danger
and responsibility. If these
conditions are to lend wings
to strengthen the Judgment,
there must be present un-
usual greatness of SOUL"
This conclusion by Clause
witz is valid in our time. We
can apply it as a yardstick
to President Kennedy'S first
eventful IL months and the
year just begun. He has not
failed to make decisions and
accept the consequences.
Conditions, no matter how
complex or foreboding, have
not caused him to panic
and, in any sense, avoid con-
fronting what had to be and
ought to be done. He has
lost neither his sense of
humor nor his perspective.
1t was not he who created
or looSed the forces so deva-
statingly at work in the
Congo. Yet he has met them
with decisions carefully
weighted in which the long
range needs of this country
are paramount.
There are no annual
awards for political or jour-
nalistic over -simplification
by demagoguery. If there
we're, the prize for 1861 al
most certainly would go to
those who so deliberately
have charged that the Presi-
dent has turned direction of
United States foreign policy
in Africa over to the United
Nations. There is not the
slightest reason to make
such an assertion. There
was a decision that the
course of action determined
upon by the U. N. was the
better one.
Certainly, there can be no
federation in the congo
without the Katanga province
Lacking federation, the sep
arate autonomies would soon
fall apart and communism
would be best equipped to
pick up the pieces. 1t was
the most gross sort of over
simplification to picture the
issue of Katanga as a black
Evening star., 1962-01-04
President Viewed as Carrying Burdens
Well and With the Necessary Calm

and white choice between
democracy and communism.
Katanga's Noise Tshombe
may not be a black-faced
Trujillo, as the more cyni-
cal think, but neither is he
a shining knight in armor,
dedicated to freedom and
democratic processes to have
supported him and Katanga
would really have played into
Communist hands.
Katanga is colonialism,
and whatever the merits of
it and there is merit it
should be obvious that CO.
lonialism cannot be fitted
into any affirmative decision
of today. To have supported
Katanga would quickly have
set all Africa afire and Gre
ated a half-dozen Koreas,
Wet Mans, Laoses and Cubas.
The Congo problem has
been like all of those in the
international field which
have come so grimly to the
White House for decision.
The choice in each has been
uncomfortably harsh and
bleak. In none has there
been a clear view. One of the
frustrating features of to-
days rise of the have-not
peoples of the earth is that
so many elements work in
behalf of Moscow. Each de-
cision has required the TAX
ing of calculated risks. It
is difficult to see how any
thoughtful person, concerned
with his country's present
and future, would be so ir-
responsible as to dismiss the
issue by saying that the
U. N. is in charge of United
States foreign policy.
President Kennedy did not
create the problem of Cuba.
His choice there was, like
the others, be damned if he
did and damned if he didn't.
This one turned out badly.
Only time will tell whether
the Castro success is perma-
nent. For the time being,
policies in Latin America are
bearing better fruit. It may
be that Mr.. Castro has won
the opening battles but will
lose the last one.
Berlin is not a Kennedy
creation. Previous admins
trations have committed us
to it until this city, more
than 100 miles deep in Com
Evening star., 1962-01-04
CONSTANTINE BROWN
De GouIle's Confederation Drive

he calls l'Europe des Patries
Europe of the fatherlands.)
Unlike the British and our
selves, the continental Eu-
ropeans feel keenly the
threat of the tidal wave and
realize their best chance Of
survival lies in their complete
unity.
Gen. de Gaulle and his
European associates are striv-
ing to increase the already
noticeable spiritual revival in
Europe. THE world, at pres
ent." the French President is
reported to have said to a
prominent representative of a
European power recently,
has lost its attachments to
essential principles. Techni-
cally it is progressing rapidly.
But at the same time the
ethics of its leaders are di-
minishing at an alarming
pace"
His hostility to the United
Nations is not prompted by
any quarrel with the Charter
which he regards as adequate.
but to its application, which
he finds deplorable. The ac-
tionS of the U. N. troops (par-
tlcularly the Indians and the
EthiopianS) in Katanga have
Mortified him. But indigna-
tion reached a boiling point
when the U. N. secretary gen.
eral actually tried to excuse
the behavior of the duskv
Blue Helmets"
Gen. de Gaulle believes
firmly in cooperation. But he
can find no vestige of it in
the New York organization,
where blatant misdeeds such
as the aggression of the Asia
tics against the Westerners
are being condoned while the
West is being criticized and
punished for the mythical
reason of "colonialism."
Hence, his efforts to create
a strong and powerful West
ern Europe which will be the
real levee against the tidal
wave which threatens us from
the East.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-10-12
Curran Denies
Quash Motion
0fConnlunists
BY DONALD BACON
Star Staff Writer

District Court Judge Edward
M. Curran today denied a
motion by the Communist
Party Of the United States to
throw out charges that it had
failed to register as an agent
Of the Soviet Union.
The party was indicted last
December on II counts of fall
ure to register and on one count
to supply other information re-
quired under the Internal Sc
curity Act of 1850.
The party's motion to dis
miss the indictment was based
on a contention that the regis
tration requirement violated
party officials privilege against
self determination under the
Constitution.
Defense Contention
Arguing today before Judge
Curran, Attorney John Abt,
representing the Communist
Party, said If the party had
registered 1t would in effect be
admitting that its intentions
were to overthrow the United
States Government.
He said all of the informa-
ton required by the Justice
Department in the registration
statement is discriminating. The
registration act requires the
name and address Of the organi-
zation. Other provisions require
the names and address Of Off
Gals. the names of members,
detailed financial accounting
and information pertaining to
printing and other reproduce
ton equipment owned by the
organization.
Attorneys for the Communist
Party spent little time in argu-
ing another motion based on
the qualifications Of the grand
jury which had brought the in
dictment. In papers filed last
January, the party had charged
that it was invalidly indicted
because Government employees
we're on the grand jury and
that the party is officially con-
sidered as 1.-The enemy" by the
Government.
Questioned by Judge
At one point in Mr.. Abt's
argument, Judge Curran inter-
rupted him to ask whether he
was admitting that there is
such a conspiracy" to over
throw the United States Gov
eminent. The lawyer replied
that he did not.
But he said if the party or
it's officials offered to register
under the Internal Security Act
the party in effect would be
admitting just that.
If convicted, the party could
be fined $4,000 for each Of the
II days it has been cited for
failure to register.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-10-12
benson Leaves
Herald Tribune;
Bellows Named

NEW YORK, Oct. IL (AP)
James Bellows took over today
as managing editor Of the
Herald Tribune.
He was named to replace
John benson, who resigned
yesterday as editor Of the
newspaper in a difference over
organizational and operational
changes.
Resigning with Mr.. benson
was Freeman Fulbright, who
came to the Herald Tribune
with Mr.. benson early in 1861.
He held the title of executive
editor, national.
Mr.. Bellows Is a 39-year-old
newspaperman who was man.
aging editor of the Miami
(Fla.) News until he was
brought to the Tribune several
months ago as executive editor.
news operations. A native Of
Detroit, he is a graduate Of
Kenyon College in Amber. Ohio.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-10-12
Shoe Labels Must
List Materials
BY the Associated Press

New Federal labelling rules
requiring disclosure Of all ma
terails used in making shoes
were announced yesterday by
the Federal Trade Commission.
The ETC said the rules will
go into effect at the manufac-
turing level in 80 days and will
apply both to labelling and ad-
vertising. These were among
the principal requirements:
No trade name or coined
name may be used If it falsely
suggests shoes or slippers are
made of certain material. If
simuled or imitation leather is
used, this must be disclosed.
If a leather material is en-
bossed, dyed, or otherwise pro-
cessed to look like a different
type of leather, the label must
tell the actual type used.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-10-12
IE EVENING STAR

Washington, D. c., friday October u. 1862
Evening star., 1962-09-07
PATS LIMELIGHT WON'T SWITCH OFF

Movie stars may need press
agents = but teen-ager Pat
Baum-uh-unh. They'd Just
get in her way.
One of this Woodrow Will
son High graduates latest
claims to fame is, she
stumped the panel on the
television show ITO Tell the
Truth"
And Sunday she's going to
be interviewed about her ac-
tivities on the Mark Evans
Show from Z to 8 on
Channel S.
This 18-year-old Is the first
Washington teen-ager to be
picked as Young American
Of the Month by American
Youth. That's a magazine
published by General Motors
Corp. for all newly licensed
drivers in the country. Pats
in the September October
edition. She's pictured-a
full-page picture holding a
copy Of the Wilson Beacon,
the high school newspaper
Evening star., 1962-09-07

for which she wrote until her
graduation in June.
Pat had only her own
initiative and perseverance,"
to help her open doors in
the national Capital, the ac-
companying article says.
But that's enough for Pat.
She has managed to inter-
view dozens of top Govern
ment officials. from the Vice
President down-and even at
tended a White House news
conference. TEEN featured
her in April as an expert
teen-age interviewer. Since
then she has added to her
list Vice President johnson,
United States Information
Agency head Edward r. Muir
row; Secretary of Labor
Goldberg; Federal Communi-
cations Commissioner New
ton Minow: news caster David
Brinkley and Senator Mar
garet Chase Smith, Repub-
hcan of Maine.
This summer Pat has been
associate editor of the Amer
ican Observer and the Weekly
News Review. newspapers
Evening star., 1962-09-07

that go to some 3 million
student subscribers. She has
also been working for the
United States Travel Service
Of the Commerce Depart
ment.
When she appeared August
"a on the network television
show ITO Tell the Truth"
Bud Collier read her af-
fidavit:
II. Patricia Ann Baum, am
associate editor of the Amer
lean Observer, a national
high school newspaper. I have
a fascinating assignment. .
I obtain exclusive interviews
with the most important peo-
pie in Washington. d. c. So
far I have had private ques-
ton and asnwer sessions with
the Vice President of the
United States and many
cabinet members and other
Government luminaries and
have even attended a Presi-
Dental press conference. The
Washington Star has called
me most successful of teen
age interviewers and Ameri-
Evening star., 1962-09-07

can Youth Magazine has Sc
lected me as Young Ameri-
can of the Month"
Two New Yorkers one 16,
the other 20 pretended to be
Pat Baum on the show. They
were allowed to fib when the
panel asked them questions,
but Pat had to tell the truth.
Only one panelist guessed
Pat for the real Pat Baum
because she knew the names
of the Vice Presidents wife
and daughters"
A clasSmate who was grad
ated with Pat, Robert
Baker. recorded the show and
took moving pictures Of Pat
on the television screen. Now
Pat can hear and see her.
self anytime.
This month, Pat is going
to Barnard College to study
journalism. That gives the
national beat reporters
around town just four years
to look to their laurels. After
that. it'll be Pat Baum who'll
be making the scene, and re-
porting it.
Evening star., 1962-09-07
They Just Couldn't Say Good-by So They Kept Doncinq

There's group of teen-agers who get kicks out Of
kicking for other peoples kicks.
They started as a modern dance club at Woodrow Will
High School last September But when summer came
they just couldn't off the dance floor So they decided
maybe somebody might have much fun watching them
dance they had dancing.
The modern group had performed during the winter
at various schools banquets and meetings After dancing
for mentally retarded children at Lions Club party the
eight teenagers felt they could do something worthwhile
with their new-found hobby
They danced with such at the Arkansas
Community Association that Vick zupnik the teen-age
director called Mount Alto Hospital and asked how they
were fixed for entertainment
They were excited at the hospital that they ne
elected to ask what group vck says "Con-
sequenty billed allgr cast This struck the
four girls funny but the four boys didn't laugh hard
Another time, while dancing at Roosevelt High. Jack
Casady didn't have time to put his shoes during quick
change So he went barefooed and proceeded to drop
Of the girls in the middle Of ice-skating spin.
He picked her up fast" vcki recalls. Everybody
laughed 1t added something to the show"
The Wilson teen-agers do their choreography for
all sorts Of modern dance numbers One Of their specaes
is dance Interpretation of THE Lords Prayer"
It's mostly hand movement, and it's slow and serious"
vck says. "A lot of people think it's going to be sacr
hgious, but that's before they see it."
Now that college time here the group has really got
TO split Because even though Mark Stein Hank Black
Robert Beech and Marcia FELTON, returning to wilson
Vc, Jack. Kate Mobey Harriet Cohn are going to
college But there's always next summer and kicks
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-12-07
SkepticuI Women
Find City Sewers
Ideal Shelters

DOWNEY, Calf, Dec.
(AP) .-Fifty-two intrepid
women Of Downey trudged with
flashlights through storm sew
ers yesterday to see II O civil
defense official was correct In
calling them ready-made nu-
clear fallout shelters.
The women climbed unhesi-
tatingly into a manhole and
waded through shallow muck
and water for an hour. When
they came out, most Of them
appeared enthusiastic about
the idea.
Ed Powell, assistant civil de-
Tense director of the Los An
geles suburb. said $4,000 per-
sons-one-fourth Of Downey's
population-could be sheltered
in the 8-by-10-foot reinforced
concrete and steel drains built
from S to 10 feet underground
Mr.. Powell and Wendell Wis.
er. chairman Of the Civil De-
Tense Advisory Committee. LED
the representatives Of women's
clubs, PTAs and parochial
schools on their underworld ex-
petition.
Conversion to add stairways
sanitation. ventilation, lighting
and storage would cost about
SIS million. Mr.. Powell esti-
mated.
Downey has seven miles OF
storm drains.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-12-07
DC. Asked to Broaden
Charge Upset by Driver

A District official asked for
assistance yesterday in revok-
Ing the drivers license of any
one who can't see in front of
him."
% The request was made to
the District Commissioners by
George England, director Of the
Department Of Motor Vehicles.
Mr.. England explained that
the Municipal Court Of Appeals
recently returned to q District
man an operators permit which
had been revoked for alleged
fragrant disregard for the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-12-07

q permanent residence permit
was denied. he said.
In q statement issued at the
United Nations, the State De-
partment said: "The Attorney
General was informed by the
Secretary Of State that In his
judgment foreign policy con-
siderations indicated that the
exercise Of discretion in favor
OF Mr.. Struelens was not war
ranted."
The State Department can
celed his visa last year on
grounds he obtained II as a
newspaperman and not as an
information officer. Later,
however. Senator Dodd. Demo-
crat OF Connecticut, protested
that the State Department had
used phony excuses In seeking
TO Dust Mr.. Struelens. The
Belgian then was permitted To
remain In the country for the
time being.
Mr.. Struelens contended he
had never been q newspaper
man and showed newsmen q
passport which listed him a.
Katangas information chief
here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-12-07
Veterans Urged
To Defend ROTC
By the Associated Press

The Military Order of the
World Wars has invited veter-
ans groups to unite in fight
ing proposed curtailment of
Reserve Officers Training
Corps programs.
DR.. Hans Won Leden Of Los
Angeles. national commander
OF the war veterans organiza-
ton. said yesterday the De-
Tense Department has proposed
discrimination Of junior
ROTC units and the curtail-
ment Of the senior ROTC.
DR.. Won Leden told a lunch
con meeting Of veterans serv-
ice groups their organizations
could contribute to the nation
al defense posture through q
concerted effort to defeat this
plan.