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Evening star., 1962-05-18
The 'StoIwort' One

whether right or wrong, Frances
President de Gaulle seldom is in doubt
There is little evidence, In fact, that the
auStere soldier-politician ever contem-
plates the possibility that his points of
view might benefit by compromise or
by modest accommodation to those of
others concerned with the destiny of
France or the long-term well-being of
Western Europe. His imperturbable con-
fidence in his own judgment is almost
majestic, even while his expression of it
raSpS the senSitivity Of others.
His press conference this week Of
fered an example of General de Gau!le
at his most Self-aSSured-Seemingly un-
concerned with other viewpoints held
by associates in his own government, by
neighborS (the Benelux countries, for
example) in the West European COM
munity, or by our own Government
Holding inflexibly to his philosophy that
national sovereignty must be paramount
and that the backbone of a new Europe
must be the Franco-German partner
ship, he reaffirmed his disapproval of
any Supranational aspect in the further
evolution of the Common Market VEN
ture and reStated his intent to increase
Frances modern military power as the
nucleus Of continental defense force
that might in the future be the most
reliable guardian of security from the
Atlantic to the Urals" At times he was
sarcastic toward opposing views at home,
disdainful Of Britain's bid for mem
berShip in the Common Market or at
least the theory that 1t would be willing
to join in genuine political unity with
continental Europe, and frankly dis
approving Of American efforts to seek
new solutions for Berlin and Germany.
The first reaction was the angry
resignation Of five cabinet ministers,
members Of the minority Popular Re
publican Movement which has favored
a European federation, with Britain
included, and perhaps eventually a
United States of Europe. President de
Gaulle replaced them promptly, in four
cases by promoting lesser cabinet Off
cials, and then calmly left Paris on
four-day "grassroots" tour Of Central
France. While the Popular Republicans
hold only about 80 seats in the 552-place
National Assembly, their detection may
still create trouble for the government
of GaulliSt Premier Georges Pompidou
There is, in France itself, as well as in
West Germany and other neighboring
countries, substantial public sentiment
in favor Of politically integrated West
ern Europe.
In his own news conference here,
President Kennedy was friendly but firm
about the De Gaulle views and our own
role in free Europe. Our forces are there,
he explained, in keeping with commit
ment in the joint defense and not
against the wishes of West Europeans.
The NATO alliance is the basic instru-
ment Of this defense system, and we
do not favor a collection of nuclear de-
terrent forces under separate national
controls even though France may, of
course, go ahead with its own plans.
At the same time, Mr.. Kennedy de-
Scribed General de Gaulle as "stal-
wart" friend and ally. Things would
be much worse if this were not so.
Evening star., 1962-05-18
'Lenin Winners

Your editorial, "Lenin
Winners" reminds me Of the
fact that oftentimes the
Communists are right even
with an absurdity. I refer,
Of course, to the granting of
the Lenin prize to Pablo
Picasso.
AS you know. the Commu-
nists claim that If one keeps
repeating something absurd,
publicizing it, praising 1t,
getting authorities" to say
the absurd is not absurd, then
at last the human race will
accept it and the law of iden-
tity is defied. Years ago when
I was in the art business we
had the written statement
from Royal Cortissoz, the
great American art critic,
that Picasso had done great
harm to young American
artists by his pretensions to
great and original art. At
that time Picasso was in what
is called his "cubist period"
which later he abandoned as
an absurdity. At that time
the Communists, who had
then come into power, picked
him up with the result that
PicaSso suddenly became
what is called a genius and a
millionaire as you quite
rightly point out. In Spain,
his original fatherland, Pi-
casso Is considered something
like curiosity whose publici-
ity has gone to his head. He
is no doubt a man Of talent,
which he has neatly used to
make money through his art
absurdities. It is possible that
we will live to see the time
when he will abandon his
late alterations as he did
his cubism.
Meantime, Picasso has the
entire world confused as to
what art is and as to why
his work should be called
art. But it all goes to show
that the Communists are
right-publicity, commercial
ism, paid art criticism, and
art entrepreneurs without
scruples will do wonders for
a man. In Paris recently an
art dealer brought suit
against prominent art gall
leries that put out at auction
Picasso's paintings, which
they themselves buy up under
cover, to boost prices so that
in time a few fools from the
United States can be hood
winked into buying this
great art" So the fraud is
continued not only for the
pockets Of art dealers but
also for the good cause of
the Com m unist Interna-
tionale.
I repeat, 1t is possible now
adays to make people believe
that two and two make five
and like It. Also pay for 1t.
Joseph I. Puente.
Evening star., 1962-05-18

O.. Who first said that the
U. S. is a billion dollar
country? o. D.
A. In the second session of
the 51st Congress, in 1891,
Speaker Thomas B. Reed of
Maine said this when a
House member complained
regarding a billion dollar ap-
preparation.
A reader can get an answer,
by mail, to any question of
fact by writing The Star In
formation Bureau, 635 F st.
NV. Washington 4, D. C.
Please enclose return postage
or self-addressed stamped
envelope.
Evening star., 1962-05-18
THE PASSING SCENE
BY WILLIAM S. WHITE
Isolation Shadow Sensed on Horizon

This columniSt senses the
shadow Of q new public mood
Of tsolationian - but one
based this time on persistent
allied refusal to deal sensibly
with America and not on any
national pfovincialism-now
hanging distantly over the
United States.
1t would be irresponsible to
overState this, for it Is as yet
no more than the shadow,
and certainly not yet the
substance, Of peril. But 1t
would be q terrible mistake
for our foreign friends not to
believe that this latent dan
ger truly exists.
Obviously, no substantial
group here wants 10 return
to Fortress America; to go it
alone. But what Is happen
ing Is that two Of our major
allies, West Germany and
France, are themselves fore
ing us in significant in
stances to go it alone-wher-
ever there are real risks to
be taken in behalf Of the free
world as a whole.
Notwithstanding all dis
Chalmers, Chancellor Konrad
Adenauer of Germany and
President Charles de Gaulle
Of France are persiStently
making it harder and harder
for the United States to
function as the responsible
leader Of that free world.
Kennedy Holds Power
This is the most disturb
ing fact of our days. It is no
less real because Gen. de
Gaulle and Chancellor Ade-
nauer are men Of honor and
determination in the cold
war. 1t is not altered by the
possibility-even the prob
ability, if one prefers-that
in an academic sense these
old gentle m en- may be
Sounder in their highly re-
served approach to negotia-
tions with the Russians than
is President Kennedy. For
the ultimate reality of all is
that it is not they but rather
Mr.. Kennedy, representing
the United States, who holds
the true power within the
West-and thus the true and
ultimate responsibility.
Thus the more they harass
us, the more difficult they
make it for us to function as
what we must be-the agent
Of all the West in every true
approach to the Soviet prob
lem. Nobody suggests that
Western policy should be
monolithically under control
Of the United States. But these
allies have surely had ample
opportunity-s dozen times
exploited-to make public all
Evening star., 1962-05-18
LETTERS TO THE STAR

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Evening star., 1962-05-18
CULLODEN. BY John Preb-
BILE. 367pp. illus, maps.
(Atheneum; $3.50

SOAA<ODG4Ns oy OOIlIl ETeO-
BILE. 367pp. illus, maps.
(Atheneum; $3.50
1.-THE Young Pretender,
Charles Edward, landed in
Scotland (July 25) and pro-
claimed his father as James
VIII Of Scotland and III of
England. But only In the
Highlands was the Jacobite
cause strong, and here they
were beaten decisively at
Culloden april 16). The
pretender escaped to France
September 20). This was the
last Stuart effort"
That is what the Encyclo-
pedia Of World History" has
to say about the Second
Jacobite Rebellion Of 1856.
John Prebble's "Culloden'
deals with one Of the events
summarized In those three
sentences, namely the Battle
Of Culloden itself and its i'm
mediate aftermath.
An enormous mass Of detail
about the battle and the sub
sequent history Of its par
ticipants has been brought
together in a vivid and skill
fully written book. We learn
about the organization of the
British army and the social
structure Of the Highland
clans. And since Mr.. Prebble
is a man Of letters as well as
an historian, we march with
the soldier and flee, starve
and suffer with the clansman.
A HIGHLAND chief was a
tribal chief and a feudal lord
in the same person. He was,
therefore, quite literally
against the 18th century. And
to boot, he was not unlikely
to be a Catholic and thus
loyal to the House Of Stuart
for religious as well as senti-
mental reasons.
At the same time, he might
well have been educated in
the Lowlands or in England.
Here he is, magnificently, If
strangely, dressed. ION one
hip he carried a basket-hilted
broadsword, double -edged, a
yard long. and 2 inches wide.
On the other he wore his
dirk, its haft richly wrought
with silver, its scabbard
pouched for knife and fork.
Thrust into the top of his
hose on one calf was a tiny
black knife. And thus he
stood in magnificence, a
savage man who might speak
French and Latin, who could
distinguish between a good
claret and a bad, who be-
lieved in the blood feud and
the Holy Trinity, who would
bargain like an Edinburgh
chandler to secure a profit
able marriage for his daugh-
ter, who could sell his ten
ants to the plantations but
who would touch his sword
at the lightest reflection of
his honour. A man of wild
and ridiculous poetry. harsh
and remorseless principle,
and a man who was, by 1746,
an uncomfortable anachro-
nism."
He went to war against the
British and lost. And he lost
not merely a war but his way
of life. For when the battle
was over. the British, "by
Act Of Parliament and gall
lows-rope dragged the
Scottish Highlands out Of the
Evening star., 1962-05-18
Answers to Questions
By THE HASKIN SERVICE

A reader can get an answer, by
mail, to any question of fact BY
writing The Star Information Bu-
reau, 635 F street NV. Washington
4. D. C Please inclose return post
Evening star., 1962-05-20
Bad News

But in another phase of its
decision, the court brought bad
news to about $500 other Army
and Air Force officers on re-
Evening star., 1962-05-20
Gen. LeMoy Sees
Fruncoin Madrid

MADRID, May 19 (AP).-A
pair of old fighting men-Gen.
Francisco Franco and Gen.
Curtis LeMay, chief Of the
United States Air Staff-met
today when the visiting Ameri-
can airman made an official
call on the Spanish chief OF
state.
What they talked about was
not disclosed, but a member OF
the LeMay party said the two
generals talked generally in
line with Gen. LeMay's interest
in close Spanish American CO.
operation"
The new United States Am
bassador to Spain. Robert F
Woodward, and the head OF
the joint United States mill
tary advisory group here, Maj
Gen. Joseph Caldera, accom-
panied Gen. LeMay.
Evening star., 1962-05-20

I. (Gus) Grissom stayed home
on the launching day.
In preparing this week end
for the Carpenter fight, the
National Aeronautics and
Space Administration is caught
between two mlllstones. One Is
the desirabiliy Of getting a Sec
ond orbital flight on the rec
ord as soon as possible. The
other is the avoidance. at all
costs. Of unnecessary risks to
the astronaut.
Complicating matters is the
Atomic Energy COMMISSIONS
plan to fire off q nuclear de-
vice in space over the Pacific
soon. 1t is understood NASA
has been given until about
June 5 to get Comdr. Carpen-
ter off the pad. If that dead
line cannot be met, the agency
probably will have to wait
until after the Acc space tests,
possibly some time in August.
Evening star., 1962-05-20

| Agriculture's South Building.
-. . The Naval Weapons Quality
Assurance Office needs aero
space. mechanical, electronics
and materials engineers, Grades
II and 13. Send form SITS to
Consolidated Industrial Rela-
tions Office, U. S. Naval Sta
ton, Washington 25, D. c. .
"Employe Appeals Procedures
in the Post office Department"
will be discussed at 9 am. Tues
day by Bernard Beary, Deputy
Assistant Postmaster General,
at a meeting Of the Federal
Conference on Employee Man
agement Relations in Room 119
of the Veterans Administration
building, Vermont avenue and
H street NV. e. Women and
the New Frontier" will be dis
cussed by Mrs. Esther Peterson.
Assistant Secretary of Labor, at
a Government Public Informa- =
tiOn Luncheon at 1915 pm.
Friday at the YWCA, Seven
teenth and K streets NV. E.
The Agriculture Department
has given superior service
awards to Don Anderson, Rob-
ert BogarduS, DR.. John Charl
Brown, Charles Burkhead,
Franklin Coffman, A. Vernon
Detwiler, George Dice, Jeffer-
son Dykes, George Enfield,
Charles Grant, Leonard Greene,
John Hamann, George Harrell,
DR.. Peter Heinze, Helen Henne-
frund, Regina Hughes, DR.. Ed
mund Lambert, Robert Loomis,
Edmond Massie, jr.; ]. Warren
Mather Bernard MeekS, Her
mon Miller. Joseph Moss, Hugh
OHara, Howard Paine, Mary
Irene Parrett, DR.. Esther Phip-
ard, Clifford Pulvermacher. DR.
Paul Quintus, Howard Rooney
Curtis Sabrosky, DR.. John r
Scott, DR.. Warren Shaw. How
ard Simons, DR.. Evelyn Spind-
Ter. Hugh Stewart, Paul Swart.
hout. DR.. J. Murray Thompson
and Harry Wirin.
Evening star., 1962-05-20

mated . total Of s39.5O0 int
@. o. P. treasures.
Members Of the Pew family
lof Philadelphia who contrib
uted $30,500 to the Republicans
Mr.. and Mrs. McCloskey
Philadelphia, who gave a tota
of $4,000 to the Democrats.
DuPonts Aid COP.
Members of the DUPONT fam
lily Of Wilmington, Del, SILL
900 to the Republicans.
w. Averell Hartman. $4,000
to the Democrats.
E. Roland Hartman, New
York banker and brother of w
Averen, $4,000 to the Republi-
cans.
Mr.. Hefner, $500 to the
Democrats.
Roger M. Blough, chairman
of the board Of U. S. Steel, s..
Evening star., 1962-05-20

In the Atlas launching vehicle
flight control system" were
blamed for the delay.
The postponement came dur
ing q day rife with rumors Of
more trouble in the Mercury
Atlas system than had already
been made public. The cause of
the previously announced delay
from Saturday to Tuesday
was a tricky parachute release
system in the Mercury capsule
itself.
9-Day Delay
Originally. 1t. Comdr. Car
penter's space flight was set
for last Tuesday, and slipped
twice before being postponed
about midnight Thursday from
Saturday until Tuesday.
The latest delay heightened
to nine days the total Of post
ponements of the Carpenter
flight. When told of the latest
setback, according to q space
agency spokesman, the 37-year-
old Naval officer said this
gives me more time to bone up
on the flight plan" sa'
Comdr. Carpenters attrac-
tive wife, Rene, and their two
sons and two daughters are in
seclusion somewhere near Cape
Canaveral.
NASA In a Dilemma
Breaking with Project Mer-
cury's brief tradition, Mrs,
Carpenter brought her chill
dren to Florida so they could
watch their father blast off
into orbit. The families of as
tronauts John H. Glenn, jr.,
Allan B. Shepard and Virgil
Evening star., 1962-05-20
.Mohummed's
Figure in Wax
Out of Exhibit
By the Associated Press

The State Department an
nounced yesterday that the
manager Of a wax museum in
st. Augustine. Fla. has agreed
to destroy Immediately a figure
Of the Prophet Mohammed.
There have been objections it
offended persons Of the Mo-
hammedan faith.
Angler Biddle Duke. chief OF
protocol in the State Depart
ment, wrote Mrs. Lucie Talbot,
museum manager, that Ambas-
sadors Of Muslin nations in
Washington regarded the fig
ure Of Mohammed "as a desc
Grafton"
A State Department spokes-
man, explaining the Duke
letter, said the Mohammedan
religion has an adherence of
images, especially images OF
Mohammed."
Press Officer Francis w. Tul-
ly, jr., made this announce
ment:
Mrs. Talbot of Potters Wax
Museum in st. Augustine, Fla,
has agreed to the immediate
destruction Of the figure of the
Prophet Mohammed from the
museums collection.
Mrs. Talbot has informed
the department that she did
not wish to offend anyone and
that in fact her intention has
been simply to provide exhibits
that would tend to increase un-
derstanding between peoples OF
different countries"
The State Department was
brought into the dispute after
a Pakistan navy commander
registered a complaint with Vice
President johnson. Mr.. John
son notified the State Depart
ment.
Evening star., 1962-05-20
Dr.. Weaver to Talk
At District Rully

DR.. Robert C. Weaver, ad-
ministrator Of the Housing and
Home Finance Agency. will
speak at the Washington rally
for medical care for the aged
today.
The meeting, scheduled to be-
gin at 2 pm. will be held at
All Souls Unitarian Church,
Sixteenth and Harvard streets
NV.
Evening star., 1962-05-20
THE FEDERAL SPOTLIGHT
Reserve Officers Held EIiqibIe
F or Retirement and Civilian Paw

tired lists who hold civilian
Federal jobs.
The court held that those Of
ficers of the Army of the United
States who retired after July /
l948 are not exempt from the
dual compensation law. This
reversed previous practices and
supported the position of the
Army and Justice Department
in connection with these re-
tired officers.
Meanwhile, the Kennedy ad-
ministration's legislative pro-
poSal for overhauling the dual
compensation law to make il
more realistic to meet the needs
Of the times is pending in Con-
gress.
GRIEVANCES - The Civil
Service Commission will soon
issue its regulations on Federal
employe grievance rights and
procedures under provisions OF
President Kennedy's labor
management executive order
for the Government service.
n n
JOHNSTON'S CHANCES -
Political observers in South
Carolina give Chairman john
Ston of the Senate Civil Service
Committee a definite edge over
his opponent in the Democratic
Senatorial primary which viii,
be held June II.
However, Senator Johnston /.
taking nothing for granted ir
his race against Gov. Hollings
and is waging and all-out cam.
paign.
CAPITAL ROUNDUP - DR.
Jerome Wiesner, President Ken,
nedy's special assistant fol
science and technology, will
speak at a meeting Of tn,
Organization of PrOfeSSiona
Employees of the Department o
Agriculture at 1890 pm. Fri
day in the auditorium Of
Evening star., 1962-05-20

S8,8l8, ,440 was spent by Sc po-
litical groups last year.
I Mr.. Doherty. who gave $1,000
to the Democratic National
Committee, said. when reached
by phone in Cincinnati, that Il
didn't know I was the largest
single contributor in the Wash
ington area"
That's quite a compliment,
isn't it?" he added.
He declined to discuss the
matter further, explaining that
he had to leave to attend a
niece'S wedding.
FOlgers Give $4,000
While Mr.. Doherty topped
the list for publicly recorded
individual contributions in the
area, a Washington couple, Mr.
and Mrs. John Clifford Folger
together donated $4,000 to the
Republican Party. Mr.. Folger
is a former chairman of fund
raising campaigns for Richard
Nixon.
On the national scene, the
Rockefeller and Pew families
contributed heavily to the sup
port of the Republican Party
as usual.
Donations to the Democratic
Party came from such diverse
personalities as w. Averill Har-
riman, Assistant Secretary of
State; Matthew H. McCloskey
Philadelphia contractor; Hugh
M. Hefner, publisher of Play
boy magazine, and Billie Sol
Estes, Texas fertilizer financier.
Congressional Quarterly said
the total Of spending by politi-
cal groups last year exceeded
by more than So million the
total for any previous nonelec-
ton year for which figures have
been compiled.
Democrats Spend More
Seven Democratic organiza-
tionS reported spending $4,-
178,108 last year, while is Re-
publican groups spent $685.
748. The spending totals were
nonelection year records for
both parties.
The Democratic total was al
most four times as much as the
party's previous nonelection
year high Of $1,339,537 in 1859
This sharp rise in Democratic
spending reversed the trend of
past nonelection years when
G. o. P. expenditures were usu-
ally more than twice that of
the Democrats.
Most Of the additional Demo-
cratic spending was for debt
retirement.
Spending by 81 labor groups
during 1861 amounted to $685.
975, less than labor'S record
Evening star., 1962-05-20

500 contributed to the Repubn-
cans.
Mr.. Estes, whose financial
dealings are now the subject of
Ia massive Federal investigation,
IS, 900 to the Democrats.
The Democratic National
Committee says that between
December. 1860, and January,
1862, Mr.. Estes contributed
a total Of $4,000 to the Dem
ocratic Party. but not a penny
until all the votes had been
counted and the Kennedy =
johnson ticket was assured of
victory.
Evening star., 1962-05-20
=MercuryPut OHAgoin,
Now Set for Thursday
Bya star staff Writer

D.. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla, May 19.-Astronaut Malcolm
Scott Carpenters planned orbtal ride in his Aurora7"
capsule suffered fourth postponement today
The shot, scheduled for (EDT) Tuesday, post
midaftenoon until Thursday morning at the
hour.
irregularities temperature control device on heater
Evening star., 1962-05-20

off-year total Of s531,1Os in
1855.
Thirteen miscellaneous
groups, ranging from the con-
servative Christian Nationalist
Crusade to the liberal Ameri-
cans for Democratic Action
spent a total of $601, 500.
Chalks Donate $4,000
All these expenditures were
filed with the clerk of the
United States House of Repre-.
sentatives. However, the Official
reports fall far short of the
actual spending because of Seri-
Gus gaps which exist in the
reporting requirements of the
Corrupt Practices Act Of 1925
Among other present or for.
mer Washington area residents
who gave $1,000 or more to 9
political group in 1861 are:
o. Roy Chalk. president Of
DC. Transit, Inc, who with
Mrs. Chalk, contributed a tota,
of $4,000 to the Democrats, in
cluding $4,000 donated in New
York.
John L. Saltonstall, a former
Government attorney and un-
successful candidate for Con-
gress in Massachusetts,, $4,10C
to the Democrats.
Arthur E. Summerfield, Pres
ident Eisenhower's Postmaster
General, $4,000 to the Republi-
cans.
$1,000 From KrOnheim
Milton S. Kronheim, whole
sale liquor dealer. $1,000 to the
Democrats.
David L. Kreeger, senior vice
president of Government In
surance Co., 1900 to the Dem
ocratS.
Walter c. Louchheim. jr.
$1,000 to the Democrats anc
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Louch-
helm, jr., jointly, $1,000 to the
Democrats. Mr.. Louchheim Il
a member Of the National Cap
ital Planning Commission an6
Mrs. Louchheim is consultant
on women's activities for the
Department of State.
]. Willard Marriott. $1,000
to the Republicans, and Mr.
and Mrs. j. Willard Marriott
together, $1,000 to the Repub.
licans. Mr.. Marriott is presi-
dent Of Hot Shoppes, Inc.
The socially prominent Mr.
and Mrs. Herbert A. May
1000, to the Democrats anC
ST, 900 to the Republicans.
Rauh Gives $1,000
Joseph L. Rauh, jr., Wash
ington attorney and American
for Democratic Action leader
81 900 to the Democrats.
Mrs. Garvin Tankersley
owner of the Al-Marah Arab
an Horse Farm on River Road
$1,000 to the Republicans.
Paul Mellon, Upperville, Va,
son of the former Secretary o
Treasury Andrew Mellon
$4,000 to the Republicans.
]. D. Statson-C Coleman, Tit
Plains, Va, $4,000 to the Demo
Gratis.
Other contributors elsewherI
in the Nation include:
Various members Of tht
Rockefeller family who do