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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-29
HERBERT H. LEHMAN AM

AASANBEANA He AGAMlNAfNIN AMI
HIS ERA. BY Allan Nevins.
Illustrated, ass PIP. (Charles
Scribner's Sons; $7.500
Yesterday was the 85th
birthday Of Herbert Lehman,
longtime Governor Of New
York, Director General of
UNNRA. Senator from New
York. and finally, anti Tam
many insurgent. Scribner's
has commemorated the event
by bringing out a biography
Of the Governor by Allan
Nevins.
Prof. Nevins diligently re-
hearses the main facts, most
Of which are well known to
anyone interested in politics.
And sometimes he resorts to
commemorative prose that
does him-and for that mat
ter. his subject-little credit:
THE first emergencies of
his governorship surmounted,
Lehman had time TO look
about him and consider his
position. A hard working
Governor who carried his
troubles to bed with him, he
sometimes woke up at night
recalling the days when he
had been a worried urchin In
the house on Sixty-second
street, his fingers ink-stained.
his knees and elbows bruised
by rough games. his mind
troubled by his lessons, by
his strong competitive urge
In sports and study. and
above all by his dread that
he could never live up TO his
parents expectations"
HIS STYLE is PLAGUED
by dangling participles:
Nov he had succeeded two
OF the greatest Governors
New York had ever known.
Smith and Roosevelt. As head
OF the chief industrial State
OF the Union. half-para-
lyzed with unemployment,
want. and despair. he had TO
measure his strength against
ceaseless critical tasks. Could
he satisfy the expectations OF
his party and friends2" There
are two further rhetorical
questions. We leave them UNI
quoted.
Prof. Nevins has had his
problems. and 10 some ex-
tent one can sympathize with
them. Gov. Lehman Is not
now and never was q char
acter." He had none OF Roo
sevelt's magnetism or La
Guardias effervescent - and
sometimes vicious flamboy-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-29
WATCHING THE WORLD
By CROSBY S. MOVES
Foreign Correspondent of The Star
NucIeor ProIiferotion HobqobIin
Forelgn conespondent q The So

There is, however, no SUCCESS
ton that either Of them is
seriously considering such q
program.
The Question of Germany
There remains, Of course,
West Germany.
It is hard to avoid the i'm
preston that, in fact, the
cause Of the recurrent
American nightmare about
'nuclear proliferation" really
boils down to q problem Of
the Federal Republic. Here, at
least, Is a country with the
means and perhaps the am
bition to possess nuclear
weapons. And one may guess
that it Is this single pos
sibility-rather than is or
20 which Mr., Kennedy
regards as "the greatest
danger and hazard"
How many times has one
heard this explanation from
anonymous American official
sources:
"Of course, we can't help
the French with their nuclear
program. If we did, what
could we tell the Germans
when they come around in. q
few years and ask us for the
same thing?"
In any event, the assump-
ton appears to be almost
universal that sooner or
later the Germans will re-,
nege on their formal COM
mitments not to manufac-
ture nuclear weapons. It is
also assumed that when this
moment arrives 1t will be a
perilous one for the West.
Much of American nuclear
policy toward the Alliance
including the scheme for
a multilateral NATO nu-
clear force with a built-in
American veto-is obviously
geared to prevent this mo-
ment from arriving.
1t may be, however, that
the fear Of Germany as a
nuclear power is based on a
completely false premise.
This premise, to put It
bluntly, is that Germany on
the basis Of its past record
is chronically unreliable in
military matters. 1t assumes
that the Germans, once they
possess nuclear weapons,
might use them or threaten
to use them extensively to at
tain political detectives.
And yet, surely, given the
nuclear situation as 1t exists
today, not even an Adolf
Hitler would be mad enough
to attempt any such thing.
Neither the United States
nor Russia can attain polit-
ical detectives today by
threatening each other with
their nuclear forces.
The idea that Germany,
with an inevitably limited
nuclear arsenal, could use it
to bring about the reunifica-
ton Of the country Is simply
preposterous. And once the
use Of this force for offensive
purposes is ruled out the
threat to use 1t is meaning
less.
Few people, Of course,
would suggest that the Ger
mans should be given the
bomb or that proliferation Of
nuclear weapons is q good
thing. Yet, when an obses-
sive nightmare lies at the
heart Of American policy,
one may at least question
the reality Of the hobgoblins.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-29
Brave Child

II any medals are pre-
sented to the bravest child in
America in 1868. they should
go to Frances Dixon Of Bal
timore, the 11-year-old girl
who said she will testify in
court against thieves despite
two beatings from the thieves
relatives and friends.
If this child were named
Anne Frank, and the United
States were at war against
her country, she would be
hailed as a heroine. If she
were a Russian child, her
case would be publicized
widely by the American
press as an example Of the
viciousneSs of the atheistic
Communist people.
Because she is an Ameri-
can, q child resident of a
Christian, democratic coun-
Try, her case will be easily
forgotten by her fellow Amer
leans, and played down by
the do-gooders and criminal
sympathizers who always
prefer the wolves to a lamb.
Frances Dixon has proved
she has moral courage as
well as physical courage. All
credit to her and to the par
ents who produced and
reared her. The United
States has far too few Of such
decent and courageous peo-
pie. And, If criminals con-
tinue to run at large in this
country to MAIN. to attack.
to kill, to steal, to kidnap-
yet go without punishment
America will not see the likes
Of Frances Dixon and her
parents 100 years from now.
Their kind will have been de-
stroyed by the criminals,
mentally retarded, and mem
tally diseased, whom the do
coolers assure us are made
In the image Of God!
Damaris H. BIOsser.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-29
Let 'em Eat Cake?

Your story in the Society,"
Home Section March %
gave us both a shock and a
chuckle: Some Of the worlds
best-fed people attending b
dinner in q Joint Attack On
Hunger" We hope they sue
ceeded.
But how about the poor
people who are hungry all
over the world? They need
know-how, initiative. tools,
fertilizer and sympathetic
understanding - not from
ambassadors, but from fellow
men Of the soil.
We talk a good game in
our country, but we don't
really play it. do we?
ID. L. Miller.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-29

foreign aid program. Let 1t
not be forgotten that mean
ingful economic assistance
only began last year with the
enactment Of the Act for In
ternational Development. For
the first time aid was granted
for general economic and
social development purposes
rather than for specific prof.
ects usually selected for their
public impact vis-a-vis Com
munist aid. The same pa
thence called for in evaluat-
ing the Alliance for Progress
could well be applied to the
entire Act for international
Developments
Howard M. WachteI.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-29
PARIS.

PARIS.
The recurring nightmare
which petrifies the Western
camp and apparently condi-
tons all American foreign
policy is that of ''nuclear pro-
Iteration"
Quite evidently, the night
mare afflicts President Ken
nedy most acutely.
II am haunted" he de-
clared to a recent press con-
ference, "by the feeling that
by 1870 unless we are sue
cessful Tin banning nuclear
tests) there may be 10 nu-
clear powers instead Of four
and by 1915 is or 90"
One wonders what dis
agreeable morsel of inteIli-
gence or intuition produces
this particular specter. At
any rate, 1t is entirely con-
trary to the evidence avail
able In Europe. It is also con-
trary to informed estimates
Of many nuclear experts.
Which are the 10 poten-
tial nuclear powers in six
years time?
With the exception Of Red
China and conceivably Israel,
one must assume that the
other candidates must be
among the technically adj
vanced and affluent nations
Of Western Europe. The pos
sibility Of less developed
countries possession Of nu-
clear weapons within a few
years could only be based
on an assumption that these
weapons would be supplied by
some outside power.
What then is the situation
in Western Europe which
leads to such disturbing
predictions?
Britain, which participated
actively in the wartime Man
haitian Project and shared all
benefits Of the early Ameri-
can effort, has been an active
nuclear power since 1852.
But the increasing costs and
political liabilities of the more
advanced weapons systems is
today making Britain's fu-
ture status highly prob
lematical.
France has been actively
working on development of
nuclear weapons since 1854.
By the end Of this year it is
expected to have a modest
stockpile of atomic bombs
capable Of being transported
in supersonic bombers. Their
monuclear weapons and mis-
siles are not scheduled before
the 1970s.
Only Two Indicated
Apart from France and
Britain, there is no evidence
that any other European
country is engaged in q nu-
clear weapons program.
OF the other NATO coun-
tries, most Of them have
neither the inclination nor
the means for such an effort
/. Most Of them, in fact, follow
the lead Of the United States
in actively deploring the
spread Of nuclear weapons
So far as the smaller coun-
tries are concerned, complies
American responsibility for
nuclear defense of Europe II
still an ideal state Of affairs
Of the non-NATO countries
Of Europe, there has been
some speculation that Swe-
den and even possibly Swift
zerlapd might muster the
wherewithal to produce q
poor mans atomic bomb.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-29
LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names may be used II
letters carry tDriters' correct
names and addresses. All let
tiers are subject to condensa-
ton. Those not used iDiH be
returned only iDhen accom-
panied BY self addressed,
stamped envelopes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-29
On Treating Crimes Basic Causes

or even known criminals by
our police will not necesSar-
lily reduce the crime rate,
Any reputable physician or
sociologist will affirm that
illness or crime is not cured
by attacking the symptoms.
The only truly effective rem
edies are those which direct
ly treat the basic causes.
Those 'law-abiding" citi-
zens-including the Citizens
Crime Commission and The
Star-who protest against
the use Of "racist propa-
ganda" to "handcuff" the
police in the performance Of
their duty" apparently
overlook one simple. II I'M
pleasant. fact. 1t is the fact
that except for the few per-
sons who commit crimes De-
cause they are mentally Ill,
most Of the so-called "crim-
inals" who snatch purses and
commit other offenses for
financial gain, usually do so
because Of a normal and
non-criminal human frailty
poverty or need.
OF course, this human ext
gency does not excuse or JUS
tify commission Of crime. but
in a society Of abundance
which is beset by such crime
the 'law-abiding" citizen
should examine the possible
ity that he may be contrib
uting to or may in some
measure be responsible for
so narrowing the alternatives
that pressing need often
drives the hopeless TO crime.
1t is an easy enough mat
ter for the college : bred
Georgetown, Cleveland Park.
or Chevy Chase resident.
comfortably or luxuriously
housed. extensively clothed.
amply fed and securely en-
ployed, 10 place the entire
blame for Washington's
crime rate on the resident OF
the second precinct. Easy
enough 10 dismiss as "hood-
lums" and thugs" these
products Of an inadequate
education In understaffed
and overcrowded public
schools. which are racially
segregated In fact-and In
some cases more dilapidated
than many OF the schools In
the Deep South. IL is easy
enough 10 ignore the fact
that the resident OF the sec
ond precinct lives In a ghet-
10 Of substandard housing.
without adequate clothes 10
wear or food 10 eat. unable
TO obtain suitable employ
ment, II any at all.
Unfortunately. a dispro-
portionate number OF the
self-righteous ''law-abiding"
citizens are white and a
similarly disproportionate
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-29

3. Make two purchases bathroom scale and pedom-
eter Step the first every morning upon arising and
hang the second your person. strap to your Leg
as soon you've stepped off the first To lose weight
you not only must eat less, you must exercise. The
thought of doing exercise is abhorent to me- so there
fore make myself walk more than usual try to do ten
miles day by pacing or by running back and forth
between my studio and house. which are about twenty
FIVE yards apart Run whenever possible In the city,
walk instead Of taking cabs If, at the end of the day,
you have not done your ten miles, take walk until you
have logged them.
= and contract them twenty times every fifteen
minutes. This is the only exercise recommend. 1t
feels good, and it does wonders for making your
stomach fat.
10. If you must eat between meals, chew celery
carrot sticks, MUNICH apples.
Those my ten simple rules. AS for the diet itself
- that's up to you. You must make it up to suit your
eating personality, bearing in mind only that you
must avoid ndulging yourself in those foods that
obviously attening that is to say, the starches and
fats.
My own schedule was something like this.
Breakfast: Two eggs soft or hardbOled scrambled
without butter slice of tomato piece of toast coffee
Lunch: Two or three slices Of cold ham bologna
TINS WEEK &ososn. D.s.~b.r a. 1893
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TINS WEEK Goso.i"s / D.e.mbsr ~. 1893
Evening star., 1963-04-21

the skyrocketing prices of
Puerto Rico. it was described
by Senator Gore as "the best
bridgehead for America in
promoting the Alliance for
Progress and in diverting
communism in this hemis-
phere." The nine-acre, beach,
side lot alone cost Mr.. Eden
ton $125,000 a year for a 90
year lease.
Handsome young Sir Sid
ney OakeS of Nassau and his
Boston-born wife Nancy were
there, Sir Sidney going over
the whole to-do with a fine
tooth comb. He said he
thinks he will build one like
1t in Nassau.
The Tennessee contingent
gathered in San Juan was
entertained one evening in
the de luxe penthouse on top
of a bank which Henry Rex
ash built just so he and his
wife could have the apart
ment on top! The late Sem
ator Dennis Chavez daughter
Gloria and husband George
Tristani were at the party
pleading the case for Puerto
Rican statehood. They think
it would strengthen pro-
AmericaniSm and they are
willing to pay higher taxes
for it.
SAID GOV. LUIS MUNOZ
MARIN at dinner the next
night, Puerto Rico now gets
$50 million annually a in
grants and aid from the
United States Government,
and If 1t were a State it
would get $48 million, but it
would have to pay for the
first time a Federal income
tax amounting to 5000 mil
lion"
AS for the Communist dan
ger on the island, out of 212
million population, he said,
the Communist candidate got
only 88 write-in votes In the
last election, and IS per cent
of all Puerto Ricans can
write.
The man who dreamed UP
the unique United State S
Commonwealth status for his
homeland had supper in the
garden of his own four-acre
place outside of San Juan.
Evening star., 1963-04-21
Embassy
Dinner for
Princess

Her Royal Highness Prin-
cess Beatrix of the Neither
lands was honored last eve
ming at a dinner held by
Netherlands Ambassador and
Mrs. Herman van Roijen.
The 8 pm. event was held
at the Ambassadors resi-
dence.
Those attending were SEN
ator Mike j. Mansfield, Mrs.
Nicolas Longworth, Baroness
Sweerts de Landas Wyborgh,
Representative and Mrs. Ger
aid r. Ford, jr.; Undersec-
retary of State and Mrs.
George w. Ball, Gen. and
Mrs. Maxwell Taylor, Assist
ant Secretary of Defense and
Mrs. Paul Mite, Mr.. william
Evening star., 1963-04-21

1t was a warm night but he
had q fire built because he
likes to look at one. Nearby
two grandchildren. four kit
tens and a goat played to-
gether. Electric lights hidden
in the tropical trees shone
on red hibiscus blooms, and
crickets, or whatever they
are called In Puerto Rico,
filled the air with the SYM
phony of summer.
The dynamic Munoz said
he comes to w a S hington
once a month to talk to
members OF Congress about
developing the political idea
of the Commonwealth to Its
full potential. Then when the
island has its plebiscite, to
which President Kennedy has
given his blessing, the people
can decide whether they want
statehood or not.
Since the Governor could
sell a toothless comb-"But
I only want to sell one with
teeth in it," he protested
with a chuckle-"I wouldn't
advise adding that 51st star
to your flag just yet"
Evening star., 1963-04-21
EXCLUSIVELY YOURS
Grand Duchess
Can Also Ski

When the woman who
rules the Grand Duchy Of
Luxembourg alights from the
helicopter on the W hi e
House lawn Tuesday, all par
ties concerned will heave a
sign of relief.
The state visit of Her
Royal Highness Grand Ouch
eSs Charlotte that was sup
posed to have brought her,
her husband Prince Felix, her
son Prince Jean and his wife
Princess Josephine Charlotte
of Belgium to Washington
in October, winds up by
bringing her and her son
only.
Prince Felix was not well
enough to make the trip this
time, and Princess Josephine
Charlotte had to cancel out
because she is expecting her
fifth child.
When all the protocol was
ironed out involving these
changes, everything lad to
be changed again with the
announcement of Mrs. Ken
nedy's pregnancy and cur
tailed activities.
The one appearance the
First Lady will make will be
at the state dinner at the
White House Tuesday night,
but the chances are she will
not descend the stairs with
her husband and royal viSi-
tors, or stand in the receiv-
ing line with them.
THE 67-YEAR-OLD RE-
Evening star., 1963-04-21

bourg's 999 square miles, who
said to Marjorie at their first
meeting, Il understand that
your domain is bigger than
mine" The two women had
a good laugh over it.
AND 1T WAS MRS. MAY
who provided a home for the
royal family and outfitted
the children when they ar
rived in America with hard
ly more than the clothes on
their back. They had fled in
the middle of the night from
the invading Germans.
President Roosevelt haC
asked her to open her Ros-
lyn, L. I. house for the royal
family and they stayed there
for two years. When the six
offspring arrived with their
father (their mother came
later on a hot day in Au-
gust, Marjorie took one look
at their heavy wooden garb
and said These children
must have thin clothes and
bathing suits"
So off she went with them
to nearby Garden City and
bought them summer ward
chase the well-brought-up
small fry politely demurred,
"Oh. we don't need that. We
have enough"
That was a whole genera
ton ago, so the two women
will have a lot to catch up
with.
SENATOR AND MRS. AL
BERT GORE flew down to
Puerto Rico last week end so
the Senator could officially
open the Holiday Inn of San
Juan, built by their lifelong
Jackson, Tenn, friend Bruce
Edenton.
Wallace Johnson, president
of the Holiday Inns of Amer
lea, also whipped down there
to see the Senator cut the
ribbon and get a look at the
new hostelry which made his
hotel chain the largest in
number of rooms in the
world (39,100). Said the
beaming Mr.. Johnson, I'VE
have been opening a new
inn every 212 days for the
last year"
AS the San Juan luxury
motel undercuts considerably
Evening star., 1963-04-21
BY BETTY BEALE

GAL Grand Duchess could
have had a sporting spree
with the First Lady had the
visit been staged at some
other time. And it would have
been a scene that any pho
tographer living would have
given an eye tooth to snap.
For, believe it or not, the
dignified ruler of the me-
dieval duchy could compete
with Jacqueline Kennedy in
a one-ski exhibition. Char
lotte is a great sportswoman
who has been doing fancy
skiing for years at their sum-
mer place near st. Tropez on
the Riviera.
The Grand Duchess hand
picked the non-official guests
who will attend her lunch
con on May l in honor OF
President Kennedy. This is
the reason Washing. on's
fabulous hostess, Mrs. Her.
bert May, will be there with
her husband.
Her friendship with Mar
jorie Post May dates back to
the '30s when the latter was
the wife of Joseph E. Davies,
then our Ambassador to Bel
gium and accredited to Lux
embourg. Mrs. May owned
then and still owns a couple
of counties in Texas.
Word of the extensive
landholdings of the General
Foods heiress, had reached
the sovereign n of Luxem-
Evening star., 1963-04-21

D. Meyers, and former Sec
retary of State and Mrs.
Dean Acheson.
Also among the guests last
evening were Mr.. C. Sesink,
head Of the Security Service
Evening star., 1963-04-21

Of the Royal Household, Mr..
and Mrs. James Reston. Mrs.
Moorehead Patterson and Mr..
van Blankenstein. Economic
Minister of the Netherlands
Embassy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-10

ORGANS. Don't miss KITS
great 42nd ANNIVERSARY sale
Of new and used organs. Lowery,
Hammond, Gulbransen, Wurlitz-
er. Conn, Allen and Baldwin or
Rans at tremendous savings. Our
greatest stOrewide sale of the
year. KITS wash. Area
Largest Music Store, 8 Cow.
Local Dntn. 1880 @ So. NV.
RE. 1929; Alex, 1921 Mt.
Vernon ave, XII. S-6SS3; Con-
gressional Plaza Shopping Cen
ter, Rockville Pike, HA. 7-7420
iva. and Md. stores open daily
It'll 9, except Sat.).
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ROOMS HoUsEKEEPIHs

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ro0ms refgr.s use d kitchen, nexi
70 bath, bus at door. ia $500.
CLAN, cheerful rms. Ice. enough
for z students or q CPL so per
wk-s fully equip. 1901 r. / ave.
nv. 33z-isz3.
COY BsMT. STUDIO, PVT. entr.,
shower. ~ IN ROOM reigr.s grill,
SlS-sz7. 2l35 = NV. 33e-6zIt.
Ne, 800 ND. AVE. = 7-rn. effic.,
newly dec compl. kit couven. loc.,
well behaved adults, $3.50 Wk.,
utils. incl. 7z5-Tl3l.
n. ARL., Pleasant m, stove, sink
refrig.s for empl. gentleman. 81.
VIZ. s36-7l2o.
N.W.-Lady, nonsmoker, share 1t.
with z white ladies', air cond., eX
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it3s NEWTON 81. N.W.-FuFn. ms
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twin beds, pvt. bath, nefET. and no
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sleeping rm- Linen and maid seTv
ice.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-10

ORGANS, values in floor sample
and slightly used instruments Of
popular makes. At JORDAN'S
corner 18th and @ SITS. NV. (ST.
3-9400; Baileys Cross Roads
Shopping Center, Va. (4S1-
ISL; 1882 Georgia ave, Silver
Spring tJU. 5-1105D: 104 Will
liam st.. fredericksburg, Va.
Essex 3-7472). Silver Spring
and Baileys Cross Roads stores
open evenings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-10

ll0s G ST. NV. DI. 7-s464
= JORDANS branch
stores have a complete selection
Of pianos and organs on display
including values in slightly used
instruments. Plenty OF parking
space ct each store. 1882
Georgia ave, Silver Spring GU.
5-1105l: Bailey's Cross Roads
Shopping Center, Va. C4S1-71SD /:
l04 William ST., fredericksburg.
Va. Essex 3-7472). Good selec-
ton at all stores. Bailey's Cross
Roads and Silver Spring stores
Open evenings.