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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-02-18
A BOOK FOR TO-DAY
Career of a Versatile Jewish Leader
By DONALD MIMI


CHAIN WEIZMANN, A BiOg-
raphy by Several Hands,
edited by Meyer w. Weis-
gal and Joel Carmichael.
With a Preface by David
Ben-Gurion. Illus. 364 PIP.
(Atheneum, $685.
Chain Weizmann" is an
admiring-indeed, idolatrous
biography Of a great man.
Most Of the Is contributors
IA If one counts Prime Min
lister Ben-Gurion-knew him
fairly well. though one, Pro-
fessor E m eritus Selman
WakSman Of Rutgers who
writes on Chain Weizmann
as Bacteriologist," met him
only once.
There was, as a matter of
fact. q good deal to idolize in
Weizmann. In the early years
Of the Goth century, the
Zionist movement to which
Weizmann gave most Of his
life was as improbable q
cause as one was likely to
find. On the face Of it. it was
simply absurd even to hope
that anything like a Jewish
National Home could ever
come into existence.
WeiZmann, a chemist whose
training was opposed to i'm
probable assumptions, never
thelesS believed in the Ma
tional Home.
The existence Of Israel TO-
day is not much more prob
able than the cause that gave
1t birth. But this does not
make 1t any less q fact. The
state was established, as the
various contributors do not
try to conceal. largely be-
cause Of the peculiar turns of
world politics in our century.
But 1t is equally true that by
temperament and ability
Weizmann was singalarly well
equipped to see the oppor-
tunities inherent in these
turns and to exploit them.
HE WAS A MASTER d.
plomatist. and to some ex-
tent, though less than often
supposed. his important
scientific contributions to the
British war efforts in both
world wars. gave him entree
to halls Of government where
representatives Of unpopular
causes are not commonly well
coined.
The book begins with a
general survey Of Weizmann's
entire career by Sir Isaiah
Berlin OF Oxford University.
There Is no little irony In the
fact that "this biography
constitutes the English
original Of the Hebrew YER
sion due TO appear in (the
Encyclopaedia II b raica) :"
Be that as 1t may. IL offers
the fundamental facts about
q long life.
The essays that follow dis
cuss in detail one or another
aspect Of Weizmann's life.
There Is some overlapping, of
course. Most OF II is interest,"
ing rather than repetitious
because the viewpoints are
drastically different or even
because there is some dis
agreement about facts. Jon
Kimche, for example, seeks
TO prove that there was really
very little basic difference OF
opinion between Ben Gurion
and Weizmann after World
War II. Shortly thereafter,
r. H. S. Crossman explains
the nature Of those differ
ences.
However this may be, It
remains true that Weizmann,
born in 1874 in a Jewish vii
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lage in Russia, became a
celebrated chemist, a more
celebrated statesman, and
the architect as well as the
first president of Israel. 1t is
tragic that at his death in
1852 he felt that he had been
gracefully pushed aside and
that to some extent his feel
ing was valid. Nevertheless,
he had the remarkable salts
faction Of planning a great
work and seeing it come to
fruition.
VIRTUALLY ALL the con-
tributors emphasize that his
singular position arose from
a duality in his nature. He
was a sophisticated man Of
science, and ultimately a
British citizen, though no one
makes very much Of this. At
the same time, he retained a
spiritual contact with and a
deep understanding Of the
east European Jews Of the
Pale Of Settlement, that jew
ish Belt that once ran north
and south through Western
Russia and the adjoining
countries. Because Of this
sympathy, he was constantly
at war with assimilation
lists" those West European
and American Jews who felt
that the land whose passport
they carried was their coun-
try and Judaism their re-
ligion.
1t is interesting to note
that all the contributors who
touch on this assume that
Hitler's crematoriums proved
the assimilationists wrong.
They do not consider the pos
sibility that Hitler was a
mailman with q following Cor
else they use the following as
part Of the proof. and they
do not mention that his plans
for other inferior peoples
were something less than hui
manitarian.
The semi-mystic chauvin-
ism that is frequently evident
in Chain Weizmann" will be
unpleasant to most Christian
Americans and to not a few
Jewish Americans. 1t re-
mains. however, an interest
ing study Of an important
and fascinating man.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-02-18

At first glance. the choice
Of the PROFESSIONAL Harold
Wilson to head the British
Labor Party would seem to
mean that the victory so
painfully won over, its left
wing by his predecessor,
Hugh Gaitskell. has been
Cancelled out as though it had
never been by Gaitskell's re-
cent tragic death.
Wilson'S "orientation" and
commitments the two
favorite words Of the earn
estly angry and reformist
eggheads both in England
and here-has thus far been
to the left. And the far-out
part Of that left, Of course, is
principally distinguished for
anguished "ban-the- bomb"
bowling and for q strong
streak Of anti-Americanism.
Illogical Politics
Thus, there Is no lack Of
surface reason for moderates
and conservatives on both
sides Of the Atlantic to look
upon his elevation as bad
news for continued RESPONSE
BILE Americana British Coop
Grafton, assuming that Labor
is able to overturn Prime
Minister Harold Macmillan's
Conservative government in
the next British elections.
All the same, 1t Is far too
early to despair-quite apart
from the important fact that
"Old Mac" has not yet been
beaten and, indeed, might
not be when the showdown
comes Notwithstanding re-
cent Conservative setbacks in
local elections in England.
British politics has an al
most consistently logical
strain Of illogic. And it may
well be that II and when he
becomes Prime Minister the
Harold Wilson in power will
be a quite different man
from the Harold Wilson who
was so long out Of power and
thus full Of the luxuries Of
responsibility.
1t Is a stereotype to say
that actual responsibility has
a SOLDERING effect on any pol
itician, at either edge of the
water. Moreover, and more
Importantly, 1t is well to- re-
member that many conserva-
tives here used to fear Gait
skell himself-until they
came to know him better. He,
too, was a bookish sort If
only on the outside. And he,
too, was sometimes suspected
in the early days of being a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-02-18
The Eye of q Torqet

The full circle of opposition to
President Kennedy's tax reduction and
reform program, at least in the shape
presented to Congress, has been drawn
in recent days. Around the hostile
circumference, not as allies Of each
other except in their common cause
Of disapproval Of the administration
formula, are forces of big labor and
big business. They do not want the
same thing, but neither wants exactly
what the administration is proposing.
Labor's opposition has been ex-
pressed most pointedly by Walter
Reuther, AFL-CIO vice president and
chairman Of the federation's Economic
Policy Committee. In brief, Mr.. Reuther
wants quick enactment Of simple tax
reduction, directed only at relief for
the lower income brackets and accom-
panied by greater Federal spending on
public works and welfare. Both the
National Association of Manufacturers
and the United States Chamber of
Commerce, speaking through their re-
search directors, called for greater en-
phaSiS on rate reductions in middle and
upper individual income brackets, for
reviSionS that would encourage the
building and utilization of job-creating
investment capital. And joining the
unfriendly circle just today is Tax
Foundation, Inc, private, non-profit
organization engaged in research and
citizen education" on all aspects of
Government spending and taxation. The
Foundation says there should be a
substantial rebuilding" Of the tax sys-
TEN, but not shot = in the arm cuts
without reduction in Federal spending.
There is, however, another side to
this story-another face, in effect, to the
circle. All groups are in basic agreement
with the administration, in some cases
predating administration recognition,
that the present tax system is outworn,
a major depreSSant on the economy and
that its revision should have high legis-
lative priority. The disagreementS are on
the approach, not the principle.
Against this background, the admin
istration already has shown its willing
ness to accept alternatives in details, al
though 1t has not yet abandoned the
mildly threatful technique Of warning
that failure to win its way on this or that
provision would mean tougher attitude
on others. There is, as Business Week
magazine noted recently, an administra-
ton attitude of wounded pride, con-
fusion and annoyance" that the program
submitted after long months of toll and
high hopes" has not been received with
greater acclaim.
Mr.. Kennedy, for example, sounded
more Sorrowful than angry when he told
his latest news conference that tax re-
form Is -. wonderful principle, but
when you begin to write 1t in detail it be-
comes less attractive" Even so, he added,
he expects that the House Ways and
Means Committee, the first testing
ground, will produce bill that won't be
perhaps the bill we sent up, but think
it will be good bill" There is, in fact,
need for "a good bill" on taxes, and the
88th Congress has an opportunity to dis
tinguiSh itself by enacting one.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-02-18
Creoky Alliance

For It's Tommy this, an Tommy
that, an "ChucE I'm out, the
brutel"
But it's "SGUtour of rs country"
t0hen the guns begin to shoot.
There was a trace of Kipling's
Tommy in some of the things the PreSi-
dent had to say last week about the
strains that receding danger put upon
an alliance.
Noting that Winston Churchill has
said that "the history of any alliance
is the history Of mutual recrimination
among the various people," Mr.. Ken
nedy went on to note that the United
States has been footing an enormous
bill for long period Of time, and he
sounded as though he might be getting
a bit fed up with complaints from allies
who have contributed very little. At
any rate, speaking of our overseas bases
and the six combat troop divisions we
maintain in Europe, the President COM
mented that I'VE don't mind paying for
them, but we would like to at least have
it recognized that the primary bene-
ficiary may be those who are closest
to the Soviets"
There seems to be precious little
recognition Of this, however, and there
is likely to be even less in the future.
For, paradoxical though it may seem,
disaffection within the Western Alliance
mounts as the threat Of Communist
aggression recedeS, or appears to recede.
There is nothing wrong that red-hot
threat to Berlin, for instance, wouldn't
cure, but that would be high price
to pay for closing ranks. AS long as Mr..
KhruShchev behaves, there is bound to
be continuation in the West of what
Mr.. Kennedy calls "the luxury of in
ternal diSSension."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-02-18

ing a school for intermediate
age dwarfs? Am I a taxpayer
billed for longer or shorter
water pipes? Or was this a
devious or brilliant plan to
outwit the water company
and save me money? Or as
the students believe Is this
the way to force them to
drink and pray?
r Rodkiu-
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Hackers Nightmare

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-11
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-25

L4eo>l III light aud yard trains
Some $4,000 jobs are at stake
The second three weeks will
cover the other question the
board was directed by Congress
to decide-makeup of crews for
freight trains.
Arguing in an opening state
ment yesterday that the board
should begin arbitration back
where the controversy began,
the railroads commended they
had not been able to agree
with the unions on a single
point in the two key issues.
However, Secretary of Labor
w. Wirtz, in a report to the
board on his efforts to mediate
the dispute, said both sides
were close to agreement on the
crew issue and had agreed on
several points on the firemen
question before negotiations
collapsed in August.
Congress deliberately con-
fined the scope of congression-
ally prescribed arbitration to
the narrowest possible area"
Mr.. Schoene said.
He said the legislation di-
reefs that the board accept the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-25
Backing Truck
Kills Man in AIIey

An unidentified man was
crushed to death yesterday
when a trash truck backed over
him behind the Annapolis Hotel
police reported.
The man, a Negro in his COS
who carried no Identification
may have been sleeping in a
chair in the alley at the rear
of the hotel at Eleventh and H
streets NV. when the accident
occurred, police said.
PvtS. Garry A. Curtis and
Paul M. Oliver of the Accident
Investigation Unit said the
driver was James H. Walker, IS,
of 1749 Eighteenth street NV,
an employe of the Square Deal
Trucking Co. No charges were
filed against Mr.. Walker, who
said he did not see the man
or the chair until he heard q
bump.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-25
Machine to Fix
Ticket Fixers

The District Commissioners
gave final approval today to a
new system that could make 1t
tougher to fix traffic tickets.
Under the new plan all
tickets will be proceSsed by
automated machinery at the
Central Violations Bureau, an
arm of the Court of General
Sessions.
At present parking tickets
are handled by this bureau but
tickets for parking violations
are proceSsed by the individual
police stations.
The new plan is expected to
make it easier to spot scofflaws
and to save thousands of man
hours now spent in clerical
work.
The new system was proposed
by the District Management
Office, the General Sessions
Court and the Metropolitan
Police.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-25
Rail Unions Say Lines
Can't Drop Offers Now

thority, limits the issues to
those on which the parties were
in disagreement following theil
negotiations on the August
proposal of the Secretary oil
Labor"
Mr.. Schoene referred to re-
perotS by two presidential
groups, both of which were
accepted by the railroads ano
rejected by the unions.
The carriers have asked the
arbiters to disregard all prior
concessions and start over
scratch.
The arbitration board, set up
by Congress last month to head
off a Nationwide rail strike,
began six weeks of hearings
yesterday. The first three weeks
will be devoted to the question
whether firemen are needed on
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SAT, 339, 100000 voted by the
Senate.
A House-Senate conference
committee is expected to iron
out the differences.
The brief floor battle, SPAN
ming only a few hours of debate,
was marked by only one close
call: a 45-43 rundown OF an
effort by Senator Saltonstall,
Republican of Massachusetts,,
to trim l per cent, or nearly
$l58 million, from the SIS, 1884,
747,0O0 earmarked for new mill
tary hardware.
Senator Russell, Democrat OF
Georgia, floor manager for the
bill, then led administration
forces in overwhelming a $2.2
billion cut proposed by Senator
McGovern, Democrat Of South
Dakota. The vote was 74-2.
And then just before final
passage, the Senate scuttled,
72-5, an effort by Senator
Proxmire, Democrat of Wiscon-
sin, to trim $50 million from
SOB million designated for de-
velopment of a new mobile
Army missile of medium range.
It is designed for launching
from railroad cars, trucks, ships
or fixed sites.
Senator Russell, chairman OF
the Armed Services Committee,
did steer through one change
by voice vote-a $31.7 million
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-25
Hurricane
Heading for
Puerto Rico

MIAMI, Fla, Sept. Is (AP)
Hurricane Edith spun 3D.
mile-an-hour winds through
the Caribbean toward Puerto
Rico today and the Miami
Weather Bureau said the storm
may grow stronger.
At noon (EDT) a hurricane
watch was in effect for Puerto
Rico, the Virgin Islands and
the Dominican Republic. Hur-
ricane warnings were discon-
tinued for the Windward and
Leeward Islands from Guade-
loupe to st. Vincent.
Gale warnings were in eff
feet for the islands Of st.
Lucia, Martinique and Domi-
MICA.
Edith, with center winds
about 80 miles an hour, was
located about 80 miles west
of Martinique. This is about
375 miles southeast of San
Juan, P. R.
The Weather Bureau said if
the hurricane doesn't change
course it will strike about 125
miles south of Ponce, P. R.,
tomorrow morning. Edith was
moving west northwest at 1C
miles an hour. Gale winds eX-
tended $50 miles to the north
and east Of the storm center
and rs miles 60 the south and
west.
AS Edith dashed the Carib-
bean, low-pressure area in
the extreme southwest Gulf
of Mexico was reported by the
New Orleans Weather Bureau
to have weakened. A recon-
naiSsance plane reported high
est winds of 20 to Is miles an
hour.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-25
BY the Associated Press

Rail unions contended today
it is too late for the railroads
to withdraw their settlement
offers in the work rules dis
pute because Congress has d.
rected that these offers be
taken as a starting point for
arbitration.
Lester B. Schoene, chief
counsel for the five operating
unions, told a seven-man arbi-
tration board assigned to pass
on the big issues of the 412-
year-old dispute:
This board does not start
where the Presidential Railroad
Commission started, nor where
Emergency Board 154 started
Public Law 1903, from which
this board derives its sole au-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-25

principle of using attritior tc
eliminate jobs rather than SLt-
right dismissal.
Railroads Too Late?
Mr.. Schoene said it is toe
late for the railroads to try to
renounce their public, con-
Sistent, unequivocal" accept
ance of the recommendations
of the presidential emergeny
board, which included the pro-
posal that all jobs should be
eliminated by attrition, as en-
ployes retired, died or moved
to other jobs.
Mr.. Schoene said Congress
also accepted the emergency
boards provision that jobs
should only be eliminated
where it could be established
that it did not create a safety
hazard or throw an undue bur-
den on another employee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-25
Senate Quickly Passes
Defense Spending Bill.
BY the Associated Press

Sweeping aside all major efforts to the administrators
$473 billion defense appropriations BILL the Senate approved
it ITO yesterday in swift and crushing display of power
The unanimous passage sends the bill back to the House
which previously approved $3.50 million less than the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-25
FIuorspur Center

SPRINGFIELD, nl.-Hardin
County, Illionis, is the nations
main source of fluorspar, used
chiefly in smelling iron.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-25

reduction in the military hard
ware section. Senator Russell
said he had been assured the
money is for Army missiles that
can be deferred.
The quick approval, contrast
ing with the two weeks the
Senate took to approve the
limited nuclear test ban treaty,
provides more than $l2 billion
for the Army, more than $14
billion for the Navy and Ma
rine Corps, more than $18.5
billion for the Air Force and
$2.2 billion for other defense
agencies.
The total is SIS billion less
than the President requested,
which in turn was $l2.75 bill
| lion less than the armed forces
requested before the President
sent his budget to Congress.
Senator Russell said this
years total, as approved by the
Senate, also is 81 billion less
than Congress voted last year
But he pointed out that actual
defense costs would be more
than $50 billion for the current
fiscal year when other bills
carrying funds for military
construction, housing and for
eign assistance are added.
There also will be a request
later for 5000 million to meet
the cost of a pending military
pay increase for part of the
year.
Proposal Blasted
Senator Russell blasted Sem
ator McGovern's proposed re-
duction in procurement of air.
craft, ships, missiles and other
hardware, saying this contains
the germs of unilateral disarm-
ament which could only lead
this country to destruction"
He said the United States
has "a very thin margin" of
military superiority over the
Soviet Union, but this has
maintained world peace.
Senator Goldwater, Republic
can of Arizona, Joined Senator
Russell in attacking what he
called a step toward "unilat-
eral disarmament"
Senator McGovern's motion
would have cut 10 per cent of
SIS billion from tn procure
ment section and 10 per cent
or $700 million from the pro-
curement section and 10 per or
800 million from research
funds.
Senator McGovern, defend
ing his proposal, cited United
States difficulties in Wet Nam.
There in the jungles of Asia, "
he said, "our mighty nuclear
arsenal, our $50 billion arms
budget, our costly new special
forces, have proved powerless
to cope with a ragged band of
illiterate guerrillas fighting
with home made weapons"
He said this effort had al
ready cost more than SO billion
in United States funds and is
now running So million a day
additional in supporting a pol
icy that is a failure.
He also opposed sending any
more nuclear arms to Europe.
Democratic Senators Morse
of Oregon, Randolph of West
Virginia, and Nelson of Wis
con, Joined Senator McGovern
in trying to reduce the defense
outlay.
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