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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-03
Nehru and InscrutubiIity

Although there may be less in it
than meets the eye, Prime Minister
Nehru'S Shake-up Of his cabinet remains
diSquieting. 1t is one of those things
that help explain why our Congress is
dubious about the wisdom of extending
lavish, no-Strings- attached aid to India.
In effect, the shake-up tits the
Nehru government more to the left
than 1t has been since Indian public
opinion forced the Prime Minister, some
months ago, reluctantly to accept the
reluctant resignation of Defense Min
lister KriShna Menon, his closest friend
and man animated by strong anti
Washington, pro-Kremlin bias. AS If to
compensate for this loss, Mr.. Nehru
now has reShuffled his cabinet in way
that robs 1t of the services of its most
competent non leftiSt ministers, men
vigorously opposed to the kind of "neu-
tralism" that is undeniably helpful to
the Communist conspiracy around the
world.
These men include Morarji DeSai,
who has been Finance Minister, and
S. K. Patti, who has been Food Minister.
Both are strongly anti-Red; both are
friendly to the United States; and both
favor close cooperation with the free
and open West, as against the regi-
mented and unfree Communist world.
But Mr.. Nehru, for reasons best known
to himself, and despite the threat he
faces from Macs China, apparently
does not want such advisers around
him. Instead, pushing them out of
office, he has replaced them with lettist
successors who probably satisfy the
insufferable standards of Krishna
Menon'S brand of "neutralism."
All of which amounts to a mystery
OF sorts. Why, for example, should a
man as able as Mr.. DeSai-who has
often been thought of as Mr.. Nehru's
SucceSSor-be kicked downstairs? The
inscrutable East, quite evidently, extends
all the way to New Delhi.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-03
Death of q Traitor

1t has been written (de ntortutS
nthh mist bonunl) that one should speak
nothing Of the dead unless 1t can be
something good. On the whole, this is a
sound admonition, but in the case of
notorious public figures like Guy Bur-
CESS, who has just come to a squalid
end in Moscow, the proper recording Of
history demands more than mere silence.
For this man, dead at 50, was not
Just an unfortunate and offensive alco-
holic. He was not just moral pervert
who became increasingly gross and re-
pulsive as he grew older. He was also,
and above all, Briton who chose-de-
spite his fine family background and
tradition-to engage deliberately, and
without any sense Of conjunction, in
treason against his own country, against
the United States and against the free
world as whole. Along with his equally
traitorous sidekick Donald MacLean, he
served here in Washington not long ago
and, all the while, he did whatever he
could, by passing secrets on to Moscow,
to help the Kremlin bury us.
Mill nisi bonump Well, as in the
case Of ever so many poisonous people in
history, polite silence is not warranted
as far as Guy Burgess is concerned The
Russians themSelves-the official ones,
that iS-have looked upon him with
contempt. And why notp Here was
man who made an unholy mess of his
life, and defiantly gloried in It, This is
not tragedy. This is just Self-burlesque.
One can do little more than deplore the
spectacle with a feeling of vague dis
treSs rather than pity. Guy Burgess
got what he asked for, and so he is un-
wept and unsung in his now irretriev-
able position.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-03
A Gard for Alice?

Would you do something
for my little girl? Her name
is Alice. She will be 6 on
October 10. She has cancer.
The doctors said last April
she may not live more than
a year. She has been in the
hospital twice, a month each
time, and while there friends
and relatives sent her cards.
Now that she is home they
no longer send any and she
looks forward each day for
the poStman, hoping she will
once again get some mail.
She can't get out and play
like other children and enc
OF the ways she passes the
days is by looking over the
cards she now has. Perhaps
some Of your readers might
send her a card. My prayers
will go out for each and
every one Of them.
Mrs. Ray Laws,
Lot 254, Hillwood Trailer
Park, Gainesville, Va,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-03
'LibeIed Library

/ read with interest your
August IS editorial, entitled
I'VE Are Libeled Again"
I feel you should know that
there are many Of us in the
library profession who whole
heartedly agree with Harry
N. Peterson and said as much
when the report was first
presented to us in Chicago at
the annual meeting OF the
American Library ASsocia-
ton. We are ashamed that
ALA Council members in
dorsed the recent report on
discriminatory practices in
libraries.
This report is a classic ex-
ample Of the distorted con-
illusions one may reach by
relying on statistics alone TO
reach sound conclusions.
Moreover, the authors Of this
disgraceful document didn't
bother to ask II 1860 census
figures are still valid in our
fast-developing library sys-
TENS. Hence. what seeming
ly acceptable conclusions are
in their report are also ques-
tionable.
Allow me TO commend you
for supporting Mr.. Peterson.
Edward A. Howard,
Director, Evansville Public
Library and Vanderburgh
County Public Library, Ev-
ansville, Ind.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-03
No Policy in Wet Nam

However one may choose to inter
pref the Presidents comments on Wet
Nam in his televiSed CHS interview, they
hardly add up to anything that can be
called policy. If Mr.. Kennedy'S points
were set down, they would run some
thing like this:
1.-The ''repreSsions" against the
BuddhiStS were very unwise" We take
this to mean that President Diem should
not have struck back in the face of a
Buddhist political attempt to overthrow
his government.
2-The war in Wet Nam cannot be
won without popular support
3-The Diem government might re-
gain the support of the people with
changes in policy (what changes?) and
perhaps with changes in personnel"
This last presumably refers to President
Diem'S brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu, tough
minded head of the secret police.
4-For the United States to with
draw its support in the war against
the Communist Wet Cong would be "a
great mistake"
Finally, the interviewer, Walter
Cronkite, got down to what used to be
called the $64 question. Hasn't every
indication from Saigon been that Pres
ident Diem has no intention of chang
ing his pattern?"
The President didn't answer this
one. Instead, he took refuge in a wordy
diversion which was in no sense a re-
Spouse to the most pertinent question
in the interview
All Of which points to this conclu-
sion: The war in Wet Nam, which we
will continue to support, will be lost
unless the Diem government changes,
and the President doesn't know or won't
say whether Diem will change or not.
Meanwhile, our Government persists in
statements which tend to undermine the
Diem regime without raising up any
prospective successor.
Whatever this may be, it is not en-
titled to be called policy. The more
the administration explains what we are
doing in Wet Nam, the less sense it
makes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-03
Block Those Variations!

Two items in the news, not remotely
related, stir vague and uneasy memories
Of time when endurance was the al
most uncomfortable pleasure Of the mass
es. There was something known as the
marathon craze, and heaven forbid that
1t ever should intrude on our sanity
again.
Yet there are these two, small iso-
lated auguries which will bear watching.
One has the innocuous setting of STRAIT
ford-on- Avon, where lived and worked
the inimitable Bard. Now none will dis
pute the glory Of Shakespeare, taken In
sensible portions. But what the Avon
fanatics have scheduled is a nine-hour
play combining the three parts Of Henry
vi with Richard III. How much blood
letting, kingly dialogues and malevolent
leers can body take between 1890 am.
and midnight, with time out only for
scenes and dinner2
Nearer home is another disturbing
portent. There is a 5-year-old trotter
named Hempt Hanover who is being
groomed for bad time. Somebody with
little to do has remembered that in 1883,
an 11-year-old gelding named Conquer
or trotted 100 miles in hours, So min
utes and So seconds. Now the idea Is to
see II poor Hempt can beat that time at
the Long Island Fair.
The American Society for the Pre-
vention Of Cruelty to Animals is fighting
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-03
Murder Suspects

The apparent solution Of the murder
Of Newell w. Ellison, jr., is a gratifying
product Of hard police work, although
chance seems to have played an i'm
portant part.
The five suspects, now facing trial
for murder, were caught when two DO
licemen in a cruising patrol car hap
pened to see them running through a
traffic light. They were in a stolen
taxicab at the time and were arrested
after chase. The police say, however,
that they already had received infor-
nation that the five might have been
involved in the killing, and had their
homes under surveillance.
AS the case stands now, one of the
two juveniles in the group is said to
have made confession duplicating the
others. Whether this confession, or any
statement made by the suspects, can be
used as evidence is uncertain under the
extreme interpretations which the
United States Court of Appeals has
placed on the Mallory rule. It is indi-
Gated, however, that the police have
other evidence, including the finding
and balliStic Identification of the two
guns used in the $50 robbery Staying II
this is correct, those responsible for the
savage, senseless murder of young Eli
son may be successfully tried and pun
ished, even If confessions are barred.
1t has been suggested that this case
, serves to illustrate the need for legisla-
{ ton restricting the sale of guns and re-
quiring their registration. This is fall
lacious reasoning. People who obey the
law might purchase guns subject to
restrictions and register them If required
to do so. But does anyone believe that
criminals who do not hesitate to rob and
kill would shrink from stealing guns and
refusing to register them2 We don't.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-03
Small Start

The approval OF the House
Armed Services Committee
OF $3.50 million for building
and stocking civil defense
fallout shelters should be a
cause for great rejoicing.
This is a small start but a
good one. A lot more will
be needed to provide an
adequate civil defense for
the American people. We
must not forget that nuclear
stockpiles Of other countries
are increasing all the time.
The cost Of an adequate
shelter system is small COM
pared to the number OF lives
1t would save in the event
OF a nuclear war. It is also
well to remember that even
II the present partial nu-
clear test ban treaty is
passed II will have no effect
on nuclear weapon stock
pile size.
David w. Johnston.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-03
Clever Tito

The interpretive report by
Edmund Stevens in The
Sunday Star Of August Is
was Illuminating, but dis
couraging because of it's
headline: "Kiss-and-Ma
Meeting Ends Tito-Khru-
Shchev Split" In the light
of this new international
love pantomime I do wish that
some of the higher brains of
the State Department would
explain and justify their re-
peated past assurances that
the $2.5 billion Of American
taxpayers hard-earn d
money which our leaders
sent to Tito since 1948 have
been well spent because they
have helped him keep indie
pendent Of dominance and
control of the Soviet Union
and Mr.. KhruShchev.
This argument has never
been convincing to me, be-
cause in my rustic tendency
to oversimplify these things,
I have always maintained
that a Communist is first,
last and always a Commu-
mist, and regardless of So
called nationality or minor
variations in doctrine, that
when the chips are really
down they will all stand to-
gether with their Marxist
brothers-under- the-skin no
matter how many hated cap
italistic dollars they may
have accepted from the naive
politicians and diplomats of
democracy.
Tito is undoubtedly the
cagiest, smartest head of
state in the world today. He
is so clever that he can
simultaneously milk the
Washington COW and the
Moscow bull, then shake up
this peculiar unnatural mix
ture to produce thick rich
butter to spread on both
sides of the Belgrade pun
pernickel.
Perhaps initiating him
would be more intelligent
than financing him! But we
just don't seem to have any
body smart enough. While
other countries are success
fully building, we are ap-
parently intent on seeing
how fast we can throw the
United States away. No Won
der Khrushchev is now say
ing that he will not have to
bury us after all, because
we will take care Of it our
selves.
Alan r. McCracken.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-03
Good Job

I would like to ccngratu-
late The Star and Mary Nc
Grory FOR the excellent
reporting in the August 28th
issue Of the Congressional
action on the railway situa-
ton.
There, in a condensed
form-not over two-thirds of
a column-waS the entire
current legislative story of
the railroad crisis, with a
well-choSen selection of all
the high spots of both Senate
and House action - not
merely the essential facts
but an admirable interlarding
OF Interpretation and sug-
gestive character delineation
Of the debates principals.
which wildly conveyed its
atmosphere.
Perhaps this verges on
editorializing-at least by i'm
I pltcation-in a news story. a
practice traditionally frowned
upon but the Justification of
which, when exercised as
judiciously as did Mary Nc
Grory, Is in the .iveliuess,
interest and illumination 1t
imparts.
This-and I am speaking
as an old newspaperman-
was to me an admirable ex-
ample Of reporting at its
very best. Everything was
covered; the writer showed
complete understanding of
all the issues involved and,
with high literary crafts
manship. made that under
standing available to every
reader. Not a word was
wasted and every sentence
was pertinent, I wish we had
more reporting Of this char
acter. Ernest GrueninE,
Senator from Alaska.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-03
'McGiIIism'

AL WnaC point q OeS q
merely fatuouS writer be-
come irresponsible? I would
suggest that Ralph McGill
has long since passed that
point. Indeed his recent col
umn on Senator Goldwater
and his supporters borders
on the irrational.
1t Is enough to have the
left-wing practice its pre-
posterous guilt-by-associa-
ton tactics to Islander the
only politician in this CEN
tury whose support has de-
veloped from the grass roots
with no professional guild
ance: but when the sniping
reaches the gutter level Of
McGill's attack, 1t would
seem that the same people
who deplored Mccarthy
ism" would rise up in in
dignation.
McGill has, In one column,
associated Senator Gold
water with the Ku Klu Khan,
the White Citizens Council,
and the opponents Of rural
identification, social security
and city hospitals. He has
accused the Senator of lying
about his civil rights posi-
ton, and has insinuated
that the Goldwater people
would countenance pest
houses, depressed areas,
slums and starvation.
The Evening Star should
consider the possibility that
Ralph McGill no longer de-
serves the attention Of in
telligent readers on one OF
two counts: II he Is really
so uniformed about the
Senator. then the news space
should be put TO better use;
II he understands the Sena-
tors philosophy, but is de-
liberately misrepresenting 1t,
he is INDUCING In "McGill-
ism" and should be deprived
OF access 10 a responsible
medium.
Jerry G. Davis.
Ralph McGill's implica-
ton that Senator Goldwa-
ter represents a backward
philosophy which would re-
suit In the loss OF mail de-
livery. social security. and
public welfare Is hardly
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-03
foreign Aid Revolt

! believe that the argument
presented in your Aug. Is
editorial entitled Foreign
Aid Revolt" is fallacious and
misleading.
Your first point that Sc
De ocratic Congressman
Joined 1855 Republicans to
make this a kind of biparti-
san defeat for the Admins
tration ignores a comparison
with the results when 1t was
a Republican President pre-
Senting a foreign aid pro-
gram. Without referring to
the record, I am sure that a
similar number Of Demo-
cratic Congressman from ap-
proximately the same dis
tricts have consistently voted
against foreign aid programs
whether presented by Presi-
dent Kennedy or President
Eisenhower. 1t is among their
Republican colleagues that
there have been a significant
number of partisan about
faces"
You admit that in this
case Republican leaders ad-
vocated the slash" whereas
Mr.. Eisenhower had the
benefit of Democratic con-
gressional leaders and Dem
ocratic majorities in both
houses who faced their re-
SponsibilitieS and passed for
eign aid legislation in gen.
uine non-partisan fashion.
Your further contention
that those who voted against
were being responsive to the
popular will seems particular
ly specious. Foreign aid has
never been much more pop
ular than taxes, mortgage
payments or other things
which are unpleasant but
necessary.
This is the sort Of issue
which informed leadership
recognizes as necessary, how
ever unpopular, and there
fore has to press for with
courage.
The President deserves
fairer editorial treatment
from you-at least on this
issue.
william A. GilIen,
Secretary Treasurer, In
Surance Workers Interna-
tional Union.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-03
THE POLITICAL MILL
G. 0. P. Candidates Take q Look
BY GOULD LINCOLN

Robert Michel Of Illinois,
Ralph Beermann of Nebraska,
Don L. Short Of North Da-
kota John Ashbrook Of Ohio
jackson Belts of Ohio, Page
Belcher of Oklahoma, e. v.
Berry of South Dakota, Bill
Stinson of Washington and
James F. Battin Of Montana.
These Republican office
holders are from the West
and Middle West. The list
does not reach into the East
or South. But that does not
mean Senator Goldwater has
no support in those sections
Of the country. On the con-
trary, there have been many
indications he has a large
following in both East and
South-office-holders as well
as rank and file voters. It is
early for Republican office
holders to come out for any
presidential possibility. Gov.
Rockefeller has the New York
office-holders presumably in
his corner, although the
Goldwater followers are hope
full, they say, of prying away
some of the delegates, to be
selected next year.
Need name" Leader
The Goldwater supporters
could help their cause by
bringing into their organiza-
ton some widely known Re-
publican politician, putting
him in charge of a Goldwater
campaign. Some one like for
mer Representative Leonard
w. Hall Of New York who
handled the Eisenhower cam
paign in 1855 or former SEN
ator Henry Cabot Lodge of
Massachusetts,, Eisenhower
campaign manager in 1852.
The sooner the better, in the
opinion of recognized political
experts.
The present difficulty con-
fronting the "moderates" in
the G. o. P. is the fact they
have yet to settle on a candi-
date for the presidential nom
ination. Gov. Rockefeller, be-
fore his remarriage, was
believed to be far in the
lead for the nomination, al
though the Goldwater people
were already on the move.
Now the New Yorker is Just
one of a quartet of Govern
ors regarded as likely con-
tenders. The others are
Scranton Of Pennsylvania,
omney of Illinois and
Rhodes Of Ohio. The States
they represent have big
blocks of delegates in the
G. o. P. National Convention,
which could be used in an
effort to tie up the conven-
ton against a Goldwater
nomination. And, indeed,
that is a strategy already in
the making, with "favorite-
son" candidates to hold dele
cations until the moderates
have settled on a candidate
perhaps a dark horse. The
same kind of strategy gave
the party the late Warren G.
Harding as a nominee, out of
a nous smoke filled
room" In those days the
conservatives dominated the
G. o. P.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-03

Labor Day is gone and
politics for the Republicans
goes into higher gear. Plans
for acrosS-the-country speak
ing tours for both Senator
Barry Goldwater of Arizona
and Gov. Nelson A. Rookie
Teller of New York have been
disclosed. Both men, as posi-
BILE presidential candidates
are anxious to test the senti-
ment of the voters. Both have
said they will make up their
minds whether they will get
into the race for the COP.
nomination by the turn of
the year.
It's been many a long day
since Republicans have
picked a conservative for a
standard-bearer in a national
election. They have turned
to moderates, and moderate
progressives. And now the
choice is to be made again.
The conservatives are de-
handing the nomination of
a presidential candidate who
will provide a direct contrast
to President Kennedy and
his programs. They take the
position that a candidate who
goes halfway, or PARKWAY,
along the road with the Ma
tional Democratic Party and
its present leaders is merely
suggesting that he can do
what President Kennedy is
doing but can do it better.
Their contention is that the
voters, with such a choice,
will PUNK for the party al
ready in power. They argue
that Senator Goldwater is
against the things the Ken
nedy administration is doing
and that a lot Of people
today are against something,
too.
Senator Goldwater wants
to know how deep his sup
port for the 1864 nomination
really goes. The draft Gold
water" organization, with it's
headquarters in Washington,
has as its chairman Peter
O'Donnell, jr., Republican
State Chairman Of Texas.
The organization is setting
up Goldwater committees in
every State to work for the
Senator's nomination. Al
ready 1t Is known that many
elected Republican office
holders are for the Arizona
Senator.
On GOldwater Committees
A partial list Of these in
cludes Governors from three
States and members Of Con-
gress from ten. The Gold
water drafters are not pre-
pared to lay all their cards
on the table at this time. The
Governors who have lined
up for Sen. Goldwater are
Paul Fannin Of Arizona, Tim
Babcock Of Montana and
Henry Bellmon Of Oklahoma.
Among the members Of Con-
greSs on this partial list are
Senators Carl T. Curtis Of
Nebraska and John c. Tower
Of Texas and Representatives
John j. Rhodes Of Arizona,
Paul Findley Of Illinois, Rob-
ert T. McCloSkey Of Illinois,