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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-29
Political Pause

It was proper and decent for Gov
ernor Rockefeller and Senator Goldwater
to declare a pause in politics during the
period of mourning for President Ken
nedy Other Republican leaders have
followed their example and it will be
the New Year before the necessary and
Salutary sounds of political dissent are
heard again.
When they are heard, the Republic
cans will find their own situation vastly
changed. Senator Goldwater had been
well out in front as the popular Repub-
lcan choice for the 1864 presidential
nomination. A large part of that popu-
larity was purely practical: 1t seemed to
many that the Arizona Senator had
better chance than most Republicans
to crack the solid South and upon that
chance to build winning combination
of geography and strongly held opinions.
With President Johnson the first
Southerner to hold that office since the
Civil War, the chances of a Southern
revolt from the Democrats on any
significant scale are greatly leSSened, If
not yet eliminated.
1t is doubtful If the decline of Sena-
tor Goldwater's availability" will do
much for Governor Rockefeller. 1t is
unfortunate but apparently true that
too many Americans for any party to
ignore remain disappearing of his re-
marriage to the point of voting against
him on those grounds
More germane to authentic political
thought, it became clear with President
Johnson's first message to Congress that
he will be thoroughly liberal Presi-
dent. There had been no reason to doubt
this, but it was spelled out for the I'M
knowing not so much in his passionate
plea for civil rights legislation as in his
attention to such once-defeated New
Frontier proposals as medicare and aid
to education.
Hence the somewhat cratic left
wing position of Governor Rockefeller
would not really help the g. o. P. in
the great cities of the North and East.
We have already noted the readi-
ness Of Harold StasSen to make the
sacrifice and accept the nomination.
A more serious retread campaign
will almost surely be that of Richard
Nixon. Having abandoned the "old
Nixon" and failed once with a new
Nixon" he may well come up with a
new, new Nixon and try again. 1t is
not exactly an exhilarating prospect.
The memory Of the 1860 defeat and,
more Importantly, Of his subsequent
failure to take the California governor
ship would cast gloomy shadows over
any future Nixon candidacy.
The two brightest new faces on
the Republican scene remain those of
Governors Romney and Scranton. On
the vital State = level question of tax
reform, Romney has failed to get his
Republican legislature to face the fiscal
facts of life Scranton has succeeded in
an expertly fought, vitality necessary
piece of legislative maneuver and
education.
The Governor of Pennsylvania con-
tinues to be man to bear in mind.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-29
Wet Nam Directive

During the numbing experience Of
the past tragic week, some harsh and
persistent dangers have been almost
forgotten. Yet they still are very much
with uS-real and present, impinging
upon the security of our country and
the free world as whole.
A prime case in point is the Situa-
ton in South Wet Nam. While America
has been grieving and pulling itself out
OF a state Of shock, the VietnameSe
Communist guerrillas have been more
active and more deadly than they have
been for months past. Only few miles
from Saigon, they have infiltrated the
defenSes Of an American directed train
ing camp, and they have shot down in
cold blood-killing most-over so SOL
dierS, including at least one or two
Americans.
At the same time, in co-ordinated
attacks on two So-called strategic ham
lets on the frontier far from Saigon
(about $50 miles away, the Wet Cong
Reds have struck on large scale and
with particular viciouSneSs. AS a result,
more than 1000 tribeSmen are missing
in action, presumably as captives. This
is one Of the worst Setbacks suffered
by the free Vietnamese in long time
1t suggests that the new military
regime, which the United States has
recognized, is destined to have at least
as much trouble as that of the toppled
and brutally slain President Diem.
President Johnson has moved in on
the problem with commendable and
reasSuring speed. In his first major
action since picking up the pieces after
the terrible Dallas tragedy, he has di-
rected that all the agencies Of the Gov
eminent, all the departments, from
State on down, work closely together
with the utmost unity Of purpose. He
has called for this in the expectation
that it will strengthen South Wet Nam
and speed up progress toward COM
plete liquidation of the Wet Cong.
Mr.. JohnSon'S directive is based on
a consensus reached at his Sunday
meeting with Secretary of State RuSk,
Defense Secretary Mcnamara, CHA Di-
rector McCone, Ambassador Lodge and
others intimate with the problems in
volved. It holds out real hope that the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-29
Answers to Questions
BY THE HASKIN SERVICE

@. Who started the
O'Grady drill had long been
try drill, in which the men
don't obey a command unless
it is prefaced by "O'Grady
says"?-T. C.
A. American soldiers who
trained with the British in
France In World War I have
told us they understood the
O'Grady drill hadlong been
used in British forces. A
Regular Army man reports
that his division trained with
the variant kelly says"
prior to 1917. Whenever and
wherever it started, C'Grady's
drill is very reminiscent
of the old children's game
Simon Says" In this follow
the-leader game, an order is
not followed unless the lead
er begins it with the words
Simon says"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-29

Meanwhile, back at the
compound Of the old @. o. p.
elephant
The Republicans have now
entered a prolonged period
one likely to last in reality II
not In form until after New
Years Day-of reflection
and denomination Of their
1864 presidential approach
and possibilities.
The tragic death Of John
F. Kennedy and the success
sion to the Presidency of
Lyndon B. johnson have die
tated q time of pause in par
tisan political activity Of q
depth rarely seen before in
American history.
1t is. actually. a pause
within both parties and even
within the factions Of both
parties, but in the nature of
things this long armistice is
a more thought filled armis-
tice among the Republicans.
All the principal G. o. p.
figures-and notably all the
present and potential candi-
dates for the 1864 Republi-
can presidential nomina-
tion-have entered this
phase of hush and waiting
with two motives. It Is the
right and tasteful thing to
do; and at this juncture it is
the necessary thing to do.
Facing 2 Problems
As a collective entity, the
Republican Party now needs
to reconsider its whole basic
campaign strategy for next
year, quite apart from what
is momentarily the secondary
problem Of the identity Of its
ultimate candidate against
President johnson.
Had Mr.. Kennedy lived,
the Republican strategy
would have been, within lin
its. fairly well settled right
now. While there was little
prospect in any event of any
about party attack on him
on personal grounds, nearly
three years Of his occupancy
Of the White House had in
themselves established the
general lines Of the Republi-
can campaign.
1t was to be an attack on
his foreign policy record and
notably on what the Republi-
cans saw as the shaky state
of the Western Alliance-this
point exemplified in the re-
cent sharp but not personally
harsh observations of Gov,
Nelson Rockefeller Of New
York. 1t was to be an attack
on Mr.. Kennedy's spending
and taxing policies-this point
exemplified by the whole
general position of the Re-
publican Party in Congress,
And so on.
Now, however, confronting
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-29
THE PASSING SCENE
Tragedy Forcing G. o. P. Restudy
BY WILLIAM S. WHITE

not John Fitzgerald Kennedy
but rather Lyndon Baines
johnson in 1854. the O. o. P.
must tear up the old blue
print, II only for the simple
reason that Mr.. johnson has
only barely begun to make
his own presidential record.
Any prior notions Of q Repub-
lican campaign tactic based
on the presumably hostile
attitude Of business to Presi-
dent Kennedy, for one illus
tration, could not possibly be
retained, for the time being
at any rate, in light Of the
stock markets spectacular
rise since President john
sons accession.
Much time, In short, viii
be needed before any new
and general Republican
blueprint can be brought for
ward to replace the old.
Assumptions Doubted
AS to candidates. the posi-
ton is equally confused and
tentative. There are wide
early assumptions that Sena-
tor Barry Goldwater's candi-
dacy for the @. o. P. nomi-
nation has been injured, on
the notion that Mr.. Johnson
will be more acceptable than
would have been Mr.. Kenne-
dy in those Southern and
western areas where the
Senator is thought to have
his chief strength.
There have also been wide
early assumptions that Coy.
Rockefeller's hopes have
been improved-as well they
may have been. To this OBJ
server-and to q good
many others-neither Of the
foregoing assumptions can be
at all firm at this point. or
even two or three months
from now. For one point, Mr..
johnson has no intention
whatever to draw back from
the Kennedy civil rights pro-
gram, and inasmuch as this
program was hurting the late
President In the South and
West it can surely do the
new President no good there,
though strictly as q person
he may be more popular
there.
What looks more interest
ing now Is not the precise
degree Of help or harm to
either Goldwater or Rookie
Teller. 1t is the clearly pro-
NOTED possibility, in the new
national situation, that the
Republicans may now be
spurred toward a decision
many had in fact already
been contemplating. That is,
the final selection Of some
such third choice as Richard
Nixon or Gov. VILLA m
Scranton Of Pennsylvania.
@ 1868
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-29
A BOOK FOR TODAY
The Liqht of Blindness
By DONALD MINTZ
AND THERE WAS LIGHT. By knew

knew it was dangerous and
forbidden. | was free now to
help the others; not always,
not much, but in my own way
/ could help.
81 could try to show other
people how to 60 about hold
ing on to life. l could turn to-
ward them the flow Of light
and Joy which had grown so
abundant in me. From that
time on they stopped stealing
my bread or my soup. It new
er happened again. Often my
comrades would wake me up
in the night and take me to
comfort someone, sometimes
a long way off in a n 9th Ter
block" Al
s1
No Philosophical Labels
Prof. LuSseyran describes;
he does not explain. For how
can one explain such expe-
rienceS? He seems to be a
sort of Catholic existentialiSt.
But he does not himself Sug-
gest labels for his experiences
or his thoughts. He wants to
recreate, not to categorize or
classify, and even the slight
est suggestion Of category
or class would a b solve the
reader from some Of his at
tempts to penetrate Prof. Lus-
seyran's experience. We are
not to say, Since l know
what to call it, there is no
need for me to feel it."
"And There Was Light" is q
dreadful title. It suggests
slick, deceitful commercial
lied faith. Prof. LusSeyran has
written a spiritual autobiogra--
ply, not an advice book on
how to be sane and SNUG in
the middle of the 10th CEN
fury.
This title is the only false
note in the entire work. Eliza
beth r. Cameron'S translation
is at once colloquial in a faint
ly foreign manner and ecstat-
ic. The combination is odd,
but it is precisely what the
book demands. Prof. LusSey-
rams book is a book of life
and light.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-29

AND THERE WAS LIGHT. BY
Jacques Lusseyran. Trans
lated by Elizabeth Cam
eron. S12 PIP. little, Brow
& Co.; $5.75.)
An accident blinded Jacques
Lusseyran when he was eight
years old.
Shortly thereafter, ''the sub
stance Of the universe drew
together, REDEEMED and peo-
pied itself anew. l was aware
Of a radiance emanating from
a place l knew nothing about,
a place which might as well
have been outside me as with
in. But radiance was there,
or, to put it more precisely,
light. 1t was a fact, for light
was there.
81 felt indescribable relief,
and happiness so great it al
most made me laugh. Conf
dence and gratitude came as
if a prayer had been an
SWered. I found light and ioy
at the same moment, and ]
can say witt out hesitation
that from that time on light
and joy have never been sep
ar a tie d in my experience. ]
have had them or lost them
together -.
"Sighted people always talk
about the night Of blindness,
and that seems to them quite
natural. But there is no such
night, for at every W kin 6
hour and even In my dreams
/ lived in a stream of light"
A Spiritual Autobiography
Jacques Lusseyran is now
on the faculty of Western Re
serve University in Cleveland.
Sand There Was Light" is an
autobiography of the first 20
years of his life. but it has
nothing to do with prepare
tons for an academic career
or anything of the sort.
It is rather a spiritual auto
biography, the thoughts Of a
blind man who can rejoice in
his affliction, whose strength
survived Is months in the Blu
chenwald concentration camp
where he was sent because Of
his activity in the French Re-
Sistance.
He became i'll in the camp.
Somehow he recovered.
"0n May 8 (1944)," he
writes, 81 left the Camp hos
pital on my two feet. l was
nothing but skin and bones,
but / had recovered. The fact
was I was so happy that now
Buchenwald seemed to me a
place which if not welcome
was at least possible. II they
didn't give me any bread to
eat, / would feed on hope.
sit was the truth. l still had
II months ahead of me in the
camp. But today / have not a
single evil memory of those
$50 days Of extreme wretched-
ness. / was carried by a hand.
l was covered by a wing. One
doesn't call such living emo
tons by their names. l hardly
needed to look out for myself,
and such concern would have
seemed to me ridiculous. ]
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-29
See Editorial: About Our Mail"

See Editorial: About Our Mail"
~~~--
passing. But the hearts Of a
people, united in their sor-
row, demand something more
than this-Something which
may be provided in part by
the knowledge that the last
hours OF President Kennedy
upon the earth were happy
ones. Amid the warm and
enthusiastic welcome given
him by the people of Texas
and of Dallas; with a spirit
cheerful, forward looking.
confident, and joyous; and
IN the company Of his serene.
lovely, and faithful wife
thus he went unknowingly to
his death.
In this knowledge, and in
rededication to the spiritual
and ethical ideals of this
Nation. a sorrowing people
may find comfort.
Kemp p. Marlborough.
st. Marys CITY. Md
No one is prouder of Mrs.
John F. Kennedy's coura-
geous performance under the
most trying circumstances
than her husband would
have been.
In June, following Medgar
Evers' funeral at Arlington
Cemetery, I stood in Presi-
dent Kennedy's office and
listened to him extend his
heartfelt sympathy to Mrs.
Evers and her family and
congratulate her on the cour-
age she had exemplified
since her husband had been
cut down by a shot from a
rifle with a telescope lens.
None Of us would have
predicted that less than six
months later people all over
the world would be making
similar statements with re-
gard to his own wife's cour-
age under almost identical
circumstances.
Mildred w. Pitt.
-
An outstanding illustra-
ton of the fineness and cour-
age Of American womanhood
has been placed before the
American public by the
Splendidly courageous action
OF Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy
during the terrible ordeal
following the assassination Of
her husband. Truly she rep
resented the America we all
should love, the generous
friend, the good neighbor.
Harry /. Cohen.
4 = 4
Your editorial entitled
The AsSassins," makes a
perfectly patent point that
assassination in our demo-
cratic society is a political
1rrelevance.
However. the strong impli-
cation that any assassin must
be mentally deranged may
be quite contrary to the pub
lie interest. Too often the
American public has wit
messed the sorry spectacle OF
a hardened and cynical Grim.
inal shielded from his Just
deserts by a plea Of item.
porary insanity" sent-in.
stead Of the gallows or the
electric chair-to an asylum
at public expense, from which
he Is soon released for re.
sumption of his crimes
against other defenseless vic.
tins.
Lynn M. F. Harriss,
= =
Thank you for Mary Nc.
Grory's article about Jacuue.
line Kennedy. For the pas
decade American women have
done their ironing and house.
work to the accompaniment
Of the means and hystericl
Of TV soap opera heroines
Weakness and maudlin senti.
mentality have been shown
as symbols of womanliness
When Mrs. Kennedy, de.
spite utter heartbre a k
squared her jaw and straight.
ened her shoulders and wen
before the eyes of the whole
world-a truly great lady
she gave us all something Il
be proud of. That small
lonely, gallant figure in blacl
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-29

Communists will get their comeuppance
in due course If our side co-operates as
it is supposed to do.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-29

The tragic death of our
brave. gallant. and kindly
President has left a Nation
stunned. shocked, and grief
stricken. Collectively we can
derive consolation from the
experience and ability of his
successor and the strength
and stability Of our political
institutions, which guarantee
the steady. orderly continual
ton of the affairs of Gov
eminent Notwithstanding the
shock Of the Presidents
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-29

The Salvation Army Joins
the Nation and the world in
expressing deepest sorrow at
the loss Of a great leader and
a great man, John F. Ken
nedy. Our prayers are with
Mrs. Kennedy and her chill
dren in their tragic personal
bereavement.
John F. Kennedy, though
born to wealth, ever had
concern for the less fortu-
nate. 1t was only a few days
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-20
TV KEY PREVTEWS

CHS RepOrts-"Biography Of a Bookie Joint" CRepeatJ
repeat Of superlave piece of courageous Tv report
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-20
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-20
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-20
MUSIC DIAL

sos, WGMS AMIN $40 Kc.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-20
OTHER TV HIGHLIGHTS

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Booth Tarkington's story
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-20

Finest. Green Grass Of
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-20
TODAY'S RADIO
HIGHLIGHTS

$500, WMAL - Felix Grant
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S:35, WOI-Broadway Show
time. The original cast,
starring Elizabeth Seal, in
songs from Trina La
Douce."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-12
CORE Pickets March
At Democrats Office

Congress Of Racial Equality
pickets who demonstrated ir
front Of a Republican office
here two weeks ago yesterday
preserved the Ton-partisar
spirit by setting UP q picket line
outside the Democratic Ma.
tional Committees offices al
1880 X street NV.
Nearly 20 demonstrators, q
dozen Of whom were white
marched from noon to 2 pm
in a protest against the real
estate dealer from whom the
Democratic committee rents III
offices.
A CORE spokesman claimed
the H. @. Smith realty firm
the Democrats landlord, dis
eliminates against Negroes ir
apartment rentals.
George B. Kleindorfer
CORES housing committee
chairman, said he went into the
Democratic office but was told
I'VE have no leader here"
Later, Mr.. Kleindorfer said q
committee official came dowr
and said: I'VE will look into
It,"
The housing committee head
said the emissary, q Negro, had
been trained to say that"
Two weeks ago, Mr.. Klein
dorfer's pickets paraded In front