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The chronicle., 1963-11-27
A Resistant Conqress

The session is scheduled to end
automatically in six weeks but all
the days between now and then
won't be working days. The
schedule already agreed upon is
for Congress to recess from Nov.
q to Nov. 20 for Thanksgiving.
There will be what is called a pro
forma" meeting on Nov. 20 and
another recess until Dec. 3. The
Christmas recess will be from
Dec. 20 to Jan. 2. On Jan. 3 Con-
gress will meet for the last time,
adjourning for n minute at noon
to signify the opening of the Sec
ond session.
It should be noted in any COM
mentary regarding the ending of
the current session and the begin
ming of the next one that pending
or pigeon-holed bills will not die
but carry over. In other words, all
the legislation now pending won't
have to be brought up anew. Con-
gress will merely pick up where
j. leaves off so far as these pro-
poSalS are concerned.
However, the committee chair
men and committee majorities re-
Sponsible for this legislation's
pending status will still be in
charge. Having shown no great
enthusiasm for almost a year in
~enacting the proposals there is no
certainty hal they will during the
next session.
And it should be remembered
that the next session will be in an
election year.
The chronicle., 1963-11-27
From Glass Houses

of ideas that incite to violence. The U.
N. declaration wipes out such diStinc-
ton.
Groups merely ''promoting' bias lin
the u. Ms opinion) would be declared
outlaws, and subjected to proceedings
used in dealing with outlaws. This is per-
hapS all right for nations, including most
of those in the U. NJ, who consider
d~issenterS and criminals one and the
same thing. But not many Westerners
would stand quietly by and see the i'm
position of such barbaric concepts.
1--WE do not believe it necessary to re-
strict freedom for the expression Of
ideas, ever ideas we loathe, in order to
overcome discrimination" the United
States delegate to the drafting committee
declared. But the vote by the commit
tee was 800, with the United States and
is other Western nations abstaining.
This incident, plainly, is the most blat-
ant sort of effort to impose the standards
of some Of the most backward, totali-
tartan, areas of the world on the most
advanced, freedom : practicing areas.
Fortunately, it is one thing for the U.
N. to pass this declaration, another
thing for the u. N. to enforce it.
But this is a good illustration why that
organization must always be viewed with
candor-as a useful world forum, per-
hapS, but little else.
The chronicle., 1963-11-27
From The National Observer

From The National Observer
Friends and foes Of the United Nations
in this country rightly cringed when Afri-
can nations, backed by the Communist
bloc, used their overwhelming voting
strength to push a major declaration
through its drafting committee.
The subject matter was racial bias,
but in its sweeping provisions, the docu-
ment clearly overrides r rights long
cherished in the Western world and guar
anteed by the Constitution Of the United
States.
U. n. declarations are supposed to
be broad statements of principle. But
this rule was ignored. The documents
drafters went ahead, anyway, with plans
to impose various sanctions on nations
that do not measure up-in the U. N.
view-to the statements of principle.
Laws, regulations, and policies Of any
nation abiding by the declaration would
be opened to U. N. scrutiny and en-
forcement. AL this despite the ban in
the U. N. charter on intervention in in
ternal affairs Of individual nations.
But beyond this, the declaration would
pretty well abolish the concepts of free
dom of association. And it would severe
ly abridge freedom of expression.
The United States and much of the
West draws a line between the freedom
to express an idea, and the expression
The chronicle., 1963-11-27
How To Isolate Maniucs?

ture which showed his sympa-
thieS with MarxiSm and COM
muniSm. Here was an erratic
individual whose record was
known to our government au-
thorities in every detail. Should
such a man have been permit
ted to buy lethal weapons?
The whole world was shocked
by the crime. Many a person,
including this writer, has been
sick at heart these last few
days over the act of the de-
Spicable criminal.
1t was not, however, tn
first of such tragedies. There
now have been four assassina-
tons of presidents in office in
this country. Each incident &C.
Cured in a public place. This
writer was a public school stud
ent in Buffalo, N. Y, when
President William Mckinley was
asSassinated there just after
finishing a public speech at the
Pan-American exposition. There
were few telephones then, and,
vision. 1t took two hours after
of course, no radio or tele-
the event for the nation to learn
of the tragedy as newspaper ex-
traS flashed their big headlines
to a stunned people. All of us
were bewildered and depressed
by what happened, and Mr.. Nc
Kinley fingered on for several
days before he passed away.
The assassin was an anarchist
the forerunner of the present
day communist subversive. He
was later electrocuted.
While danger of other possible
asSassinations was recognized
thereafter, public men began
not many years later to take
chances again. 1t has long
been regarded by police experts
as almost impossible to protect
a president and other prominent
figures against snipers firing
from windows Of high buildings.
1t i'll behooves anyone to at
tribute a motivation for such
crimes as that in Dallas to any
group or faction or political par
ty in this or any other coun-
try. For each Of the four as
The chronicle., 1963-11-27

sasSinations Of American pres
identS was the deed Of a de-
ranged man with a particular
grievance Of his own, his dis
ordered mind bent on venge-
ance. Lee Harvey Oswald was
diShonorably discharged from
the United States Marines in
1859. In January 1862 he wrote to
John Connally, now governor Of
Texas but formerly Secretary
of the Navy, a letter in which
he said, Il shall employ all
means to right this gross mis-
take or injustice" Governor
Connally was seriously wounded
in the same burst of shots that
killed President Kennedy. h
murder of Oswald himself on
Sunday was the passionate act
of another vengeful man.
The tragic ending of the ca
reer Of John F. Kennedy will
serve to remind all Of us that,
while man is mortal and faces
"the inevitable hour" our hui
man society within the span of
our lives can do much more
than has been done to isolate
the mentally unbalanced who
are permitted to buy rifles and
pistols and roam at will menac-
ing citizens on city streets and
in their homes everywhere as
crime produces in America the
highest number Of victims in
all our history.
The chronicle., 1963-11-27
UnAuttering Showcase

More worrying about this coun-
try's image abroad is protested to
be done in Washington, D. c., than
in any other place in the nation.
That is because WaShington-be-
ing the capitals the showcase
of the United States.
These worriers had better get
busy over the image created by
Washington, D. c. itself.
Police Chief Robert Y. Murray
has reported that there was more
The chronicle., 1963-11-27

Statistically, according to the
calendar and otherwise it is fore
gone now that the 18th Congress
isn't going to adjourn its current
session. Rather, all signs III that
the clock will run out on Jan. 2,
the session will automatically eX-
pire, and Congress will pick up on
Jan. 5 to open its second regular
session.
The last time this happened
was in 1850 when the Korean War
called for emergency legislation.
War isn't the cause now. And
there is no other emergency. Con-
gress simply hasn't seen fit to
rush legislation. Efforts to SIAM
pede it into action have been I'M
successful.
Naturally, this has built up a
backlog Of bills but not necessarily
a backlog of good bills. Much of
the legislation on the pending list
is of questionable value. A large
amount is of doubtful worth at the
present time. Some would be de-
sirable if the situation warranted,
such as tax reduction.
AS a consequence final action
need not be expected at this ses-
sion on area redevelopment, urban
transportation, civil rights, hos
pital care for the aged, aid for
secondary schools, the Youth Con-
servation Corps, the domestic
Peace Corps, soil bank extension,
wheat control and the civil de-
Tense shelter programme mention
some.
The chronicle., 1963-11-27

WASHINGTON, = Thoma S
Gray, in his classic "elegy'' Of
two centuries ago, worte: "The
boast of heraldry, the pOmp of
power, and all that beauty, all
that wealth e'er gave, awaits
alike the inevitable hour" But
while life on earth is finite, mel
Their the American people nor
the peoples of the rest of the
world we're prepared last Friday
to see the sudden transfer OF
presidential power in the Unit
ed States that came in the
wake of a hideouS and unfor-
giveable crime.
John F. Kennedy was a sin
cere man, a conscientious man
"a public servant with a high
sense of fidelity to his office
and to the people. How can we
explain the abrupt separation OF
the president at age As from
service to his country? Why was
he removed overnight from
the international councils In
which he sought SO earnestly to
carry forward the task of avert
ing a nuclear war?
Pope Paul vi uttered in Rome
his prayerful wish that the death
of President Kennedy may not
hinder the cause Of peace but
NAV serve as a sacrifice and
as an example for the good OF
all mankind"
God has taken from us a man
with tasks left unfinished, as a
disheartened and diStraught
world goes into mourning. Could
the meaning be that we who
are left behind have not sensed
the neglect Of responsibility by
peoples to find ways to eradl-
cate inside each country the per-
lis to human life, including the
ravages of crime? Was this
Gods way Of serving warning
to us all that the erratic be-
havior of the mentally disturb
ed among us and of the de-
linuuents in our society can no
longer be given just cursory at
tention?
Why are rifles and %revolvers
sold to persons of dangerous I'M
pulse whose records betray SYM
ptoms or signs of mental attl-
tudes that can lead to the de-
struction of their fellow m e n?
Crime in America is growing,
but there is a tendency to shrug
it off as merely a consequence
Of an increasing population.
Government security measures
now will come in for conStruc-
tive criticism. But many a pres
ident diSregards the need for
some of the extra precautions.
The Secret Service itself is pow
erless to do all that it wishes to
do. If a president, for instance,
insists on riding in an open au-
tomobile while campaigning in
big cities, can not the tech
nicians invent some transparent
canopy for the vehicle that
would really be bullet-proof?
The man arrested for tn
crime in Dallas - Lee Harvey
Oswald - went to the Soviet
Union in 1859, renounced is
allegiance to the United States,
and gave back his passport.
Yet later his trip back to this
country was financed by the
government of the United States
itself. He then engaged in ac-
tivities Of a pro-Castro conf
mittee and he distributed litera-
The chronicle., 1963-11-27

major crime in Washington in the
12-month period ended Oct. 81
than in any other comparable per-
iod in the city's history. There
we're 2,345 major offenses last
month, or 1913 per cent more than
in October, 1862.
It was also the 18th consecu-
tive month in which crime figures
increased in comparison with the
corresponding month of the pre-
viouS year.
The chronicle., 1963-11-27
John Chamberlain
No Can't Do Congress

Scarcely a day passes with
out someone teeing off the U.
S. Congress for exhibiting the
pace Of a snail while important
issues hang in the balance.
Books are written on the dead
lock Of democracy" speeches
are made about the legislators
bankers hours" and Senators
Case and Clark, the one a Re-
publican and the other a Demo
crat, push their bills for a thor
The chronicle., 1963-11-27
Allen-Scott Report
Fate OF The U-2

calculated as having been flying
at great height along the north
ern coast of Cuba.
PENTAGON DISPUTE - One
aspect Of this tragic mystery
that has caused sharp reaction
among Air Force and Navy
authorities was the failure OF
u. S. interceptors to be any,
where near the crashed plane
only 40 miles from Key West,
site of a large naval airbase.
This failure was due to a policy
laid down by Defense Secretary
Mcnamara.
Under this backstage edict,
interceptors are sent aloft only
when planes are identified as
hostile. AS a consequence, moth
ing was done about the explos-
ion-shattered U-2 that obviously
was trying desperately to reach
Key West.
Military officials have Wig
orously commended that If the us.
is to maintain air control over
the 80 miles Of ocean between
the Florida coast and Cuba, it
is essential that all planes be
intercepted regardless Of identi-
fication. This view has been
particularly stressed since the
discovery Of the greatly in
creased number of MICS.
The chronicle., 1963-11-27

WASHINGTON - Fate is los
ing no time in confronting Presi-
dent Johnson with his first fore
boding international incident"
Intelligence authorities have
informed the new President that
a number of indications strongly
point to the mysteriously crash
ed w reconnaissance planes
having been downed through
hostile action"
These officials are convinced
an SA-2 Russian missile, fired by
one of many such anti-aircraft
batteries in Communist : jackal
Cuba, did this killing"
Examination Of the plane
wreckage, recovered from 100
ft-deep water some 40 miles
northeast Of Key West and 1870
miles north of Cuba, indicates
the plane was severely damaged
by an external explosion - in
the opinion Of intelligence ex-
pertS, by an SA 2 missile.
1t is also deemed very likely
that the impact of this powerful
blast caused the automatic e.
lection seat to hurl the possibly
wounded pilot out Of the shatter-
ed plane. Neither he nor the
seat have been found.
None Of the facts of this dis
turbing development have been
made public, and it's not known
when or if they will be.
THE INSIDE STORY - How
ever, following are highlightS of
the unpublished intelligence &C
count:
The w, on loan from the
Strategic Air Command, was
making one of the Central In
telligence Agency's weekly rec
onnaissance flights over Cuba.
On this Inflated flight, the
particular mission was to OBJ
tain photos Of airbaSes on which
a greatly increased number Of
Russian MIG fighters had been
reported.
AS disclosed in this column
several weeks ago, U-2 photos
had revealed a sudden big in
crease in Soviet MICS on and
near certain Cuban airfields -
around the same time some 5000
Russian troops were being ship
ped home.
On the basis of these photos,
U-2 experts raised their estimate
Of Red planes in Cuba from $50
to more than 30O."
These additional planes in
Guided MIG-17S, MIG-19s, MIG
21S and an unknown two-engine
jet interceptor. They were OBJ
served chiefly in the vicinity of
San Julian, San Antonio de Los
BanoS and Colon. Underground
aircraft facilities have repeated
ly been reported in these areas.
Captain Joe G. Hyde Jr., miss
ing pilot Of the lost w, was to
focus on these suspected bases.
Several minutes before his
plane vanished suddenly from
radar scopes, the naval base at
Guantanamo tracked the firing
Of two SA-2 missiles at an I'M
identified target. Simultaneous
ly, the Guantanamo radar spot
ted a flight Of Cuban intercept
ors streaking upward as if in
pursuit.
AT this time Hyde's plane is
The chronicle., 1963-11-27

the test ban was conditioned by
the theory that no great show
down with the Soviet Union is
on the horizon. Since Soviet
Russia is demonstrably in trou-
BILE, both at home and in its
relations with Red China, there
is something to be said for
this theory, at least for the
short or middle-diStance run.
Having accepted the premise
of the test ban, it follows that
the question of spending money
on foreign aid to the end OF
Tightening a moose about Soviet
Russia is no longer crucial. I
don't say that this is right,
but it is a coherent deduction
from an initial premise.
The decision to consider for.
eign aid at length in the Senate
before acting on the tax bill
made quite obvious sense from
a domestic point of view. The
legislators, having gotten the
word from the grass roots back
home, have not rushed to buy
the Administrators theory that
a budgetary deficit abetted by
tax cuts is sound economics.
Even such Senate liberals as
Morse and Proxmire were logi-
cal to put foreign aid slashes
ahead of tax bill consideration
on their personal agenda.
The quick action on the test
ban and on foreign aid cuts
proves that Congress 'can do"
when it is convinced that the
voters back home want some
thing. If Congress doesn't get
around to tax changes until
next year, it is a sign that the
voters haven't been preSsuring
it. The voters have experienced
two decades Of initiation be-
cause of budget deficits, and
they are presumably not anxious
for still another round Of the
same.
When it comes to daWdling on
the civil rights issue, there
may be ground for criticizing
Congress. But, again, there is
logic behind the laggard pace.
The prospect Of a long and
draining filibuSter on such items
as a public accommodations
bill is enough to make strong
men blanch, particularly in a
prediction year. So why not
dawdle until things can be work.
ed out behind the scenes in a
manner acceptable to a two
thirds majority?
A canny political scientist,
Willmoore Kendall, has obServ-
ed that the voters elect a preSi-
dent for one set Of reasons and
then turn around and vote for
a Congress to serve as a watch
dog over that president. This,
says Professor Kendall, is the
theory Of the two majori-
ties" We have had the 1.-TWO
majorities" ever since the days
Of James Madison, and the
country is not likely to abolish
the Madisonian system because
of a momentary Congressional
showdown. Particularly when
the grass roots have approved
the showdown in advance.
The chronicle., 1963-11-27
Toddy's Scripture

o Lord our Lord, how excellent is
thy name in all the earth Psalm 81.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-15

Elsewhere In the same
building may be seen q very
pleasant group Of Pakistani
rubbings together with fur
niture. jewelry, fabrics and
toys from the same country.
The rubbings were made
from 1859 to 1862 by Mrs.
Ethel Jane Bunting and Mrs.
Martha p. Caldwell. The
tombs on which they were
made date from about 400
to 1900. Geometrical designs
and many figures. both ami
NAL and bird, are among the
subjects rubbed UP In blue.
red, green and orange. The
installation Is most helpful
in offering real objects.
mostly from the Smithson-
ian's own collections. TO
compare with the objects
represented in the tomb
carvings. Geometrical de-
signs. too. are seen to be In
current Pakistani use on fab
RIGS and utensils.
Two attractive objects are
an enorm GUS. brightly
painted swing cradle and q
single tongued cart Of Inn
memorial design.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-15

swirl and the color relation
ships themselves call to mind
the Viennese prolongation Of
Art Nouveau.
just as clearly viennese
are the works Of Elisabeth
Bauer-Stein, whose three
completely different subjects
"a bloated torso. q clown
and ballerina, and two nude
girls terrified by q swan
have in common only the
haunting sense Of melan-
choly, strangeness and pre-
monition.
Christof Donin carries on
yet another side of tradi-
tional Austrian Expression
ism. the concern with sex.
His eCching OF Lot ana his
daughters states the theme
Of aging lust and youthful
righteousness that is varied
In "Faun."
Also In the old manner,
Edward Dien's water color
presents In purple and law
ender . street intersection
with BaroQue buildings that
conveys through sheer archi-
lecture and color the same
sense of the slightly over
ripe and some impending
end.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-15
Boders

The Franz Bader Gallery
begins the new season with q
fine group Of contemporary
Austrian watercolors, draw
ings and prints selected by
DR.. lingo Mussi. cultural at
tache Of the Austrian En-
bassy.
Or. Mussi points out that
Austria, like other countries,
has its share OF younger abb
stract artists. but the group
chosen for the exhibition are
mostly expressionist verging
toward surrealist.
That there Is still q lot Of
life In these modes comes as
no surprise. What does sur
prise. though It shouldn't. Is
how recognizable Austrian
these young Austrians are.
Kokoschka TO some extent
but much more influentially
Klimt is brought at once 10
mind by several pictures.
Fred Nowak Is one such
Austrian Austrian. His
Woman on the Couch" is
not only viennese in subject
matter-that's where all hui
mainly first took to the
couch--but also in manner.
An abstract swirl Of colors
suggests the subject but the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-15
Kiln Club

The Kiln Club of Washing
ton Is presenting its ninth
annual international exhibit
ton Of ceramics at the
Smithsonian these days and
it's o lovely show.
The show, like Gaul. Is d.
vided into three parts. local,
American and International,
with the Argentines getting
the most favored nation
treatment in the third.
In ceramics. as In other
arts, there Is Q prevalent
primitivism going on thes
days and the ninth internal
tional shows it In many
forms. The best way to real
lie 1t is to come upon o
simple, classic red vase by
H. Zaalberg Of the Neither
lands. The spherical vase Is
in the old tradition, smooth
In its coloring and shape,
highly glazed in its texture
and it positively shocks you
when seen In the midst Of
the surrounding roughnesses.
Rough or not, there Is first
class work on view In every
department and from many
countries. The show Is on
through October II and don't
miss Il.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-15

energies from an even denser
web Of lines etched and en-
graved. The most direct
statement Of the problem is
the Autograph of Raphael
Soyer, the artist peering in
to his soul.
Other printmen shown see
ing themselves include Bar
ZACH. Matisse. Rouault, Ce-
zanne and among our Ameri-
can contemporaries. Moishe
Smith, Mauricio Lasansky,
Antonio Frasconi and Ivan
Albright. The late Pop Hart
continues his lifelong i'm
preston Of the artist as Old
Soak and Goya is present in
that memorable image from
the Caprices with plug hat
and side-long stare.
Outstanding in the show
are two suites of self-por-
traits. one by Rembrandt,
one by Kaethe KOllwitz. Rem
brandt more than any artist
sees In his own face his
search for truth. Kollwitz
shows In her own changing
image, from young girl to
aged woman. her great theme
Of woman's hard and noble
life In o mans world.
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