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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-06-21
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-15
Forward, March!

In lauding the new inter-agency re-
port on Washington freeways as an
agreement which will assure that the
bodybuilding program "can now move
forward" the President has struck pre-
ciSely the right note.
Mr.. Kennedy's promise to give eff
feet to his Policy Advisory Committees
recommendations in his budget requests
to Congress next January presumably
refers to funds for further studies. This
is fine. At the same time, however, the
President refrained from anticipating
the outcome of these studies. And that
was wise. For a great deal more de-
tailed engineering data must be &C
cumulated before anyone can say with
certainty whether the new Potomac
River bridge location near Roosevelt Is
land is completely feasible. In much the
same manner, the committee has set
forth little more than a policy guide
line to the engineers in its agreement
that the diSruptive impact of the inner
loop freeway should be minimized
wherever possible by the use Of tunnels
The important thing is that the
agencies represented on the committee,
which previously were fighting over the
need for both these projects, now agree
they should be built. We trust that the
President will make sure there is no
backsliding on that crucial point.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-15
OVerruIed

Being confident that Representative
AShmore, Democrat of South Carolina,
would never dream of trying to needle
the Supreme Court, we are at a loss to
understand some of his recent remarks
to the House
Mr.. AShmore offered bill last sum-
mer which would require that the words
I'm God We Trust" be inscribed in large
gold letters over the bench behind which
the justices sit when the Supreme Court
Is In session. The bill specifically sought
the opinion of the Architect Of the Cap
itol, who has, or who is supposed to
have, jurisdiction over the decor Of the
Supreme Court Building.
The architect, presumably feeling
the need of legal advice, consulted the
Chief Justice. And the latter, after con-
ferring with the other justices, wrote a
note to the effect that he and his col
leagues liked the court as is and pre-
ferred not to change its beauty and
symmetry"
Mr.. AShmore was upset when word
Of this decision got back to him. He said
OAAdG IAAC JO1lC VI 641C ICSpOIlOC ny IIlc
Chief Justice indicated that the court,
with his proposed inscription above the
bench, would be made painfully aware
Of the fact that there is an authority
higher than that of the Supreme Court
Of these United States"
To us, this seems a bit unfair. For
the court, while it may not recognize
Mr.. Ashmore or his proposal as higher
authority, does open each session with
its Crier intoning: God save the United
States and this Honorable Court"
OF course, this does not satisfy Mr..
Ashmore. Nor does 1t satisfy Virginia'S
Representative Howard Smith Taking
up where Mr. Ashmore left off, Judge
Smith, deploring the courts ruling,
stood before the House and in despair
ing tones asked: where are we going?"
Whatever the destination may be,
these fellows seem to be having lot
Of fun on the way.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-15
Ghono's Law

President Kwame Nkrumah-whose
toadying propagandiSts constantly hail
him as "the Greater Noses" His High
Dedication" and "the Osagyefo" (the
Saviour) - now has further frightened
his dictatorial grip on Ghana. He has
done this by having Accra's so-called
Parliament adopt an amendment that
makes his Preventive Detention Act
more than ever an instrument of po-
1itical repression and terror.
In its original form, as adopted in
1858, the act provided that anybody
regarded by Mr.. Nkrumah as a dan
ger to himself (meaning Ghanians who
oppose his iron-fisted rule and seek to
elect somebody else to the presidency
could be imprisoned for five years with
out any trial whatever. Under this law,
anti-Nkrumah politicians have been
thrown into jail without ceremony or
mercy And now "the Greater Moses"
has had his parliament" enact amend
ing legislation whose practical effect is
to empower him to keep all such foolish
people behind bars forever.
Over and above this, Mr.. Nkrumah
who seems singularly pro-Soviet and
who likes to lecture the West about the
virtues Of freedom-haS claw" on the
books that enables him to impose the
death penalty, again without trial, on
anybody found guilty Of opposing his
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-15

After olnner one evening
we called at the Little Bar
Around the Corner and every
one seemed to be unhappy
about something. It locke d
like a bad night. One Gus
toner inquired Of the bar
tender: who is this nasty
Rottenfeller who would like
to be President?"
Hes as good as your
fault-finding, warmongering
Goldwater," commented an
other. what has he ever
done for the people Of this
country, other than vote for
q 50 billion cut in our de-
tense budget during the Eli
senhower administration,
when we allowed Russia to
get a head start on us?"
"And why should we pay
this fault-finding, warmong-
ering Senator a salary when
he uses 80 per cent Of his
time to feather his own poll
teal nest? Why should they
require me to pay any part Of
his salary?" So enquired an
other customer pushing his
empty glass over to the bar
tender.
A woman barfly broke In:
Have fault-finders gone out
of date? The Communists
have been grabbing one
country after anot h er and
using their ill-gotten gains to
conquer others. Now we are
selling them wheat so they
can use more of their man
power to manufacture rock
cts, instead Of productn g
food to feed their people"
81 agree with the lady, !"
grumbled another customer.
What is the use of spending
all this money for national
defense while we allow the
Communists to push us off
the highway in ermany?
When will we learn that a
belly-crawling foreign policy
will bring one test Of our ma
tional courage after another
until we are involved In a
third world war? The Test
Ban Treaty was considered a
treaty of weakness-the
hosting of the white flag of
surrender, by the Com m u
nists who Immediately chal-
len,ged the peaceful move
ment of our troops in Berlin.
We need fault finders"
q. B. Wise.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-15
Red Outrage

The incommunicado arrest of Pro-
lessor Barghoorn Of Yale has blunt
enough meaning. 1t is one of those
recurrent Soviet outrages that make a
mockery of Nikita Khrushchev's pious
affirmations in favor Of peaceful CO.
existence" and friendly relations with
the West.
As President Kennedy has Just
emphasized at his news conference
more than once, and very seriously
Professor Barghoorn has not been on an
intelligence mission Of any kind in the
Soviet Union. His visit there, now so
grimly interrupted, has been simply that
Of a distinguished American scholar
widely recognized as an authority on
Soviet affairs. Certainly, despite the
Kremlin'S charges, he is no more a spy
than the latest batch of Russians trav-
cling around America under the So
called cultural exchange program which
is today In great jeopardy.
Professor Barghoorn should be re-
leased forthwith. 1t is astounding that
the Kremlin, which parades itself as a
civilized government, has hidden him
away somewhere and refused to let
American representativeS-from Am
baSSador Kohler on down-see him or
be given any information on his where
aboutS or state of health. This is inter
national behavior of crude and in
sufferable kind, and Premier Khru-
shchev must know it. He must know,
too, that this sort of thing gals the
American people and makes them
wonder about trying to get along with
him.
Moscow radio quickly broadcast to
the Russian people Mr.. Kennedy'S state
mentS about the case, and this fact
has been interpreted in some quarters
as an indication that Professor Barg-
hoorn may soon be released. Maybe.
But the Kremlin will have to move
very quickly indeed if it is to undo
the damage that has been done.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-15
Spelling Fathers

Alexandria's Juvenile Court Judge
Irene PancoaSt has come up with a new
twist to the familiar lines about Sparing
the rod and spelling the child. She
wants to spoil fathers, too.
The rod business had been a bit
overdone in the case before Judge Pan
coast-a case in which an 11-year-old
was covered with welts and bruises after
being corrected" by his father. OBJ
viouSly, there can be such a thing as
over correction. But there is also the
other extreme, and Judge Pancoast went
all the way in the wrong direction when
should so much as leave mark" on
any of his children again.
Just what is a father, any father,
supposed to do If he happens to be
within reach of the long arm of the law
as perSonified by Judge Pancoast? A
father is the head of the house. He is
expected to enforce discipline But jun
ior knows thing or two. And the word
gets around. If father even reaches
for the rod all the little monster has
to do is shake a warning finger and
say: Lay hand on me and I'll have
you up before Judge PancoaSt!"
The threat is real enough. But
there is way out Just grab junior
by the collar, being very careful not to
leave mark, and drag him down to
Juvenile Court. Then say: Here Judge,
this is your baby"
Wordsworth was right on the beam
when he wrote Of "a light to guide,
a rod to check the erring, and reprove."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-15
Patriots and Decoys

Those who take pride in
being right of center" may
be led astray to demonstrate
against speakers for their
opposition. A demonstration
can be started by some of the
less judicious Of them. One
may even be started by the
opposition acting as decoys
to rope in patriots to cause
them to look ill-mannered.
Hostility toward speakers Is q
very workable way Of gaining
them tolerance and sympa-
thy. Patriots have the truth
and the facts on their side
and they need only to get
their case stated as widely as
possible. They should not
build up fireworks which
create interest in the appear
ance Of their opponents.
They can much better spend
their time visiting among
themselves or, better yet,
making friends with patriots
to be found in their church,
in school. on the staff Of all
newspapers, in the entertain
ment field, and networks and
stations.
II. L. Hunt
Dallas. Texas
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-15
Keep After Them

When his recent testimony before
Senate Appropriations subcommittee
got around to WaShington'S tempoS,
Bernard L. Boutin, the General Services
Administrator, commented that a d.
receive of some sort from Capitol Hill
might help get rid of the old Navy
Munitions buildings on Constitution
avenue.
Well, the subcommittee actually
has picked up his suggestion. In
report on the GSA budget, it tells the
agency to set aside specific space in
the Little Pentagon" office building
planned for the Southwest redevelop-
ment area, and to tear down Navy
Munitions as soon thereafter as its
present long suffering occupants can
be moved
This is an excellent idea, and
Senator Magnuson Of Washington, the
subcommittee chairman, is to be con-
graduated for advancing it. Now that
the directive has been put on paper,
we hope the Senator will follow it
up, to make sure the administration
doesn't Wlggle OUT OF IL.
For Navy-MunitionS has become a
monster. Like the Federal bureaucracy
itself, this Sprawling relic of World War
has become steadily larger and more
Sprawling over the years, until its very
size now deters even the stanchest Of
the anti-tempo public buildings Off
Gals. On every tempo-demolition sched-
ule Of the last is years, Navy-M Munitions
has been listed as the last to go.
The point is, however, that the
problem Of finding new offices for the
1000 souls who disappear daily into
the vast receSses Of the Navy-Munitions
buildings is not going to get any easier
in the future. And while the Little
Pentagon" will not be able to accom-
modate all Of them, 1t can take care Of
good number. If Congress continues
to make clear, as a matter Of policy,
that the new building is to be used for
this worthy purpose, we may yet live
to see the day when the biggest eyesore
of them all will come tumbling down.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-15
Salesman GoIdwuter

AS proof that the right
hand does not always know
what the left hand does, I
draw attention to The Sun
day stars "Right-Wing
Threat" editorial and The
Evening Stars Rambler col
umn Of November 8.
The editorial gently chides
AFL-CIO COPE for its warn
ing Q gainst Tnsidious
groups" Of right-wing con-
servatives, including among
others Barry Goldwater.
The Rambler, however,
pictured this same Barry
Goldwater as an arrant fool
who would sell iva for 81,
D. c. Stadium for $3.50, the
Capitol for $50 to Conrad
Hilton and the CHA Mclean
complex TO Disneyland for
$l2.75.
The Rambler, by his entry
into politics, has helped to
befog the issue between the
radical left and the Goldwa-
ter right, the latter Of which
is becoming stronger daily.
Those, including Republi-
can leaders. who are trying
so desperately to destroy
Goldwater may succeed only
in destroying the Republican
Party. An increasing portion
Of the voting public Is be-
coming angrily weary Of its
Acknowledgement.
Charles w. Carter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-15
News Analyst

The Star sometimes
makes a poor guess on what
is the important headline.
Thursday, November z, the
headline across the front
page announced that Rookie
Teller was in the race. The
only remarkable thing about
that announcement is that
The Star thought it was
news.
On an inside page was the
really important news item,
that Khrushchev is cooking
up a mess of pottage to give
the American voters so they
will re-elect Kennedy. The
item is called Bogus Upris-
ing Planned in Cuba" Just
before next years election,
castro Will be transferred to
some other country by Khru-
Shchev and Kennedy will be
hailed as the big hero who
got rid of Castro. The dicta-
tor who will take Castro's
place will be just as Commu-
mist and probably even more
dangerous to us than Cas-
tro. Kennedy is the best Pres
ident Khrushchev ever had
SO the American voters who
always vote for the word
Democrat" will eagerly grab
the bait and reflect Kennedy.
George A. BirdsaIl.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-15

and allowed him to be de-
stroyed. That Is to say, the
arguments of the anti-Diem
bloc within our team finally
won out over those, notably
including Gen. Harkins, who
wanted to go on with him In
the belief that his outfit was
the best In sight to do the
one true job. So won, too. the
arguments at home Of q
claque Of reformers and semi
pacifists who could never
rest until Mr.. Diem had been
driven from the scene.
Get On With War
But at any rate, Mr.. Diem
Is gone now-destroyed most
of all on the claim that as q
Christian convert he has
been unduly repressive Of
Buddhism. What the admin
istration wants to do now is
to look strictly to the future,
to draw our people in Wet
Nam together into q truly
com mon enterprise and to
get on with the war. But we
shall not. in fact, get on with
the war until the sophomore
whispering gallery in Saigon
is silenced and grown men
begin to behave like grown
men allied In good faith In
the one purpose for which
they were sent to Wet Nam.
They have been sent there to
fight marauding Com m u
nists, not to fight each other.
1t is hardly the ost
hidden secret in Washington
that this m e ssa g. e, among
others, is being carried by
Secretary Of State Rusk, Sec
rotary Of Defense Mcnamara
and the other VIPS assigned
by the President to meet
Ambassador Lodge and 9TH
ers in Honolulu on November
20. The general has acted as
a good soldier should, and so
far as this columnist can see
he retains the full confidence
Of all the top people here,
certainly that Of the Presi-
dent.
But the real question, Of
course, is bigger even than
the matter Of unfairness to q
first-rate military officer. It
is this: Can Am orleans
abroad never learn to play on
the same side Of the ball
field2 II the present set Of
Americans cannot. 1t Is OBJ
vious that the President
sooner or later must find an
other set who can. This is no
place for bureaucratic in
trigue; but it is surely a place
where continued intrigue
could destroy the most sensi-
BILE strategy yet devised to
halt creeping Communist ag-
erosion in Southeast Asia.
Q 1893
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-15
Jupon's Disasters

The twin disasters in ia
pan which took over 600 lives
have aroused sympathy
throughout the worlds free
nations. In h arp contrast,
the Soviets along with the
Communist and Socialis t
parties in Japan viewed these
tragedies as a last moment
opportunity to attack the
ruling government of Pre-
mier Hayato Ikeda just prior
to the general elections to be
held on November 81. They
have charged that govern
ment neglect in failin g to
provide adequate safety meas
ures in both the mine and
on the railway was directly
responsible for the disasters.
They claim that Premier
1keda utilizes a "one-sided
policy to protect monopolistic
capitalist classes" at the ex-
pense of human life in his
desire to double the gross ma
tional product of Japan in
the decade of the SOS. In
short, these 600 dead have
become a political device in
leftiSt hands to discredit the
highly successful, pro-United
States. Ikeda government.
The Mike mine is consid-
cred to be one of the finest
in Japan and the Tokaido
railway is one of the busiest
in the world; both are re-
garded as m o d els In their
fields. The leftist ch arge S
following Immediately on the
heels Of these disasters were
obviously construed on tn e
spur Of the moment with a
total lack of knowledge of
the facts involved. This reac-
ton S h ould accordingly be
regarde d as nothing more
than a practicable Commu-
mist propaganda tactic.
1t is regrettable that the
wire services and the press
at-large have afforded ex-
tensive coverage to the leftist
argument Of reducing these
disasters to a political issue
with the blame on the cur
rent Japanese government.
Headlining these minority
rantings places them out Of
perspective and constitutes
an injustice to the japanese
people-perhaps a third dis
aSter.
Dolores L. Wightman.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-15
A BOOK FOR TO-DAY
Churchill Was the Eternal Child
By DONALD MINTZ

potential rivals Hence Church
chill's curious fashion Of d.
recting the Second World
War: sacking generals who
refused to follow his whim,
insisting on the dispatch Of
endless kilograms telling ev-
erybody exactly what to do,
creating endless strategic d.
versions when concentration
on the main object was in Or
der (for what child has a long
span of concentration?),
wearing everyone down by
keeping intolerable hours and
holding endless meetings.
Mr.. Thompson is a member
of the Institute for Strategic
Studies "and is working on an
analysis of Field Marshal
Montgomery" His severe crit
icisms Of Churchill as a Strate-
giSt, then, are not the mus
ingS of an amateur.
Nor is his basic view Of
Churchill unique or even nee
eSSarily perverse, however
odd it may seem to Ameri-
cans who think of Churchill
only as the great wartime
Prime Minister.
Does Not Fully Explain
But surely Mr.. Thompson's
"ethnology" and his crude
and Uniformed anti-Ameri-
caniSm are open to more than
mild criticism. Churchill was
descended on one side from
John Churchill, Duke of MARI
borough, the great hero of
the War Of Spanish Success
sion, and on the other from
the American Jeromes whose
name is touchingly commem-
GRATED in the Bronx by the
Jerome Avenue Express. Mr..
Thompson draws vast conclu-
Sions from this ancestry as if
some mysterious mingling of
blood predetermined a vast
array Of characteristics.
Not Mr.. Thompson but Ar
thur Balfour first remarked
tn at Churchill's historical
writing was in a sense dis
guised autobiography. Mr..
Thompson's book follows his
subjects lead. Events are
treated summarily; they are
only a background a 6 ainst
which the main actor per-
forms and is scrutinized.
Yet when it comes to World
War II, Mr.. Thompson's vi
sion fails. He has said that
"Church's destiny was mys-
teal" The war was that des-
tiny. But instead of showing
how the curious personality of
his egocentric, performing
child suddenly became the
strength Of Britain, he criti-
cizeS details of policy. And,
though his view is doubtless
part of truth he never quite
convinceS us that the child he
insists is Churchill would not
have thrown a tantrum rather
than assumed command of a
great nation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-15
THE PASSING SCENE
Our Bockbiters in Wet Nam
BY WILLIAM S. WHITE

The backbiters In South
Wet Nam, whose general 10
Gale seems to be the Ameri-
can Embassy in Saigon, have
gone to work again.
This time, their chosen
victim is the officer who
commands the 15.000-m Q n
American military force
which Is assisting the new
government there In q des-
perate war against Commu-
mist invaders.
Leaks, apparently from
embassy sources, picture
Gen. Paul D. Harkins as out
of favor with the new Wet
Namese regime. out Of tune
with Ambassador Henry Ca
bot Lodge and, generally, as
more or less out Of touch
with everything. All this is
deeply troubling and anger
ing the highest officials Of
the American government
here at home-not excluding
President John F. Kennedy.
1t would not be exaggerating,
one feels sure. to say that the
President Is doing, not q slow
burn, but q fast one, indeed.
It is difficult to believe
that Ambassador Lodge him
self can be responsible for
these attacks upon that vital
hum an lyme h-pin Of this
whole military operation who
is Gen. Harkins. CThey are
attacks. by the way, remark
ably reminiscent of earlier
assaultS-by-leak on some of
our Central Intelligence
Agency people out there0
Lodges Duty
Mr.. Lodge is a thoroughly
adult, decent and responsible
politician who undertook a
thanklesS task In Wet Nam
as a p patriotic duty. Still,
whoever may be to blame,
the Ambassador would be
wise to put q stop at once to
what looks here to be q clear
effort to get" Gen. Harkins
because Of his unashamed
and entirely right and proper
association with the old Wet
Namese regime Of Ngo Dinh
Diem, who was bloodily over
thrown by a revolution Of his
subordinate generals only @
little while ago.
For there Is no disposition
in the highest quarters here
long to stomach another out
break Of back-stabbing. Of
girls sc hool jealousies and
tale-bearing, within the Am
erican team In Wet Nam
Those within that team who
were determined to see Mr.
Diem fall have had their way
and should now be satisfied
And Neutrality-suspicious.
to its credit or discredit only
events can show-stood BY