davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The chronicle., 1963-11-25
Kennedy
David Lawrence =.
More On The Wheat Deal

all to agree to the Shibboleth
that Russia is not an enemy
since Russia could use at home
the specific bushels Of wheat we
sell her on US government cred
it while shipping to our other
communist adversaries the Rus
sian wheat which our Ameri-
can wheat replaces.
"The American people a d
their Congress were led to be-
lieve that this grain sale would
be a commercial cash transac-
ton with private traders a d
bankers assuming any credit
risk in return for a profitable
sale and and an intereSt-bear-
ing loan"
Pointing out that the PreSi-
dent, in his Oct. 9 news con-
ference, had declared that 1.-The
grain dealers will take the risks
with the private banks" Sena-
tor Mundt said it now turns
out that the government itself
will assume the risk.
MIR. Mundt is the author of
the pending bill which would
cover credit extensions on the
sale of any products to all COM
muniSt-bloc countries. He in
SiStS that the passage Of the
bill would not interfere with
the planned sales of wheat and
grain to Russia and her satel-
lites, provided the sales are
for cash, for gold or for Ameri-
can dollars, or provided the
granting of credit to the COM
muniSts is privately extended"
The problem of furnishing &C.
onomic aid to countries that are
potential enemies has plagued
the Western Allies for many
years. In the period prior to
World War II, Dictator MussO-
lini Of Italy had invaded Ethio-
pia, and it was proposed that
the United States and other
nations place an embargo on all
shipments of oil to Italy. The
Western Allies did not S d
together, and the embargo fail
ed for materialistic reasons.
Senator Mundt, in his speech
this week, said: Unfortunately,
desire for profit - sometimes
The chronicle., 1963-11-25
John Chamberlain
Unsung Capitalists

pleases some free enterprise
purists, but it has ruled as a
coalition that contains middle
class elements as well as Chris
tan socialists. The chances are
that Betancourt will be the
first legally elected President in
the history Of Venezuela to re-
linquish his job, this coming
month, to a legally elected sue
ceSSor.
What has brought Venezuela
to a political take-off position
that could, If Communism can
be contained, result In a per-
manent alliance between demo
cracy and a development that
can be favorable to capitalistic
enterprise? The answer is some
thing that no Venezuelan politi-
clan openly admits. Oil has
done it. And the oil revenues
that have brought both prospect
ty and Communists danger to
Venezuela have been a creation
of hated North American capf
talistS.
For fifteen years now tn
Venezuelans have been collect
ing fifty per cent Of all the
oil revenues generated by for
eign companies. The money
had been plowed into the crea-
ton Of a national oil company,
and into all manner Of agricul-
tural reforms. But 1t Is not only
the fifty per cent tax money
from oil that has benefited
Venezuela. For international oil
companies like the Creole Pc
troleun Corporation have sought
The chronicle., 1963-11-25
The President

World War II, Congressman, U. S.
Senator and, lastly, President -
though he was not allowed to COM
plete a term in the White House.
1t does not demean him to remark
that he was a controversial figure.
History will record that indlsput-
able fact and, through its infallible
perspective, note whether he was
right more often than wrong, or
vice versa. That decision is more
important in the last analysis than
any expressed at the moment by
partisans Of whatever hue.
Admirer or critic, Democrat or
Republican, there is sorrow among
them all that this energetic and
personable young man who was
yet to reach the prime of life has
fallen victim to a murder as foul
as any committed anywhere
whether in the heat of passion or
in sordid intrigue. This sorrow is
a bond that holds all Americans
together and spans the normal di-
visions that are additionally a
part Of their way of life.
Thus it is that a nation bows
it's head in respect and grief at the
untirnely and tragic passing of the
Chief.
The chronicle., 1963-11-25

has been outrageously treated, and we
are not going to stand for it."
'Pm glad to know how you feel about
the matter" replied Rusk. And that
ended the discussion - but not the ex-
plosive controversy, by far.
4 4
STILL DISHING 1T OUT = The Ken
nedy Administration is still giving a
great deal of foreign aid to President
Canal Nasser despite the Egyptian die
tator's continued flouting of his pledge
to withdraw his sizeable army from
strife-torn Yemen and his latest med
ding in Iraq and Syria.
The Senate Government Operations
Committee has aScertained that since
July NasSer has received SGT, 497 900 in
U. S. surplus grain and other products.
This is upwards of 81 million more
than he got during all Of last year.
Of the SGT, 497 900 = ST., 563, 900 is in
wheat; 1914 900 in flour; $4,514,OOO in
corn; $1O5, 1897 in frozen poultry. The tot
al tonnage of these commodities eX-
ceeds 1851 900, and shipments are still
underway.
Most Of these products are, in effect,
given to NasSer. Nominally they are
"sold' for Egyptian currency. But that's
Of no value to the U. S. for two rea-
sons: The money stays in Egypt, and
most Of it is turned over to Nasser for
projects there.
The Senate committee also has infor-
NATION that a considerable part of this
u. S. aid is being used to feed Egyp-
tan forces in Yemen.
SPARKS - The Atomic Energy Com
mission has issued a glowing 83-page re-
port on the recent visit of U. S. nu-
clear scientists to Russia. In an intro
duction in the handsomely printed book,
Acc Chairman Glenn Seaborg states,
Throughout the 11-day visit to the So
Wet Union, the U. S. delegation was
cordially received and well treated. At
several sites the warmth and friendliness
exhibited was memorable" But Seaborg
does admit one discordant note in this
harmony: During the entire visit, h
1O-man delegation was provided with
only one Interpreter. That meant that
the conversations were audible to only
a part Of the group at any Time. Al
so no prepared descriptive booklets were
provided by the SovietS.". Walter Fla
herty, a top aide Of Speaker John Nc
Cormack, Mass, is giving up his job
to become a priest. From Dorchester,
Mass, Flaherty will enter the first class
of the new Pope John XIII National
Seminary in Weston, Mass.
The chronicle., 1963-11-25

When is a country in danger
Of going Communist? 1t is not,
as many tend to think, when it
is a hopeless pawn to poverty.
The threat of Communism ordi-
narily comes to a nation when
it is first getting its head above
water thanks to the effort of a
few relatively uninhibited indi-
viduals, who may or may not
be foreigners. 1t is then that
the masses, who are at last
getting a little more to put in
their stomachs, begin to want
faster progress without knowing
just precisely what creates the
plenty from which progress
comes.
At this moment Venezuela is
particularly vulnerable to a
Communist revolutionary push.
The country has obviously been
doing comparatively well. Its
last old-fashioned Latin Ameri-
can dictatorship, that of Perez
Jiminez, is now rather ancient
history. The present govern
ment, maintained by President
Romulo Betancourt, has a semi
socialist orientation that dis
The chronicle., 1963-11-25

in the form Of thinly disguised
human greed - has made it
difficult for the United States to
enforce this policy Of restricting
trade with the communist bloc
or even to win the support of
aid with our foreign assistance
programs"
1t is true that some Of the
allies Of the United States - in
Guiding those who have been
receiving foreign aid' - have
been steadily increasing their
trade with Russia and the com
munist-bloc countries. This has
produced resentment in Cong
reSs. The question Of trading
with the communist countries is
likely to be a major issue in
the next several months.
The chronicle., 1963-11-25

WASHINGTON AT the
strong urging Of Secretary Of
Defense Robert Mcnamara, and
over the my-goodness-me objec-
tons Of some State Department
types, the United States govern
ment has closed TO Communist
bloc diplomats certain areas Of
this nation where missile install
lations are in operation or be-
ing built.
Nothing is wrong with this
order except that has come
later than it should have. Conn
munist-bloc diplomats are often
also Communist-bloc spies, a
truiSm a dozen times establish
ed by the most indisputable of
evidence. And they are not ne
cessarily any more purblind
than are Soviet diplomats them
selves, who have long since been
forbidden to travel to such vital
installations.
In other words, If bloc diplO-
mats in their reports to their
home offices can give the pre-
else locations Of these installa-
tons, only the most credulous
can suppose that the informa-
ton will not quickly find its way
to Moscow.
It is true, Of course, that a
peek through a wire fence at a
weapons silo will not tell the
locker the precise mathematical
formula involved in the gadgetS
inside. Still, the simple fact
remains that military intelli-
gence Is military intelligence,
even lie it be restricted to the
ability to tell the rocketeerS
abroad just where to zero in
just in case.
ALI counter : intelligence mea-
sures are necessarily based, in
deed, on the assumption t t
while it may be impossible in
the end to prevent the other
fellow from penetrating your
secrets, only a fool will make
it so easy for him that he need
only send one of his agents out
on a tourist bus ride from Wash
ingten.
ALI the same, now that our
government has at last acted to
plug such blazingly open holes
in our screen, the inevitable
shrill complaints are going up
from American quarters which
deplore this inhoSpitable act
against an alleged "thaw" in
American-Soviet relations which
only they can see.
Surely, they cry, all this runs
afoul Of those 'liberalizationS OF
people-to-people contact which,
against all history and common
sense, they persist in believing
The chronicle., 1963-11-25

profitable ways Of employing
their capital in other things
that stand to benefit the host
nation.
Creole Petroleum's offShoot,
the Creole Investment Corpora
ton, which set up shop In 1861,
has already invested some IS
million in twenty-odd compani-
es that do such things as man.
ufacture fiberboard and paper,
make bricks, engage in cattle
ranching, and distribute seed
corn. Nobody can say with any
pretense at honesty that this
is done with an eye to The
commercial exploitation Of Juan
Bimba, the poor Venezuelan.
For the Creole Investment Cor
poration aim is to take only a
minority stock position in the
companies it finances, leaving
control in the hands Of local
capitalists. Moreover, the stipula-
ton Is that Creole Investment
capital shall be used to give
employment to VeneZuelanS save
for a scattering Of U. 8. tech
nical advisers If and when they
are needed to get an operation
off the ground. According to the
most recent estimate available,
the Creole investment Of S. mil
lion has brought more than $40
million In local capital out OF
hiding and into job-making EN-
ploy1nent. If Creole hadn't been
there, this money would b
undoubtedly gone to Swiss banks
for safe keeping.
Meanwhile, another offshoot
of so-called "oil Imperialism"
the international Basic Econo-
my Corporation which was crea-
ted by Governor Nelson Rookie
teller before he went into poll
tics, has contributed more than
$12 million to the formation Of
local Venezuelan and other Lat
in American enterprises, many
Of which have been sold either
in whole or in part TO the local
citizenry. The S~upermarketS that
have been going up N Caracas
and other Venezuelan communi-
ties are oil offspring at one or
two removes.
In 1862 Venezuelan farm pro-
duction increased by thirteen
per cent. Iron is bringing new
enterprise to the Orinoco region.
Juan Bimba, the man on the
bottom, is putting rice in his
belly. Sad to say, however, he is
also developing enough interest
in life to listen to the Comrnu-
niSts, who are preaching Cas-
troite violence and exploding
bombs. Simply because capital
ism has benefited the country.
Venezuela is open to an effort
at Communist take-over. Who
ever said that there Is justice
in the world?
The chronicle., 1963-11-25
David Lawrence .

WASHINGTON - If the AM
erican people were asked to vote
in a referendum as to whether
they would like to see the Unit
ed States government lend
money to the Soviet Union to
buy wheat - which, in turn,
could make possible the ship
ment of Russian grain to Red
China or Cuba - it can hardly
be doubted that the verdict of
the electorate would be over
whelmingly in the negative.
The Congress Of the United
States today is considering
whether or not to pass a law
prohibiting the Export = Import
Bank a U. S. government ag-
ency - from guaranteeing the
recently proposed transactions
for the purchase of wheat by the
representatives will soon have
an opportunity to approve or
diSapprove the measure.
When the proposal to II
wheat fl Russia was first an
nounced, President Kennedy said
it was to be a private transac-
ton and "does not represent a
new Soviet-American trade poll
cy." But a few days later, it
became apparent that a mis-
leading impression had been
conveyed. Senator Karl Mundt
Of South Dakota, Republican,
told the Senate committee on
banking and currency on We'd
nesday:
"The financing arrangement
for these sales to the commu-
mist countries does represent a
new departure - the United
States government and the tax
paying citizens of this country
are assuming full credit S
Tor these sales. Any loss sus-
tanned by the seller Of the grain
or the banks financing the sales
by extending credit to Russia,
Hungary, or other communist
bloc countries is insured by the
federal government through its
Export-Import Bank.
"Now I presume the reason
that the Export-Import bank
was brought into this tranSac-
ton to guarantee payment Of
the obligations assumed by COM
munist countries for payment
for this grain is that no COM
mercial banker or exporter is
willing to assume the credit risk
of repayment involved in sales
to communist countries. TIL e
private exporters and bankers
are reluctant to extend e r
own credit in order to get the
profit and income they will re-
ceive from these transactions.
That is, they must regard the
transaction as a bad risk and
the communists as unsafe de-
btors."
The South Dakota S a tor
said that, while President Ken
nedy had declared that Ameri-
can grain would not 60 to Cuba,
the wheat twill simply become
a substitute in Russia for the
Russian grain which has been
promised to Cuba and the other
communist countries" Mr..
Mundt added:
"The CubanS will eat Russian
grain and the Russians will eat
American grain bought from
American traders on credits. !.
"The way, therefore, seems to
be opened for us to make pos
sible the feeding of our enc
mics in Cuba, in Red China,
and elsewhere even if we were
The chronicle., 1963-11-25
Williorn S. White
Order Too Late

could somehow put everything
Alright between this nation and
the Soviet Union.
Unhappily, the Kennedy Ad-
ministration itself has followed
this chimera to a degree all too
lamentable. But sensible m e n
can be relieved tibet this Adj
ministration, even in its desper-
ate desire for some reliable ac-
c~ommodation with the Russians,
is not willing to be shaken by
yells that we are aping the
"closed society Of communism"
and other such rubbish.
For the idea that shutting off
vital military Information TO hos
tile powers is somehow bad is
only matched in Stiffness bv the
illusion that the mortal differ.
enues lying between the two so
dieties can be healed if only
there are more cultural eX-
changes and freedom Of move
ment." Even Nikita Khrushchev
In his NOR candid moments has
shown his contempt for such
drippy nonsense.
We shall make an honorable
and real accommodation in the
cold war - if at all - only
at that now unseen point in lime
when Western power and deter
mination have become so mas
sive and real that the other fell
low will never dare to chal-
lenge them. And if that splen-
did time ever does arrive, It
won't matter In the least IL the
bloc diplomats carry their busy
little Czech and East German
cameras into every corner OF
this country.
The chronicle., 1963-11-25
Allen-Scott Report
Romance In Spy Case

WASHINGTON - The bitter : sweet
complexities of romance are definitely en-
twined in Professor Frederick Barg-
hoorn's mysterious Imprisonment in Rus
STA.
The 52-year-old bachelor Yale educator
was trying to arrange for a Russian Wo-
man TO be allowed to come to the U. S.
to marry him when he was suddenly ar
rested as a spy.
He has known her for a number OF
years. But his repeated efforts to gain
permission for her to leave Russia nave
been unavailing.
Close friends know little about h Ter,
other than that she is an intellectual
and is engaged in the cultural field"
Barghoorn has been active in pro-
noting cultural relations between Z. 5.
and the Soviet.
A Yale colleague has suggested that
Barghoorn seek President Kennedy'S
help to induce Premier KhrllShchev to
permit the Russian sweetheart to come
to the U. S..
One theory being advanced by State
Department authorities is that Barg-
hoorn's arrest was primarily for dom
este consumption; that is, as a pointed
warning to Russians to avoid ties with
foreigners. The Kremlin took this means
Of hammering home the long-standing
policy that its people are to keep away
from foreigners.
No outsider knows more about this
policy than Barghoorn. In one Of his
publications he wrote:
Normal relations between Soviet
citizens and foreigners are made diff
cult by fundamental features of the So
Wet system. . Warnings and sometimes
arrests have befallen Soviet citizens
who, without instructions, enter into
more than casual, accidental contacts
with foreign visitors. Even Soviet scien-
lists, though freer than under Stain,
cannot with impugnity conduct profess
sional correspondence with foreign col
leagues without clearance from their
SuperiorS."
CASTRO STOOGE - A ~well-knoWn U.
S. author was paid $4,000 to write a
favorable book about the Communist
Castro regime.
The Senate Internal Security Subcom-
mittce, headed by Senator James East
land, D-MiSS., is preparing to make pub
lie a contract between this author and
Cuban Foreign Minister Raul Roa for
this axle-greaSing book.
The author has admitted to the Senate
Investigators that he received the $751;
900. Now living in New York he has
written and lectured extensively on Lat
in America.
FIGHTING WORDS - Secretary Dean
Rusk is on blunt notice that the Senate
Internal Security Subcommittee is deter
minedly bent on restoring Otto Otep-
ka, ousted security official, to his former
job.
This militant ultimattm was given the
State Department chief by Senator Thorn
as DOdd, D-COnn., vice chairman. our
ing a meeting in his office. Dodd has
summoned Rusk to discuss the Otepka
case, but all Rusk would say was that
he would review the findings when he
got them from the Civil Service Com.
mission.
Dodd exploded at this noncommittal
attitude.
Il want you to know, MI. Secretary"
he exclaimed, ''that the fat is in the
fire. Our investigation of your depart
ment's security office won't stop until
Otepka is put back on the payroll in
the position he held before he was dis
missed. All the members Of our COM
mittee feel very strongly about this,
and we plan to 60 all the way. Otepka
The chronicle., 1963-11-25
Understanding

"Im sorry were so late getting
home" said the husband to the baby
sitter as the couple returned home later
than expected.
Don't apologize" replied the frazzled
sitter. IF / had a kid like yours |
wouldn't be in a hurry to get home
ether"
But in fact Christ has been raised
from the dead, the first fruits Of those
who have fallen asleep.-I Cor. 1920.
The chronicle., 1963-11-25
ToddY's Scripture

God forbid that l should glory, save
in the Cross.-Galatians GA.
Looking Ahead
A mother introduced her daughter to
a lady friend. "Tell me-" said tn e
lady to the little girl, what are you
going to do when you get as big as
your MOTHER"
"Diet," she replied.
Overcome evil with g~ood.-Romans
1921.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-04-10
Two Tombs
InEgyptYieId
Rare Finds

CAIRO. April 10 (AP).-Uni-
versity of Chicago archaeolo-
giSts have discovered two un-
disturbed tombs dating back
$500 years, an official who
visited the site said yesterday.
While the tombs are not rich
in treasure as was thought pos
sible when the find was re-
vealed a week ago, they are de-
scribed as extraordinary ar
Genealogical discoveries. Any
undiSturbed tomb in Egypt is
a rarity.
They contained some 100 OBJ
jects Of the period-including
pottery, copper. alabaster and
bronze pieces. The tombS APP
parently were the final resting
places of two wives Of lesser
mobiles or officials. Both bodies
had decompoSed to dust.
The discovery was made by a
party headed by Prof. Keith
Seele of the Oriental Institute
of the University of Chicago,
He was quoted as saying, This
is the finest single find ever
made by Egyptian Nubia."
Each tomb measured about
10 by 3 feet. Both we're covered
by alluvial clay about 10 miles
above the temple of Abu
Simbel.
Prof. Seele reported the finest
object in the tombs was an
extraordinarily beautiful
bronze hand mirror" some Is
inches long, with the handle a
finely sculptured nude with
outstretched arms holding the
mirror.
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15SeniorsGet
Biological Lab
Scholarships

The American Cancer So
ciety today awarded summer
scholarships to is area high
school seniors so that they can
study in area research labs
under an experienced investi-
gator for six weeks.
Each student will receive a
stipend of 5000.
They will work at the labs Of
the Armed Forces Institute Of
Pathology, Walter Reed Army
Institute Of Research, George
Washington University School
Of Medicine and Howard Uni
versity College Of Medicine.
The awards are the first
made by the local division of
the society and are designed to
encourage careers in biological
sciences and medicine. The Is
were selected, after tests, from
80 students recommended by
the principals of public, private
and church schools in the Dis
trict.
The winners are:
Stephen A. cohen, 4508
Twenty eighth street NV,
Woodrow Wilson; Bradley P.
Thurman, 1910 Forty fourth
street NV, Woodrow Wilson;
Alan Martin Gilkes, 1910 Park
place NV, Gonzaga; Penn B.
Glazier, 1902 Grenoble drive,
Rockville, Md, st. Johns; Pa
tricia B. Godel, 228 Waterway
drive, Falls Church, Va, I'm
maculata; Arlene K. Graner,
1894 First street S.W., Ballou.
Frank LeBuffe, 1914 Kimberly
road, Silver Spring, Md. Con-
zaga; Mary P. Pate, 1885 Ten
nyson street NV, National
Cathedral; Frank E. Price, 5105
Danbury road, Bethesda, Md,
Sidwell Friends; Adria Stein
berg, 4464 Sedgwick street NV,
Woodrow Wilson.
Carolyn Stupka, $3.50 Maple
street NV, Calvin Coolidge;
Almis T. Vitenas, 6611 Living
ston road, Oxon Hill, Md, Con-
zaga; Paul Holland Volkman,
1866 Somerset place NV, CAL
win Coolidge; Eric M. Wagshal,
1901 Morningside drive NV,
Calvin Coolidge, and Leo L.
Walker. Congress Heights,
Anacostia.
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