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MAIL TRIBUNE, M.dford, Oregon, Tuesday, April 21, 1959 3 Washington Report By WILLIAM S. WHITE HOW IS THE TIME Washington Now is the time for all good men to come f A -fVlA xA - t aiu "Ul Ul LJiCil pdi iJT but of their country. A grave weakening of the Eisenhow- e r Adminis- fUi t r a t i on has been evident for months. Fill T h a foeicrno- tirm rf Vi a Williams. " I White s trongest member of the Cabinet, Sec retary of State John. Foster Dulles, is but the latest of a series of instances of the Administration's progressive debility. Some of these circumstanc es could have been avoided. But the important question now, in any event, is not who is to blame for this situation. The important question is what is to be done about it. A famous old admiral, a salt who was as hard as rock, once growled of his own ele vation to high wartime com mand: "When they get into trouble they send for the so and so s. More of the so and so's defining these as men who will do the job that must be done even at risk of alienat ing their fellow partisans are badly needed now. rTIHE Congressional Demo- cratic leadership, which the President himself would privately concede has on the whole run a responsible op position for six years, is un der rising pressure to "get tough." These clamors arc being resisted, well short of the point of permitting irrespon sibility by such leaders a s Senators Johnson of Texas, Fulbright of Arkansas and Mansfield of Montana. But so far they come mostly from the perpetually shrill Demo cratic far-left wing. There is danger that more responsible Democrats will begin to add their voices and so raise an partisanship in a t i m of world peril. For when an administration falters, attacks upon it al ways rise. Current things illustrate this fact. Senator Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) has been at the forefront of an inquisition Into the views of Clare Boothe Luce, the President's nominee to be Ambassador to Brazil. It is an undoubted fact that many Democrats can think of sound reasons not to love Mrs. Luce's publisher - husband, Henry R. Luce of Time, Life and Fortune, or Mrs. Luce her self. But it is equally true that what Mr- Luce prints or what Mrs. Luce says is no proper concern of the Senate in de ciding whether to confirm her appointment. SHE has said some harsh things about Democrats, including Franklin D. Roose velt and' Harry S. Truman, and she certainly cannot prove her accuations. But Senator Morse has said some very harsh and unprovable things about President Eisen hower. And before switching from the Republican to the Democratic party, the Senator said some very harsh things about Presidents Roosevelt and Truman, if it comes to that. The significance of the Luce episode is not great in itself. It would be a pity, however, if it should develop into a pattern of Senate intrusion in to the Administration's prop er sphere. That was what the right-wing Republicans tried to do to take over the inti mate details of Mr. Truman's foreign policy once his Ad ministration became weak. Much more immediately meaningful is the proposal of such a Senator as Henry M Jackson of Washington, one of the few who are entitled to be called military experts. Jackson has announced plans for a Senate inquiry into the operations of the National Se curity Council. NSC is a Cab inet outfit, an intimately Presidential instrument, which largely makes the Ad ministration's high military and foreign policies. HOW it functions is unar guably the President's sole responsibility. For Congress to attempt to push itself into this body, with its highly con fidential and infinitely delic ate operations, would be like the intrusion of Congression al committees into Abraham Lincoln's conduct of the Civil War. The point is not whether NSC is efficient or not. The point is that Congress at best will strain the Constitution in any attempt to move in on NSC and at worst could cre ate a chaotic diffusion of re sponsibility. Some cures are worse than the disease. Indeed, some here now be lieve there is need to stablish, in, an informal way, what would amount to a coalition government. We confront a Berlin crisis, a fateful sum mit meeting, and serious di visions within our alliance. This is no time to be getting tough in partisan demonstra tions. What we need is to get rationally tough against ex ternal dangers (Copyright, 1959, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS The Montana penitentiary revolt was grim news. It gives us the shivers. It raises trou blesome questions: What happened-and WHY? , Who was at fault? Was the pen poorly run? Was its admini stration tough' and cruel and heart less? Or was the revolt just a mental explosion among hope less men who had nothing to look forward to? INSTEAD of jumping at con clusions, we'd better wait for all the details. I think, though, we can say this with some degree of confidence: Penitentiaries are good places to STAY OUT OF. Staying out of them is com paratively easy in a country like ours. , This is the recipe for staying out: BE A LAW-ABIDING CITI ZEN. It pays off. ORE questions: What of Cuba's Castro? Is he a liberator? Or is he a communist? M WE ALL hope he is a libera tor. He overthrew a dicta-tor-and dictators are bad busi ness. But- His brother Raul, now com mander of Cuba's .armed forces, is described as a dedi cated communist-and a very dangerous one. His wife a communist. He .is violen t anti-U.S. CJPRUILLE BRADEN, a for- mer U.S. assistant secre tary of state, who has served as U.S. ambassador to Cuba, Colombia and Argentina, says of Castro: "According to official docu ments that I HAVE SEEN, Castro is a fellow traveler, if not a member of the commu nist party, and has been a fellow traveler for a long time. He was a ringleader in the bloody, communist-inspir ed uprising in Bogota in 1948, which occurred just at the time the Pan-American con gress was meeting in that city."' ' TJALE FRANCIS, a well known free lance writer who at first was sympathetic with the Castro revolution in Cuba, says in a recent article in a nationally - circulated weekly: , "The people of Cuba are in danger of being betrayed. Be cause they suffered under the terrible tyranny of Batista, the people made Fidel Castro the symbol of their hope. They gave him their heart, and there is danger that he will toss it to the jackals of com munism. Francis adds: "What of the theory that Fidel Castro has always been a communist himself? From time to time, I have quoted those who know him well and DENY it. Now, after having talked with probably the best informed men in Cuba, I still have not been absolutely con vinced he is a communist BUT I RECOGNIZE THE POSSIBILITY THAT IT MAY BE SO." t We simply can't permit an established communist out post only a few miles off our shores. That would be fatal. In Life . . . experience is the great teacher In Scotch . . .Teacher's is the great experience ( H'i a i n jPTTi-qTi mo, QAM ri ry GED Q2S5TJ3Q 7 ffT oj nnu o7 Li" CT II ill II 1 I r"Tco5X AontA PaTT jbaMv wjutf l 1 1 i - u n i hera faDA R'l -ftp W&fom tft?ti MM lr IrSv J) i3)- 1 t 7 mocEm H &ommrm ff MONTGOMERY WA RD V V 1 "MSeBBK-aMa CARTON SALE! Our lowest price ever . . . Wards Hawthorne bicycle! 88 IN CARTON 4 ' Exclusive design - Bonderized frames Machine-welded 1 Includes chrome safety coaster brakes. Riverside Supreme tires. 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