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
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