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Reds Insidious Appeal To Youth
The U.S. Communist Party, having just
taken a licking in federal court for failing to
register as the Soviet Union's agent, neverthe
less is still pounding aggressively at this coun
try's youth.
The party's youth director, Mortimer Dan
iel Rubin, spoke Dec. 3 at the University of
Chicago and Dec. 6 at Iowa State University.
In November he appeared at two other Mid
western universities, Wisconsin and Minne
sota. li Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, national party
"chairman, spoke Nov. 7 at Roosevelt Uni;
versity in Chicago and Nov. 8 at Northern Il
linois College, DeKalb.
Arnold Johnson, director of the party's
lecture and information bureau, filed a Dec.
4 speaking date at Trinity College in Hartford,
Conn. '
Herbert Aptheker, parly cultural affairs
leader, addressed students Nov. 8 at City Col
lege in New York. An earlier University of
Buffalo engagement was canceled.
Gus Hall, No. 1 U.S. Communist, who is
:duc soon to go on trial for failure to register
fas an agent of the Soviet Union, has not fared
:si well recently. Yale canceled him in No
vember, and he was scratched the previous
month at Brandeis in Massachusetts and Fair
leigh Dickinson in New Jersey.
Yet from October, 1961, through May of
this year, the FBI credits U.S. Communist
leaders with 48 speeches on school campuses,
before an estimated 43,000 persons. Hall does
not always fail. Although he did not do too
By RICHARD L. STROUT
(In The Christian Science
Monitor)
Washington Is beginning to con
sider the struggle between the
Justice Department and the Team
sters union as a duel between
Robert Kennedy, the Attorney
General, and James R. Hoffa.
Once again this week the gov
ernment has scii a drive against
.Jlr. Ilolfa snap shut like a sprung
trap with nobody in it. There was
;a hung I hopelessly divided jury
."which gave Mr. Hofla acquittal at
Nashville. Term. The United
;Slatos District Judge William E.
Miller grimly asserted there had
been three "shameful" attempts
to influence jurors, and ordered a
special grand jury investigation.
In the 1W0 campaign presiden
tial candidate Kennedy declared
that "an effective attorney gen
eral with the present, laws that
we now have on the books can re
move Mr. Hoffa from olfice." It
was an unusual thing to say. lie.
Ilolfa is president of the Inter
national Brotherhood of Team-
Hers. Chauffeurs, Warehousemen
:nd Helpers, with membership of
;j.7tm.ooo.
One begins to wonder at the
Situation. Are these unionists sup
porting the alleged corruption of
Mr. Hofla which the government
continually insists upon, but is
unable to substantir te before a
jury? Is there something wrong
wilh the jury system? Is Mr.
Hofla being made to appear a
martyr to bis union? I it proper
for an administration to lead a
moral crusade against an indi
vidual, even one with as unsa
vory a reputation as Mr. Ilolfa?
In his book "The Enemy With
in." Robert Kennedy, formerly
chief counsel of the senate "Se
lect Committee on Improper Ac
tivities In the Labor or Manage-
ment Field" told of his previous
clashes with Mr. Ilolfa. The House
committees investigated Mr. Hof
fa in 1 !,'.t, and again in 1954.
They had been, asserted Mr. Ken.
nedy, "on the threshold of uncov
ering major corruption in the
Teamsters: corruption involving
Mr. Ilolfa and some of Ins chief
lieulenanls. Moth times the in
vestigation had lief.) halted. The
congressmen went their way and
Mr. Hoffa went his.
Then came the I9."7 attempt.
The full resources of the Justice
Iiepartment were mobilized. "I
was convinced," wrote Robert
Kennedy, "that the FBI had giv
en the government an airtight
case "
Rut the jmy didn't think o.
Mr. Kennedy continued to feel
that Mr. Holla was guilty. As he
wrote, "It was apparent that the
government had been as careless
in accepting the jury panel a
the delensc lawyers had been
careful in selecting it,"
Four dillerent juries in five
years have failed to convict Mr.
HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore.
The Duel With Hoffa
Hoffa on various charges, rang
ing from bribery to wiretapping.
Writing in "The New Republic,"
Dec. 22. Christopher Jencks ques
tions the efficacy of the govern
ment' crusade. Mr. Jencks
doesn't like Mr. Hoffa and ridi
cules the idea that he is "the in
nocent victim of a Kennedy ven
detta." Nevertheless ho asks
whether the typical (nick driver
is going to he persuaded that the
Visitors Don't Linger
Ry CHARLES V. .STANTON
In The Rosehurg Review
One of the interesting experi
ences 1 was privileged to enjoy
last summer was a trip by air In
Wyoming. This was a tour pro
vided by Pacific Power 4 Light
Co. for a group of Oregon and
California editors, chiefly from
ff'SiL's Copco Division.
The principal purpose was to ac
quaint editors with the remarkable
industrial expansion of central
Wyoming and IT&Ls part in co
operatively joining the growth o
the areas it serves.
In addition to the chief purposes
of the trip. I found a great deal
ol interest In Wyoming's program
for developing iU tourist travel.
One reason for my interest in
this phase of Wyoming's promo
tional ellorl is because 1 am a
member o( the advisory commit
tee to the Travel Information Di
vision of the Oregon Highway
Commission. This committee,
composed chiefly of newspaper,
radio and television personnel, is
charged especially with aiduig the
Highw'ay Commission in its pro
gram of advertising. This adver
tising is helping bring millions of
dollars into Oregon each year
Irom out-of-state tourist.-.
Wyoming, too, I trained. Is
working toward the development
ol lis tourist travel. Here in Ore
gon our third largest source ol
revenue comes Irom tourism.
Tourism also looms large in Wy
oming. Our group was accompanied
(luring our stay in Wyoming by
two members ol the Wyoming
Travel Commission, including Ron
MiTherson. director of public re
lalious, They were present to answer
questions and hew any two
men could retain in their minds
Ihe answers to all the hundreds
ol questions rained upon them is
more than I ran understand
Anyway. I observed how d.li
gently they, and the commission
Ihey serve, are working on the
tourist problem.
1 was given a great deal of as
sistance in collecting information
by Irene Payne, the attractive and
efltcient secretary to Oregon'
Travel Information Division.
Wednesday, January 2, 1943
well at Oregon colleges, in one case he drew
12,000 to a West Coast football stadium.
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover says that
in the year ending in mid-1962, "probably
more Americans saw and heard a self-avowed
member of the Communist party, U.S.A., than
in the preceding 10 years."
Not only Hoover but analysts in the
House Un-American Activities Committee see
this stepped-up bombardment of American
youth as part of the going Red program that
also is aimed at energetic members of the
U.S. peace movement and at those older tar
gets labor and U.S. Negroes.
House specialists note that, in virtually
all present effort, very little is said by U.S.
Communist leaders about our domestic is
sues. The big exception is the Negro's civil
rights.
The Reds hammer tirelessly on the inter
national themes, shouting "peace" and "ban
the bomb," seeking to undercut the U.S. po
sition in Berlin, Cuba, South Vict Nam and all
Asia, Africa and Latin America.
To the Huse committee's experts, this
is simply more proof if more be needed
that the U.S. Communist Party has no interest
in American problems but is devoted wholly
to softening us up for eventual domination by
Moscow.
Government officials say the Reds' push
to get a bigger hearing on U.S. campuses is
directed above all at shining up an image of
the party as pro-American, constitutional,
demcoratic in purpose, totally legitimate.
These are the very things that all our ex
perts agree the U.S. Communist Party is not.
Teamster leader is "unfit for of
fice" by procedures so far. or is
being "persevutcd by the Justice
Department for Ins militance in
securing better wages for the
truckers."
Nobody believes Attorney Gen
eral Kennedy drops a campaign
easily. All one' can say is that
up to the present, James Hoffa
slill rules one of the most pow
erful unions in the nation.
Through her interest in the mat
ler, she obtained for my use a
copy of a specific study conduct
ed in Wyoming in 19H0 Into out-of-state
tourist travel and Ihe
market created by out-of-state vis
itors. One of the interesting factors
immediately evident in a study of
tourist travel is that Oregon is far
ahead ol Wyoming in the actual
number ol oul-oi-state visitors.
Oregon had more than six million
out-ol-stale visitors in 1W0 as
compared w ith around four million
(or the same year in Wyoming.
Figures foi WO were selected
because the etlect of the World's
Fair in Seattle was an influence
during the more recent season.
But while Oregon had an edge
in the number of visitors, it is
somewhat Marl ling to observe
that tourists in Oregon averaged
only .1.85 days per slay, while in
Wyoming the average was 6 0.1
days.
Expenditures were much the
same. Tourists in Oregon spent
t20.t per day per car. In Wyo
ming they SH-nt ill.VS per car per
day. This slight difference is
shown in. the (act that the num
ber of people per car in Oregon
was .1 ,1. while in Wyoming it was
;t 8 (KTSOIIS.
Oregon currently is engaged in
a program lo keep tourists in the
stale lor a longer period of lime.
Our tourist Income could be great
ly increased It we could gel more
people lo slay longer, rather than
rushing through on our fine high
wins Our Oiecon Highway Commis
sion is deserving ot much appreci
ation Irom everyone. I believe, be
cause it has gone all out to aid
in this most important step. Be
cause our Oregon parks, particu
taily coastal parks, have tiie
greatest cllect in slopping and
holding tourists, the Highway
Commission has Increased the
amount of money for acquisition
of paik land. It has authorized
Ihe employment of a public re
lations man to spend his lime
helping educate our own people in
Hie matter ol welcoming our tour,
i-is. At the same time he is to
visit in our neighboring stales lo
persuade more people to find roe
lealion in Oregon.
IN WASHINGTON
lly RALPH de TOLEDANO
The Central "government" of
the Congo, a regime maintained
in office by the bayonets and
bombers of U.N. troops, is releas
ing today what it calls "a While
Paper" on the Katanga situation
As a document, it is hardly more
reliable than Nikita ' Khrush
chev's justification for the
rape of Hungary. But one will
get you 10 that the State Depart
ment hails it as gospel truth.
The White Paper purportl to
show that all blame for the failure
to unify the Congo and "reinte
grate" independent Katanga were
caused by the "duplicity" of Pres
ident Moise Tshombc, whereas
Congolese Premier Cyrille Adoula
was a knight in shining armor.
Unfortunately for Mr. Adoula,
he got his press releases mixed
By SYDNEY J. HARRIS
As we enter the tremulous year
of 196.1, I can think of no better
contemporary text for ou? reading
and reflection than a few para
graphs prophetically written a
hall-dozen years ago by the physi
cist. .1. Robert Oppcnheimer.
In his book. "The Open Mind."
Dr. Oppcnheimer sets the task
before us more clearly and con
cisely than any I have heard.
This task is our pressing univer
sal need to recognize change, and
to cope with it:
"In an important sense." Dr.
Oppcnlicmor reminds us, "this
world of oiirs is a new world,
in which the unity of knowledge,
the nature of human communities,
the order of society, the order of
ideas, the very notions of society
and culture have chanced, and
will not return to what they have
been in the past.
"What is new is new not be
cause it has never been there
belore. but because it has chanced
in quality. One thing that is new
is the prevalence of newness, the
changing scale and scope ol
change itself, so that the world
alters as we walk in it, so that
Ihe years of man's life measure
not some small growth of re
arrangement or moderation of
what he learned in childhood, but
a great upheaval.
"What is new is that in one
generation our knowledge of the
natural world engulfs, upsets, and
complements all knowledge of
the natural world belore. The
techniques among which and by
which we live, multiply and rami
(y, so that the whole world is
hound together by communica
tion, blocked here and there by
ihe immense synapses of political
tyranny.
' The global quality of Ihe world
Is new: our knowledge of and
sympathy with remote .,ml divctse
peoples, our involvement with
liiem in practical terms, and our
commitment to them in terms of
brotherhood
"What is ncv in the world is
tiie massive character oi the dis
solution and eorruptton of author
ity, in belief, in ritual, and in
temporal order. Yet this is Uie
"With the Same Cast,
v.'- t.f;.t A y' J6
White Paper Is
up. The While Paper states that
the Central government "still is
willing to welcome any attempt
by the Elisabethville (Katanga)
leaders to reach a real solution
to the Katanga crisis." Forgotten
is Mr. Adoula's threat of two
weeks ago in which he said. "We
have passed the phase of negotia
tion," and called for implementa
tion of U.N. Secretary-General U
Thant's plan for the use of U.N.
.troops to impose a military solu
tion. The propaganda of the White
Taper, moreover, hardly fits the
tacts. Sen. Thomas J. Dodd. who
knows more about the Congo
than any of the Slate Depart
ment's powerful middle-echelon,
has pointed out that last October,
President Tshombe and Katanga
took a significant series of ac-
STRICTLY
PERSONAL
world tlv'. we have come to live
in. The very difficulties which
it presents derive from growth in
understanding, in skill, in power.
"To assail the changes that
have unmoored us from the past
is futile, and in a deep sense, I
think it is wicked. We need lo
recognize the change and learn
what resources we have.''
I quote Irom Dr. Oppenheim
er's book at such length because I
lielteve that what he has said
needs lo lie deeply imprinted on
every mind in the year ahead.
Our grasp of what he calls "the
changing scale of change itself"
may determine whether we leave
this year any wiser and better
than we entered It, or whether,
indeed, wo leave it at all.
POTOMAC
FEVER
Kennedy and financial advisers
discuss the Federal budget at
Palm Peach. It's Ihe age-old di
lemma. Poverty in the midst of
plenty.
Senate Republicans have their
job cut out for them in the com
ing Congress: Which phone booth
to meet In.
Ode to the confused voices of
Ihe ! lines: Who to heed as peer
less leader? J F K or Mister
Mr.nler.
Fidel Castro learned a thing
or two horn Khrushchev, the In
dian giver. Now Castro is heap
big medicine man.
The party In power In Wash
ington always manages to bal
ance the real budget. It mav
show a drtlelt in numbers, but
It's never at a loss for words.
Wr've cot anli-anti-missiles and
anti-anu-c ommunists. but science
still hasn't come up with a good
aoti anlihiotic to cure you ot what
the reniedv leaves vou with
FLETCHER KNEBLL
Chief?"
Deceiving
lions to bring about unification
under equitable terms.
Mr. Tshombe re-established rail
connections with the Central Con
go and began shipment of ores.
He opened up communications
with Lcopoldvillc. He turned over
to Mr. Adoula's regime $4 mil
lion, half in Congolese francs
and the other half in foreign cur
rency. (The Central government is
bankrupt and exists on handouts. I
He signed preliminary protocols
for reunification. He agreed to
send his officers to Lcopoldville
lo swear allegiance to the Congo
as soon as a promised general
amnesty had been declared.
Though the Central Congo had
illegally invaded Northern Katan
ga, Mr. Tshombe signed a cease
lire. This, of course, did not satisfy
Premier Adoula. He is the pup
pet of Mr. U Thant and of anti
Western governments in Africa.
And he knows that the moment
the U.N withdraws its troops,
his government will fall. It is
therefore to his advantage lo
keep the pot of trouble brewing.
In this he has gollen substantial
help from U.N. officials in the
Congo who are determined to
crush Katanga.
Proof of this can be found in
the events of early December.
In an unprovoked violation of
the cease-lire. Central Congolese
troops attacked and captured Kon
golo in Northern Katanga. The
U.N. officials said nary a word
and though they had connived
with Premier Adoula in the oper
ation, they denied any knowledge
of the invasion.
When, however, retreating Ka
tangan troops blew up a bridge
across the Lualuba River in order
to protect their rear guard, the
L'.N. command reacted violently.
It characterized this precaution
ary measure as "an unqualilieo
act of vandalism" and stated that
it could "not remain passive while
the economy of the country is at
tacked (sici." U.N. military unit
were immediately dispatched to
join the Adoula forces. In short,
the Congolese invasion was sane
lioned. despite the cease-fire, but
Mr. Tslwmbe's defensive reaction
was hysterically censured.
To all this, the t inted Stales
acquiesced. Though there is evi
dence of a glimmer of under
standing in Foggy Bottom, the
Stale Department continues tn
give support to open military in
lervention in the affairs ol tii
Congo by United Nations forces,
in a clear usurpation of power
which runs directly counter Is
tiie solemn terms of the UN
Charter.
senator Dodd's reaction can
therefore be understood. "In my
many years of public hie." ha
has written for the American Se
curity Council newsletter. "I can
recall no situation in which w
have been committed to a less
defensible policy." The V S, ap
proach he finds shortsighted and
"without morality or logic."
And, Mr. Dodd adds: "The pies
cot situation is doubly preposter
ous because the I' N . w ith our
hacking, is preparing lo use force
... not against the side thai n
waging war. but against the side
that has been defending ilsea
against attack ."
The Congolese White Paper is
designed lo deceive Americans
and lo justify the unjustifiable.
EDSON IN WASHINGTON
By PETER EDSON
Washington Correspondent
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
WASHINGTON NEA Santa
Claus International, alias your
Uncle Sam or the United States
government in disguise, may have
lo cut down on a lot of marginal
foreign aid programs if Uie ideas
of Gen. Lucius Clay prevail.
Clay is chairman of President
Kennedy's new. high-sounding, for
eign aid advisory Committee to
Strengthen the Free World.
"We are not an investigating'
committee," says Clay after sev
eral days conferring in Washing
ton on what his nine-man group
is supposed to do. "We will simply
determine the wisdom of policies
governing our (foreign aid) expen
ditures and attempt to make sure
that these policies do limit our
activities to those necessary and
essential to the security of our
nation and the free world.
A literal interpretation of Clay's
first public statement on this sub
ject would affect a lot of the for
eign aid projects like sewers, wa
ter supply and housing develop
ments in countries that don't have
them, jet airports and interna
tional airlines for countries that
don't need them. Tennessee Valley-type
authorities for hydroelec
tric power and irrigation in coun
tries that aren't ready for them,
steel mills and atomic reactors for
countries that won't have the
skilled manpower to operate them
for some years. All these might
have to be dropped.
And it could be that the ideas
of Chester Bowles will have more
weight. He recommends that for
eign aid be denied those coun
tries which lack the ability to use
it wisely or won't or don't reform
their own governmenls to put
their economics in order.
This will be the fourth time in
the last 10 years that the govern
men has gone through this same
aid reform exercise.
U.S. and free world security was
the theme of the Mutual Security
Administration which administered
foreign aid at the end of the
Truman administration. This is
what it will apparently be once
again if the Clay idea prevails.
W'hen the Eisenhower adminis
WASHINGTON REPORT . . .
State Department
Trickery Outlined
By FULTON LEWIS JR.
It was one year ago today
that State Department top brass
opened a campaign of slander
and vilification unrivaled in re
cent years.
On Dec. 27, 12, the Honorable
G. Mcnncn "Soapy" Williams, As
sistant Secretary of State for Afri
can Affairs, delivered a major ad
dress before the annual conven
tion of Sigma Delta Chi, journalis
tic fraternity.
On the same day, Carl T. Row
an, a former Minnesota newsman
who serves as Deputy Assistant
Secretary of State, addressed Ihe
annual meeting of Phi Beta Sig
ma, a fraternity of Negro jour
nalists. -
Both speeches, previously
cleared by Stale Department cen
sors, dealt with tiie Congo and
with a new and ominous threat:
Michel Struelens, head of the Ka
tanga Information Service in New
York, Ihe personal representa
tive of Katanga President Moiso
Tshombe.
In language almost identical,
Williams and Rowan talked n( a
mysterious Katar.ga lobby, head
ed by Stnielons. that spread mon
ey around so freely that Tshom
be converts were quickly won.
Rowan summed up when he
said "There has been a clever,
big-money campaign to convince
Americans that they .ought In
support Katanga secession." He
continued: "By spreading around
at least $140,000 over the last
year, Mr. Struelens has gollen
some extremely vocal help in dis
pensing a siring of myths and
stream of misinformation about
Katanga and die Congo."
On Dec. .10. three days after
Williams and Rowan opened fire,
a columnist reported that "cer
tain intermediaries" of President
Tshombe had participated in "one
of the most amazing stories of
international bribery ever at
tempted in the diplomatic corps."
The story, obviously leaked by
Slate Department big shots, said
that a Tshomhc representative,
presumably Struelens. had at
tempted to bi iv oflicials. o' the
Costa Hicnn government so Ihey
would recognize hatanaa. The sto
ry said that laO.oro was ear
marked for Ihe Costa Rirans
Three days later, on .Ian 4.
Slate Department Press Otficer
Lincoln White told newsmen thai
Struelens was. indeed, the Tshom
be representative who attempted
the bribe.
A Senate subcommittee, com
posed of five Democrats and four
Republicans, has just released a
report that blasts the State Dr
paiunent lor cheap, thoroughly
Clay And Bowles Urge
Pruning Foreign Aid I
tration came lo town, it recruited
a lot of big business executives
to survey foreign aid. The result
was that MSA was changed into
the more business - like Foreign
Operations Administration.
Then former President Herbert
Hoover's Commission on Reorgan
ization of Government surveyed
foreign economic operations in
1955. FOA was changed to Inter
national Co-operation Administra
tion. President Eisenhower then
appointed another commission un
der Gen. William H. Draper to
survey foreign aid again in 1959.
It is reminiscent of the Clay com
mittee. But it was President Kennedy
who changed ICA into Agency for
International Development AID
when he took office. And now Clay
apparently is going through the
motions of putting the emphasis
back on "security" where it was
in 1950-52.
This view is discounted in the
State Department, however. There
it is stressed that the appoint
ment of former Budget Director
David E. Bell as the new AID
administrator means there will be
continuity of operations, without
another wholesale reorganization
and reshuffling of personnel.
Clay's committee of former De
fense Secretary Robert A. Lovett,
former Treasury Secretary Robert
B. Anderson, retiring World Bank
President Eugene Black. Continen
tal Oil President L. D. McCollum,
former Stale Department legal ad
viser Herman Phlcger, AFL-CIO
President George Mcany, Univer
sity of Nebraska President Clifford
Harden and Harvard Prof. Edward
S. Mason will hold its first meet
ing late in January.
It aims to file its first report
with Kennedy by March 1. It will
maintain liaison with Congress
but not lobby for aid.
Clay has opened offices in the
State Department and named Wil
liam T. Dentzer Jr. executive sec
retary. He is a former Defense
Department official who has been
serving as assistant to AID Direc
tor Fowler Hamilton and Alliance
for Progress Director Teodoro
Moscoso. The idea is that the Clay
committee will be a permanent
organizalion. not a temporary one.
dishonest tactics throughout t h t
entire Struelens affair.
The Senate Internal Security
subcommittee, after lengthy in
vestigation, reports that Rowan
and Williams were deliberately
misleading in their speeches of
one year ago. Rowan, for in
stance, greatly exaggerated the
amount of money spent by Strue
lens. He implied, untruthfully,
that Stnielcns had bribed Ameri
can officials. He characterized all
who backed Tshombe as extrem
ists, crackpots, opponents of wa
ter fluoridation and desegregation
of schools.
Called to testify. Rowan could
not name a single opponent of
U.S. Congo policy who fitted his
description. Among those who had
criticized Stale Department pol
icy were Richard Nixon. Paul
Henri Spaak, Herbert Hoover:
Senators Lausche. Dodd, and Yar
borough; Billy Graham, Albert
Schweitzer, Max Lemer. Arthur
Krock, and William While.
On the matter of the $50,000
bribe, the committee report
speaks for itself:
'"Die Slate Department foiled
lo present any such evidence lo
the subcommittee, nor was any
found anywhere. Mr. Struelens,
under oath, categorically denied
that he had been involved in any
such attempt. His testimony must
be accepted since it is unrefut
ed "
Despite the smear attack Slrue
lens continued to bring Ka anga's
case to the people. And the peo
ple listened. So the State Depart
ment has moved lo deport him.
Al
manac
Ry United Press International
Today is Wednesday. Jan. 2.
Ihe second day ol um.1 with aW
lo follow.
The moon is approaching its
lust quarter.
The morning stars are Mars
and Venus
The evening stars are Jupiter
and Saturn.
On this day in history:
In 177H, Continental soldiers at
Cambridge. Mas , raised Ihe first
flac of George Washington's army.
In l.-9. Moscow lladio an
nounced that on that day "a cos
mic rocket was launched lo ard
the moon."
A thought for the day English
physicist Charles Gallon Danvin
said: "Tiie highest possible stage
m moral culture is when we res
nize that we ought to cont:ol our
thoughts."