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PAGE-4 HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Oregon Tuesday, October 22, 1961 BERRY'S WORLD IN WASHINGTON Politics And Corruption Election Time At Sulphur Rock ; Things must be pretty interesting these days in Sulphur Rock, Ark., to state it mild ly. And they will continue that way, no doubt about it, until after the Nov. 5 city election in the hamlet of 225 citizens. It's going to be that way because an unusual campaign is going on there for election of city officials. When no man had filed for any of the offices, up to 24 hours before the deadline, the women got togeth er and had a pow-wow, a secret one it is said. They set up an all-female ticket. The men said that would never do, letting the women run a town. So t h e y organized, hastily, a "man's party" to cam paign against the "women's party." The report is that neither party has a platform. That means it's women against rnen; no holds barred perhaps. The only promise that's been made was by the wom en who say they'll pave the streets if elect ed. And the women, bless 'em, say they know more about what's going on in the town than the men. The men probably say that is probably the most truthful thing they've got In their platform, if it is there. To make it an even more interesting U.S. And (Lot Angela Times) While strains deepen within the At lantic Alliance, due largely to President Charles de Gaulle's unwillingness to accept U.S. leadership of it, the ties between the United States and Britain remain strong, ,and may be growing even stronger. Discernible for some time, these trends vere pointed up in two separate develop- Stolen ts: In Brussels, the Common Market's '; council of ministers almost contemptuously : brushed off the U.S. appeal for a tariff re- duction on imported American poultry. : In London, on the other hand, British 'Officials let it be known that they want no ; jpart of de Gaulle's proposal for a West Euro- pean nuclear force that would Include Brit : aln, but exclude the United States. ! : To a large extent it is De Gaulle himself ; who is reenforcing the traditional ties be ' fween the United States and Britain. In ; his view, brimming over with suspicion, our I two nations are lumped together as the "Anglo-Americans." And separately and to By SYDNEY J. HARRIS " Owing to a scarcity of good new mystery novels the civil ized British kind I like, not the American kind, full ot booze, blood, and naked blondes found dead in tlie bathtub - t dipped Into a number of spy thrillers this summer while Hiving my tiny overworked brain a vaca tion. What st nick mc about most ot these cloak-and-dagger alfalrs was that, in nearly all ot them, the cloak and the dagger were singularly absent. Influenced no doubt by such modern masters as Graham Grocno and Eric Ambler, the later-day spy novel Is a grim and seedy Uung. Fashions in (iction swing al most to the extremes of fashions In women's clothes from decade to decade. When I first began reading spy novels as a young ster, it was tlte lieyday of tltc E. Phillips Oppcnlieim school the characters wero highly dra- I malic, with flamboyant heroes f and slinky seductresses quaffing champagne on tlte Orient Ex s press. Then, as if In revulsion from this lurid picture ot high life among the International spies, l the genre suddenly changed and wo are now confronted with I; drab, grey litllo men darting ; furtively out of their furnished ; rooms and rubbing threadbare shoulders with tlie scum of four continents. : In point of fact, from what we I know about those spies who I have defected or been caught, ; .neither extreme bears the remo ; test resemblance to reality. The ; 'effective and reliable spy is not ' a glamorous and colorful charac ' ter, nor Is he that depressed member of the halt-world so dear to the hearts of Mr. Greene and his many imitators. t 5 race, both parties have agreed to provide a steak dinner to the winner, whether female or male. The women say they are confident of carrying the election. "We know we can get the women's votes, and we'll get some of the men's, too," said Mrs. Varnia Travis, incumbent treasurer-recorder and the first woman to hold office there. No doubt they will get some of the male votes because there is nothing like an inspired woman. If a husband dares to vote against his wife's orders, he may find the front door to the house locked and the door to the dog house unlocked. But what worries us, and isn't ex plained, is the person on the population rolls who has the distinction of being the odd number. There are 225 people in town. That fellow or woman must undoubtedly bo single. The pressure on him, or her, must be pretty tough. We'd better watch this election. There may be some voting rights violated. When a fellow is threatened with sleeping out in the barn, who cares about a vote? Britain Vs. France gether, we have felt the Gaullist sting just as De Gaulle has felt stung, especially dur ing World War II, by American and British leadership. But underlying this affinity between London and Washington are more positive reasons than common trouble with France or sentiment and tradition. We have very close economic tics and similar, though by no means identical, views of the world pow er conflict. Nobody would say U.S.-British relations are perfect. But from Suez to Skybolt, we have managed to get back together after our disputes. For this, the British get much of the credit. Unlike the French, they have made a realistic assessment of their own po tential in the power struggle. And unlike the French, they have scaled their national am bitions down to what they feel they reason ably can attain. The British have little use for Third Force concepts. And they appear to find more comfort, if a choice must be made, in the prospect of an alliance with the United States than with the French. STRICTLY PERSONAL It Is "cover" that makes a spy valuable; and the best cov er in modern society is ordinary I escctiilxlity. Some spies have been foreign service officials, some have been physicists, sonic doctors, some exporters and im porters hut all have moved in commonplace circles, w ith w ives and children, attending conven tions, going on picnics, and maintaining a consistent profes sional status. As in Chcstorson's slory. "Hie Invisible Man" (in which a post man commits a murder with impunity, because nobody "sens" a postman as a man, but only as a function), (lie spy ' . . . Retire? . . . Never Felt Better In My Life!!' alwvo all wants no attention called to himself; he submerges himself in his environment and takes on the color of his occupa tion and status, as the postman puts on his uniform, which is distinctive, brightly colored, and yet "invisible." But of such ordinary stuff, ad venture novels cannot be made; just as detective stories cannot lie written about the dull, plod ding, patient routine that culmi nates in the arrest. Kor spies, when we apprehend them, turn out to be superficially, at least like the man on the porch next door. "Sort of tit 'Hey, Joe! It Says By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (NEAI Gim micks are already being discov ered in the plans for a meeting between President Kennedy and French President Charles de Gaulle some time next year. This meeting was agreed upon in principle during the recent Washington talks with French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murvillc. But no definite date was set. And the meeting place . was not designated. It is De Gaulle's turn to come to Washington. This would make it a return of Kennedy's visit to Paris in June, 1961. But the pos sibility of their meeting next on French Guadalupe or Martinique in the West Indies leaked out of the Couve de Murville talks. This is regarded as a move on De Gaulle's part to assume the same status as British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. who met with Kennedy at both Ber muda and Nassau. It is Uiis kind of quibbling over protocol that makes nego tiating with De Gaulle so frus trating. , In the past year he has re jected all American proposals for strengthening North Atlantic Alliance defenses. He has reject ed U.S. Polaris missiles for French defense. He has rejected British membership in the Com ' mon Market. He has refused to ratify the nuclear test ban treaty. While De Gaulle himself once proposed to sign a non-aggression pact with Russia, he now opposes current U.S. - Russian talks on further East-West limit cd agrocmcnU In fact, since De Gaulle's re jection of NATO nuclear de fense plans and his signing of an alliance with Germany last January, it has not been pos sible to get agreement with France on one single point in political, economic or military fields. At the conclusion of the Couve de Murvillc talks with Kennedy and Secretary of State Dean Itusk, tlie consensus was that France does not want agreement with tlie U.S De Gaulle's recent interven tion in Southeast Asian affairs was especially resented by Am erican pfficials. Here lie gratui tously offered his services as in termediary in any dispute be tween North and South Vict Nam and to do whatever he could to reunify the Communist and free areas. French business and banking i n t e r e s t s are still dominant throughout what was formerly French Indo . China, and I) Gaulle has been credited with thinking that perhaps his influ ence might bring peace to tlie troubled area. It Is noteworthy, however, that President De Gaulle offered only his advice on this problem. He offered neither French eco nomic nor military aid to help re-establish stability. AnoUier sore point with Amer- ' for tat, eb Our Jobs Are Next!' EDMUND VALTMAN, HARTFORD TIMES EPSON IN WASHINGTON . Grandeur's All Right, But Hard On Friends ican negotiators is that De Gaulle has been of no help in liberalizing trade restrictions in Europe as a whole or between Europe and the rest of the free world. He has opposed the lowering of tariffs between the Common Market "inner six" countries and the "outer seven" counU'ics in tlie European Free Trade Assn. On the positive side, it is con ceded by American diplomats that President De Gaulle has given the French government a political stability that it sadly lacked. In the years before he became premier in 1958, France had one weak government after another, and it was difficult to get any cooperation o u t of France then, too. De Gaulle has given France a new constitution. He has check cd inflation and stabilized tlie franc. He ended the war in Al geria and gave it independence. But as one European states man sums up De Gaulle's case, "He is not living in the present. He is living in the history of France as it was 50 years ago. before World War I. and of France as he would like to see it 50 years hence." WASHINGTON REPORTS Rusk By Kl I.TON LEWIS JR. WASHINGTON Secretary of State Dean Itusk has posted the No Trespassing sign and warned Senate investigators to stay out of Foggy Bottom. Security practices in his dc- partment have been tlie subject of an investigation by the Sen ate Internal Security Subcom mittee for more than a year. On Aug. J5. State Department security officers received a di rective signed by Abba Schwartz, director of the Bu reau of Security and Consular Affairs. It read: "Subject: Appearance before tlie Senate Internal Security Subcommittee. You are hereby instructed that henceforth a 1 1 i underlined i personnel of the Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs are not to appear be fore the Senate Internal Securi ty Subcommittee unless the re quested appearance has been cleared in advance with me per sonally or Mr. Mace (deputy ad ministrator for security. "This includes contact or in terviews with any members of tlie staff of the subcommittee. Mr. Mace or 1 should be noti fied of any requested inverview by the subcommittee or mem bers of the slatf." Members of the subcommit tee insist the Schwartz directive Is a violation of the law, speci fically Title S. Section 51 of the By RALPH de TOLEDANO PHILADELPHIA. Pa.-Small things can win elections the smile of a candidate or the drip of corruption behind his oppo nent. These factors, so unim portant when compared to the sweep of empire and the fall of kings, often weigh heavy in the balance of history. And so tlie contending political group ings have begun to examine tlie lower echelons of the people's government to find flaws and weaknesses. "Big city" government, there fore, has begun to occupy the attention of the Democratic and the Republican National Com mittees. And ' to the glee of the GOP, tlie blots on the mu nicipal escutcheons of the na tion tend to sully the Demo crats. Part of this is accident. After the Roosevelt victories and the Roosevelt strategems which brought the minorities to power in the nation, "big city" government became largely a Democratic monopoly. And since corruption is inherent in the metropolitan machines, the Democrats are the most vulner able. That this is happenstance, however, makes little differ ence. If one party can point to tlie mud on the other, excuses count little, no matter how val id. The irony of this situation can be seen most abundantly in this City of Brotherly Love. Once upon a time, the GOP held sway here. But now Bill Green's boys run the show and they have been a Democratic main stay in Pennsylvania. Therefore, tlie Republican chortles. For scandals are busting out in Philadelphia and where they hurt the most. Tile average citi zen has been numbed by the variety of rackets and con WILLIAM By WILLIAM S. WHITE WASHINGTON The Kenne dy Administration is struggling to extricate itself from a pain ful hook on civil rights upon which it has been stuck not by its conservative critics but by its professional civil rightist Democratic backers. Never before has the Presi dent's built-in and perpetual di lemma been more sharply il lustrated. In order to hold the urban North, upon which h i s election turned and upon which his re-election will surely de pend, he felt compelled some months ago to abandon his old course of moderation on this tragically difficult issue. But tlie more he has rejected moderation the more insistently tlie professional civil rightists have demanded lie go on and on into courses so absurdly ex treme as to make certain that to follow them would bring twin results: first, no civil rights leg islation at all from a Congress simply unwilling to accept sheer hysteria and demagogucry as the basis for legislative action; SjCivil Imposes 'Security' U.S. Code which guarantees congressional access to execu tive information. They point fur ther to concurrent resolutions passed by the House and Senate in 1958: "Any person in government service should put loyalty to highest moral principles and to country above loyalty to per sons, party or government de partment." One top-ranking Stale Depart ment official is now in danger of losing his job for cooperating witli the subcommittee. He is Otto Otepka. chief of the Divi sion of Evaluations of Security information since 1954. Rusk and Schwartz have moved to discharge Otepka for turning over to J. G. Sourwinc, subcommittee chief counsel, in formation that reflected badly on department practices. So in censed were members of t h e subcommittee w hen they learned of this that they dispatched Sen. Thomas Dodd to New York with an angry letter for Secretary Rusk. Rusk has been summoned for testimony early next month. He w ill be questioned about t h e Otepka case and the controver sy surrounding Frances Knight, rock-hard anti-Communist who series as director of the Pass port Office. Mrs. Knight has charged Schwartz with a per sonal vendetta aimed at getting games which mark his every day life. But he likes to feel that the police force is reason ably honest and can be counted on to pull gun from holster when crime rears its now.you-see-it-now-you-don't head. But it Is the police force of Democrat ic Boss Green's particular bail iwick which today is giving off an ancient and putrescent odor. Nine policemen have been sus pended, accused of being on tlie take and another ten are set for the heave-ho. Of course, 19 policemen aren't really enough to cause panic. But the City Fa thers have quietly let it be known that this is but a small beginning. Virtually every cap tain and inspector is slated for some kind of disciplinary action either a transfer to a district where the vice and gambling boys do not know his face, or more drastic punishment. More than 100 uniformed and plain clothes officers have been marked for a move out of two vice-drenched precincts. None of this is likely to bring solace to the gentle people of Philadelphia. They have voted Democratic over the years be cause they felt that vice unlike joy would be confined. A few greedy cops, of whatever rank, could be tolerated. But this wholesale infection can hardly sit well with those who get itchy at the proximity of disease. What makes the Philadelphia situation most upsetting is that no one can claim its uniqueness. Boston, the home of the bean, the cod, and the numbers rack eteers, has been rocked by the enterprising photos of one TV network which showed the Men in Blue entering and leaving a notorious bookie joint. In other cities, the protectors of law and order have been found to be S. WHITE Rights Demagogues second, possibly catastrophic fall in his strength among the reasonable people of this coun try, Northern as well as South ern. , Thus, Attorney General Rob ert Kennedy's main problem no longer is to fight off Southern and other conservative oppo sition simply to any kind of sub stantive civil rights measure. It is now to fight off Northern Democratic ultra-liberals push i n g a violently punitive bill which the Attorney General himself has had to acknowledge could lead to the establishment of a Federal police system. Such a system is the hallmark though this latter the Attor ney General himself has not said of a police state. When President Kennedy of fered his civil rights program it was regarded by most mem bers of Congress, even outside the South, as strong stuff, in deed. But a House Judiciary subcommittee dominated by Northern extremists has now so fundamentally rewritten this bill as deeply to trouble the most her out of office. Schwartz, too, will be asked to testify. Hours after the latest L'.S. Soviet spy swap last week, Ad ministration officials leaked the news of similar deals in the past. In 1961, according to these officials, American RB-t7 pilots shot down in the USSR were freed as part of a deal for the release of Igor Mclckh, a Soviet L'N official caught spying in this country. All very interesting, particu larly since President Kennedy has previously denied any swap had been made. At his press conference, April 21, 1961, t h e President sad: "There was no connection i be tween tlie release of the pilots and Melekhi. The dropping of the charges was made after an examination of the case of the national interest. ... I am sor ry 1 can't be more responsive." Biggest mystery in the p u b lishing business: How Athene urn Publications can spend MO. 000 in promotion for Nelson Rockefeller's new book. "The Future of Federalism." Never before has so much money been earmarked for promotion of such a paper-back book. A spokesman for Gover nor Rockefeller denies the book will be used as a campaign tract. part of the mob. This made it cozy for all concerned; if the cop on the corner is with you, bank stick-ups become an easy vocation. All of this is far more mean ingful to the people of Philadel phia than the logorrheic utter ances of a Valachi. The Cosa Nostra deprivations tend to seem remote, and if one hoodlum knocks off some of his comrades in crime no one really mourns. But tlie police force is an arm of civic govern ment. The police commissioner is appointed, usually, by t h e - mayor or the city manager. The cop on the beat is the man who watches junior crossing the street on the way to school. This is close to home. And so the Republicans, who lag in city voting, have begun to collect the stories and the statistics. If they can break the hold of the Democrats on this Brotherly City, the state and na tional picture will change. The Democratic bonus in the city will not have to be covercome in the suburbs or the rural areas. Philadelphia's police trou bles, therefore, will figure in the 1964 elections. So too will those of Boston and points west. It will be wryly funny if the Democrats are defeated in pre cisely the areas where they now consider themselves most strong. Of course, newspapermen here say that this kind of scan dal blows over, that the urban taxpayer votes his pocketbook, not his sense of moral outrage. This has been true in New York City where, in past years, a pro liferation of scandal has had no effect on the grip of the Demo cratic machine. But times are changing and the taxpaying man-in-the-barrel may change his ways. authentic civil rights backers in this nation including the Attorney General, who has up to now been widely regarded in the South as the unsurpassed villain of the piece. It required 26 pages for At torney General Kennedy to ana lyze this extraordinary bill by way of appealing to the full Ju diciary Committee to soften it down to something approaching a fair and rational document. There is not space here for any full report. The bill, however, would do the following things, among others: It would not only require pri vately owned restaurants, mo tels, stores, movies and t h e like to open their doors to all comers on pain of Federal pun ishmentas would the Adminis tration's own bill. It could also force racial integration upon law firms, private medical part nerships and clinics, private schools, apartment house, insur ance companies, banks and, po tentially, every kind of business everywhere. It would not only allow the Federal Government to decide voting qualifications in Federal elections as would the Admin istralion bill. It also would give the Federal government this power of decision in purely state elections. It would not only give the Federal government power to force school integration as would the Administration bill. It also would authorize the Feder al government to direct the lo-, cal police, anywhere, as to how they should handle street dem onstrationsor. as the Attorney General himself put it. "to con trol in advance Uie actions of lo cal police." "This." he added in total can dor, "if it is to be faced square ly would require creation of a national police force." And a bill so appalling as this passed through a responsible subcommittee of Congress, forc ing the nation's chief responsi ble advocate of civil rights. At torney General Kennedy him self, to protest its extremism. This is the pilch of hysteria now reached when so compli cated an Issue becomes in volved in hard-handed block voting politics. So. the Attorney General has spoken out against it, taking the rjp for members of Con gress who know better than what they have done but are afraid to draw back on I h e i r own responsibility. And. predictably, he is n o w under venomous attack from the very civil rights extremists for w hom he has done so much. For this, fair men must give him credit but a credit not un mixed with the reminder that his own original, and itself ex treme, bill opened the fates to the demagogues and to the con fused men of good intentions who now run so wildly through those gates.
