(in I Kins Harrass
Leallirrnrrks By
Throwing Hocks
Gl'ANTANAMO BAY. Cuba t.T
— The US. Marinos called off a
show of armored force Tuesday
alone the fence between this Naval
Base and Cuba. It apparently had
been intended to impress Cuban
militiamen who had been throwing
rocks at the Leathernecks.
Plans for a parade of tanks were
announced in a notice posted at
the base news center.
"There will be an armored run
alom the fence at 8:30 am.." it
said.
A hurried conference was held
in the headquarters of Rear A dm.
Edward O'Donnell, the base com
mander, after news of the plan was
sent to the United States. The show
was canceled.
The notice posted at the news
center did not say how many
tanks would take part, nor give an
official reason for the display.
In one incident. Capt. Patrick
O'Toole of San Clemente. Calif.,
said militiamen began throwing
rocks at Marines building a ma
chinegun bunker at one point along
the 2t-w1o fence.
A small American flag, which
Cpl. Gordon Fine of San Clemente
had raised, was flying over the
bunker
Capt. O'Toole said the Marines
reacted like "good professionals."
They kept on building the bunker.
So far not a shot has been fired j
along the fence and no one has ;
been hurt by flying rocks since
President Kennedy announced the
arms quarantine of Cuba on Oct.
22.
Adm O'Donnell said the Ma
rines have shown remarkable
training and discipline.
O'Toole said: ‘‘If the Cubans are
starting to make this a personal
war and if we ever have to go
after them, they are going to wish ,
they had never started throwing i
rocks."
The oldest tomb to unknown
soldiers is in Trinity Churchyard
in New York City. Called the
“Martyrs’ Monument,” the tomb
honors American troops who dic'd !
in British prison camps during the
Revolutionary War.
Pam Am Employes
Reported Safe on Guam
SAN FRANCISCO IP — Pan
American Airways received reas
surance Tuesday that its 212 U.S.
employes on typhoon - ravished
Guam are safe ■
A messa.ee from a amateur radio
operator said; “Please inform rel
atives all okay; nobody seriously
hurt."
Pan Am dispatched a DC-7 plane
from Honolulu for Guam to evacu
ate the first group of its employes.
On the first flight 35 crew mem
bers and 44 others will be carried
to Honolulu.
The employes are being removed
from Guam, the company said, be
cause of a temporary lack of
housing and facilities.
Other employes will be flown
to Saipan.
Red China Blast Out at
Kremlin’s Missile Retreat
TOKYO bP — Red China sharp
ly criticized the Soviet Union’s
missile retreat in Cuba again Tues
day. It described Yugoslavia’s de- |
fense of Soviet Premier Khrush- j
chev’s backdown as “sinister and i
venomous."
The Red Chinese regime’s new
est barbs against Khrushchev were
thinly disguised behind criticism
of “the disgraceful role of the
Tito group on the Cuban ques
'“ in an editorial in the offi
cial Peiping People's Daily.
The Red Chinese generally re
frain from direct public criticism
if the Soviet Union, preferring to
strike at Yugoslavia with which
Moscow is on good terms again as
t is with Yugoslavia’s President
rito.
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i Stevenson
Acciigi's Goldwal(*r
Of Distorting
His Statements
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. i.T —
Adlai Stevenson Tuesday sent a
letter to Sen. Barry Goldwater ac
cusing the Arizona Republican of
distorting statesments made by
the U S. Ambassador to the United
Nations.
The letter made no reference to
a demand made in New York by
Goldwater that President Kennedy
should oust Stevenson and three
other top officials in the adminis
tration. Goldwater said the four
had “consistently urged a soft
policy toward Communism* both
in Cuba and elsewhere throughout
the world."
Stevenson objected to Gold
water's remarks in connection
with a statement made by the
ambassador on disarmament in the
U.N. General Assembly last Sept.
20.
“I hope that as a United States
Senator you feel some obligation
to be accurate and responsible in
your public statements, and I trust
you will keep that in mind if
you have any occasion to refer to
any speech of mine again," Ste
venson wrote Goldwater.
Those in addition to Stevenson
assailed by the conservative Re
publican were:
Chester Bowles, special adviser
m Asian, African and Latin
American affairs.
Arthur Schlesinger Jr., a special
assistant to the President.
Richard Goodwin, deputy assist
mt Secretary of State for Inter
American affairs.
Goldwater urged ouster of the
our men Monday night in address
ng the annual dinner of the
.Vings Club.
Goldwater's speech drew ap
plause 21 times. The most heavy
ipplause was three times during
Pis attack on Stevenson and the
hree other officials.
Goldwater said if Kennedy
pledged to Soviet Premier Khrush
chev that the United States would
lot invade Cuba, "I think it is
he greatest victory Communism
las won.”
The senator discussed his speech
it a news conference before it
vas delivered, said he had no
ioubts about the loyalty of Ste
/enson. Bowles, Schlesinger and
Goodwin.
"They just don’t understand
Communism and the modern
ivorld," Goldwater said.
150-Year-Old Blue Spruce Is
White House Christmas Tree
SALIDA, Colo. UP — A 150
year-old blue spruce, 85 feet tall,
has been selected from the San
Isabel National Forest in Colorado
as this year’s White House Christ
mas tree.
It was cut near Cottonwood
Creek at an elevation of 9,500
feet.
Elaborate precautions to pro
tect the tree on its rail trip include
spraying with a preservative and
wrapping it with 900 yards of bur
lap and 1,200 yards of rope.
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GOP Party Strictly a Minority Party
By James Marlow
Associated Press News Analyst
WASHINGTON (/Pi — Last
weeks’ elections demonstrated once
attain that the Republican party
nationally is strictly a minority
party.
The voters, as they have for 30
years with only two exceptions,
showed no confidence in letting
them run Congress.
But, if it’s comfort to the Re
publicans, the Democrats are a
kind of political myth. They pa
rade under one banner, but are
sharply and painfully divided into
northern and southern Democrats.
In short, the American political
party system is all gummed up.
Before election Democrats con
trolled Congress by overwhelming
majorities. After election they
still had overwhelming majorities
in both Houses. All the election
did was confirm their control.
The Democrats even gained four
Senate seats while the Republi
cans were able to capture only
two in the House. Now the score
in the Senate is (58 to 32 for the
Democrats, and, in the House, 259
to 176.
There was the usual deluge of
post-election analysis. This time
the emphasis was on whether
President Kennedy, who had asked
for even more Democrats, could
be considered a winner or loser.
Only One Real Loser
There was only one real loser:
the Republicans. They got one
more crushing defeat. In the 16
national elections since 1932 the
voters have given the Republicans
a majority in Congress only twice:
In 1946 and 1952.
In 1946 there was wide discon
tent with shortages and the rem
nants of wartime controls. In 1952
President Eisenhower carried his
party to victory with him on his
sturdy coat tails.
But the voters quickly showed
(a> that they made a distinction be
tween Eisenhower and his fellow
Republicans and <b> that they
lacked confidence in Republican
control of Congress.
They did it bv putting the De
mocrats in control in the very next
election, 1954, and every election
since, including 1956 when they
again elected Eisenhower in a
huge turnout.
Painful as it must be to Repub
licans, this is not all. Even in the
states the voters show a sharp
preference for Democrats, as they
did this year in the gubernatorial
races by electing more than twice
as many Democrats as Republi
cans.
Base of Both Parties Conservative
A foreigner looking at the elec
tion returns might be mystified.
While there are liberals in both
parties, more among the Demo
crats than among the Republicans
the broad base of both parties is
conservative.
; This is not all that makes for
j confusion to anyone looking for
; clear-cut differences between the
j parties. There is also a deep and
| damaging cleavage within the De
j mocratic party between north and
south.
It was because they deserted
| Kennedy’s leadership time and
| again to vote with Republicans
j against him that the President
went out urging the election of
more Democrats.
What he was looking for was
more liberal Democrats to offset
both the conservative Republicans
and the conservative Democrats.
His campaigning was an indirect
admission that even though the
Democrats in Congress far out
numbered Republicans he still
didn’t feel he could get his pro
grams unless he could get more
I Democrats, and liberal ones at
i that.
What the country really has is
two parties that don’t operate un
der their appropriate labels:
liberals and conservatives.
If there could be a political re
arrangement through which there
would be a clear distinction be
tween the two groups — liberals
and conservatives — and perhaps
under new names the voters would
be able to give a sharper indica
tion of which way they want to
go.
But the American political sys
tem is slow to change — even
change names — so any prospect
for a new alignment looks more
like a problem for the voters of
the 21st century to think about.
You can win money from almost
anyone by betting him he can’t
fold a piece of paper in half eight
times. No matter how large and
thin the paper, it can’t be done.
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