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DAVID LAWRENCE
Earl Warren: 1960 Possibility
Chief Justice's Advantages as Nominee
Os Either Party Are Pointed Out
Lots of things can happen
In two years—and one may
be that Vice-President Nixon
and Nelson Rockefeller will
not remain the only person
alities prominent In the dis
cussion of prospective Repub
lican nominees for the presi
dency. For there Is always
the possibility that the napie
of Chief Justice Warren also
will be tossed Into the ring.
Walter Reuther, head of the
United Auto Workers Union,
told a television audience the
other day that, among others,
Chief Justice Warren would
make a good presidential
nominee In 1960. This Is a
significant Indorsement from
the man who is being bailed
as having a powerful voice
In the American electorate.
In view of the signal success
of the labor unions recently
in electing to Congress a ma
jority of Democrats, the Im
portance of such a tribute
cannot be minimized.
Mr. Warren has, himself,
dented any presidential ambi
tions and has made his dis
claimer about as positive as
atiyone can. But It will be
recalled that Associate Jus
tice Charles Evans Hughes
said virtually the same thing
several times before he was
nominated by the Republi
can Party in 1918. Mr.
Hughes told this correspond
ent In no uncertain terms
Just a few days before the
Republican National Conven
tion that he couldn't con
ceive of his being nominated.
He pointed out that he had
not encouraged anyone to
get delegates for him—ln
deed, had disavowed them—
and had publicly refused to
allow his name to go on
the ballot In any primary
elections. But he was drafted
just the same.
Chief Justice Warren won
the governorship in Califor
nia in 1948 as the nominee of
both parties. He Is known as
DORIS FLFCSON
California G.O.P. Split on Election
_ _ . • „ • m i_ i Ha vs With the same
Party Recriminations Fall on Knowland
And His Supporter , Norman Chandler
LOB ANGELES. —During
the luah Republican yean In
California politics the State's
press, with rare exceptions,
notably the McClatchy Bee
newspapers, gave the party
monolithic support of a kind
rarely seen elsewhere. By
common consent, the stone
at the head of the corner
was marked ‘‘Norman Chan
dler and the Los Angeles
Times."
TO Californians, one of the
most arresting features of
the campaign this fall was
the major breach in this
press wall. The Hearst news
papers of Los Angeles and Ban
Francisco and the Scripps-
Howard News of San
Francisco indorsed Governor
elect Edmund G. (Pat)
Brown, while the San Fran
cisco Chronicle at the last
minute dramatically with
drew Its indorsement of the
Republican nominee. Senator
William F. Knowland.
These developments were
accompanied by widespread
suggestions that ■ the Chan
dler influence had persuaded
Senator Knowland to key
his campaign to support of
the right-to-work proposal
on the ballot this year. Since
both were decisively beaten,
the O. O. P. recriminations
Corn Farmers Voting
On Tree Market 7 Plan
By LEE M. COHN
Star Staff Writer
Com farmers vote today in
a referendum that promises to
set the pattern for agricultural
policies and politics. »
The outcome may determine
whether the Government con
tinues its withdrawal from the
agricultural business or plurtges
back in. It also could count
more heavily than the congres
sional elections in deciding the
fate of Agriculture Secretary
Benson.
City housewives have a big
stake in the referendum too.
It could push prices up or down
for pork and beef and ulti
mately all food and fiber.
Secretary Benson wants
farmers in 932 major corn
counties to vote for lowered
price supports in exchange for
freedom from production con
trols. About 3 million farmer*
are eligible to vote.
The Alternatives
If they follow his advice, hr
will Interpret the vote as a
mandate to cut supports ant
relax controls on other crops
More Important, Congress prob
ably would agree with his read
ing of the signs.
But if the corn farmers re
ject the proposal, they will glv<
Mr. Benson s congressional foe:
ammunition to fight his “fre<
market" ideas harder thin ever
He made substantial progrea
this year In pushing througl
legislation on cotton and rice
along with com. To varylnj
degrees, the legislation provide
for lowered price support* am
loosened controls on productlor
Aar* Props Cause Surpluses
Informed officials at th
Agriculture Department sal
today the Secretary is workln
on wheat and tobacco proposal
along the same lines for sub
S mission to Congress next yeai
Mr. Benson blames hug
an outstanding vote-getter.
Noting that Messrs. Know
land and Nixon were unsuc
cessful In their efforts In the
last California campaign,
many Californians say Mr.
Warren could have won If he
had been a candidate this
time. He made a speech In
San Francisco last month on
Federal-State relationships
which was considered by
some observers as having po
litical overtones, since It was
delivered during the cam
paign.
It is true that Mr! Warren
would not attract any South
ern States because of the
views he expressed in the de
segregation case In 1954, but
the Republican Party can
write off the possibility of
winning any electoral votes In
the South, no matter who the
Republican nominee may be.
The sending of Federal troops
to Little Rock ended for years
to come any chance for the
Republican Party In the
South.
But Chief Justice Warren
is the type of political per
sonality who, It would be
urged, could get the so-called
“liberal” vote and the labor
vote and, of course, the Ne
gro vote overwhelmingly in
the North. If the criterion Is
what kind of showing a nom
inee could make among mi
nority groups generally, then,
politically speaking, there
are potent reasons for con
sidering Earl Warren.
It is even possible for Mr.
Warren to become the Dem
ocratic Party nominee—if
his record on so-called “lib
eral” issues is matched
against that of any other
Governor or former Governor
whose name has been offered
thus far on the Democratic
side. There was a time not
i so long ago—l94B and 1951
when in the preconvention
talk Dwight Eisenhower was
i often mentioned for both
directed both at Senator
Knowland and Mr. Chandler
have been echoing loudly all
over the State.
It is fair to add that the
Chandler name la used by
many of the complainers as
a generic title for those con
servative Republican inter
ests which are charged with
falling to respond to the
changing times. Curiously,
the Knowland newspaper,
the Oakland Tribune, and
its aging genius, the Sena
tor’s father, Joseph Know
land, seldom are mentioned
in the indictment.
Norman Chandler seemed
calm when questioned direct
ly about whether other ma
jor California newspapers
apparently were going into
business for themselves.
The extent of their com
mon purposes and agree
ments have always been
vastly exaggerated, he said.
He could not remember that
they have ever formally de
cided upon a common course.
"I do my politics In the
columns of my newspaper,”
he said firmly.
But he did more than sug
gest of his own motion that
some sons of famous pub
lishers were deciding to
stand on their own feet
I crop surpluses—which depress
I market prices—largely on arti-
I I flctally high Federal price sup
i ports. He contends subsidized
I prices have discouraged con
sumption of American farm
; products and have allowed for
■ sign competitors to squeeze the
?i United States out of its tradi
’ tlonal markets.
[ He contends farmers would
j be better off in the long run If
r they sold their output at com
petitive prices, and made up
* for price reductions by lncreas
'• ing volume. "Real” farmers—ai
' distinguished from pressure
‘ groups—favor this approach,
rather than government "dom
* lnation," he insists.
J Farmers may vote to con
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indorsed for the Democratic
presidential nomination In
1948 by prominent Demo
cratic leaders, including some
from the ranks of labor.
Since Mr. Warren has been
so popular in the Democratic
Party In California, his name
Is one-the Democrats might
toss about, Just as they did
that of Gen. Elsenhower
only a few years ago.
The one drawback for the
Democrats in considering any
Warren-for-President move
ment is that the “solid
South" would truly rebel at
the polls if he were named.
But Judging by the strategy
of some of the Northern
leaders in Congress who are
pressing for "cloture” and
drastic legislation on! "civil
rights," those same leaders
must feel that the electoral
votes of the South are not at
all necessary and that the
Irtctory in 1960 will be a land
slide for the Democratic
presidential nominee without
the South’s votes.
Earl Warren is a man for
whose rise the Republican
Party is largely responsible.
For he owes his appointment
on the high court to the
recommendations received by
President Eisenhower from
influential members of the
Republican Party Also, the
desegregation decision of
1954 is in conformity with
the Republican Party’s pro
testations on "civil rights”
over a long period. Certainly
Mr. Nixon’s reference in a
public speech to "a great Re
publican Chief Justice Earl
Warren” now will be recalled,
even if. m the Vice President
spoke, there was some doubt
whether he intended to put a
vocal comma after the word
“Republican.”
If the Republicans really
feel they must go “modern”
to win next time, they have
in Mr. Warren, as a presi
dential nominee, the incar
nation of “modernism” in
American politics.
(Copyrlsht, 1955)
tnese aays. mm mt same
dry humor which accom
panied his comments on his
political reverses, he docu
mented his point with
amusing stories about the
arguments the younger gen
eration was' having with each
other.
His own strongly dynastic
feelings were to the fore in
his defense of right-to-work
legislation to which his deep
commitment is constant. The
long-gone days of violent la
bor-capital clashes which saw
the Los Angeles Times build
ing dynamited apparently
are as real to him as today's
editions of his newspaper.
Unquestionably, these emo
tions inspired that apostolic
fervor of his election-eve,
front-page editorial insist
ing "It must be Knowland"—
the same Senator Knowland
he has now consigned to po
litical oblivion.
Mr. Chandler has placed
his own bets for 1960 on Vice
President Richard M. Nixon
who. incidentally, has de
clined to say how he voted
on right-to-work in his home
State. Os the looming New
York threat—Governor-elect
Nelson Rockefeller—Mr.
Chandler said only that he
could not see any great dif
ference between him and the
defeated Democrat, Gov.
Averell Harriman. a verdict
rather widely held in political
circles.
tinue the old program, qualify
ing for price supports in 1969
averaging about $1.34 to $1.27
iper bushel by limiting produc
tion to allotted acreage. Or
they may discard the allotment
system, planting all the corn
they wish for supports aver
aging about $1.12 to sl.lß per
joushel in 1959. Under the sec
ond alternative, supports could
“ drop still lower in future years,
n Opponents of the new plan
•. warn It would result in huge
ie' surpluses and low prices for
i |com. When com—the fiain
feed grain—drops in price, pro
. duction of livestock Is encou-;
ld raged This leads to low retail
if prices for meat.
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re The American Youth Hos
l», telers and Wayfarers Club will
i- hold a square dance at s:l6
ip.m. tomorrow in Pierce Hall,
i-1 Fifteenth and Harvard streets.
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W //-ZiT I [ TM-Werld RlfMt h*S.
"When I shout, all that comes back is a
Bronx cheer!”
POTOMAC FEVER ”
FLCTCHCR KNEBCL
Ike names a committee to study foreign aid. No subject
has been studied more, with less progress, with the possible
exception of freshman English.
* * * *
Vice President Nixon visits London. He rates a 21-gun
salute and is thankful the English are poorer marksmen
than the Venezuelans.
* * * *
The Supreme Court rules Alabama's school law is con
stitutional. The Judges are well read in the law—to say
nothing of the daily newspapers. •
* * * *
Alaska votes. We’ll now have two more Senators to
ratify Lyndon Johnson’s decrees.
* * * *
Question box. Q—What killed quiz programs on TV?
A.—Federal pressure. Washington couldn’t abide a major
rival in the give-away field.
* * * *
Senator Goldwater says the G.O.P. should build for the
future “right of center.” A very nice residential neighbor
hood—exclusive and secluded.
* * * *
French voters clobber the Communists. Khrushchev
claims it was a typical De Gaulle trick —confusing the voters
with more than one ticket. •
i n i the construction of Spingam
Ground broken High school in 1952. wm cost
■l. 1 e L I $2,997,000. It is to be ready in
For High benool July. i 960.
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east Washington. | gchool, expected to serve
School and District officials 1300 students, will consist of
took part in brief ceremonies 55 classrooms. Os these, 36 will
at the sitA of the Frank W. be special purpose rooms such
Ballou Semor High School at Bs B library, art and music
Fourth street between Missis- rooms, science labs and lefcture
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France Seeks to Regain Top Role
Policy of Nationalism and Economic
Recovery Held Formi/la of Success
The French people are de
termined to see France climb
back to a position of inter
national pre-eminence. Thus
observers of French psychol
ogy forecast the result of the
November 23 elections to this
reporter while he was in
Paris recently, pnd they
proved right.
All those who ran on Gen.
Charles de Gaulle’s platform
of a great and rejuvenated
France were front runners.
Politicians described as “pop
ular” since the end of the
war, such as Pierre Mendes-
France, because they advo
cated pot only a “shrunken
France” but also rank inter
nationalism were thrown on
the political junk heap.
The “miracle of France” is
ascribed by many to the popu
larity of Gen. de Gaiflle
who, while not yet riding the
proberblal white horse, has
one in his stable. As a mat
ter of fact, De Gaulle is not
personally the type of man
to rouse the enthusiasm of
the masses. He is cold, dis
tant and overbearing. But
the ideas he represents these
days— the revival of national
consciousness—appeal to the
sorely tried Frenchmen who
have known only economic
and political disasters in the
last 20 years.
At the end of the war the
French sought a kind of
political escapism in com
munism and extreme left
wing policies. The drone of
beautiful words from the ad
vocates of the welfare state
in which individualism is
subjected to the authority
of the government sounded
great to the ears of most
Frenchmen. Those opposed
to them were easily smeared
as reactionaries and enemies
of the people. But after some
15 years of trials and tribu
lations, France, the richest
country in Europe, came to
the verge of political and
I economic bankruptcy.
Throughout history, the ver
satile French people hare
been known as willing to try
anything once. If one system
fails, they don’t mind chang
ing to another overnight. And
1 this is what has happened in
j the laftt few months.
The mood in France is
definitely nationalistic. De
Gaulle, with the backing of
an overwhelming majority
of the French people, will be
able to follow an independent
policy in which the interests
of the country will be placed
ahead of the interests of the
international community,
i This does not mean that he
THI EVENING STAR
Washington, D. C., Tvnday, No*tmbtr 25, 1953
will try to renege on a number
of commitments made under
the Fourth Republic, such as
France’S full co-operation in
the NATO. But he will insist
more than in the past that
France belong to the di
rectorate of that coalition
and not be placed on a foot
ing equal with Norway or
Luxembourg.
The NATO is a political
military organization in
which all members are sup
posed to be equal. But in fact
"some are more equal than
others.” And De Gaulle in
sists that his ebufttry belong
to the group of the “more
equal” like America. Britain
and, more recently, Germany.
One of De Gaulle's trusted
lieutenants told this reporter
recently that while there will
be no radical changes in
France’s foreign policy, one
thing is certain: “France will
no longer be in tow of the
Anglo-Americans.”
While the nationalist-con
scious Paris government real
izes that colonialism is dead
and its Asian possessions have
been irretrievably lost, it defi
nitely intends to keep Algeria
within the associations of
French people. The various
pressures from Britain and
America to adopt what we
eall a “more liberal policy
toward the Arabs in Al
geria” will remain unheeded.
“The Algerian people,” said
the De Gaulle lieutenant,
"were given the opportunity
of a plebiscite when they were
asked to vote for the Fifth
Republic. They indorsed it
and De Gaulle by an over
whelming vote. They and the
other peoples who live in
what used to be our colonies
will participate as fully as
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the peoples in metropolitan
France in the new political
setup. What we and they do
is our own business and not
the business of verbose poli
ticians in America and Brit
ain who know as little about
our problems as we do about
the Negro problem in tha
United States. We don’t pre
sume to tell you how to han
dle that thorny subject. It’*
your own business. Thence,
although there is no similar
ity whatsoever between the
two matters, there is no rea
son why you or anybody els*
should tell us how to handle
our own domestic problems.
We know what the Soviet*’
objectives are when they raise
a howl about French colonial
ism in North Africa. But we
genuinely cannot detect what
is in the minds of American
and British politicians and
pressure groups when they
Join Moscow in that chorus.
“There was unfortunately
a time* when our governments
felt that they had to accept
foreign lr.mixture in our na
t.iohal affairs. We needed
desperately economic assist
ance. Things have changed
now. It is true that our eco
nomic and financial fabric is
still shaky. But there is every
indication that with the re
turn of national confidence
there will be an early return
to economic prosperity.”
Y Promotes Firth
Charles B. Firth, business and
residence director of the Dis
trict’s Central YMCA, has been
appointed assistant executive
! director. He Joins Bernard E.
Empleton in his new capacity
and will continue as business
land residence director.