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CONSTANTINE BROWN Communism's 'Hot Summer' Is On Red 'Heat' Spreads to Africa and Europe As U. S. Reacts at Last to Castro's Acts The "hot summer” fore seen by those acquainted with international communism’s tactics and strategy has be gun. For the time being the heat is building up in sections of Africa, Europe and the Car ibbean. The Africans were given their independence without preparation for self government. They are cele brating it, especially in the former Belgian Congo, with orgies against the white set tlers. There are fears that the example of the Congo lese will be followed by oth ers. In Europe the übiquitous Nikita Khrushchev is direct ly and indirectly inciting trouble. His state visit to Austria was, as usual, turned into another propaganda campaign against the United States and West Germany, his pet hatreds. Khrushchev warned once more that he intends to crush Chancellor Adenauer, whom he brands a "second Hitler.” and protect Austria’s neutrality by sending troops into that country in the event Austrian neutral airspace is violated by missiles which can be launched from Italy. Austria’s Chancellor Raab dared utter only the mildest rebuke for Khrushchev’s pro vocative speeches. Austria is too close to the Soviet bor ders. In Italy the Communist Party leader. Palmiro To gliatti. synchronized upris ings and general strikes by workers of the Communist dominated Italian Federa tion of Labor with Khru shchev’s verbal actions in Austria. The Italian people Ex-Planner Calls Pact With Japan 3 Years Late By the Associated Press A former State Department policy planner says the United States ambassador to Japan recommended a new security treaty at least three years ago. and if it had been put through then much trouble would have been avoided Paul H. Nitze, former director of the department’s policy planning staff, said there was little pressure to change the treaty three years ago. Then Japanese public opinion would not have been formed against it. he said. Mr. Nitze’s testimony was given on June 17 to a Senate subcommittee studying United States policy-making machin ery. It was made public yester day. Mr. Nitze did not mention j anti-treaty riots that caused’ cancellation of President Eisen hower’s visit to Japan, but he said: “In part our difficulties in Japan today are due to the i fact that too optimistic a view was taken three or four years . ago of the long run develop- I ments in the Japanese situa- ’ tion.” He said he understands United States Ambassador Douglas MacArthur II recom mended changing the wording of the postwar treaty at least Italian Riots Viewed As Bolstering Tambroni By EUGENE LEVINE Associated Press Staff Writer ROME, July 9.—Communist rioting, aimed at ousting Pre- i mier Fernando Tambroni’s Christian Democrat govern ment. appeared today to have backfired and to have strength ened his hand instead. The rioting, Italy’s worst in years, has killed 10 and in jured more than I,ooo—both demonstrators and police. No 1 major Italian city has escpaed the disorders. Communist orators have re peatedly demanded that Mr.. Tabroni must go or. as one pro-Communist Senator put it, Italy will "be a government of civil war.” But the strife seems to have united the warring factions of Mr. Tambroni’s Christian Dem ocrat Party behind him. at least for the present, and to have made it more difficult for the Facists to withdraw their support from him. Needed Fascist Votes Mr. Tambroni’s government was a shaky one when it came to power in April. The left wing of the Christian Democrats openly opposed the government. Mr Tambroni needed Fascist votes to survive a vote of con fidence in the Chamber of Dep uties. The Communists and So-1 cialists on the left, the Liberals and the Monarchists on the right, all opposed Mr. Tam broni. A week ago the Premier looked as if he was in trouble. In the early stages of the rioting. Com- i munist demonstrators forced the government to order the cancellation of a Fascist na tional congress in Genoa. Irate Fascists threatened to withdraw their support from the govern ment. They said it should have given them more protection. But in the past three days violent rioting has created a new. critical situation in which the Fascists are expected to think twice before opposing Mr. Tambroni. And some say the Liberals and Monarchists might have second thoughts too if matters come to a head in a confidence vote. Mr. Tambroni’s big test is expected to come Tuesday when both houses of Parliament debate the rioting. In the meantime, Mr. Tam broni is acting like a man de termined to subdue the violence without, compromise. Yesterday his cabinet ignored a plan for a 15-day truce by Senate President Cesare Merzagora. He suggested that police and are faring well these days. They are better off—although there are still a number of depressed areas, particularly in the south—than they have ever been before. The Italians are not in clined to impair their present prosperity. But the disci plined hard Communist core has succeeded in creating serious trouble in Rome and other prosperous cities, although strike orders have been obeyed only in the "Red belt” around Bologna and other prosperous Northern Italian industrial centers. The success or failure of the movements ordered by the Kremlin stooge Togliatti de pend entirely on the deter mination of Italian Premier Tambroni to fight back. But it is in the Caribbean, and especially in Cuba, that the heat wave produced by Moscow most seriously affects us. We have committed un pardonable blunders in Cuba ever since the administration decided some 18 months ago that Fidel Castro and his cut throat gang was the answer to our prayers for democracy. Responsible officials in the State Department ignored the reports of the CIA and FBI dating back to 1948 de scribing Fidel and Raul Castro as being at least under the Communist discipline. Castro was invited as guest speaker by the American So ciety of Newspaper Editors. Not only was he given the accolade of the free American press, but he also was re ceived with honor by the ad ministration. His speeches and utterances seemed mod erate then. The State De- three years ago “to bring it into closer conformity to the true understanding before the issue became a matter of public interest in Japan.” The new treaty, which set off the riots, is considered much more favorable to Japan than the old one, but a large Japanese element protested it. Some critics said it makes it possible for Japan to be in volved in a war without its consent. The late Secretary of State John Foster Dulles agreed in September, 1958. to revise the treaty after Prime Minister Nobosuke Kishi requested it. The negotiations took 18 months. The new treaty has been ratified by both countries in spite of the violent protests in Japan. armed forces go back to their normal duties while political parties and labor unions call off public demonstrations. Mr. Tambroni’s cabinet re plied bluntly that its job is to keep the “public squares from substituting for Parliament.” Gets Some Support Defense Minister Giulio An dreotti said: “The govern ment must keep order with all means at its disposal." The Communists and the Red-led General Confederation of Labor ( CGIL), which has tried to organize general ■ strikes with the riots, gave con-; ditional approval to Mr. Merza-1 gora's truce bid. But their words came even as thousands of Communist-led i rioters in Palermo and Catania were fighting police in some of the most violent of the cur- i rent disorders. At Palermo two demonstra-! tors were killed and 100 in-; jured. At Catania, where' fighting continued until late last night, one rioter died and 50 w'ere hurt. 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But shortly afterward Castro unfurled his true flag. It was all red. The honey moon was over. Ever since he has kicked us in the shins, insulted our country and its leaders in words far more violent than those used by either Khrushchev or Mao Tze-tung and adopted a pol icy of spoliation by confis cating American capital and installations in the island. When it was evident, even to the perennial optimists in Washington, that Castro and his gang had become only a front for the hundreds of Russian and Chinese "advis ers” and that Cuba had be come the foremost base of international communism, the administration awoke from its torpor. The Cuban sugar quota has been cut and the State Department is being urged to freeze Cuban funds in the United States. Too late. Castro transferred funds amounting reportedly to some $4O million to Switzerland several months ago. The harm done by the mild policies of the administration has had repercussions in many Latin American repub lics, which at the present time are hesitating to follow us to bring Castro on the road to international decency. His Favorite Kept Secret By Humphrey LOS ANGELES. July 9 (AP). 1 —Senator Humphrey of Min nesota, who had hopes of being a presidential candidate, ar rived at the Democratic con vention site last night as just a delegate. Like some other delegates, he was non-committal about whom he is backing. , Smiling and wiping from his cheeks the lipstick stains from kisses of exuberant convention “Golden Girl” greeters, Senator Humphrey posed for pictures with his wife Muriel and son Skipper, 18. “Unpredictable” is the way Senator Humphrey summed up I what might happen at the con vention. He said the 31-member Minnesota delegation, of which he is co-chairman with Gov. Orville Freeman, will caucus Monday. Until then, Senator Humphrey said, he would make no com ment on how the delegation was going. The delegation is pledged to him. "There has been no commit ment made.” he said, adding, “My interest in and friendship for the Democratic candidates is rather general.” He said he is "very fond” of Senators Ken nedy, Symington and Johnson. Senator Humphrey committed himself on one thing: He said he is in favor of Gov. Freeman ■ for Vice President. Bastille Day Ball The Federation of French War Veterans will hold its an nual Bastille Day ball at 9 p.m. Thursday in the Sheraton-Park Hotel ballroom. Proceeds will go to charities. e ' l just lore it all— with small children opening the door all the time. Frost really built up in mv old model, now it's my FROST-PROOF." Mrs. Malcom C. 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By the time a delegation gets the full John son treatment, he’s left a little bit of himself in old Dixie— usually his coat lapels. ** * * Jack Kennedy, a Pulitzer Prize author, may bring out a convention autobiography: “From Here to Maturity.” ** » * Police grab a man who threatens to jump off the 14th floor of the convention hotel. It was quickly apparent the guy was not Democratic Chairman Paul Butler. Nobody was pushing him. »♦ * » You can’t blame Jack Kennedy for coming to Los Angeles with a bodyguard. Any man with that many relatives and in-laws in town needs protection. *« * * Adlai Stevenson feels neglected here. Nobody has de clared he can’t win in November, organized a “stop-Stevenson” drive—or accused him of a new disease. *» * » Political theme songs: Jack Kennedy—“l Couldn’t Sleep a Wink Last Night.” Truman Due to Change Mind, Go as Delegate INDEPENDENCE, Mo.. July! 9 (AP).—Former President Truman was expected to an nounce today—to no one’s sur prise—that he has changed his mind and will attend the Dem ocratic National Convention in Los Angeles as a Missouri del egate. Ten days ago Mr. Truman said he was resigning as a del . egate and would not attend the convention. Last Saturday, in a press conference, he gave his reason. The convention, he said, was "prearranged” in fa vor of Senator John Kennedy of Massachusetts. The former President said he was acting to alert the party to the danger of freezing out other worthy candidates for the Democratic presidential nom ination. But he carefully left the door ajar. At the press conference, asked if he might be in Los Angeles at convention time even though he did not plan to attend the sessions, he re plied: "You never can tell.” When told Thursday that the Ambassador Hotel in Los An geles was wondering if it should hold the presidential suite for him, he advised a newsman: "You tell them to hold onto it. Tell them they aren’t going to lose any money.” Then yesterday Gov. James T. Blair, chairman of the Mis souri delegation, announced the former President had recon sidered and would arrive in Los 1 Angeles Monday to take part in the convention as a delegate. Gov. Blair said he had never accepted Mr. Truman’s resig nation, anyway. Mr. Truman said he would have a statement today. It ap peared likely he might go be yond a mere announcement that he had reconsidered and would attend the convention. 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It was held in 1831 at Baltimore by the Anti-Masonic Party. Its nominee, William Wirt, was a Freemason, and he defended the order in a speech to the convention which nominated him. The Democrats held their first in 1832, nominating Andrew Jackson for a second term. The Republicans, who adopted that name officially in 1854, nominated John C. Fremont at their first con vention in Philadelphia in 1856. It cannot be said there is today any great national in tensity about the candidates offered by either party. There is curiosity, but not fervor. Reporters arriving here are informed that gamblers in the City of the Angels are offering heavy odds that Jack Kennedy will make it not later than the second ballot. There are almost no voices to say them nay. But speculation is a disease afflicting otherwise good minds in election years. And so, since a wee mathematical chance remains to stop Sena tor Kennedy, the convention takes on some of the mystery of the Great Indefinable. There are men who nurse the dream that on the second ballot the delegate weed kill er, applied but a few days ago by Old Doctor Truman, will begin to show its effect. After that second ballot, say the makers of this dubious dream, the great State of Texas will begin to be heard from and her favorite son, Lyndon Johnson, will begin his climb toward the nomi nation. But whatever the potency of his “Stop Kennedy Spe cific,” or lack of it, it is per haps just as well that Dr. Truman isn’t scheduled to speak to the delegates. The mood of some of them is such that the less decorous would almost surely boo him. And this is something Mr. Truman doesn't deserve from the party, even though twice now he has given its conven tions the back of his hand, ere the delegates had taken up what is called their delib erations. There is some sullenness around. There has been pressure by the Kennedy forces, and some of it was hard to take. But none can deny that a great tide flows for him. It may be the party is weary of the old pros. Maybe there is an appeal in a fresh young face. I recall that in West Virginia the women and THE EVENING STAR Washington, D. C., Saturday, July 9, 1960 the school girls shrilled and waved and cheered when ever the debonair young man appeared. Without question, he is a fortunate young man to have financial wealth plus the necessary riches of per sonality “magic.” It is much too early to say. but there is a strong line of thought here that the astute Texan will find managing a convention quite different from handling a Senate majority and cajoling a minority. These thinkers re call that in 1956, when Dr. Truman sought to destroy Adlai Stevenson with Gov. Harriman, Senator Johnson appeared suddenly on the scene in behalf of Senator Richard B. Russell’s interests. It was one of those moments when the iron theoretically was hot. In behalf of Sena tor Russell it must be said that his campaign was all but non-existent, and not even Senator Johnson could bring about a swing of un committed delegates. The 500 Homeless In Texas Deluge LUBBOCK, Tex., July (AP). —Fresh deluges poured onto West Texas’ South Plains to day. skyrocketing the refugee j total above the 500 mark in that I rich agricultural area. i The nature of the flat coun try —free of swift, sudden run ■ offs—averted any major danger ; to life and property. The week’s rains—totaling up to 20 inches in some places— simply sought the lowest spot in the vicinity and created vast, shallow lakes. The homeowners who fled cannot return to their homes for the most part until the water soaks into the ground. Authorities said the majority of the refugees are city and town dwellers. They made no attempt to count the number of farm families driven into homes of friends and relatives. FOR RENT Charming Small Mansion, Conn. Ave. and N OFFICE- LIVING ■ ENTER TAINING BUSINESS OR PROFESSIONAL APPROXI MATELY 7,000 SQ. FT. AIR CONDITIONED-ELEVATOR, AMPLE PARKING. RE. 7-7766 tide was running for Ste venson and neither Dr. Tru man nor Senator Johnson could lure them away. Senator Johnson came here with less delegate strength from the Western States than he had anticipated. There is, without question. Kennedy pressure building up within the big delegations from New Jersey, Pennsyl vania and California. Once the first-ballot pledges are kept, the largest gainer should be the young Senator from Massachusetts. But there are angers and frustrations and feuds here. Dr. Truman has intensified some of them. There will be many here who will not vote in November for whoever is nominated, feeling as they do that the convention was rigged before the respected and neutral chairman took up the gavel. This is not to say they will vote Republican. They will, as the saying has it, go fishing on that day. But I am reminded this is par for Democratic conven tions. The Democrats al aiways fight one another. But it makes little sense. Mother Joins Kennedy Clan LOS ANGELES, July 9 (AP). —Senator Jack Kennedy's mother arrived last night to join the Kennedy clan and de clared her son was certainly not too young to be President. She wak met at the airport by her actor son-in-law, Peter Lawford, who brought a chduf feur-driven car up to the jet plane ramp for her. Mr. Lawford, husband of Pa tricia Kennedy, wore a Ken nedy button on his lapel. Joseph P. Kennedy, sr„ Jack's father, is already here. He is staying in a home he owns in Beverly Hills. When asked if she thought her son was too young to be President, Mrs. Kennedy re plied, “certainly not.” and added that he had been in politics all his life—“since he was a baby.” SUNDAY PROGRAMS RADIO TELEVISION WARL WRC-TV 8:45 o.m. 9:15 o m. 780 kc. or Chan 4 105.1 me. A-5