THE FOREIGN SCENE EDITORIAL Books on Page C-5 Obituaries C-6 C Another Korea He jhndau on Page In the Cold War WASHINGTON, D. C„ DECEMBER 18, 1960

In Laos last week al! the es- including heavy, artillery and ~, sential ingredients of another tanks. A week ago, the force faced THE WEEK IN PERSPECTIVE Korea were present as Rightist the troops under Capt. Kong Le rebels elashed with Leftist on the outskirts of the capital. troops for control of the polit- Prince Souvanna, assessing the Vientiane. ical capital, odds, decided to flee. He and a ; few of his closest aides flew to Almost everything about the Cambodia. Polsena. who mountain kingdom of Laos has to Qutaim : was Minister of; Information in . be estimated. For example, the the Souvanna then reference works state that the government, last Cabinet for the New took over as Premier, and Frontier population is 2 million (estimated' week end Soviet aircraft. began and that the total land area is supplies and 90,000 miles (estimated). unloading equipment square ____ at the Vientiane Airport. President-elect Kennedy, with Code of Ethical Standards for its In recent months it has been cus- mbmmmi All week the forces of, Oen. a flurry of appointments, last leaders. tomary for diplomats and' news- Nosavan and Capt. Kong Le have week completed the selection Gov. Orville Freeman of Min- papermen to estimate the chances been locked in struggle for the of his cabinet. nesota, the Secretary of Agricul- of Laotian independence in the a capital. Yesterday the rebels ture-designate, was an early Ken- current political upheaval. ap- to have ta Senator John F. Kennedy of nedy supporter. He put the Bos- made peared the city well Laos was independent who will in- hand, and to have captured the Massachusetts, be tonian’s name ta nomination at when France finally gave up the thus augurated as the 35th President Los Angeles in July. An outspoken struggle to keep Indo- and airport, cutting off direct of the on January critic of the farm policies of the the Commu- Soviet or North Viet Namese aid ¦ ¦ Wib • I compromised with has the the Leftist 20th, manned principal Eisenhower administration, he will to to farcies. nists of Ho Chi Minh partition, his New Frontier. •* ?¦ ?? posts along have the job of pushing for, and the colonial into its three ' »’ / area Using 17 days more Pres-' perhaps administering, the tight Communist tfyan component'States plus U. S. Accused ident-elect Eisenhower did ta 1952 controls called sorta the Kennedy North Viet Nam. The country has to select his full cabinet, he farm program. been almost literally supported by On the Union Tuesday, Soviet picked with care and caution the J. Edward Day is by all odds the the United States since then. Two- in formal a note accused the men he expects to help him guide least known of the Cabinet ap- thirds of the Laotian budget has fe; -United States of "encroaching on and propel the Nation forward pointees. He was offered the Post- been financed by American funds. the Laos JR sovereign rights'* jot by at an accelerated speed ta the master General job after Repre- The importance of this little * openly supplying weapons, sup- early 19605. sentative William Dawson, a Chi- country, and the major factor in and the JHIHJIi plies money to Nosavan The youngest President-elect ta cago Negro, turned it down. the relatively large United States forces. By this action, the note history, at 43, he is relying on All in all, the Kennedy Cabinet contribution to its support, lies in said, the United States was vio- comparative youth ta his inner ¦' is a moderately liberal and well- the fact of its strategic location. the Ge- lating the terms of 1954 circle. He has a 20th century cab- ib'- ¦ balanced one. No radical depar- To its south, along the meander- neva conference declaration on inet, save for one man, the 62- tures from the Eisenhower middle tag course of the Mekong River, which ended the Indo-China, year-old Gov. Luther H. Hodges, A -K way can easily be read into it, lies Thailand, staunch supporter civil thel-e. war Secretary of Commerce - desig- although the Federal Govern- of the West, member of the South- With the approval of King nate. With Mr. Hodges, the av- ment’s heavy hand may get east Asia Treaty Organization, is Sevang Vathana, a Rightist re- erage age 47; without him it UkA Hi heavier in the field of agriculture and keystone of antl-Communist gime under Premier Boun Oum is 45. if the President-elect’s program Southeast resistance in Asia. Here is the was set up as the "loyalist” gov- full cabinet list, is adopted. ROBERT S. McNAMARA Dillon ernment of the warring little completed yesterday with Mr. With sound-money man Secretary of State. Secretary of Defense. Big Neighbor kingdom, and the “rebel” army of Kennedy's announcement from bossing Treasury, another Repub- Gen. Nosavan became, in effect, Palm Beach of his choice for lican ta charge at the Pentagon To there broods the the north, Postmaster General: Rusk the “loyalist”army of Laos. Then and the common-sense Mr. vast land mass of the People’s Re- came these developments: Secretary es State—Dean Rusk. running the State Department, of China, with some 700 public 51, president of the Rockefeller the transition from one adminis- • The United States declared million people, aggressive inten- not the Foundation. tration to the other is likely tions, and the most powerful mil- that Boun Oum government fjr Secretary of Defense—Robert 8. to produce any basic changes of itary establishment in all Asia. had the full support of American McNamara, 44, president of the approach, at least at the outset. To the northeast lies Communist power against any threat of "ex- Ford Motor Co. 1 North Viet Nam. To the southeast ternal aggression”; Secretary of the Treasury—C. I is South Viet Nam. presently tom • Thailand threatened imme- Douglas Dillon. 51. Under Secre- by internal political dissension diate military action if Commu- I Election: tary of State ta the Eisenhower but allied with the West. Directly nist forces from outside Laos administration. I south of narrow Laos’ border is threatened to to the move sup- Secretary of Commerce Gov. Cambodia, another component of port of the Pathet Lao and Kong Finals 62. of North Carolina. the Indo-China. Le Hodges, former French forces; • Secretary of the Interior—Rep- gw|B . Iwlr Prsesident-elect Kennedy’s To lose Laos to 1 • SEATO officials were urging resentative Stewart H. Udall, 40. B IIP victory was super-safe last week would mean, for the Western al- all-out backing for the Boun Oum of Arizona. after a Republican-dominated liance, a significant retreat. The regime, pointing out that Laos, Secretary of Health, Education rd election board In Illinois certi- -and- would be on although not a SEATO member, and Welfare—Gov. Abraham Rib- fied that State’s 27 electoral the Thai borders for miles, would is included under the “protective icoff, 50, of Connecticut. votes to him. loom over Cambodia’s northern umbrella” designed to check Com- Secretary of Agriculture—Gov. would further in- Tomorrow that rather unknown frontier, and munist expansion in Southeast a! Orville Freeman. 42. of . crease the already-serious pres- group known as the electoral col- Asia; Secretary of Labor—Arthur J. RIBICOFF ' J. EDWARD DAY sure on South Viet Nam from her STEWART H. UDALL ABRAHAM lege meets to cast its ballots for • The United States Navy said Goldberg, 52, counsel for vigorous Communist northern special Secretary of Interior. Secretary of H. X. W. Postmatter General. President of the United States. that fleet units were patrolling the AFL-CIO trade union organ- neighbor. It appears now that the vote in the South China Sea; ization. will Senator Ken- Thus Laos has been an object go this way: • Communist China’s radio Pe- Postmaster General J. Ed- Vice President of attention to the United nedy, 300; Nixon, special ward king charged that American na- Day, 46, Los Angeles insur- and Senator 14. States since independence was . Ik 223, Byrd, val in- ance executive. forces were preparing for Jfl ' The popular vote, the closest achieved. The armed forces of . . J F. tervention ta Laos, a charge called Attorney General Robert since the 1884 Cleveland-Blaine the United States have sent spe- |Bk *4l “absurd” by the State Depart- Kennedy. 35, brother of President- contest, narrowed again last week cial missions to train the mnitary in elect Kennedy. ‘SW a ' ment Washington; and reporters were running out wiry, rugged Laotian soldiers. The < ta the Vientiane bat- Bb of adequate adjectives to describe Central Intelligence Agency has • Shelling tle resulted in the destruction of A - it. kept a wary and occasionally ob- Popular List 'Jt. ' the United States Embassy; ' With a total of 68,832,818 votes trusive eye on Laotian political BL dH: The list, generally, is quite a cast, Mr. Kennedy had a plurality developments. The International • More than 300 Americans, plus popular It includes two Re- of only 112381 over Mr. Nixon. Co-operation Administration and Filipinos, Thai, and Viet Namese, one. publicans. two men of Jewish faith I k. During the past couple weeks the United States Information were evacuated from the embat- tled city to Bangkok. Thailand; and one Catholic, and three Dem- much attention has been given to Service have devoted millions in . The ocratic Governors. tew the situations in Illinois and Tex- both dollars and hours to this • United States replied to But there is controversial as, where Republicans charged relatively obscure little SoviA protest note by a coun- one vote and '’ltar charge that was itself figure on it. This is the President- Irregularities fraud. Now Illi- 5 .Violating the Geneva conference elect's brother. Bobby, who looks the battles appear over. When ® than his nois’ O. P.-dominated electoral Beds Gain ’.yj by sending military 5 to 10 years younger G. last voted to certify > actual 35. His appointment marks board week to - efforts Vientiane. Buk'>hatever .the ani rjiquipment ¦ the first in Presi- FREEMAN ARTHUR J. GOLDBERG LUTHER H. HODGES the State’s 27 electoral votes to JPG- time history a ORVILLE the expenditures, the Communist of dent-elect or President has ever Secretary of Agriculture. Secretary of Labor. Secretary of Commerce. Mr. Kennedy, any chance deny- Pathet’ movement, powerful Korea? Bostonian the named a brother to a cabinet post. ing the presidency in the'fountains and valleys, has disappeared. Thus as the week ended, the Senator Kennedy was at once virtually steadily in strength. And In ifthere are gained,, cockpit looked more and accused of high-level nepotism. fact, any changes last igmmer a young and am- but he electoral vote total, Mr. more like the potential site of He expected that, denied in the bitioua paratrooper com- well be J&aotiau another Korea. AU the basic ele- it strenuously. Kennedy may very the mander, Kong Le, in a swift gainer. An uncompleted recount ta ments of war were pres- According to Webster, nepotism the theqold and bloodless coup tossed out Hawaii has given Mr. Kennedy a is: “. . bestowal of ent and festering. Once again a . patronage Premier arid Cabihet and installed little nation, itself unimportant, by reason of relationship rather small lead. Prince Souvanha. Phouma as Pre- If Mr. should finally but occupying a strategic position than of merit.” Kennedy mier. Prihce Souvanna was not win Hawaii’s three electoral in this long war of position, has Senator Kennedy believes that votes, be a Communist, but' was some- become the focal point where the his brother’s record in the Jus- the final count would read: Ken- thing that the Dulles-minded interests and the intrigues, the tice Department; as counsel for nedy, 303; Nixon, 220. American diplomats considered forces and the finagling of the the Senate Labor Rackets Com- almost worse—be was a neutralist. two giant power blocs have come mittee, as manager of a successful The King, Sri Sevang Vathana, cheek-by-jowl. presidential campaign amply sub- -.wW BSBBf Space: his counsel ta the But this there stantiates his for the keeps own Royal time are some capabilities i • capital of Luang Prabang and sel- hopeful signs. Whatever the course high post to which he has been dom interferes directly with the the fighting takes in Laos, most nominated. Later, Perhaps political capital of Vientiane. diplomats yesterday were predict- He is reported to feel, too, that The United States again failed, When Prince Souvanna took over, \ing that there would be no di- no question at allwould have been to send satellite he accepted the fait accompli rect outside military intervention raised if Bobby had not been his on Thursday, a to the moon, as a giant Atlas- with no outward sign of disap- from either side. brother. His advice to skeptics: Able rocket exploded over the proval. Just wait and see and judge the Atlantic. But when Souvanna record. &¦ ¦BMB» An Air Force B-52 last week began negotiations with the lead- mMBBR In Ethiopia: , set a “closed-course” record, fly- Lao for coali- ers of the Pathet a Reluctant ing 16,000 miles without refuel- tion government, things began to Jb The younger Kennedy was re- ing, but a Navy Neptune patrol happen. Under .Gen. Phoumi Brief Revolt ported to have been “reluctant” plane’s 14-year-old mark of Nosavan, a rightist Army wing his distance Haile Selassie to accept the post because of 11,236 miles for open and took the Emperor yester- rebelled field against the remained intact. to relationship to President-elect, ROBERT F. KENNEDY Premier Prihce Souvanna. United day appeared Jiave queUed a C. DOUGLAS DILLON in but that he was finally convinced General. aid to Laos palace revolt Addis Ababa, Secretary of the Treaeury. Attorney States financial was after two “You gazed at the moon and launched Wednesday while the he should accept the temporarily suspended pending an fell ta a gutter.”—Thomas Fuller Emperor in Brasil had a 70-minute conference appraisal of the situation, then was on a ta Gnomologia. state visit. Thursday night. resumed when ot the Pentagon and its 642 bil- doubtedly gave Senator Fulbright emphasize the importance of Mr. Six times America’s sci- the In the three posts having most space He promised promised to take over the burden. lion-plus budget. close consideration, Negro and Stevenson’s job. entists have tried to tend a rocket The King of Kings, the Con- to do with national security It other groups opposed him on the that the former Illinois Governor to the of was very soon apparent, even State, Defense and Treasury—the The McNamara name came up payload vicinity the quering Lion of Judah, Haile that he had the would role in the without announcement, that the suddenly in the cabinet specula- grounds signed “play a key moon and six times they have Selassie I, has ruled ancient President-elect had said that par- tion and it to Southern Manifesto, a declaration formulation of foreign policy.” failed. The latest United States was very favorably tisan politics would no part was tied Treasury disappointment, Ethiopia for more than 30 years. play Southern inclined toward the movement «f as well as Defense. Mr. Kennedy’s by Senators that they Mr. Stevenson, who does not which still leaves the United As of the African in his selections. The nomina- regent empire would every legal Gen. Nosavan, who represented tions confirmed this. decision to put him ta the Penta- pursue means appear to be overjoyed with his States far behind the Soviet Union when his mother, the widow of the Court in- total pro-Westernism rather than for both Defense gon took some courage. For years, to undo Supreme new assignment, offered this i in lunar exploration, came on Emperor Menelik, declared His choices of Souvanna was Democrats and ridi- tegration decision of 1954. This, rather when when the neutralism Prince and Treasury are registered Re- had roasted wry quip asked Thursday an Atlas-Able too ill to reign, he displayed im- they argued, would make difficult combined with the communism of Guard culed Secretary Charles E. Wil- whether the “key role” promise rocket exploded shortly after and publicans, although the Old mense political sagacity an former of Mo- our dealings with African nations the Patbet Lao. out that Mr. McNa- son, head General had led him to accept the ap- take-off from Cape Canaveral, iron might point determination. for if he were to serve as Secretary mara who, despite his name, is tors, and Mr. Eisenhower pointment; Fla. Ethiopian politics and politi- an industrial of State. a deacon of the Presbyterian having appointed "This is the first I’ve heard of Whether the difficulties are ta been A Coalition cians have as closely inter- tycoon to the Defense job. Now, The word leaked from Mr. Ken- the Atlas booster in the upper Church, voted for Mr. Kennedy it, and I think it's a very nice or woven with intrigue and skuldug- and, earlier, for Democratic Sen- Mr. Kenndey has turned around nedy’s headquarters ta his George- stages, is not known. One Na- When Prince Souvanna suc- in the phrase.” gery as any world. Ras and done the same thing. town home that Dean Rusk, an tional Aeronautics and Space ator Hart of Michigan. Mr. Dillon, like ceeded ta establishing rapport him- Perhaps Mr. Stevenson, a ; Tafari, the regent, proved the Secretary of State-designate Assistant Secretary of State for Agency official labeled the unsuc- with the Pathet Lao for a coali- good many observers of the self a master at the game. is Far Eastern Affairs in the Tru- cessful shots “random failures.” a liberal Republican. and tion, he was rebuffed by Gen aside A Hard Job to Fill Washington Kennedy scenes, Shouldering six or eight There is little doubt that both man administration, was the front There is another theory that Nosavan and the rebel army be- rivals who has concluded that Mr. Kennedy had perhaps as valid Defense and runner, having stepped past adds to something like, “Haste The Treasury will be two Aside from Attorney General, be much his up gan moving on Vientiane. claims to the another is going to pretty ! throne as himself, hot ta the months possibility, Ambassador makes waste.” The point here force has spots coming the post which gave Mr. Kennedy own of State and rebel been described bj he became a David K. Bruce. Secretary that ' Emperor,. granted and The continuing threat most in was is that some observers believe American correspondents as wel years. the difficulty filling foreign policy maker. As Fletcher 1 Continued te Page C-4 of Then last Mr. Ken- , the desire to catch up with the American world communism and the dis- that of Secretary of State. Monday, Fever” equipped with weapons » Knebel wrote in "Potomac 'in the Nation’s made it official and Russians has led us to try to ac- turbing. deficit The Democratic Party was nedy an- Friday: on complish too much with too little. balance of payments (the dollar brim full of candi- nounced his nominations for the outstanding “Everything is working nicely gap) are the reasons. three top foreign affairs posts in ' Whatever the reasons for the dates for the foreign affairs post, at the State Department. Chester ll® but the two had seemed the Government: Mr. Rusk, Secretary failure of this 340 million pro- who will be the Bowles Undersecretary, it that Role most likely, and who had the of State; Mr. Bowles, Undersec- ! gram, unhappily means Republican Dean Rusk the Secretary and retary, and Mr. Stevenson, Ambas- , the United States will not be largest individual cheering sec- Jack the oversecretary.” With Republicans heading these Kennedy for another effort tions, also were the two most sador to the United Nations, with ready moon - departments in a Democratic until more powerful rocket com- controversial. These men were Cabinet rank. administration, the posts willhave binations and new payloads are Adlai E. Stevenson, two-time loser, Thus, the controversial Bowles a more national character. Many Mitchell Praise developed some time well into to President Eisenhower, and Rep- and Stevenson pair were removed however, feel that next Republicans, resentative Chester Bowles. the direct line of of year. from fire Ken- Mi-. Dillon, particularly, may be- One of the most popular On Wednesday, the Air Force Mr. Kennedy apparently made their Republican and Southern of Arthur come the “patsy” for Democratic nedy selections was that ' announced that one of its B-52G up his mind early that his ad- Democrat opponents. the union deficit spending and a worsening J. Goldberg, lawyer, as 5 jet bombers had flown a 10,000- ministration get off to of the dollar situation. Both Pres- might a his Secretary of Labor. Outgoing 1 mile nonstop flight, without air- divisive start if he chose either ident Eisenhower and Vice Pres- 'Key Role' Phrase Secretary Mitchell said that the ' borne refueling. ' Mr. Stevenson or Mr. Bowles. - have ident Nixon, however, advised him President elect could not 5 While the noteworthy flight was The then turned to Mr. Stevenson had been offered made better choice. to accept if he thought he could speculation a claimed as a record, it was one chairman of the week thus better fight for national fiscal Senator Fulbright, the U. N. post previous, Mr. Goldberg is held in high1 only on a technicality. It was a the Senate Relations but had declined to im- that responsibility. Foreign accept regard by management as well ass record closed-course flight, Bm. The biggest surprise, perhaps, Committee, who is said to have mediately because he first wanted labor. His goal is to end the “cold1 is, the plane took off and landed wk’p the Mr. was the appointment of Mr. Mc- wanted job as badly as to see who was going to be named war” between the two groups and 1 from the the same base. Namara, who, on the day Mr. Stevenson had. (The Senator Secretary of State and thendklk find away to bar crippling strikerg But on September 29, 1946, a face the formidable Kennedy was elected, was named may very op- to him about the relationshlijl of as away to settle disputes. Hee Navy Neptune P-2V patrol plane of Gov. .OrvilleFaubus in president of tha.Ford Motor Co. position their jobs. helped create the formula forr called the Truculent Turtle landed the senatorial 4 He will now leave this pinnacle of primary in Arkan- Mr. Rusk, a moderate whose merging the AFL and CIO; foughtt in Columbus, Ohio, after an 11,- * CAFT. KONG LE PHOUMI NOSAVAN American industry to grapple sas in 1962. forte is administration, went out to rid unions of their Communist t 236-mile nonstop, nonrefueling In old Laos revolt. New revolt leader. with the man-defying problems While the President-elect un- of his way at a news conference to leadership and conceived labor’ss flight from Perth, Australia.