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Which 5 Senators Jhhb > ,|R: to Disrupt Western Germany by MARGARITA DOBEBT Ence in Bonn Last Summer, He Lieutenant La the West A-28 THE SUNDAY STAR, Washington, D. C. SBHPAT, JSNCAET a ISSQ Communists, Nazis Collaborate dmk jvr“iai Which 5 Senators JhHB > ,|r: To Disrupt Western Germany By MARGARITA DOBEBT ence in Bonn last summer, he lieutenant la the West. Wag- right and the far confessed that between Novem- ner la alao co-publisher and The far ber, 1951, June, 1964, Were the Greatest? left In Germany, unable to and he part-owner of the Rheinsh- r - - make headway separately, and his partners had received WutfaeUtcha Naejtrtehtan. 2.2 million marks (over $500,- Often, the same people are study - hOK- & have combined forces In a By EDWARD BOTKIN This writer’s of Sen- if 000) from the Soviet lone. active in aeveral eueh organ- history feeling campaign to undermine the Just before going home lut ate leads to the Republic embarrassing isations of which there have century politics Bonn and her al- With detail, he summer the Senate approved that 30th has underground been quite a few recently. produced any. liance with the West. described the “Senate Resolution 145," which few. if lawmak- pipeline Why have Nasis, ultra- up against Although the manifesta- to the east via the promises to let loose the breesi- ers. who could stack different, West German Communist Nationalists and Communists marathon heard their stalwart predecessors of tions are it is much est oratorical the same situation as con- Party. He named straw men, become bedfellows? , on Capitol Hill In some time. what some like to call the old frontmen and couriers. There Part of the Nationalist- allowing dif- fronts France after last week’s On paper the resolution school. Even for denials, Socialist has, enough—not elections, which csst stubborn were no no libel suits. credo as the looks Innocent ferences in the standards of disruptive implies, always century or so fascistlc and .Com- The Deutsche Rationale Zei- name been 1955 and of a of tung folded quietly. socialism, or rather a fuzzy historian, ago. the same would hold. Daniel Webster Henry Clay John Caldwell Calhoun munist elements in the role Mr. leykin, an Amenta* strange bedfellows. But, Phoenlx-like, It emotion of solidarity among recently e book, Dominant, magnetic figures soon re- bet -published In Germany, It is the Nazis, appeared In new feathers. The members of the same race, "Congress end the Civil Wor." like Clay, Calhoun and Webster man leads the field by which across come no more to Capitol Hill. a who other rabid' nationalists and name this time was Die Nation cuts class bar- any yardstick you want to use already riers. There was and is, of Great Triumvirate, the Communists* who and for a while it appeared unlike the apparently Innocu- Match this —Daniel Webster of Massa- sleep- course, the hatred of the if you These men were have chosen the same once a week in Munich. When ous Foote Resolution on Public can. chusetts. ing the Mandst-Leninist variety of giants, statesmen of high accommodations. same accusations were Lands that touched off the He was the most picturesque, made, socialism, but even stronger is order, as were many of their The German Communist there was no struggle, massive Webster-Hayne de- majestic, dynamic and eloquent —• the hatred against Western compatriots. Party is utterly discredited in only a quick demise. bate in 1830 on the nature of figure ever to adorn the Western Germany. Out of 40 Today West German news- thinking, against liberalism But getting down to cases, capitalism. the Union—the historic debate taking Senate chamber. million people there are esti- stands sell the Rheinisch and that defined the supremacy of or rather to “fives," and Close at Webster’s -¦ heels long back, mated to be only about 50.- West/aelischen Rachrichten. the Federal Government over a look here are a two, who should walk off members, an Historical Ruisiap suggestions may be come 000 to 60,000 not It is open secret that this the States. few that unchallenged with second and single weekly also The ultra-Nationalists, al- helpful. enough to elect a rep- Is financed from Certainly. Democrats from third places: Henry Clay of resentative In Parliament. the East. Among the five pub- though conservative and ene- Dixie, especially those from Twelve Senators have grad- Kentucky Caldwell mies of all forms of socialism, Presidency, and John Wk They are directed by white- lishers listed on its masthead Carolina, uated to the but belongs geo- Bouth will demand Calhoun of South Carolina. from a appears name of feel that Germany John C. only three of these—James haired Max Reiman the Herman politieally East, that the five Include These three men tread more headquarters in the East Schafer, - to the regard- Monroe, John Quincy Adanw former editor -in political Calhoun, the “Great Nullifler” resoundingly across Senate Zone, where he fled in 1954 chief of the defunct less of inner changes. and Andrew Jackson—could history Deutsche point who charted the course of than any other three In being charged with plot- Zeitung. They to an old pro- by righters possibly qualify for the “great- after Rationale Like its debate States for its annals. In any selection of ting against the Bonn govern- predecessors, the Russian tradition in German Congresses est” Just because he “greatest” paper recom- 1812, many to come. selections. the five their names ment. mends direct negotiations with history, reaching back to Bupport for Calhoun may became Chief Executive rest. signed pact even later must lead all the The visible activities of the Bona, when Prussia a of from admire of the nation does not neces- place the Soviets and attacks neutrality come others who For fourth this ob- Communists today reduced NATO, with Russia at Tau- solely as a great sarily constitute greatness as a ML are and the West. roggen the man server nominates Edward to distributing pamphlets It has small circulation—- and turned her back political scientist and spokes- Senator. Oregon, a Napoleon, Dickinson Baker of Edward Dickinson Baker Thomas Hart Benton among factory workers, in- 15,006 to on a tradition re- man for a lost cause, despite Andrew Jackson's two so- whose name doubtless rings no not more than IS.OOO vived by Bismarck and again structing them on strike actions copies, only the fact that the Civil War journs in the Benate were bell in the average American of which one-fifth by Seekt, whose Nationalist debate, suggestion for and extolling the workingman’s - settled his political philosophy merely stopovers on his way to mind. Why Baker? In rugged In support Now here’s a or one sixth are actually aviators were trained in Com- of measures he believed In. he five "all-Southern” Senators: paradise east of the Elbe. But bought; but it finds an echo for all time. the White House. His record Because, first, one bright Oc- straight munist Russia. packs a wallop. was nothing to was a power to be reckoned Rlehard Henry Lee of Virginia somehow the Marxist in ex-Nazis, in former Hitler But “145” in the Senate tober afternoon in 1861 Senator line seems not to go very The Soviets on their side Zt directs the Senate to hang write home about. So with (and Colonel) Baker, with. It was Benton who (Federalist)!. over Youth leaders and 88 men. In at the forced the" Senati to “ex- well with busy, prosperous use the Nazis and ultra-na- "medallion likenesses" of its James Monroe. John Quincy head of his regiment and still John C. Calhoun of South Car- soldiers unfitted for peacetime tionalists cold-bloodedly a punge” the Clay-Webster-Cal- (Democrat). Germans, many of whom har- refugees as a five greatest members—"out- Adams’ magnificent legislative Senator, laid down his life, olina living, in Eastern un- vanguard censuring bor painful memories of direct in their campaign to standing persons.” the resolu- record was made not in the riddled by Confederate bullets, houn resolution Jefferson Davis of Mississippi able to make a place for them- detach President Jackson for remove (Democrat). contact with Soviet troops. Germany from the tion says—in the five unfilled Senate, but in th? House after on a bluff above the Potomac, selves in new surroundings. West. As always, they are spaces Senate Hall of Presidency. ing the Bank of the United Sam Houston of Texas (Demo- Nazis and ultra-Nationalists They the who in the he left the barely 25 miles from the deposits. likewise have not been able to are ones playing two games at once. Fame, that is, in the reception Few Americans know that Capitol. States crat). gather in organizations pro- They Roanoke gather a large following. They encourage and help the room outside the chamber. seven signers of the Declara- And because, also, his was So this commentator's John Randolph of moting the same odd mixture local Communist party as a - led an obscure and unsatisfac- Ninety - six in - the flesh, nomination* for the five all- (Independent). nationalism ‘and pro-Rus- tion of Independence served in the voice that electrified the tory existence until few years of revolutionary bridgehead, ef- though ineligible, Senators early days time, all-American Senators will be a with the Senate in the Senate and the Nation in the Naturally the North ago when some-of them sud- sian orientation: Potsdam fective possibly in times of eco- must pool their wisdom and of the Republic. It is question- early days of the Civil an: heard from, so here are five denly a dash of Moscow! depression. all-time, War blossomed out as editors nomic pick the five great—- able if any one of them, save when treason ran rampant Daniel Webster of Massa- “all-Northem” Senators: periodicals There exists, for instance, But since a Communist up- Living Henry of new or as found- and dead—Senators.
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