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FRIDAY, JUNK 5, 1970 PAGE 26- THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR 'Do 1 Look Like I Need An Tur TlVniATVAPHfTC QTAR Henry J.Taylor Says: 11 A Lasts New Light The lloosier Farm Wife Sayst Artist's Work Shows Unquenchable Spirit All through May an exhibit of oil paintings and lithographs West African people, nH oppnprv done bv a Huncarian art. Where The Spirit Of The Lord Is, There Is Liberty II Corinthians 3:17 On Sino-Sovict Strife EUGENE C. PULLIAM, Publisher An undisclosed CIA breakthrough in Irkutsk, the capital of Eastern Siberia, and confirmed by its agents in Peking, puts the Soviet-Red China conflict in a startling CI 0 ciim 1st, has been shown in the north lounge of IT klamnt "Let the people know the facts and the country will be Lincoln new light that is clearly causing the Kremlin to burn the midnight oil. Irkutsk is 3.225 miles and five time zones from Moscow and it's still another 1,500 miles to the Pacific, a 1 for people who missed it, the exhibit will be shown again later this summer, in the Anthropology Building. My companion paused at the bold, rich coloring of one called "The Patriarch." "Look at those eyes," she said admiringly.

Perceptive inrionrf uns "The Warrior." but I polarizes the tf I I Kremlin's Far East posi-A tion The guts of the confirmed Mrs. R.F.D. Taylor revelation is the Soviet problem of Manchuria Man churia as distinguished from the main body of Mao Tse-tung's Red China. 1 a m. li.

1 v. VikUfr r-1 rmi a. "lit i Iw IP i ii mm mem m- mm Toward Shortening The War The thumbnail summary of what President Nixon said to the nation Wednesday night, it seems to us, is that a strong military initiative, undertaken for solid military reasons with political considerations put aside, has produced a highly satisfactory and useful military result. The Cambodian operation was undertaken at the end of April for two reasons, to relieve pressure on the flank of United States and South Vietnamese forces in Vietnam and to aid the new government of Cambodia. The motivating aim was to shorten the Vietnam war by reducing the enemy's capability to extend the war.

The President said flatly that the operation has been successful beyond expectations. If the results have been accurately reported results of enemy materiel captured, enemy installations destroyed and enemy casualties inflicted there seems no room for question that the objectives have been accomplished. The President also said that the success in Cambodia will shorten the war. We firmly believe that this is so, though it cannot be proved, in the way the military success can be proved, by ticking off the results. For no matter when the war may end or U.S.

forces may be disengaged from it, we cannot know when it might have ended or the forces have been disengaged if the Cambodian action had not been undertaken. We'll never know that. But simple logic supports the view that the enemy's ability to fight aggressively in South Vietnam has been significantly reduced, therefore he may turn earlier to the negotiating table. And even if he does not do that he will be significantly less able to interfere with carrying out the U.S. plan for withdrawing troops and turning the war over to the South Vietnamese.

believe the results in Cambodia demonstrate very clearly the wisdom of making war decisions for military reasons. We have been arguing for years that this is what ought to be done in Vietnam, that the judgment of politicians ought not have been allowed to override the judgment of military men. If it had not been, we believe the war would have been over long ago. We hope this point has been made clear to some of those who up to now have been successful in hog-tying the military forces for political reasons. In particular for the immediate future, we hope the point has been made to a majority of the senators who now are debating a new move to restrict the President's options of military action.

Logic argues that there should now be more Vietnam decisions in which the objections of the politicians are put aside and military judgment is allowed to prevail. We believe that if this is done an honorable end to U.S. troop involvement in Vietnam will soon be in sight. portrait of Bokhara Moshi, in uniform with his almost 3-dimensional war medals across his chest, his eyes wearing a look of sadness beyond telling. At the end of the room an L-shaped table held a number of lithographs.

The artist, He-lene Urszenyi Breznay, and her husband greeted us there. They were interested and interesting. This is understatement: together their faces were an art study as compelling as the paintings. Life is a collection of light and shadow, from which an artist chooses those he needs for expressing what he feels he has to say. Nobody else says just what he says, or In just his way, and it is something somebody wants to hear.

This is what I was thinking when I began to interview the artist. She has graying hair, blue eyes, practical, restless hands. She wore a sleeveless dark silk dress with many strands of white beads around her throat and glasses on a chain. Her face becomes at times illuminated by her feelings, even as when she said, smiling "We lived through a Hitler and a Mussolini." She says she was born wanting to paint. Very young she was sent to Budapest to study, and then on to Prague.

There she met the man who became her husband, and whose face is the essential counterpart to hers. It is somewhat rectangular, somewhat pale, infinitely gentle, infinitely kind with the kindness that comes from suffering and courage. He helped me with her spelling, and her with her English translations of Hungarian words, such as "stump of a when she was trying to describe a Wyeth painting. I asked about the Ghanian officer in the portrait. She said "He is sitting there, very much an aristocrat, very tired, 82 years old, life gone, very disappointed." It was in Prague in 1932 that she saw a Negro for the first time In her life.

"You being so accustomed to seeing them here," she told me with that illuminated look of sunlight falling suddenly across her face, "you cannot imagine how delighted I was. Immediately I had an ambition to go to Africa to paint." They lived in Ghana 17 years. The people called her "The Missus that takes photos with her hands." "I traveled up and down the coast in cargo boats" she said, "I know every port from Al TO THE POINT By Russell Kirk i. Peerless Pearl Revived I never saw a Pearl White movie. For that actress was at the height of her fame four years before I was born when, in' 1914, she starred in "The Perils of Pauline." She died in France, in 1938.

Yet the names of her thriller-films linger among people who never beheld her. Pearl's exploits have been affectionately chronicled in a new book by Manuel Weltman and Raymond Lee: "Pearl White, the Peerless Fearless Girl" (A. S. Barnes, publisher). Kirk Manchuria, due north of Korea, prods up into the Soviet Union like the rounded head of an immense battering ram.

A glance at a map easily shows how Manchuria looks the USSR and a glance at Manchuria's history completes the picture. Ever since 1853 Russia tias tried to be a dominant power on the Pacific. She dominated indispensable Manchuria by 1300. Then she lost Manchuria in her disastrous war with Japan in 1905. In 1910 Russia and Japan partitioned the country, but by 1935 Japan controlled it.

Then, with our 1945 American defeat of Japan, the USSR reseized Manchuria. The Kremlin achieved this through Mao Tse-tung and thus achieved what the American Security Council's respected strategist, Stefan T. Possony, calls "history's fourth Manchuria-based conquest of China." But in the bitter rupture with Mao the egg has hit the fan. It is impossible for Russia to be a truly world power without tremendous strength in the Far East. The CIA breakthrough in Irkutsk reveals that the Kremlin sees Manchuria (not the body of Mao's China) as the real stake and looks upon Russia as Superman trapped in a milk bottle without Manchuria.

The Peking government divides Red China into six economic regions. Manchuria leads them all In electric power, steel, gold, oil, machine tool, output. Although only fifth in area and population (50 million), it is first in industrial production. Economically and militarily, Mao's China is literally nothing without this compact ram that prods up into Russia. Now, enter the increasing Kremlin problem of Japan.

Japan, of course, is in a powerful Far Eastern upsurge. It is the greatest industrial nation in the free world next to the United States. Last November Japan also passed West Germany as the free world's second largest export-trading nation. And in the Irkutsk breakthrough our CIA agents found that the Kremlin's worries are concentrated on any rapprochement between Japan and Red China. For Russia's Far East domination hopes and plans would suffer a complete disaster if a Sino-Japanese rapprochement dominated Manchuria.

Extending from the Irkutsk headquarters, the Soviet Manchurian axis for Russia's position opposite China has always been Khabarovsk, 400 miles north of Vladivostok, the Russian-built port that blocked China from the Sea of Japan. The CIA agents find a command center has been expanded to Choibalsan, in Mongolia, only 75 miles from China's frontier. Moreover, the expansion began long after the highly publicized border incidents in Hei-lungkiang Province on the Manchurian Plateau and along the Ussurl River, which is a part of the border-the longest (4,150 miles) border in the world, something like the distance from New York to Honolulu. Our CIA agents located battle-tested Gen. Vladmlr F.

Tolubko and Red Army Chief of Staff Marshal Matvei Zakharov at Choibalsan. Tolubko was deputy chief of Russia's Strategic Rocket Forces and the principal adviser to the North Vietnamese in Hanoi. Tolubko has been given a unified command of three assault groups the infantry, the armored branch and the air force. The Kremlin normally has about 18 divisions in the area. Our agents now count 52.

Nine are mechanized. And Tolubko, the rocket specialist, has moved a whole development of Soviet missiles into the area. To us, therefore, the watchword in the Far East is not Red China. It is Manchuria. That Manchuria could involve a preventive war by the USSR against Mao's China is not an automatic conclusion.

But, based on the CIA findings, if either Russia or Red China is to pick a fight it appears that it is Russia which would do so and for the seizure of Manchuria. More Piercing Than Bayonets "A journalist is a grumbler, a censurer, a giver of advice, a regent of sovereigns, a tutor of nations. Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets." Napoleon Bonnpirte Black Secret" (1919-20), must suffice to suggest the terrors that her fans experienced vicariously: 1. The Great Secret. 2.

Marked for Death. 3. The Gas Chamber. 4. Below the Water Line.

5i The Acid Bath. 6. The Unknown. 7. The Betrayal.

8. A Crippled Hand. 9. Webs of Deceit. 10.

The Inn of Dread. 11. The Death Studio. 12. The Chance Trail.

13. Wings of Mystery. 14. The Hidden Way. 15.

The Secret Host. OH FOR THOSE GLORIOUS DAYS OF movie peril and derring-do! The film serial has vanished altogether; the magazine serial survives in a decadent state only in a few women's monthlies. How painful, and yet how delightful, it was to wait for next week's or next month's terrifying installment! You can have your Raquel and your Brigitte, modern generation. Give me a girl who risks death andor dishonor in every form known to the most inventive Hollywood script writers, and who triumphs without exception over adversity. On the screen, Pearl White stood for what she definitely did not represent in real existence-innocence vanquishing vice.

We need more of that nowadays. Militant feminists are up in arms nowadays, protesting against (among other things) the degradation of woman in movies for "mature" audiences. in this context, is a euphemism for "emotionally These belligerent ladies ought to erect a statue in deathless bronze to Pearl White. For Pearl outbraved the most swaggering of the stronger sex. Manuel Weltman put a wreath on her grave, four years ago.

Anyway, they say it's her grave. For my part, I fancy that Pearl was proof against death's dart. By Ernest Cuneo (North American Newspaper Alliance) Though no comedienne (except incidentally), Pearl drew the same crowds that swore by Harold Lloyd. She was beautiful-in the beginningand she gamely performed the sort of stunts of which Lloyd was the master. THIS BOOK IS FULL OF MARVELOUS photographs of Pearl on and off the screen.

Miss White couldn't do without whisky, and she loved not wisely but too well; her private life, though lively, is unedifying. Yet she was cast in the heroic mold. Not all of her stunts were voluntary. There was her adventure in an escaped balloon, which at last sank to rest in the exercise yard of a Pennsylvania penitentiary. Certainly she earned her mansions in Long Island and in France: In her time, even for females, movie acting was a career of danger and daring.

On the screen, Pearl invariably was the intended hapless victim of fiends in human form; always she was rescued in the very nick of time. Between 1910 and 1924, she made nearly 150 films. The chapter titles of one serial, "The TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT Honor For Duke Ellington Duke Ellington is in our town today to receive an honor. He has won many during a long, richly creative and distinguished musical career. Heads of state have honored Ellington during his world tours.

Colleges, critics, Presidents, fellow musicians and international audiences have acclaimed him for his unique works in the jazz idiom, for songs such as "Sophisticated Lady" and "Mood Indigo" which have become standards, for compositions such as "Diminuendo And Crescendo In Blue" and "Night Creature" which have been performed by many of the world's major symphony orchestras. The maestro has also been recognized for film, musical comedy and drama scores and for highly original, modern interpretations of classical musical works. Today he will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters at commencement exercises at the Christian Theological Seminary, and an Indiana institution will add its honor to the many deservedly won by one of America's most productive and original musical geniuses. geria to the Cape." Since 1964 they have lived in London which she believes has more difter-ent races in it than any other city in the world. "London is the place for flowers" she added.

This is her first visit to America and she loves it. She said "Americans are friendly. This town has beautiful streets. Romantic. A good place to study, a good place to raise a family." She classes Indiana University with the great universities, Salsburg in Austria, Heidelberg in Germany, Cambridge in England.

She said, and her face became illuminated happily, "I'm 62, too old to be a pupil of anyone, but I would like to be a pupil of Andrew Wyeth. He is the Rembrandt of America." "It was then she had to ask her husband the English word for Andrew Wyeth is a great artist because he glorifies the simple things of life." We both thought of the Wyeth barn doors and latches, the barn windows, the shadows of leaves and splashes of quiet sunlight. She smiled and went on thinking of them, but by this time I was thinking that if she would paint a portrait of her husband's face and a self-portrait, the two together would express the, unquenchable, bright spirit of the little country from which the artist and her husband came. Mrs. R.F.D.

Jim Fiehig Says: Please, Mr. Agnew, Don't Write The Book There is an unconfirmed rumor that Vice-President Agnew is writing a book called: "How to Get A Head in Sports." Lending credence to the rumor is the fact Russ Mideast GoaVs Total Control Washington East intelligence Israel provides a to take over the which is exactly According to British Middle experts, the Arab war against magnificent excuse for Russia Arabs and the Middle East, what the Kremlin is doing. Egypt is an occupied country. Russian pilots, Russian officers, Russian tanks and artillery, supported by a Russian fleet are the controlling force there. Russian-armed and Russian-trained guerrillas are a prin that Spiro has bagged two heads already.

Several weeks ago he hit golfing partner Doug Sanders in the head with a bad drive. And last week he got his second head that of Peace Corps Director Josiph Blatchford with a misplaced tennis serve. The Vice-President got his own head a few months Graffiti How To Lose Friends Representative L. Mendel Rivers heretofore a strong opponent of President Nixon's proposal to end student draft deferments, now says his opposition is lessening. Rivers, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, added that recent campus violence may have changed his mind about the wisdom of continuing college deferments.

"I'm becoming disenchanted with these deferments, seeing 350 colleges closed down by these 'dedicated students' who have been deferred," he said. Rivers' committee, which in 1967 wrote mandatory college deferments into law, has since then resisted any change in that connection. Key members of the committee, according to Rivers, are now considering relaxing their insistence upon obligatory college deferments. This is just another example of how campus violence lends to alienate those who have been the students' friends. The great majority of university students do not engage in violence.

That majority simply wants to pursue studies in a climate of academic freedom. It is a minority of hooligans on campus, often egged on by embittered faculty members, that spoils things for the earnest seeker of knowledge. The peaceable majority, for its own protection, should insist that colletfe administrators THE ARAB OIL KINGDOMS, SUCH AS Saudi Arabia, are perfectly aware of the Russian objective. Accordingly, they quietly put to death any Communist-trained guerrillas on discovery. The King of Morocco is equally decisive.

With Israel as the excuse and Vietnam as a major diversion, Britain's old hands regard the main prize to be unchanged. The main prize, of course, is the Middle East oil. Since World War oil is such a controlling military factor that Marshal Foch declared that a drop of oil was worth a drop of blood. Cynical London declares Russia has gone a long way toward paying for the Middle East oil fields with pools of Arab and Israeli blood. A large number of other prizes go with the Middle East.

Russia is building a huge merchant marine to capitalize on them. Russian cargo ships already carry high tonnages at 35 per cent of the world rate. For 400 years, Russia has yearned for a warm water port, but until 1960, was afraid to take one. Stalin, for example, warned Yugoslavia to call off the attack on Greece because he said the United States and Great Britain had no choice but to go to war to hold the Dardanelles. Stalin himself would be amazed to find that Russia has become a looming power in the Middle East.

IRONICALLY, ONE SMALL NATION, Israel, bars Russia from tightening the sea noose around the Arab world. Israel corks Suez; she holds the eastern bank of the canal. Stalin thought Russia would be dealing with the British, in which case, the Royal Navy with decks cleared for action would be prowling the Israeli coast and the Royal Marines, not the Israeli Army, would be holding the east bank of Suez. Of course, no one in Washington would think of ordering the U.S. 2d Fleet Into the Mediterranean to reinforce the 6th Fleet.

This might lead to further unrest on the campuses. Rut in one respect, the Kremlin is wrong. The Middle East will not go without a fight and a hard one. Once they laughed at David as he fixed the stone in his sling, and there are those who might yet profit by Goliath's example. iiHiMi Fieblg mmmm cipal force in Jordan, Syria Cnneo and, to a degree, Lebanon.

Even as they raid Israel, they hold a bayonet to the throats of the unhappy Arab governments from whose soil they operate. These small countries are actually invaded by their ally, Russia. THE IMMEDIATE OBJECTIVE OF MOSCOW is not the destruction of Israel though it is prepared to assist further if that is necessary but to gain permanent control of the Suez Canal and the Arab states. For one thing, it is extremely expensive for Russia to supply Hanoi around the Cape of Good Hope and via the Trans-Siberian railroad. If Suez were opened, costs could be cut by half.

But this would be only a first benefit. Down In the Indian Ocean, a Red flotilla has been stationed for months. With Suez opened, the Russian Mediterranean fleet could base the Indian Ocean fleet from the west, instead of from the Pacific as at present. At this point, the Persian Gulf and lis tremendous oil fields would be at the mercy of Red seapower. The West has no naval power In that ocean.

The United States has declared that it would expect these oil sheikdoms Kuwait, the Trucial States and Bahreln-to provide for their own security. This Is about the equivalent of Washington declaring that in case of Atlantic emergency, Bermuda, the Bahamas and the Azores should get together and defend them selves. wmmmm liiiftlt back when he tripped and cut his nose while welcoming Mr. Nixon home from the Philippines. Since that wasn't a sporting event, however, it will probably be omitted from his book.

It's possible, of course, these incidents were purely unintentional and had nothing to do with research. If so, It appears the Vice-President is one of those Ill-fated humans commonly referred to as "accident prone." There's no shame in that. Being accident prone has nothing to do with one's Intelligence, as evidenced by Agnew's own admission that he is only a few IQ points short of genius. Henceforth, however, I think he owes it to himself and the citizenry to exercise his pnyst-cal prowess in sports containing a minimum of danger. That Is, sports that don't call for a ball, shuttlecock, javelin, horseshoe, tlddledy-wink or any other object Intended for flight.

Finally, on behalf of all Americans, I have an eancst plea for the Vice-President: Please, sir, don't take up skect shooting: no mn'tT vhitn yoi to nk plong. 1 expel the rock-throwers, arsonists and bullyboys irom me nans ot nigner learning. Mind The Lights And Signs With the death toll on Indianapolis streets dramatically lower than a year ago, the "get-tough" policy on traffic violations will continue. So watch your, driving. l70 McNiujht SyndKitl int.

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