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THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 11. 1965 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 3B 13CHAIRMENNAMED GEZA ANDA SOLOIST Walter Lippmann China and the United Nations FOR THE FOURTH TIME in five years, the question whether Peking or Taipei shall occupy the seats that belong to "China" is again before the United Nations. During these years there has been a striking change in the shape of the problem.

Sentiment has grown in most of the world in favor of seating Peking on the ground that mainland China really Campaign chairmen for 13 YMCA branches participating in the Metropolitan YMCA Development Fund to raise were appointed today by Monte E. Shomaker, president of Brown Shoe Co. and general is "China" and that as a matter of practical politics it must participate in any peaceable settlement in East Asia. As this sentiment has grown the Peking government has stiffened the conditions which the UN must meet before it would accept the seats if they were offered. If the Peking conditions are to be taken literally as being what, in his press conference on Sept.

29, Foreign Minister Chen Yi said they are, the debate may be regarded as over and rtffA w'N r' life-? rI 11 1 If 1 Geza Anda, Hungarian -born pianist who lives in Switzerland, will be the guest soloist with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra in concerts at Kiel Opera House this weekend. Eleazar De Carvalho will conduct the programs at 1:30 p.m.' tomorrow and at 8:30 p.m. Saturday. This will be the first Friday concert of the season.

Anda will present the Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1. On the program also will be Symphony Amphitryon No. 4 by Harold Blumenfeld of St. Louis, and Luigi Boccherini's Symphonie Concertante for Flute, Oboe, Horn and Bassoon.

Blumenfeld is an associate professor of music at Washington University School of Music and artistic director of the St. Louis Opera Theater. His work is a four-movement symphony based on a Greek myth. It was written between 1957 and 1962. Anda, who will be 44 years old Nov.

19, was born in Buda- pest, studied piano with Ernst von Dohnanyi at the Hungarian Royal Academy of Music and won the national Franz Liszt prize. Tickets for the concerts are on sale at Aeolian Ticket office, 1004 Olive street, and at Kiel Auditorium. FRANK STRANAHAN DIES TOLEDO, Nov. 11 (AP) -Frank D. Stranahan, a founder and cochairman of the board of Champion Spark Plug died yesterday after a month's illness.

He was 89 years old. He and his late brother, Robert founded the company in 1907. CLAUDE RAINS IN HOSPITAL BOSTON, Nov. 11 (AP)-Actor Claude Rains spent his seventy-sixth birthday yesterday re chairman of the campaign. The chairmen are: Circuit Judge Robert G.

Dowd, Carondelet branch; Lewis T. Hardy, executive vice president of Hardy Salt Downtown branch; Elwood C. Hamsher, vice president of Stix, Baer Fuller, Kirkwood branch; Russell W. Nixon, president Russ Nixon Associates, Mary Twain branch. Glen R.

Myers, director of purchasing of Brown Shoe Mid-County branch; Edward H. Givens, president of Givens Rolwes Insurance Agency, North County branch; Arthur B. Biddle, executive vice president of Hussmann Refrigeration North Side branch. James E. Hurt president of Employes Loan Investment Page Park branch; Richard H.

Floyd, retired, Ritenour branch; Kenneth A. Duvall, an architect, South County branch: Pierce Rhodes, vice president of Swing-A-Way Mfg. South Side branch. William E. Kincaid president of Schaar Stationers Washington University branch, and Harry C.

Gibbs, vice president of George-Savan Advertising Agency, Webster Groves branch. The pacesetter phase of the branch campaigns will begin Dec. 1. BEN-GURION TO VISIT U.S. JERUSALEM, Israeli Sector, Nov.

11 (UP1) Former Israeli Premier David Ben-Gurion will visit the United States next February to attend a conference of the Israel Bible Research Society in Chicago, it was reported today. By MYLES STANDISH Euripides's ancient Greek tragedy, "The Trojan Women," an antiwar fulmiration that caused the playwright to be banished from Athens shortly after its staging in 415 B.C., was given a brilliant production by the National Repertory Theater last night at the American Theater. It was the third and last of the plays the company is offering over a three-week run. The play is a difficult one to do full justice to and an equally exacting one for an audience to digest. It has little dramatic form, conflict or suspenseful action.

It is, as the women of conquered Troy await slavery at the hands of their Greek masters outside the ruins of Troy, an unrelieved cry of hate, lamentation and call for vengeance. But the passion of its poetry, in the Gilbert Murray translation, and the intensity of its emotion are little short of awesome. And the stinging reference to the shame of the Greeks md the curse of the chorus that Menelaus's ship meet disaster at sea were obvious thrusts at an Athenian government that had just ordered thi killing and f.n-slavement on the little island of Melos and was planning a similar unprovoked attack on Sicily. Against Wi'. 1 Steven Armstrong's forbidding set of the ruined columns of Troy, the company gave a performance of compelling fire, clarity and unrelenting force.

It has established itself, in the three plays, as a troupe deep in acting strength and capable of handling vastly varied assignments with skill and suppleness. Pre-eminent, or course, in "The Trojan Women" was Eva La Gallienne as the indomitable Hecuba, Queen of Troy and widow of Priam, who counsels the women to courage and resignation as they wait to be taken by the Greeks. Sloane Shelton was a fiery Cassandra, Hecuba's daughter, vowing vengeance on her de-spoiler as she was led away to be the bride of Asamemnon. Leora Dana was a defiant Andromache, the widow of Hecuba's By a Pot-DIpatch Photographer Theatergoers by the Busload High school students entering the American Theater at Ninth and St. Charles streets to see the National Repertory Theater's presentation of "The Trojan Women." Busloads of students attended the showing yesterday.

ITALIAN PRIEST, 105, DIES LUCCA, Italy, Nov. 11 (AP)-Msgr. Paolino Chelini, Italy's oldest Roman Catholic priest, died last night at his home here. He was 105 years old and had said Mass daily until a few months ago. He was a close friend of composer Giacomo Puccini and helped him in the initial staging of the first act of "Tosca," which takes place in a church and ends with the singing of the "Te Deum." ROBERT BRANSON DIES WASHINGTON, Nov.

11 (AP) Robert N. Branson, chairman of the Standing Committee of Congressional Correspondents, died yesterday. He was 44 years old. Mr. Branson was chief Washington correspondent for Federated Publications, which represents newspapers in Michigan, Indiana and Idaho.

He suffered a cardiac arrest Sunday. the question disposed of. Chen Yi For the position of Peking would then be that it will not accept the seats unless the United Nations surrenders unconditionally, not only on Taiwan-(Formosa), but on a radical revision of the Charter and on a purge, directed by Peking, of the membership of the United Nations. IF ALL THESE CONDITIONS are to be regarded as not within the realm of accommodation and negotiation, then Chen Yi must be understood as having renounced Peking's entry into the UN. He must be understood as preferring for ideological and other reasons to continue to remain a hostile outsider.

In consequence, our real problem is not how to keep Red China out of the UN. Mr. Goldberg was in effect arguing a case which his Red Chinese opponents had already won for him. Polemics are not statesmanship, and our real problem and that of the great majority of the loyal supporters of the UN is how the abyss between Red China and the rest of mankind is to be bridged, how the alienation of the mainland Chinese is to be overcome, how China is to be brought into the universal society. When we examine Chen Yi's conditions, I think we may suppose that all the talk about the revision of the Charter and the purge of the members is no more than a preview of what Red China would argue for if she were in the United Nations.

THE REAL PRE-CONDITION is the old one -that Peking must not only be given the seats in the UN organization now occupied by Taiwan but that Taiwan must also be exiled from the UN. The United Nations cannot honorably agree to this demand or even tacitly assent to it. Not all countries are in honor bound as we are, but it is a virtual certainty that enough members will join us in refusing to deprive Taiwan a state which has 11,000,000 people in it of representation in the United Nations. Those who will refuse to expel Taiwan will be enough, it appears, to deny the two-thirds vote it would take to expel Taiwan. It is not certain that this deadlock over Taiwan will last forever.

Or even far beyond the lifetime of Chiang Kai-shek. The magnetic attraction of China on Taiwan will be strong, and eventually a political deal reunifying the two Chinas is a distinct possibility. Since that is only a future eventuality, the only hope in the near future for an agreed solution is for the United Nations to recognize Peking as "China" and to recopnize Taiwan as "Taiwan." This is not what has been called in the past "the two Chinas" solution. For there would be only one "China." BUT THE SOLUTION WOULD recognize the independence of Taiwan which, as a matter of fact, has not been under the rule of the Chinese mainland since 1895. It would amount to treating Taiwan, which was conquered and colonized by the Chinese from Fukien in the seventeenth century, as so many Other former colonies, now independent members of the UN, have been treated.

To back the independence of Taiwan is to arouse the opposition not only of Peking but of Chiang Kai-shek as well. But in principle an independent Taiwan, neutralized under a United Nations guarantee, would be in the spirit of the age, and if in the end Peking were to accept it, it would not only solve the problem at the UN, but it might well be a decisive ep towards peaceable coexi-tence in Asia. It is, of course, not easy to believe that such a rational Bnd civilized accommodation will be reached. It requires an ct of faith to make such a formula an objective of policy. But if there gathers the idea the preponderant majority of the United Nations, we can at least say that no one who joins this majority will ever need to feel ashamed that he has done so.

ft Tfi jrry aw a cuperating from an operation at New England Baptist Hospital. He underwent an abdominal operation Monday to prevent internal bleeding and was reported in satisfactory condition. 9 Doris Fleeson Kuchel Battles California Extremists LOS ANGELES SENATOR THOMAS H. KUCHEL, the only major national figure remaining among California Republicans, is back on the home grounds, renewing his demand that the party purge itself of extremists. The response within the state organization has been con-liderably less than overwhelming, yet Kuchel is encouraged.

COL. WAGGONER FUNERAL TO BE IN JEFFERSON CITY Funeral services for Col. Hugh H. Waggoner, superintendent of the Missouri Highway Patrol, will be at 1:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Methodist Church in Jefferson City.

Burial will be in Riverview Cemetery there. Col. Waggoner, 55 years old, died yesterday in a motel room at Poplar Bluff, Mo. EASTERN LAKE CENTRAL MACKEY MOHAWK NATIONAL NORTH CENTRAL NORTHEAST NORTHWEST OZARK PAN PAN PACIFIC PIEDMONT SOUTHERN Spencer and Roberts, the public-relations technicians who were so effective in Kuchel campaigns in the past, were expected to work a miracle of moderation with actor Ronald Reagan, a Gold-water supporter. But he still looks like Reajan.

Kuchel deliberately chose to ring the alarm bell against the extremists from his position as senior Senator, whip of the Republican minority and its potential leader, rather than as a candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor, Me finds himself somewhat on the defensive for this reason. warrior son, Hector, marked as th bride of Achilles's son I further shattered as her young son is torn from her arms to be dashed from the battlements cf Troy. Diana Frothingham was a cozening Helen, cause of all the slaughter, trying to lull her i vengeful husband, Menelaus, with the story that the gods: and Paris's lust were responsi-1 b'e for her adultery. As she rakes Helen with scorn, Hecuba her- self bears her ow enslavement to Odysseus, unseen villain of 'he I piece, with Olympian fortitude, As Talthybius, the' Greek herald, Alan Oppenheimer was an unwilling and compassionate tool, as he sorrowfully blindfolded the boy so he could be led to his death, blaming Odysseus for 'he decision. Under Margaret Webster's di-: rection these characters, in spite of heroic dimensions and soaring language, emerged as human and immediate.

This is a triumph of any classical interpretation. FATHER JAMES FRANEY DIES; FUNERAL MONDAY The Rev. James J. Franey, pastor of Sts. Mary and Joseph Catholic Church, 6304 Minnesota avenue, died today at DePaul Hospital of arterial disease.

He was 55 years old. Father Franey was Newman chaplain to Catholic students at Washington University from 1947 to 1950. He was assistant execu-tive secretary of the Archdio-; cesan Insurance Commission from 1948 to 1954; pastor at St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Kims-wick, from 1952 to 1962, and formerly assistant paster at Christ the King, Our Lady of Lourdes, St. Edward and St.

Agnes churches He was graduated from Kcnrick Seminary. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Monday at Sts. Mary and Joseph Church. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery.

Surviving are three sisters, Mrs. Margaret Wolff, Mrs. Julia Mossop and Miss Helen Franey. Pr Ynt PASSBOOK SAVINGS Dtin-tit tnlfm DaiN 15 'n't i P.M. I aft.

0ti rofer mi'tmnmmmmnmmmm 1 unmi iijjw.iiiiittjiuiinim imn MMrrllfeg mmum iiiiiim Kuchel Now. instant reservations not only on Delta His quiet answer is pinned to his stature as an important California voice in Washington and his contentment as a Senator. He means it, but there is more to it than that. HE AND HIS FAMILY know what it is like to be the target -of envenomed personal attack from California rightists. He was vindicated, but at the cost of spreading the libel in public.

He thought he could beat Gov. Edmund G. BroA-n if nominated, but the cost of winning his party's nomination in terms of nother such attack seemed too much to ask of his family. Vivid to him also was Gov. Nelson Rockefeller's experience.

Pepublican moderates in 1964, still not convinced that Gold-water could be nominated for President, leaned back and relaxed in the shelter of Rockefeller's name and fortune. The same moderates of California who begged Kuchel to save them had made no practical plans for the fight. Representative John Lindsay's surprise victory in New York City that times may have changed more than "Kuchel thought. Yet the situations are markedly different. LINDSAY WON A LOCAL ELECTION against a stale machine with a routine candidate.

New Yorkers are politically sophisticated than their opposite numbers in populous Angeles. The right-wing Republican who tried to knock off Lindsay ran under a Conservative party label and proved to have more pulling power with Democrats than Republicans. What lessons Republican national leaders see in the New York returns will emerge in early December when they meet in Washington. The week-end omens were not encour-. aging for those who think as Kuchel does.

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