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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1966 ST. LOUIS POST- DISPATCH 3 Walter Lippmann Asian War vs. European Containment THE TELEVISED HEARINGS, at which General Gavin and Ambassador Kennan appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, have an inestimable to our people. For they broke through official service. made then visible the nature of the war and where our present policy is leading us.

On the rule that i if you can't beat them, join them, which in its modern form is that if you cannot debate with them, say you agree with them, the President takes the position that there is not much difference between the Gavin-Kennan thesis and the RuskMcNamara policy. There is in fact a radical difference -the difference between a limited and an unlimited war. The President may not want to fight an unlimited war. I have no doubt myself does not want to do so. But the promises he Taylor made in Honolulu which the Vice President is now broadcasting so lavishly in Saigon and Bangkok, are--if they are to be taken seriously--an unlimited commitment of American soldiers and American money.

It is this unlimited commitment which those of us who belong to the Gavin-Kennan school oppose. For we see that as the numbers of our troops and the range of our bombing are escalated, and as the theater of war becomes widened, it is highly probable, indeed it well nigh cinexitable that the United States will find itself confronting land war on the mainland of Asia. LAST WEEK'S HEARINGS MADE VISIBLE that this is where the course we are taking leads. Congress and the people would be frivolous if they did not examine with the seriousness how real, how valid, how significant is the hypothesis that the kind of war the Johnson Administration is conducting is leading to a confrontation with China. Gen.

Maxwell Taylor who since 1961 has played a leading part in our military intervention in South Viet Nam, has recognized that the prospect of a land war with China is today our greatest worry. In an interview published in the current issue of U. S. News and World Report, Gen. Taylor is asked about the danger of "a military confrontation with Communist China." He replies that "one can never rule out the possibility, But I would list the probability quite low in terms of percentage." This has an ominous resemblance to the colloquy in 1950 between President Truman and Gen.

MacArthur. "In your opinion," President Truman asked Gen. MacArthur, "is there any chance that the Chinese might enter the war on the side of North Korea?" MACARTHUR SHOOK HIS HEAD. "I'd say there's very little chance of that happening. They have several hundred thousand men north of the Yalu, but they haven't any air force.

If they tried to cross the river our air force would slaughter them. At the most perhaps 60,000 troops would make it. Our infantry could easily contain them. I expect the actual fighting in North Korea to end by Thanksgiving. We should have our men home, or at least in Japan, Christmas." At the very moment that President Truman and Gen.

MacArthur were talking there were already more than 100,000 Chinese Communist troops in North Korea, and another 200,000 were ready to cross the Yalu. ON THE QUESTION OF THE NEED to contain the military expansion of Red China, there is virtually universal agreement in this country. The containment of Red China today, like the containment of Stalinist Russia after the world war, is necessary to the peace of the world and is a vital interest of the United States. What is debatable is the diplomatic policy we are pursuing in order to contain Red China. If we compare what Mr.

Rusk and Mr. Bundy are doing with the diplomatic policy by which some 15 years ago Stalin was contained, the differences are very striking. The cardinal difference is that our European containment policy was shared with and participated in by all the Western allies. It is often said officially that in the Far East today we are repeating what was done so successfully in Europe. If this were what we are doing, there would be an alliance to contain in which Japan, Russia, India, Pakistan, the United States, Great Britain, and France were aligned in a Far Eastern Marshall Plan and NATO.

INSTEAD, OWING TO THE MISCALCULATIONS and blundering of the Viet Namese war, and indeed neutralized a all the great powers of the Asian mainland. The difference between the two containment policies-in Europe and in the Far East-is the difference between realism and verbalism, between professionalism and amateurism. Our present policy is as if we had set out to contain Stalinist Russia by ignoring the British, the French, the Italians and the Germans, and had decided to make our stand against Communism by the defense of--let us say-Bucharest. Joseph Alsop Madison Avenue Touch in Viet Nam SAIGON MAYBE IT IS A BIT dent is still presenting the techniques quite visibly All that really mattered cision to provide the forces enemy here in Viet Nam. and it big talk Hawaii Humphrey Humphrey CAPTIOUS to point out that the PresiViet Namese war to the country with borrowed from Madison avenue.

at Hawaii was a Presidential deneeded to keep the pressure on the The odds are heavy that the Presiwho seems to prefer doing good stealth, actually took this decision the elaborate smoke! screen of about other matters. The question whether the needed forces will provided soon enough. One must wait see. But at the risk of seeming captious, for the sake of honesty and realism, must also be noted that there was a Madison avenue element in all about "pacification" during the meeting and Vice President Humphrey's subsequent visit to Viet Nam. This does not mean that pacification of the Viet Namese countryside is an unimportant or secondary problem.

On the contrary, it will eventually be all-important and primary. BUT ONE NEED ONLY GLANCE at the list of priority areas, marked for pacification now, to see the ad-man's touch in the present commotion. They are An Yang province, which belongs to the Hoa Hao sect and has been pacified long since by the Hoa Hao; the Hop Tac region near Saigon, where Gen. Harkins experimented unhappily with the so-called oil spot technique; parts of Binh Dinh province along the North highway; and the fringes of the Marine enclave at Nang. Each area differs from the others.

In the case of the nine villages on the fringes of the Marines' Da Nang enclave, for instance, pacification is needed to insure airfield security from mortar fire. Most of these villages have been Viet Cong strongholds for over 20 years, and they could be dangerous. It is fatal, in short, to attempt permanent pacification before the villages to be taken are beyond the reach of the enemy's regular regiments. That means, in turn, that the first order of business must be winning the war by breaking the enemy's backbone of regular regiments, and the main task of pacification must be undertaken thereafter. An attempt to make a big, immediate show of pacification needs to be warned against because the Washington pressure to do just that.

A large element U.S. mission group of here was called home a month or so ago. And in effect these men were commanded to produce a plan for making a show as soon as possible. FORTUNATELY, THEY HAD THE COURAGE to point out that the cart was being put before the horse once again, as has happened before. Fortunately, Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge is well aware of dangers of putting the cart before the horse.

The pressure for something showy may continue, but it is likely to be resisted. If so, the pressure will not be altogether useless. The Viet Namese and the Americans here are getting ready for pacification on a big scale and in an imaginative way, partly because of that pressure. BURLESQUE BACK.AT THE AMERICAN By MYLES STANDISH "This Was Burlesque," which opened a two-week run at the American Theater last night, is not a satire on anything. Although billed as a musical satire based on Ann Corio's recollections of burlesque, it is just a reproduction of burlesque.

It is watered down as to the strippers, but not as to the comedians, and has achieved dubious respectability and chic by being moved into the legitimate theater. With Miss Corio as star it ran almost four years Off Broadway in New York, filling some sort of vacuum left by the New York ban on the burlesque format. Then it moved uptown to Broadway last year and became "quaint," "nostalgic," or "camp," depending on the current smart word. As far as comedy goes, "This Was Burlesque" should have its tense changed. This IS burlesque either recalled for veterans here of the Grand, or the old Standard or Garrick, or offered up as a showpiece for neophytes, The jokes are mainly a combination of corn and crudeness, but sometimes they are funny, Steve Mills, the Top Banana, is a choice example of the old burlesque comic, a man with good timing, a rough flair and rough material, Two of the other funnymen, Dick Bernie and Dexter Maitland, have ability, but on the whole, Low Bananas are genuine, still low.

One thing with genuine style, however, is the fast harmonizing of Mills and Maitland in "Red, Red Robin" and "Sandman." One skit, "Crazy House," which seemed to be a composite of Mills's feverish dreams in a clinic, was crazy, indeed, and visually imaginative, but too dependent on the crude joke. Others, such as "'White Cargo," a burlesque featuring Miss Corio as the native temptress, lacked any inventiveness above SOcalled rowdiness, a pseudonym for vulgarity. Miss Corio, who was the queen of the strippers in the late '30s, is still attractive physically. However, as mistress of ceremonies, she recited her lines as though she had spent many long hours learning them. In the skits, she proved not much of an actress, but fully up to burlesque standards for the route.

She did a modest, unexciting recollection of one of her old strip-tease numbers. There were a couple of other mild strip teases. Marilyn Marshall did an exercise with tassels, which seemed to be propelled by high motors. Gloria Leroy an elaborately gimmicky number that was pallid and devoid of satire. JOEY ADAMS BEGINS TRIP NEW YORK, Feb.

15 (UPI)- Comedian Joey Adams and his wife, Cindy, left yesterday for Indonesia at the invitation of President Sukarno. Mrs. Adams collaborated on Sukarno's autobiography. SELF. ARLAN'S SERVICE DISCOUNT DEPARTMENT STORES HAMPTON VILLAGE PLAZA TOAST ALTON, COUNTRY ILLINOIS MALL All Stores Open Day Nights By a Post-Dispatch Photographer Honoring Working Women Mrs.

Alfonso J. Cervantes (left), honorary chairman of Salute week, an observance sponsored by Downtown St. Louis, to honor women who work, at a reception in her honor at City Hall yesterday. With her are Mayor Cervantes and Mrs. Philip Enoch.

Mrs. Enoch is a member of the Gateway Theatre group. UNIVERSITY BUILDING PLANS APPROVED Final plans for a new mathematics and foreign language building for the University Missouri at St. Louis campus have been approved by the University's Board of Curators. The building is one of two for which the Missouri Legislature appropriated funds last year.

Supplementary federal funds were obtained later. brick The and new building, a five story stone structure, have classroom space for 1730 students, a 300-seat lecture hall, two language laboratories, a statistical laboratory and faculty offices. It is the first of several new buildings which will line a mall behind the present administration building in Normandy. Construction will cost about $1,800,000, of which $600,000 will be the federal share under the 1963 Higher Education Facilities Act. Plans will be submitted to the Federal Housing and Home Finance Agency for approval.

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The repertory for three organs being what it is, the program last night was cannibalized from other media. The assertions of the program 1 notes notwithstanding, the organ trio represents little (if any) improvement over the solo organ or the chamber orchestra, or even the mechanical clock, for which Mozart composed. Three of Mozart's mechanical clock pieces concluded last night's concert and they were MRS, R. K. LOCKHART DIES; OWNED APPAREL SHOP HERE Mrs.

Caroline A. Lockhart, former owner of Lockhart's now Saks Fifth Avenue, a women's apparel shop at 26 Maryland plaza, died yesterday of a heart attack in New York City. had lived there since 1957. She was 85 years old. Mrs.

Lockhart and her husband, the late Roy K. Lockhart, founded the store, one of the first of its type in the Maryland plaza area, in 1935. Earlier he had worked at Famous-Barr for many years as a merchandising supervisor. He died in 1953. Mrs.

Lockhart sold the store to Saks Fifth Avenue in 1956 and remained about one year before retiring. Surviving are three sisters. A preceded by the same composer's Adagio and Fugue in Minor for Strings. There was, not unexpectedly, a generous dose of Bach served up and there was also no less a generous portion of what charitably be called lesser music." Throughout the evening, the ensemble displayed a surprising technical finesse. Attacks and releases showed a certainty and a unanimity not often encountered in solo organ recitals.

Passage work was negotiated with as much clarity as the acoustics of Graham Chapel would permit and registrations were often tasteful imaginative. The performance smacked more of a parlor trick than a musical experience, for-musically-last night was exceptionally barren. Apart from the curious choice of music, the phrases were turned in the most perfunctory fashion, the tempos operated on the automatic pilot principle (inflexible and fast); there was virtually no feeling of mood projected beyond the most superficial level. Basically the evening consisted of a series of artfully contrived prestidigitative effects. As such, it constituted a triumphant success: viewed in any other light, it emerged a profound enigma.

Taylor memorial service will be at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 23, at Lupton undertaking establishment, 7233 Delmar boulevard, University City. ALBERT THOMAS DIES; TEXAS REPRESENTATIVE were appropriated, will be considered by the Board of Curators within the next two months. The university made public its comprehensive program for campus development last week.

FIRST PUBLIC PARK FOR JEFFERSON COUNTY The County Court of Jefferson yesterday approved acceptance of a 2.5 acre tract on Big river near Morse Mill as the county's first public park. The land was offered by William E. Ball, president of the Ladue Building and Engineering as a memorial to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hal C.

Ball. At a public hearing last month some residents of the Morse Mill area objected that the park would attract undesirable persons. Proponents argued that the park would give the county its first public access to any river or stream. The park will have a 100-foot frontage on the Big river. DOCTORS REPORT JOHNSON PHYSICAL CONDITION IS GOOD Special to the Post-Dispatch WASHINGTON, Feb.

15- President Lyndon B. Johnson's doctors have pronounced him in excellent physical condition after a medical checkup over the weekend, the White House said yesterday, The President, who underwent surgery last October for removal of his gall bladder and a kidney stone, was examined at the White House by his family physician, Dr. James C. Cain of the Mayo Clinic, and V. Adm.

George G. Burkley, the White House physician, secretary Bill D. Moyers said." In a statement, the doctors said that "the findings indicate the President's physical condition to be excellent, both from the standpoint of laboratory findings and our clinical They said that Mr. Johnson had kept to his diet and had maintained his weight under 200 pounds. BRAKE WITH THIS COUPON ADJUSTMENT Here's What We Do Adjust Brakes 2.

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