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The Khrushchev Trail in tndia jr-rr WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1960 29 HowRedsRunGive-AwayRace! ptMelUm Jttittte Soviet way of life or nnt i i Third of a Series of Articles By WALTER FRIEDENBERG NEW nF.T.HT Tnrfi Bhilai will remind us of Soviet assistance in our national European Views of President's Soviet Vis.lt "XXiT11 Probably lost money on Nikita development. THE financial arrangements of Soviet loans are easily understandable too: straight 2Vi percent loans, repayable in 12 years to a Soviet state agency. American aid, meanwhile, has come in less under-standable forms, with a variety of gifts and loans from i battery of agencies including the International Coopera- 10 maia, tney are more than getting their money's worth, in publicity and gratitude, from their foreign aid program. In the long run, the impression that the Soviet Union makes in India in 1960 may not be what Khrushchev said here, but what he signed, namely a loan worth $378 million to assist India's third five-year plan starting in 1962. Since 1955, when the Russians followed the United States jrtto the foreign aid business in India, they have invested $680 million in loans.

But more significant than the total is the way the loans have been made. -Tor the Soviet Union has tied its loans to enormous, new "wonder -house" industrial plants that are the most glamorous projects in India's five-year plans. non Aaminisuauoii, Loan und, Export-Import Bank and the Department of Agriculture. Nontheless, American aid is appreciated by the Indian BONN, Germany. OPINION 1b Europe is divided sharply about President Eisenhower's proposed visit to the Soviet Union In June.

The journey as such is not the subject of much dispute. Its timing, however, is the cause of growing soul-searching. On the one hand are those who argue that the President played a masterful diplomatic stroke by postponing his return visit to Premier Nikita Khrushchev until after the summit talks in Paris in May. This is the Official view. On the other, are those who fear that the President is about to mix it up in one of the toughest and most important battles of his life with at least one hand tied behind his back.

The ease for either side boils down to a single conjectural question. Who is most vulnerable to the threat of an open and admitted failure of the Paris conference? Oj, in slightly different phrasing: Who Is least prepared to face the consequences of such failure, including a cancellation of the travel plans? In the kind of no-limit poker that is played around the international tables, these are considerations of high importance and may determine in the end who throws in his hand. The pressures on President Eisenhower will be immeasurably greater than they were in 1955. For one thing it is an election year in the U. and an admitted failure at Paris would make ribbons of a platform of "peace." The Soviets are openly familiar with the kind of paralysis which affects American governments in their foreign affairs every our years and there are some who suspect that Khrushchev may have timed his campaign against Berlin with this in mind.

By DAVID M. NICHOL Government for its great amount, broad nature and reason ably pure motives. Many villages know America through American aid, and are grateful. As a result, when Khrushchev tried to discredit American and other Western aid as being motivated by a desire to "capture" India politically and economically, he was heard in tolerant silence. rn HE brightest star in the Soviet rrnwn ia HViHal an .1 Iron and steel plant built with the help of a Russian I disproportionate amount of applause.

It is getting a good return on its rubles in international prestige, praise and political influence the purposes of its foreign aid in the first place. KNOWING a good thing when they see it, the Russians plan to increase Bhilai's steel-making capacity from the present million tons a year to 2.5 million. This would make it conspicuously larger than its two sister plants, built by German, and British private companies at Rour-kela and Durgapur, which now share fame with Bhilai. India has a long way to go before it can lift its impoverished population with its income of 17 cents a day per person up to the level of adequate existence. Until then, it will and be grateful for, foreign aid from several countries, including Russia.

Thursday: Khrushchev's Boasts Fall Flat loan ana Kussian engineers. Its three blast furnaces, rising on former jungle land in the east-central section of India, have become a symbol of India's economic development and, to hear the Russians tell it, "a monument to Soviet-Indian friendship." Khrushchev mentioned it at every possible occasion in New Delhi, and he visited it for a day and a half. By concentrating on Bhilai and a few other other projects notably a lignite power station, an oil refinery arid a heavy machinery plant the Soviet Union has won, for one-third as much aid as the U. S. has given India, a underwriting the malaria eradication program, delivering vast amounts of wheat, supporting the village development program and backing new, medium-sized industries.

The American aim is to shore up India's economic development at many crucial points of need. This kind of aid is generally "consumed" the wheat is eaten, the DDT is used up, the adviser finally goes h6me. A Russian steel mill, however, will remain visible and continue to impress Indians for a long time. As a young Indian businessman puts it, "whether we like the THE same time, U. S.

aid, which since 1951 has to taled $1.8 billion, makes a proportionately lesser impression. The chief reason is that it is spread out all over India Jn a variety of programs, including providing agricultural advisers, financing irrigation canals, Report From Israel Cholly Knickerbockers A Pro-West Island Socialites Are Planning Cave Safari Bob Considine NEW YORK. A Ithough the State Depart- i'1 In Unfriendly Sea By William S. White ASHKELON, Israel. (CfT ELL lt not in Gatn publish it not in the streets I of Ashkelon; lest the daughters of the Philis-tines rejoice." Thus David cried out when Saul, the first King of Israel, committed suicide over his mili I tary rout by the Philistine W.

Salisbury is general chairman, and Meyer Davis and his orchestra will furnish the tunes Incidentally, this cool weather spell in Florida prompted a restaurateur in Palm Beach to put up a sign: Dining room heated. Louis Perini, the millionaire builder, who also owns the Milwaukee Braves ball team, revealed that he may be thinking of a brand new business. Dining at the Four Seasons with his son, he had executive director Joseph Baum explaining the restaurant's business for two hours. Stephen Sondheim, lyricist of the Broadway musical "Gypsy," and socialite heiress Sally Brophy have been saying the right things to one another at the Playbill. Millionaire from Wall Street Lawrence Esterman and Westchester socialite Dolly Belding, of the canning fortune, listening to each other and music together at No.

1 Fifth. The Las Brisas Hilton at Acapulco, which boasts of 41 individual swimming pools, recently received the visit of Prince Bernard of the Netherlands and his entourage. All pools were in use. The buzz at the Eden Roc Club indicates that the Ernest Watsons (he's a member of the IBM clan; she's the former Illinois deb Edie Browne) are separated. He has been stagging it very recently and she's off to Scottsdale, Ariz.

The Chambord can boast of the "Knight at the Round Table" dept. Noted British actors Sir Laurence Olivier, Sir John Gielgud and Sir Cedric Hardwicke pop in and out. Curtain calls on the food as it were. The Hon. Abe Issa, Jamaica's most influential citizen, is quite the hero of the island.

He's the man responsible for the Pan-American Games, to be held in Jamaica in 1962. BON MOT: "The laughter of man is the contentment of God." John Weiss. NEW YORK. EAST OF FIFTH Socialite-around-the-world, Mrs. Alma Slocum Du-Puy, has found a new hobby.

Interested in most things, this lady wants to explore new formations in the famous Meramec Caves in Missouri. Some East Side gal friends of hers will join the underground safari. Ex-King of Egypt Farouk is tired of the same old things so now he's on a trumpet-learning kick. There's plenty of wind there. Realtor Pat Palmer offered the Duke and Duchess of Windsor a triplex apartment on Fifth ave.

(sublet) decorated like a medieval castle with a 30-foot dining room ceiling and hung with antique tapestries. They turned it down with, "We prefer something cozier." The Bal Des Fleurs, which is the traditional social event of the Palm Beach season, and which benefits the Good Samaritan Hospital, will be held Thursday at the Everglades Club. Mrs. John invaders. The same words now I gleam out in the springtime ft from a bronze tablet here in '4 Mil tt A1 old Ashkelon, the burial place of a long series of vanished EX-KING FAROUK Trumpeter Walter Winchell HERE in Ashkelon Samson met Delilah.

Here came Alexander the Great. This was an ancient place when the Crusaders first stormed its now-crumbled walls in 1270. David's eulogy to Saul, as the Israelis observe today, was not an admission of ultimate defeat of Israel. It was the beginning of new resistance under David himself ai the new King. The Israelii were to over-5 eome the Philistines at last David, in the modern lay NEW YORK.

a ment revealed that it cost I the American taxpayer $70,000 I to convoy Nikita Khrushchev around the U.S. on his trip here last September, it would not put a figure on the cost of enter- taining the Soviet leader. The i luncheon Spyros Skouras tossed him at the 20th Century-Fox i commissary, and a special Sat-' urday filming of scenes for "Can-Can" Hollywood's an-! swer to the Bolshoi Ballet have cost at least 70 grand alone. There were in addition many expensive civic celebrations for the Happy Warrior of Budapest, such as the one given in New York by Mayor Wagner and the somewhat tenser one which was embellished by the speech of Mayor Poulson in Los Angeles. I just wonder if the State Department has not opened up a Pandora's Box by revealing even partially the sizeable cost of these goodwill and compliment-exchanging junkets.

They have not yet approached the coat of maintaining the arms race. Before there is any picketing of the White House, let it be said that the Russian taxpayer and he does pay taxes, all the way up to nearly 15 percent of his gross if he's in the top bracket shelled out directly or Indirectly for- Vice President Richard M. Nixon's often stormy goodwill tour last summer. There's no proper gauging of the cost of these high level visits, or visitations. The total bill gets itself all mixed up with the everyday cost of operating military and security forces.

One cannot charge up the cost of the White House secret service-men's salaries and per diem, for example, just because they were called upon to protect the President in Graustark instead of at 1600 Pennsylvania ave. AN ABOUT TOWN Peggy King, recording star, be comes Mrs. Wm. Kilpatrick at All Souls Unitarian Church Friday. He's an exec for Volkswagen Lucille Ball (Mrs.

Desilu) has put up the "go away" sign to marriage-proposers on both ing, was only refusing to give the slightest comfort to the enemy. Beside broken Ashkelon, which lies deathly still and quiet now urider the dust of the unnumbered centuries, stands a new and blazingly modern Ashkelon. So. too. ia a new and angular It fas;) (A I if- i i J' i 1 -m 1 Gath next door to old Gath.

hills of Galilee. Israeli military jeeps throw up clouds of sand and grit from the plains of Armageddon, where thousands of years ago so many famous battles were won and lost. The men lived and died in the infinity of time that is this region of the world. This column, and one or two more before this wan-' dering correspondent returns to his home base in Washington, does not pretend to judge all the ins and outs of Israel's long quarrel wtih the Nasser Arabs. NO DOUBT, in a local, sense, not all the justice lies with the Israelis.

No doubt the Arabs are not wrong in everything, but they are wrong in the one big thing. They are, in if not in intention, allies of the Soviet giant now putting the pressure on the West all along the Free World perimeter. The concern here is only to try to convey what it is like now in Israel. What is it like then? It is more than cold war; it is less than hot war. It is an uncomfortably lukewarm, chronic semi-war that still means a military censorship here after 12 years.

THIS is a kind of Berlin in the larger East-West cold war, a pro-Western island in a vast sea that is at very least no friend of the West. True, the world implications are less perilous immediately than in Berlin. But the physical area of the struggle is larger, and this area is the crossroads of the earth. True, again, there is only sporadic shooting on the frontiers here or there, and the word "shalom" tirelessly exchanged among the If- raelis is a word that in Eng- lish means "peace." BUT there is no peace, There is no peace even though one can see the blue United Nations flag flying in the Gaza Strip. There is no peace as two-man U.N.

pa- trols move back and forward in the desolate emptiness of this no-man's land between Egypt and Israel, and there is no rest ever for the Is- raelis. (CopyrUht. 1M0) coasts. Mamie Van Doren just signed the property settlement with Ray Anthony, who will marry Nina Clark, a designer of Las Vegas Esther Williams' ex-groom, Ben Gage, has lost his head and heart to Allison McKay, a lark. Betty Clooney (Rosemary's sister) isn't singing "C'Mon-na My House" to husband Pupi Campo lately Sterling Hay-den's recent wife, Betty, has a new steady date, Luke Anthony Ralph Hudson, ex-Minnesota grid star, is making an end-run play for Phyllis Sands of the Latin Quarter line.

Dinah Washington (who shed her seventh in Mexico) has a new woo-pitcher. He is Count Basie tooter Ernest Pitcher of the Birdland set Wben the prosecutor tagged Carole Treg-off "a latter day Lady Mac-Beth" she asked her lawyer: "What's a Lady MacBeth?" Joe Htjams HONOLULU. ITS not every man who can be present at an historic moment, but the other day, on the destroyer-tender USS Hamul, I was with Ricky Nelson when he first received word that Elvis Presley was back in America for discharge from the Army Now, as any red-blooded teenager knows, it was Ricky who took over wben Elvis left for the Army, and the big question in every teen-age mind today is: What will happen to Ricky now that Elvis has returned? For the benefit of teen-agers everywhere, I can report that Ricky does not seem the slightest bit nervous about the situation. In fact, when I asked him what he thought about it, he said simply, "Uh, huh." Thus encouraged I asked him if he felt Elvis would be able to regain his popularity after his long Army stint. "He lasted it out," Ricky said coolly.

Are you a fan of Elvis? "Yeah, kind of." Obviously, Ricky plans to take Elvis in stride. Also, I learned Ricky takes, his position as teen-age symbol quite serious-: ly. Now starring in Columbia's "The Wackiest Ship in the Army," he has starred in three other movies and 250 television shows. He has two good records for recording sales. "I haven't given it a lot of thought or anything, but I have more responsibility than the average teen-ager as far as watch- NOT many miles from here, old Ashkelon is relevant now only as it symbolizes the ageless continuity of religion and culture, which is part of what the Jews are now struggling to preserve against the menace of Col.

Gamal Abdel Nas- ser's United Arab Republic 1 (Egypt and Syria). But, far mora specifically, the Israelis are defending an almost aggressively modern state of odd vitality and power, considering its size. It is a state so up-to-date as to allow its enemies to operate openly. A Communist cell, for ex-, ample meets regularly in a town called Nazareth, and in this town one hears the music of a jukebox in a saloon one minute after PEGGY KING Orange Blossoms for Recording Star (See Walter Winchell) Houella Parsons Ed Sullivan NEW YORK. HOLLYWOOD betting that major studios will settle with the Screen Actors Guild within 30 days Jane Fonda and Tony Perkins serious.

Bill O'Dwyer's ex, Sloan Simpson, and John Napier very cozy Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh getting $85,000 for their home from Canadian Arnold Swanson. Doris Day's Oscar nomination for "Pillow Talk" boosted her record sales BUI Rosen, of Gatsby's and Barbara New-mark honeymooning Peggy Lee into Basin St. The Herb Rowlands named him Daryl Lucille Ball now becomes the poor little rich girl. No wife ever worked more lovingly to make a marriage click. Elvis Presley, as the result of his GI conduct, is back in public favor such as few performers ever have enjoyed Internal Revenue readying crackdown on Broadway show "angels" Jeff Chandler and Esther Williams to wed in July Bud Abbott's public appeal for funds to help his tax mess netted little more than $300.

Hank Greenberg and Barbara Carroll a duet The Mickey Shaughnessys named her Maureen Fred Zinneman's movie of James Michener's "Hawaii" has a two-year shooting schedule. Nat Goldstone's daughter, Judith, to marry Stewart Krask May 1 Broadway flooded kL. UllbUlJ'lUJ bU UWta 4 from payola-hit cities. Hotels, restaurants, airlines and banks alerted to phony $100 bills, series. Detectives tell me they're getting the best phonies they've ever seen.

HOLLYWOOD. ING CROSBY has a project which is interesting. He Margaret Roach, dghtr. of the late film tycoon Hal Roach, will be in a cast for eight months. Her limousine collided with a fire truck Kenneth Haigh of "Caligula" and a beauty in the show are like Haigh and Haigh Anne Bancroft and Farley Granger intoxicated each other with their toasts at Cyrano's.

Copa doll Bobbie Clarke and B' wants to do "The Gold Road," a story of the fabulous mother lode country where millionaires were made overnight. Bing outlined his idea to Buddy Adler, for 20th leaving the grotto which to Christians is the Shrine of the Annunciation. Century-Fox. He said he would like to show The night Khrushchev had what must have been a dis- maying dinner and talk with American labor leaders in San Francisco he clumped off to bed, wondering who had told him they were all lefties, and I just before turning in ordered the most astonishing breakfast in room service history. Obviously, the order was for his entire troupe, else he would long since have died of glut-I tony.

But suffice it to say that i no tycoon I know could have i afforded such fare. You paid for it, one way or another. The same is true when Mr. Eisenhower goes on these trips. The helicopters that buzzed around us when the President sightsaw the Taj Mahal last December with Nehru had come from Norfolk, Va.

Among other things the choppers were kvri to Ho was flv throtieh the fli ill' i Hiimfnr-T Mmmmamxmmimm" mam NEAR the rock-cave home where Mary was formed that she was to give birth to Jesus Christ, great red tractors loudly drag trailer loads of bananas from the shores of the Sea of Galilee. Just across the valley, an Arab military redoubt frowns down from one of the mmwwiijwiui in iujjjuijws IflilliWtttlll irfifiiifwanniMiiisun TrmmrnnfflMft iwai-iBWfwffl HTnTtniflfsmnnfisMn winiriiinai Tony Travis telephoned me to say that he's making a pilot titled "Calling Miss Peters" for Screen Gems. "I'm supposed to have the second lead for Joe Pasternak's movie 'Where the Boys but of course that won't be made until the strike is settled, "he said." However, Joe has another role for me in an independent picture he's making." Everything is coming up success for Tony. I have known him since the years when he was paying court to Jane Wyman. Willy Wyler's 20 -year -old Ldugri Today's daughter Cathy has entered the University of Madrid as an exchange student.

AIKIR PAYNE HEAVY AAACHINERY MANUFACTURING CO. INQ. the days when such famous actors and actresses as Edwin Booth, Eddie Foy, and Lily Langtry traveled the road to the Far West and put on plays in the rough mining country where gold was king and there was money, money, money all over the place. Linda Cristal is off for Ar-tlna where she will attend the film festival as a representative oi Lniversai-iuierukuuuai. Juc Lait, with whom Linda lives, tells me that she (Jane) is pre-paring some of the stories her father left.

Ailing director Douglas Sirk is improving, but he still is not well enough to take over the direction of Lana Turner's "Streets of Montmartre." For this reason Lana has asked that the picture be postponed. She has much confidence in Sirk, since "Imitation of Life" did so much to revitalize her career. So Lana wants to wait until he is up and rarin' to go again. Meanwhile, Stephen Long-street, who wrote the book on which "Streets of Montmartre" is based, is being paid off for the film rights in installments, proving the picture is far from off, as has been rumored. Tab Hunter is saving his Job as an actor by becoming a business man.

He's opening a new oriental art shop and he'll sell a large shipment of Japanese antiques be bought in the Orient. mala model Tom Wright are sure it's not wrong. They'll wed March 20. His chums report that dancer Juliet Prowse is Frank Sinatra's most serious romance in years. The Little Club crowd expect Tom itosiey oi "iioreiioi" wed actress Ellen Madison next month There's a big probe in Miami over forged credit cards The British censor will not go-light Jayne Mansfield's "Too Hot to Handle." David Lean (director of "River is expected to marry Leila Devi of India soon 20th Century-Fox actor Ken Scott (recently phffft from singer Carol Brent) dates Ann Mc-Crea, once Vic Mature's uh-huhney Vanessa Brown's ex-groom Dr.

It. A. Franklyn, and Wilma Kemp (a nurse) are serious. The Maharajah of Baroda would like to retrieve some of the crown jewels hL estranged wife is using. She's wearing real pearls on her sandals to match those on her fabulous saris Don Wilson (who got rich in Wall Street) is speriding it on society's Alicia Baker.

Sal Mineo's kin encourage his romance with Monet LaFor-rest ii lng out for myself," he said. I can't get into trouble or anything. I could, of course, but it would be destroying quite a few other lives on the snow." Ricky was referring to the TV show he does with his parents, Ozzie and Harriet Nelson, and brother David. "Acting is sort of a part of our lives," he said. "I figure I've grown up pretty normal.

I don't know about being a symbol to other kids. I just do what I think is right for me." It seemed to me that since I had the incumbent teen-age idol as a more or less captive interviewee it was a good chance to find out what the "average" teen-ager's likes and dislikes are. "Well, sir, I like hamburgers, cokes, drive-ins, dates, cars, rock 'n' roll, malts, especially chocolate, dancing and clothes," he said. "Let's see, I don't care for girls with a lot of gook on their faces or ones who act too theatrical, and I'm kind of scared of being with a lot of people I don't know." Ricky said he expects to go into the service in a couple of years. Khyber Pass, never before navigated by such craft.

U.S. Navy ships of the Sixth Fleet rushed at forced draft from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean to "support" the President's visit to Nehru, then sped back and stretched themselves out across the Atlantic from Casablanca almost to the Maryland shore in case the President's plane was forced down on it's long voyage over water. Wben all is considered-special transportation, tion, entertainment and little things Such as having a spare $5,000,000 Boeing 707 handy, as at Surinam Wednesday when the regular plane blew an engine it runs into important money. So does having a spare TU-114 available, as Khrushchev has for no other than prestige reasons. (It is the largest airplane in the world.) Peace, it's wonderful.

Expensive, too, in these days. But if it clicks with justice, of course it will be the bargain of the ages. I I. 'i i V. IV.

CKT.I I l-t Ut LINDA CRISTAL Off for Argentina (See rarsons) DORIS DAY Record sales soar (See Sullivan) "There's a Job open here all right, but first you'll have to step over there and take an aptitude test!".