European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 25, 1965, Darmstadt, Hesse                                4 the stars and stripes August 1965 Washington elated Over Marine Victory Viet gains increase optimism by Marc 1iuijt Sis Washington Bureau Washington Al though the outcome in Viet Nam should not be judged by the military actions of the Post sit weeks a feeling of cautious optimism is prevail ing in this is in contrast to the gloomy attitude which existed a month ago when defense Secretary Robert Mcnamara returned from an inspection tour of Viet Nam and said i he situation was of Licius Ivr Ohi cd Over lust weeks Marine Vic tory near Chu As much an of an estimated Man Viet Conr Force May have been killed in the the  Vyrl Cong unit had been concentrating in the area near the mar inc base at a mopping up operations Are still going when Security for the area will be turned Over to the vietnamese officials during Thi Spring the Viet germans Cool to Adenauer attacks on Cmike Tii Olirs to coincide with the Monsoon season they would Handi Cap air in june these attacks in creased in size and while they gained some Suc they also paid a High communist casualties were so per cent higher in than for the same period in according to offi As a they have in creased their terror and liar Ras sment during the past few weeks while they even he Viel Cong continues to suffer High casualties from More aggressive operations by the South vietnamese these arc possible due to the arrival of combat units which released vietnamese army units from a Static de another reason for optimism is an improvement in intelligence officials Point out that the Success of intelligence is re lated to the Security that is offered the peasant when villagers Sec Large forces arrive to help defend their they take on new Hope and give needed officials officials also see no need for controls Over us american Economy at the is ton gears itself to a buildup for the As things stand they re there is no reason to adopt a guns before butter Bonn Savage at tacks of former Chancellor Konrad Adenauer on american nuclear policy have failed to Dent the popularity the United states enjoys in West Adenauer has launched an As Sault on the plan for an East West treaty guaranteeing prevention of the further spread of nuclear proposal being discussed by the Geneva disarmament Confer the american Aden Amer is horrible and Means the United states would surrender Germany to rus he says he wants to awaken the German people to the judging by the reaction of crowds at Campaign Adenauer warning in Golant Chancellor Ludwig Erhard does not share Adenauer by Wellington Long speech a passage to the that if 1 had my the United states would be the Only nuclear Power in the unlike delivers his statement on a riling and pauses for which the remark always is although mixed with some booing by leftist despite the evidence that German Confidence in the United states is Aden auers position end record Are such that Erhard is unwilling to disavow exiles Juan Farmer president of and Bis wife Isabel seem in goed health Ard High spirits in this picture wife a was taken in the Kerne it a demo assails critical newspapers Dodd says rebellion news biased and is reported to have mid intimates he considers his predecessors statements in his election rally Erhard makes a reference to the seven divisions stationed in West Al though Erhards 30 minute speeches Are interrupted Only two or three times by clap and although he gives his listeners no obvious signal for he almost always is interrupted by cheering at this a correspondent who spell three Days with Erhard this week reported the passage was applauded la at least Sli but eight Dally platform a Erhard told a private acquaintance recently he believes the germans cheer mention of the presence of american troops Here because the Alli Ance with the United states is imbedded deep in their con deeper than the Al Liance with their French neigh fran Josef former defense includes in us Standard 90mjnulo election Washington up Thomas has charged that whether the citizen believes the United states was justified in sending troops to the dominican re Public depends on what news paper he documentation published Sev eral weeks ago by the Senate foreign relations committee was completely be since the chronology contained in it quoted exclusively from press sources that were critical of administration these critical news he included the new work the new York the Washington be Monde of the London the London times and the London econ Dodd said in a sen ate the Ocsid udness is simply another manifesta Tion of the widespread impress the american press corps in Santo Domingo was almost unanimously critical of president Johnsons decision and sceptical of the reports put out by the embassy there and by the state Dodd singled out the correspondents assigned to cover the uprising by the new York the Herald Tribune and the Washington Post As having a bitterly critical among our european allies the impression was almost uni Versal that the administration had been completely repudiated by our own press corps in the dominican Republic and this for the simple reason that the times and Tribune and Post Are commonly regarded but he added that they Are not by themselves the press of despite the great reputations they Are their correspondents any More sex any More compe any More deserving of than Are the Cor respondents of our wire serv ices and our news magazines and of the Many other great american Large and he Dodd concluded by express ing the Hope Thill some of Chr correspondents who assured us that Caamano rebel Leader Francisco Cun Muno Deno and his Immor dial entourage arc not communists and that All the Trilk about communist infiltration was therefore vastly will find the ume to take u hard look at the situation today in the rebel controlled area of Santo do he explained All the accounts that i hit read in recent weeks indicate that the communists and pro communists arc not merely in Complete control of the rebel but that they Are con trolling it More or less it has been reported that the Only visible political activity in the rebel Quarter it that carried on by the three communist but even More is the fart that they Are Olaf their bold on the business banking heart of he Republic to strangle the to Mac life of the we Fly they place one obstacle liter another in the Way of a peace Ful it is High time the organization of american state moved to put an end to this intolerable he european coition Thomas Dodd As the most authoritative news papers in our country and Are More frequently read and More frequently quoted by euro peans than the rest of the american press put Dodd on the Dodd these three newspapers richly Merit die International recognition which they today in