European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 4, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes still far from presidential Coal Mccarthy is reshaping politics by Raymond Lahr los Angeles up j. Mccarthy has re shaped the politics of the nation this year and perhaps the poli tics of the entire world. As he said at his Victory Celebration after the Oregon primary his Campaign was first called a footnote to history but it was becoming part of the text. Yet the senator from Minnesota is not close to his goal of winning the democratic presidential nomination. Even an up set Victory in the Californi primary tuesday could do More to destroy the candidacy of sen. Robert f. Kennedy of new Yor than to pull Mccarthy abreast of vice president Hubert , his former political ally in he began his strenuous Campaign nov. 30, Mccarthy said he had consulted fellow senators and other political leaders in 25 or 26 states. He implied that he was encourage to Challenge the renomination of president Johnson. Six month Slater he carries the endorse ment of none of his fellow senators and none of the 24 democratic governors. He i backed by a handful of relatively obscure House members Anda few leaders of the regular party organization. Mccarthy has shown mor Appeal to republicans than other democratic presidential possibilities and to higher in come More conservative democrats who have moved to the suburbs. He gets enthusiastic receptions on College campuses. He is weak with voters in Low income areas with negroes and with nationality groups All Vot ing blocs where Kennedy has a special Appeal. They contribute to Kennedy s Victory in. Indiana and a shortage of these voter contributed to his defeat in has been growing Between Mccarthy and resented Kennedy s intrusion into the presidential race after Mccarthy s break through in new Hampshire. He resented hearing that the con test for the presidential Nomina Tion had narrowed to a Choice Between Kennedy and hum also was angered by what he called misrepresentations of his voting record. Meanwhile the Kennedy organization was fuming about what it regarded As ?. Switch i tactics by Mccarthy. They read the texts of some of his Earl speeches lauding the administration of Kennedy s brother Chelate president John f. Kennedy. More recently Mccar thy has said that a vote for Kennedy or Humphrey be a vote for change because both had shared in the formula Tion of policies which had led to disaster. Kennedy was attorney Genera from 1961 until he quit to run for the Senate in 1964.Mccarthy, an Early critic of . Policy in Vietnam has complained that the Cost of the War has resulted in a distortion of National priorities so that Money is unavailable for urgent domes tic programs to Deal with the crisis in the cities. Another of Mccarthy s com plaints is that Johnson has gone too far in personalizing the presidency with a resulting Ero Sion of Power suffered by other institutions of government. At 52, Mccarthy is an Urban former economics professor now a hero to some of the voter who once idolized the late Adlai e. Stevenson. He has spent nearly 20 years in the House and Senate where he acquired a reputation for intelligence and wry wit. But some of his fellow members wondered if he were fulfilling his potential. He has not been identified closely with any landmark legislation. Except in Wisconsin and to lesser degree in Oregon he has entered each of the Campaign Sas the underdog. He remained in that role in California where Kennedy had great Appeal to negroes and mexican americans the democratic who have comp voter registration Camu Fil and recognize the imports television in politics in i not bought Mccartis m to they would still be sold even if he woj France easing policy possessions Paris up France i modifying its hard line attitude toward its overseas department Sand territories. Political observers predict this will be one result of the Cabinet reshuffle which followed the country s paralysing eco nomic and social crisis. Although he was ostensibly uninvolved in government re action to the labor and student unrest Gen. Pierre Billotte was fired from his Post As minister of overseas departments and territories when Premier Georges Pompidou named a new Cabinet Friday. Joel be theule a former pro Fessor of geography and one of the youngest and most Liberal members of the gaullist bloc in the National Assembly re places Billotte. He is expected to take a new and More understanding position toward the unrest and autonomy drive developing in France s scattered but strategic posses Sions around the world. France has been increasingly embarrassed by violent demands for Independence in Guadeloupe and Martinique its departments in the Caribbean internal Quad reling in the far Flung Pacific possessions of Tahiti tribal War fare in French Somaliland and other problems is one Issue continuously used by the French communist party to claim the gaullist one vote for me. One vote for you. And two big votes against Dean might have advanced to Rhine did Russia Fumble big Chance government ignores the need Sand wishes of the people. During a recent Paris trial of19 Guadeloupe ans on charges of subversion the communist joined the chorus of protesters charging that France was engaging in Neo colonialism years after granting Independence to some colonies and granting others a status equal to metropolitan departments. All defendants in the Guadeloupe trial were either released or Given suspended sentences after state evidence failed to stand up in Many frenchmen Bil Lotte represented the traditional benevolent paternalism which pleased French residents of overseas territories but infuriated natives who have battled for years with growing unemployment and education prob lems. A few weeks after the Guadeloupe trial Billotte re turned from a trip to the carib bean departments aimed at promoting tourism and declare that local residents wanted to remain French be theule will probably steal this potentially explosive Issue from the communists and leftists by committing the govern ment to a gradual program of Reform in overseas administration including economic development and greater local autonomy. By Fred s. Hoffman Washington a a . Army study suggests excessive caution and indecision Cost the soviets a Chance to reach the Rhine River an thus control of most of Germany in the last months of world War ii. Had the soviets succeeded i reaching the Rhine before the allies crossed that River the would have been in position to have menaced France and thelow countries and to have con trolled virtually All of German instead of settling for a division of control with the other , in turn might have altered the whole shape and fat of postwar Europe. These conclusions Are implicit in the army s account of the late stages of the soviet Ger Man War. That account titled Stalingrad Ito Berlin was re searched and written by army historian Earl f. Ziemke. He Drew on captured German Docu ments and on soviet military writings. According to this study the soviet High command staff in the late fall of 1944 planned Winter offensive that was to have ended the War in about 45days. The offensive began jan.12, 1945, and within two weeks soviet units were closing up tothe Oder River. But on feb. 17, 1945, Ziemke wrote the soviet staff suddenly scrapped the whole original plan and ordered Field leaders to clean up the flanks of the advancing soviet armies. This in the View of . Army historians wasted almost six weeks. By the end of the third Weekin february the great soviet 1945 Winter offensive had Cometo a dead halt the study said. The army study noted that the soviet High command s Deci Sion coincided with two Small German counterattacks one aimed at Stargard East of Berliand the other on the Hron River in is suggested the counterattacks accomplished nothing forthe germans militarily but apparently intensified caution among soviet staff officers. Army historians ainu a fling on the study said flu so a than Likely the so could have been on the Kine by March 1. 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