European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 18, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              The stars and stripes b Page 9 de Gaulle Prince of Powe to lord Acton s old Chest nut Power lends to corrupt Albolote Power corrupts absolutely George Santayana replied All Power 1$ delightful and absolute Power it absolutely de  nothing that Charles de Gaulle has done has shown the truth of thl More blatantly than hit Dos Missal of his dear Friend faithful lieutenant triumphant party Leader and Brilliant pre Janle Georges Pompidou. Any head of state could Dis miss a hostile bumbling or treacherous second in command especially As a Scapegoat to Cov a some humiliating defeat. It took de Gaulle to dismiss one of the most competent French Heads of government at the moment of electoral Triumph for both. And Pompidou he is left saddened stunned and help less. Given the French Constitution a modernist Gadget which makes the Premier a puppet in the president s hands any rebel lion by Pompidou would be futile. His friends even Tell some of the Ernest Cuneo too credulous american reporters that this is de Gaulle s Way of withdrawing Pompidou from the Grimy Day to Day struggle in or Der to prepare him for the presidential succession. If they believe that they will believe anything. It is de Gaulle s Way of show ing that he allows nothing to stand in the path of his grand de sign. Like Machiavelli s Prince he has mastered the great Art of political leadership that of mask ing what you Are when you must in order to be what you Are when you can. This is the modern Prince the most corp mate machiavellian of our time. Poor Georges Pompidou must be repeating ruefully the great anguished cry that has come Down through dynastic history put not your Faith in  i commend the Case of de Gaulle to All americans who bring so much of the historical Ameri can innocence of heart to the old political game. All american politicians who Are aiming at Summit Power from Eugene Mccarthy All the Way across t h e spectrum to Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan Are models of virtue probity and credibility compared with the French presi Dent. Even Lyndon Johnson whose difficulty is that he has entangled himself in a War from which Mere cleverness offers no exit. The Crafty texan is an inno cent compared with the lofty religious Frenchman who feels that no Means Are excluded in Restor ing the traditional greatness of France. To gain Power he prom ised the generals that he would keep Algeria French and when they put him in Power he used it to liquidate the War and retire most of them. When he had to save his regime this Spring he let Pompidou Lead his election Campaign using him in a cynical tactic of communist scare poli tics and then requited Pompi Dou s effective performance by dismissal. Polish cauldron boiling Washington in International intelligence that which does not happen is often More significant than that which does. Though advertised As Mere staff Maneu vers the russian army moved 28,000 troops and 1,000 tanks into Czechoslovakia. Simultaneously Moscow s offi Cial newspapers notably pravda harshly reminded the czechs of the bloody hungarian revolt of 1956 and its ruthless suppression by the red army. From an intelligence stand Point h is notable that it was reported at All that the hard Core communist governments Poland East Germany Bulgaria and Hungary were meeting in Warsaw. Czechoslovakia has declined to attend such meetings and has refused to give guarantees that her present democratic policies will not result in the abandon ment of communism. The most significant Factor outside of Czechoslovakia s refusal to attend is that Yugoslavia Ond Romania were not even invited. This Means that Prague has tacit approval in its Moscow Buff from Bucharest and Bel Grade. Further examination of the hard Core communist regimes re Veals that three of the four Are shaky. East Germany had to Call up red tanks to quell the revolt w 1953. It was t enough. The Berlin Wall had to be built. The hungarian revolt of 1956 Ould have succeeded except of Hie merciless assaults of red Armor. Why then was the site of the conference Warsaw the communist regime of Poland is the Harlest of All. The polish workers Poznan revolted in june 1956, fur months before the Hungary in did further when the embattled poles broke out the old in the Colum in polish Flag during that outbreak polish infantry refused to fire on them. So russian battalions were rushed up and their volleys mowed Down 44 and wounded hundreds. The polish cauldron is now boil ing again. At the time of the conference in Warsaw a terrific anti semitic drive was being launched by the communist re Gime. This is the oldest trick in the czarist stalinist bag and in variably signifies desperation. This is understandable. The so called polish government which is neither polish nor a govern ment has much to fear. Stalin out of this fear of the poles or dered the handcuffing of the Cream of the polish army some 10,000 officers after which they were massacred. Further when the red army reached the outskirts of Warsaw Stalin gave the signal for the polish patriots to arise on the Promise that the red army would come to their Rescue. But when the polish patriots Rose he refused to order the red army to enter the polish capital thereby deliberately leaving the patriots jews and catholics alike to be slaughtered by the nazi Garrison. Hitler or Stalin nazi or communist Catholic poles and jew ish poles have suffered from the same persecutors but they can not be held Down. It took the combined Power of the Hohen Hollems the roman offs and the habsburgs to keep Poland in chains. This they succeeded in doing for a Century and a Quarter. But on armistice Day in 1918, the Day they fell the polish Flag of Independence was raised. Thus a line of people hostile to communism now runs from Warsaw through Prague Down the Danube through Belgrade Buda pest and Bucharest to Istanbul and Tel Aviv. The red general staff which knows its business has tried and failed to eliminate Israel in the South. Simultaneously the czechs have lighted the fuse which could explode the Balkans and Poland the powder kegs of the North. The Only thing which could possibly make the Kremlin More unhappy than a free Israel at Suez is a free Poland on the Baltic. For As goes the Jordan so goes the bosporus As goes the bosporus so goes the Danube. And As goes the Danube so goes the Baltic what lies ahead for Couve de Murville the Neutral technician who has become Premier under an amoral president no one can predict t can Only guess that if Couve has a heart to break it will be duly broken and he will join the scrapyard of men who have been used and discarded so that a great Man could pre sent the Edge of the sword to history. You can see the difficulty of trying to teach politics and his tory to Young men and women who shame any teacher by their idealism. What can one say to them about de Gaulle and his recent glittering electoral Suc Cess to be cruelly honest one would have to say do you want to be a great political Leader like de Gaulle then throw your principles out of the win Dow Send your friends packing contrive and connive and Dis simulate seem to be what you Are not and mask what you Are. Bemused the people Decloud the issues bedevil your allies betray your friends. But be sure to do it All for the greatness of your country which will Clear your conscience and exonerate you before the bar of  one could of course make out a Case for de Gaulle being de spite his masks a great revolutionary who has moved in his inscrutable ways to rebuild the French army and French foreign policy and is now about to re build the Economy and educational system. Maybe. But the fact is that France has neither allies nor friends left that it suffered a student worker rebellion which brought it close to paralysis that de Gaulle regained Power Only by a divisive election Campaign that the French Economy is in peril and that the adventure of achieving participation in Industry and the universities will have to reckon with work ers and students for whom de Gaulle s Glamor has vanished. C 1968, to Angele time charges of racism false again o. To b. Author and Are in no Way View. J�,?"1 " de air or Mino in. Oui. 11 � 8lart and 8tl pore United Tau. Govern mint by Victor Lasky new York can t we Man age for once to go through a presidential Campaign without hurling fatso charges of racism against any of the major Candi dates Hubert Humphrey the Proba ble democratic nominee is being dubbed a bigot because in a typical moment of Humphrey like exuberance he put his Arm around Lester Maddox and happily anointed the Georgia Gover nor As a Good  Richard Nixon has been accused by the Rev. Andrew Young acting Leader of the poor peo ple s Campaign of playing on the fears and prejudices of a racist country in campaigning for the gop nomination. Though he would not bluntly Call Nixon a racist the reverend said the former vice president s attitude almost amounts to  of course this is double talk. Let it immediately and unequivocally be stated that neither Humphrey nor Nixon Are racists and that those who say so Are playing a vicious game. It is interesting though that those who have most bemoaned the excesses of " Joe Mccarthy ism in the past maintain a significant silence towards the false charges of  the fact is that both Humphrey and Nixon have records going Bock several decades of Strong advocacy of various types of Dell rights legislation. It is True that or. Nixon for one has cautioned against the tendency of those in Power or seeking office to Over Promise in the anti poverty area. This in his opinion has led to greater expectations among the deprived and has increased tensions. Another aspect of the current Campaign is truly frightening. And that has to do with the unwillingness of certain Liberal groups to permit candidates like Hubert Humphrey and George Wallace to speak. Humphrey after being heckled july 4 in Phila Delphia s Independence Hall suddenly postponed a Campaign trip to the West coast when it became known that anti War ele ments threatened to mount an enormous demonstration. Humphrey claimed he had the Grippe. Los Angeles mayor Sam Yorty described it As a Case of diplomatic  but the fact remains that a major presiden tial candidate found it advisable to stay in Washington