European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 26, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              The stars and stripes Page 9 czechs seeking to liberalize and survive a itunes of the czechs in my Tafa soviet military Power to fluctuate from Day 1 Ira Sid dear As they a High it 0 cd a nothing less than Miston of whether a Peota so under a communist regime i j con a de to and and Grive or Max Lerner a will again be Lilied under russian tanks As i Wasin Hungary in 1956. This Means that there is a Khi min the East a schism of in Semente and Power a forking of the Road of marxism in two Dot com. One is the direction of Lalin and his proconsul which is being revived in China among the maoists and has not been wholly abandoned even in East Ern Europe. The other is the humanist direction which the younger Marx took and later for Sook which Tenn glimpsed and might have embraced had he lived which Tite asserted in 1948 and has sustained fitfully since which the hungarians fought for and plod for in 1956 and which the i eels now claim As a sover eign people. Don t underestimate their Lead ers in this crisis. They Are Cool and practical men who will use moderate language and concede minor Points but who Are unlikely to Cave in on the Core principles. They have studied the hungarian tragedy and have taken to heart the mistakes made by the leaders. Brezhnev and Kosygin May have More Power but they Don t have More brains and nerve and resourcefulness. The czechs have much going against them in this crisis. Their exposed Borders the presence of soviet troops All around them their dependence on Russia for Trade and for raw materials needed by their factories the fears of the old communist bureaucracies of Ulbricht and Gomulka and the fact that in their own country they have not yet dislodged the Novotny men from the Central committee. But they have much going for them. The support of Yugoslavia and Romania and of the communist parties in Paris and Rome the bitterness of 20 years of mis Rule by stalinist Hacks and tyrants that needs to be undone the Pride of nation the passion for Independence and the taste the people have had of the possibilities of a new life. How about the russian rulers their Choice is hard. They May dare resort to arms again As they did in 1956, on the Prin Ciple that it is better to strike now than wait until the democratic socialism of the czechs has grown roots in the minds of the people too Strong to be torn out. But it May be later than the russians think. The roots Are Al ready there in the people s minds. And if there is to be fight ing things Are not what they were in 1956. The russians would split the whole communist Power Cluster in Europe right Down the Middle. They would not Only push Tito and Ceausescu into the arms of the West but would undo hard years of communist political recruiting in every West Ern country. They would Send the arms detente with America Down the Drain. In the end they might not be Able to count on the silence of their own Young scientists and technicians writers and students. And the americans they know that the czechs Are a Don to touch me nerve end of so Viet Power in Europe and that american military intervention would be a disaster. One trusts that the Johnson policy which has been Good on Europe in con Trast with Vietnam will continue Good on Czechoslovakia. This Means standing ready to help the czechs on Trade and Aid but not being obtrusive about it. A humanist America if indeed it is one has everything to gain from seeing at least one country in Europe take the first Steps to Ward a humanist socialism. The yugoslavs began it 20 years ago but they stressed mainly nationalism and economics and lost their Way somewhere. The aim of the czechs has been higher and broader toward de Bate and political Competition toward a free uncensored press and radio toward Independent judges and a parliament that is More than a rubber stamp to Ward Freedom for scientist and artist and writer. They Are de manding participation in shaping their lives just As the French and americans Are. That is what makes the rus sians look to their tanks and guns. But in the end what can tanks and guns do when a peo ple has caught a glimpse after 20 years of what life can be like c 1968, los Angeles times senator Rockefeller Ernest Cuneo Washington if governor Rockefeller s drive for the presi Dency Falls Short of nomination it will cause no astonishment in Washington if he goes to the . Senate. This would be accomplished by his resignation As gov Imor of new York thereby elevating it. Gov. Malcolm Wilson. Wilson there upon could appoint Rockefeller to the Senate for the unexpired term of senator Kennedy. This in turn could make 1 970 quite a year for new York since both the Senate and the gubernatorial posts would be in Issue. There is much to attract Rocke Feller to Washington. For one thing his maternal Uncle after whom he is named was sen. Nel son Aldrich of Rhode Island. Al dried was a Senate giant and with a few others formed a Politico powerhouse which dominated the Senate and the Republican party for years. Rockefeller already has a National organization which would make him a Force even As a Eshman senator. Hit diplomatic International Peri new is unmatched in the Nale except perhaps by Sena " Pell of Rhode Island at went the Only senator who has a an actual career Diplomat. Ine governor s migraine head wow Hynew York City and his j Lanty with the problems of her Large new York state cities jt6 Ester Syracuse Andly in qualify him As expert on Urban problems. This is not astonishing since his position papers Are aimed at the democratic left of Center. The Kennedy supporters would find Little to complain about in his Domestic program. His foreign policy is More ardent than Sena Tor Mccarthy s and even More naive. The governor unbelievably describes cessation of bombing As a preliminary question a View not held by the americans doing the fighting. He suggests Mutual withdrawal at a time when Hanoi refuses to admit even that its troops Are in South Vietnam. In any event the report that Rockefeller might go to the sen ate is a contribution to National Unity in the vein of the presi Dent s withdrawal for the democrats and Nixon republicans Are United in their desire to see him out of the presidential race. North american newspaper Alliance comrades. Do you realize what will happen if we commitments in Czechoslovakia imagine a set do not Honor our of  Humphrey be a humpty dumpty Henry j. Taylor t programs in new York re Liberal Han those of in a a change of Many an eventual Nelson is faces c Senate at All. A Stibi on his g a d campa19" wire fat san which All Delel l Maal nation of s lhou9h rese i no / to has Sti Frei votes nysi9nif it amount of when you see the gang up against vice president Hubert h. Humphrey what can you feel for him but pity few democrats have anything against Humphrey. But the democratic convention is sure to seem to him like taking a Joy ride on a Cement bicycle. Huh has been a manacled Man for four Long years. Not Only does t a Man run for the vice presidency but it is impossible to run for anything during the years in the vice presidency. Yet now he is the Patsy for his party s dissatisfaction against a president who withdrew and in t even seeking renomination. The entire Mccarthy contingent at Chicago is absolutely deter mined to make manacled Humphrey a humpty dumpty. Sen. Eugene j. Mccarthy first Rose to Challenge president John son on nov. 30, 1967. On Jan. 12 this column remarked that i take my hat off to sen. Mccarthy in admiration for his  he challenged a party Leader ship that applies its White House muscle Power with All the Force and crunch of a half Nelson. And he courageously refused to wait and watch the pressure gauges of Public opinion before deciding when and How loud to blow his whistle. On february 3 the Gallup poll reported president Johnson s nationwide majority Over Mccarthy As 71 per cent to 18 per cent with 11 per cent undecided. On March 1 a Roper poll forecast that Johnson would get 12 per cent of the new Hampshire Pri Mary vote and Mccarthy Only 11. Mccarthy got 42 per cent. The Date was March 12. On March 16 the lore sen. Rob Ert f. Kennedy announced his candidacy. But when he did this a Dpi Survey showed Only three state party chairmen willing to go on record As encouraging the Kennedy candidacy 24 other state chairmen and party leaders opposed to him in varying de Grees and some nine others were noncommittal but basically Nega Tive. Sen. Kennedy was expected to supplant Mccarthy. Instead he supplemented Humphrey. Mccarthy still pulled his Ore gon Surprise and the final Cali fornia figures obscured by the ghastly los Angeles horror gave Kennedy Only 46 per cent of the vote and Mccarthy 42. Civil wars Are fratricide and in wars fratricide is the most bitter of All. This was fratricide within huh s own party. On March 31 president John son withdrew. But neither his withdrawal nor the ghastly assassination of sen. Kennedy two months later stopped the fratricide. It was even intensified and on a scale that makes gov. Nel son Rockefeller s 1964 Goldwater rejection relatively mild and like Wise Rockefeller s repeat performance now against Richard m. Nixon. Party politics is a business of assimilation not elimination and although Rockefeller is unabashedly violating this principle As if it did not exist his Republican foul up is like a Zephyr to a whirlwind compared with what confronts Humphrey. Moreover in this democratic fratricide if Humphrey hews close to president Johnson s line he gets in trouble with both the Mccarthy and Kennedy wings of his own party. But if he does the gets in trouble with lbs. Excusing a Pun Nixon is the innocent bystander who will get hit by the Rock but Humphrey is faced by both the crash of his Liberal image and a Large gang who will stay Home and not vote. Meanwhile the democratic National committee has run another poll secretly among 3,000 county chairman in the eight states outside the deep South where Mccarthy could t get elected do Catcher. It has received 1,875 replies. The average gives third party candidate George c. Wal lace 20 per cent of the popular vote. Gallup in turn now gives Wallace 47 per cent in the five deep South states of Alabama Georgia Louisiana Mississippi and South Carolina this substantially exceeds both Humphrey and Nixon. And in the entire 13 state Southern Region Wallace gets 29 per cent closely Matching Humphrey and Nixon. It s commonly agreed that Wallace will draw fewer votes from Nixon than from Rockefeller if he were the nominee. But Humphrey gets it coming and going in the North from Mccarthy in the South from Wallace. The vice president stands in Chicago some thing like an animal Trainer who popped his head into the lion s Mouth Only to find the crowd pulling the jaws together. 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