European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 24, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes Page 9 touching tale of treasured trinkets we re going to win nor who run Wollack. Fid 7000 textile Erk it p0 l 0 an Airport rally whore Donnow wont for j5 Ond Straw halt from Boot governor Weil Laeo to Ehod a for $6. -41" h Fli my a lecture of tour Hie Gamut famous thing Mutum merited by col. Rodney Doggy cd hit collector Wai jubilant of r his newest addition. La that it i talk pointing to Box on a shelf next to the Dost display East protecting in he curious a collection of Fitl glasses touched by kissing Jim Folsom. Noh son boomed the Colo my that s the Box Hummon Tal Madge touched when to took is red suspenders out of it another High Point in history i might add. The Box Wallace touched is that newer looking Ono Over there by the Goose Quill touched by Barry Goldwater when to wrote the declaration of of i said. Then your my Toum it apolitical say what son i mean it crosses party lines you use exhibits regardless of Raco Creed or color you one of them Miami Horn rimmed communist Ain t you son no no i said hastily. All right then he said a pea Tod. Shut up. This museum it dedicated to one thing. If somebody famous personally touched it i want to gestured there for in stance it the first Dollar Muey Long Ever touched As that s Only 35 you sure find a lot of fault son he said moving on. Now Here s a pumpkin touched by Boss Crump used to be a Golden Chariot. Up there is a communal Halo touched by Eugene Debs Here is a sore spot on the voters literacy test touched by Richard Nixon there hanging from a thin wire is the High c touched by gov. Rhodes when the Agnew decision was you sure have some famous touched things you said a Mouthful and watch it i jumped Back and said what s that a late grass Root return touched by Harry i asked who touched these Little toy soldiers those Ain t toy soldiers. Son those Are toy Kings one of my most famous exhibits he said. Those toy Kings wore made by Strom Thurmond at a boy with his own toy Kingmaker. See that framed envelope with the barely decipherable scrawl that was written on a train. You know what it is you Don t mean no not Lincoln. That s the first draft of a Norman Thomas acceptance speech. Here s a makeup Brush touched by Rea Gan the new Low touched by tammany i be got to have that cleaned one of these Days and Here in this red White and Blue trash barrel some historically priceless trash. This is litter picked up personally by lady boy i said. It gives you cold chills huh i m glad to see you under stand he said simply. Here s a microphone touched by Billy but colonel i said. Billy Graham has nothing to do with politics.1 us huh he said. Hey look Down at your feet. Know what that is Herbert Hoover touched that. He used to stand on what is it the threshold of a new Era. And Here is the panic Button Mccarthy touched with the Paris trip announcements and Here is the druggists mortar touched by Hubert where s the Pestle Lyndon has it. Speaking of Johnson Here is the Coal shovel he Learned to write on by fire Why do you Only collect things touched by politicians i asked. Because they Are there he said. Politicians make More touches than anybody Buckley starts Witch Hunt Well it s certainly not the old politic an ominous item has appeared in new York and it May have More to do with the future shape of politics than the Hulla Baloo in Chicago and Tho testy postmortem Over Miami Boach. William f. Buckley jr., the witty ultraconservative who first won prominence As an aide to the late sen. Joe Mccarthy has announced a new publication to be run by other former Mccar Flora Lewis thy ites. As you know Buckley wrote in an open letter ask ing for subscriptions most americans in the last decade have just Plain lost sight of communist intrigues Here at Home though our sons fight and die to Stop communist advances in so the militant newsletter is going to expose subversion among the old left and the new left peace Niks leftward Drifting churchmen students communications Media and the respectable who give Aid and Comfort to Radical ele at first sight the idea of the publication sounds As dated As he Cha Cha Cha the new look and the silent generation. Joe has Given Way to Eugene As the Mccarthy people Are talking about. George Wallace of Alabama is already on the ballot in 39 � is As a candidate for pres Dent. He has been campaigning a Indiana where he got 32 per it of the vote in the 1964 democratic primary and reports Are that he May do even better nere As a third party candidate year Money is pouring into " � Campaign from Small con Fribus ors in Industrial areas Rund $40,000 a Day Accord m9 to one estimate. At this put nobody thinks Wallace a the slightest Chance of win Ning any electoral votes outside he Dep South but he has an Wea my Chance of tipping the major parties Are in a close race. Wallace in t exposing communists. He s after liberals who he says created a Frank Enstein in our country and now their chickens Are coming Home to Roost. In the Mccar these of the 1950s, communists and liberals were about the same. The targets listed by the new conservative newsletter indicate that it will speak a Wallace kind of language now even if it does t garble its metaphors. The general Assumption when Richard Nixon chose Maryland s Spiro Agnew As his vice presidential running mate was that the republicans hoped to win Wallace votes in the South. But while Nixon May be unimaginative he in t foolish. The chances Aren t Good enough to swing any Wallace oriented states As sen. Strom Thurmond must have told him. But in other parts of the coun try Wallace is talking a lot More than segregation. He is talking about upholding the Constitution and Federal guidelines that would Tell us How to run lives and perhaps most important raising the individual tax exemption from $600 to $1,000 and taxing instead the tax free foundations that think up All these the next president is going to have to end the Vietnam War. And everything indicates that the Only Way available is on terms that a minority Here will Call sellout of China was Joe Mccarthy s opening Battle cry. This time far More than after Korea the minority can expect to find vocal support among military men. Former defense Secretary Robert Mcnamara is known to have expressed con Cern about the bitterness that is Welling up among ranking offi cers and which could erupt with some political prodding when the time comes. That is Why the appearance of a revived Mccarthy Ite Publica Tion looks ominous. The people who did it before seem to see things turning their Way again and they Are Reading the news about Wallace Nixon and prospects in Vietnam. But this time the rest of the people who were ashamed of Joe Mccarthy should not be taken by Surprise. The militants Aren t Only in the new left there is a new right feed ing on them and growing ugly keep Biafra alive7 Button is two . I i. F _ _ a Ance in states where Tho two a i the eol Miti thu a of unit United and 8trip"gavwtuutiit the buttons say keep Biafra alive and in a frustrating Way that sentiment May be the key to the suffering of Little Chil Dren in Eastern Nigeria. For whether the american committee willed it or not or whether its great hearted com passion for Hun Gry children pushed it Willy Nilly into inter National politics the slogan Means s o m e thing special to the Eastern nigerians who Call themselves biafran. It Means something quite different to most of the americans Black and White who Wear the buttons collect the Money and lobby against starvation. The slogan also has a grim meaning for the Central nigerian government. Roy Wilkins keeping Biafra alive May be the american and sentimentalist Way of i neighing against starvation. But to the feverish directors of the destiny of Eastern Nigeria the phrase Means keep the nation of Biafra this is what it also Means to the Central government. That is the reason its leaders change the secessionists with using the hunger of alleged millions of children As a device to win a War that they cannot otherwise win the charges and counter Harg is Are too numerous to list. An impartial inquiry would doubt less discover underneath the impassioned oratory fault on both sides. What emerges is that Biafra will not agree to the Pas Sage of food by ship and Over land routes and the National government will not agree to give Safe passage to planes. Bia fians say the importation of food by ship is suspect be Couse regardless of inspections the packages con be and will be poisoned. National government officials declare they cannot per Mit air cargoes because in Addi Tion to food the planes could haul arms and ammunition. No one can Tell for sure who is telling the whole truth. What is involved is the survival of a people largely of the ibo tribe who want a separate state and of those who seek a continuance of a National government which needs the natural resources of the breakaway state in order to remain a going nation among nations. Hence the Button slogan chosen it May be safely assumed not at random by the biafran Public relations men in Amer Ica becomes significant. When Biafra is see it they think of an almost possible new nation. When nigerian government officials see it they gnash their Teeth. Without being aware of it the nigerians nationalist and secessionist have dealt a blow to the presently popular myth among Black americans that All chicanery and evil reside in the White Power systems. Black we Are told i not Only Beautiful and it is As Mary Bethune declared years ago but Pristine in its goodness unlike the calculating goodness of say White men. The Little Black children in Eastern Nigeria pitiful pawns in a Black struggle for Power know better death is not More Wel come because he comes in Black Robes rather than in White
