European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 08, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday february 8, 1969 the stars and stripes Page 9 i 1 hangings evince Iraq s bloody history Max Lerner the second a i tryall. Now in Progress in Iraq and the Sec Ond round of hangings for espionage will be announced Toon and the second Batch of bodies with blackened faces dangling from ropes with names pinned on them will be displayed to the Public and for the second time there will be a grand propaganda Parade of workers and Stu dents in Bagdad for Home con sumption to celebrate the saving of the state from the pathetic remnants of iraqi jews and from the few christians and moslem thrown in for Good measure. Maybe the scenario will be a bit different this time muted in some measure to take account of the world protests against the first round of hangings. But the new round of scattered protests will be ignored As the first round was and neither the United states nor the United nations will do anything Concrete and the russians will continue their Swol Len arms shipments to the arabs and Nasser will continue to say that the War with Israel is still on and is in fact Only the beginning and de Gaulle will continue to sell planes and weapons carriers to Iraq after having placed a ban on sending Israel the spare plane parts contracted and paid for and the Middle East will go not so merrily on with its spiral of terrorist provocation reprisal and escalation that leads god knows where. It in t too hard to spell out what the iraqi leaders gain politically from the spying charges most of them probably trumped up by ambitious secret police and fed to higher  eager enough to use them however false or distorted. First a big spy show always distracts attention from whatever is ailing a country including lethal factional struggles. Second a Brave show of ruthlessness against the helpless iraqi jews can wipe out the memories of humiliation suffered in the War with Israel. Third an israeli plot it a Good thing to fabricate in order to get rid of potential political rivals including a prime minister Secretary of defense and agriculture minister in the Previ Ous iraqi government who Are awaiting trial. But All this should not obscure the sheer barbarism that shows itself when you puncture the sur face of civilized conduct in societies with unstable governments and a tradition of violence. You Don t have to dig All the Way Back to Babylonia to uncover this violence. You will find it in the history of the past decade of iraqi politics which is a blood stained Story of brutal in fighting among the Arab leaders. Governments Don t just succeed each other in Iraq they have to kill each other. Abdul Kassem killed the Young King his adviser and prime minister Nuri said and dragged their bodies through the Bagdad streets. Abdul Salem Aref overthrew Kas sem and his pro Moscow regime and not Only killed Kassem but showed hit Corpse on to. There followed a fierce struggle be tween the two baathist left socialist factions of Aref and Gen. Ahmed Hassan Al Bakr with the former dying or being killed in 1966 and the latter driven now to stage a show trial of his enemy s Cabinet ministers and to link them with the easy jewish scapegoats. Thus the iraqi jews Are obviously convenient counters in whatever intricate game Gen. Al Bakr and his ally in Egypt Nasser May be playing both within Iraq and on the question of War and peace. They form an ancient and proud Community going Back thousands of years into ancient Babylon older even than the Arab Community. The few thou Sand left from the great flight to Israel which took place after the 1967 War Are being squeezed to extinction As Are the jews still left in Egypt and Syria. They Are easy hostages and inevitable victims of the mounting Mideast tensions unless the members of the United nations somehow find enough moral courage to per Suade or shame the three Arab captor nations into letting these people go. If Iraq hangs another Batch of them after another trial no one can predict whether or when the israelis will strike at the obvious target of the iraqi brigade stationed in Jordan to Back up the commando terrorists. For the moment the israelis want to avoid reprisals which would play into the hands of the iraqis. For the moment also the israelis after bearing the Brunt of wide spread displeasure about the Beirut plane episode have seen the current of criticism shifting against Iraq and its barbarism. It is a measure of their stupid Ity that the arabs seem to be courting this moral revulsion which is a High Price to pay for some Domestic propaganda in Iraq. What makes the iraqi con duct worse is that it underscores Israel s desire for some firm guarantees in any peace settlement against the erratic Arab actions. C 1969, Loi Angelet time Ike a Linus Security Blanket presidents who leave office with a genuine yen for the quiet life should meet two require ments. They ought to depart from the Whit House with a maximum of Public dissatisfaction and a minimum standing in the nation Al polls. They should also arrange to live As far away As possible from washing ton. Because he failed to take these . To Horst p r e c a u tons Gen. Dwight David Eisen Hower apparently will be a sort of Linus Security Blanket for yet another president. Richard Nixon hat been in of fice Little More than two weeks and already has found it useful or necessary to Call on the elderly Soldier statesman. His sunday trip to Walter Reed army Hospital came just As the news leaked out that a presidential trip to Europe and new . Overtures on the Middle East Are being planned. If one counts the Days since or. Nixon s election this was his third announced visit to see Eisenhower. Presidents Johnson and Ken Nedy likewise found it helpful to associate the Eisenhower name with whatever they were contemplating at the White House. Kennedy insisted on taking the blame for the Bay of pigs Fiatele Early in 1961, but he let every body know the invasion really had been planned under the Eisenhower administration. Johnson not Only wot a fre quent Eisenhower caller but an Eyen Mere frequent Dropper of the Eisenhower name. It wat Al most impossible to hear Audi Cus the Vietnam War without being told for the 100th time that it wat part of the original Eisenhower Promise to keep the communists out of South Viet reasons for All this Ike Are understandable. I a Lufft apr we in the column thl Page or it every chief executive wants to be a Success and at least wants the Public to View him As one. There is Only one living sex president who has been through if All and emerged with flying Public colors. If Eisenhower were younger he might be Able to beat any of them in a presidential election. Then too Ike has been the most nonpolitical president to occupy the White House in recent years hit republicans painfully lamented at the time. Nowadays the old general likes to have the boys come out to Check things with him no matter if they re democrats or republicans. This is a relatively new phenomenon in presidential politics. There wat bad blood Between Ike and his predecessor Harry Truman and they stayed apart. Indeed Truman rankled Eisen Hower on one of hit morning walks in Washington shortly after the general had moved into the White House. That s a Nice place Truman cracked pointing at the White House. I wonder who t living there  Ike at the time was off on one of his golfing jaunts to Augusta a. Neither Johnson nor Kennedy Ever courted old Harry Truman As they did Gen. Eisenhower. Nixon has the Best claim to Eisenhower s Balm. He served dutifully As Ike s vice president and now that his daughter has married the Eisenhower grand son Nixon can even claim a family relationship. An example of what the Eisen Hower magic can do for or to a new president came up at Nixon s first news conference last week. Asked Why he had with drawn ail the appointments sent up to Congress by Johnson just before going out of office Nixon said i had two precedents to follow. President Kennedy did not withdraw the appointment of judgeship which he inherited from president Eisenhower. On the other hand president Eisen Hower had withdrawn All the appointments and then proceeded to make new appoint ments. I Felt the Eisenhower approach was the More efficient  c North american newspaper Alliance Jjon a pile of rhetoric lawlessness attacking and advancing Al i Kcf 9&r Ami strip to a of a aft Lumi at gov rom to we Are losing the War on crime. The legions of Lawless Are everywhere on the attack and almost everywhere advancing. Decent citizens Retreat behind bolted doors shuttered windows and an increasing variety of alarms warning systems private police patrols. Yet crime continues to increase nine times faster than our population is in creasing. Former presi Dent Lyndon j o h n t o n pre scribed the Elas tic politician of lulled Foj everything More Money. Towt did t work. President Johnton t final answer to epidemic la Lewnes in Washington  to move i family to text. President Nixon it mobilising the department of Justice to an Paul intensified Effort to counteract crime to the limit that Federal authorities can. Meanwhile however a rebel Lious generation lionized Bonnie and Clyde and shouts pigs at policemen. That it the grass roots of the problem that the Good Guys and the bad buys by default or by design have twitched sides. Naturally the enemies of our americanism elect to disrupt and destroy by discrediting authority. Thus wet eared youngster grow up parroting Praise for Law Breakers and protests against lawmen. What can be done about it regrettably the Reform of a cel Tege Ager it almost impossible. Prom puberty on ingrained pre Conception Are reversible Only  momentous religious experience a indeed changed lives overnight. More and More How Ever government is limiting the imposition of religious instruction. There is one quiet Effort admittedly intended to Rei Ngoctri Nate our youngsters with respect for authority which you should know about. It s called officer  primary Grade children Are getting a proper introduction to the policeman through cartoon books which characterise him As officer  the program also includes informal visits with uniformed policemen. Workshop materials provide a background for classroom div Trion of the Junior citizen it Jyh and re pc visibilities Ond obligations. Youngsten first through third grades learn the role which officer Friendly Hilt in the Community at a Fotcher g Helper a worker and a Friend. Beginning with the 1969-70 school year in new Orleans for example this program involves the full time of four police offi cers. Their working Days Are de voted to implementing the pro Gram in the City s schools. After working hour they accept in a Jakont to speak to explain or Iuta to visit with groups of Young Toff i have examined the concept the curriculum the cartoon books the picture dictionary the new words to old Nursery songs. Admittedly my knowledge of child psychology is More empirical than Scholastic. But this Effort appears from Here to be on the right track. If officer Friendly can re capture enough hearts i living counterparts of the next Genera Tion will not have to capture to Many culprits. C 1mb, general feature corps