Eisenhower Aims
Efforts At Support
In Berlin Crisis
By WARREN ROGERS JR.
WASHINGTON, UP) — President
Eisenhower and Soviet Premier
Khrushchev are locked in a
strange kind of contest — each
trying to convince the other his
side is united on the issue of
Berlin’s future.
With Secretary of State John
Foster Dulles on the sidelines
fighting cancer, Eisenhower
moved into a more active foreign
affairs role. In East Germany,
Khrushchev was busy assembling
his allies.
Officials said Saturday Eisen
hower may make a radio-television
appeal for public understanding
and support. They said the Presi
dent does not yet think the sit
uation warrants such a broadcast.
But they foresaw it as a possible
move if there is a further height
ening tension.
Eisenhower’s radio-TV adviser,
actor-producer Robert Montgom
ery, was at the White House Fri
day and Thursday. Presidential
Press Secretary James C. Hager
ty said this was coincidental and
the President has no present plans
for a broadcast.
But Eisenhower was taking other
well-publicized steps.
He met for 90 minutes at the
White House Friday with the four
top Republican and Democratic
leaders in Congress. He followed
that up with a White House ses
sion with eight other key Repub
lican and Democratic members of
Congress.
A proclamation of complete bi
partisan support came from the |
four top leaders — Senate Demo
cratic leader Lyndon Johnson and
Speaker of the House Sam Ray
burn, both of Texas, Senate Re
publican leader Everett M. Dirk
sen of Illinois and House Repub
lican leader Charles Halleck of
Indiana.
They all said they are four
square behind Eisenhower’s poli
cy of standing firm against Soviet
efforts to oust the Allies from
pjerlin, while keeping flexibly
disposed to negotiate a settlement.
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I To Conditions’ for
I German Unity
By CARL HARTMAN
LEIPZIG, East Germany, (£1 —
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev
declared last week he wants the
unification of Germany with “all
my body and soul.” But he added
the West must agree to what he
considers the proper conditions.
“The German people,” he de
clared, “will again be reunified.
But it is a question of time and a
question of the proper conditions.”
Khrushchev spoke to a meeting
of more than 2,000 trade union
ists, largely Communist, from both
East and West Germany.
He said it may take some time
to achieve unification, but added:
“We have time.”
He said a peace treaty must be
signed with Germany. Then he
added: “It would be best if it
were with two German states.”
He turned to the possibility of
a confederation between Commu
nist East Germany and West Ger
many, as proposed by the Soviet
Union. A peace treaty with the
confederation, he said, would “also
not be bad."
This was one of the clearest in
dications yet that Moscow, al
though it often advocates German
reunification, would settle for a
peace treaty that recognizes two
German states.
Earlier Khrushchev had dropped
a hint that he might invite Po
land and Czechoslovakia to join
Russia in signing a separate peace
treaty with East Germany.
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'Women Better Patients/
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Dr. Lonnie A. Coffin, 68, of Farmington, Iowa, back at work after being named General Practitioner
of the Year by the American Medical Association.
“Women are better patients
than men,” according to Dr.
Lonnie A. Coffin, Family Doctor
of the Year. “They’ll do what
you tell them, but men won’t.”
At 68, Dr. Coffin is a warm
and happy man, busy with the
health needs of more than 3,000
people in and around rural
Farmington, Iowa. Enriched by
46 years of country doctoring,
he is also a man who speaks
his mind, a philosopher with
concise and witty views en life.
Here are a few of them: *
On smoking: “It’s undoubt
edly bad for you. I gave it up
after my coronary, and”—he
stopped to light one of his six
daily cigars—“I've given it up
several times since then.”
On health: “The work of the
voluntary health agencies
makes me confident about the
future. The National Founda
tion, for instance, which helped
us eight years ago when a polio
epidemic hit Farmington [three
of Dr. Coffin’s four grandchil
dren were stricken], is now ap
plying its March of Dimes funds
to problems like arthritis and
birth defects. That’s good news,
and good health.”
On sickness: “If you re sick,
do what you can to get well,
but try not to worry about it.
If you worry, you’ll feel worse
and so will everybody around
you.”
On being sick at night: “We
all get sicker at night. That’s
because we have more time to
think about ourselves.”
On drinking: “There are only
certain people who should drink.
Those who can both control it
and afford it.”
On fishing: “You can fish sit
ting down and I like that. If
you catch something, fine. If
you don’t, exaggerate.”
On being a doctor: “I try to
take care of people no matter
what the hour, no matter where
they live, no matter who they
are. Where or when they get
sick is not their fault.” «.
On being a doctor named
“Coffin”: “Well, it’s true that’s
what they carry you off in, but
the fact is my name hasn’t
scared off too many patients.”