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Two Young Presidential Aspirants I
By J. M. ROBERTS
Associated Press News Analysl
Some of the problems John F.
Kennedy faces now are calculated
to wipe off the famous grin.
His first post-nomination state
ment is on how to deal with So
viet Premier Khrushchev. No ap
peasement, he says.
Almost daily from now until
election Kennedy and — Richard
M. Nixon too, of course—will be
faced by new issues and new
angles of old issues.
They cannot discuss them mere
ly on the basis of which one is
best fitted to handle them. They
must discuss them from the stand
point of men who are, potentially,
laying down policies for the next
four years of American leadership
in the world.
Nixon has been keeping his own
counsel about any major differ
ences between him and the Eisen
hower administration, because of
his position in it. When they come
out, the differences are expected
to be slight.
Kennedy has announced his at
titude toward many of the more
persistent problems.
Since American policy has ev
olved in response to a situation in
which she has no initiative, it is
not surprising that differences
should be more a matter of pro
cedure than of fundamentals, the
goals being fixed.
Kennedy is more willing than
Eisenhower to spend money for
a complete military deterrent
force, rather than try to deter
mine which forces to emphasize
at the expense of others.
He has some ideas, which may
prove important when fully de
veloped, about trying to increase
communications with Red China
even if recognition cannot be
granted.
Standing at the head of Ameri
ca’s problems of today, however,
is the matter of re-establishing
communications with the Soviet
Union, chopped off by Khrush
chev’s refusal to do business with
Eisenhower.
Kennedy, writing for the Hearst
Headline Service, says the next j
President must make it clear to i
Khrushchev there will be no ap
peasement. Not on Berlin, or any
principle.
But sometime soon he and Nix- |
on must say how they intend to
reach Khrushchev. Whether there
is to be rebuilding of communi
cation from the ground up, or a
new attempt at summitry.
Kennedy and Nixon have spo
ken in broad general terms of Af
rican policy. But what do you do
in a specific case such as the
Congo? Or a specific case such as
Cuba?
The two young men now move
into positions where they speak
as potential presidents; where
problems cannot always be delin
eated in black and white, where
grins are inappropriate, and res
ponsibilities are grave.
Neither has shown any sign of
ducking. They can’t.
Kennedy May Become
2nd Yongest President
WASHINGTON, UR — If Sen.
John Kennedy wins the presi
dential election this fall he will
become, at 43, the youngest man
ever elected to the presidency
and the second youngest ever to
hold the office.
If Vice President Richard M.
Nixon, 47, wins the Republican
nomination as expected and then
defeats Kennedy in November, he
will be the third youngest presi
dent in U.S. history.
The youngest president ever
was Theodore Roosevelt, just 10
months past his 42nd birthday
when he succeeded to the White
House on the death of William
McKinley. McKinley was assassi
nated after less than a year in
office. Roosevelt had been Vice
President.
The youngest President - Vice
President team ever to win a
national election was U.S. Grant,
46, and Schuyler Colfax, 45.
The average age of U.S. Presi
dents on the day of their inaug
uration has been 56.
Alaska Claims
Credit For First
Move for Kennedy
LOS ANGELES, Ij'P) — Alaska’s
18 - member delegation claimed
credit yesterday for taking the
first action towards the nomina
tion of Sen, John Kennedy for
Democratic presidential nomina
tion.
The small nine-vote delegation,
operating under the unit rule,
yielded its No. 2 spot on the al
phabetical roll call to Minnesota
so that Gov. Orville Freeman
could nominate Kennedy.
Members of the delegation kept
secret until just before the roll
call whether they would pass,
yield or nominate Kennedy them
selves.
Their secrecy was designed to
draw national attention to the
49th state. Newspaper, radio and
television reporters swarmed
around the Alaskans as Sen. Er
nest Gruening stepped to the con
vention floor microphone and re
vealed Alaska’s decision to yield.
Before yielding, Gruening made
a strong bid for strengthening de
fenses of Alaska.
Gruening, 73, said Alaska was
the only American area within
"naked-eye view of the totalitar
ian police state across Bering
Strait.”
Alaska Stteam Says Rate
Hike Kept It From Losing
Money Last Year
SEATTLE, UP> — Alaska Atty.
Gen. Ralph Moody arrived here
Thursday to take charge of the
state’s case in a Federal Maritime
Board hearing on recent increases
in steamship rates between Al
aska and Seattle.
Moody said Alaska’s presenta
tion, showing the effect of the
rate boost on the state’s economy, ‘
will be opened at Anchorage
when the hearings shifts there on
July 21.
William P. McCarthy, auditor
and assistant treasurer of Alaska
Steamship Co., was questioned
about details of exhibits intro- j
duced by the company, which said |
it lost $110,609 in the first half
of the year but would have gone
$521,074 in the red without the
10 percent rate increase.
McCarthy’s voluminous exhibit
showed that Alaska Steam made
a net profit of $92,644 after taxes
last year on a gross revenue of
$16,185,655. He said this was a
return of less than .6 per cent.
NEITHER RAIN NOR, ETC.?
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, UP)—
A cold winter rain hit Montevideo
Wednesday and Uruguay’s capital
city got no mail deliveries.
Letter carriers struck for the
day in protest against govern
ment delay in providing raincoats
and rubbers. The Post Office De
partment said it would supply the
articles as soon as it got the
money.
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L.S. Reaffirms Monroe Doetrine.
Tells Russia ‘Keep Out of Cuba*
WASHINGTON, i/Pl — The
United States, solemnly reaffirm
ing the Monroe Doctrine, warned
Russia Thursday to keep its hands
off Western Hemisphere coun
tries.
At the same time, the State
Department denounced as "a
naked menace to world peace”
Soviet Premier Khurshchev’s im
plied threats that Soviet rockets
might fly to help Cuba repel al
leged American aggression.
In a sternly-worded statement,
the State Department accused
Khrushchev of seeking to sup
plant the 137-year-old Monroe
Doctrine with a "Bolshevik doc
trine providing for the use of
Soviet military power in support
of Communist movements any
where in the world.”
Khrushchev's threats, the De
partment said, "revealed the hy
pocracy of his protestations in be
half of peace.”
(President Eisenhower person
ally approved the department de
claration which was read to news
men by a department spokesman.
A separate action underscored
U.S. criticism of Soviet attitudes.
The United States suddenly post
poned talks with Russia on civil
air service, on the grounds that
recent Soviet actions and utter
ances have worsened the inter
national atmosphere.
The aviation talks were due to
start Monday. A Russian delega
tion was due to arrive Thudsday.
The Soviet - American delega
tions were to have worked out
direct air flights by commercial
planes from each country between
Moscow and New York. No such
scheduled routes exist now.
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Delegates Boo Egan As He
Tries To Plug Alaska
LOS ANGELES, UP — An at
tempt by Alaska Gov. William A.
Egan to get in a few plugs for the
49th state drew some boos from
delegates at the Democratic Na
tional Convention Wednesday.
Alaska was second on the roll
call. Egan, as delegation chair
man, stepped to a microphone and
began to extoll Alaska's virtues
as a preface to casting the nine
votes of the lfl-member delega
tion.
A chorus of boos from delegates
eager to get on with the rollcall
interrupted the governor, who I
then announced Alaska’s nine
votes were for Sen. Kennedy.
When Egan finished Convention
Chairman Leroy Collins, governor
of Florida, announced politely
that delegation chairmen should
limit their remarks to bare listing
of the vote.
After that most delegation lead
ers complied, but as the rollcall
progressed a few got in quick
plugs by slipping in state slogans.
Morton Says Nixon-Rockefeller
Would Be Strongest Ticket
WASHINGTON, UP — Republi
can National Chairman Thruston
Morton said today many Republi
cans think a Nixon - Rockefeller
ticket would be the strongest pos
sible for the GOP.
He added that the surpise ag
reement of Sen. Lyndon Johnson
to run for Vice President “proves
again anything is possible.”
About the time Morton gave his
views Gov. Nelson Rockefeller re
iterated that “under no condi
tions” would he accept a Repub
lican vice-presidential nomination.
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