Eisenhower To Have Rest In Honolulu

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29237, 22 June 1960, Page 15

Eisenhower To Have Rest In Honolulu

(Rec. 11 p.m.) HONOLULU, June 21. President Eisenhower today completed the roughest trip he has made in the nearly 310,000 miles he has travelled since he took office and looked forward to a brief holiday in Honolulu before returning to the White House.

President Eisenhower was hailed by more than 100,000 cheering Hawaiians when he arrived. Though he was exhausted, he lost little time in turning to his favourite sport. He took a brief nap and then played nine holes of golf on a sunny, breeze-cooled course at the edge of the Pacific. He has planned another round for tomorrow.

Sources dose to the President, quoted by United Press International. said he hoped to stretch his golfing vacation to include the week-end. depending on whether nis presence was needed in Washington to help push major legislation through the closing session of Congress. The only public function scheduled for Mr Eisenhower in Hawaii was the conferring of an honorary doctor of laws degree at the University of Hawaii. This was tentatively set for Friday night. Mr Eisenhower’s party was relieved when he boarded his plane in Korea to end a trip cut short by Communist-inspired mob action • in Tokyo which forced Japan to cancel his visit there. President Eisenhower was within 13 miles of North Korean forces on the other side of the demilitarised zone when he reviewed South Korean and United Nations troops. On each side of the reviewing stand were green hills—the scene of bloody fighting in the Korean war. Atomic artillery and Honest John rockets formed a backdrop for the troops drawn up for'review.

Appearing in the march past were troops of South Korea, Turkey, Thailand, Britain, Ethiopia and the United States. Australia, Canada, France, Greece,

and New Zealand were represented.

A police source said a small stone was hurled at the Presidential motorcade from a crowd near the City Hall in Seoul, but the stone missed the Presidential car. The source said the stone was later found to be so small that even if it had hit anyone, it' would not have inflicted any serious injury It was the only incident during President Eisenhower’s visit. The warmth of the Korean welcome was a needed tonic for the Eisenhower Administration and partly offset the crisis in United States-Japan relations. United Press International said.

It was a trip that scored some points far more important than winning applause. Repeatedly, in speeches and private talks, he threw America’s influence and sympathy behind the April -evolution’s professed objectives of overthrowing the regime of the President (Dr. Syngman Thee), and he let it be known he did not plan to visit Dr. Rhee in Hawaii.