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University Daily Kansan Thursday, Dec. 13, 1962
Conservative Columnist Dies
NEW YORK — (UPI) — Newspaper columnist George E. Sokolsky, one of the nation's leading exponents of economic and political conservatism, died of a heart attack last night at his New York apartment.
Sokolsky, 69, died about 9 p.m. in the presence of his wife, Dorothy, and her daughter, Mrs. Donald Feuerstein.
"We have been living with this for some time," said Mrs. Sokolsky, explaining that her husband was stricken by several heart attacks in recent years.
FOR THE PAST 18 years, Sokolsky's column, "These Days," was syndicated by King Features.
His reputation reached its height during the late 1940s and early 1950s when he crushed vigorously against the "growing menace of communist infiltration" into U.S. government and American society.
In his columns, Sokolsky frequently praised the late Sen. Joseph P. McCarthy and other congressmen who he thought were trying to expose Communist attempts to weaken America from within.
His anti-Communist philosophy was formed early in his career when, as a young journalist, he went to Russia in 1917 to report on the Bolshevik revolution.
Sokolsky worked for a year as editor of Russia's only English-language newspaper, but that phase of his career ended abruptly when he was expelled from the country for writing editorials critical of the new Communist regime.
OF HIS STAY IN Russia, the stocky, bushyhaired columnist once said;
"Russia was a disappointment to me from the start and that disappointment was heightened when the Bolshevists took over. They did not believe in liberty. They did not believe in opportunity for the individual. They did not recognize the right to independence of thought and speech. They were despots. They were tyrants. They murdered men and women without mercy."
Sokolsky was born Sept. 5, 1833, the son of a Rabbi, in Utica, N.Y., and grew up on New York City's lower east side.
He attended Columbia University's school of journalism for four years before making the trip to Russia.
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PARIS—(UPI)—Mona Lisa, an elderly, fragile lady with a smile that has puzzled men for centuries, starts a journey to the United States today so carefully wrapped she could survive a dip in the Atlantic Ocean.
Mona Lisa On Her Way to U.S. Despite Protests
Leonardo da Vinci's 456-year-old masterpiece, painted on wooden panels now wafer crisp, will travel to Le Havre by armored truck today and sail tomorrow for New York aboard the liner France.
Aboard ship the famous painting will have its own cabin and security guard. From New York it will be trucked to the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., next Wednesday with a police escort.
There, apparently as a result of a gallic gesture from French Culture Minister Andre Malraux to Jacqueline Kennedy, the Mona Lisa will be displayed for three weeks starting Jan. 8.
UNCONFIRMED REPORTS IN PARIS said the Louvre Museum, where the painting has hung for most of the last 450 years, insured its prize possession for $100 million.
At that price, most Americans probably will be surprised at the small size of the painting—about $ 8 \frac {1}{2} $ by 30 inches.
Malraux was reported to have promised Mrs. Kennedy during
his visit to Washington earlier this year that he would see that the Mona Lisa is shown in the United States.
At his news conference yesterday, President Kennedy expressed his thanks and said the United States would take good care of it.
"This incomparable masterpiece, the work of one of the greatest figures of the western age of creativity, will come to this country as a reminder of the friendship that exists between France and the United States," the President said.
THE FRENCH, UNDERSTANDABLY NERVOUS about the painting leaving their country for only the second time in four and one-half centuries, apparently decided against letting the delicate masterpiece hang for awhile in New York's Metropolitan Museum too. Officials there had been trying to get it—as had World's Fair officials for the 1964 exposition—but there was no indication they would get the painting.
The French government had to overcome considerable internal opposition just to let the painting travel to Washington. French newspapers created a mild uproar and a week ago the Academy of Fine Arts unanimously recommended against the trip.
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