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Evening star., 1946-07-28
Shafer- -Dudrou,

Mr.. and Mrs. Calvin w. Shaffer
are making their home with the
latter's parents, Dr. and Mrs. Ralph
c. DuoroW, in Hyattsville, since
their return from their wedding trip
in the North, where they went by
motor. Mr.. and Mrs. Shaffer were
married recently. the Rev. Charles
H. Frick officiating in the Mount
Rainier Christian Church
The bride, formerly Miss Helen
Keith DudroW, was given in mar
riage by her father, and her sister
Miss Grace V. DudroW, was maid of
honor. Another sister. Miss Doris
V. DudroW, with Miss Virginia Shat
Ter OF Pittsburgh, sister of the bride
groom; Miss Dorothy Fowkes of
Mount Rainier and Miss Julia Bon
Durant of Washington were brides
maids. Little Miss Claudia Messer-
smith, cousin of the bride, was flow
er girl.
Mr.. Shaffer is a son of Mrs. Will
liam Shaffer of Fallen Timber, Pa
and the late Mr. Shaffer. His
brother, Mr.. Boyd Shaffer of Fallen
Timber, was his best man and the
ushers included his brother in law
Mr.. Harold Coils of Fallen Timber
IA Gilbert H. DudroW, U. S. A.
brother of the bride, and her cousin
Mr.. James Gilbert Dudrow ot
Hyattsville, and Mr.. Norman Cront
of Mount Rainier.
The reception was held in tht
home of DR.. and Mrs. Dudrow. Mr.
Shaffer is attending the dental tech.
nicianS' school after serving with tn,
Army Medical Corps for two year.
and half overseas. Until resent,
his bride was an employe of tn,
Prince Georges Bank & Trust Co.
Evening star., 1946-07-28
Bauman.Sf0Ison

Mr.. and Mrs. Emil StolSon of
Frankfort, Mich, have announced
the marriage of their daughter, Miss
Alice Katharine Stolson, to Mr.. Carl
M. Bauman of Fairland in Mont
gomery County. The wedding took
place July 5 in Frankfort and Mr.
and Mrs. Bauman are making their
home In Fairland after their we'd
ding trip to Canada.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bauman were cap
tains in the Army, the latter serving
overseas with the 103d General Hos
pital. Mr.. Bauman was on duty in
the Quartermaster Generals Office
in Washington. He is graduate of
Washington Preparatory School and
Southeastern University, and is an
accountant in the Agricultural De-
partment. His bride was graduated
from the University of Michigan
School of Nursing and holds B. S
degree in Public Health Nursing
from the University of Minnesota.
WHson-Bryant
The home of Mr.. and Mrs. C. w
Bryant in Arlington was the scene
of the recent marriage of their
daughter, Miss Clarice Roberta Bry-
ant, to Mr.. William Harold Wilson
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Earl B. Wilson
of Vine Grove, KY. The Rev
Thomas H. Christie offlciated at the
double ring ceremony.
The bride, who was given in mar
riage by her father, had her sister,
in-law, Mrs. c. r. Bryant, as her
matron of honor. and the latters
husband served as best man.
After wedding trip to Luray, Va,
the couple will make their home in
Vine Grove. The bridegroom plans
to enter Bob Jones College in Ten
nessee after two and half years
service in the Army Air Corps. most
of which was spent in England and
Germany.
Evening star., 1946-08-05

It's good habit to get into The
Hecht Co. parking lot. Easy to get into
also park your cor, let courteous
attendant toke core of it. Only lOc for
the first hour and Sc for each additional
hour.
Evening star., 1946-08-05

Enter Calling All Boys National World
Series Prize Contest-JocoI as we'll as no.
tionoI prizes! Open to boys between 8
to 2 and IL to II; get your entry blank
todoy on The Hecht Co.'S Second Floor
Boys Clothing, Boys furnishings, Chill
dren's Shoes.
Evening star., 1946-04-29

practical science he had developed.
His later career brought Captain
Bartlett independent celebrity. He
was with Vilhjalmur Stefansson In
an expedition to the north side of
Alaska in 1918, was lost for five
months, then turned up safely at
st. Michael and, having stayed with
the Karluk until she was crushed
by the ice and sunk in January,
1914, led the survivors to Wrangel
Island and as speedily as possible
rescued them. BY 1917 he was the
acknowledged master seaman of the
Arctic. In that year he rescued
Donald B. Macmillan; in 1926 he
was in the North with George
Palmer Putnam; in 1923 he piloted
the Stoll-McCracken expedition, in
1880 he participated in the Green
land East Coast expedition. His
ship, the Effle M. Morrissey, headed
up the map every year until 1941.
She became, in effect, seagolng
university for young men studying
the polar area. The "boys" who
sailed in her will carry on" for the
boss" as he would wish them to.
Evening star., 1946-04-29

hated the Austro- Hungarian. monarchy,
the Versailles system, the French Re
public the British Empire, the United
States, representative government, pac-
ifism, Jews and the Soviet Union. He
hated everything, that is to say, that
stood in the way Of the German New
Order" To define Fascism as hatred
of the Soviet Union" is to paraphrase a
Fascist idea that makes an enemy out
OF every one who is not 100 per cent
supporter. For the Soviets interpret as
hatred" every form of opposition or
criticism within or without their bor-
ders.
There is. unfortunately, a growing
hatred of the Soviet Union, but it does
not come only from Fascist sources, but
from those anti-Fascists who find the
worst characteristic of Fascism its de-
sire to undermine, direct, and control
other peoples under totalitarian idea
and system, and who hate this under
whatever name.
Mr.. Gromykos outline of the preface
to this war had peculiar blanks. Every
appeasement of the Axis by the Western
powers is brought into his indictment.
But no reference is made to the early
love affair between the Soviets and
Mussolini, nor to the Russo-German
pact, nor to Mi. Molotov's statement of
October, 1899: Theological wars are
reminiscent OF old religious wars !" .
that brought economic ruin and savagery
-" war of this kind has no justiflca-
ton whatsoever. $ The theology of
Hitlerism, like any other theological sys-
TEN, can be accepted or rejected-that
is matter of view. Everybody
will understand that an theology can
not be destroyed by force. - There
fore it is senseless and criminal to
wage war for the destruction of Hit
lerism, coveIe q by the false banner of
a struggle for democracy"
This business of totally reversing atti-
tudes to suit the exigencies of power
politics is the death of real politics and
the assassin Of peace. The civil wars
being advocated and tomented are in no
single case spontaneous movements of a
majority or near-maj jority of the peo-
pie. They are weapons of power poll
tics made the more horrible by the
hypocritical mask of smiling humani-
tarlanism and democracy clapped as
covers upon their fearsome visages
Nonintervention in Spain was a bad
policy only because it was not univer-
sally observed. Franco was a product
not of nonintervention but of interven-
ton. Satisfactory intervention in Spain
is today impossible because the interests
of the great powers cross in the Medi-
terranean, and those interests, and not
the wishes or welfare of the Spanish
people will be predominant.
Thus, though Frances Spain was in
part created by the Axis, a genuinely
free Spain cannot be created by U. N
That hope. like many others. is casualty
Of the destruction Of the Atlantic Char
ter.
tReleased by the Bell Syndicate, Inc)
Evening star., 1946-04-29
Progress at Poris

reports that the Big Four Foreign
Ministers have agreed on formula
for diSposing of the Italian Fleet
are chiefly noteworthy as an indica-
ton that Russia may be modifying
its claims for special new position
in the Mediterranean.
That Italy is to be reduced to an
insignificant naval power is not at
all surprising. the victorious Allies
having seen eye to eye on that from
the start. Where they have differed
has been over Moscow's demand
that third of that power be turned
over to the Red Fleet. Now, however,
according to authoritative stories
from Paris, Mr.. Molotov, in an at
mosphere of cordiality, has yielded
to American, British and French
views giving Russia a much smaller
share
Under the reported new formula
Yueoslavia and Greece, and perhaps
even Brazil, would receive Italian
ships to compensate for the ones
they lost to Italian attack during
the war. The remainder of the feet
the fleet with which Mussolini
once hoped to make the Mediter-
ranean his private domain-would
then be divided almost equally
among France, Britain, the Soviet
Union and the United States, an
arrangement which obviously would
give the Russians far less than the
third originally demanded.
This concession by Mr.. Molotov
suggests that Moscow may be pre-
pared to abandon or reduce some
of its other and more striking de-
mands in the Mediterranean, partic-
ularly its claim for a sole trusteeship
over Tripolitania, directly athwart
the British lifeline. Italian ships, at
any rate, were specifically built for
operation in that highly strategic
sea, and the fact that Russia appar-
emily is willing to take considerably
fewer of them may we'll mean that
its ambitions there are not nearly so
sweeping as they seemed short
time ago. Looked at in that light
the. fleet agreement is distinctly
encouraging, the more so because
other reports-though not yet au-
oritative-indicate that the Rus
slams may soften their views on cash
reparations, and that they are close
to joining Britain and the United
States on satisfactory settlement
of the difficult Trieste problem.
In short, the Foreign Ministers of
the Big Four would seem to be
making good progress in breaking
the long stalemate over drafting
peace treaty for Italy, and if they
can succeed in that the treaties for
Finland, Hungary, Romania and
Bulgaria should cause them no IN
surmountable trouble. Everything
considered, their meeting in Paris
thus appears to be yielding much
better fruit than was dolefully
predicted just before they first con-
vened
Evening star., 1946-04-29
Political Liberty in Unions
Bv Ravm M0Iev

favorable candidates is overpowering.
Union heads indorse political policies
or candidates and so give the appear
ance at least, of delivering over the
whole membership.
Union members are thus used as
pawns in the high politics of their lead
ers. II they complain, they are told
that the candidates or measures in
question will be good for the workers.
In short, members are asked to delegate
their political rights to their officers,
in return for material benefits.
4 y
Some interesting developments along
this line are sure to come from the al
lance between the Democratic National
Committee and the PAC. Suppose, for
example, group in the CIO should
decide to start Republican PAC. What
action would the union take with re-
spect to the union rights of the men,
bers of the Republican group? I sup
pose that Mr.. Hillman would reply to
this column by saying that his PAC is
free to support any candidate it
chooses, regardless Of party.
A great deal has been properly said
about the principle involved in politi-
cal contributions authorized by union
leaders. Such practices involve in
voluntary contributions by members.
This is situation which Congress will
ultimately control. But much more
needs to be done in providing protec-
ton of workers rights to express their
views and openly to support policies
and candidates of their individual
choice. Under present conditions. about
all the freedom that members Of some
unions have remaining is to vote a
secret ballot on election day. And that
is not full measure of political liberty.
(Released BY the Associated Newspapers. Incl
Evening star., 1946-04-29
Navy Advisory Committee

During the war the Navy frequently
called upon groups of civilians for
advice on variety of matters, rang
ing from community problems af-
fecting the shore establishment to
administrative efficiency. An out
standing example of this mutually OF
interest as between the public and
the Navy was the man-power survey
conducted throughout the continen-
tai naval districts by special groups
composed of naval officers and lead
ing citizens of the respective dis
tricts. This country study OF
the Navy's man-power requirements,
with regard to uniformed as we'll as
civilian personnel, resulted in salu-
tary recommendations that were
adopted by the Navy Department
and that brought reductions in per-
sonnel at some overmanned stations
and increases at other places.
The success of this civilian advi-
sorry plan during the war undoubt-
edly Influenced the Navy in deciding
to create postwar Civilian Advisory
Committee to lend counsel and guild
ance in the present period of read
justment Such group has just
been named by Secretary Forrestal.
Nearly threescore men and women
have accepted invitations to serve on
the committee, among them Asso-
ciate Justice Douglas of the Supreme
Court They are most represent
ative group of American citizens.
On the list are educators, news
paper editors, sociologists, scientists,
clergymen, artists, labor leaders,
manufacturerS-in fact real cross
section of the public. Some of the
committeeman were in naval uni
form during the war. Many have
had no previous connection with the
Navy.
One of the first problems to be
placed before the committee for con-
sideration and report will be the
so-called "caste" system. The Army
already is investigating caste"
charges through a board of former
enlisted men and officers The Navy
apparently feels that a civilian group
is better able to approach the mat
Evening star., 1946-04-29

From Austria's standpoint the ad-
vantage of U. N. occupation is appar-
ent. In the long run it would secure the
country's independence, and forestall
undue Russian pressure. There would
be no great question of overturning do
mestic Austrian politics in favor of the
minority Communists, and the Vienna
government could continue to represent
the political complexion of the country.
But such freedom for Austria is not
in Russia's calculations, which do look
toward a Communist-d Ger
many-apparently embracing Austria
which would be politically, if not mill
tarily, allied with Moscow. The idea of
a German alliance has intrigued Rus
sian statesmen for generations, and par
ticularly since the Soviet government
came to power. The Communists re-
garded a Russo-German alliance as an
invincible combination for fighting
Western capitalism.
Russia maintained close economic and
political ties with Germany throughout
the 20s and it was only after the rise
of Hitler and his battle against Com
munism that Russia was forced to give
up the idea of German aff1liation while
he ruled Germany The Russo-German
nonagression pact of August. 1899, was
in no way the fulfillment of Russian as
pirations along this line, and its failure
to ward off a German invasion is not
regarded as failure of the fundamental
idea of a Russian German combination
The idea still lives.
Austria geographically is a keystone in
the Russian structure in Central Europe
She lies between Germany, Czecho-
slovakia, Hungary Yugoslavia and Italy,
all Of them either frankly Russian-con-
trolled or the objects Of Russian aspira-
tions for control. Firmly entrenched in
Austria, whether independent or a part
of Germany, Russia could keep handy
supervision of the rest of Central and
Southern Europe.
The pattern of Russian advance toward
her ultimate goals in Europe can scarcely
be anticipated, for she is operating on
such long political front. 1t can
scarcely be doubted, however, that with
a non-C Communist government in Of
flee in Vienna and with the entire
European peace treaty structure in
state of flux, the Russians see only gain
for themselves in stalling of any i'm
mediate decision on Austria's independ-
ence and the reduction of her occupation
forces there.
Evening star., 1946-04-29
Captain Bartlett

Captain Robert Abram Bartlett
will be remembered as much for
what he was as for what he did
Justly regarded as one of the very
greatest Arctic explorers of his time
ne leaves name also famous for
qualities of character and person.
ality wholly unrelated to his vo-
cation and profession. Perhaps
some magic power inherited from
mariner ancestors of the dim past
was responsible for his capacity to
win the enduring respect and
admiration of all classes and condi-
tions of people. The public in
stinctively trusted him, had faith in
his spoken and written word.
Born at Brigus. in Newfoundland,
on August Is, 1875, Captain Bob
was educ4ted at Bishop Field College
in st. Jonn's, and made his first
important voyage on a trader bound
for Brazil soon after graduation. He
accompanied his uncle, Samuel
Bartlett, on the Windward, with
Lieutenant Robert E. Peary on
board, into the North Polar zone in
1898. Subsequently, he helped in
the construction of the Roosevelt
and was the master of that vessel
during Pearys definitive endeavor to
reach the Pole-an effort which the
world at large believes succeeded in
April, 1909.
Captain Bartlett himself attained
the, eighty-seventh parallel and
might have gone on to the top of
Stne globe had his chief not ordered
him to turn back as "the only man
''' who could positively insure the
return of the party to land" During
all the controversy which followed
'"Pearys announcement of success his
," navigator remained devotedly faith
,rt tul to him. The Nationa! Geographic
Society and the British Royal
topographic Society honored him for
his steadfastness as much as for
the courage he had shown and the
Evening star., 1946-04-29

It might be we'll for us to spend less
time worrying about the lack OF political
liberty in Russia and consider the loss
of political liberty by members OF
American labor unions. Great as the
economic gains have been through Or
ganization, there have been serious
losses in personal liberty.
Last winter, the Ohio courts upheld
the right of the president of the Broth
erhood of Railroad Trainmen to oust a
member of his union because said men,
ber actively supported Wendell Willkie
in 1940 The union member had been
an employee of the B. g. o. Railroad for
"a years and a member of the B. R. T..
for q years. The man did not lose his
job, because the union had no closed
shop contract with the railroad. But
it is worth specializing about similar
case in which loss of union member
ship means loss of job. To vest such
power in union president is literally
to deny to members freedom to exercise
their political rights.
X \
In many cases, union members have
been penalized for taking the wrong
'side in arguments within unions. The
Wagner Act, created to protect the right
of employees to organize, provides no
recourse for men thus penalized.
This situation will grow more and
more acute as unions get deeper and
deeper into political action. Under the
brave new era, labor unions have an
actual, if not formal relationship to
the political party. The member of the
union gets enrolled in the party sup
ported by the leaders Of the union. He
is compelled to take sides in union pol
itics. When large values are at stake
say in union sponsored legislation, the
pressure on union members to support
Evening star., 1946-04-29
This Changing World
Bv Constantine Brown

Russian refusal to include on the
agenda of the Paris conference the
question of recognition Of Austria's in
dependence symbolizes more than the
simple need, as the. Russians contend,
for more time to Study this complex
subject before Austria Is accepted as
completely independent.
There Is some slight indication, from
the line laid down for the Austrian
Communists to favor uniflcation of Aus
trian and German working classes, that
Russia does not look toward eventual
Austrian independence, but rather to
preservation of a solid bloc of Ger
mans-as it was created by Hitler
which in the near, or not so near, flu
ture could become Communist -domi-
mated and thereby allied with Moscow
and subject to Moscow's influence.
In spite of Austria's overwhelmingly
non-C Communist vote in the elections
last winter, and the establishment of
representative government under DR..
Karl Renner, Austria hardly expects to
escape Russian domination, except by
the strongest and most direct interven-
tion of the Western democracies, either
on their own initiative or that of the
United Nations.
X y Il X
If the United States and Britain ever
decide to pull out of the Central Euro
pean occupation the Austrians realize
that there is no other force on earth
which can prevent the Russians from
dominating the entire country, and har-
Messing it to the Moscow chariot
Realization of this fundamental fact
undoubtedly lies behind the recent pro-
posal of DR.. Renner that United Ma
tions force replace the four-power occu-
patton now in effect, leaving just enough
military units in Austria to protect her
frontiers. Not many would be required
for that purpose, he believes
1t is a rather vain hope of DR.. Rem
ner's that the Russians would consent
to surrendering their present predomi-
nant position-with 20 or 80 times the
number of troops in their zone that the
United States maintains in its area
in favor of an occupation by an inter-
national force which would have the
whole weight of the United Nations
behind it.
The American proposals on Austria
have not yet been revealed in detail in
Paris, but it is known that they do pro-
vide for reduction of occupation forces
to mere police force, and they may 20
so far as to provide that this police force
be under the United Nations.
Evening star., 1946-04-29
On the Record
BY Dorothy Thompson

Pontius Pilates remark, What is
truth?" might be paraphrased into
What is peace?" Peace is perhaps life
in truth, or in principle. But since the
powers who control destiny share no
common view of truth, they have no
common aim of peace.
This is clear in the U. N. debates.
where every speech reveals profound
cleavages of principle and interest be-
tween the Allies
Mr.. Gromykos statement on Thurs
day, April 25, revealed that the United
Nations do not even agree on what is
war The United Nations Charter seeks
ito insure that armed force shall
not be used, save in the common inter-
est" the common interest being sup
preston of acts of aggression against
U. N members.
But the Soviet delegate apparently
assumes that a certain form of state,
however weak, is by its nature an ag-
gressor, and should be dealt with in
advance of overt action. BY implica-
ton he suggested that it was within
the province of the United Nations to
foment civil wars. Civil wars have not
always had bad results y the his
torical place and significance of the
American Civil War is we'll known"
Mr. Gromyko could hardly have
chosen worse illustration. The Amer
ican Civil War was a dreadful catas-
trophe, which wiser counsels. North and
South, might have averted. But it
was not a total catastrophe only be-
cause it was fought without foreign
Intervention. Had it been not only a
struggle between American citizens but
an international struggle, the Nation
might have been lost, and had the out
come been decided by foreign interven-
tion, it would never have been freely
accepted as binding.
One Of our greatest problems follow
ing the American Revolutionary War
was the embarrassment we suffered
from our French assistants. England
being at war with France gave America
the chance to strike for independence,
and the French, having a common en-
emy, lent us aid. Afterward revolution
ary France attempted the theological
conquest of America, whose own revolu-
tionary ideas were not Jacobin. Pro-
T1cIlSl1 odSoulII ClupS Nc1C oiSdAAI1co'
and there was the famous Genet Affair,
which utterly disguised even the Franco
phile Thomas Jefferson. and was an
inspiration of Washington's farewell
address.
That we were eventually able to come
to lasting peace with Britain, and
France as we'll, and build tremendous
free nation, was because We neither
became satellites of our liberators nor
prisoners of wartime hates.
X X X
Ilya Ehrenburg, Soviet journalist
when asked the other day to define
"Fascism," said, THE test is hatred Of
the Soviet Union"
Hitler, who, I presume, was a Fascist,