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Evening star., 1946-04-25
The Portland Vase

Art lovers everywhere will be glad
to hear that the famous Portland
vase has become the property of
the British Museum. Exhibited
there as loan since 1910, it might
have been withdrawn at any mo-
ment. Indeed, it was removed for a
while in 1929, when its owner, the
Duke of Portland, offered it at
auction at Christies and finally for
bade its sale when bidding reached
only tWenty-nine thousand guineas
or about one hundred and twenty
thousand dollars in American money.
The ancient artifact, all author
tiles agree, is worth much more
than that sum. Nothing in the
whole history of Greek glass equals
1t. The beauty of its design is but
part of its authentic magic. 1t is
made of substances of jewel-like
character, delicately decorated with
figures and ornaments in white.
The color of the body of the vase
generally is described as blue. but
it shades to am incredibly rich violet
and to an imperial black in it's
deeper tones. It's unknown maker
covered its inner surface with an
opal outer layer which he then
carved with distinctive skill to tell
in graphic cameo fashion the story
of the marriage of Peleus, King of
Thessaly, and the sea nymph Thetis
on Nount Pelion-the wedding at
which the Goddess of Discord pro-
duced the apple of gold, inscribed:
Let the beauty (among YOU take
me-" thus, according to legend, caus-
ing the Trojan War.
Where the vase was created is a
mystery. It's date almost certainly
was the first century AID. Deposited
IN the tomb of the Roman Emperor
Evening star., 1946-04-25

Alexander Severus at Monte del
Grano in 235, it was retrieved in
1850 and passed into the possession
of the Barberini family. Sir William
Hamilton bought it in ITO and the
Duchess of Portland acquired it in
1887. On February 7, 1845, a man
subsequently declared lunatic
maliciously shattered the precious
vessel with a stone. But the frag-
ments painstakingly were reassem-
bled, and in its present condition
the magniflcence of its original form
is emphasized rather than spoiled by
such evidence of the restorer's genius
and patience as is discernible.
The vase is treasure of the very
noblest significance, and it is good
to know that it's title now rests with
the British public.
Evening star., 1946-04-25
InerudicubIe Stoin

Even now, despite all the docu-
mentation, the normal civilized mind
has difficulty in comprehending the
nature and magnitude of the Nazi
crime against the Jews. The thing
happened. Yet it is hard to believe
that it happened. 1t is hard to be-
lieve that during the war millions of
men, women and children-6,000,0 900,
according to one official estimate
we're Systematically destroyed be-
cause of their race and religion
Most of them were wiped out in an
atmosphere of indescribable horror,
some by forced starvation, some by
whip, gun, truncheon and CARROT,
some in fendish scientific" expert
ments, and some-thousands of them
every day, day after day-in the
efficient gas chambers of Hitler'S
death camps.
How can a crime like this be un-
derstood in ordinary terms? 1t was
more than mere murder. 1t was evil
for evils sake. as if the doers of it,
once having sold their souls to the
devil, had been inextricably bound to
a force that carried them to such
depths of inhumanity that all their
actions became those of mere ami
mails lacking any sense of right and
wrong. Indeed, the thing was far
worse than animal-like because of
the educated, calculating intelligence
behind it and because of the modern
techniques and instruments used to
carry it out. Nor is there now much
remorse among those who were re-
sponSible for it, At the Nuremberg
trial, in fact, some of them-notably
Rudolf HoeSS have admitted the
crime without regret or emotion, but
almost with pride. Only Hans Frank,
the former Nazi governor of Poland,
apparently has come to see it for
what it is and to be appalled, by it,
but perhaps the same awakening
Evening star., 1946-04-25

From the Manchester Guardian
The House of Commons, by its debate
on the state of Europe, can give us pride
that six years of war have not weak
ened the British sense of humanity and
decency. 1t was an impressive revela-
tlon of the strength of feeling in this
country about our common responsi-1
blllty to do what We can to keep dis
tressed Europe from cold and hunger
friend and eXenemy alike. Britain was
asserting a moral leadership in humani-
tarlanism and political wisdom that Eu-
rope sadly needs. But, alas, Europe
needs more than that, and when the
speeches are examined, from the For
elgn Secretary's to the maiden efforts
of new members, We are left with some
thing like hopelessness. Calamity In
Europe there must be; the question h
only how much it can be mitigated
Evening star., 1946-04-25

settled conditions and the established
rule OF popularity supported govern
mentS. II there is an election in Iran.
1t is to our interest that it be a fair
election, conducted under legal safe
guards, and that the government which
it puts into Office shall represent the
expressed will of the Iranian
people and not the interests of any for
eign government.
On this reasoning it would seem clearly
in line with American policy that We
should accept an invitation. should one
be forthcoming, from the Iranian gov
ernment to assist in supervising the
election. But this is not as simple as
it sounds. In the first place the task
is one of immense complexity and diff
Guilty, especially in a sparsely settled
country one-fifth the size of the United
States with extraordinarily poor in
ternal communications. To carry it out
calls for an organization of personnel.
radio communications, air and motor
transport and political arrangements
which would take months to get to-
gether. Secondly, it would be impossible
Tor the United States to enter into anv
such scheme unless our observers were
assured full access to every part of the
country under uniform conditions
which includes, of course AZerbaiian
Third, there is question as to whether
this task should not be assumed bv the
United Nations rather than by anv one
country, which raises various questions
OF procedure and authority.
But the real difficulty lies in the
obvious fact that neither the United
States nor the United Nations can even
consider such questions except on the
invitation of the Iranian government.
Granted that we have a strong interest
in seeing fair and orderly election in
Iran, we still have no right to interfere
In the internal affairs of that country
or any other country. Other nations
may take different view than ourselves
of what constitutes such interference.
PreSsures arising from outside sources
may in consequence, render it extremely
difficult for the Iranian government to
suggest officially to the United States
or to the United Nations that Iran
would like aid in conducting a fair cleo
ton. To be obviously willing to help if
we are asked to help is about the limit
to which we can 60, while exeHing on
the other hand all the influence we can
oontrive to relieve the Iranian govern
ment of undue pressure from any non
Iranian source.
Copyright, ls4o)
Evening star., 1946-04-25

NEW YORK The process OF set
ting up an international police force, "
a security" army and navy and air
force to be used by the United Nations
TO compel peace if necessary, is being
worked out painstakingly by the Mill
tary Staff Committee of the Security
Council. The committee, which has
been holding meetings in New York
since March IS. has in addition to the
principal problem of how large these
peace forces are to be and by whom
contributed, to consider wide range
of other principles which are
to govern in regard to ornaments.
The principles" it is explained, must
be determined in advance of the COM
mittees report to the Security Council.
Such questions as the limitat ton of
armaments, international trade in
arms, spheres of action and command" ="
when the security forces are called on
TO enforce peace. What. if any, recon-
mendations or provisions relating to
such questions are to be placed In the
agreements which the Security Council
will ultimately make with individual
nations for supplying armed forces and
material will be decided by the COM
mittee.
Despite the fact that the members OF
the Military Staff Committee are work
ing together with great harmony-theN
are representatives of the five perma
nent members of the Security Council
the United States, Britain, Russia
France ana China-the complexity of
the problem may delay report to the
Council for some time. Further, after
the report has been made, it may re-
quire a long period to get the various
agreements with individual members
of the United Nations ratified One
member nation. particularly if 1t were
one of the great powers, might de-
lay the whole program by declining
10 accept the provisions of agreement.
This could happen, either in the Coun-
Gil itself or in the member nation.
The United Nations. however. is not
mllitarilv impotent while waiting for
the creation OF this security army The
Charter takes care of the interim. as
provided in article l06, chapter XVII,
entitled transitional Security Arrange
mentS.' Little has been said or written
about this portion of the Charter-but
it has the effect of giving the United
Nations and its Security Council mill
tary strength which can be called on
in emergency to help preserve peace.
The article says that, pending the
coming into force of such special agree
Evening star., 1946-04-25
Docks at Nioht

SHIPS haze a time for sleeping too. and
notD their breath
Beats in Slo,O unison Uith lup OF tide
along their keelS;
Gray IN gray darkness, like phartusr1uI
beasts they sleep
While operhead Dith slo,U erdctitude
the Great Bear Uheels.
They dream OF alien ports and ponished
time, OF storms,
And OF the faces, poices knotpn in
other years.
And 1pedry NTH time the sentry at the
dock gates dreams
Ltke10iSe, but a0aketully OF music he
no longer hears.
The estuary shimmers in cold starlight
and dark tide;
Somewhere a SilUer chime of ships
clock sounds t,Uo bells,
The silence all the deeper for that
slender note
= That echoes softly ont on ttme's
Teceding sUeHs.
FREDERICK EBRIGHT.
Evening star., 1946-04-25
Fog Obscures Iran
BY George FIELDING Eliot

Prior to VI day I am afraid that
readers of this column became rather
tired of hearing about 1.-The fog of war"
through which it was not always pos
slble to see clearly. or to see at all
what was happening on the enemy
side of the fronts. There are parts of
the world which are still obscured by
fog, and if these fogs are not "of war
they at least make more difficult the
tasks Of those who are earnestly try
ing to prevent the seeds of another
war from sprouting.
Such a fog now obscures our vision
of Iran. We do not know what is going
on in that country, and it is task
of extraordinary difficulty to find out
When the Iranian Ambassador to the
United States, who speaks for his gov
erlment before the Security Council
of the United Nations, makes a state
ment those who are honored with the
acquaintance of Mr.. Hussein Ala can
be sure that he makes it in good faith
But it is quite clear that even Mr.. Ala
himself cannot be sure that his gov
ernment will continue to support him
tomorrow in the position he takes to-
day. 1t gets back to a question of who
has the final power, not only in
Teheran, but throughout the country.
There is beginning to be a strong sus-
picion that nobody has decisive authority,
which extends over the whole Iranian
nation. even excluding the areas still
occupied by Russian troops.
** *
We hear a good deal of such things
as private armies" There is a report
of AZerbaijan troops armed with ma
chine guns and mortars marching
through the country-apparently against
the wishes of the Central Government.
but even that is not clear There is
report of a coup at ISfahan, but we do
not know against whom it is directed
or how it changes the overall situation.
There are various groups of armed
tribesmen in South and Central Iran;
it is charged that they are being sup
piled with arms by the British, but
these charges come from those who
have no cause to support British inf1u-
ence in Iran. We know that Russian
troops are still in Azerbaijan, and that
the day of their announced departure,
May 6, is now less than two weeks off
but we do know whether to place Gre
dence in the reports that they are making
no preparations to leave, though it is
clear that Russian pass is still nee
essary in order to get into Azerbaijan.
American interests in Iran, as else
where In the Middle East, are based on
Evening star., 1946-04-25
Letters to The Star
Says Scarcities Are Not Caused
By Shipments Abroad

To the Editor of The Star:
The angle from which your CORE
spondent A. B., in a letter published
April 90. views famine abroad merits
protest.
1t is not fact that this country has
done more than It's part; the United
States, month by month, has fallen be-
low its quota of overseas relief-that is,
in the shipments we pledged to UNRRA.
Nor is it true that we have pulled
In our belts In the year 1914, in spite
of rationing, the average consumption
of food in this country was II per cent
higher than in the highest level of pre-
war years.
AS a housewife, I trust my own ex-
perience more than I do statistics. and
l know that it has always been possible
to put nutritious, quite we'll balanced
meal on the table True, substitutions
and changes of eating habits were
necessary at times. But all of us have
had an abundance of oranges, milk
cereals and, up to now, more bread
than we could eat and at prices equal
to, or not far above, preWar levels. Eggs,
ice cream, potatoes, fresh vegetables
only now and then have been scarce
due to market conditions. Apples?
Canned fruit? Last year the fruit crop
was below normal. Bananas? Many
plantations have suffered for various
reasons. Cheese? Just wait, it takes
months to ripen. Sugar? Our per
capita consumption even now is large
enough for health, doctors say. Meat?
It's mainly that more people have money
to buy it; 80 many poor people have so
much money now" as one writer CAL
louSly put it. Shortages of this and
that are due to other causes than ship
ments out of the country to foreigners"
And now we are asked, perhaps a lit
tie peremptorily, by earnest men who
know conditions abroad, not to overeat.
not to waste, to change our habits Just
bit in using less wheat and rice, fats
and oils. Can we do less? Most Of us
will want to do more
MRS. LAURA PERRY ARNER.
Evening star., 1946-04-25

not In form. as the head of the Yugo-
slav resistance. At that time Marshal
Tito was at the Russian headquarters
in Romania, arranging to give per
mission to the Red armies to cross the
Danube and enter Yugoslavia
The Germans did not receive the reply
which would have ended hostilities in
that area, and continued the struggle
until the total collapse of the Reich
eight months later.
In some well-knoWn quarters which
follow developments in the Balkans
carefully, 1t is believed that the docu-
ments showing that Col. Won Staerker
attempted to contact the American
high command through Gen. Mihailo-
Vich may be used at the latter's trial
TO show that not only the Chetnik lead
er, but also Americans were engaged in
a limited collaboration with the Ger
mans.
According to unverifed reports, Gen.
Mihailovich was rushed to Moscow i'm
mediately after his capture There he
had long conversations with members of
the NKVD.
The Russian government probably was
not particularly interested in his activi-
ties as a Chetnik leader or about his
opposition to Marshal Tito. This was
the business of the Yugoslav govern
ment, which already has sufficient
proofs" to send Gen. Mihailovich to the
galloWs. The Russian political secret
police were anxious, however to obtain
a confession" that even Americans
were involved in sub rosa dealing with
the Germans.
1t will be recalled that similar charges
were made against the British in 1914
when some documents" were faxed in
Cairo The secret police of any totali-
tartan government is keenly interested
In having files which can be produced
at convenient moment to show that
other nations are not acting in good
faith. The incident of September Is,
1914, which involved Col. Won Staerker,
speaking In the name of Nazi Gauleiter
Neubacher not only with the Serbian
traitor" Mihailovich, but also with a
representative of the American armed
forces. has produced just such a file.
Evening star., 1946-04-25
Wants Scientists Counsel

To the Editor OF The Star:
I have read your editorial entitled
Advice to Scientists" and was aStounded
at your undemocratic attitude
The main point that the editorial at
tempted to develop was that scientists
should confine themselves to scientific
matters. definitely to the exclusion of
attempting to advise or counsel on po-
litical or diplomatic matters even when
those matters are concerned with scien-
tific developments.
An arrangement such as you advo-
cate for scientists, if applied to all of
our people, obviously would lead to the
untenable situation wherein our repre-
sentatives in Congress could be coun-
seled only by politicians and our State
Department only by career diplomats
You, as newSpaperman and your col
leagues in the news field would have no
right to express yourselves in the fields
of national and international politics
unless perchance you happened to be
neWspapermen only after having served
for most of your lives as politicians and
diplomats. In fact, unless you wanted
to express yourselves relative to mat
ters directly concerned with newspa-
pers, you would have less right to speak
out than the scientists who have con-
fined themselves to matters directly
concerned with science.
have read large number of articles
written by scientists on the atomic bomb
and its possible effects on world peace
and on domestic well-being. In every
one of those articles the presentation
was objective and would be of great in
terest and help to any reader concerned
with the subject.
The advice to scientists in the last
paragraph of your editorial that they
not 'set themselves up as dogmatic
counselors on any and all subjects is
gratuitous. You are giving poor advice
to men who have expert knowledge in
their own field and at long last are TAX
ing advantage of their democratic right
to counsel others regarding the social
implications of their work
L. E. BARBROW.
Evening star., 1946-04-25
This andThat
BIZ Charles z. Trace1UeH.
BETHESDA, Md.

Dear Sir:
Please let me know how to take care
OF bird which has fallen out of the
nest.
Il haven't found one yet, but from
past experience feel pretty sure that
I will soon.
so I want to be prepared. I realize
that in the past I did not know enough
to bring them through properly and
as result felt very sad
"I think 1t difficult to handle birds,
but cannot let them die without trying
to save them
Sincerely, E. LIE M"
The early bird, without feathers, is
the worst of all.
Unless it is kept warm, day and night
until it feathers out it will die promptly
Even after that. such q fledgling is
difficult task for the kind-hearted finder.
Every effort must be made to give
this early bird out of it's nest before
it should be, the food it needs
Bread in milk makes a good combina-
ton.
Most young birds, fallen to the ground
are helpless, unless human being finds
them. Of course, if they can be put
back into the nest, that is by all odds
the best thing to do.
Often, however, they manage to hop
along the ground to some distance from
the nests, SO that it Is impossible to
locate them
Blue jays are excitable when baby
is lost. and make every effort to locate
it. and to feed it.
Once a stable baby fell into window
we'll, and there was fed by the parents
for week, until it grew strong enough
to fly out.
Most fedglings out of the nest are
not SO fortunate, since their parents
mostly are unable to help them
Between lack of food, the chilly nights,
and the danger of marauding animals,
such bird has little chance of living
unless some one takes pity on it.
If unfeathered, extreme care must
be taken to keep it warm. This may
be achieved by putting it in a card
board box with hot-water bottle in a
cloth.
Young birds should have food every
two hours during daylight but, except
for the unfeathered there need be no
feeding during the dark hours.
Food consists of bread soaked in milk,
yolk of hard-boiled egg, scraped beef
and iver-the latter is almost essential
and such of the smallest worms and
beetles as may be found
Water should be given with medicine
dropper before each feeding.
Food often must be poked at the bill
on the end of tooth pick, and in
some cases the bill must be forced open
A certain amount of grit, such as sand
or ordinary earth Gn which there is
usually some form of small grit is
another essential. 1t may be provided
in the living box by putting it on the
bottom.
If young birds are healthy to begin
with, they learn quickly to take food
in this manner, and grow properly
If they do not take food, and do not
grow, even when they do. it may be
suspected that something is wrong in
ternally.
1t is amazing, perhaps, how much
affection kind person can work up for
a bird rescued in this manner
Until one tries, it is impossible to
know how good hand one may be at
it; it is not difficult, and the rewards
are many but one should steel ones
self against loss by the exercise Of
philosophy and the contemplation of
the worlds sadness.