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Evening star., 1949-01-10
Truman Tightens Grip
Appointment of Acheson and Webb
Seen Significant Shift to Career Men

When Mr.. Truman took office. he
temporized as between the New Deal
and the greatly augmented busi-
ness military influence in govern
ment which resulted from the war.
Even when he swung over to COM
plete advocacy of New Deal meas
ures and the New Deal philosophy.
he hung on to individuals, many OF
them very able, to whom it all was
anathema.
He has still not gone over to New
Dealers; he is developing his own
Fair Deal staff. And the old New
Dealers threaten to become as passe
as the original Truman melange of
Roosevelt hold-overs, Wall Streeters
and generals is becoming. The
President is depending for staff work
and creative ideas on men who owe
their preferment to him though
many, like Mr.. Acheson. undoubted-
ly will have roots within the New
Deal.
Significantly the New Dealers who
did not go along with Mr.. Truman
are getting no change, though the
President has espoused by now every
item of their philosophy.
The growing Truman independ-
ence, his development of his own
staff and Capitol Hill hatchet men
is not lost on the connoisseurs Of
Washington power, like Senator
Vandenberg. Senator Vandenberg
has been inside Washington for a
long time; he knows where real
power resides; the illusions of power
and fair words don't fool him. The
Senator does not really expect any
vital change in foreign policy: he
chose his words very carefully when
he inveighed against the changed
ratio on the Foreign Relations COM
mittee which resulted in weighing
it with Truman Democrats.
But he knows 1t will be very diff
ferent dealing with Mr.. Acheson
and Mr.. Webb than dealing with
old associates Byrnes. Marshall, ct
al. His access to the sources of
power is curtailed seriously and he
knows it.
Evening star., 1949-01-10
This Changing World
Revising His Views as Undersecretary,
Acheson Did Best to Counter Soviet Policy

This change of attitude, unror-
tunately, applied not to his feelings
toward his friends and proteges in
the State Department. but rather
to his understanding of where Rus
sia stood and what the Kremlin
intended to do.
From certain of his actions as
Acting Secretary under Secretary
OF State Byrnes-who like his sue.
cessor, Gen. Marshall spent more
time abroad than at home-Mr.
Acheson showed that he appreci-
ated the Soviet game and attempted
to counteract 1t, within the limit
of his powers.
In the fall of 1946-and this story
has never been published before
reports from Turkey indicated that
the Soviets were massing important
forces on the Turkish border. The
situation was strained, and it looked
as If Moscow were ready to fall on
the Turkish armies, then poorly pre-
pared.
Mr.. Acheson drafted a strong note
and presented it to President Tru-
man, who approved it without hesi-
tation. 1t said, in effect, that any
attack on Turkey would be con-
sidered by this country as an at
tack on the United Nations and the
United States. The note, which Mr..
AcheSon took care to see retained
its strong expressions, was dis
patched to Moscow and had the de-
sired effect.
Spoke to Iranians.
Similarly, at the time when the
Russians were moving rapidly to-
ward Teheran and it. looked as if
the Soviet would gobble up Iran,
Mr.. Acheson made q short speech at
small dinner party given by the
Iranian Ambassador in which he
said that SO long as the Iranian
people themselves were willing to
resist aggression, and to show their
determination to live freely and in
dependently, the United States
Government would live up to the
solemn pledges made to Iran by the
United States, Britain and Russia
in the Teheran conference.
The substance of these remarks
was cabled Immediately to Teheran
by the Ambassador and resulted in a
sitter Iranian attitude toward Rus
sia, which was behind the advancing
armies of the Azerbaijan rebels.
These facts are known only to a
handful of people, but show that as
soon as Mr.. Acheson was given
position of responsibility he put his
liberal inclinations to one side and
acted more sternly than many non
liberal Secretaries of State have
acted.
Mr.. Acheson was not prompted
by any one to take such steps. He
acted on his own initiative, and while
covering" many leftists in the State
Department, he did the same thing
with respect to the few ''rightists," :"
who we're the targets of violent at
tacks by pro-Soviet groups both in
side and outside the administration
Evening star., 1949-01-10

tute Senator whom Mr.. Truman
obediently followed during long
years on the hill. 1t was prior
relationship that both occasionally
found difficult to surmount.
Now the great general, humbly
admired by the President, George
c. Marshall, Is being replaced by a
man younger than either, Dean
Acheson. Mr.. Acheson has great abil-
tiles and has we'll served many Secre-
taries of State, but he goes to the
hill a career man owing the splen-
did honor of Cabinet rank to Mr..
Truman. The personal influence
with Congress enjoyed by the war
time Chief of Staff and Senate
alumnus is not Mr.. Acheson's nor
ever can be.
Webb Appointment Significant.
In some respects the change in
the second State Department spot
is as significant. Budget Director
James E. Webb, another career
man, succeeds Undersecretary
Robert A. Lovett, the urbane Wall
Street banker who won Gen. Mar
shall's confidence and that of Con-
gress during the war when Mr..
Lovett was an efficient Undersecre-
tary of War So long as Gen.
Marshall stayed Mr. Lovett was
safe, despite administration feeling
that he did not quite play the game
during the Presidents lonely cam
paign. Mr.. Webb has not previously
been associated with Mr.. Acheson.
He is a Truman man, too.
Obviously Mr.. Webb made his
fruitful impression on the Presi-
dent by his work on the budget.
And his major policy contribution
there, according to informed
sources, is the SIS, 1000, 100000 ceiling
on defense expenditures. Mr.. Webb
and Chairman Nourse of the Eco
nomic Council joined forces to per-
suade the President that his Fair
Deal" can be accomplished only
by the kind of balance now con-
templated among the departments.
Thus it appears that the Ma
tional Defense Departments rela-
tions with the State Department
are also in for a period of read
justment, with new emphasis on
civilian direction. No doubt great
care will be exercised to show a
united front, but the Importance
to the military of the Marshall
Lovett departure and the Acheson-
Webb replacement is clear. Indeed
the long rumored National Defense
changes now seem inevitable.
These are not changes in favor
of the New Deal though the New
Dealers have clamored long and
loud for the scalps Of the military.
They are changes showing the
Presidents own vastly increased
political confidence and his de-
termination now to run his show
with his own people
Evening star., 1949-01-10

blaze away at them with an ordi.
nary pistol, but who was admired
and respected by the men he shot
at the most.
And that is just the beginning
Rick is a man who saw, away back
in the 1930s, what this country was
going to face in the 1940s, and what
it would need to meet the challenge.
He was laughed at when he told
me for a story was going to write
that $4,000 airplanes wouldn't be
enough. But he was right.
Then the war broke out and
Rick, at an age when he had
every right in the world to
serve in a position that offered
nothing more severe than to 5
hours and an overstuffed chair, took
the hard way. He drifted in the
Pacific for heaven knows how many
days, and there wasn't a friend of
his who didn't say he would come
back. Then he cracked up in a
plane, and he was hurt much more
badly than is generally known. He
barely pulled through, and it was
a long time before he could walk or
talk as the old Rick.
Then he took an airline and built
Evening star., 1949-01-10

overwhelmingly. Constantine Brown.
There is no doubt, even in the
minds of those who do not like
Mr.. Acheson's liberalism" that he
is brilliant and able. When he was
Assistant Secretary of State in the
Roosevelt administration he was In
charge of economic affairs, and was
assigned by Cordell Hull as official
lobbyist for UNRRA.
Mr.. Acheson's sympathies once lay
somewhat toward the left, but the
difference between him and so
many violent appeasers and pro-
Russians in Government Office was
that while he was genuinely con-
vinced that the U. S. S. r. would
accept the extended hand of Amer
ica's friendship, others followed
that policy because it was oppor-
tune, politically. to do so.
Friend of Frankfurter.
His close friendship with Supreme
Court Justice Felix Frankfurter gave
more strength to his conviction that
reactionaries in this country wanted
to disturb our relations with Moscow
When Mr.. Acheson was seen fire.
quently walking to the State De-
partment in company of Justice
it used to be said:
'"There goes Dean, taking orders
for the day from Felix"
1t was because of this conviction
that only close friendship with the
U. S. S. r. could. offer a solution
Of world problems that Mr. Ache
son went long way to keep the
so-called liberals-Alger Hiss and
some others-in their positions in
the State Department. He was so
convinced of their honesty Of pur-
pose that he treated as "piff1e" and
mere Washington rumor-just as
John Foster Dulles did-the reports
that there had been dangerous leaks
of secret information from the
State Department.
But from the time he assumed
the more responsible position as
Undersecretary Of State. and as
such began to learn more of the
facts of life in our relations with
the U. s. S. R., he experienced a
change of heart.
Evening star., 1949-01-10

lie Tallahassee
tantrums q bit
late.
But when q
man eats more
than his share
OF Is tons of
barbecued meat,
it takes five or
six days to get
back in q writ
ing mood. And
I ate more than
my share of the
beef, pork, cole
slaw, pickl e S,
onions and rolls
Evening star., 1949-01-10

QlSputeO pOllCy-
maker. He says
himself that this
augurs no change
in present plans,
and he ought to
know because
now he can take
what course he
lists without a
senior statesman
veto from any
source.
The Pre- S j.
dents first Sec
retary of State
was James F.
Evening star., 1949-01-10

message had to
be read to be
fully appreci-
ated.
If he has a
docile majority
in Congress we
now are full
steam ahead to-
ward the well
fare t a t e"
which, in mod
ern times, Presi-
dent Roosevelt
S t ar ed here,
B / S m ark in
Evening star., 1949-01-10

I n an q m ii d
S torn in the
Senate.
w hile some
Senators m y
criticize PreSi-
dent Truman's
decision to put
the former Un-
dersecretary of
State in the top
ranking cabinet
position, thefe is
not the slightest
doubt that the
nomination will
be confirmed
Evening star., 1949-01-10
Bv Confantine Broom

The appointment of Dean Ache
son, one of the most controversial
figures in Washington, as Secretary
of State is not likely to raise more
Evening star., 1949-01-10
Bv Doris FIees0n

The change President Truman
has wrought in the State Depart
ment is more real than apparent.
For the first time he is his own un-
Evening star., 1949-01-10

Celebrates State inaugural
With Eddie Rickenbucker
By Henry McLemore

Today is Monday and Fuller War;
rem was inaugurated as Governor
Of Florida last Tuesday, which would
appear to make this story about
Evening star., 1949-01-10
By Dorothy Thompson

Since President Truman can make
the most revolutionary statements
sound like an address to the Kiwan1s
Club, the full text of his State
I,
Evening star., 1949-01-12
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BIosoPHY.
"Cultivstlng the New Brain" class OF
81 Ii. Biosophieai m Institute. . Wizard Hotei
o'clock tonight.
DANCE.
vFW annual ball, Bradley Clay and his
orchestra, Washington Hotel, o'clock to-
Instruction in South American dancing,
partment, walsh Club. 1923 twenty
second street NV, $50 O'Clock tonight.
. LECTURE. Il
hv AHaHoon Mi}I;s IN Hat IeStpre, The G9ano Brds
Survival; National Museum auditorium,
admission by membership card or guest
Princeton Club, Willard Hotel. 1913
Road Gang, willard Hotel, 1913 pm.
MEETING.
Washington Real Estate Board, Hotel
Btatler, am. tomorrow.
National Children's Cardiac Home, Will
Iard Hotel O'Clock tonight.
MUSIC.
Sr,m s. Army sand eoneert' Depsrtmental
fhlTteenth street NV o'eloeR tonisht. ap
cborss borssn ~ rec RECITAL; WADE n Stephens
SPECIAL EXHIBITS.
rP an Amsriesn Union seyenteenth street
Saturdays. Still life BY Alexandra otero
ends today.
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snd to P snDdaSs 1D az pm pansas Ss
Silver ssr'ns sf0UEa Afs ss$yis Flower
January.
Phillips Gallery, 1900 Twenty-f1rst street
so pn a ue9daS t9 S hFoufh sssHt
s;d sxh bits aIso EetTospsctye I4a Losa Exhbi-
National Gallery of Art, Sixth street and
Constitution avenue NV; open 10 am.
to pm weekdays and i,;3,. : to 10 pm syn.
soisctions Sia and ftfis from 20 other donors.
.ses ana Ns1 Of
II to 43O pm. Mondays, 10 am. to 4:30
e@ eo TussdayS gsa4dsH1 thTGush a1a r5ldays to
inston, for an indefite period.
Mondays through Saturdays. and 1880
am. to 10 pm. Sunday exhibit commsm-
Hs uscript '0ufh Of fincelns three:psse w autobi-
sson s1hbtion Gh Of poses
cartons, Photographic and documents trsc-
Ing history Of American presidential cleo
Fish and WildIife Service. under main
lobby in Commerce Department Building, |
Fourteenth and z streets NV: open 8
am. to 4 pm. daily; display OF animals
and fresh-water hsh.
Studio Group Christmas SHOW. No.
Eilyer court open Saturdays 10 am. to |
4:30 pm. and Sundays l to Pm. for
an indefinite period.
Public Library. Eighth and Z streets
NV, exhibit commemorating the s0th
anniversary OF the Library through Janu-
National Archives, exhibition hall, Con:
stitution avenue between Seventh and
Eghth streets NV; open s:45 am. TO |
6;15 pm. weekdays, go to 8 pm Sat- |
urdays and 1:30 to pm Sundays and
holidays. -
FOR SERVICEMEN.
Armed Services YMCA. 1886 G street
NV. informal record dancing, o'clock
tonight.
Soldiers Sailors and Marines Club.
1905 L street NV; lounge, library, writing
desk. billiard tables and radio.
Servicemen's Victory Center. 1113 Penn
sylvania avenue NV; free canteen, open
daily, noon to midnight.
Evening star., 1949-01-12
Comdr. HumIin to Speak

Comdr. Harold S. Hamlin, jr
q. S. N, who was aboard the cruiser
Houston when 1t was sunk during
the battle of the Java Sea in Feb
ruary, 1912. will address the Wash
ington branch of the Mills College
Alumnae Association at pm. TO-
morrow at the home of Miss Betsy
Woodwork, 1902 Forty third. street
NV. He will speak on his ex-
periences as prisoner of the jap
aneSe.
Evening star., 1949-12-02

Herb Sopdericker's big BROTH
er, Bill, actually is 3 inches
shorter and 5 pounds lighter.
but take it from Herb, he's
much smarter-especially about
basket ball. In fact, Bill taught
Herb everything he knew about
the game until Coach Abe Ro-
senflelds took him under his
wing this year at Catholic Uni
versity. The two of them figure
Importantly in the Cardinals
court plans, beginning with the
Georgetown game Monday
night.
Brother acts are not new at
Brookland. Some of the more
outstanding family duets in the
last IS years include Tom and
Babe Gearty, Charley and Bob
.McVean, Tom and John Nally,
Rocco and the late Carmen
Pirro, Eddie and Johnny White,
Johnny and Whitley Ambrose.
Another current combination is
Joe and Paul HalliSsey, CO.
captain of baseball and a
wrestler, respectively. But at
the moment. Rosenf1eld is sold
on the brothers Sondericker,
for obvious reasons.
They're a couple Of
smoothies," says the coach, add
ing a sly wink for emphasis.
Herb is green yet-he's got a
lot to learn from actual college
competition - but he's clever
and he has plenty of natural
Evening star., 1949-12-02
W. andL. Sophs Test
Conference Champs
By the Assoeioted Press

RALEIGH. N. c., Dec. e.
Washington and Lees Generals
will have three sophomores in
their lineup tonight when they
battle North Carolina States
Wolfpack in the first Southern
Conference basket ball game Of
the new season. Tonight's game
will dedicate North Carolina
States new s2.50O,O0o coliseum.
General Coach Con Davis has
announced his starting lineup will
include Sophomores Jay Handlan
and Dave Hedge at the forwards.
Charles Grove at guard. Paired
with Grove at the other guard
will be Senior George Pierson.
who played forward for three
seasons, and the center will be
Junior Bob Goldsmith.
States lineup is studded with
veterans, including Forward Dick
Dickey, who yesterday was elected
captain Of the Wolfpack team.
State is defending champion Of
the Southern Conference.
North Carolina's Tar Heels
elected Memo Nearman as captain
last night and followed that &C
ton with a 57-39 triumph over
Elon College. Nearman con-
tributed Is of his teams points,
Evening star., 1949-12-02

the drive-in, layup shot type.
The 5-foot-8 Bills physique
also permits him to move a
mite quicker with spasmodic.
deceptive motions. although
Rosenfleld says Herb Is the
faster of the two. The coach
would like to have "a dozen
sets Of brothers as good as
these two and who get along
as well together"
The brothers Sondericker
have none of the usual family
quarrels, such as who's wearing
who's necktie and not because
they live in separate dormatories
at c. U. Bills word always was
law with Herb, although he adds
there weren't many rules gov
erning their relationship. Bill
likes serious books and doesn't
like too much radio while Herb
goes for light reading and
plenty of radio. Their tastes
in other respects are SIMILAR.
including chicken, roast beef
and steaks.
Herb confesses he does eat
heavier than Bill, but that's
because he has q job as waiter
in the faculty dining hall at
c. U. while Bill eats with the
rest of the students at graduate
hall. It's a good set-up, for
Herb wants to be a history
teacher some day and Bill has
a chance to exercise his legal
talents arguing with the chef
for seconds. -ATCHISON.
Evening star., 1949-12-02
Army Going TO Coast
For 50 Stanford Tilt
BY the Assoeioied Press

WEST POINT. N. Y. Dec. a.
Army will make its second trip to
the West Coast in so days Of foot
ball next season when it Journeys
to Palo Alto to meet Stanford on
November Is.
The cadets last visited the Pa
cific Goats in 1929 when. they were
defeated by Stanford, 34-13, in a
post-season contest at Palo Alto.
Stanford was not on Army's
schedule last season. Colgate and
New Mexico, two other newcomers
to the Army schedule. will play the
Cadets at West Point according
to the schedule released today by
1t. Col. o. c. Kruger, graduate
manager of athletics.
Michigan, beaten 21-7 by Army
at Ann Arbor this season, will
tangle with the Cadets in Yankee
Stadium, October IA.
The traditional service classic
between Army and Navy will be
staged again at Philadelphia' S
Municipal Stadium, December 2.
The schedule:
State: IA. Michigan at Yankee Stadium
Nsa Yaek q nstsr sa Is cnameia
Mexico; Is. stanford at PaIo Alto; IS,
Open; December =, Navy at Philadelphia.
Evening star., 1949-12-02
7-Formution and Two-PIatoon
System Will Die, Zuppke Says
By the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Dec. 2.-The
T-formation and tWo-platoon
system will be out of date in
few years, according to Bob
Zuppke, who says football is
just like women's skirts-"keeps
changing all the time"
They call this new stuff
actually it is old stuff" de-
clared the 70-year-old former
grid master of the University
of Illinois, in town to accept
the New York Touchdown
Clubs annual award for out
standing contributions to the
sport.
1--WE had the T-formation
80 years ago and it was in use
before that" he added. These
things come and go, like wom-
ems styles-in circles. In few
more years we will have new
rules and new formations, or
some new names for old ones"
Zuppke said football should
never become standardized.
When it does, he said, it will
be the death knell of the sport.
This isn't baseball. We must
constantly change, get new
ideas, make new creations.
That is the only way to keep
football healthy and interest
ing"
A crowd of some 300 mem
bers, coaches and sports figures
turned out at Ruppert's last
night to honor the little man
who coached at Illinois for
% years, retiring at the end of
1941, and who is credited with
many of the games innova-
tiohS.
1t was zuppke who originated
the short, spiral pass from
center, the forward-lateral. the
screen forward pass and, he
insists. the huddle.
For all his 10 years, Zup's
hair is still black with only
small, almost invisible flecks of
gray. He still has a bounce
in his step and speech and his
eyes light up like a 100 watt
bulk when he gets on the sub
ject Of the "old days"
eve read a lot about what
Evening star., 1949-12-02

this cOdcn ana LNdC COdcIl Is
doing to modernize football"
he said. But it was George
Halas. now head of the Chi
cago Bears, who really put the
modern touch to the sport.
George was one of my boys"
Zuppke said his main objec'
ton to two-platoon football is
that it hampers coach's Gre
ativeness.
"Today's coaches are moth
ing more than adapters," he
said. They deal in masses.
using the stuff handed down
to them by the old masters.
None is a creator. He can't be.
I'm art, you would call the
present-day coaches sketch
artists. But I think things will
change and We'll come back to
creativeness in coaching"
The former Illinois coach
still maintains that Red Grange
is the greatest football player
he ever has seen.
There's never been one like
him." he said. "He was the
gazelle of football and don't let
anybody kid you-he would be
as great against teams of today
as he was back there in the
early '20s."
Evening star., 1949-12-02
BIodensburgPIoys
[MoryIond Park
IFor Grid Title

Bladensburg and Maryland
Park will square of tonight at
8 o'clock at College Park for
the first Prince Georges Coun-
ty high school football cham
pionship. s,s --.a-
Not only the title, but the
entire future Of football in the
county may be at stake.
Football was introduced in
Prince Georges for the first
time this year with the hope
that the, sport would swell the
depleted athletic funds. All the
schools wanted the sport, but
it was pointed out that the
teams must be able to support
themselves from the gate re-
ceipts. "A good crowd tonight
would be a big point in foot
balls favor.
Maryland Park will rank a
slight favorite on the basis of
it's record of four victories in
as many league encounters.
Bladensburg has won three and
tied one.