Evening star., 1949-07-15

Two Silver Sprin
|SuiIbout Cruise
Two Silver Spring youths were
on their way down the Potomac
River today on the first leg of a
projected 1,400-mile cruise to
Michigan in a 20-foot sailboat.
Thomas Eesley, 18, of 239 Dale
drive, and Lewis Chesley. II, Of
10115 Pierce drive, left Buzzards
Point Boat Yard here at o'clock
this morning.
When the wind fails they will use
small outboard motor to keep
going.
Their boat. named Jeep, will be
sailed up Chesapeake Bay. through
the Chesapeake and Delaware
1--WE got no statement. There will
be no statement from anybody
except the President. if he makes
one"
Eisenhower Pleasant.
Senator Mcmahon followed this
with the remark that "any state
ment will come from the Presi-
dent" and Mr.. Lilienthal sounded
the same note: IF there is any,
thing to say. the President will
say it,"
Gen. Eisenhower was asked what
he made Of the affair. TITS a hot
evening and rainy" he replied
pleasantly and set out for his car.
Secretary Acheson contributed a
curt mo statement" and told a
questioner he didn't know whether
the President would make one.
Senator Tydings, who left the
meeting early because Of a cold,
was asked if Russia and the atomic
bomb was involved. He said he
wouldn't think so." Later he told
reporters they wouldn't want a.
news beat" because ''you wouldn't
print It II you had it for the good
OF the country"
There was general feeling that
the meeting transcended the joint
committees long investigation into
Senator Hickenlooper's chargesl
against the Acc and Mr.. Lilien-
thai. But observers did note that
Senator Hickenlooper himself has
raised questions about relations
with other countries on atomic
energy during the investigation
which now has entered a closed
door" phase.
At the outset of the inquiry.
some seven weeks ago. the Iowa
Senator asked for the Hyde Park
aide memoire-never further iden-
titled; the memorandum On atomic
energy in the United States-Brit-
h-Russian Potsdam Conference.
which Mr.. Truman attended: the
joint United States United King
dom statement on atomic energy
issued some time after the war
and information from the Quebec
Conference attended by the late
President Roosevelt and Winston
Churchill.
The documents were not fur
nished to the committee.
Last Saturday. Senator Hicken-
looper told reporters that he still
thinks certain international as
poets Of the atomic energy pro-
gram should be made public. He
said they concerned relations with
other countries. He would not
elaborate other than to say he
intended first to take the matter
up in a closed-door committee
session.
The testimony Of DR.. Robert F.
Bacher. former member of the
Acc, also touched sharply on in
ternational knowledge of atomic
weapons. He predicted to the
joint committee that Great Brit
ain would be successful in pro-
ducing the atomic bomb.
Law Restricted Cooperation.
He also told the committee that
both British and Canadian SCI
entists had taken an active part
in the wartime development of
the bomb at Los Alamos, N. Mex,
and had a thorough knowledge
of 1t.
DR.. Bacher added that since the
passage Of the Atomic Energy Act
in 1946 the cooperation between
the three nations had been Zero"
because Of the restrictions in the
law.
There were some unconfirned
views that renewed cooperation
between the three, in view Of the
present international situation,
might have been the main subject
Of last nights discussion.
Whatever the subject. there ap-
peared little doubt but what the
meeting would be discussed widely
privately and probably publicly
ON Capitol Hill.
| With the Acc already under at
tack and furious debate going on
over the pact and the administra-
tion's proposed foreign arms pro-
gram, there appeared little doubt
but that lawmakers would seize
the secret meeting for numerous
questions and inquiries.
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