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Evening star., 1950-03-18
Our Policy in Asia

In his address the other day to the Com
monwealth Club of California, Secretary Acheson
did not minimize the threat of further Soviet
Communist subversion and aggression in Asia.
But he made clear that the free world-if it does
the things 1t needs to do and is capable of doing
can have confidence in its ability to counter
that threat.
To begin with, Mr.. Acheson has re e-empha-
sized two of the major points he made last Janu-
-ary in his talk to the National Press Club. The
first of these is that Asa's hundreds of millions
of people are dead-set against living any longer
in colonial status, are determined to be inde-
pendent, and are bitterly opposed to foreign
domination. And the second is that the Soviet
Union, in defiance of this profoundly deep feel
ing, is acting through its Communist puppets to
become the master of China and spread its
imperialistic tyranny throughout the whole of
the Far East.
These two basic conditions-the Asiatic de-
termination to be free and the Soviet drive to
be dominant-are irreconcilable, and the irrecon-
cilabiity, II properly acted upon in terms of
propaganda and otherwise can lead in time to
the complete wreckage of the Kremlin's grasp
lngly ambitious program. To all intents and
purposes China is already behind the Iron Cur
tain, but the day will almost certainly come
when the Chinese people will see the great evil
that has been worked on them, and then
although Mr.. Acheson has not said so-the Rus
slams are likely to find that 1T is one thing to
bite of huge nation and another to chew and
digest 1t.
In any case, without hazarding predictions
about the Chinese future, Mr.. Acheson has served
notice on the Peiping Communist regime that
II 1t embarks on aggressive or subversive ad-
ventures against China's neighbors, the United
States will not be passive or Indifferent. Al
though not spelling out anything in specific
terms, he has plainly implied that American
policy in Asia-though still vague in many par
tculars-is entering upon new phase in which
we will stand ready, depending upon the cir
cumstances involved, to extend technical. mill
tary or financial help to the threatened countries
But Mr.. Acheson has been ut pains to en-
phasize that such aid, besides being kept within
the limits of our resources, must be extended
only on condition "a that the recipient country
recognizes the Soviet Communist threat and has
genuine will and determination to remain in
dependent, (2) that the people involved are
behind their government, and 60 that our help
is appropriate to the particular situation and has
a reasonable chance of producing constructive
results
On its face this outline of program adds
up to something that is less than spectacular
However, considering the confusion and turbu
lence now characterizing Asia, 1t represents at
least q sound beginning on a more affirmative
American policy toward that part of the world
II acted upon with vigor by all parties con-
cerned, including the threatened countries, 1t
can do much to build fire under the Kremlin's
Far Eastern imperialism.
Evening star., 1950-03-18
A Disappointing Delay

The disinclination of the House Armed Serv-
ices Committee to approve relocation of the
Naval Observatory, in order to make way for the
proposed Washington Hospital Center, Is dis
appointing. 1t threatens to place another OBJ
stacle in long uphill fight to obtain this great
improvement in medical facilities for the Wash
ington community and the important Federal
interests it serves. The House committees deci-
sion, however, is not final. There are opportun-
tiles for reconsideration and perhaps a more
thorough review of the arguments supporting the
transfer of the observatory will lead to change
Of mind.
One of the most compelling of these argu-
ments, it seems to The Star, is that the Navy
Department already has found that the reloca-
tion of the observatory must be carried out
eventually. That being the case, and with the
realization that even if it were ordered now
several years might elapse before it is completed,
why suffer further delay in reaching decision?
For that delay means even longer postponement
of a beginning on the hospital center and the
acquisition of new facilities to replace those
whose age and deterioration are handicapping
the hospitals involved in the center project
Furthermore, it will be most difficult to find in
Washington a site that offers many advan-
tages in location and accessibility. A change of
site would mean starting all over again on the
designs Whlch nave oeen oraWn Tor thlS par
ticular location.
One of the great advantages of the Naval
Observatory site is that its size (seventy acres)
and topography will permit construction of
hospital center without destroying the parkke
characteristics of the area in question. Con-
tinued delay in reaching a decision on hospital
use of the observatory grounds, because of delay
in agreeing to removal of the observatory, will
leave the future disposition of the land un-
settled, with the danger that some less appro-
pirate and desirable construction eventually will
be undertaken that will injuriously affect the
surrounding neighborhood.
Evening star., 1950-03-18
Letters to The Star
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that privileges and immunities of certain
citizens have been abridged and the Con-
stitution thereby violated when, because
OF their color, they are barred from
public. schools or other public places to
which other citizens have free access by
reason Of the public nature and ior pub
lie ownership of such places. Moreover,
to him it appears imperative that re-
course to the courts should speedily
restore to these citizens their constitu-
tional privileges or immunities SO
abridged.
The United States boasts to the world
OF its form of democracy. its Bill of
Rights. and It's freedoms, yet how hypo-
critical and hollow they must appear to
other nations when. in actual practice,
we boldly and blandly deny to minority
OF citizens because of their color, those
very Constitutional rights and freedoms
OF which we boast. GAETA BEALE.
Scientists Group Hits Bill Providing
FBI Check of Foundation Workers
The Washington Association Of
Scientists wishes to support the objec-
tions of the National Academy Of
Sciences expressed in their letter to the
President regarding certain amendments
to the National Science Foundation Bill,
H. r. 1916.
Together with its national organiza-
ton, the Federation of American
Scientists, the Washington Association
has consistently advocated the establish
ment of National Science Foundation
as a means to support and develop basic
or.atn aIr 10
with regret that the association is COM
PEELED to take its present stand in view
of the amendments inserted on the floor
OF the House, particularly that OF Rep
resentative Smith of Virginia. The i'm
port of the objections is of vital concern
not merely to scientists but to every
citizen. The aforementioned amend
ments would not only seriously impede
the development of science. but also rep
resent a serious threat to democratic
rights in this country.
The Smith amendment provides that:
mo person shall be employed by the
foundation and no scholarship shall be
awarded to any person by the founda-
ton unless and until the Federal Bureau
Of Investigation shall have investigated
the loyalty of such person and reported
to the foundation that such person is
loyal to the United States, believes in
our system Of Government, and is not
and has not at any time been member
of any organization declared subversive
by the Attorney General or any organ
ization that teaches the overthrow of
our Government by force and violence"
The capitalization on the fear Of sub
versive activities by Representative
Smith in forcing his amendment for
FBI certihcation of individual loyalty
into the bill goes far beyond anything
previously enacted for Federal agency.
1t should be pointed out that the ma
jor part of research sponsored by the
foundation would be concerned with
Evening star., 1950-03-18
"A Shame and q Disgrace

1t is easy to understand and sympathize
with the sentiments which prompted Deputy
Undersecretary of State Peurifoy to come to the
defense of John S. Service. 1t is not easy how
ever, to believe that he acted wisely.
At the end of formal statement denouncing
the manner in which Senator Mccarthy of Wis
consin has been smearing the State Department,
Mr. Peurifoy said it is "a shame and disgrace"
that Mr.. Service, who is on his way to India,
should have to come back to Washington to face
another loyalty probe.
The trouble with this is that Mr.. Service is
not being brought back merely because Senator
Mccarthy has impugned his loyalty. The order
for Mr.. Services return was also prompted by a
recommendation from the Civil Service Loyalty
Review Board that he should appear personally
before the departments own loyalty board, which
had previously cleared him without personal
appearance.
In this setting Mr.. Peurifoy's shame and
disgrace" statement seems to apply to the 10y
atty review boards recommendation as we'll as
to Senator Mccarthy Perhaps it was not in
tended that way But that is the impression it
gives There have been some strange aspects
to the boards handling of the Service case. Why
did it require thirteen months to make it's recon-
mendation? How did Senator Mccarthy learn
of the recommendation before the State Depart
ment knew of it? Whatever the answers, how
ever, the fact remains that if the review board
thought Mr.. Service should appear in person
before the departmental board, it was its duty
to say so and there is nothing shameful or dis
graceful about that phase of the recall.
The other unfortunate result of the Peurifoy
comment is to give Senator Mccarthy chance
to say, as he has already DONE that the state
ment was designed to coerce the departmental
board into whitewaShing Mr.. Service. Those who
know the facts will not believe that the state
ment had any such design, or that, if it had, the
departmental board would bow to it. But if
Mr.. Service, upon his return, is again cleared by
the board, Mr.. Mccarthy will be in position to
say: Look I told you so! And some people, I'M
fortunately, will believe him.
To say this, of course, is not to suggest that
Senator Mccarthy is rendering anything but a
disservice to the country in his attack on the
State Department. He has made extravagant
charges which, If true, would mean that the
department has become kind of Communist
cell in our Government. The evidence which he
has produced, however, If 1t can be dgnifed by
that term, is not even remotely worthy of serious
consideration. If anything in this situation is
shameful and disgraceful, it is the fact that the
Senate, on the basis of Mr.. McCarthys dis
credited case, can be used as an instrument to
harass the State Department and some of its
present and former employees One would think
that Senator McCarthys fellow Republicans, by
this time, would have had enough; that they, in
their own partisan interest, would be trying to
drop the curtain on this shabby performance.
Evening star., 1950-03-18
Poland and the World Bank

In withdrawing from membership in the
World Bank and the international Monetary
Fund, the Communist government of Poland has
made the propaganda charge that these two
United Nations institutions are mere tools of
selfish" American policy The charge is in line
with the Kremlin's ceaseless campaign of vilihca-
ton against us, and the quitting action is simply
another indication of systematic Soviet effort
to isolate the satellite countries from all assoca
ton with the West.
What has particularly red the Warsaw pup
pets is the fact that the World Bank has declined
to meet their long-standing request for loan
of $200000,0o0. They cite the refusal as proof
that the institution is subservient to the United
States but they really know better than that.
They know that more than forty nations make
up the banks membership and that these nations
have turned thumbs down on credit to Poland
not because of American opposition but because
the statutes of the organization, together with
plain common sense, obviously rule out such a
credit.
For the truth is that the bank is decidedly
strict lending agency whose own rules and regu-
latons forbid loans to poor risks. If Poland were
an independent nation, 1t undoubtedly would
qualify for help on sound projects. But it Is not
independent It's government is branch Office
OF the Kremlin. Accordingly, wholly apart from
legal limitations practical political and economic
considerations disqualfy it. Certainly, as long
as it cannot inspire confidence or speak and act
for itself in good faith, no private American or
other investing group will put money into any
bonds issued by the World Bank to finance
q Polish credit.
Actually given the circumstances that exist
today, there is nothing either surprising or par
ticularly regrettable about Polands withdrawal
from the bank and fund. The departure leaves
Observation-Disclosures too poor a risk to qualify
for loan-as the only Soviet satellite still MAIN
tanning membership in the two institutions. In
all probability, however, the Kremln will see to
1t that Prague follows Warsaw's suit in the near
future. The Russians want their puppets to
have as few contacts as possible with the West.
Evening star., 1950-03-18

One might think that John L. Lewis, who is
constantly ranting about the Taft-Hartley
slave law, would end this peonage within his
own union. Mr.. Lewis will not do it, however,
for this is one of the main sources of his power.
If the individual member of the UNIV is to have
any protection against the slave masters in his
own union, that protection will have to come
from the Government, or some agency of the
Government. To Mr.. Sidener and others who
have felt the heavy hand of their union, it must
seem that this protection, though promised by
law, is a long TIME in coming.
Evening star., 1950-03-18
Tocsin for Teachers

March-a,sd the young seem all agoo
To emulate the Bandarlog,
Whoopi,sg and swinging by their totIS
TIL ,pandemonium preuailsl .
Notp epery type of banned bGllistic
Appears; and tulnsinations fstic,
with features unused and garments torn.
Sho10 influence OF Capricorn
But soon, sohen Earth's green pasture
stretches,
ThereH be more space for merry
sDretches
70 let ebullient nature bubble 49,.
Till then, your tortitude redonble:
Keep upper lips as stiff as starch.
And pray depoutly, "ForDard, March,"
HAROLD WILLARD GLEASON.
Evening star., 1950-03-18

Management Foundation he established,
which has prevented any major postwar
strike in Holland.
He showed his conciliation and diplo-
matte fnesse as a member of The Hague
conference on Indonesia's independence.
When he took Office as Foreign Minister
in 1948, some colleagues referred to Dirk
Striker as that brewer" ignoring his
bankers background. He didn't mind
that, but when the Foreign Office was
described as that staid old dowager,"
Mr.. Striker reacted,
Evening star., 1950-03-18
Trailer Dweller Hits Disputed
Tax On Virginia Camp Space

I have not lived in Virginia very long,
but can't keep still any longer about the
Trailer Park" tax situation. I just
wonder If the people who are so de-
termined to impose an unreaSonably high
tax on trailer space have considered that
the people who own the land we park on
are paying taxes already on the land
and that we are also paying taxes on the
trailer houses. I wonder if they forget
that when we bought our trailer house
we paid 30 State sales tax-$60. Then
every year we pay about SIG for tags
for 1t.
If you allowed trailer camps inside city
limits we could be connected to city
sewers, and also be serviced by city gar
bage disposal, for which you could legal
ly" collect reasonable fee. Also the
utilities we would use, about the same as
any home, would be source of revenue.
But as for indiscriminate taxing of
people who try to make a place where
people like us can park our trailers,
think its outrageous-a downright racket.
We are here to put in big pipeline that
will be a great help and convenience to
a lot of people. And in the work we do,
we almost have to live in trailers, be-
cause there are no places for us to live
when We come into a town.
So now we come up here, and 1t seems
that people can't afford to fix places for
us to park where we can live and feel
welcome to your communities. We have
built pipelines in a lot of States. but have
never encountered an attitude and con-
ditions like we find here in the State of
Virginia. We always wanted to come to
these old States for historical reasons.
but I'm afraid we won't be able to 60
back home Ito Texas and remember
Virginia with any pleasant memories.
We don't mind reasonable taxes any,
where, but why should any special group
be Disseminated against? That's what
it Is. MRS. H. j. HAMILTON.
Layman's View Of Segregation
Under Our Constitution
An eminent jurist is quoted as saying.
''The Constitution is what the Courts
say it is" To the layman the remark
appears very pertinent in connection
with the decision recently handed down
by the Appellate Court upholding segre-
cation in the District of Columbia
schools.
To the layman the question arises:
Does this decision really conform with
the intent of the Constitution? II the
question appears presumptuous, it is not
SO intended to be. 1t stems merely from
the fact that to the layman the words
of this great document mean exactly
what they say. For instance, to him,
Article XIV (Which reads in part: mo
State shall make or enforce any law
which shall abridge the privileges or
immunities of citizens of the United
States'D is clarity itself-easily under
stood English.
Reasoning from this basis, the layman
forms the only conclusion possible, i.e..
Evening star., 1950-03-18

non-Secret work. Moreover, adequate
measures are already contained In the
original form of H. R. 4846 for the
protection of restricted work and no
further provisions are necessary to safe
guard national security. OF course, all
employees of the foundation would be
subject to the usual loyalty checks for
Government workers.
Since a National Science Foundation
Is essential to the future welfare Of this
country, and since our democratic heri-
tage embodied in the Constitution must
be preserved, we re-urge the conferees
to eliminate the Objectionable House
amendments from the National Science
Foundation bill. We also urge every
citizen to send the conferees his views
on H. r.. 4846. Public apathy at this
time may have far reaching effects.
ROBERT SIMHA,
Chairman. Washington Association Of
Scientists.
"An Ounce of Prevention
Is Worth Pound Of Cure"
-~ The Star Is to be commended for
bringing to our attention the great social
problem of the alcoholic. The sorry pic
ture it presented on March 6 should
appear on the front page once a week,
just to remind us.
As sorry as this picture is, The Star
had no way of knowing of the heart
ache in the homes of these "A, ISL drunks.
Neither could it know of those cared for
by relatives or friends and not allowed
to fall into the hands of the law.
Mercy compels us to try to rehabili-
tate the alcoholic-the end result of
problem. A greater mercy, plus common
sense, should compel us also to attack
the problem at it's source. Otherwise, it
Is like trying to dip the ocean dry with
q teaspoon.
Recognizing alcoholism as q disease,
we must recognize also that only those
exposed to alcohol contract the disease.
The alarming increase of alcoholism
should enable him who runs to read:
IAN ounce of prevention is worth =
pound of cure" ESTELLA s. HAINES.
Praise for Miss Pollock's Letter
On Guilt Association Dangers
Bless Laura X. Pollock I've been
reading her letters to our several editors
these many years and have come to
respect her for the very rugged tnd1-
vidualist she is Her opinions have been
conservative, honest and straight-for-
ward When such an elder stateswoman
as she recommends individual inquiry
with respect to contemporary ideologies
and criticizes the present dangers in
volved in this inquiry she merits high
praise.
If some of our straightfaced young
sters could absorb the breadth of Miss
Pollocks Americanism it would be a
pleasanter world indeed. I wish she'd
shake finger under "Jumpin' Joe" Nc
Carthy's nose!
THEODORE A. MILLER.
Evening star., 1950-03-18
--AP Photo.

He said that affairs Of state-like mar
riages and other alliances-were safer in
the hands OF dowager than in those Of
a dizzy debutante.
Mr.. Hoffman thinks Mr.. Striker is
"our best hope" for European integra-
ton. Mr.. Striker is confident integra-
tion will be achieved. Britain and
Western Germany will have to be in
cluded, he says.
He says it with a kind of Dutch de-
termination which has impressed offi-
cials here.
(chicago Daily News serviceJ
Evening star., 1950-03-18
Questions and Answers

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By THE HAsKIN SERVICE

@. When were the Marquis of Queens
berry rules for the conduct Of boxing
matches drawn up?-R. j. e.
A. The eighth Marquis Of Queensberry.
a British patron of boxing. helped to
formulate these regulations in 1865. They
first prevailed in an official heavyweight
title bout In 1892. when John L. Sulli-
van met James j. Corbett In New Orleans.
Evening star., 1950-03-18

Q. Are there any Islands in Great Salt
Lake?-F. M. c.
A. There are nine islands in the lake.
Evening star., 1950-03-18

@. What is the annual production Of
sleeping pills In the United States?-
r. L. L.
A. In 1s4s the production of sleep pro-
ducing drugs amounted to 336 tons.
which was equivalent to about "a doses
for every person in the country.
Evening star., 1950-03-18
o. What, is a battle royal2-N. q. II,

q. What is battle royal?-N. g. II.
A. Originally, it was . cock fight. in
which . certain number Of cocks were
pitted together. The winners Of each
fight were again matched, until the last
two fought for supremacy. The winner
was the victor of the battle royal. The
term Is applied metaphorically to other
contests.