Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-12-17
Communists Attack
Truman Declaration
As K. of T.. Backs Il
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK. Dec. 16.-The
Communist Party today called
President Humans emergency
proclamation "a cruel hoax"
A Communist Party statement
urged the President to stop max
ing war" and start making
peace"
1t called for united labor action
to protect the interests of the
workers against the profit-greedy
warmakers."
The statement said the real
danger to the American people
comes not from foreign armies but
from the hell-bent-to- destruction
war drive of the men of the trusts
and the Pentagon-the men in
high places"
Calls for Soviet Friendship.
The statement called for unity
behind a program which included
seating Communist China in the
United Nations and seeking friend
ship with the Soviet Union.
Support for the Presidents &C
ton came from the executive COM
mittee of the Supreme Council of
the Knights of Columbus, Catho-
lie mems fraternal organization.
Supreme Knight John E. Swift
wired the President that the COM
mittee had pledged complete
support in your determination so
to strengthen the defenses of our
Nation that the attack upon the
free world. now and long since
waged by the rulers of the Soviet
Union, will be repulsed so that
peace and justice may prevail and
liberty be restored in nations now
overrun by the Soviet barbarism."
Progressive Party Sees Danger.
The Progressive Party said the
demands made on the American
people by President Truman will
deepen the national emergency.
Longer hours, frozen wages.
higher taxes, more guns and less
butter will increase the danger
and add to the COST" the party
said in O statement issued by c. B.
Baldwin, the partys secretary.
The statement said putting
production under big business
dictatorship and rejecting the just
demands Of the railroad workers
with threats from the Conn
mander-in-Chief are not answers
that the American people are look
ing for in this crisis"
Students of 9 Schools Ask
Immediote Ceose-Fire
SWARTHMORE, Pa, Dec. Is
P.-Students from nine colleges
today urged an immediate cease
fire in Korea and full representa-
ton Of the Peoples Republic of
China in the United Nations.
The question discussed was
"What students can do to effect a
solution to the Far Eastern crisis.
Speakers we're: Mrs. Francis Fus-
sell, conSultant to the executive
Office of President Truman and to-
the State Department; Francis P.
Jennings, member of the Pennsyl-
vania State committee of the
Progressive Party, and Charles
Walker. executive secretary of the
Philadelphia chapter, Fellowship
of Reconciliation. identified only
as "a Protestant organization"
Six panel discussion groups to-
falling 80 students and guests fol-
lowed the speakers. Then students
from Antioch, Cornell, Haverford. /
Bryn Mawr. Temple, University of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia School .
of Textiles, Swarthmore and Lin
coin (Pa) adopted these resolu= /
lions at plenary session:
1--WE urge that every effort be
made to effect an immediate cease
fire in Korea and that the cease
fire be accompanied by negotia-
lions on the entire Far Eastern
situation. We, therefore, stand be-
hind the indignation of the two
proposals for mediation of the Ko-
rean crisis recently put before the
United Nations (by Sir Bengal
Rau Of India.
We urge that the Peoples Re
public Of China be given full U. N.
representation"