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Evening star., 1950-01-13
This Changing World
Russia Reported Ready to Resume War
Against Greeks With German Troops

ruthless methods nipped in the
bud the ambitions of some Bull
garian Communists to follow
Tlto's example.
After drastic reprisals, of which
we have heard only faint echoes,
Bulgaria has become virtually a
province of the U. S. S. R., strictly
controlled by the Soviet secret
police. 1t is even less autonomous
than its sister satellites, Romania,
Hungary and Czechoslovakia.
Moscow functionaries are installed
not in Sofia alone, but also in
all the provincial towns and are
ruling the country with an iron
hand.
In order to prepare for resump-
ton Of guerrilla warfare in Greece
the Soviet government has sent
to Bulgaria at least 10000 German
guards" These men were re-
cruited in Eastern Germany and
received thorough training before
being dispatched to the Balkans.
Many of them served in Hitler's
Wehrmacht and had to go only
through a short refresher course.
Loyalty Questioned.
While there Is some question of
how loyal the Eastern Germans
might be if they were ordered
to hight the Western nations, it
appears certain that they will be
thoroughly reliable in the Balkan
campaign. They have a super
iority complex toward the peoples
of that area. Some of the officers
who are in charge of the German
troops served against the Greeks
when Hitler invaded that country.
This force is said to be con-
sidered so reliable by the Soviet
general staff that it is provided
with tanks and other modern war
implements which the Greek guer-
rillas did not possess.
For the time being the German
mercenaries are garrisoned in
Southern Bulgaria in preparation
for action in Greece some time
late in the spring. A number of
Bulgarian troops, whose reliability
against their own people might be
questionable, have been added to
the Germans. The century -old
hatred OF the Balkan peoples for
each other-and particularly for
the non-Slav Greeks-makes the
Bulgarian soldiers quite depend
able.
The Russians seem to think that
the second campaign against the
legal Greek government might be
more successful. They are said to
base this belief on the facts that
the Greek people are even more
war-weary now than they were in
the past, that some of the troops
have been demobilized and will
cause trouble if they are called
back into the army, and that
American military support has
slowed down since the first phase
OF the civil war ended.
Greek government forces may be
less prepared to fight this time
than they were last year,
Evening star., 1950-01-13

dSd d41ot 11CCSCs
Ever since the Constantine Brown
Greek Communist rebels were de-
feated by the royal government
forces Moscow has been working
unostentatiously to mend its
fences in the Balkans.
The Greek guerrillas were
doomed when Marshall Tito of
Yugoslavia broke away from
Kremlin control. It was not until
the bases which Tito had granted
the rebels were closed that the
Greek army-strengthened with
American war materials and mill
tary advisers-succeeded in break
ing the back Of the rebel forces.
It looked to us as if we had
finally won a positive victory
against the Communists and that
the calculated risks we took in
Greece had paid ample dividends.
Our estimates appear to have been
somewhat er-optimistic, We may
have underestimated the tenacity
of the Soviet conspirators. So, ap-
|parently. did the Greek govern
ment itself.
Politics Have Free Reign.
Freed from the immediate
threat of Communist domination.
Greece again has given free rein
to it's political parties. There is
bitter strife and jockeying for
power in Greece, which has been
almost continuously at war for
the last 10 years. According to re-
ports reaching Washington the
Greek people once more are deeply
divided by party politics.
Under normal or normal
circumstances such a condition
is harmless and wholly in keeping
with the democratic system. But
the Cominform is watching care
fully as these political battles go
on and it is preparing for another
onslaught, during the next few
months, against Greece's inde-
pendence.
Marshal Tito's rejection of
Soviet domination created an un-
easy situation in Bulgaria which
was earmarked to become the
base Of operations OF the Rus
SLAMS against Greece. Quick and
Evening star., 1950-01-13
Lustron Head 10 Make
NewEffortto Save Firm
BY the Assoeioisd Press

Carl G. Strandlund. president
Of the Lustron Corp, arrives here
today for last minute efforts to
save his big prefabricated hous-
ing venture from the financial
rocks.
His No. l assistant, w. D.
Pearce. told a reporter he would
know definitely today or tomorrow
whether there would be some new
proposal to stabilize the COM
pany's finances and avert Federal
foreclosure on its $37,5Gn.00
loans.
The Columbus (Ohio) company
Evening star., 1950-01-13

Alfred E. Smith was four times
governor of New York and ran
for the Presidency on the Demo-
cratic ticket in 1928, being de-
feated by Herbert Hoover. He
was a colorful figure.
He had hand-picked Franklin
D. Roosevelt as his successor as
governor. but later the two be-
came estranged and were rivals
for the 1882 Democratic Presi-
dental nomination which Mr..
Roosevelt won. AL Smith looked
with a very cold eye on the
Roosevelt New Deal, especially its
big spending program and once,
In commenting on the Democratic
election successes under Mr..
Roosevelt said:
Nobody ever shoots Santa
Claus"
Got Wide Circulation.
It was a good crack and got
wide circulation, along with some
other of AL Smiths phrases in
those years, including his "bo-
loney dollar" remark about de-
valuation Of the dollar early in
the Roosevelt regime.
Republicans avidly picked up
the Santa Claus line In their at
tacks on the New Deal and
broadened it later to accuse the
Democrats of buying votes" with
their various New Deal reforms
that entailed Federal spending
This sort of attack is still used.
It. has bloomed again in criticism
of President Truman's latest bud
get.
Experience seems to. demon
strate that 1t is perhaps poor psy-
chology.
Gradually over the years it has
Iput the Republican Party in the
position of deploring programs
that have been of benefit to the
public. purely negative position
that is not fair to the party, itself
for many Of its representatives ir
Congress have favored such
measures.
Big Interests Favored.
Not only that. but it Is hardly
complimentary to voters generally
particularly the less favored, who
find it hard to understand why
something done for their benefit
through auspices Of Government
which also is theirs should be
regarded as buying" them. They
feel they are as much entitled to
share as big interests which, dur
ing the era before the depression
were getting handsome favors
from Government In the way OF
tax reductions and tariff protec.
ton and which, for so long. con-
sidered this as a sort of special
right. Such interests, too, still
are doing all right, as current
balance sheets show.
The New Deal and Fair Dea'
Evening star., 1950-01-13
Drys Crusade in Senate
Fight in Senate Committee for Ban
On Liquor Ads Recalls Old DAYS

tered vital support for him back
home.
The present white ribboners, it
was noted. have developed no
such channel for their impressive
moral fervor. When they do,
Senators think, it will be time to
toll the warning bell.
The distillers, brewers and vint-
ners have still to put in their case.
They are also here en- masse, COM
plete with high-priced lawyers,
and they are walking softly. just
like the Senators.
Deals With Advertising.
Some profess to believe the
hearings are good for them, a
hair shirt they must wear for
safety's sake. TT helps us to re-
member we've got to be careful"
said one.
The committee insists it is
merely dealing with the question
OF advertising. The witnesses and
the earnest women who cheered
them leave no doubt that the tar
get Is the same old demon rum
and that the advertising ban is a
first step to encompass his ruin.
A considerable constitutional
question is suggested by the bill
itself. One of the lawyers in
which the Senate abounds, not to
say teens. declares, however, that
liquor has always been considered
a social question not to be dealt
with according to the letter Of
the law.
P.S. Senator johnson does not
drink. a habit to which his fellow
legislators are rarely prone. His
aides declare he is not a crusading
dry,
Evening star., 1950-01-13
U. 5. 10 Open New Wire
For Weather Forecasts
BY the Associoisd Press

The Government is setting up a
10.000-mile coast-to-coast wire
network to speed up long distance
weather forecasts-especially for
pilots.
The Civil Aeronautics Admin
stration said the new express
service" communications circuit.
to be opened March l, will link
some 40 Of the Nations largest
cities. It will supplement the
$4,000 miles Of domestic teletype
communications now used mainly
for local reports.
The new network will handle
long distance forecasts which cur
rently must pass through numer-
GUS relay points.
Evening star., 1950-01-13
War Criminals Moved
From Indonesiu to Jupun
By fhe Associoted Pies,

TOKYO, Jan. ia group of
638 Japanese, most of them con-
victed war criminals, are on their
way to Japan from the United
States of Indonesia, occupation
headquarters reported today.
The Japanese are being trans
ferred by Netherlands authorities
to serve out their sentences here
in occupation custody. ;
Included are a small number Of
japanese who served as witnesses,
legal personnel and interpreters
at the war crimes trials.
Evening star., 1950-01-13
THE EVENING STAR Washington, D. C..
JANUARY l3. 1880

owes the Reconstruction Finance
Corp. $37 100000. The RFC says
it will foreclose unless Lustron
shows 1t has some chance to pay
off the debt.
MT. Pearce yesterday asked the
RFC tc explain in detail why 1t
rejected a reorganization plan.
Mr.. Strandlulld submitted Friday.
He said this explanation IS nee
essary before the compary's
executives can determine whether
there Is any use proposing an
alternative plan, and If so, what
form it should take.
Evening star., 1950-01-13

Deen TOO good
for the party.
This was in
nocent on his
part. though he
W as pl e t y
bother to Re-
publicans in his
active political
car e e IA n d
purposely. He
was a Demo
crat. For those
who have come
to q knowl-
edge Of politics
sinca his time
Evening star., 1950-01-13

interstate COM
merce.
Encoura & e d
by the decision
Of S e n a tor
Johnson, Dem.
ocrat, Of Colo
rado, to Call the
full Interstate
and Foreign
c m m e r c e
Committee into
session on the
proposed ban,
the drys rallied
their hosts and
put on the first
Evening star., 1950-01-13
By Constantine Bro,pn

While the attention of the
American people is focused on
the disastrous failure of this Gov
|ernment's policies in China and
Evening star., 1950-01-13
By Thomas L. Stokes

The late AL Smith left behind
him a wise crack which was ap-
propriated by Republicans and
which, all in all, probably has not
Evening star., 1950-01-13
By Doris Fleeson

A Senate committee is toying
with a slight touch Of prohibition
in the form of a ban on adver-
tising Of liquors, beers or wines in
Evening star., 1950-01-13

The carat originally was based
on the weight Of the seed Of the
carob, a tree of Mediterranean
region.
Evening star., 1950-01-13

tllG bl 1O1SI dlC
preparing for a
stiff political
fight, W h i C h
holds the fate
of S ocialist t
government not
only in Britain
but In other
d e m ocr a t tic
countries, the
Russians are
quietly getting
ready to resume
their a ttac c K
against Greece.
Tvar Since the
Evening star., 1950-01-13

Don't Sell America Short. Z"
Evening star., 1950-12-17

Compton. Last November 25, she
married her hometown boy
friend.
About week after our mar
riage," Mrs. Rocha said, II
dreamt about the marriage cere-
mony. In the dream, someone
came up to me, tapped me on
the shoulder, and said, I should
have been the one to stand up
for you instead of your STEP
father I suddenly realized it
was my father"
Next day. said Mrs. Rocha, she
wrote three letters to Providence.
one to the police. one to the miss
ing persons bureau and one to
the Providence Evening Bulletin
The newspaper quickly located Mr..
Casolla.
Mrs. Rocha said her husband
will be unable to get
to make the trip to
So she plans to make
the trip alone early in January.
Just knowing that Dad is there
and that I'll see him soon has
made this happy Christmas for
me-" she said.
Corpl. and Mrs. Rocha live at
the Evelyn Inn, several miles south
Of Alexandria. on Route /.
Evening star., 1950-12-17
Georgetown U. Scholar
Translates Life of Christ

A Georgetown University scholar
and faculty member has COM
pleted the final translation from
French to English of work some
times called the "best life of
Christ in existence"
He is the Rev. John j. Heenan,
S. j., a native of Washington. He
has devoted the past two years to
the translation of the Rev. Fer
dinand Prat's Jesus Christ: His
Life, His Teaching and His Work. ;"
Father Heenan also has pre-
sented two specially bound copies
of the work to the Very Rev.
Hunter Guthrie. S. j.. university
president. Publication date of the
1.152-page translation, in two
volumes, was last week, the uni
versity said. A Milwaukee firm is
publishing the work.
Evening star., 1950-12-17

ton began when Mrs. Rocha was
less than a year old, after her
parents were divorced. Mrs.
Rocha went to live with her
mother in Little Compton, r. I.
Her father remained in Provi-
dence.
The divorced couple both re-
married and Mrs. Rocha remain
ed with her mother in Little
Evening star., 1950-12-17

W see II Z l
father a g a i II
for the first
time in nearly
20 years.
A few days
ago, she got a
letter from her
father. George
C a soil a, As.
P row | d e n C e
R. l., inviting
her and her
h u S b a n d to
spend Christ
mas with him.
Evening star., 1950-12-17
Students Present Musoue

The students of Stuart Junior
High School will present a Christ
mas masque, THE Evergreen
Tree" by Percy MacKaye. at
pm. tomorrow to open officially
the schools newly decorated audi
torium. The play is sponsored by
the Parent Teacher Association
and some 200 students will take
part in the production.
Evening star., 1950-12-17
ADVERTISEMENT
acknowledgements
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Evening star., 1950-12-17

Two out of every three persons
in West Virginia are supported
directly or indirectly by the coal
industry.
Evening star., 1950-12-17
Record Concert

Handels Messiah" will be
played on long playing micro
groove recordings at 3 pm. tomor-
row at the Central YMCA, 1876
G street NV.
Evening star., 1950-12-17
Findinq Father After 20 Years
Brinqs Christmas to GI Bride

Mrs. John D. Rocha, 20, wife of
a Fort Belvoir corporal, has re-
ceived the best Christmas pres
ent she could ask fora chance
Evening star., 1950-12-17
PTA Christmas Purty

The Parent-Teacher Association
OF st. Cecilia's S Academy, Sixth and
East Capitol streets. will hold a
Christmas party at pm. Tuesday.
Evening star., 1950-11-30
THE EVENING STAR Washington, D. c. A-19
",

can do about it, either. If you
widen the streets, then some one
has to live in the Hudson or the
East Rivers.
know what I am going to
do. I am going to get a bicycle.
I won't look very pretty on it.
that's for sure, and I'll be pointed
out as the only newspaperman in
New York who rides without
hands, but I'll get where I'm
going.
already know what I want
for Christmas.
A pair of hand-painted trouser
clips, mudguard for the rear
wheel, a pair of mittens for frosty
mornings, and a luminous belt
for night riding.
Oh yes, and a wicker basket
for the handlebars when I go
shopping.
I am going to turn my automo-
bile in for a bicycle-and I'll
trade even.
distributed by McNausht Syndicate, Inc)
Evening star., 1950-11-30

Colorado and Lyndon johnson of
Texas. plus Senator Kerr of Okla
homa. This means that the Nc
Farland support is built upon con-
servative and Southern wings of
the party and President Truman
will be required to govern him
self accordingly.
Thirty votes are being claimed
for Senator Mcfarland and in
formed quarters show no dispo-
sition to dispute the claim. The
New Deal Democrats who could
not persuade senior Senator to
seek the nomination are saying
their cause is lost.
Kerr or johnson Whip.
1t is understood that either
Senator Kerr or Senator John
son Of Texas will become whip.
It is still possible that the sit
uation might be altered If Sena-
tor O'Mahoney of Wyoming were
to change his mind and seek the
position. He Is senior to Sena-
tor Mcfarland by seven years.
This is regarded as unlikely.
President Truman has been ex-
tremely discreet with respect to
the leadership so he has nothing
to retract. He will realize, Of
course. having served with Sena-
tor Mcfarland. that this time he
is getting a leader by. of and for
the Senators rather than the kind
of Presidential leadership prac-
ticed by Senators Robinsons and
Barkley for MIR. Roosevelt.
Senator Mcfarland is not well
known nationally but he has oper-
|ated effectively for Arizona in the
well-established tradition Of his
senior. Senator Hayden. and for
mer Senator Ashurst. It is for
precisely this reason that he has
the Southern ties which make his
selection for leader possible-and
many sincerely feel. eminently de-
sirable at this point.
Most reclamation Senators do
not have the problems Of indus
trial and minority blocs Of the
Great Northern and Middle East
States and they have been free
therefore to form loose alliances
with the Southerners. at their
convenience. Senators Mcfarland
and Hayden vote against cloture;
the Southerners voted for the
Central Arizona project.
Fought for Kerr Gas Bill.
Senator Mcfarland also sided
with his campaign managers in
the famous legislative battle over
Bob Kerr's gas bill where Presi-
dent Truman took an opposite po-
sition. In fact the trio now pro-
noting the Mcfarland candidacy
led the fight for approval of the
bill, which Senator Lyndon john
son sponsored with Senator Kerr.
Evening star., 1950-11-30

AAA3SAAo JIAcO Go
well have brought Mississippi
paddle wheeler, for all the good
it is doing me.
Ivy vines are growing on my
car, and both Princeton and Har-
ward have made me bids. They
want 1t to add another touch of
the old, the very old, and the
classical to their campuses.
Never an Inch Gained.
Remember when you were a
kid, and sat back of the wheel
of your dads car, twisting and
turning the steering wheel, put
ting on the brakes, and blowing
the horn, and never getting any,
where?
Well, that is exactly what driv-
ing an automobile in New York
Is like today. You go through
the motions and never gain an
inch. You can get blue in the
face, while the lights are turning
from red to green and from green
to red, but your progress is nil
with a capital N.
My car has floating knee ac-
ton, acid proof gears, inner sus-
pension glove compartment,
torque sprung rubber cushioning,
self -effacing headlights, and is
safer than a hot glass of milk at
midnight, but it all adds up to
nothing.
1t might just as well be the first
car brought out by Mr.. Haynes,
Evening star., 1950-11-30
On the Other Hand
This Not Time for Partisan
Screaming on Banks of Potomac

that will either prevent the taking
of excessive profits out of the
war or assure the recapture OF
those profits. Rent control should
be extended, not allowed to lapse
at the end of the year nor until
the future can be seen more clear
ly. Aid should be given to drought
stricken Yugoslavia. And our two
frontier territories, Alaska and
Hawaii, should be granted the
Statehood that only a few Sena-
tors actually oppose.
All Emergency Measures.
These are all emergency mea-
sures. but all have had thorough
consideration and are accepted, at
least in principle, by a majority
Of both houses.
There is not much else that
Congress can do now, except ad-
journ or stand by and await de-
velopments.
Meantime there should be a
minimum Of clumsy interference
with the efforts of the United
Nations to solve what has become
a real world problem or, rather,
what is finally recognized as such
and no longer merely domestic
political quarrel. The issues, to
use General MacArthur's words,
must find their solutions within
the councils of the United Nations
and chancelleries of the world"
All hope Of our working our
way out of a solution as fright
full as any the country ever has
faced lies in the intelligence and
good will of the delegates at Lake
Success-not only our own but
those representing all member
nations. So far as our own are
concerned, they are top men taken
from both political parties and
should have the confidence of
their former colleagues in Con-
gress. AS they tackle the task of
meeting condition, not a theory,
they will not be helped by any
partisan screaming on the banks
OF the Potomac.
Evening star., 1950-11-30

part, however, the politicians who
make our laws and determine our
national policies are holding their
peace. Stunned by the swift shift
in events they recognize that
vital decisions are called for, not
campaign oratory or partisan
wisecracks.
''To hell with all that" said
Senator Tom Connally, chair
man of the Senate Foreign Rela-
tions Committee. Rough as it
was, the irascible Texan was
speaking the language of states
manship. This is the more true
for the reason that he spoke some
hours before the bad news was
broken by the dispatches from
General MacArthur's headquar-
ters.
Proved Terribly Right.
His characteristic outburst had
to do in part with proposals of
a partisan nature to undertake a
prolonged and detailed re-exam-
ination of our foreign policy.
These proposals were predicated
on the apparent belief that our
venture in North Korea was
about to become a closed Incl
dent. that the American troops
really could be brought home by
Christmas and that therefore it
had become safe to start pointing
out who had made what mistakes.
Senator Connally was right when
he said to hell with all that. A
few hours later it was clear that
he was terribly right.
The question had become, not
how we got into the present criti-
cal situation, but how we are to
get out of it. That remains the
question.
There is not much that Con-
gresS can do at the moment aside
from cleaning up the unfinished
business for which it was brought
back, The needed defense appro-.
priation bills must be passed. A
tax program, fair to all the peo-
pie. must be enacted and that
means one. by whatever name.
Evening star., 1950-11-30

or Mr.. Locomobile, or Mr.. Stutz,
or Mr.. Apperson.
No One Mans Fault.
The speedometer shows that my
car is capable of going 120 miles
per hour, but that means nothing.
With New York traffic the way
it is today I stand very little
chance of covering 100 miles in
the next Is years, much less in
one hour.
The traffic conditions are no
one mans fault, really. The
truth is-and I know this by
STUDYING a man of the town as
it was in G. Washington's day
New York's streets are little
changed from the days when wigs,
snuff. and stagecoaches were part
of American life.
Broadway, save for neon lights,
is just about the way it was
when the goose quill pen that
would write under water was the
rage.
There isn't much that New York