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Evening star., 1950-07-10
The ProIeturiot War

The invasion of South Korea by
North Korean forces, at the instigation
OF world proletariat's mother-country,
Is but one phase Of world wide attacks
on the ramparts of the free-world. 1t
Is one phase Of the "Proletariat War"
which calls for the Vests commitment
OF its forces without committing the
Red Army.
Russian foreign policy since 1918 has
had one goal-to avoid becoming a par
ticlpant in any war-just or otherwise.
The length to which the Politbureau
would go to avoid war has its best
example in the German Russian Pact
OF 1889. That Russia became directly in
volved in World War II was through no
lack of effort on her part In fact there
are more facts to back up statement
that the U. s. S. r. desired to witness a
death struggle between Hitler Germany
and the Allies, than there are to back
UP the statement that the West at
tempted to turn Hitlers attention
toward the inviting Ukraine and away
from Western Europe.
What we are witnessing today is the
elimination of Communist efforts. For
the Communist, that point in the dia-
lectical process of history has been
reached when the organized world pro-
letariat will be engaged in a death
struggle against the capitalist The pro-
letariat war, which Red Army leaders
frequently spoke of, has been launched
in preparation. A large number of
British troops, from an economically
exhausted Great Britain, are involved
in an effort to subdue Communist guer-
rillas in Malaga; over half of the French
military budget and the best part of
the French army Is committed in Indo-
China, and now American forces are
committed in Korea. In Germany, where
we have followed a policy long abandoned
BY the Russians, the threat exists that
we may also have to commit more of
our forces against ever-possible at
tack by the East German Peoples Police
against the West German Republic.
On all fronts we are committing our
selves. not against the main forces of
the real enemy, as sound military
strategy dictates, but against peoples
armies engaged in so-called civil Wars"
The Kremlin, like giant amoeba, pushes
foot out, envelops an outpost, or as at
present Is having an advancing foot
turned back-not amputated. At no time
is the main cell in danger.
This is the proletariat war-we are
committed, Russia's armed might re-
mains poised and unspent. Her economy
continues flowing along the same chan
mel it has followed since 1914 war
economy. Our forces are committed
piecemeal, and our economy wavers
under the strain of the uncertainty and
preparation for war.
The success of this Russian policy
Is due to vague Interpretation of the
term "aggressor" as developed by in
ternational law, and our own reluctance
to commence third world war We are
facing a dilemma which only realistic
Interpretation of recent events and
Evening star., 1950-07-10
Peocetime Carriers

, The column by David Lawrence in the
June 80 Star points up again the argu-
ments of advocates of aircraft carriers.
Now, if the Navy's action of putting many
carriers in mothballs and of hating con-
struction really is due to economy and
thrift reasons, then should like to point
out that economy reasons have no basis
Why? Because carriers are potentially
peacetime seagoing craft. When we see
them in that light. it is not defense
expenditures alone that should be made
for them, but ordinary peacetime ex-
penditures as we'll
Carriers will undoubtedly be our
standby supply bases in developing the
Arctic and the Antarctic They can effec-
tually stand off coasts that have to be
closed to shipping in winter. Planes
from carriers can be the contact with
the islands or continents in question.
So. let us release funds for carriers
that are greater than the appropriations
for mere war craft. Looking ahead a
bit is real economy of effort and
materials.
E. A. Kendall.
Evening star., 1950-07-10
A Permanent Red WoIkout?

Speaking through the Literary Gazette, one
OF their important mouthpieces, the men of the
Kremlin have made such a virulent attack on
Secretary General Trygve Lie, on the Security
Council and on the United Nations as a whole
that it seems altogether logical to suspect them
OF preparing to withdraw permanently from the
organization.
Certainly, coming on top of their months
long boycott of the U. N. and their persistent cry
That the Council has been acting unlawfully
against the Red aggressor in Korea, the Literary
Gazette'S violently mendacious assault strongly
suggests that Russas masters are laying the
propaganda groundwork for just such walkout.
Inc thing may not happen, of course, but nobody
In the free world should be surprised if 1t does
For this latest Soviet outburst against the
world organization goes to an extreme of vitu-
peration and hostility that can hardly be recon-
ciled with continuing membership As far as
Mr. Lie is concerned, for example, he is described
as being, among other things, coward, Wall
Street stooge and an "abettor of American aggres-
Sion"-a description that should sober those few
among us who have berated him for allegedly
appeasing the Kremlin. AS for the Security
Council, 1t is made up according to the Literary
Gazette, of bloody FOOLS" and the United Nations
as Whole-more that two-thirds of whose men,
bers support the Councils general Korean policy
is "a lap dog which Truman can lead on q
leash"
This language obviously offers ample ground
Tor the suspicion that permanent Russian
walkout is in the making. True enough, the words
are not the Kremlin's officially, but the Literary
Gazette-like every other publication in the Red
Emplre-Speaks out on serious policy matters of
this sort only when inspired or ordered to do
SO by the Moscow high command Hence having
thus at least indirectly branded the "lap-doe"
U. N. as an organization of towards, "bloody
Tools and warmongering outlaws, the Soviet
dictatorship will not be doing surprising thing
II 1t next announces that it refuses to associate
with such company and is quitting it forever.
In superficial sense, such withdrawal
should 1t take place-might we'll be hailed as
good riddance. But its true significance would
be much deeper and more ominous than that
For 1t would signalize the passing of the last
chance-if there really is chance left-to bridge
the dark and dangerous gulf now yawning be-
tween our two worlds. In that case the current
drift toward catastrophe war would be trasi-
cally accelerated
Evening star., 1950-07-10
Western Europe and the EPU

In nnally agreeing upon the much debated
european Payments Union, the seventeen nations
participating in the Marshall Plan have done
two highly promising things: They have opened
the way to freer trade among themselves, and
they have made an appreciable advance toward
the economic integration of Western Europe
Although 1t is mechanism so complex that
book-length treatise would be required to
explain it, the EPU's purpose is quite simple.
That purpose Is to enable the unions members
-for the first time since before the Second
World War-to trade freely among themselves
with their own currencies, whether pounds
francs, kroner, lire, marks or whatever In
other words operating under the new set-up
the domestic money of each country in the
Marshall Plan is supposed to be good enough
interchangeable and convertible enough-to pay
Tor goods bought from any other country in
the plan.
Despite it's technical complexities the pay
mentS union-a clearing house through which
all the members will settle their trading accounts
with each other as a group instead of individ-
ually-iS almost certain to have the effect of
working against the pattern of bilateral buying
and selling between one country and another
This bilateralism-which has been a drag on
western Europe's economic life within recent
years-s expected, under the EPU, to give ground
to multilateralism, which is another word for
the kind of free-fiowing commerce without spe-
cial barter deals and with fewer and fewer
currency restrictions.
With Britain and its sterling area happily
belonging to it, this union-whose formation
has been prime objective of our Economic
Cooperation Administration under Paul G. Hoff-
man-will not work immediate magic, of course,
but 1t certainly promises to broaden, invgorate
and liberalize trade in the great region covered
by the Marshall Plan. Beyond that, as q corollary
effect, 1t promises to encourage the integration
of the economies of many of the participating
countries,
It is true that the present international
clmate-a climate of crisis and war scares-
tends to initiate against the hopes generated
by the EPU. Nevertheless, given fair chance
to function, it can do great deal for the
economic health of Western Europe That is
why Congress is granting the ECA hundreds of
millions of dollars to finance the start of the
project.
Evening star., 1950-07-10
By THE HASKIN SERVICE.

@. What is the correct name for the
big hens that weigh about Is to 20
pounds? Are they good layers?-R. H.
A. The name is Jersey Black Giant,
and this is the largest of American
breeds. 1t resembles the other general
purpose fowls in most of their charac.
teristics although it has not been bred
so extensively for egg production as
the Plymouth Rocks, Wyandottes, Rhode
Island Reds and New Hampshires. The
Jersey Black Giant resembles the Plym-
outh Rock in type but is broader, deeper
and longer. The comb is single. The
standard weights, in pounds, are: Cock,
13; hen, 10; cockerel, IL; pullet, 8.
Q. What colorS in fabrics are best for
letting ultraviolet rays pass through un-
hindered?-H. L. B.
A. Government scientists have found
that bleached white fabrics transmit the
most ultraviolet light, while red, orange,
yellow, green and tan (but not pink
dyes usually render fabrics almost, if
not completely, opaque to ultraviolet.
Even slight yellowing with age decreases
the ultraviolet transmission. In general,
cotton, linen, viscose rayon and celluloSe
acetate rayon transmit about the same
amount, while natural silk transmits
slightly less and wool about half as much
as these materials.
Q. Where is the original painting
washington Crossing the Delaware" a
copy of which hangs in the Metropolitan
Museum in New York?-B. j. M.
, A. The original painting by the Ger
man artist Emanuel Leutze was destroyed
during an air raid over Bremen, Ger
many, in September. 1912.
@. What is the estimated yearly in
come that an employed woman requires
to live in Washington, D. C.?J. B. o.
A. Estimated living costs at mini
mum adequate level as of May 1949 for
an employed woman in the District of
Columbia show that $1.476 is necessary
annually to buy the commodities and
services allowed in the Districts budget.
An additional $207 for taxes and $187
for savings bring the total to $1,870 per
year, according to the Women's Bureau
of the Department Of Labor.
Evening star., 1950-07-10
Give Us the Stuff

General Macarthur may be right in saying
that the situation on the Korean front is not
serious He was speaking, presumably in the
larger strategic senSe-looking ahead to the day
when we may have enough men and enough
equipment in Korea to stop the surging advance
Of the tank-led Red Korean army.
But if one may judge from the news dis
patches coming back from the combat zone
dispatches which have frightened momentariy
but which may be dark again before the day is
done-the situation is serious deadly serious, for
those American advance units which have been
thrown into action against the Communists
Perhaps these dispatches do not convey an
accurate picture of the rall military situation
But they tell profoundly depressing story of
what has been happening to individual units
to half-trained American boys who have been
put into action against enemy forces that are
superior in numbers in equipment and, appar-
emily, in combat training. 1t is hard to take the
calm view when one reads the reports of the
interviews with wounded men brought back from
the 'front.' reports which bear deeply disturbing
witness to the heavy odds against which our
troops are fighting. Typical of these is the COM
ment of the wounded lieutenant: "Ten to one is
good odds. But we can't take 100 to one odds
without ammunition. Just give us the stuff"
Perhaps it was necessary to throw our troops
into action against such odds as these Maybe
the indications that faulty judgments were made
on the basis of erroneous assumptions are not
Justified. few more days may serve to bring
some balance into the military scales and vindi-
cate General MacArthur's estimate of the situa-
tion. Having been among those who welcomed
the Presidents decision to meet force with force
when the Communists attacked in Korea, The
Star is not commenting now in any spirit of
criticism. It adheres to the view, however, that
the time has come for full and candid state
ment to the country from the President. It
looks as though the fighting in Korea has passed
beyond the stage of police action. If events
have committed us there to serious military
operation, the American people are entitled to
know that, and the President should give them
his best estimate of the immediate situation and
his best guess to the nature of the effort which
lies ahead. The reports from the front indicate
that we have gone beyond the stage of half
measures and wishful thinking.
Evening star., 1950-07-10
Giant Rabbits Evolved
By Swedish Biologist y
Chemical Introduced Into Egg
Results in Phenomenal Growth
By Thomas R. Henry

Chemical production of giant fast
growing rabbits - an accomplishment
which many rank among the major steps
of all time in the science of genetics-has
been announced by a Swedish biologist
through the British Association for the
Advancement of Science.
1t was done by applying weak solu-
ton of colchichine to fertilized eggs in
the mothers womb.
Three Of the offspring have survived
for nearly year, according to the report
of DR.. Costa Haggquist of the Karolinska
Institute of Stockholm. The most sur
prising phenomenon is that of growth.
The rabbits are a cross between two
breeds, large and small. The father
weighed about eight pounds, the mother
a little over two pounds. Normally. a
rabbit requires a year to reach full
growth. One of the offspring from the
chemically treated eggs, female, passed
the weight OF her mother in little over
three months and that Of her father in
f1ve months. She still is growing. A
male has shown quite unusual growth,
but less than that Of the female, which
would be normal The third survivor
shows no unusual growth features.
Chromosomes Doubled.
Colchlchine, an extract from the Euro
pean crocus once in wide use as a gout
remedy, was introduced in breeding ex-
perimentS by DR.. Albert A. Blakeslee of
the Carnegie Institution about 20 years
ago. 1t was found that when it was
applied to the germ cells of various
plants quite abnormal forms were pro-
duced. The result, in general, was to
double the number of chromosomes in
plant cells. When this was accomplished
with germ cells, the chromosome number
became hereditary and a new species
was established.
The practice since has become well
established and already has resulted in
the creation of several giant varieties of
fruits and flowers. But attempts to ap-
ply it to animals failed.
The Swedish experiments are the first
known in which living young were pro-
duced from colchichine- treated man.
mails. DR.. Haggquist two years ago sue
ceeded in producing giant tadpoles by
treating frog eggs with colchichine but
none survived long enough to turn into
frogs.
Most Cells Affected.
Apparently the transformation affects
most of the cells in the body. It has
Deen found chiefly in examination CT
the blood cells known as erythocytes.
These are half again as large as those
OF the ordinary rabbit. Similar changes
have been found in the male germ cells
Seven rabbits were born alive. Only
three approached maturity and one
does not vary from normal, the two
other survivors are a male and a female,
so that it may be possible to continue
the race.
The technique of treating fertilized
eggs with colchichine-several drugs are
known which might be even more effec-
tive-is extremely difficult and it might
be impossible to repeat the accomplish
ment.
DR.. Haggquist emphasizes mat his ex-
periments are in a pioneer stage but
they offer hope, he feels of greatly in
creasing the size and growth rate OF
domestic animals.
Evening star., 1950-07-10
France Reacts Badly to Korean Situation

exclusively domestic-vital wage mini
NUNS, veterans pensions and state
employees bonuses.
Although the public, under the spur
Of the Korean Communist aggression,
first demanded the speedy formation of
new government, 1t is now getting
resigned to continued crisis until the
end of this week.
There seems to be no realization of the
bad impression this party haggling makes
on fasteners like Wet Mans Emperor
Bao Dai and Laos King Sisowath.
Sisowath. like Bao Dai, is here to draw
up the text of an agreement defining
the comparatively liberal share of inde-
pendence France is now ready to give
its associated states in Indo-C China. Fail
ing to find government in Paris,
Sisowath is visiting the chateaux region
of France. while Bao Dai has settled
down in Cannes, the target of the Com
munists who have nicknamed him the
Gambling Emperor"
Despite this seemingly peculiar French
behavior, it would not be fair to judge
too severely at this juncture Behind
the present attitude hangs the new
shadow of another general war which
VIC 1AOi COLL dBBTcSSlOQ mas DrOuSlC nome
more forcibly than any other event since
World War II ended.
Twenty-Five per cent of the French
are Communists or sympathetic to them
Moreover many non-Communists are
ready to make all sorts of compromises
to avoid being involved in new war.
When a BritiSher awakens in the
: morning he knows that between him and
the Russian hordes lies the English Chan
mel. When Frenchman awakens he has
the uncomfortable feeling that between
him and the Russians stand only the
hostile people of Western Germany and a
few French and American soldiers-one
to 100 against the Russians, covering
a stretch of land about the distance from
New York to Chicago.
The answer to French fears and con-
fusions lies in solid bulwark of bat
talions. The answer cannot be found in
the alleged strength of an air arm in
capable of protecting from invasion
land OF unarmed men and women.
(chicago Daily News Foreign service)
Evening star., 1950-07-10
Submarine Garden

Gold Spangled fish, at once Gloof,
inquisitiue,
Explore the Sunken SilDer tDreckdgs
OF the gears,
And Uiolet chill anemones expand,
contract
As fo1perS on these blue-green and
most final piers.
Time and corrosion haze done for ships
brass riding lights:
Gold is of no more value here than
ruSted bolts;
AboOe the coined likeness of a long-deGd
= Louis
The parrot fish cauort like triskin0
coltsl
A LEGACY of amber and lDhite Jade is
tsngdont for crab,
Alon5~eOith certain documents in an
iroHschest;
The lovely4pecter OF ship is anchored
here
In these dim sSaphire tides. her bo,o
n still pointed aUeSt.
FREDERICK EBRIGHTEi
Evening star., 1950-07-10
Not q Gift-An Obligation

Sound arguments against any reduction in
the $12 million Federal payment to the District
were presented to the Senate by its Appropria-
tions Committee. The committees logic was in
drastic contrast to the wholly illogical handling
of the matter by the House, which arbitrarily
had cut the item to $10800,000.
The arguments against reduction have been
stated before by other opponents of the ILL
advised economy" but the committee sum-
married them in extremely forceful fashion.
Properly emphasized was the basic fact that the
House reduction, voted in passing the omnibus
appropriation BILL was defiance of legislation
which the House joined with the Senate in enact
ing in 1947. The District Revenue Act of that
year fixed the Federal payment at what Congress
considered fair sum, $12 million. The Senate
committee was correct in holding that any reduc-
tion in this amount now would be contrary to
existing law"
It would not only be contrary to the law but
contrary to the principles of fair and just rela-
tions which should prevail between the Federal
Government and the District of Columbia AS
the committee pointed out, more than 81 per
cent of the land area of the District is tax
exempt, and about AZ per cent of this tax exempt
property is owned by the Federal Government.
It should be obvious from this that the Federal
payment is not gift to the City of Washington,
but the fulfillment of an obligation that cannot
In equity or good conscience be avoided or chseed
upon. The persuasive report of the Senate
Appropriations Committee shows why the Fed
eral payment to the District is not a proper
subject for an economy operation of the type
proposed by the House.
Evening star., 1950-07-10
Flying Soucers Alive?

Though the Air Force would like to
see those embarrassing flying saucers"
spiked once and for all, the stubborn
things refuse to be spiked. Donald Key
hoes booklet, " The Flying Saucers Are
Real" is a revelation in exposing the
ambiguous and contradictory workings
OF officials assigned to the clarifica-
tion Of this mystery.
Mr.. Keyhoe thinks their origin is
planetary, and that they are solely three
dimensional.
1t Is my humble belief that these mys-
terious objects represent a form of life
as peculiar to the heights of heaven as
strange, lantern-bearing creatures (dis-
covered by Beebe in his Bathysphere) are
to the depths Of the ocean. You might
call them. properly, GHOSTS" objects, for
it is my belief they are, normally, so
light or etheric as to merit this appella-
tion. There may be as many varieties as
fish in the sea.
Their observed weaving" motion, in
flight. is analogous to the flight of some
insects. Were the saucers manned by
human-form beings with minds COM
parable to ours, they would scarcely act
so erratic, or so timid. Nor need we
foolishly believe the published stories
that all flying saucers can be "ex-
planned away" as American secret
weapons. This invites a false sense of
security which can be dangerous. The
1870s. '80s and '9os saw a wave of
"saucers," torpedo-shaped objects, etc.
which were not secret weapons.
]. p. Bessor
Saint Thomas, Pa,
Evening star., 1950-07-10
This Isn't 1880

just few lines to let you know that
read an article in your paper concern
ing Colonial Beach, Va. get so tired of
reading about gambling and drinking.
This is 1850, not 1850.
Why don't the newspapers send a re-
porter down there and take a good look
at the beach? There is sand mixed with
stones and pebbles that hurt your feet
The fishing boats are located on the
beach front; when they come in they
bring grease and weeds that cover the
bathers. The streets, full of holes, are in
need of repair.
Why don't they cut out all the fuss
and legalize the slot machines, fix and
clean up the town with the revenue and
make this resort town a decent place
to go?
Citizen
Evening star., 1950-07-10

through their own fight in Indo-C China,
and therefore excused from sending
troops and navy to Korea, no govern
ment could have obtained them anyway
from parliamentary deputies who fear
adverse public reaction.
The best proof that the Korean cam
paign divides instead of unifies energies
here is that the international situation
remains tragically absent from inter-
party talks initiated by Socialist Party
Secretary General Guy Mollet with the
aim OF achieving stable government.
During these lengthy talks the theme is
Evening star., 1950-07-10
Letters to The Star

courage will help Us solve. We will have
to face. in the near future, as coalitions
against conquerors have in the past, the
wisdom of bringing Russia before the
bar OF justice and without equivocation
place her on trial for threatening the
peace. Our failure to face this issue
honestly, because of our hatred of war,
may we'll be tantamount to suicide.
Alcide w. St. John.
Evening star., 1950-07-10

on the railroads. And it may be that under
existing law, when strike is called, the Presi-
dent has no alternative except to bring the Army
into the picture. But it is not the Armys job
to run railroads The proper remedy is to revise
the law to forbid strikes which tie up all or any
significant part of the Nations vital transporta-
ton system.
Evening star., 1950-07-10
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