Evening star., 1950-12-12
Carnegie Endowment
Pledges Full Support
To U. 5. During Crisis
BY the Associated Press

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support of the Nation in the pres
ent world crisis was pledged yes
terday by two groups of prom
inent Americans.
They called on other Ameri-
cans to make a similar VOW.
The appeals came from the
trustees of the Carnegie Endow-
ment for International Peace and
from a newly organized group,
called the "Crisis Committee" OF
19 leading citizens.
The Carnegie statement, the
first Of it's kind In the endow-
ment's 40 years. said democratic
liberties are "in dire and imme-
diate peril"
It continued that the preserva-
tion of freedom requires freely
given and unified cooperation of
all our people. among ourselves
and with Others"
Dulles Proposes Statement.
"In such an array of free men
we proudly enlist all that we have
and are" the statement said.
The statement was proposed to
the Carnegie trustees by John
Foster Dulles, chairman of the en-
dowment, at their semiannual
meeting. It was drafted by Trus-
tees Gen. Eisenhower, Henry w.
Wriston and David Rockefeller;
and was adopted unanimously by
the 20 trustees.
The statement signed by the
19-man Crisis Committee" said
the Nations present emergency
could not be met by hysteria. by
political headline hunting" or by
appeal to prejudice"
The committees statement add
ed that pressure on President
Truman to use the atomic bomb
is damaging the American cause.
1t also expressed opposition to
political pressure for the custer
of Secretary of State Acheson."
Bishop Dun Joins Group.
Norman Cousins, editor of the
Saturday Review of Literature, is
sued the statement. He said the
Crisis Committe was formed last
Friday. Among its members are
Cows. Luther w. Youngdahl of
Minnesota and Adlai E. Stevenson
of Illinois. retired Supreme Court
Justice Owen j. Roberts, former
FSecretary of Commerce William L.
Clayton, former Secretary of War
Robert P. Patterson, former Eco
nomic Cooperation Administra-
ton Chief Paul G.. Hoffman and
the Right Rev. Angus Dun, Bishop
of Washington.
The statement said "the atomic
bomb is not weapon adapted to
all military situations" and added
that "any decision to use the
bomb should take into account all
the factors-military and moral
both bearing on present and even
tual American security"
In relation to Mr.. Acheson, 1t
said: "A national emergency is
no time for punitive political ex-
petitions or for singing out scape-
goats"
Foreign Policy Upheld Generally.
The statement declared that
many of its signers had criticized
certain aspects of American for
eign policy, but it maintained that
the broad policy had been honest
and humanitarian"
Other Carnegie trustees who
adopted the Carnegie resolution
included William Marshall Bullitt,
Harvey H. Bundy, Ben M. Cher
rington. John w. Davis, George
A. Finch, Douglas S. Freeman, Earl
G. Harrison, Joseph E. Johnson,
Otto L. Nelson, jr.; Philip D. Reed
Edward L. Ryerson, w. J. Schief-
felin, jr.: James T. Shotwell,
Harper Sibley, Thomas j. Watson
and w. w. Waymack.
DR.. Shotwell also was a signer
of the Crisis Committee statement.
The others were DR.. Karl T.
Compton, Frank Altschul. Donald
Armstrong, Harry A. Bulls, Cass
Garfield, E. De Golyer, Clark M.
Eichelberger, Mariner S. Eccles,
the Rev. George B. Ford and
Herbert Bayard SWope.