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Evening star., 1950-06-08
HassdkerchiefS

90 Women's $1.00 Image
Hankies, circular. square. broken
assortment embroidered initial
linens, soiled ------------5 59c
1877 Women's 25c Cotton Prints.
some with hand-rolled edges,
some linen styles for men,
6 for $1.00
sec Name Hankies, large size.
pastel shades. broken assort-
ment. embroidered flowers.
hand-rolled edges s------ ESQ
Seconds Of Better Cotton
Hankies, regular size. white and
assorted prints s------l0 l0c
KannS-Street Floor
Evening star., 1950-06-08
COrsets

4-S10.95 Figure Builder" Cir
dies, sizes IS and 36------$4.95
2-$lO.O0 s'WhirIeze" Rivolastic
Girdles, II" length, sizes 50, IS.
$4.95
l-Sl6.50 "venus" Corselette,
size 80, nylon ------------$8.S5
1-$15.00 "venus' Nylon Cor
selette, size 40------------$8.95
9-$5.95 Rayon Brocade Girdles,
sizes 26, AZ, 28-----------S2.99
11-s5.S5 Rayon Satin Lastex
Panty Girdles, long leg, sizes
80, 81, 80, 34---------$2.99
10-$4.95 Exercise Suits to in
duce perspiration -------S2.49
$3.50 Figure Builder" Cor
selettes, inner belts, sizes 36-40,
$3.50
$1,000 sWhirleze" Corselettes,
Talon front, large sizes $3.50
Kann's-Second Floor
Evening star., 1950-06-08
Je,CeIs'y

S$5.95 Leather Jewel Boxes,
as Is $3.50
125-S3.00 Compacts, gold color,
metal door, compartment--S1.2
3O0-S9c and $1.00 Costume
Jewelry Pieces ------------39 39c'
50-Men's, Boys $7.45 . $9.45
Wrist Watches $500
Plus 10% Ta1
15-$5.OO Simulated Pearl Neck
laces, single strand, 10-k. gold
clasp, gift boxed $500"
25-$5.00 Costume Jewelry
Pieces. clearance -------$2.50s
'PiHs SOS Tar
KannS-Street Floor
Evening star., 1950-06-08
Bedroom
Furniture

1-S14.95 Hollywood Headboard.
leatherette, double size $3.50
1-Ss7.50 Simmons Box Spring,
double size e-------$2 $26.8S
1-S47.50 Platform Rocker. tap
estry covered----$27.5
1-s24.95 Bed, Colonial style,
maple finish, double size, $12.48
1-$59.50 Studio Couch, inner
spring mattress, pillows -$39.99
1-$19.95 Slipper Chair, color
full pattern rn-------.---$9.99
1-$27.00 Bed, solid maple.
double size ze----------$14.88
1-$10.95 Cotton Mattress, 80"
size, torn n-------$5.55
1-s54.4o Hollywood Bed. inner.
spring, 80" 9"----------$34.40
1-$S9.50 Hollywood Bed, inner
spring mattress, 30"-----$24.50
1-$44.50 Simmons Innerspring
Mattress, twin size-------$28.SS
1-$19.95 Innerspring Mattress,
twin Size--------------$14.SS
1-$47.50 Foster Innerspring
Mattress, twin size------$2S.SS
1-$39.50 Foster Innerspring
Mattress, twin size-------$26.S8
Kann's-Third Floor
Evening star., 1950-06-08
SpOrfSsceur

+S16.95 Linen 2-Pc. Suit
Dresses --.---$l $ll.W
3-$7.S5-$1O.95 Sport Dresses,
$4.W
A-S8.95 Linen Dresses A.Oe
S$lO.95-$12.95 Sport Dresses,
$7.M
81 Women's $5.95 Rayon Cab.
ardine Skirts ts-------------$ $z.N
25-S12.SS Pleated Wool Jersey
skirts, pastels- ls---------$ $500
l65-S1.59 Cotton Bl0useA
misses, women's sizes, solid
colors, stripes, checks. plaids
S1M
s7-S3.99-$5.95 Cotton Skirts,
prints, solid colors s-------$2.@
Kanns-Second Floor
Evening star., 1950-06-08
SilUef'acure

so Prs. S1.O0 Salt, Pepper
Shakers, large size, all-over de-
sign, scratched 29c
12-$1.00 and $1.25 Silver plated
Plates for salad, bread and
butter. scratched d--- 88c"
2 Pr. $3.50 Sterling and Crystal
Hurricane Lamps, dented,
$1,000
$4,000 Silver-plated Serving
Trays, large size, as is -S15.00'
6-$S.98 Sterling Compotes,
large size, feeted, dented, $4.49"
'Plus e0% Tar
Kann's-Street Floor
Evening star., 1950-06-08
kmif Underwear

40-Sl.s5 Rayon Jersey Petit
coats, lace trimmed. pastels,
sizes 26 to 30-----.Sl.2s
7@$l.69 Spun-Lo Rayon Slips,
tailored style. tearoSe. broken
sizes ------------- 7Sc
20 Imperfects, S6.s5 Nyion Tri-
cot Gowns, tailored. white.
OrOken sizes SS.oS
81 Imperfects, sass Rayon Jer.
sey Gowns, lace trimmed. pas
tells. runproof style, broken
sizes ---------.-- 1905 Sl.59
2l0 Imperfects, 7Sc Rayon Jer.
sey Briefs, Hollywood style. pas
tells, sizes S to L 2 for slice
Kann's-Street Floor
Evening star., 1950-06-08
Major. Appliances

2-S14s.S5 Easy Sprindrier
Washers. Demonstrators, 1850
models ----S S119.95
-S16S.95 Easy Spindrier
Washers. Demonstrators, 1850
models ------S S139.95
1-S14s.S5 Easy Cabinet Ironer.
Demonstration. l949 model.
$119.95
1-$151.S3 De Luxe "a" Sink,
S129.95
2-S15S.S5 Fully Equipped Gas
Ranges. Floor samples, 1850
models $500
2-S99.S5 Fully equipped Apart
ment- Size Gas Ranges. Floor
samples, 1850 models - $66.00
2-S15s.s5 Fully equipped Magic
Chef Gas Ranges. Floor
samples, 1850 models $1,000
1-S309.75 Frigidaire, lis Gu. it..
1949 model. floor sample.
S239.O0
1-Sl79.95 Fully-equipped Eiec~
tric Range. 1949 model, floor
sample $l3S.00
Kann's-Appliance Store
9Th and D Sts.
Evening star., 1950-06-08

Better Dresses

IL Misses S3s.s5 Queen" Orig
inal 2-Pc. Dresses. silk prints.
$500
Is Wom ems $22.95-$35.0e
Dresses, 2-pc. jacket styles. J.
pc. -. 1900 $500
ii Misses S22.95-S25.00 Formals,
pastel colorS = $500
Is Misses $16.S5 to Sass
Dresses S12.OO
Kann's-Second Floor
Evening star., 1950-06-08
Fabrics

100 Yds. S1.99 Irish Linens, SAN
forized (shrinkage less than
i%), navy blue only, SO" wide.
yd. 99c
30 Yds. $1.25 Woven Dotted
Cottons, SO" wide 39c
$50 Yds. 49c Striped Cotton
Chambray ------yd. 19c
ESQ Yds. $1.25 Woven Dotted
Swiss, SO" wide-----yd. 79c
SOC to Sl.19 Fine Combed Cot
tons, 36" wide----------yd. $50
Kann's-Street Floor
Evening star., 1950-06-08
Goats. Suits

IL Misses $16.S5 Rayon Sum-
mer Suits. navy. white. pink.
Sl3.SS
32-S2S.O0, S29.9S Famous Name
Summer Suits. sizes lo-lS, $500
Sl0.S5 Raincoats. navy. blue.
rose. grey, sizes l0-lS $6.S7
1S-S3S.95 Checked TopperS,
black or navy with white, sizes
l0-lS $500
Kann's-Second Floor
Evening star., 1950-06-08
D0gtisase Dresses

25-S2.S9, $3.50 Uniforms, soiled,
broken sizes S1.O0
3O-$3.99 Brunch Coats, wrap
arounds, broken sizes 1912,
$500
15-$2.99 Sleeveless Pinafores,
small sizes --------------$1.00
10O-$3.99 Ombre Chambray
Dresses, misses. jr. and half
sizes, broken sizes q for $500
50-$2.99 Rayon Dresses, brok-
en- assortment $1.00
IS Maids $7.95 Serving Uni
forms, black, grey, wine, broken
sizes ------------$4.O0
Kann's-Second Floor
Evening star., 1950-06-08
Infants Weui.

$l.9S Wool Flannel Robes, sizes
2 and 3----I-------.37c SIC
$1.OO Cotton Broadcloth Romp-
ers, belted style le--------- Sic
Sl.O0 Cotton Knit Polo Shirts,
solid colors with novelty print
front, sizes 12-16------S7c
85c Carter Undershirts, 300
cotton, 10qo wool, sizes 2 and 8,
SIC
Infants SOC Clear Plastic
Waterproof Pants, medium and
large sizes -10c
Kann's-Fourth Floor
Evening star., 1950-06-08
Lingerie

$3.50 Multifilament Rayon
Crepe Pajamas, broken sizes,
S2.00
$5.95 Rayon Crepe Gowns, lace
trimmed, broken sizes $500
$3.S9 Nylon Slips, broken sizes,
$3.50
15-$12.95 Nylon Tricot Gowns,
broken siZes--------- $3.50
10-$5.95 Rayon Crepe Slips,
pastel shades ,-. $500
$3.50 Cotton Slips, Sman
sizes. white only----- 25c
Kann'S-Second Floor
Evening star., 1950-06-08
Art Goods

20 SIX. 65c Sock and Sweater
Yarn, log. SIX.
l5-$1.85 Sock Kits s--. $50
6-$12.9S Stamped Linen Cloths,
72x90" size --------$5.9S
20-$1.98 Linen Hand Towels
with monogram charts 79c
12-39c Stamped RayOn Guest
Towels 10c
15-S1.1O Knitting Worsted, 4
OF. SIX, Soiled --- 500
S-S1.49-S2.SS Stamped Needle
point Kits ---79c to S1.96
20-55c Baby Yarn, 1-o1. ball.
soiled ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ESQ
26-9Sc Imported Sport Yarn,
800
Kann's-Fourth Floor
Evening star., 1950-06-08
Linens, DO',sestics
plus 2o% fox

100 Seconds Of $s.49 Cannon
Combspun Sheets, 90x108-in.
Size ------------------
200 Seconds Of CSC Hemstitched
Pillowcases, 42x36"- -49c
5O-s1.19 Lady Pepperell Solid
Color Percale PilIowcases, Ask
12-S4.95 Colored Mattress
Covers, upper closure, twin
sizes only, assorted d-----$2.99
300-21c Cotton Dish Towels,
6 for $1.00
30 Seconds of S3.S5 Martex Bath
Mats, solid-color Jacquard de-
200 Seconds Of 49c Stevens
Linen Towels, colored borders,
3 for $1.O0
900-S1.29 Filet Lace Scarfs or
Vanity Sets ca,
Kann's-Street Floor
Evening star., 1950-06-08

12-$8.95 Rayon Prints or Cab
ardine Dresses 90
15-$12.95-$14.95 Dressy Ray0n
Tissue Failles, black, navy,
rayon prints ----$6.0O
20-$10.95, $14.95 Pure Silk
Prints SO
2$22.95 Cotton Sunbacks with
butcher rayon boleroS- $3.50
Kann's-Second Floor
Evening star., 1950-06-08
NEWS CLOTHING

DINE sLAcKs-TropieoI royons ond 500 Hyon, 4o9o
wool oobordnes, in wide choice to solids checks pods
ton, blue, green o"d fso Sizes 2s to a $S ar
10 MEMS $3.50 CORDUROY SPORT eoArs-Ton ond
reoulor z5se, iIs7. s/ss, 21s9. lI4z, 4z,----
s/44; shorts nse. I4o; longs 1877, $IS.z7
Mens M; li s,s7s CORD AND srrRsvcKre svIrs-sIoht
soed woshobe stripes in end ton single breasted
Sizes reg 2/46, H48; longs /36, l/46;
ss0u's 144. '/5o; short stout '/46; long 90. 80
sss'i 80 PRS. MEMS s7.ss sABARDAI sUMMER STACKS
lightweight oobordine Of 77qo royon ond 259O wool
Solid eolors Of blue, ton green, oroy ond 81 SA
u MEMS $4,000 eABARpIkE sUrTs-Fine olI-wool COB
and bue-oroy Single and double breosteds, hove
Hs ss e.? ~ g g. IS g. =: SIX Is. isll
8 MEMS $3.50 RAYoN AND cELAktsl suITs-soid
tan and oyster Slightly soIed single and double breosted
poteh pockets. A vey good buy sszes SID S0
reg. 2/4z. 5/44, 2/46 long I44---- A~ssSV
Is Mem. s,oss es.sen eabsrdn. Rsneoe.. oys,e, ton
zI4o, 2I47' s/44. 2/4e; shorts 274o. z142 04e.
Men. 5000 Gro, tlsea:I ss,, AI-~oo, ssrs.:
!, Ss" sss7s to 81 $500 Aoo Tropical ss: H.ot
ss .ss M sg ;'g' s: ; 1"s s. ss'; 4 ]
M4s n5o; e :a ,one % s'outs I ~ n5o .-szs.ss
cool os the breeze. Reg N46, stout l/44---$io.eS
Z Mems $3.50 Rsyea Tropies Suits. Blue-onoy ond
ton stripe. Sizes reg. iI5s. lI46-----------$is.7s
Mans $iz.sS Summer spen cest. Cotton and royon
ss as 'ss 5000 % ss,.. end c... e.s s,.a e.s
Single breosted oroy stripe; size 80
Mons 5000 Ai-weeI ssit. Bue-oroy mixture.
ins; s;;s,;ss $500 ~ q sss.. s s.s @
bic breasted; size 40 reeuor-
20 Pn. Mems $s.7S 70 $1o.e5 summer siseks Solids
and foney pottems pieoted front. ripper closures.
Sizes 28 to o34-----------------
Kanns-Men's store-Second Floor
Evening star., 1950-06-08
Teen Apparel

l0-S6.99 Terry Cloth Robes,
$4.OO
12-S5.99 Cotton Dresses, 2-pc,
$500
$3.50 Rayon Dresses $500
1S-S1.69 Cotton Blouses, white
and pastels - ----- 59c
3-S14.S5 Toppers -----$5.00
6-S19.95 Spring Suits $500
25-S1.99 Polo Shirts ts----19c
Kann'-Fourth Floor
Evening star., 1950-06-08
Budget Shop
Dresses

dresses
1885 Extra Size Dresses,
$500
81 Women's, Misses $5.95
Dresses s--S3. $500
20 Misses SASS Dresses, print
dresses $500
50 Women's $8.S5 Half Size
Dresses, prints -----.$S $500
10 Misses $10.95 Dresses $500
Sl2.95 Women's Dresses,
Kann's-Second Floor
Evening star., 1950-06-08
Girls Wear

12-$3.99 Terry Cloth Robes,
$2.66
25-$2.99 Navy Denim Shorts.
sec
1O-$S.S9 In Between Girls
Cotton Dresses ---$2.00
6-S5.99-$S.99 Chubby Girls
Rayon Dresses ---S3.97
$3.50 Rayon Dresses, 2-pc.,
$500
$3.50 and $3.50 Wool Plaid
and Solid -cOlor Skirts
$3.50 and $3.50 Nylon
Sweaters, slip-ons, cardigans,
$1.49
2O-$1.29 Cotton Print Skirts,
SOC
5-$22.95 Spring Goats ---$12.00
S-$16.95 Spring Coats $500
Kann's-Fourth Floor
Evening star., 1950-06-08
GIOUeS

10-S3.O0 Cotton Fabric Gloves,
handsewn, beige, sizes 6 to z,
$1.95
11-S1.50 Cotton Fabric Gloves,
beige or cream, sizes 6 to z, 79c
1l0-$I.O0 Rayon Slips Ons,
embroidered backs, white, sizes
6 and 7-------------74c
S1.00 Rayon and Cotton Fabric
Gloves, slips-ons, shorties. black,
brown, wine or navy, sizes 8
to tx in group-------49c
Kann'S-Street Floor
Evening star., 1950-06-08
Stationery

OGWEvUssEEW
5000 Paper Table Cloths,
pastels, large size 19c
30-$L.69 Metal Asherettes, pas
tel shades 69c
35-$3.95 Diaries Line-a-Day
and 5-Year ------$1.00
10-$2.OO Metal Utility Boxes,
49c
31-S2.00 Desk Sets, simulated
leather, 3-pc. ----$1.00
Kann's-Street Floor
Evening star., 1950-06-08
Toys

2-S4.95 Chinese Peel Rockers,
floor samples z---. S2.95
@S4.95 Unpainted Gibson Is
land Lawn Chairs, floor SAM
pies, $3.95
1-S16.S5 Sidewalk Bike, SCARED,
$3.50
1-S52.95 Donald Duck Bicycle,
24", SCARED, bent fender, 1855
1-$6.5O Child's Steam Roller,
damaged ---L----$3.99
2-$14.95 Sand Boxes, as is,
$3.50
SLABS Sweetie Pie Dolls,
soiled S9.95
Sass Sleepy Head Dolls,
soiled --S1.49
1-$7.95 Dressed Doll, 16" TALL.
soiled OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. $5.49
sass Topsy Turvy Dolls,
soiled $l.49
l-ss.s5 Raggedy Andy Doh.
1--A.95 Barn Set, parts miss
ing ----------------- Sa.4S
1-$4.95 Doll Stroller, wheel
damaged ------~--$2.99
1-$S.95 Sand Box, damaged,
$4.99
1-$S.S5 Musical Rack, wax
birch finish, SCARED --$5.95
1--$39.95 Horse Vel0cipede,
damaged -S19.05
Kann's-Fourth Floor
Evening star., 1950-06-08
RayOss Fabrics

5000 Yds. 79c-S1.95 Rayon
Remnants, 3 to S yd. lengths,
plain and printed,
SOC to $1.0O yd.
$1.00 to $1.49 Rayon Fabrics,
sheer prints, washable cords,
ShantungS S----yd. CSC
Kann's-Street Floor
Evening star., 1950-06-08
Jr. Miss Apparel

Kann's-Second Floor
Evening star., 1950-01-26
Proposed Moss 'Stroteqy

Many men make the mistake, of course,
of writing letters that should have gone
in the wastebasket. Joseph A. Beirne.
head of the Communications Workers of
America, is one of them. His proposal,
made in letter to CIO President Philip
Murray, that "the 100000 members" of
CIO jam automatic telephone equipment
by overuse, thus helping to win what
Mr.. Beirne seems to think is an impending
strike, ranks high among viciously reckless
and irresponsible public statements.
1t is hard to understand Mr.. Beirne'S
psychology. What he really proposes is
a sort OF mass sabotage, designed to wreck
a system of communications vital to the
public. If he had his way he would deliver
an underhand and crippling blow at pub
lie necessity rather than at his employers.
What Is even more serious is that he
publicly espouses form of anarchy as a
method of winning his dispute, revealing
himself as incompetent to be entrusted
with the responsibility that goes with
leadership of a-great labor union. For
1t is only short step between what
MIR. Beirne proposes and the comparable
maneuver of trying to win railroad
strike by tearing up the rails and wrecking
the trains.
The charitable view is that Mr.. Beirne
made hasty mistake that he will repent
at leisure. Certainly his proposal should
win no standing with responsible leaders
of American labor.
Evening star., 1950-01-26
Leoye Him Alone

It seems to The Star that Alger Hiss
should not be bothered any more, either
by his personal friends or his political
enemies.
He has been convicted of one OF the
blackest of crimes, and has been SEN
fenced to serve five years in jail. He mas
been ruined, both financially and in terms
of reputation. If he is guilty-and the
evidence against him seems conclusive
of guilt-he will pay still harsher pen
alty-the penalty that runs on day after
day and night after night in the con-
science of sensitive man who knows IN
his heart that he has betrayed his trust
Surely this is enough.
If Dean Acheson believes in the inno-
cence of his friend he has every right, IN
his capacity as private citizen, to remain
loyal to him. That is matter, as ne
has said, for every man to decide for him.
self. 1t is a somewhat different matter,
however, for Mr.. Acheson, speaking as the
Secretary of State to discuss his future
relationship with Mr.. Hiss in language
which smacks of the theatrical and which
conveys every impression of having been
TeQeaTSeO. 1lleTe are tAIilCS WAlcA PubAAS
men should refrain from public state
ments, and this is one of them
Mr.. Acheson's remarks, as he might have
anticipated, served to stimulate the ener-
gies of that little band of Republican
Senators who are bent upon probing for
some political advantage among the ruins
of the career of Alger Hiss 1t is the belief
OF this newspaper that they will not find
what they are seeking.
A man cannot betray his country and
retain the esteem of the American people.
But these same people know when man
has been punished enough. 1t is not in the
nature of most Americans to trample on
man when he is down, and one can both
hope and believe that those who are pick
ing at the bones of the Alger Hiss case in
the hope of finding some partisan benefit
will meet with the rebuff which they so
richly deserve.
The time has come when Alger Hiss
should be left alone.
Evening star., 1950-01-26

forty-six years. ANY critic who challenges
the authenticity of his observations and
tries to dispose of them by complaining
about the conservative bias of his final
period will find the task difficult. Orwell
died disillusioned about Marxism because
he recognized Marxism for what it is his
torically-a monstrous psychological, eco
nomic and political mistake.
What he might have written had he
lived in happier era is anybody's guess.
Nature gave him authentic charm and
grace and wit. He also had sympathy and
a tremendous willingness to be convinced
His style was engaging. He developed in
creased facility as he grew older. w.
Somerset Vaughan was his model, and
the choice was justified. Readers every
where will be sorry that he has died too
soon. The example he set should keep his
name to the fore for at least another
decade.
Evening star., 1950-01-26
Pigeons Above q CITY

I remember you, City-not your noise,
Your flashing signal lights, your signs that,
run
Like fire in quiDering tubes; but recall;
With keen delight three pigeons In the sun;
Leaving a cornics, lifting against the sky,
Quite undisnaayed by clamor and by smoke, ),
or the siren OF an ambulance that
screamed
BeloD in the streets dark canyon )
These birds spoke
A language all their oton: Sheer joy in
flight,
A rapture spelled tuith tDhite Dings as
they rose,
The cleanness of far meadows, and the
peace
That only untouched, unspoiied nature
Eno1DS.
They etched their words upon my heart
In Dhite,
Those city aliens in their ciycling flight.
GRACE NOLL CROWELL.
Evening star., 1950-01-26
Georqe Orwell

The English novelist, Eric Blair, who
wrote under the name of George Orwell,
had better books in him than he ever got
written. His career as literary man
lasted only about twenty years and con-
Stantly was tangled up with interests and
concerns which were hostile to the art of
putting words together successfully He
had wretched health, and his mind was
not free of struggles. For a while his
sentiments were "leftish," he fought for
the Loyalists in Spain and finally learned
the hard way that revolutionary material
ism is not necessarily virtuous business.
Doubtless the times to which he belonged
were responsible in large part for Orwell's
intellectual wanderings. Many Of the
ideas by which he momentarily was at
tracted were plausible enough. He fol-
lowed them until he discovered that they
led into blind alleys. His Nineteen Eighty
Four" and Animal Farm" are confessions
of the Illustrations he encountered. He
produced them to free his spirit of his
disappointments. Thus they always will
be classified among the confessions
quite respectable category, incidentally,
including as it does Rousseau and Ben
Franklin, Cellini and Madame Sand, st.
Augustine and De Quincy.
Orwell was more fortunate than some
of these, however. He managed to have
his books published while they could be
effective, and the blows he struck with
them were valiant blows. There ought not
to be any question about his efficiency. He
had great skill in the reproduction of ex-
perience. and he did lot of living In his
Evening star., 1950-01-26
1t Should Be Ratified

In his statement before a subcommittee
of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Solicitor General Perlman has said about
legal logic-choppers who have been oppos-
ing the International Genocide Convention
as something that runs counter to our
Constitution and the doctrine of States
rights. 1t is an opposition that flies in the
face of both precedent and common sense,
and Mr.. Perlman has disposed of it quite
adequately.
. What ought to be forthcoming now is
prompt Senate ratification The treaty
which long ago won the unanimous
approval of the United Nations General
Assembly-has been ratified by seven coun-
tries, thirteen short of the twenty needed
to make 1t effective. That we ourselves
have been slow in acting upon it is bit
surprising in view of our leading role in
drafting 1t and in view, also, OF the hideous
evil 1t is directed against. That evil is
nothing less than the destruction, in whole
or IN part, of national, clinical, racial or
religious groups by systematic slaughter,
slow starvation, sterilization and similar
forms of mass murder deliberately designed
to wipe out any given people.
In effect, when the treaty becomes oper-
ative, the world will be bit more civilized.
AT any rate, the signatory nations will then
junction under new international law
holding that any one directly or indirectly
guilty of genocide will be subject to strict
punishment when and If caught In addi-
ton, the signatories will be committed to a
concrete system of machinery to cope with
the evil. which is an old one that neither
began nor ended with Hitler. The crime.
in short, for the first time in the history
OF mankind, will be specifically matter
OF supranational concern to be dealt with
by carefully defined supranational legal
processes.
OF course, the treaty involves practical
questions of enforceability that are not
easily answered, and it probably would
mean nothing in the event of total atomic
war that would in itself constitute a
supreme crime of genocide to end all gen.
ocide. Nevertheless, the fact that it has
been drafted represents wholesome ad-
vance in international law-an advance
which may be regarded as at least little
step forward in the worlds self-ciyilizinp
efforts. There is no good reason why the
Senate should not vote overwhelmingly In
favor of ratification.
Evening star., 1950-01-26

nese people, if the facts can be placed
before them in an effective way, are likely
to resent most bitterly There are 460,-
100000 of them, and they have grown
profoundly hostile to foreign domination
or imperialism of any type. Accordingly,
if the story of what Is happening to their
northern territory can be hammered home
to them, the Kremlin, together with puppet
Peiping may find that it has bitten off
much more than it can chew. The propa-
ganda potentialities involved in the situa-
ton are certainly promising enough to be
exploited to the full by the West.
Evening star., 1950-01-26

Department for considered opinion of the
effect of an American "hell-bomb" project
on the rest of the world Might it not drive
Western Europe into the arms of Russia?
Might not the Western Europeans feel that
in another world war they themselves would
be the most likely targets of such bomb?
When, and if, favorable reports on all
these matters should come before Mr.
Truman. still a fourth question would re-
main to be answered. This is whether any
nation, regardless of military or other ad-
yantages, would be morally justified in
bringing such horror to the world, even
IN self-defense. Here there is no group of
experts to advise Mr.. Truman. He would
have only his own conscience to guide him.
Russians Familiar With Problem.
Those familiar with the project are we'll
aware that the Russians are considering the
hydrogen bomb. They probably have much
the same scientific data, possibly somewhat
more. Will they be willing to sacrifice build
Ing an adequate stockpile of atomic weapons
Tor the sake OF one superbomb? Will they
be willing to divert the money, manpower
and resources from other war projects?
VIII their military men conclude that DOS
session OF such bomb would give them a
worthwhile strategic advantage?
The Soviet Union might decide to build
the bomb and the United States to ignore
the possibility. If the Russians failed the
advantages for the non-C Communist world
might be very great, for the Soviets probably
would have paid an enormous price in in
adequate preparation in other fields, and
the danger OF their catching up with the
American atomic stockpile might vanish for
years. On the other hand, If they succeeded.
the military advantages they would gain
probably would be considerable but not
necessarily certain or absolute.
The sources of these comments, which are
entirely unofficial, cannot be named or
quoted. Some of them certainly would be
consulted before any final decision was
mace. Ihey have no particular confidential
information but their Familiarity with the
general field, and with the men most prom
lnent IN 1t, Is such that their opinions will
always command the utmost respect.