davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1951-02-05
Constantine Brown:

The cool reception accorded
the State Departments first
approaches to the Senate For
eign Relations Committee con-
corning the Indian request for
Q million tons of American food
grains may or may not persist
when the formal request is
made for action on specific leg
islation to meet this request.
A good bit of the Senators
reaction to the idea will depend
on the line Prime Minister
Nehru and his government take
in coming weeks. The fact that
the Indian delegate at the
United Nations spearheaded the
movement to appease Red China
may not have lasting effect.
in view of the final passage, by
a substantial margin. OF the
resolution naming Peiping the
aggressor in Korea.
Unless the State Departments
hands are tied by future ILL
advised actions in New Delhi.
American officials, who now are
determining how far to go in
support of the Indian request,
have some powerful political
arguments to use in presenting
to Congress any proposal to
help the Indians.
Strategic Position of India.
One of the most potent OF
these is the strategic position
which India occupies not only
with respect to other Asian ma
tions who will pay close atten-
ton to American action to
grant or deny the Indian ap-
peal, but also with respect to
the Central Asian peoples who
live in the Soviet Union.
1t is customary to regard
everything within Soviet Rus
Evening star., 1951-02-05
Thomas L. Stokes:

It was perhaps with misgiv-
ings that the average American
read that Alfred Krupp had
walked out of prison in Germany
last week end and that part OF
the munitions empire to which
he is heir is to be restored to
him and his family.
The rest Of his 12-year SEN
tence imposed by the now almost
forgotten Nuremberg war guilt
trials was commuted by the
United States High Commis-
sioner, John J. McCloy. after
review of the Nuremberg SEN
tences, as were those Of other
Krupp officials.
The name Krupp is associated
for all of us with the Nazi war
machine Of Adolf Hitler and the
unsavory Nazi regime with
which Krupp was so closely
linked, and with that COM
plicated skein of great indus
trial and financial cartels which
plotted the conquest of the world
of which Krupp was an inte-
grail part.
Other Cases Are Cited.
You may learn frim Mr.. Nc
Clogs decision that he rescinded
conflscation of the Krupp NUM-
tions trust ordered by the Muir
emberg Court on the ground
that no such conf1scation had
been decreed at Nuremberg in
the case of any other of the
component industrial combines
in the Nazi conspiracy. 1t gets
off because the others did,
which may be legalistic logic,
even If justice has been f1outed
all along the line.
How much of his munitions
empire Alfred Krupp will re-
tain is now the subject Of deter
mination under Allied Law 81,
so-called, providing for decon-
centration Of potential war
industry in Germany. A decision
Is expected soon. It Is being
pushed since the Schumann
Plan for pooling Western Eu-
Evening star., 1951-02-05

tered on that point. Why the
President ducked 1t Is his secret.
It is not a secret that various
Federal Reserve governors are
intensely critical of their chair
man, Thomas McCabe, for not
speaking up and securing true
understanding of the boards
position.
This is the more surprising
since the chairman theoretically
is close to the President. But
Mr.. McCabe for some time has
been abdicating his functions.
January Is last he pleaded ILL
ness and allowed Mr.. Eccles to
testify for the board at a hear
ing Of the Joint Committee on
the Economic Report. Mr..
Eccles performed this task with
alacrity and in close co-opera-
ton with his friend, Senator
Taft. That same day, however,
Mr.. McCabe felt we'll enough to
lunch with visiting Mississippi
bankers in the boards elegant
dining room.
Actually the unsatisfactory
nature Of the White House
meeting was proved immedi-
ately because the whole COM
mittee, board and bankers, re-
turned to the Federal Reserve
and had bitter family quarrel
about 1t. A major highlight was
the attack on Mr.. McCabe for
falling to stand and deliver.
Observing the distress of the
chairman, whose primary asset
on arrival here was a reputation
for being a go-getter, one per-
son present passed around a
sardonic note: 1.-THE Federal
Reserve shares a stellar attrac-
ton with the Gayety Theatre:
Death of A Salesman"
Gov. Vardaman, a time
Truman intimate whose recent
White House contacts have not
been close, instantly challenged
his colleagues to deny that they
had left the President believing
they would support the Treas
ury program. They were in
fact. he argued. obligated to do
so in view of the emergency.
Secretary Snyder's Job.
He reminded them that the
statute specifically charged the
Secretary of the Treasury with
management of the public debt.
The board by contrast, he went
Evening star., 1951-02-05
David Lawrence:
What If Korea Were Germany?
London Economist Pokes Fun at British Policy
By Specializing on Reaction to Attack in West

condition that representatives
of Italy, Iraq and Mongolia are
added to it and that the con-
ference is held in Leningrad.
"The British Army having
suffered $4,000 casualties in the
fighting in Germany. British
public opinion is in a some
what excitable mood and the
government is being sharply
criticized by the opposition for
the ineffectiveness of it's Euro
pean policy. The Prime Min
ister has pointed out that the
Raj cannot be used for bomb
ing beyond the boundary OF the
British zone without decision
of the United Nations, but he
has promised to do all he can
to get* the United Nations to
declare Russia an aggressor.
even though it is generally rec
ognized that no sanctions are
likely to be imposed.
Opinion in well-informed
circles in Washington, however,
10 that America must be wary
of being drawn into an extern
sion of hostilities; it is felt that
the British are liable to be
headstrong in their reactions to
events in Europe and that their
old imperial traditions are max
ing them unduly bellicose. The
State Department has not yet
abandoned its hope of detach-
ing Russia from China. and de-
precates any policy which
might have the effect of driv-
ing Stain into the arms OF Mao.
Senator Bebop has made an
important speech at Cincin-
natl, in which he warned the
American people against allow
ing American troops to be tied
up in Europe when there was
such q serious danger OF a
Russo Chinese attack on Alaska.
Japan and the Philippines. He
said it was very unfortunate
that nobody seemed to be able
to exercise any control over
Gen. Eisenhower, who had evil
IDENTIFY underestimated The pros
poets of Russian Intervention
when he pursued the East Ger
man invaders back across the
zonal boundary. Everything
should be done to restore peace
as quickly as possible. so that
there should be no damage to
the old friendship between the
Russian and American peoples.
The Russians, he declared. were
a proud people who would not
long be subservient to the man
darins Of the Forbidden City.
Evening star., 1951-02-05
Senators Weigh Aid to India
Nehru's Attitude in ConingWe Expecte
To Have Influence on Legislators, Decision

Mohammedan faith in any
thing like the way it does Chris
tianity in the West.
News of what goes on in the
outside world filters into Gen.
trail Asiatic Russia more easily
than it does across any other
Soviet border. And a close
check on what goes on in Rus
sia can be made more readily
through Central Asia than any
other border area of the Soviet
Union.
The eyaluation of this situa-
ton among certain far-seeing
American officials is that Gen.
tral Asia could become, in case
of war with Russia, the soft
underbelly through which the
West-if it is strongly en-
trenched with Asian peoples
could strike, both militarily and
with propaganda weapons. The
possibility Of Western-inspired
revolts against Soviet rule by
large segments of the Moslem
population Is one to which
strategists are paying the clos
est attention.
India, of course. has no ex-
elusive hold on this road into
Soviet Russia, but it does oc-
cupy pivotal position in which
it could contribute much to
the cause of the West among
Central Asiatics or could hamper
that cause seriously.
If the strategic argument Is
to be given any weight at all
in the decision whether to as
sist the Indians with a heavy
supply of food at a critical
time, this factor Of Russia's
soft underbelly will be an i'm
portant segment Of 1t.
Evening star., 1951-02-05
Danger Noted in Preserving German Cartel:
While Tryinq to Meet Threat From East

ropes steel and coal can not be
put into effect until the new
ownership set-up Of basic in
dustries is fixed.
All of this serves to remind
us that, five years afterward.
we still have not accomplished
one of our chief war aims. This
was to break up the great Ger
man cartels and put them into
smaller units with more diversi-
fed ownership on a more demo-
cratic basis Of free enterprise.
The object is to keep them
from ever gaining control OF
the German government again.
which they did. and from reach
ing out, as they also did. in
web Of arrangements with in
dustry all over Europe and else
where, affecting patents, prices
and division of markets. In this
way they restricted produc-
ton Of strategic war materials
and thus impeded defense pro-
grams of their future foes. in
cluding us.
Earlier Tricks Recalled.
Krupp. itself. Is an example
Of this, one Of many previously
detailed here. During World
War our Alien Property Gus
todian appropriated two Krupp
patents for stainless steel and
sold them to the Chemical
Foundation which licensed them
to American companies. But.
after the war, two Krupp pat
ent applications for stainless
steel before our Patent Office
were approved. Krupp there
upon informed all American
companies that the licenses
under the Chemical Founda-
ton were worthless, because
they infringed Krupp's new
patents. The American COM
panies gave in to avoid pro-
longed litigation.
Thereafter, in 1928, Krupp
organized Krupp-Nirosta Corp.
of Delaware, a patent holding
and licensing company. Through
this 1t was not only able to re-
Evening star., 1951-02-05
Henry McLenore::
New York Is First Again:
Has Quietest Raid Sirens

Squirrels ate lunch as usual.
Not one single incident Of
scampering up trees, With
sirens supposedly at peak. dis
tinctly heard baby summing in
carriage SO yards away ask
nursemaid for second slug at
bottle.
Brooklyn Reports.
From Brooklyn: Not even
boids scared by foist test Of 81
reens. Hundred times more
noise when Buns get man on
base in 9th inning.
From Battery: Statue of Lib
erty ferry blowing whistle at
time so don't know now whether
test was held or not. Please
advise.
From Arthur Murray's dance
studio: Man with squeaky shoes
taking Charleston lesson so did
not hear sirens.
From Bronx barber shop: All
three chairs occupied at noon
and hair hitting floor all I
heard.
From Third avenue grocery
store: Butcher slicing dollar
order of calves liver at time so
sirens inaudible.
From the Union Club: Mem
bers we're heard to complain
about hearing some slight noises
around noon. When told what
it was they said they would re-
quest the sirens be dismantled
and ask to be notified by postal
card in case of air raids.
1872 Sirens Involved.
At the peak Of the alarm no
fewer than 1872 sirens Of all
sorts were exercising their
lungs. That few people heard
them is a great tribute to New
York's know how.
Try to name me another city
where 1872 sirens could sound
without making enough noise to
wake a kitten. Can't be done.
Already New Workers are 60
ing about with SNUG looks on
their faces, and next week the
silent sirens will be pointed out
along with the skyline. the EN-
pire State Building, Radio City.
Wall Street, and Grants Tomb.
distributed by McNaught Syndicate, Inc.
Evening star., 1951-02-05
Doris Feeson:
Row Over Debt Policy Resumed
Did Truman Think He Had Ended Dispute?
EccIes' Implication of Malice Controdicted

on, Is "nebulously" charged with
maintenance of a stable mar
ket in Government bonds and
preservation of a sound econ
omy. If it wanted clariflcation
of its powers. it must return to
Congress. he argued.
Now it was only fighting a
rear guard action, he contended.
AS did Gov. Norton. Both in
sisted that whatever statutory
power the board had, it had
forfeited it December 81, 194l,
when, with Mr.. Eccles as its
chairman, 1t issued public
statement assuring a stable
market in Government bonds
and an adequate supply Of
funds for financing the war.
Gov. Powell punctuated the
stormy argument with a mo-
ton that the Board should
suspend its present actions and
until further notice support the
Government bond market at
present levels.
Four governors - q majority
of the board-voted aye: Powell.
Vardaman, Norton and Evans.
Chairman McCabe and Cover
nors Eccles and Szymczak joined
the five bankers, Messrs. Sproul.
Young, Peyton. Gilbert and
Erickson, to defeat the motion.
Did President Truman take
silence for consent? Or was he
betrayed again by bad staff
work? These are the questions
being asked even by those who
feel Mr.. Eccles has been unjust
to him.
The irony is that he deposed
Mr.. Eccles to put in the reluc-
tant dragon, Mr.. McCabe. But
in then keeping on Mr.. Eccles,
he forgot the ancient maxim:
"If you strike at a king. you must
kill him" Mr.. Eccles is a tough
fighter and brilliant central
banker. Now he has seen an
opening and closed in. It might
have been expected.
Evening star., 1951-02-05

"a deep impression has also
been made by an address de-
livered to the Foreign Policy
Association by Mr.. John K. Pof-
fenheimer of Adriatic Exports.
Inc, who told his audience that
he had been doing excellent
business in trade from Trieste
behind the Iron Curtain and
that, if only America would do
nothing to interfere with Rus
sian expansion. there was no
reason why this trade should
not go on for a few years longer.
He said that Communism in
Europe could not be stopped by
force, and the sooner Britain
realized this, the better.
"The Indian Prime Minister
has also given a press conference
in Mexico opposing the idea OF
declaring Russia an aggressor.
The Russians, he said, had suf-
fered great humiliations in the
period before Peter the Great,
and naturally it would take
them a long time to get over 1t;
they were very sensitive to criti-
cism and, if they were to be
branded as aggressors simply
because they had committed an
act of aggression, it might spoil
the chances of peaceful negotia-
tion. The Indian delegation in
the Assembly has been taking a
similar line with the support OF
the bloc of Asian and Arab
countries.
"The latest news from Ger
many is that the Russians have
crossed the Rhine on a broad
front and that an armored
spearhead has penetrated into
Aachen. The Political Commit
tee of the Assembly has today
voted for an adjournment to
consider Mr.. Vyshinsky's clarifi-
cation of the Russian terms for
a cease-fire Sir Gladwyn Jebb
strongly opposed the adjourn
ment, declaring that the new
Russian statement was a trans
parent attempt to divide the
free world and delay the exer-
else of the Pacific functions Of
the United Nations. Mr.. War
rem Austin, however, urged that
delegates must have time to con-
suit their governments about
the new situation and said
that in the opinion Of his gov
ernment the United Nations
should not at this stage take q
new and important decision"
Reproduction rights reserved.)
Evening star., 1951-02-05

sia as behind the Iron Curtain
and everything outside Russia
and it's satellites as part of the
free world. The division is not
as clear as that when 1t comes
to Central Asia.
Central Asia is in many ways
a separate entity, in which the
bonds which link them all to-
gether. are stronger than the
political divisions which sepa-
rate them. The fact that some
Of them are Mohammedan, some
are Hindu and others Buddhist
should not obscure the fact that
there are special and very real
bonds which tie together the
great mass of Central Asians in
the U. S. S. r. with those in
India, Pakistan, Afghanistan,
Iran and other countries which
adjoin Asiatic Russia.
The Soviet Union Is acutely
aware Of this fraternal feeling
between its own massive bloc OF
Moslem population and those
Moslems who live in adjacent,
nonsatellite countries. The
Iron Curtain there is not a
complete barrier, and there is
considerable traff1c-illicit as
well as legitimate-across bor-
ders which a.t best are vaguely
defined and complete policing
of which would be manifestly
impossible because Of their vast
length through some of the
worlds most rugged country.
Soviet Is Cautious.
Soviet Russia, consequently,
has shown great difference to
its Central Asia population,
whose representatives in 60
ing to Moscow are paid every
consideration. Moscow also
takes care not to repress the
Evening star., 1951-02-05
Thomas L. Stokes
KruppFree for Business as Usual

strict stainless steel production
in this country, but also get
information about all sorts Of
military production that was
sent back to Germany. a very
effective spy system. That was
done also by other German in
dustrial cartels with contracts
In this country.
The story also has been
told repeatedly Of how our pro-
gram to break up the cartels
since the war has been thwart-
ed, and how the old Nazi indus
trial and financial cartelists are
slipping back into power. This,
it has been shown. was due
partly to the fact that the top
level of our officials in charge
was infiltrated by representa-.
tives of big American financial
and industrial interests which,
themselves. had had connec-
tions with German cartels be-
fore the war and consequently
had little heart in the project.
New Drive Under Way.
A new drive to speed up and
finish the job is underway now
as the result of an investigation
in Germany several months ago
by a special commission ap-
pointed by President Truman
which found that the task was
not being properly or earnestly
prosecuted.
Alfred Krupp's release drama
tizes all of that. 1t is easy to
forget our World War II aims
in the face of the current threat
from another totalitarian re-
gime - Soviet Russia - which
reaches out its tentacles, too.
for the same purposes as the
Nazis. But it would seem wise
to keep our eyes still on that
other menace also, or Krupp
and the rest will be back In the
saddle once again, and this
time, 1t is possible, at the serv-
ice of our Soviet enemy. In the
past they have never showed
any nice discrimination in the
pursuit of business as usual"
Evening star., 1951-02-05
Doris FIeeson:

So long as the quarrel between
the Treasury and the Federal
Reserve Board over the manage
ment of the public debt re-
manned a question Of monetary
tactics, the public could afford
to maintain a certain detach-
ment.
It has now moved, however.
into the domain Of the good
faith and credit Of the presi-
dency during a time Of national
emergency and is therefore a
matter Of grave public impor-
tance.
Able men will continue to dis
agree on whether Treasury Sec
retary Snyder's "easy money"
policy or Federal Reserve con-
troll of the credit structure is
correct. AS many practical busi-
ness men see it, the Federal Re-
serve may be technically correct.
but the Treasury's policy is the
only practical one. given today's
abnormal circumstances. They
therefore view the current up
roar as unrealistic to the point
Of folly at this time.
Record Made Public.
All this is apart from the ques-
ton of whether President Tru-
man, with malice aforethought,
falsely represented that he had
resolved the Federal Reserve
Treasury dispute. Mariner Ec-
cles. a Federal Reserve governor
and former chairman. in effect
has suggested that the President
SO acted.
In support of his position, Mr..
Eccles has made public record
of last Wednesdays White House
meeting between the President
and the Federal Reserve Open
Market Committee which in
cludes the seven governors and
presidents of Federal Reserve
banks in five metropolitan areas.
This record was dictated by
Gov. Evans after the meeting.
The committee agrees that
Mr.. Evans account was correct:
it did not authorize its release.
Committee sources further as
sert:
i. Not a man present at the
White House conference ex-
pressed any doubt later that the
President left the conference
room thinking he had accom-
plished his peace-making pur-
poses.
2. The Evans memo, while
technically true, did not disclose
the spirit and sense Of the meet
ing.
Interest Rates Not Mentioned.
For example, nothing was said
at the White House about in
terest rates though every man
present knew the argument CEN
Evening star., 1951-02-05
Henry McLenore:

Well, get ready for New
Yorkers to do some more brag-
ging.
The big burg has come up
with another first"
Never a city to do anything
by halves, New York wants the
tallest or the shortest. the big
gest or the smallest. the rich
est or the poorest. the pref
tiest or the ugliest.
No middle ground for Papa
Knickerbocker. Let London.
Paris, Buenos Aires. Calcutta
or Cairo play that field. It's not
for him.
What's he got now that he's
so happy about that he's al
most bursting at the seams from
his Brooklyn to his Bronx?
Nothing except the very,
very quietest air raid alarm
system of any city. town or
village in the world. No excep-
tions. Absolutely none,
City Tests Alarm.
New York tested its alarm
the other day and you could
have made more noises all by
your lonesome by throwing q
fistful of soap bubbles at a
ghost, or by beating a bowl Of
Jello over the head with a
cats tail.
The alarm-if a sound re-
mindful Of a canary chirping
four miles back in Mammoth
Cave can be considered an
alarm-was sounded at IL
noon. Lots Of folks said wasn't
1t a shame 1t wasn't II o'clock
on Armistice Day. what with
everything so quiet and peace
full.
I was fortunate enough to
read some of the unofficial re-
ports on the alarm turned in by
unofficial observers scattered
throughout the city. The re-
ports prove beyond the shadow
of a doubt that any city hoping
to take from New York the
honor Of having the most cathe-
dral-quiet sirens in the world
has q real Job on its hands.
From Central Park observer:
Evening star., 1951-02-05
David Lowrence:

Many people here have had a
good laugh over an article in
the London Economist" twit-
ting the British government on
its recent tactics in the U. N.
in connection with the Korean
situation. It is in the form Of
an imaginary dispatch dated
about a year hence-January
%, 1952-from a British cor
respondent at Lake Success. 1t
reads as follows:
"Since the withdrawal of the
United Nations forces from
Bonn, opinion in the Assembly
has been veering in favour OF the
American view that 1t is neces-
sary to abandon Germany al
together in order to restore
peace in Europe. The British
delegate, Sir Gladwyn Jebb, has,
indeed, continued to press for
the condemnation of Russia as
an aggressor, arguing that the
whole purpose of the United
Nations would be stultif1ed If
the Assembly refused to stigma
tise the Russian invasion Of
West Germany as an aggres-
sion.
"The American delegate. Mr..
Warren Austin, however, Is urg-
ing caution: He maintains that
hasty action would not be in
the interest of peace and that
time is needed to study the
latest Russian counter -propos-
ais, which should be given the
most careful consideration.
"The proposal of the United
Nations Political Committee for
q cease-fire in Germany, to be
followed by a meeting of the
Council of Foreign Ministers,
was rejected by Russia, who in
sisted that Russian basic terms
for a settlement must be ac-
cepted before the victorious
Russian volunteers could be ad-
yised to desist from their Of
fenSive. ....
1.-THE Russian demand is that
all foreign troops must be with
drawn from Germany and that
the Internal affairs of Germany
must be settled by the Ger
mans themselves; as all Ger
man politicians who have not
either escaped across the Rhine
or joined the Communists have
now been shot, Moscow is con-
fident that Herr Upright will
be able to handle the situation
with difficulty. The Russians
are willing to accept the pro-
posal for q meeting of the
Council Of Foreign Ministers on