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Evening star., 1951-05-01
Administration Seeks Only Its Own Seeurit,
BY Closed Hearings in Macarthur Case

The ends Of q legitimate safe
guard Of secret information can
be served by paraphrasing the
documents so that the enemy
will not be able to decode any
thing they may have picked up
heretofore of our secret mes
sages. Once this paraphrasing
is done-and it is being done
nearly every week in some form
with respect to diplomatic ex-
changeS-there is no real dan
ger in the publication of the in
formation.
But in the event that a docu-
ment emerges or is referred to
in the open hearings which
could be the source Of military
information, all the presiding
officer at the hearings has to
do is close the hearings for an
interval at that point until that
particular document is exam
ined in secret, whereupon the
open hearings could be resumed.
The procedure decided on by
the Democratic majority in the
Senate Armed Services Com
mittee will be to hold secret
hearings and then allow q
transcript to be edited and the
edited version will be issued to
the public.
The newspapermen will have
to buy the transcript from
stenographers. paying about 20
cents for every $50 or 200 words
of testimony. The press will
have no opportunity to observe
the demeanor of witnesses. The
delay between the time the tes-
timony is given and the time
the transcript will be available
for publication may be hours,
if not days. Meanwhile, the re-
porters will ask both the wit
nesses and the members Of the
committee what happened, and
will get paraphrases and con-
denSed versions which may or
may not be influenced by the
Evening star., 1951-05-01

muskrat caps. or the newspaper
men, or the tycoons Of business.
The most important people
are those close to horses. The
swipes. the grooms. the train
ers, the jocks. the touts. the
clockers.
Everybody in this town is
locking for information about
the Derby winner. That is all
that matters. II q man smells
like a horse because Of close as
sociation with a horse. he Is
more eagerly sought after than
a politician who can give your
uncle a contract to manufac-
ture tanks.
Louisville is the only town in
the United States 7 know Of
that turns itself over complete
ly to an event. From yester-
day, until Saturday afternoon,
wien the name of the Derby
winner is painted In gold on
the old clubhouse. nothing mat
tiers in this city but the Derby.
You must come to Louisville
and see a Derby for yourself. to
believe me. You get horses with
your breakfast orange juice,
you get horses at the shoe shine
parlor, you get horses for lunch,
and you go to bed with the
names Of half a dozen winners
ringing in your ears.
Every citizen is an expert,
and yet none is. The prices Of
the winners Of the Derby is
clear proof Of that.
There's nothing like it, real
ly. What a week to renew old
friendships. what a week to live!
That's right. live.
I told you my explanation Of
why am here for the Derby
would make no sense.
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Evening star., 1951-05-01
Lowell Mehett:
Now to E Examine the Evidenc
Committee Hearings Should Bring Cessation
Of Emotional Appeals Intended to Confuse

this increase that arouses In
the mothers and fathers Of
Americas sons such UNDER
standable anguish and uncer.
tainty."
:. I have strongly urged
the need for q positive policy
designed to stop through
strength this slaughter Of Amer
ica's sons"
"The lives Of your sons call
for this measure Of considera-
ton, for the enemy bullets :.
strike down the son of a Demo-
crat just as surely as the SON
Of a Republican"
". to bring the war to an
early and honorable end with
maximum protection for your
sons now engaged"
1t was a speech not intended
to clarity an issue. It was a
speech intended to confuse. A
speech calculated to arouse the
emotions that prevent thinking.
And it appeared to be successful,
for the moment at least. Later
the anguished or fearful fathers
and mothers, relatives and
friends Of the young men In
Korea or elsewhere in the Army
might pause to think. And they
might think that the Mac
Arthur program for ending the
bloodshed was open to question.
They might doubt that lives
would be saved by carrying the
war to all of China and prob
ably to Russia. But under the
spell of the great mans voice
they could only roar back their
approval Of what he seemed to
be saying.
The great immediate danger
in all this lies in the effect it
may be having on Gen. Mac
Arthur himself.
Evening star., 1951-05-01

sumption, and stepped-up cam
paigns in Asia. And a fall in
living standards below the point
where it is tolerable for the
organized masses. producing
strikes and wide unrest. is an
odd way to fight communism.
But even this is not the chief
source Of the anxiety that trem-
bles everywhere. The anxiety is
that American leaders have
abandoned all hope for a peace
by settlement, and that by
trusting to force alone to pre-
vent war, they are making it
inevitable.
What impression Of peace
does one gain from these head
lines in only one newspaper
edition9
'U. 8. to Hit Manchuria Bases
If Reds Bomb Troops"
~. s. Aid to Chang Set 10
Weeks Ago:
~. S. Casualties in Korea
Toll 61,744."
Foes Losses Grow"
South Korean Minister Out
After Mass Killing Inquiry"
(The Home Minister executed
1877 civilian villagers).
ivan Fleet Certain of Final
Victory"
10000 Draft Call Slated in
June"
italian Ski Troops Stir Els
enhower."
"McCloy Denounces German
Arms Lag"
Evening star., 1951-05-01

so deserving Of the term rab-
ble-rousing been heard as that
delivered by the general in Chi
cago.
It was only q ten-minute
speech but within its brief space
Gen. Macarthur managed to
include these passages:
81 have only recently left
many of your sons on the battle
line in Korea and ! can report
to you they are splendid in
every way. Despite the inhibi-
tions under which they fight,
they are writing a proud rec
ord Of valor :"
q. -. with consequent saw
ing Of countless American
lives"
". Notwithstanding the con-
stantly increasing cost in Ameri-
can blood"
to achieve that victory
with minimum cost in human
life"
"Our losses there In ratio to
the men committed have al
ready reached staggering pro-
portions. These losses are
progressively mounting by the
thousands each month. It is
Evening star., 1951-05-01
Germany Treated Like Stepchi|d
Most Nations in Europe Today Are Engaged in Trade
With Red China and Its Moscow Masters

her own. They still insist that
millions of young Germans serve
in small units in their own
armies under the command Of
the conquerors.
Thus with appeals to the
nationalistic feelings Of the Ger
man people and at the same
time declarations that the Ger
man workers can find lasting
employment in industries which
will have much Of the Far East
at their disposal, the West
Germans are urged to shake
the Western yoke" and join
their free brethren in the
East" The Red agitators say
that Russia will then see that a
new Germany is given ample
opportunity to develop herself
nationally and economically. It
also will guarantee that Ger
many would be spared the de-
struction of a third world war.
The Bonn government is
fully aware of the trickery of
this propaganda and is doing its
best to Offset it. But unfortu-
nately neither London nor
Paris has done anything con-
structive In recent months to
deny by deeds the contentious
Of Soviet propaganda. In spite
Of the military arguments Of
Gen. Eisenhower to equitably
stabilize the situation in West
ern Germany, the British and
the French governments, con-
fronted with a difficult internal
situation, have maintained their
previous position of treating
Germany as a stepchild in the
European defense setup.
Evening star., 1951-05-01
Doris FIeeson:
Why Churchill Cancelled Visit
Boruch and Stossen Warned Conservative Leader
Of Intensity of Anti-Brtsh Feeling in u S.

all accredited White House and
Congressional correspondents.
The Capital had been unusu-
ally keen to hear him, in fact,
especially since the troubles of
the British Labor government
make it appear that he might
soon again direct the affairs of
our principal ally.
Mr.. Baruch cited many rea-
sons for what he believes to be
widespread anti-British senti-
ment at present. Among them
are: The British oppose our
China policy, they are against
the Schuman plan which we
favor. they did not agree to the
tariff concessions of the Torquay
conference but retained Empire
preference, we are in conflict
over ALLEGATION of raw materials
for defense production, the
British leftwingers who, follow
Aneurin Bevan alarm Americans
when they put the welfare state
ahead of the security Of the
free world.
He expressed the hope that
MIR. Churchill would come here
when the present storm had
spent itself, but he is firmly con-
vinced that the present emo
tional climate makes his visit
now too great a risk.
Evening star., 1951-05-01
Secrecy Is BIunderers' Refuge
.n Security

prejudice of the senators who
give out the information.
The press does not as a rule
reproduce an exact copy Of
what has previously been para
phrased In the first dispatches.
The end result is that a hear
ing Of profound importance to
the safety Of the American peo-
pie, involving past actions and
the evolution of our foreign pol
icy as well as our military pol
icy, will get to the public for
the most part in fragmentary
and confusing form.
Gen. Macarthur himself de-
clined to specify how he wished
the hearings to be held
wether they should be open or
closed. He took the position
that he. as q witness, really
should not express an opinion
and that it should be left to
the committee to decide. This
was a wise approach because
the committee intended to vote
for closed sessions anyway. The
pressure from the Pentagon is
to keep from the public as much
information as possible would
show that the military men con-
cur even In part with Gen. Mac
Arthur. There is such fear in
the Pentagon Of getting in bad
with the civilian or political
side Of the government that Of
ficers prefer not even to dis
cuss the Macarthur affair.
So it all boils down to the fact
that. while America Is suffering
casualties in Korea due to q poll
icy of limitation which Gen.
Macarthur has questioned, the
American people are not going
to get the full story of the rea-
sons why the civilian author
ity in Government has substi-
tuted its own opinions for the
judgment of competent military
men In the field.
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might take it out on Mr..
Churchill.
when Mr.. Churchill in
formed me that he intended to
accept I reminded him that Of
course he must clear it with
the President of the United
States. He advised that he had
done so through the British
Embassy and that the President
had expressed pleasure and in
vited him to lunch"
This reporter is able to say Of
her own knowledge that early
in April Mr.. Baruch. while of
course pleased to play host
again to Mr.. Churchill, had his
doubts and was insisting on be-
ing kept in the background. He
is aware that he is a fighting
word in Mr.. Truman's personal
encourage and he wished to
avoid embarrassing his guest in
any way. He said then that he
did not plan to entertain for
him lest it be misunderstood.
Mr.. Stassen's doubts arose,
however, following the Mac
Arthur recall. Up to then he
had been eagerly pressing the
invitation which he had flown,
to England in person.
Administration circles dis
sent from the Baruch-Stassen
advice. They feel that Britain's
wartime Prime Minister, who is
half-American. stands in the
minds of most Americans high
above partiSanship.
They had anticipated that Mr..
Churchill. the conservative so
acceptable to Republicans ex-
cept for his foreign policy views.
would have a calming influence.
They naturally would not expect
him to touch on personalities.
What they had hoped for was
that the eloquent voice which
rallied the free world in the
1940s could produce a similar
clarion call for the confused
1950s.
Mr.. Churchill, however, while
seeming to regret the necessity
for his decision, obviously did
not feel that he could go against
his old friend and the host who
issued the invitation. MIR. Stas-
sen had arranged to open a
Churchill wing Of the University
Of Pennsylvania library and
wanted Mr.. Churchill personally
to dedicate it.
Following that, Mr.. Churchill
was to have come here to lunch
with President Truman and
speak before q convocation of
Evening star., 1951-05-01
Dorothy Thompson:

It would be easy to wisecrack
over the designations from tlle
British Cabinet on the issue Of
free false teeth.
But the matter is much more
serious.
Aneurin Bevin is leading
q revolt against British foreign
policy. i.e., against the leader
ship of the United States.
Neither Mr.. Bevan nor the Brit
ish Communists have created
that revolt. It rumbles beneath
the surface, not only In Britain,
but In all Western Europe. It is
not confined to left wingerS, nor
motivated only by concern lest
the European Rearmament
Program, superimposed upon
fragile and already mortgaged
economies, should bring new raw
material crises. more imitation.
and q widening gap between
wages and prices. 7 - 15.s
The possible economic con-
sequences for Europe Of the
peace-by-force program can
threaten the stability Of the
whole social order, even where
the Communist Party is neglig-
ible.
The United States may be
able. as Mr.. Charles Wilson
thinks, to have guns and butt
ter, too, but il we do the Eu-
ropean economies will hardly
withstand intensive universal
rearmament with American
stockpiling. heavy. civilian con-
Evening star., 1951-05-01
Constantine Brown:

Chancellor Konrad Adenauer
is a shrewd man. He announced
at Bonn last Sunday that the
West German Federal Republic
was willing to join all other
Western European nations in a
plan to stop all Western trade
with Communist China. He
feels himself on safe grounds
since there is hardly a nation,
in Europe today which is not
engaged in a relatively remu-
nerative trade with the Far
Eastern aggressor and its Mos,
cow masters.
Hong Kong and Singapore are
doing a land Office business with
the Chinese. West Germany Is
not doing badly either. Last
week the German freighter Mai
Rickmers was intercepted by
Nationalist gunhoats while en-
route to Shanghai with a cargo
OF vitally needed radio equip
ment, medical supplies and
other strategic materials. The
ships cargo had been cleared
from Hamburg by the Allied
high commissioners deputies.
Consequently, insofar as the
Bonn government was con-
cerned, the shipments we're
legal. But while the Nationalist
destroyerS and gunboats dare to
interfere with a German vessel,
they would run into real trou-
BILE If they challenged the rights
OF ships flying Allied flags.
Moscow is now wooing West
ern Germany. 1t ignores the
Bonn government which is being
described as a stooge Of the
Western capitalists. It is ap-
Evening star., 1951-05-01
2orozTZ 1no11Rson:
Threat to Whole Social Order
Underground Revolt Rurnbes in All Western Europe
Against the Leadership of the United States

Wilson Says Reds Couldn't
Win in 1953."
"$6,46s.2 100000 More Voted
for Defense"
Hardly is Macarthur dis
missed than the President be-
gins implementing his recon-
mendations to extend the Asia
war-precisely as this column
predicted.
In Paris the Big Four parley
is halted by an outbreak from
Mr.. Gromyko, who Is thus re-
buked by the British delegate:
"The Soviet delegate sunk to a
level quite out Of keeping with
the dignity of this meeting"
What dignity? On and on
these diplomats argue about an
agenda. each speaking his piece
on the others wickedness. They
are there to help save the world
from the most unmitigated
caIaSCropne imaginable. But ap-
parently they do not even i'm
agine it!
II the United States wants
peace, that is what our leaders
should proposal every ses-
sion Of every international
body.
II we proposed it. the people
Of the whole world. regardless
OF their governments, would
rally to us. as they are revolt
ing from us today.
Instead, these leaders 90 on
trying to find the most COM
plicated and self justified way
to commit universal suicide.
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Evening star., 1951-05-01
Henry NcLen7ore:
Men Who Smell Like Horses
Souqht After in Louisville
Henry McLen1ore:

LOUISVILLE, Ky.-I am here
for the Kentucky Derby, which
will be run here Saturday.
Please don't ask me why I
am here, because I am not at
all sure that ! can give you q
sensible answer.
I am not here because it is
the greatest horse race in the
world.
That billing belongs to the
Grand National Steeplechase at
Liverpool, the toughest test of
a thoroughbred ever devised by
man. tHad it been left to
horses, the Liverpool never
never would have been thought
up unless, of course, men were
going to run 1t with horses on
their backs.)
The Kentucky Derby, speak
ing from the head but not
the heart, isn't the best horse
race in America. The Belmont
Stakes is. It is run later, and
over q greater distance. when
3-year -olds are solid, and not
the babies they are when they
run in the Derby.
So what, you ask me, makes
the Derby what 1t is?
Why am I here, when !
know that my wallet will suffer,
and that I'll go back to New
York with new and deeper
wrinkles in my face?
Well. I'll tell you. guaran-
teeing that it won't make
sense to millions.
I am here because there is
nothing in America that quite
matches Louisville during Derby
week. I repeat. nothing. You
name the things you think,l
match it, and I'll say no and
no and no again. Mardi Gras?
That's enforced safety.
Conventions Of ElkS, Shrin-
erS, American LegionnaireS?
You're wrong again.
The World Series? Not in
the same league.
The most important people
In Louisville during Derby week
aren't the millionaires who pour
in, or the high brass politicians,
or the society folk with their
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Doris FIeeson:

Winston Churchill Cancelled
his journey to the United States
not because of the political sit
uation in Great Britain but be-
cause Harold Stassen and B.
M. Baruch, who were to have
been his hosts, told him not to
come.
In a transatlantic telephone
conference, the two Americans
advised the British ConServa-
tive leader that the extent and
intensity of anti-British feeling
In the United States made his
appearance here inopportune.
The Stassen-Baruch Church.
Ill telephone conservations took
place subsequent to the removal
of Gen. Macarthur by President
Truman.
The political implications are
obvious.
Gen. Macarthur has been
taken over by the dominant
Taft faction of Republicans
who have made his limited
China war cause their own. Mr..
Truman is against it and one
reason is because we would have
to fight Red China without
allies, the British and its Com
monwealth nations being ut
terly opposed both to war with
China and aid to the Chinese
Nationalists.
Mr.. StaSsen is a former Re-
publican candidate for Presl-
dent who does not conceal his
continued political aspirations,
though he is now President Of
the University of Pennsylvania.
He has also called Mr.. Truman
our worst President. Mr.. Tru-
man and Mr.. RAruch had a
falling-out in the 1948 cam
paign and the President has
consistently rejected the pleas
of Mrs. Roosevelt and other in
f1uential Democrats that he
ought to heal the breach.
Mr.. Baruch emphatically re-
jects the idea that any politics
influenced his advice to his old
friend. He acknowledged freely
that he thought the times were
not propitious for a Churchill
appearance here but said he ad-
vised against it from the very
start, months ago.
"The visit was Mr.. Stassen's
idea" he said. "As soon as Mr..
Churchill communicated with
me about it I expressed grave
doubts. The British are opposing
us In many fields, our people
resent it and I was afraid they
Evening star., 1951-05-01
COW Masters

pealing directly to the German
masses and induStrialiSts.
Soviet = financed corporations
have been organized In Western
Germany. They make possible
a thriving export business with
the Iron Curtain countries. Ger
man goods are being shipped in
transit to Allied or neutral
countries whence they are trans
shipped to the East.
The Soviet propagandists' bid
for a "free" reunion Of Eastern
and Western Germany is not
based on theological arguments.
They point out to the German
industrialists and the millions
Of workers that while the in
dustrial West will never permit
a genuine revival Of the Reich's
industrial power, Russia needs
1t. The Soviet European satel-
lite countries cannot supply the
great needs Of half a billion
people in China. they say. These
markets can be Germany's for
the asking. The industrial West,
the propagandists say. Is afraid
Of Germany's potential compe-
tition. The West. they say.
seeks only Germany's man
power as cannon fodder against
the U. S. s. r. They refuse
even in this emergency to grant
Germany full sovereignty" In
one Of the many pamphlets
which are being distributed by
the million in the West, the
spokesmen for the Kremlin
state: 1.-The British and the
French governments have de-
MED the American proposal that
Germany organize an army Of
Evening star., 1951-05-01
David Lawrence:

Secrecy and suppression are
the refuge Of the incompetent
and the hlunderers in govern
ment. Publicity. with every
thing put on the table, is the
enemy of scandal and abuse Of
power.
These principles apply equal
~ to military and civilian at
fairs.
The Kefauver hearings proved
the point concluSively.
The decision to carry on in
secret the investigation touched
off by the Presidents arbitrary
removal Of Gen. Macarthur is.
therefore, a serious error which
can only increase the distrust
that the American people feel
now about the administration
and the Democratic party.
which is in control Of the Gov
ernment.
It is a curious thing that the
Democrats voted Solidly for Sc
crecy and the Republicans voted
for open sessions Of the Senate
Armed Services Committee.
The only excuse for closed
sessions which has a Semblance
of logic is the claim that there
are secret directives of a mill
tary nature, the texts Of which
ought not to be revealed for Sc
curity reasons.
The principal security reason.
Of course, Is the security of the
Democratic Administration. It
is doubtful il there is a single
document now in the records
really needed for the hearings
which could give military aid
to the enemy If made public.
The habit Of recent years in
Washington is to put the top
secret" or classified informa-
ton" label on anything or ev-
erything that might cause a
bureaucrat annoyance or put
him on the defensive.
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Reduced After Trial
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tor, already had served 26O days in
confinement in the Garrett County
Jail, from March 20, 1850, to Novem-
Der 16, 1850, when he was released
under a cash bond. As a consequence,
with the additional | 5 months he may
serve as much as two years,
The beating of the child occurred
in October, 1919, in a cabin on Deep
Creek Lake, where the Walburns
temporarily were residing.
Testimony was heard Tuesday from
about ten witnesses and in addition
the first-trial statements of Balti-
more brain specialist concerning the
child's injuries were read after OPP
posing attorneys agreed to the action.
At that time the surgeon told the
court the child was blind and that
parts of the brain tissue were de-
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ton for three years. They were or
dered to report to the Maryland De-
partment of Parole and Probation
regularly.
Only two additional criminal cases,
both involving parenthood, remain on
the criminal docket. These cases were
continued because Senator Neil c..
Fraley, defendants attorney, is in
Annapolis, where the legislature is
winding up its session.
Paul Stark, Mt. Zion, who pleaded
guilty to a charge Of operating a
motor vehicle while his operators Ii
cense was revoked, was given thirty
days grace to raise money to pay a
fine of 5000 and costs, otherwise he
would be compelled to serve 90 days
in the county jail.
He originally appeared before
Magistrate H. A. Loraditch last
August on the charge, pleaded guilty
and was fined at that time. He APP
pealed the case and pleaded guilty
before the court.