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Evening star., 1951-08-07
John Henry:

United Nations members on
both sides Of the Iron Cur
tain are watching with rather
unusual interest a So million
wrangle on Capitol Hill. It's
the principle not the principal
that is mainly at issue.
The dispute centers around
the pending State Department
appropriation bill and Its pro-
vision for funds for the United
States contribution to the 1851
United Nations budget. A scaled
down request when the bill was
before the House called for ap-a
preparation of $30.297,86 the
total of several commitments
made for administrative pur-
poses to the United Nations and
a scattering Of other interna-
tional organizations. 3f
Approval of this sum was
given by the House Appropria-
tions Committee, but by a voice
vote on the floor the figure was
cut to a fiat $27 million. There
was q further House vote limit
ing our contributions to one
third of the annual budget re-
quirements of any of these or
ganizations. Observers claim
that the backbone Of the re-
stricting vote was counted
among the Republicans and
Southern Democrats. The legis-.
lation is now before the SEN
ate Appropriations Committee
where efforts are being made
to restore the cut.
When the u. N. General As
sembly began consideration of
+: its 1851 budget the United
States was asked to pick up
the check for a 49 per cent as
sessment Of the total. The
American delegation baked at
this figure and final agreement
was reached on a level Of 1892
per cent. Notice was further
given that the United States
intended to work gradually
down to a point where we would
accept no more than a one
third burden of these costs but
the commitment was made for
the higher percentage for 1851.
BY contrast, Britain was as
sessed for only u per cent and
Soviet Russia for only z. a COM
parison which figured in the
House action.
Evening star., 1951-08-07
Sweeteninq the Defense Dollar
Wnson Ready to Pick Out Items in the Immense Showcase
Which the Various Armed Services Are Demanding

frankly thinks they ought to
expand about 100000 more right
now. =
Mr.. Vinson is not, Of course,
the last word in what the De-
tense Department will get. but
he is comfortingly close to it.
He denies that admirals run his
errands and generals empty his
wastebaskets, but 1t Is q fact
that when he has a cold the
brass sneezes.
This being the case, it is also
Of interest that he firmly sup
ports Army Secretary PAGES de-
cision to dismiss 80 West Point
cadets for violating the honor
system Of the academy. His
committee, he declared, would
not investigate the matter; the
Secretary had handled 1t and
it should stay handled.
Mr.. Wilson'S Senate opposite
number, Senator Russell, is
home celebrating a wedding in
the family. But Senator Russell
and Mr.. Vinson are fellow -Geor-
gians, fellow-conspirators In
many a defense cause they
deemed for the good of the
country. They rarely disagree In
policy matters. The acting SEN
ate Armed Services chairman,
Mr.. Byrd. has already indicated
support Of Mr.. Pace.
Evening star., 1951-08-07

Once the commitment was
made by the United States dele
cation. however, the prospect of
a default raised fear Of COM
plications considered more i'm
portant than the relatively
small sum involved. If the
House action stands, two alter
natives are in prospect.
One is an effort to persuade
other participating nations to
increase their contributions
above the agreed level. It has
been the American intention to
seek such an adjustment in
assessments in future years, but
whether any appreciable revi-
sion can be effected for 1851 is
more than doubtful. There is
the further danger that the
example Of the American Con-
gress declining to honor the
commitment Of our own dele
CATION and Of setting an arbi-
trary. assessment ceiling below
that agreed on for this year
could prompt a comparable &C
ton by other governments.
The second alternative would
be the admission of additional
members to the U. N. in time
for their contributions to create
a new proportional formula.
Unfortunately, this alternative
runs head on into an old and
familiar dead-end street.
E Fourteen non-member coun-
+ tries are knocking at the gates
of u. N. membership. Nine of
them-Ireland. Portugal, Jor-
dan, Italy, Austria, Ceylon,
Korea. Nepal and Finland
have or could obtain the sup
port Of the anti-communist
members. The other five
Albania, Outer Mong Ola /,
Hungary. Rumania and Bull
garia--have the support Of the
Communist members only.
In the opinion of the free
world bloc the five candidates
sponsored by Soviet Russia and
its satellites are unqualified un-
der terms Of the U. N. charter.
There is none to believe they
would be other than stooges for
Moscow if admitted and in
dividually they boast records Of
responsibility in the field Of
international relations. It is
Evening star., 1951-08-07
Fletcher KnebeI::
Potomac Fever

investigating committee it'll look into
cheating scandals Congressmen the
dssas unfair After ALL it costs taxpayers $50 600 TO put
through Point and the kids never got
anything but $64 questions.
Football Coach Blaik he welcomes congressional
probe Of West Point cheating there weren't much over
emphasis studies the boys would have time for character
building athletics .4
Mississippi Democrats ballot eight candidates for Governor
AL eight pessts who believe there's hope for the T-
race.
Democratic Senator bill investigate Repub
can Senator Mccarthy to he should be oused from
the Senate Benons determined to get Mccarthy he's willing
to risk his political future front the country
Democratic Chairman Bill Boyle declares he won't quit under
FIRE Boyes life really book handsomely illustrated by
q ST. Louis printing firm.
Happy Chandler tells anybody would be stupid
become baseball commissioner under present conditions Under
conditions fellow would be stupid to take
job for less than two weeks.
President Truman we'll have to elect forward
looking Congresen before stop floods the Missouri
Valley Harys even willing to again they'll have
look forward
Evening star., 1951-08-07

Navy sweetener for this large
dose will be two big new aircraft
carriers, one to be built at Brem-
erton, another at New York.
Construction is already going
forward on one. OF the total it
is planned TO station one in the
Pacific, two in the Atlantic.
The Navy may not be so hap
py to learn that Uncle CarIs
heart still belongs to the Ma
rines. It does appear that he is
compromising somewhat with
the counterattack on his cher
ished plan to make the Marine
Corps an always ready" force
of 100000 fighting men. The
Marines now number about
100000. Mr.. Vinson is toying
with figure of 100000 plus air
wings for four divisions.
incidentally, the Marines own
air force is one of the most
skilled, most effective and best
equipped combat groups in the
defense establishment. The pub
lie generally thinks of Marines
on the beachhead; it is not so
well aware that they are power
full n,edicine in the air also.
The Army has assurances that
Mr.. Vinson will support its fur
ther expansion to any reason
able number of "high-type Off
GERS and fighting men," He
Evening star., 1951-08-07
JONI .7en1Z.-
Black and White Issue on u. N.
Reputation Compromise Budget Funds by Congress
Could Cause World Organization to Fall Aport Rapidly

equally well established, how
ever. that the Moscow clique
will not consent to admission Of
any of the nine other nations
unless the same privilege Is
granted one or more of their
own favorites. Accepting a
trade on this basis would
constitute a surrender Of prin-
ciple by the anti Communist
nations.
While there are adequate
grounds for fault-flnding with
the United Nations and its
achievements, or lack Of them,
there seems to be one black
and-white issue involved here.
The United States took the
leadership in forming the or
ganization, its continuance is
still one of the cornerstones Of
our foreign policy, and the ex-
ample which we set in our par
ticipation is still Of paramount
significance. If we are to
choose a course of half-repudia-
ton or of compromise with
principle. the phase of final
U. N. disintegration will develop
quickly.
Evening star., 1951-08-07
David Lawrence:

Senator McCarran of Nevada.
Democrat, has put his finger on
the real weakness in the Voice
Of America"
Effective propaganda" he
says. sis inseparable from effec-
tive national policy. If the Of
fetal policies of the democratic
nations, and especially the
United States. remain hesitant
and confused, we can convey
only a sense of our weakness and
moral filters. Under those cir
cumstances the enlargement of
facilities for transmitting our
message can even prove harm
full, for the message itself may
be defective. In the struggle for
the mind and soul of mankind,
sheer quantity is no substitute
for quality"
The foregoing is what many
an American observer has been
saying for months. It points up
the fact that, when American
foreign. policy is weak, our Of
fetal propaganda is weak. The
main reason for failures in the
past has been the strange incon-
sistency that has characterized
the speeches of the highest Of
ficials Of the United States
Government - the expressed
belief that the Kremlin can re-
form, can become honest, can
rid itself of it's evil conspiracies
just by watching the build-up of
American military strength.
The Nevada Senator declares
that American propaganda
against communism has been
Evening star., 1951-08-07

denouncss. condemns and CEN
sures these tactics" So now
what will happen? The Senate
viii seat the beneficiary Of the
tactics described and he will
lend his voice to the condemna-
ton of sinners outside the
Senate.
The scandal in Maryland oc-
CURED under the noses OF the
naval cadets at Annapolis, Just
as the scandal IN New York's
senatorial race-the Hanley
affair-was within smelling
distance of West Point. And
many of the boys in both in
stitutions are there by the
favor of a Senator or House
member.
If Congress seriously desires
to improve the country's moral
climate, the place to start
should be fairly obvious.
Evening star., 1951-08-07

''foredoomed because it was
geared to appeasement of the
enemy" He says this offers no
hope or help to the people be-
hind the Iron Curtain and he
fatty recommends "the over
throw of the Soviet dictatorship
by all means at our disposal, in
concert with the subjects of that
dictatorship"
To this end, MIR. McCarran
proposes:
Breaking Of diplomatic and
commercial relations with all
Communist countries.
Expulsion of the Kremlin
government and it's puppets
from all decent democratic soci-
ETY.. including the United Ma
tionS.
Formal condemnation of the
Soviet rulers for a long array of
specific crimes against human
ity: Forced labor, police terror,
genocide. aggressions against
neighbors. denial of elementary
civil rights, and many more.
Maximum support for under
ground insurgent groups inside
the Communist sphere of con-
troll.
open and effective co-opera-
ton with the hundreds of thou
sands of fugitives from Com
munism now living miserably in
Western Europe and on the
fringes of the Asian continent.
Mr.. McCarran's program may
seem drastic to some, but it is
a logical and fortnight program
which sooner or later will have
to be adopted by the Western
nations because it is the only
Evening star., 1951-08-07

be, it comes with poor grace
from a Congress that has Just
passed the highly immoral de-
fense production act, designed
to protect the robbery of all
average citizens, both as con-
sumers and as taxpayers.
It comes with poor grace
from a forum which keeps the
air filled with suspicious un-
justified by facts, a forum in
which character assassination
is practiced as part of the po-
litical trade.
Only last week a bipartisan
subcommittee of the Senate
published a report on the Mary
land senatorial campaign, say
ing it revealed tactics and
practices that can best be char
acterized as destructive of fun
damental American principles.
The subcommittee unreservedly
Evening star., 1951-08-07
Lowell MeHett::
The Congress and the Cadets
West Point Boys Asked to Pay Pretty Stiff Price
For Their Sins, Considering Example Set Them

If the punishment stands, the
dismissal Of the 80 young West
Point cadets for cribbing in an
exam may have one useful re-
suit. 1t may mean a little less
cheating in schools generally
during the next few years. That
is because the punishment-not
the misdemeanor-is a national
sensation, one calculated to
shock classrooms and campuses
throughout the country. So boys
and girls in high schools and
colleges will be less inclined to
take advantage of teacher than
they have been in the past. And
so the unfortunate 80 can con-
slider themselves unwilling mar
tyrs to a good cause.
1t is a pretty stiff personal
price the boys are being asked to
pay for their sins, in the opin-
ion of this taxpayer. So far as
the national Military Academy
itself is concerned, the great re-
form surely could have been OBJ
tanned by measures less drastic.
Those caught cribbing could
have been required to take a Sec
ond examination with new set
OF questions and allowed to
stand or fall on their answers.
Members Of the football squad
caught cribbing could have been
rendered ineligible to play. That
would have been a lasting cure,
If it gave West Point a bad foot
ball season. 1t would cure not
only the culprits Immediately in
volved, but all students disposed
to take the honor system lightly.
The atmosphere surrounding
the unhappy young men would
be enough to convince them that
crime doesn't pay. All the pur-
poses of the present dismissals
would have been served.
Humans are not born honest.
They have to learn to be.
Which is my contribution to
the orgy of sermons being
preached on the subject. Some
Of the other sermons give me
pain. That is particularly true
of some emanating from Con-
gresS. Congress, as usual, is
filled with indignation concern
ing the moral climate of the
country-the climate, that is,
everywhere save in Congress.
AS keeper of the country's
conscience, Congress has always
been too busy to look after its
own.
So now we have members of
Congress weeping in public
over the sins of everybody ex-
cept themselves. No wonder,
they say, that the boys at West
Point got wrong ideas when
they read about mink coats,
freezers and f1ve-percenters in
4 Washington. True as this may,
Evening star., 1951-08-07
Why the Voice LucksSubstonce
McCorron Puts Finger on Real Weakness of Our
By Pointing to Confusion of Official Policies
ur Propaganda

approach that will gain support
behind the Iron Curtain and pre-
vent a third world war. AS long
as the present rulers Of the So
Wet remain In power, the danger
of a world war and tension will
exist.
The program would aid such
organizations as the Free Europe
Committee and other groups now
fighting inside and outside the
Iron Curtain. MIR. McCarran has
been serving as chairman Of the
subcommittee of the Appropria-
tions Committee of the Senate,
and he is also chairman Of the
Senate internal Security Com
mittee. He has been hearing
evidence on the effectiveness
and ineffectiveness Of certain
types of propaganda and anti
Communist activity, and to him
the whole effort to fight Com
munist imperialism is related
to the kind of propaganda that
is used. and this in turn Is re-
lated to national policy.
"At present." he adds. Mos
COW has the advantage Of fight
ing with both hands, while our
hands are tied behind our backs
by protocol, strict legalisms, and
desire for appeasement."
This is really the basic argu-
ment in favor of creating a sep
arate executive agency outside
the State Department and re-
sponsible only to the President.
as was the case with the Office
of War Information. which car
ried on psychological crusades
reaching into enemy countries
during World War II.
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Evening star., 1951-08-17
Modern MurriuQe

relish the idea of being an old
married bachelor. as you might
SAY, with a perpetually fault find
ing wife. for the next 20 years.
What does a man do in case like
this, DR.. Popenoe?"
You'd profit by the help of a
marriage counselor, Mr.. c., and if
you write me. in care of The Star,
I'll be glad to give you the name
Iof one in Washington. Enclose
stamped, self addressed envelope }
Meanwhile let's ask how this
serious difficulty started.
My guess is that your social
life, in earlier years, was built too
much on the children. You and
your wife didn't develop enough
interests of your own, together.
Your hobbies, such as writing
verse. weren't hobbies in which
she had any part. She formed
the habit of finding her interests
among woman friends, and now
nothing else seems important. y
go into this, because so many
other marriages are running the
same danger. 1t is important
that husband and wife build up
interests in common and add to
them as the children get older and
leave home. Otherwise they are
likely to be stranded in this mid
Idle-aged backwater in which you
find yourself. Mr.. C..
Evening star., 1951-08-17
By DR.. Paul Popenoe

Mr.. c. is a "bingo widower":;
and it's no fun.
Il have been married 35 years. ,
he writes. "All our children are
married except one who has been
invited by Uncle Sam to take a
job with opportunities of travel,
etc.-in uniform.
when the children were small
we went out together as a family
but now my wife, who is 81. seems
to have no interest in me or in
anything except her women
friends. Every evening she is of
to a bingo game or a club O,
lodge meeting. I can either sit al
nome or go out by myself. AS q
husband and a family man, I'm
not satisfied with either of these
prospects!
/ do have some interests OF
my oWn-quiet and inexpensive
ones. I enjoy writing fiction O,
verse, merely for my own pleasure
and l like to collect pictures anc
photographs. She ridicules these
hobbies, but offers no substitute
Physicians tell my wife she is
IN good health. We have no more
nnancial problems than the rest
OF tne world, in these days of in
nation. But I must say my mar
rage mas gone stale and I don't
Evening star., 1951-08-17
Given
For Bride-EIect

Mrs. William Hooper Dayton
and Mrs. John Brown Jacob were
co-hostesseS yesterday at a lunch
con in honor of Miss Marguerite
Boyer whose wedding to End 1t.
Patrick Foley. USMC, will take
place September 2.
Guests at the party, which was
held in the Palladian Room of the
Shoreham Hotel. included the
Misses Hope Raymond, Joan Pen
nlngton, Carol Cunningham
Pearce Butler and Mary-Stuart
Montague Price.
Mrs. Owen Smoot Nibley, the
former Miss Betty Browder who
is visiting her parents, Rear Ad-
miral and Mrs. Maurice Browder
was also on hand for the party
as was Miss Boyer's mother, Mrs
James Washington Boyer.
Evening star., 1951-08-17
Selection of School for Son Believed
To Be Reason for King Zog's Visit
VS. hnnne minister

country's home minister.
In town for a few days are three
Austrians who are not
exponents of the Zog type Of
quiet mystery. They are at
tractive young Count Charles
Draskovich. young, good-looking
Count Hans Hoyos and the peppy.
you might almost say, combusti-
BILE Baron Godfried Won Riedl. All
three are thrilled about being IA
and want to see every
thing.
The two elegant counts are
bachelors and live in castles in
that part of Austria under Rus
sian domination, though they say
that on the whole the Russians
leave them pretty much unmo-
Tested. That may be, of course.
because there are practically no
Communists in the Soviet con-
trolled zone from whom the Rus
slams can draw any support
(there are actually more in the
Western zone)-and also the
government of Austria is Aus
train.
While in America the three men
are being sponsored by ECA which
will provide them with the means
of visiting farms in this country
that most nearly approximate the
type of farming done on their
respective estates in Austria. They
need to study our modern methods
to help bring their own country.
which is way behind the times
agriculturally, up to date. At a
dinner at George Bakers the other
evening which also included Bar
oneSS Francie Weber and Countess
d'Amecourt, they bemoaned the
fact that their farm study will take
them only as far as Ohio and
Michigan when each one would
give an eye tooth to see the West
Coast. Coming over on the Queen
Elizabeth they got their best des-
CIlpG1O1l VI GI1C ". % n. cfCA J
thing over here. they were told.
was plastic, elastic and run by
machine"
And returning to New York to-
day after a week in Washington is
designer Muriel King who for
merly gowned Mrs. Averill Har-
riman, Mrs. Robert Lovett and
katherine Hepburn among others.
She came here to sever connec-
tions with ECA after working for
it in Greece for the past three
years. She was hired to promote
Greek textile design and stimu-
late the export of Greek fabrics.
She also supervised the fashioning
and planning of the clothes
modelled here in the Greek Caval-
cade. Her ECA job ended in June
and now she thinks she'll break
into a completely new, as yet
undisclosed field.
Evening star., 1951-08-17
Society News
Diplomatic Doings Take Over Spotlight;
Gala Reception of Uruguay Ambassador

5 will be a hail and farewell
Ievent-he'll be bidding goodby,
while his successor, Commodore
Knut Mauritz Ostberg, will be
introduced at the same party.
Tea Testers
1t was high tea yesterday at
Mrs. Joseph Elward's home on
Hawthorne street and the guest
of honor was Lady Pibulsonggram,
wife of the Premier of Thailand,
who has been visiting here for
four months and will return to her
homeland August 26.
More than so of Lady Pibul-
|songgram's newly-made friends
dropped by at the 4-to-6
o'clock party for a cup of tea, a
sandwich and a word of farewell
Assisting the hostess at the tea
table were Mrs. D. w. Pearce, Mrs.
j. R. Carter, Mrs. Carroll Kearns,
Mrs. Chester McMullen and Ms.
Ellen Woodward.
Princess Wan Waithayakon,
wife of the Thailand Ambassador,
was ranking guest at the tea for
her countrywoman and others in
cluded Nine. Gamboa, wife of the
Philippine Counselor; Mrs. Cons
tantine Stackleberg, Mrs. Sarah
Braverman, Miss Marguerite Grif-
fin, Mrs. John Allen Price, Mrs.
Gary Hughes. Mrs. Louis Renfrow,
Mrs. P. Taylor Perry and Mrs.
Richard H. Todd.
Embassy Changes
From the Venezuelan Embassy
comes news of the promotion of
Miss Maria Cristina Tamajo to-
Third Secretary.
Also new at that embassy is DR.,
Martin Perez MatoS who is serving
as counselor.
Evening star., 1951-08-17

Miss Carol Elizabeth Nicodemus,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. o. F.
Nicodemus of Dayton, Ohio, and
Mr.. Henry T. Boswell, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Henry T. Boswell of this
city, were married yesterday at
the Fourth Presbyterian Church.
A reception at the church fol-
lowed the ceremony.
The bride wore a dress of white
lace and net and a fingertip veil
She carried a bouquet of white
roses, centered with an orchid.
The groom's father was best
man and ushers were Mr.. Norman
Albrecht, brother-i law of the
groom; the Messrs. Donald Bough-
ton, Pat Lamb and Robert Newton.