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Evening star., 1952-06-22
Coast Airman Seized
In Attempt 10 Extort
$1,000 From Executive
By the Assoeioied Press

SAN FRANCISCO, June 21.-
Police have arrested an Air Force
man from Grand Rapids, Mich,
and said he confessed an attempt
to extort $4,000 from a San Fran
cisco automobile executive.
Police Inspector Frank Baroni
booked the airman, Leonard Pratt,
81, on charges of attempted ex-
tortion and burglary. He said
Pratt. who was arrested last night,
first gave a full oral account and
then made and signed a written
statement.
Pratt is an airman. third class,
attached to the 566th Air Police
Squadron at Hamilton Air Force
Base. near San Francisco.
Inspector Baroni said Pratt con-
fessed:
He broke into the Office of STAN
way Motors early Tuesday, took
some blank checks of Stanley A.
Strauss, so. the owner, and a
small photograph of Marjorie
Graywoyg, 6. Mr.. Strauss grand
daughter who lives in New York.
He left a penciled note demand
ing $4,000 "or you never see your
kid again."
Police set out a dummy package
but nobody called for it.
Pratt telephoned Mr.. Strauss
Wednesday telling him to await
further instructions.
That night he tossed a rock
through a window of Mr.. Strauss
home. Attached was a note with
instructions about putting 1000
in a bag to be left at Lombard
and Van Ness.
Nobody showed up at that cor
ner; police put a guard at the
Strauss home.)
Pratt was arrested in Berkeley
at the home Of a girl friend after
he had presented a Strauss check
for $500 at an Oakland furni-
ture store, Inspector Baroni said.
The inspector said Pratt left the
store hurriedly when the owner
said the validity of the check
would have to be proved.
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Constantine Brown:
Serious Crisis for United Nations
y ~ Is Fast Losing Confidence of PeoceL loving Peoples
Who Hoped Would Not Suffer Fate of Former Bodies

The crisis Of the United Ma
tions is more serious than it ap-
pears or the surface. That or
ganization, intended to remove
the specter of war from the
world, is fast losing the conf
dence of the peoples who once
pinned u cir highest hopes on
its ability to do the job in which
similar oodies had failed in the
past. The premonition of those
who back In l945 feared that it
might become another debating
society seem pretty close to
being realized.
The NAN weakness Of the
U. N. is that it gives one Of its
sinister members. the U. s. S. r.,
the capahility Of sabotaging It's
work for peace, and there is no
way Of interfering with this
sabotagine. Article 6 Of the
Charter does provide that "a
member Of the United Nations
which persists in violating the
principles of the present Char
ter may be expelled from the
organization by the General As
sembly upon the recommends
tion of the Security Council"
This means that without Mos
cows concurrence the u. S. S. r.
cannot be expelled.
Already the Kremlin repre-
sentatives have abused their
veto power in matters less per-
sonal than their own expulsion.
The situation Is like that Of q
criminal who sits on his own
jury. With the exception Of the
temporary settlement of the
Soviet-Iranian issue in 1946,
when the United Nations Sue
ceeded in inducing the Kremlin
to withdraw its troops from
Iran. not q single undertaking
to assure world peace has oeen
accomplished by the organiza-
ton. Those who point to the
settlement of the Israeli Arab
war overlook the fact that the
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see the budget balanced before
a tax cut is considered. These
will have support Of q kind In
the House, despite Speaker Mar
tin. The greatest cost-cutter
Of our times, Representative
Taber Of New York. will head
the House Appropriations Com
mittee. Representative Taber
swings a mean mean ak. as all
the executive departments know.
but his experience has been con.
fined largely to trimming the
proposals Of Democratic bu->
reaucrats. How he will operate
on Republican bureaucrats re-
mains to be seen.
A lot Of items that looked like
waste to Republican ONCE
seekers are apt to resemble ne.
cessities to Republican ONCE
holders. Already there is much
talk of the need to pay better
salaries in order to get the
high-class Government execu.
tives and general personnel
that Gen. Eisenhower has prom.
ised. This may help account for
the flood of job applications now
being referred to the Repub.
lican National Committee. Can't
cut taxes and raise salaries.
not without increasing the
budget deficit. Can't lop OF
attractive jobs and keep the
crusaders happy.
Well. 1t will all work out
somehow. At the moment I'm
betting on Joe Martin and tho
tax cut,
Evening star., 1952-11-18
Fletcher KnebeI::
Potomac Fever

The Nation watches the Eisenhower conference
the White House Ike % this where imp" Harry
This is where you get
Scientists applaud the United States developing
hydrogen bomb It's better where we're
about to spacets long one
Senator Taft it would be "a shame" of
Eisenhower administration with fight Nothing about
Bob little healthy pushing showing for the honor Of
being the first to turn the clock back
The world marves at Americas H-bomb We're making
great strides. fellows We're still here aren't we?
Tammany worker tells the New York crime commission
Congressmens payroS years working
It's taste to paid nothing congressional
payroll unless you're elected to do it.
Servicemen face prosecution writing about the
bomb It's illegal to mention atomic secrets until
procesSed officially through Washington cocktail
Greece halls the landslide victory Papagos
It's great for old soldiers halls of staecraf-and
think what that to the typewriter market, Mac!
Evening star., 1952-11-18
Lowell MeNett:
Lowell MeAett
Eisenhower's Wishes May Not JeI|
Way in Which His Expressed Desire for Simple Inaugural
Is Being Dsreqorded Is Smrtonotic of Ihinas Come

The more it changes. the more
1t is the same. Every time we get
q new President the word goes
out that it is his desire that
there be no ceremonial fuss over
his Inauguration, that there be
only q simple swearing-in, and
that since 1t is his wish that Is
how 1t will be. Thereupon the
loyal members Of his party resi-
dent in Washington start to
work to make it the biggest in
auguration ever, and that is
what 1t turns out to be. Never
fails. Gen. Eisenhower, like his
predecessors. is said to have ex-
pressed a wish for q minimum
Of the doings that accompany
the induction of Presidents into
Office. So we are going to have q
three-day humdinger, complete
with the inaugural ball and the
Inauguration eve party. Com
mittees are being appointed in
such number that any regis
tered Republican who fails to
find his name on one Of them
will be justified in going over to
the Democrats. At least. his
wife will.
Nobody can blame Gen. Eli
senhower and his family for all
this. He is up against forces too
strong for any President. The
people want a party and they're
going to have it; the people of
Washington, plus trainloads
from other points. The Eisen-
howers will have to enjoy it If
1t kills them.
The Inauguration to some ex-
Evening star., 1952-11-18
Korea: Early Test for Eisenhower
President-Eect Bomborded With Advice on Ending War;
It's His Problem and He Will Get Full Credit or Blame

hover mailbags. The general
did not promise to end the
Korean war or to do anything
specific about it: he promised
to 60 there personally.
What the letters reflect is an
assumption that he can do
something, and whether or not
it Is a fair assumption, as Presi-
dent he will have to deal with
it. Blame for possible setbacks
In other fields - taxes, the
budget. economy-can be shared
with Congress and the cabinet,
Korea can't.
In general way. the kind of
advice the President-elect will
get from the Truman admin
istration is well known here.
President Truman will stand
by his own policy. Of course. He
accepts the view for which the
State Department is spokesman.
It is that to expand military
and naval operations and use
Chang Kai-shek's Nationalist
troops is to risk another world
war and will not have the sup
port of the United States allies.
There Is opposition to that
policy in the Pentagon which
the Truman State Department
has so far managed to over
come. The Joint Chiefs of
Staff ofhcially have always sup
ported the President. It would
be possible by reshuffling some
Evening star., 1952-11-18

in the past. Usually the inde-
pendent movements dissolve
after election and the regular
organizations continue.
This time there are leaders
among the Citizens for Eisen-
hover groups who want to keep
their newly created organiza-
tions going. There were many
thousands Of these clubs cover
ing every State in the Union.
The problem is not merely how
the administration can accord
recognition in q political sense
to the organizations in a given
State, but how to keep them
from becoming rivals and STIR
ring up friction. Both are val
liable to an administration in
power.
It could be. of course, that the
Republican Party might achieve
in the future some of the popu-
larity it once enjoyed when it
was a majority party. Many
independents might be persuaded
in future elections to turn away
from the Democratic Party, but
this depends largely on the rec
ord made not only by the new
President. but his party in Con-
greSS.
AS TOR the South, much talk
is heard about the probable de-
velopment of a two-party sys-
tenn there but even some of the
Eisenhower supporters in South
ern States are not too sangu-
inc about that prospect. The
truth is that the Republican
chance of keeping the South
in line derends on many things,
among chem the extremes to
which the Northern Democrats
may 60 in their civil-rights pro-
posals ana in their demands for
softer legislation on labor-man-
agement relations. AS long as
Evening star., 1952-11-18

of the brass to get spokesmen
for stepped-up operations and
1t would not be too difficult for
Gen. Eisenhower to locate those
spokesmen.
From. within his own party
the President-elect will get
more cautious advice than some
CT the campaign oratory might
lead one to believe. For ex-
ample, in his Journey to the
Far Pacific" Gov. Dewey wrote:
1T would be unwise to think of
this army (Chiang's) as q
means of invading the main
land to hold territory today.
(It) is a military question
mark" Mr.. Dewey also de-
Tended the Korean action.
Senator Lodge. who appears
slated for the Defense Depart
ment, has often tried to interest
Congress in a kind of Foreign
Legion. for use abroad, COM
posed of volunteers, fed, trained,
paid and equipped by this coun-
t.y. He conceivably would sug-
gest some such method of using
Chisng's troops, though the
generalissimo might protest
they must retain their Chinese
Nationalist identity.
Gen. Eisenhower will be under
the heaviest possible moral
pressure with respect to Korea.
1t is harsh and early test for a
new President.
Evening star., 1952-11-18

Arabs lacked modern weapons.
while the Israelis could obtain
them surreptitiously. Moreover,
the regime of King Farouk.
which was kicked out last sum-
mer. gave the Egyptian forces
supposedly the best organized
in the Arab camp-obSolete war
materials while it charged the
Egyptian taxpayer for new guns
and tanks.
If those who conceived the
U. N. had not given the Big
Five the veto blackjack which
permitted the Muscovites to
hamper its peace actions, the
Korean war might have been
settled some time ago. Further
more. the ruthlessness of the
men in the Kremlin has thrown
most U. N. members into q
panic, so that they fear to take
any positive action against the
present enemies Of peace and
collective security.
The United Nations has found
its staunchest supporters in the
American people. We are def
nitely a peace-minded Nation
because we know from expert
ence that wars uselessly waste
lives and substance. After the
two world wars we have fought
since 1917 we never asked for
any territorial or material re-
wards. On the contrary, we
continued to dig deep into the
pockets Of the taxpayers to re-
store friends and foes alike
economically and financially.
This finds no precedent in world
history, but we like to establish
humanitarian precedents.
1t is among the American peo-
pie, the greatest boosters of the
q. N, that doubts about its USE
fulness, in its present form, have
begun to arise. Not only has
the U. N. shown itself incapable
Of fulfilling it's mission even
partially, but it has sheltered in
Evening star., 1952-11-18
Dorot1Y IhonPson:
Bevon Views Election as Setback
Instinct Seen Factor in Vote for Unity and Against Power
Triumph Of Checks and Balances Misunderstood

ward unity as opposed to fac
ton, and the instinct against
power. so long entrenched as to
become intellectually arrogant,
self-righteous, and corrupt-and
that is one Of the deepest rooted
instincts Of the American mind.
And the hero they sought was
one who in war has shown his
capacity to unity and harmon
ize.
Whether our President-elect
can do this in peace remains to
be seen. In every position of
great responsibility the test is
in the Office. Some of whom
much was expected have been
poor Presidents. Others who
seemed unpromising have been
among the best. Andrew jack
son was a brilliant general but.
until he took office. a poor po-
litical leader. Yet he is remem-
bered as a President and not as
a general. Grant was a great
general and a bad President.
Lincoln. to some Of the appar-
emily most discerning eyes of
his time, was a dubious President
elect who became a national
hero.
But Mr.. Bevan might take in
to account some notable facts.
Gen. Eisenhower did not carry
the least progressive States, and
Gov. Stevenson did. Gen. Eisen-
hover carried every great in
dustrial State of the Union and
those in which all the progress
sive movements Of our history
have originated.
II the left-wingers who, at the
convention. wanted to read the
"reactionary South" out Of the
Democratic Party had succeeded.
Gov. Stevenson would hardly
have carried q State. OF the
nine that went for Gov. Steven
son, five are classified by liberals
as the most backward in the
Union. and six Of the nine were.
in the convention. solidly for
Senator Russell to the last
switch. Obviously, they went
Democratic out of ingrained
habit. not for Gov. Stevenson or
anything he stood for.
Nor did Gen. Eisenhower ride
in on a wave Of reaction"
Senators Mccarthy, Jenner and
Malone all trailed Gen. Eisen-
hover, and the new President
Is beholden to none Of them.
but Is definitely his "own man."
Senator Mccarthy trailed by
100000 votes. Senators KEN,
Cain and Ecton. also anathenia
to the liberals, were defeated.
Only the great city machtnle
Evening star., 1952-11-18

dividuals Of all nations. includ-
ing Americans, who have worked
: against the security Of our Ma
ton. The diplomatic immunity
which clothes the officials OF
that peace organization removes
them in fact from the jurisdic-
ton of American courts and our
lenient espionage laws. A NUM-
Der Of respectable American in
dividuals and organizations. who
place ideologies ahead Of secu-
rity while we have the Red con-
spiracy to deal with, raised q hue
and cry when the Internal Sc
curity subcommittee headed by
Senator McCarran started dig
ging into the records Of some
American U. N. functionaries
who were suspected of Commu-
mist front affiliations with the
Soviet espionage network In this
country.
DR.. Trygve Lie. the q. N,
secretary general, removed
some Of the Americans who
appeared before the subcom-
mittee but refused to answer
questions on the grounds Of
Standardization. But at the
same time he protested the
witch hunts" Of the committee.
Many observers wonder what
would have happened not only
to Russian but to foreign citi-
zens had the U.N. headquarters
been established in Leningrad
or Odessa instead Of New York.
and had far less serious matters
been uncovered by the Red
security police. The Siberian
slave-labor camps would have
had more inmates than they
have now.
The paralysis Of the United
Nations, and the activities In
this country Of some Of its per-
sonnel. such as the Soviet spy
Valentin Gubitchev. may cause
1t to fall in the footsteps Of its
predecessor, the League Of
Nations.
Evening star., 1952-11-18
Doris FIeeson:

A Capital which not only likes
Ike but is just plain bored with
the Democrats after all these
years expects to outdo all his
other welcomes.
The warmth Of Washington's s
reception will carry over for a
long time. Here the difficulties
of an incoming President are
well understood: the various
prima donnas Of the other
branches of the Government are
we'll known and will be dis
counted accordingly In the new
Presidents favor.
Washington, in short, will not
expect too much>too soon.
But there Is one issue on
which Gen. Eisenhower made a
daring appeal to the country,
and that Is Korea. Republican
politicians are the first to admit
that when the President-elect
said he would 60 to Korea he
kindled q flame Of hope on every
hearthstone, which was largely
reflected in the election returns.
Women, it is generally agreed,
In particular responded with
their franchise.
1t has been reported from
the generals vacation head
quarters at Augusta, Ca, that
ending the Korean war is the
favorite topic Of the letter
writer's who daily pour thou
sands Of letters into the Eisen-
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the liberals allied with the
Tammanies - delivered to the
Democrats as usual. Not one
city Of over a million went Re-
publican, although most of the
counties in which they are sit
uated did. And in the great
cities are concentrated the true
herds. the largest number Of
people who think least for
themselves, and precisely those
most susceptible to emotion
driven waves, whether of radi-
calism or reaction.
Americans do not understand
Europe well, but Europeans un-
derstand America even less, as
the comments Of the European
press have shown. America cam
not be, and should not be,
translated into European terms
although our left-wing liberals
have been energetically trying
to do so. That is another thing
repudiated in this election
whether Mr.. Bevan likes It or
not.
Americans may. however,
note that Mr.. Bevan is not
poor. Politics has put him,
where coal mining never could,
into a high bracket Of living
standards in a now poor coun-
try. It has made him fat, sleek,
power enjoying, and lazy, with
out curbing the acerbity of his
class hatred. which has, how
ever. become professional.
tReleased by the Bell Syndicate, Incl
Evening star., 1952-11-18

the South sees a menace in these
two issues. the Republicans can
expect to carry several States
in the South by merely watch
ing their tactics so that the
nominees for Democratic State
and other local Offices will be
placed on the Republican ballot.
This strategy would look toward
amalgamation with the Demo-
cratic Party in the South rather
than irving to contest with 1t
on a ri7airy basis.
What was done in Texas,
where Price Daniel, the Demo-
cratic nominee for the Senate,
also was nominated by the Re-
publicans. furnishes a pattern
for other States in future State
elections. The Republicans have
an opportunity to make a per-
manent alliance with the South.
ern Democrats provided they
stick to a policy of cooperation
just as they did in the Eiser-
hover campaign. This would
mean eliminating primary elec-
tions for the Senate and House
or avoiding any serious opposi-
ton. It might mean naming the
victor in the Democratic pri-
maries as their own candidate
at State Republican conven-
tion held after the Democratic
primaries had chosen a candi-
date.
There is every reason for the
Republican Party to seek to
maintain it's electoral strength
In the South. There is every rea-
son why the Southern Demo-
Gratis Of the liberal-conserva-
tive school Of thought may de-
sire the help of Republicans and
independents. to keep radicals
and pseudo-liberals from taking
over the machinery of the
Democratic Party.
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tent is symptomatic of the
struggle the new President is in
for during the coming four
years as he endeavors to carry
out the program on which he
was elected. It is his purpose to
greatly reduce the cost Of Gov
eminent and the Nations tax
bill. Likewise to balance the
budget. At first thought the two
undertakings would seem to go
hand in hand, but they can't.
not Immediately. The budget
can be balanced If Government
costs are cut enough and taxes
remain high enough. Taxes can
be cut If the budget is left un-
balanced. It looks like a fair
guess that this is what will
happen.
It's the way Joe Martin of
Massachusetts,. soon to be
Speaker Of the House, wants it.
He would make balancing the
budget IAN ultimate objective"
slashing taxes an immediate OBJ
jective. Nobody knows his polit-
ical onions better than Joe. and
he sees less political nourish-
ment in a budget cut than in a
tax cut. To the average voter
the budget, no matter how
large. is just something he reads
about in the paper, but taxes
are something he can feel.
Other Republican leaders,
some Of them, disagree with Mr..
Martin. Senator Taft is one,
and Senator Bridges, expected
to be appropriations chairman.
is another, saying he wants to
Evening star., 1952-11-18
Dorothy Thompson:

The savagery with which the
followers Of Aneurin Bevan In
Great Britain have attacked the
outcome Of the American elections
is significant.
"A tragic setback to the cause
Of human decency and political
sanity. Wall Street will re-
joice. Will cut the living
standards of the poor. Mean a
high tariff policy"
Mr.. Bevan is the exponent Of
left-wing socialism based on the
political solidarity Of one class. In
contrast to his Fabian opponents
In the Labor Party. he is MARKHAM,
logical, and. therefore, totali-
tartan.
From his viewpoint the Ameri-
can election is, indeed, setback.
for 1t registered a rejection of
class and nationality alignments.
It was a vote for one instead of
two Americas, a vote not for total
power but for checks and balances
to power. Whether it was a vote
for high tariffs remains to be seen.
On the matter of trade, Wall
Street Is considerably more inter-
nationally minded than organized
labor has ever been, either here
or in Great Britain. international
trade is favored by free, rather
than by politically controlled
economies.
Mr.. Bevan's disappointment,
so violently expressed, is echoed
by many disappointed Ameri-
cans who write letters to news
papers. Here in Chicago, from
where I write, read in a letter
column, Americans have proved
that they are guided by emo
tions not common sense" and,
in another letter, I'VE have seen
a new type of American emerge,
the hero worshiper."
All people are guided to some
extent by instinct and emotion.
and certainly these two fairly
typical letter writer's were. One
called Gov. Stevenson "the
greatest living American" which
is surely a highly emotional
judgment. And the hero wor-
shipper is not new American or
human type. All nations live and
are held together in some meas.
ure by its hero images. mythical
as well as real. Otherwise, there
would be no tales of John
Bunyan. no epic, and Washing
ton. Jefferson and Lincoln would
be forgotten.
The question Is what emotion
or instinct-guided the Amer
ican people and what they saw
q incorporated In the hero?
x I think 1t was the instinct toA