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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-06-04
Society News,
Finance Minister
rom Peru Feted
Commondont of Brazilian Marines
Entertained by the Shepherds

$50 who few to California to
spend the week end. They will
be guests this evening of the
Peruvian Ambassador and Sonora
de Berckemeyer. who will enter
tain at dinner. The Berckemey-
ers will be hosts again Wednes-
day, June II. for the visitors
when they will give a reception
from $50 to 1880 o'clock.
The Finance Minister was the
guest in whose honor Assistant
Secretary Of State Edward G..
Miller, jr., gave a luncheon yes
terday at Blair House. Peruvian
Ambassador Berckemeyer and
Peru'S Controller General Emilio
Foley and Senior Alberto Lopez de
Romano, Co-ordinator of the
Technical Co. operation were there.
Others in the company included
Assistant Secretary Of the Treas
ury Andrew M. OVERLY, who also
is Deputy Managing Director of
the Information Monetary Fund;
President Herbert E. CASTOR Of
the Export-Import Bank, Mr..
Stewart Mason, Loan Officer Of
the International Bank; Civil
Service Commissioner Hiram Bing-
ham, former United States Am
bassadors to Peru. Mr.. John C..
White and Mr.. Harold H. Tit
mann: DR.. Julius Klein, Mr..
James H. Stebbins, Mr.. H. Dam
forth Starr, and from the State
Department, Mr.. Harold Linder,
Mr.. w. Charles Bridget and MIR.
Robert j. Dorr.
Other Parties PIanned
Representative and Mrs. John
j. Dempsey will be hosts at din
ner Friday evening honoring the
Peruvian visitors and the presi-
dent Of the International Bank
and Mrs. Eugene r. Black are
planning q similar party to-
morrow.
The Finance Minister and Sen
ora de Dasso will be In and near
Washington through much Of the
remainder OF this month.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-06-04


Miss Rita Joan Dinterman,
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
M. Dinterman of Arlington, be-
came the bride Of Mr.. Gordon
Henry Stark, son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
A. H. Stark Of Spokane. Wash. on
May "a. The ceremony took place
in st. AIMS Catholic Church, the
Rev. O,Hara officiating.
Immediately following a re-
ception at the Lyon Park Club
House, the couple left. for q
southern wedding trip. Upon their
return they will make their home
In Arlington.
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Fletcher KnebeI:
Potomac Fever

President Truman orders Macarthur give him his
plan for ending the Korean hisTo
sea-Now hear this! Gen. Eisenhower naugurated
January TO- 1853 repeat 1858 and ouHST
Ike prepares to study Gen. MacArhurs plan
Korean The secret plan will be delivered to Hawaii by
appropriate mesenger-preferaby god riding bolt of
lightning hanked by modest posse Of
transports
Richard Balch wealthy Utica manufacturer
York State Democratic chairman Bach just bus-
to minister to the Democrats
makes fishing tackle.
Londons densest and longest
fall back their traditional avoiding
another
The Civil Aeonautics Administration flying saucers"
caused by atmospheric conditions like
They tax until thngs-and then blame it all
the weather.
Ike and his advisers shoot the Helena
Well at least we know the campaigns overheyve quit firing
salvos Of blanks.
House committee hears that John Foster Dulles
mnded Ager Hiss president Of the Carnegie Endowment
However, Dulles much smarter than Hiss
caSehe waited until Hiss Jail before became Secretary
Of State
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Macarthur Takes Over Korea
Mognonmous Old Soldier Forgves Affront to His Pride
And Arronges to Relieve Ike of Battling Problem

Macarthur addressed him as
ike" and repeated the familiar
nickname in his closing saluta-
ton. That established what he
naturally sees as their proper
relationship. The President
may call you Pete" but you
don't call him Harry" You
call him "Mr. President" I'm
sure Ike won't be guilty of
calling Macarthur Mac" or
Doug" Not. at least, until he
gets that Korean solution out
of him.
The situation indeed, until
Eisenhower has MacArthur's
plans in his hands, is likely to
be ticklish. filled with protocol.
The plain soldiers at the Penta-
gon don't understand this. They
say it is MacArthur's duty, as a
soldier still on the Government
payroll at $4,000 a year, to say
nothing of his duty as a good
American, to give the Govern
ment the benefit of anything he
knows or thinks. But the Penta-
gon boys are merely soldiers,
not diplomats. They fail to ap-
preciate that in Macarthur they
are dealing with a sovereign
power, who requires to be treated
as such. A sovereign power has
Evening star., 1952-12-11

that. too. but without the
rancor he displays in connec-
ton with the conservative tag.
Admittedly, he will retire next
year from Coca-Cola, a form
of American culture that he
has successfully introduced all
over the known world. He will
be IS, but he never looked better
OF brisker and his famous
memory is unimpaired.
The Roosevelt wing of the
party has two potential can
didates to put into the guber-
Material field against Mr.. Far
ley-Averell Hartman and Rep
resentative Franklin D. Roose-
welt, jr. They are confident
they can beat him again and
they say Chairman Balch will
be honestly neutral.
Mr.. Balch's instant and i'm
mediate problem, however. is
far more delicate than NOM
mating contests a year or more
away. 1t is that among the
votes cast for him were some
from gentlemen mentioned
and not favorably-bt the
crime commission, now holding
hearings on the activities of the
underworld in this great city.
Unless and until the Demo-
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Constantine Brown:

One need not be a soothsay-
er to see that any plan that
Gen. Eisenhower may devise
to break the deadlock in Korea
will require action - unless by
some 11th-hour miracle the
men in the Kremlin decide that
an armistice would be safer
than meeting an all-out allied
offensive.
Our British allies, who have
a definite fair for new situa-
tions before they occur. are get.
ting ready to switch their policy
of mo extension of the Korean
war" to one of favoring a lin
tied offensive. Last week end a
spokesman said that while Brit
ain still opposed any involve
ment in an all-out war in Asia,
it would agree to an offensive
to the 40th parallel, $50 miles
from the present allied lines.
He explained that such an
offensive would shorten the
allied lines by about 10 miles
and thus tighten the burden of
the u. N. forces. To attain this
objective. the British spokes-
man indicated, his government
would be willing to send a Brit
ish armored division to the
Korean front. In the past Lon
don opposed any offensive oper-
ations. Emanuel Shinwell, the
Labor government Defense Sec
retary, stated on the floor Of
Commons last summer that he
had contributed to the dismissal
of Gen. Macarthur as supreme
commander because of his ad-
venturouS strategy.
Now it appears probable that
some Of the fundamental ideas
of Gen. Macarthur may be
adopted to put an end to the
present impossible situation.
Conditions at the front are diff
ferent from the spring Of 1851,
when Gen. Macarthur urged
the commander of the Com
munist forces, then near ex-
haustion, to accept an honor
able armistice without political
strings. The present admins
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tration and our allies were irked
at that suggestion because it
contained a threat that unless
our proposals were accepted
asSumedly in a short time-the
Reds would have to bear the
consequences Of a full-f1edged
allied offensive.
No time limit or implication
that we might strike was con-
tanned in the armiStice proposal
extended in the summer of 1851
by Gen. Matthew Ridgway. The
wording, and later the applica-
ton, of that cease-flre proposal
were contrary to all military
principles. Since then the air
and fire power of the enemy
has been greatly increased while
our own has remained approx
mately the same as when Gen.
Macarthur was in overall COM
mand.
Hence it is natural that the
means to be adopted for an all
out attack on the enemy dug in
north of the 38th Parallel must
differ substantially from those
Gen. Macarthur intended to
employ 20 months ago. What
the two generals have in COM
mon, however, is an unalterable
conviction that nobody can win
on the defensive and that the
present dragging on of a war of
position can benefit only the
U. S. S. RS aggressive policies.
Of course nobody can say at
present what the new Mac
Arthur plan is or how it will
differ from Gen. Eisenhower's
strategic concept. Gen. Mac
Arthur's strategy is usually un-
orthodox. His Inchon landing
plan was opposed strongly at
first by the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, who pointed out that the
tide, rocks and landing facil-
tiles made such an operation
extremely risky. Gen. Mac
Arthur brushed aside these ar
guments and risked a stroke
which actually pulverized the
North Korean Army and led
to the liberation of Seoul and
South Korea.
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Truman Had Never Asked Him
Macarthur Has Been Available Since His Dismissal in 19
The Snub Contrasts With Esenhowers AIertness
.er'S AlertneSS

Gen. Eisenhower, in one of his
messages to the former Far
Eastern commander this week.
spoke of the necessity of making
a plan that would bring peace
both men rather refuted any
impression of an enlarged war.
Actually Gen. MacArthur's pro-
posals have been associated
heretofore in the minds of his
critics here and abroad with an
all-out offensive. An examina-
tion of his proposals, as re-
vealed to Congress and it's joint
investigating committee, will
show that Gen. Macarthur IA
vored:
First. a naval blockade of the
China coast so as to stop the
smuggling of strategic ma
terials into Communist areas.
With this was to be applied an
intensification of the whole
economic embargo.
Second, the use of Chinese
Nationalist troops to raid the
mainland. but without the Or
dering of any American troops
to assist in any such mainland
invasion.
Third, the removal of restric-
tions on air reconnaissance of
bases in Manchuria and along
the China coast if planes from
that area continued their at
tacks in Korean territory.
While there were other Mac
Arthur recommendations in ad-
dition, it is doubtful whether
his plan today calls for any en-
larged operations on the Korean
peninsula. It could. however, in
volve attacks by amphibious
landings or raids behind the
Communist lines, and it could
involve exerting pressure on the
China mainland so as to cause
the Communist Chinese to with
draw troops from Korea and
thus compel truce. But, what
ever the plan Is. the public isn't
likely to know much about it for
a while.
Gen. Eisenhower has great re-
Spect for Gen. MacArthur's mill
tary ability. These two men
have had unprecedented re-
sponsibilty in wartime and since.
They talk the same language
the language of orderly and eau
Evening star., 1952-12-11

world, which occupies the
earth's most strategical area,
and is territorially as large as
the United States and as popu-
lous as France. Though there
has been no shooting. except
for border clashes, since the
arrnistice, Israel has no diplo-
matte representatives in any
Arab country, is blockaded on
every land frontier and is COM
PEELED to import food from as
far away as Norway. Despite
incompatible financial support
from America. her population of
a million and a quarter occu-
pies a most precarious economic
and military position.
The U. N. resolutions regu-
lating Arab rights are a dead
letter with the West. yet it is
outside the power of the West
to compel the Arab states to
make peace. The West. it is
now clear, started in Israel an
action it is unable to finish;
the United States by being vehe-
mently parti pris to Israel has no
good Offices to present; and
Russia, alone adhering to the
original U. N. partition scheme
and resolutions, stands diplo-
matically with the vastly more
numerous Arabs. without being
embroiled,
The Arab-Israel debate was
followed by a mastery presenta-
ton by the Tunisian delegate
of the case against the French
in North Afrit "a sovereign"
member of the U.N. protesting
continued colonial status before
''the bar of world justice" with
the defendant (France) refusing
to appear in court. The logic
of self-determihation as enun-
Evening star., 1952-12-11

Whatever Gen. Eisenhower
may have learned in Korea must
be fitted into the world picture.
The events of the last days
have put this situation under
a Klieg light. revealing the grim
fact that the United Nations is
incapable of solving any vital
problem, and that there is no
America-led Western bloc with
any firm cohesion. -
Viewed with what objectivity
we can summon. we see on one
side of the cold war a united
front. held in line, however
despotically, by unquestioned
authority, and on the other.
not one front but many, di-
rected by various members
against each other.
Nothing is more obvious than
that the United States alone
feels the primacy of the Rus
sian threat. We are like a mill
tary leader rushing ahead of
his troops, only to find that be-
hind him they have broken into
internal battles.
Last week in the U. N. AS
sembly the Arab states pre-
sented their grievances against
,he United Nations and espe-
cially the United States, in re-
spect to Israel. while the leader
of the Israel delegation pleaded
that bygones be forgotten and
peace established. At no point
did the two sides approach a
point of contact, and insofar
as I have privately been able
to gauge the : reaction of
members of the Arab delega-
tions, mistrust and intransigence
deepened. Six Arab states are
in a cold war against Israel,
supported by the whole Arab
Evening star., 1952-12-11

pride as well as patriotism and
there are amenities to be OBJ
served.
And there is lost ground to
be recovered. AS MacArthur'S
message to Ike said, despite my
ultimate personal and profess
sional connection and WELL
known concern Herewith. this
is the first time that the slight
est official interest in my coun-
sci has been evidenced since my
return" The joint session Of
Congress called to attend his
fading-away ceremonies didn't
count, of course. Nor the days
when he was permitted to lee
ture the Armed Services Com
mittees of the Senate and House.
And apparently he is furnished
with no memorandum pads in
the three-room Office to which
he is confined.
All that's to be changed. The
magnanimous old soldier is to
be allowed again to serve his
country. AS for Eisenhower. he
can at last relax, secure in the
knowledge that the Korean
problem has been taken over by
the man who can solve it: the
man, in fact, who. some people
say, helped to create it.
Evening star., 1952-12-11
Doris FIeeson:

NEW YORK. Dec. 11.-Demo-
Gratis here chose a new State
chairman, Richard H. Balch,
yesterday in the hope that fresh
leadership can find a way out
of the political wilderness in
which they are wandering.
Mr.. Balch. a wealthy fish
ing-tackle manufacturer from
Utica, is widely praised as Wig
orous and liberal. He won,
three to one, over another up
state candidate, William H.
Morgan of Cortland, backed by
James A. Farley. "@
Mr.. Balch'S hackers contend
that Mr.. Farley and his fac
tion are conservatives label
that irks Farley. who can re-
member when he helped to put
across all the basic framework
Of the New Deal.
Actually, the Importance of
this contest was its demonstra-
tion that the party is still
divided with two tough elections
ahead-the mayoralty here next
year and the governorship in
1854. Mr.. Farleys opponents
attribute his present activity to
a desire to get that governorship
at long last.
Mr.. Farley says phooey to
Evening star., 1952-12-11

tious military strategy. Neither
one would embark on a reck-
less adventure, though each
would not be adverse to a CAL
culated risk in q normal mill
tary operation.
What makes the whole prob
lem complicated is the fact that
Gen. Eisenhower, who after in
auguration will have full re-
sponsibility so far as the United
States is concerned, does not
have control of the policies Of
our allies in Europe. They must
agree to any new plans or pro-
posals, and that's one of the
Illustrations that have produced
the Korean stalemate. When
twelve governments have to be
consulted on each move, it means
debates and ultimately COM
promises that weaken the pro-
posal. In wartime the COM
mander in chief of allied forces
has had a wide discretionary au-
thority. If some such setup can
be developed now-So that Rus
STA will know that Gen. Mark
Clark for instance, subject only
to the commands of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff here, has full au-
thority to evolve a plan and put
it into effect-it may prove a
clincher in forcing an early
truce.
Apart from the military
aspects. the Eisenhower Mac
Arthur meeting will have some
political overtones. Many fol-
lowers Of Macarthur felt during
the campaign that he should
have been called on by Gen.
Eisenhower, while some of the
followers of Ike felt it was the
other way around and that Mac
Arthur, since he was keynoter of
the Republican vent 10 n,
should have offered his services
for the political campaign. The
forthcoming meeting between
the two military leaders will
wash out much of this GOODNESS
and bring about better rela-
tionship. not only between the
generals but between factions
inside the Republican Party. 1t
was a wise procedure on the part
of both men.
Reproduction Rights Reserved.)
Evening star., 1952-12-11
New York Democrats Still SPLIT
Even Choice Of Bocn New State Chairman Points Up
Breach, With Two Tough Elections Ahead

Gratis in New York City clean
their house so they can meet
those upstate Republican ma
jorities at the Bronx line with
whopping majorities of their
own. their party is in trouble.
They can confidently anticipate
that Gov. Dewey will give the
crime commission ample time
to do it's work. even if it should
intrude upon election years.
It is believed here that the
New York Governor will retire
to the private practice of law
to build up his personal for
tunes. possibly even before his
term expires in 1854. The grape
vine suggests also that Herbert
Brownell. Gen. Eisenhower's
new Attorney General, who is
now participating in the Korea
discussions, is the likely heir
apparent.
A cabinet post, of course. will
give Mr.. BroWnell a national
build-up. 1t has not often
proved true, however, that
Washington reputation can be
cashed in at the grass roots.
Many famous men have been
beaten handily by local prod
ucts who stayed at home and
cultivated the political garden.
tReleased by the Bell Syndicate. Inc.)
Evening star., 1952-12-11
Lowell MeHett:

Now it is out and Gen. Eisen-
hover must be greatly embar-
rassed. There never was any
need for his trip to Korea. He
had only to ask Gen. Macarthur
to obtain the solution he had
promised the American people
for the Korean problem. Mac
Arthur has had it all along, but
has been too modest to offer it
without being asked. Now. how
ever, the Commander in Chief
elect has asked and Macarthur
is going to tell him.
This new and heartening de-
velopment in the battling Korean
situation began the other night
in New York. Macarthur, in his
present role as an eminent in
dustrialist, was making a speech
to his colleagues of the National
Association of Manufacturers.
He told them there is "a clear
and definite solution to the
Korean conflict" one that could
be carried out without an un-
duly heavy price in remarkable
phrase) friendly casualties or
any increased danger of provok-
ing universal conflict" How
ever, he said, his views had not
been sought ''in any way"
BY cable or radio the news
that Macarthur knew the an
swer reached Eisenhower aboard
the cruiser bringing him home
from his personal survey Of
the battle country. It did not
fall on barren ground. Eisen-
hover had freely admitted be-
fore he left Korea that he had
not found the answer. In a
statement more reminiscent of
Gov. Stevenson's campaign
speeches than his own, he had
confessed that he had no pana-
cea and counseled patience. But
here, from the forgiving Mac
Arthur, was rendered nothing
less than a panacea, one that
would not require too many
friendly casualties"
The general at sea lost no
time in communicating to the
general in the Waldorf his
gratitude and his desire to talk
with him when he got home.
Macarthur wired him right
back. Whereas the Eisenhower
message had been couched in
friendly but formal language,
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Where the Two Generals AQree
One Conservative the Other Unorthodox, but Both See
Only Russia Benefitnq From Korean War of Position

Gen. Eisenhower's strategy.
judging by his technique In
Europe. Is more conservative.
His major operations were un-
dertaken when we had a def
mite superiority over the enemy,
particularly in air power. Gen.
Eisenhower recognizes that the
situation in a mountainous
country like Korea is very diff
ferent from that which existed
in North Africa or Western
Europe. But regardless Of the
differences of strategic views be-
tween the President-elect and
the conqueror Of the Japanese.
it is fair to conjecture that they
agree on one principle: that the
Korean deadlock cannot be
ended by protracted negotia-
tions which favor the enemy
and hurt the allies.
Military men in Korea are
more concerned over the capac-
ity of American industry to
provide the necessary hard
ware" than with the numerical
strength of our troops. In addi-
ton to the present forces the
British have volunteered un-
officially to send one of their
best divisions, which is about
to be withdrawn from Germany.
The Turks are reported willing
to add a full division to their
present brigade. If adequate
arms and ammunition were
available, the ROKs could in
crease their combat strength by
at least four divisions in the
next few months. And while
the Chinese Nationalist forces
on Formosa would not be
needed on the Korean battle
fields, they could be used as
raiding parties on the Chinese
mainland. The Red high COM
mand would be compelled in
such an event to increase its
combat forces to prevent the
Nationalists from gaining a
strong foothold in the area be-
tween Fcochow and Annoy and
thus producing a situation that
would threaten the Peiping
regime.
Evening star., 1952-12-11
Dorothy thompson
Eisenhower Faces Grim Picture
w. NJ Is Revealed Incapable Of Solving Any Vital Problem
As We Try to Arm Coalition Thot No One Controls

ciated by Woodrow Wilson.
F. D. r. and the U. N. Charter
favors Tunisia, but should we
support 1t, we would risk the
NATO structure of Europe. But
Tunisia is also backed by the
Arab world, and, indeed, by all
Asia.
Egyptian dissension with the
British over SueZ and the Sudan
is only temporarily quiescent
during reorganization in Egypt.
while in Iran the situation de-
teriorates rapidly. In both places
the United States has sacrificed
independent action for the sake
of an anti-Russian European
coalition that does not jell.
For the British are more con-
cerned about the sterling bloe,
imitation, ties with the Common
wealth, and world trade than
with Russia; the French more
concerned to maneuver West
Germany into a weak economic
and military position than with
Russia; and West Germany is
torn between the priority of dis
appearing European unity or ale
German unif1cation.
Thus. ratification of the Eu-
ropean Defense Treaty is con-
tinually postponed.
This is the coalition" which
we are trying to shore up eco
nomically and arm, and for
which We have sacrificed our
historic freedom of action "a
coalition over which neither we.
nor anyone else, exerts authority.
And. looking at the whole pic
ture. one wonders whom we are
arming against whom.