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Evening star., 1953-07-20

mistake since he became q
controversial figure.
Yet issues which were not
in full keeping with the facts
have been emphasized in much
Of the reporting. For instance.
the exchange of kilograms be-
tween President Eisenhower
and church leaders over j. B.
Matthews article in a monthly
magazine was described as a
slap by the White House at
Mccarthy and to have forced
him to accept his subordinate's
resignation.
The fact is that Matthews
at 2:45 pm. on Thursday,
July 9 had told Mccarthy that
he was quitting. There are
strong reasons to believe
that the White House had
been informed about this
action several hours before
President Eisenhower's tele-
gram went out.
The Matthews article also
was subject to misinterpreta-
ton due to the fact that SEN
tences had been taken out of
context-a procedure so bit
terly aSsailed in the past by
McCarthy's critics. The maga-
zine story was portrayed as
denouncing the whole Pro-
testant clergy while a careful
reading would have shown
that Matthews said that only
3 per cent of the ministers
had fallen prey to the Com
munist philosophy. He claims
to be able to document his
statements before any inves-
tigating committee.
Matthews assumed full res
possibility for the whole story,
although the lead paragraph
which was so offensive because
Of its sweeping character had
been popped up" by some
one on the magazine staff.
The controversy between
Mccarthy and the Central
Intelligence Agency also has
been used to contend the
White House slapped down
the Wisconsin Senator once
more within 48 hours. This
is not factual.
When Mccarthy raised the
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Fletcher KnebeI-
Potomac Fever

The House funds committee cuts 1ke foreign spending
by 81 billion think Ikes foreign
policy is too good to be wasted lot of foreigners
Republicans they to raise the National debt
limit We're making Before the election owed
selves change-now we just ourselves
Three boiling Democrats reject Senator Joe McCarhys
invitation his committee injected
something by refusing to be party McCarhys schemes
For years, they've just refused a party.
Congressman continue flbuser Postmaster General
Summerds proposal for higher postal They figure
Summerd has business talking about surplus when he
hasn't even learned to albi deficit yet.
Independent Senator Wayne Morse Congress should
stay the job all of the public
life who take public problem under Aforementioned
emerge with two
Vice President Nixon sleeps tent at the Boy Scout
jamboree might know politician would take his vacation
where he could his closer to the ground
Senate investigators charge that allies trade with Red
China increased 12d this One helpful thing about
allies If decide invade the China mainland
they'll be able to lend plenty of experienced navgators
Evening star., 1953-07-20

question of calling before the
committee a high ranking
official of the CIA, William
: F. Bundy, he wanted to in
terrogate him about his con-
tribution to the Alger Hiss
defense. There was q mis-
understanding over the facts
on both sides. Mccarthy had
not aScertained that Bundy
had been cleared two years
earlier, not only by the CIA
security. but also by an FBI
field investigation. Neither
was he aware that Bundy had
declared his contribution to
the Hiss fund in his applica-
ton for employment.
Allen Dulles, director Of the
CIA, did not know that Nc
Carthy wanted to query
Bundy only about personal
matters and was not going to
pry into the secrets of that
top intelligence organization.
The two men got together in
what is described by eye
witnesses as a very friendly
meeting. The result was that
Dulles promised his full CO.
operation to the investigating
committee on matters other
than the actual work of the
CIA and Mccarthy did not
press the matter of the
subpoena. There was no in;
tervention whatsoever on the
part OF the White House or
an additional retreat" by the
Wisconsin Senator.
Neither is there any likeli-
hood of a showdown between
the executive branch of the
administration and Mccarthy.
There are a few on the staff
of the Chief Executive who
would like Gen. Eisenhower to
take a good crack at Joe, and
there are some reasons to be-
lieve that some Of the sensa-
tional reports appearing in
print and in radio broadcasts
are inspired by such sources.
But, according to Republican
leaders, there is no intention
on the part Of the President
to slap down the Wisconsin
Senator openly or by implica.
tion.
Evening star., 1953-07-20

Today the Americans for
Democratic Action"-perhapS
finding themselves without
arguments to answer Senator
McCarthy's arguments and
preferring to attack the man
rather than devote themselves
to his charges about the in
trigue of the Communists in
America-are circulating a
pamphlet raising questions
about the personal honesty of
the Wisconsin Senator in
income-tax matters.
The fact That three oppos-
ing Senators signed the docu-
ment of innuendo and
character assassination which
now has been reprinted by
the Americans for Demo-
cratic Action"-a supposedly
liberal" organization-is no
alibi for spreading SANDER.
The original report is a COM
pilation of questions raised in
typical smear fashion but Civ
ing no answers in conclusion
and no evidence on which i'm
partial conclusions could be
based.
Anybody, of course, who
stops to think about it would
realize that if there had been
the slightest legal basis for
seeking an indictment by a
grand jury against Senator
Mccarthy for alleged income
tax irregularities, the Truman
administration long ago would
have done it with great eager
ness, zeal and dispatch.
What many of the anti
McCarthyites in Washington
don't realize-becauSe they
don't know American politics.
especially in States other than
the Eastern Seaboard-iS that
politically they are making
Senator McCarthy's faction
stronger rather than weaker
by reason of the personal at
tackS on him which have
nothing to do with the main
issue-anti-communism.
The Democratic Senators
who resigned from the Senate
Committee on Governmental
Operations as individuals have
a good record in combating
communism, but most people
don't know of it. They have
succeeded now. rather, in
making it appear, because Of
their action, as a party group
that the Democratic Party
which consistently fought the
exposure of CommuniStic in
fluences in the State Depart
ment during the last admins
tration Is still on the side Of
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The Kremlin's aim is to un-
dermine the Adenauer govern
ment by all means and wreck
the European Defense Treaty.
And French obstinacy is play
ing into the Kremlin's hands.
The United States treats
France as great power. If
Moscow accepts the offer of a
power conference of for
eign ministers, France will be
included among these four
powers. Prior to the Washing
ton meeting, it was reported
that the three Western foreign
ministers would keep the elev-
en- little allies of the North At
lantic association informed of
their discussions and conclu-
sions. In short, France appears
as the sole representative of
continental Europe.
BY what logic?
In Napoleon's time the
French we're the most num-
erous, ambitious, and militar-
lily strongest people in Europe.
Less than two generations later
France was defeated, not by
Germany but by Prussia alone.
Today. France is numerically
the third European power on
the Eurasian mainland, infer
ior in numbers to West Ger
many and Italy. If Great Brit
ain is included in Europe.
France represents only Is per
cent of It's population. If only
the West European mainland
is counted, France still repre-
sents under 18 per cent.
The French claim to be a
great power rests only on her
empire. But even her North
African colonies, from which
she augmented her troops in
two world wars, are seething
with rebellion.
Politically, France is Eu-
ropes most unstable nation
with a constitution that makes
it impossible for any govern
ment to stay in power long
enough to effect the most ur-
gent measures. 1ndustrially-
and for no reason inherent in
nature-France is inferior to
West Germany, and had Italy
the French resources, she
would be industrially superior
to France.
Continental Europe is today
Evening star., 1953-07-20
Lebanese FeudaI Lord
Loses Ground in Votinq
BY the Associcted Press

BEIRUT, Lebanon, July 20.-
Returns from parliamentary
elections in South Lebanon in
dicated today that the suprem-
acy Of the sections political boss
and Lebanon's strongest feudal
lord, Ahmed al Assaad, has been
ended.
With 10 per cent of the votes
counted, AsSaad and his son,
Kamel al Assaad, were the only
members of their faction assured
of victory in the balloting yes
terday for the districts eight
seats in the 44-member Parlia-
ment.
In the previous Parliament the
section was allotted IA seats.
Assaad and 13 picked followers.
running on a single ticket, held
them all. The bloc was a chief
support for ex-President Bechara
el Khoury, who was unseated
last September.
Evening star., 1953-07-20
Wreckoge Of Mccarthy Fight
Senator's Foes Believed Unaware They Are Strengthening
Rather Than Weakening Him With Personal Attacks
Dovid Lawrence

The anti-McC Carthy STRAIT
egiStS here can now survey the
wreckage they have wrought
in the last ten days. For
never has there been as much
harm. done in so little time
and particularly in achieving
the opposite of what was in
tended by them.
First and foremost, is the
damage done to the vast ma
jority Of Protestant clergymen
in America-not by Senator
Mccarthy nor by his staff
investigator, j. B. Matthews,
but by those who gave Nation
wide publicity to a charge
against the Protestant clergy
as a whole which neither Mr..
Mccarthy nor Mr.. Matthews
had ever made.
Again and again articles of
a highly slanderous nature
have appeared in cruSading
magazines Of small circulation,
but most of the time these are
not picked up either by
Senators or by newspapermen
to give much wider publicity
to the charges made.
Millions upon millions OF
readers q few days ago read
for the first time news dis
patches giving the impression
that the whole Protestant
clergy as an institution was
under suspicion - and this
never would have been the case
If three Democratic Senators,
goaded by newspapermen here.
had not seen At to dignity and
make a dispute over an article
that could readily have been
ignored. There was precedent
for such an attitude.
Thus, for example. within
the last few years in the same
magazine. but under different
ownership, an article appeared
which questioned the financial
integrity of President Truman
with a lot Of alleged facts con-
corning his business operations
before he took Office.
This correspondents asser-
tions upholding Mr.. Truman'S
personal integrity were vehem-
emily attacked. But none of the
Republican Senators, to their
credit be it said, took up the
controversy over the charges
or made headline news out of
those baseless allegations which
every press association would
then have had to carry. There
was no Americans for Re
publican Action" in existence
to insist on increasing the
circulation Of the charges
against the character of a man
In public office.
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squelching or blocking investi-
cations Of Communists.
A portion of the responsible
ity for the wreckage of the last
ten days regrettably can be
traced to some misguided
members of the staff at the
White House who don't seem
to mind provoking an open
fight between the President
and a large segment Of the
Republican Party in the Mid
die West.
A denial-not very convipc-
ing-was issued by the execu-
tive Office purporting to dis
avow a newspaper report wide
ly published by a correspond
ent close to the White House
staff who wrote that the Pres
ident's aides cleverly inspired
the sending of an anti-Mc-
Carthy telegram by the three
ministers who are joint chair
men of the National Confer
ence of Christians and Jews.
This very laudable organiZa-
ton, designed to advance the
cause of brotherhood in re-
ligion, now to a certain extent
has had its function ques-
toned as a consequence of its
inaccurately phrased message.
Many citizens, for instance.
don't understand why the
heads of that very good move
ment should allow themselves
to be drawn into a strategem
of political warfare, either
with or without the collusion
of the White House.
Throughout the United
States, there are many voters
who are becoming bored with
the controversy over Senator
McCarthy's methods" They
say that where there's smoke.
there is fire" and it isn't too
important how the fire is put
out especially in wartime-and
this is wartime as the casualty
lists from Korea have drama
tized for three long years.
AS for Mccarthy, lots OF
people feel about him as
Churchill did about Stain in
1941 and as many Americans
today feel about Tito and
Franco-if they're allied on
the same side in the fight
against Communist imperial
ism their particular philoso-
phies or methods" are not as
important as their energetic
hostility to the common foe.
Reproduction rights reserved.)
Evening star., 1953-07-20
Official Heads Roll
In East Germany as
Red Purge Continue!
BY the Asseeioted Press

BERLIN, July 20. - Another
top official was missing today
from the higher bracket of East
German communism. The Reds
purged a party secretary and
also censured a cabinet minister.
perhaps as a prelude to firing
him.
Western sources predicted even
more heads would fall, this week
or next, in the hunt for scape-
goats to blame for the June II
workers uprising.
The East German shakeup
reflected continued purges
throughout the Iron Curtain
countries, the latest in the
Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan,
where Prime Minister Mir
Djafar D. BagiroW was dismissed.
Moscow radio said yesterday he
had been charged with gross
bureaucratism."
Party Secretary Fired.
In Germany, the ruling Social
ist Unity (Communist) Party's
politburo fired Adalbert Hengst,
a party secretary, and Sharply
cenSured" Bernd Weinberger,
minister for construction of
transport vehicles and machines.
according to the official party
newspaper Neues Deutschland.
The Politburo was reported to
have scheduled another meeting
for today or tomorrow, and
reliable West Berlin sources said
it would receive orders from
Moscow to reshuffle the govern
ment. Almost certain to be
ousted was Interior Minister
Will Stoph.
PECK May Be Ousted.
The West Berlin newspaper
Telegraf predicted yesterday
that President Wilhelm PECK
also would be replaced by Gen.
Vincenz Mueller, chief of staff
of the East German armed
forces. PECK has been under
medical treatment in Russia for
several months.
Both the downfall of Hengst
and the disgrace of Weinberger
stemmed from the June rebel
lion. Neues Deutschland said
they were sent to quell riots in
the Baltic port of Rostock-
where the Communists never
before admitted there had been
trouble. Hengst was charged
with supporting the rioters and
Weinberger was reported to have
surrendered to them.
Evening star., 1953-07-20
Thon7os Z Stokes
The Activities Of DR.. oWnsend
Pension Planners Seen Taking Advantage of Promise
By President to Expand SocioI Security System

House, to date, to sign a petit
ton for discharge of the Town
send Plan bill Of Representative
Angel, Republican of Oregon.
in the few weeks since he filed
it on April 80. It requires
218 signatures. a majority of
the House. to discharge a COM
mittee and bring a bill before
the House. Those who sign
such a petition are not COM
mitted to vote for a measure
after 1t reaches the floor. The
Townsend scheme calls for a
two per cent tax on gross in
come, both personal and corpo-
rate, after a $3.50 exemption,
to create a fund out Of which
everybody oven 60 would be
paid a pension, a variable
amount depending on the tax
yield, but estimated at be-
tween $135 and $3.50 a month.
CuriouSly enough, the Town.
sendites and the Democrats
thus far have made the most
hay out Of the Presidents
pledge to expand the social Sc
curity system. That perhaps
explains why so many indi-
vidual Republicans have hur-
ried to sign the Townsend pc
tition-to get on record with
the elderly folks back home
who are now, as politicians
know. a very substantial vot
ing bloc.
The President put social Sc
curity revision in cold storage
until next session, delegating
studies, instead Of pressing for
Evening star., 1953-07-20
DOTIS FIeeSOI'-
Politics and the u. S. Debt Limit
Republicans Said to Have Hot Potato in Proposal
To Raise the Ceiling During Campaign Year

which Republicans justify on
the ground of "the mess we in
herited." On the eve of an
other campaign, that restive-
ness will increase.
It is in this field of econom-
les that Senator Taft's lead
ership is most missed. What
he would support along this
line, Congress and the country
would.
Actually, there are many
substantial economists who see
no peril at all in raising the
legal debt limit. Virtually all
who hold career monetary po-
sitions as distinguished from
political appointment or elec-
ton say the debt is not excess
sive in view of the country's
greatly expanded production
and national income.
To Republicans generally,
however, a curb on Federal
spending is a fetish. They
have belabored the Democrats
with it, longed for it and sin
cerely believe it is the road to
survival. New Dealer is their
kindest description Of any who
argue the debt thesis cited
above. In fact Republicans,
certainly in the House, may
be expected to fight a new debt
limit.
President Eisenhower's pres
ent difficulty is that he took
the same stand in his cam
paign which almost bars him
from shifting to the new
ground pointed out by the
economists.
Evening star., 1953-07-20

action. One such study is by
a committee appointed by Mrs.
Oveta Culp Hobby, Secretary
of Health, Education and We'll
fare. The other is by a House
Ways and Means Subcommit-
tee headed by Representative
Carl T. Curtis, Republican. Of
Nebraska, which only recently
got an appropriation of $780,
900 to finance its investigation.
Meanwhile, a group Of ten
Democrats, headed by Senator
Lehman of New York, and
Senator Morse. Oregon inde-
pendent. have introduced a
bill to cover 13 million more
into the social security system
and raise the benefits from a
maximum of $85 a month to
$135. Similar measures have
been introduced in the House.
Democrats, as we'll as labor
organizations and Townsend
ties, are making an issue over
a proposal of the United States
Chamber of Commerce which
would put social security on a
pay-as-you-go, instead of an
actuarial basis. but which
would as it is worked out, they
claim. reduce benefits sharply
under the pretext of spread
ing them widely.
Townsend publications are
emphasizing that their pay
as-you-go plan is entirely diff
ferent, fearing that it may be-
come identified with the
Chamber of Commerce scheme.
Representative Curtis is for a
pay-as-you-go plan in prip-
ciple. Democrats, along with
TownsenditeS, are sounding
the alarm that the system
could be weakened and we'll
nigh destroyed, rather than
strengthened and improved,
under cover of expanding it.
Evening star., 1953-07-20

the early 1905 when the
"Doc," as he was called, started
promoting his old-age pension
plan and inspired that frenzied
crusade of the old folks in
those depression years. It set
off such a prairie fire that it
began to frighten those in high
places in politics and Govern
ment and was credited with
much influence in enactment
by the Roosevelt New Deal of
the social security law. That
was in August, 1885.
Well, the wheel has turned
full circle, and circumstances
have put doc" Townsend back
in the limelight again-with
his help.
Among the circumstances is
that Gen. Eisenhower. in his
Presidential campaign, adopted
for his social welfare issue a
promise to expand the social
security system to millions not
now covered.
That gave the Townsend
promoters their chance, and
they have made the most of
it. Their lobby is very active
around here again. At their
recent Cleveland convention,
the Townsend Clubs of Ameri-
ca doubled their annual dues
from one buck to two bucks,
and started a campaign to
raise $150.000 to clear of old
debts.
And, while nobody was pay
ing attention. the organization
has got l66 members Of the
Evening star., 1953-07-20
Thomas L. Stokes

In his own signed column
in a recent issue of Town
send National Weekly, DR..
Francis E. Townsend of Town
send Old Age Pension Plan
fame, wrote:
"As an octogenarian Il am
in my eighties), am no longer
surprised by the fact that his
tory constantly repeats itself.
Having lived so long, I feel
sometimes like a person who
sits the entire day in a movie
house watching the same Aim
endleSsly repeated"
This observation was
prompted by the Eisenhower
administrations So-calle d
"hard-money" policy through
the higher interest rates being
encouraged by Secretary of
Treasury Humphrey. That
carried DOC" townsend back
on a flight of fancy to the
titanic battle in 1896 Che was
a mere youth approaching 80
them between William Nc
Kinley, the gold dollar and
hard money Republican Pres
idential candidate, and Will
liam Jennings Bryan, the DEM
ocratic champion of free sill
yer and a cheap dollar.
While this reporter can take
no such flights of fancy, he
can take q more modest one a
few years back, prompted by
DR.. Townsend, himself, and
the doctors comment that
history constantly. repeats
ITSELF" This carries US back to
Evening star., 1953-07-20

the present adjournment rush.
Even so. a proposed rise in
the debt limit would provoke
the kind of heated political
discussion around which cam
paigns are built and next year
is a campaign year.
Democrats may be expected
to make the most Of the re-
sponsibility for such a rise on
the part of an administration
which campaigned for hard
money and a balanced budget.
They will regard it as further
proof Of their charge that the
Treasury's higher interest
rates on Government borrow
ings have only increased the
cost of carrying the debt with
out commensurate benefit.
Treasury Secretary Hum
phrey, in tacit acknowledge
ment that his debt proposal is
politically unfortunate. is put
ting the blame on the Truman
administration. Both Mr.. Tru-
mans spending policies and his
fiscal estimates for this year
are at fault, Mr.. Humphrey
says emphatically.
The trouble with this very
natural and perhaps justified
approach is that Republicans
hold such a very narrow. mar
gin of control in the House and
Senate, so narrow in fact that
matters of any Importance can
not be accomplished without
Democratic help. Democrats
are already restive over being
asked to support measures
Evening star., 1953-07-20
Pope Receives Toneo Queen

VATICAN CITY, July 20 (P),
Pope Plus XII received the
Tonga Islands statuesque Queen
Salote in a 15-minute private
audience today. The island
ruler, en- route home to the
Pacific after attending the coro-
nation Of Queen Elizabeth II,
was accompanied by her daugh-
ter, Princess Mata Aho.
Evening star., 1953-07-20
Doris FIeeson-

The new Treasury heads
have been throwing out hints
for about q week that the Ell
senhower administration was
about to ask Congress for a
higher legal debt limit. The
present limit Is $275 billion;
present indebtedness is a little
more than $272 billion.
Chairman Millikin Of the
Senate Finance Committee
tried hard not to vince when
his attention was called to
these trial balloons. He said
he hadn't been consulted.
Senator George. ranking FL
nance Democrat, hasn't been
consulted either. He remarked
politely that the timing
seemed unfortunate.
In the absence, therefore, Of
tremendous personal pressure
from the President, the debt
limit question seems headed
for that lengthening list of
hard problems which Congress
will think about next year.
Senators say that while the
Treasury is on the brink of
the debt precipice it will not
have gone over when the ses-
sion starts next January.
The TreaSury's need for new
money to meet running ex-
penses is forcing it into the
politically embarrassing de-
mand for a higher debt limit.
OF course, Congress must in
the end find the money for
the Federal debt, whatever it
is, even If it refuses to act in
Evening star., 1953-07-20
Philippine Uranium Check

MANILA. July 20 (P.-Two
experts from the United States
Atomic Energy Commission ar
rived yesterday to survey re-
ported uranium deposits in the
PhilippineS.
Evening star., 1953-07-20
Temple Lono A-BuiIdino

SALT LAKE CITY.-It re-
quired 40 years to complete the
Mormon Temple in this Utah
city. Construction began in 1853
and was finished in 1898.