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Evening star., 1953-05-10
Student Wins Scholarship

Sarah Z. Brooks, graduate
student at Howard University.
has been awarded q Fulbright
scholarship to study French lit
erature at the University Of
Paris next winter.
Evening star., 1953-05-10
Gu Meeting on Transactions

Literature in several languages
will be read at a meeting on the
problems Of translation at $3.50
pm. tomorrow at Mcmahon Hall,
Catholic University. The public
is invited.
Evening star., 1953-11-23

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Evening star., 1953-11-11
Bad Timing and Low Politics.?
Some Who Attack Brownell in White Case
Sow Nothing Wrong With Wogner's Fay Charges

the Democrats enthusiastically
cried out, "Give 'em hell.
Harry"
Now the former President is
on the receiving line of the
give -'em-hell strategy, IL in
deed it is something political,
and only in the interests of one
party, to expose Communist
spies and how they got pro-
NOTED inside our Government.
Mr.. Truman's friends are
arguing that it isn't dignif1ed
or right to subpoena d former
President and that it would
have been better to ask him to
appear as a matter of volition.
That would have been a desir-
able courtesy, but testimony
under oath is sought from all
witnesses when information of
great Importance to the Nation
is needed by congressional
committees.
AS for courtesy" however,
it will be recalled that Mr..
Truman fired Gen. Macarthur
without a hearing and by a
public message given to the
radio. There wasn't much
courtesy" when he fired Ad-
miral Denfeld. Both were fired
for political reasons.
The former President ought
to be the last to complain
about the way the White con-
troversy has developed. He
himself first gave it momentum
by saying he didn't recall the
FBI report and that he fired"
White as soon as his disloyalty
was discovered. The facts now
turn out to be that there was
quite a lot of fuss inside the
administration about it and
that at the time-February,
1946-James F. Byrnes. then
Secretary Of State and now
Governor of South Carolina,
discussed the whole thing with
Mr.. Truman, saying he was
well aware that the FBI had
reported White to be a member
of the Soviet espionage ring.
A theory has been advanced
that Mr.. Truman may not
have wanted to expose White
at the time when the FBI re-
port reached him.. preferring
to have the investigative proc
ess continued. There is no
record of such course of
action in the Department of
Justice. But even If this were
Evening star., 1953-11-11
Constantine Brown
French Tire Of War
Poris Feels Southeast Asia Can Never
Be q Profitable Investment Again

PARIS, France (By Air
MaiD. - Nothing, not even a
highly improbable decisive
victory of the French forces
in Indo-C China, can induce the
French to continue the strug-
gle in that vital part of South
east Asia.
Neither the French people
nor the government, Premier
Joseph Laniel'S statements to
the contrary Notwithstanding,
is interested in carrying on the
jungle war much longer 1t
just does not pay dividends.
Regardless of the results of
the military campaign, Indo-
China cannot henceforth re-
main the remunerative invest
ment it was to the French
people until the outbreak of
World War II.
The Omitted States Govern
ment has assumed the bulk of
the cost Of the war in the
former French colony. This
will not change the intent of
France to get out of that
country without further delay.
M. Laniel and his foreign
minister. Georges Bidault. are
trying to soften the blow be-
cause they know how much
Importance we attach to the
struggle against Communist
domination of Southeast Asia.
But an important faction in
the government headed by
former Premier Paul Reynaud
is determined to have France
cut her losses and get out.
In this they have the support
of not only an overwhelming
majority of the National
Assembly but also that of the
great majority of the people.
The people of France have
lost all hope that their invest
ment in Indo-C China can be
salvaged. The seven years of
war against the Communists
led nominally by Ho Chi Mini,
but actually by some agents Of
Peiping and Moscow, have cost
them 81 billion and some 40,-
600 casualties among the
French colonial and metropoli-
tan troops. In this figure is in
cluded a high percentage Of
young graduates of st. Cyr
(the French West Point.)
Although Washington has
made available to the French
an enormous amount of war
material, including light bomb
ers, the French can see no
further reason why they should
sacrifice the life of a single
soldier or another nickel
even If it Is American money.
For. whatever the result Of
the struggle, Indo-China will
no longer remain a colony.
The Vietnamese and Cam
bodians insist on their free
dom. Many of them resent the
suggestion of any further as
sociation with the Paris gQy-
ernment even in the loose
form of a commonwealth such
as exists between India or
Pakistan and Great Britain.
The Wet Nam congress made
this very clear late in october
when it stated that it refused
to become a part of the French
Evening star., 1953-11-11
povid Lowrence-

Some new expressions have
become a part Of the political
vocabulary of the hour. 1t was
supposed, for instance, to be
bad timing" and ''low politics"
for Attorney General Brownell
--or at least so the Democratic
national chairman says-to
declare that, although Harry
Dexter White was a Russian
spy" he had been nominated
in 1946 to a high post by
former President Truman.
Apparently it wasn't bad
timing" or slow politics" for
Robert F. Wagner, jr., sue
cessful Democratic candidate
for Mayor of New York, to
make a sweeping charge that
an influential person, high in
the Eisenhower administration.
had asked Gov. Dewey to
parole Joseph S. Fay, labor
leader convicted of extortion.
Mr.. Wagner, who received the
plauditS of Mr.. Truman when
he was elected last week. had
referred-without naming him
to one of Gov. Dewey's
closest political associates on
the national scene" and "a
national figure whose every
word and action carries tre-
mendous weight throughout
the country"
There was no complaint
from the Democratic chieftains
then that this was a smear
attack, even though the plain
inference was that the refer
ence was to somebody in the
Eisenhower cabinet-in fact,
it was taken by many people
to mean Attorney General
Brownell, and rumor was that
the incident happened when he
was in private law practice.
But Mr.. Brownell promptly
denied that he had at any
time directly or indirectly in
terceded for Fay. Yet no
apology came from the Demo-
Gratis. The Wagner statement
was never withdrawn.
Nor did it seem to be "low
politics" from the standpoint
of the Democratic national
chairman last year to stand by
and let former President Tru=
man make campaign speeches
which cast doubt on the in
tegrity, if not the loyalty. of
Gen. Eisenhower. Instead,
Evening star., 1953-11-11
Oman Criticizes
Truman Subpoena
BY the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, Nov. 11.-Meth-
odist Bishop G.. Bromley Oman,
who has scrapped before with
the House Committee on Un-
American Activities, tonight said
it was "regrettable" former
President Truman has been sub
poenaed by the committee.
He also said it was time for
President Eisenhower to tell the
American people I'VE want no
more McCarthyism."
The bishop told an audience of
700 persons at the Baltimore
Hebrew Congregations temple
that he did not question the
legality of the Truman subpoena
since the ex-President is a
citizen.
However, he added, ''it would
seem to me that it would be pos
sible to secure all the informa-
ton necessary without bringing
into question the integrity of a
man who has been Chief Execu-
tive of his country"
Bishop Oman said if Com
munist inflltration of the Gov
ernment is as pronounced as it
is reputed to be, it should be pos
sible to obtain all the necessary
information from other sources
without calling on Mr.. Truman
to testify.
Evening star., 1953-11-11

Where Was General Vaughan?
His Statement That He Had Never Heard Of Whi
Poses Question Of Whether He Reads Newspapers
'uperS

man is a Communist agent and
the FBI knows it,"
When / inquired why. If the
FBI had such information, a
case was not brought against
Mr.. White, they replied that
the information was obtained
by means inadmiSsible as evi-
dence' under existing law-ob-
viouSly by wiretapping.
This was not the only time
in this period that I heard the
name of Mr.. White privately
mentioned in disquieting asso-
Citations.
A former diplomat, DEM
ocrat, and one-time close as
sociate of President Roosevelt
told me: "It is absolutely essen
tial of get White out of tne
administration. He Is serving
another government-the So
viets. It is not yet, but it will
one day become, an open
scandal"
When I asked why he did
not, himself, transmit this in
formation to the President. he
replied that the President al
ready knew it. via the FB1
Whether this information
was accurate or not had, and
have, no means of proving or
disproving. I can only attest
to the fact that it was current
in Washington before Presi-
dent Truman's appointment
of Mr.. White to the Interna-
tional Monetary Fund.
My connections in Washing
ton were not extensive as Gen.
Vaughan's certainly were. If.
then, he now asserts that he
never even heard the name of
the much-discussed Mr.. White
until Mr.. Brownell stated that
the FBI via the general had
warned the President of him,
as early as 1945, I find it, to
say the least, remarkable. Gen.
Vaughan's posture seems to
have been that of the three
monkeys-to touch not. see
not. speak not.
Or, perhaps, of the three
blind mice.
Evening star., 1953-11-11

union. Although Chief of State
Bao Dai, at the pressing pleas
of Premier Laniel. induced the
congress to change the form
of its declaration by inserting
the words under present cir
cumstances," the blow was
softened only sufficiently to
permit the French Premier to
win a vote Of confidence in
the debate which followed in
the National Assembly.
The French see the writing
on the wall. The Dutch have
lost their rich colonies Of
Java and Sumatra which have
now become the Indonesian
Republic. The British have
lost India and in Malaga they
are just hanging on by the
skin of their teeth in q fight
against the Red-led natives
which has been going On for
as long as the French have
been struggling in Indo- China.
The era of the white mans
domination and exploitation
of the Asiatics has definitely
come to an end. Thus. say
the French, why continue q
costly and useless war in Indo-
China? Europe has no longer
any strategic interest in Asia.
The fact that a premature
French withdrawal might
jeopardize the position of the
United States in the Pacific
is of academic interest only
to our Western allies. The
French do not even feel that
they will lose face by giving
up what they regard as an
unequal struggle by agreeing
to negotiate with the Com
munists.
HAS America not agreed
to negotiate with the Chinese
and North Korean Commu-
nists, and in effect has it not
capitulated to them?" this re-
porter has been asked. Then
why should France continue
to fight? Her investments are
certainly lost. BY sitting at
the roundtable her negotiators ,
may be able to salvage some
thing"
The French have no illu-
sions as to what will happen in
Indo-China once a truce and
a peace conference have been
agreed on. They know that
within a short time the Reds
will 'romp over the entire ter
ritory and will subject the
Ir1do- Chinese to the domina-
ton of Peiping and Moscow.
But that is a matter which
must concern the natives who
have been unco-operative with
the French forces and have
thus made the Communist
victory possible.
The political and military
resources of metropolitan
France must henceforth be
devoted to salvaging the REM
nants of the empire in Africa:
Morocco. Tunisia and the vast
territories as far south as the
French Congo. 1t is this un-
developed and potentially rich
area which France can de-
fend and keep under her rule.
And it is to that end that her
future efforts must be directed.
Evening star., 1953-11-11

Truman will necessarily be ad-
vised not to appear at all.
Some lawyers would advise him
to appear but only to state his
legal reasons for not remain
ing. Somehow, this does not
jibe with the Truman person.
ality.
His closest associates are
frankly a little afraid that Mr..
Truman is far too impulsive to
make an ideal witness. They
expect Mr.. Byrnes, with his
legal training and practice, to
be an excellent one. The
Byrnes statement on the
White case is an example of
his clear concept of facts and
how they should be delivered
to get the maximum effect.
1t is not in Mr.. Truman's
nature to marshal facts to-
ward logical conclusions. nor is
he a lawyer.
He is a fighter and great
rough and tumble politician.
For this reason it is being
argued in some quarters that
he should be let alone to be
himself and wage political war
upon the Republican admins
tration and his old associate,
Mr. ByrneS.
One thing is certain. He will
be guided in whatever decision
he makes-and he alone will
make it. he always has-by his
deep consciousness of pr~si-
Dental sovereignty and of the
place Harry Truman will oc-
cupy in history. Whatever he
thinks it will take to protect
those two things, he'll do if he
can.
In the Byrnes testimony, the
Eisenhower administration has
a real boon. Now Governor of
Evening star., 1953-11-11
Fletcher KnebeI-
Potomac Fever

House committee summons Harry Truman to testify
the big spy Harry expected take from the
committee give it back in trplcate.
Ike Churchill and French Premier Laniel month
in Bermuda They'll all aleswith prize
the who that isn't fighting several the
others.
Democratic Chairman Mitchell Republicans yell spy"
their links with racketees Democrats oppose
eeersthey hamper the orderly official squandering of
money
Alexis Johnson named Ambassador to Czechoslovaka
is of under immediate suspiconor travelling 1000
miles to talk to bunch of Communists.
Booksellers 200 books the White House library
This insure adequate supplies for all
burning.
Evening star., 1953-11-11

so, then why did Mr.. Truman
on April 80. 1916, send such
a complimentary letter to
White when he resigned as
Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury to take the post Of
United States Director Of the
International Monetary Fund? ?
The most plausible explana-
tion is that Mr.. Truman. like
so many people in his admin
istration. was gullible and that
some one in whom he did have
confidence probably went to
bat for White and fatty de-
MED the truth of the charges.
1t has been suggested also
that Mr.. Truman couldn't at
that tinne-February, 1876
determine the guilt or inno-
cence of White. since there
had been no trial or indict-
ment. This. Is q widely held
fallacy.-for employment in
the Government of the United
States is not a right but a
privilege. The FBI report had
in it enough testimony to have
brought about dismissal from
the Government. Today. al
though the President of Har-
ward University. for instance,
says that refusal by a profess
sor to testify before con-
gressional committee on the
ground of self determination is
not a confession of guilt" and
hence does not merit dismissal
by Harvard, Gen. Eisenhower
has ordered that any Govern
ment employe who takes ref
uge in the fifth amendment
and refuses to say whether he
is a Communist or has been
engaged in espionage must be
instantly fired from the Gov
ernment service.
The record on Harry Dexter
White was such that, had he
come up today for appointment
or continuance in Office, the
existing rules would have
barred him from further EN-
ployment. One wonders why it
took so many years Of public
agitation concerning the blum
ders of the Truman admins
tration to bring about the
cleanup which the Eisenhower
administration has just begun
in response to a mandate from
the people at the election a
year ago.
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Evening star., 1953-11-11
Doris Fleeson
Doris Feeson-
What Will Be Trunnun's Course?
Some Of His Friends Feel He Would Not Be Ideal Witness
Others Say He Should Be Free to Fight His Own Way

Former President Truman
has been Joined in New York
by his former counsel at the
White House, Charles S. Muir
ply, and by former Secretary Of
the Interior Oscar Chapman.
They brought him word that
files and diaries of the principal
figures of his administration
are being searched for any
facts that will shed light on
the case of the late Harry
Dexter White.
Included are the official
papers of the late Chief JUS
tice Vinson. who as Secretary
of the Treasury recommended
the White promotion which
former Secretary of State
ByrneS now says he protested
at the time. Members of the
Vinson family and old aSSo-
ciateS volunteered to help.
- 1t had been hoped that Mr.
Truman would make a similar
search of his papers before he
spoke again about the White
case. The subpoena now is
sued for him by the House Un-
American Activities Committee,
(. however. is the first order of
business before the New York
conferees.
The curbStone opinion of
lawyers here who have had
long experience with Govern
ment is that the former Presi-
dent cannot be forced to tes-
tify about any information he
received in his capacity as the
Nations Chief Executive. Gen
orally they feel it would be a
. very bad precedent if he did.
This does not mean that Mr..
Evening star., 1953-11-11
Hospital Group InsfaIIs
Robert Hoyf as President
BY the Assoeiofed Press

BALTIMORE, Nov. H. The
Maryland. District of Columbia,
Delaware Hospital Association
yesterday installed Robert S.
Hoyt, administrator of the Luth-
eran Hospital of Maryland, as
president for the coming year.
Named president-elect for the
year following was Fred A. Nc
Namara, chief of the hospital
section of the United States Bu-
reau of the Budget in Wash
lngton.
Other elected officers include
Victor F. Ludewig. superintendent
of George Washington Hospital
in Washington, as third vice
president, and Leo G. Schneider,
administrator at WaShington's S
Garfield Memorial Hospital. as a
member Of the board of trustees.
Evening star., 1953-11-11

South Carolina, Mr.. Byrnes
has had a distinguished ca
reer; his name carries weight,
he was long on the inside of
Government. He is a danger
Gus antagonist. He has also
relieved the Attorney General
from the necessity of produc-
ing proof that Mr.. Truman
knew about Mr.. White, proof
that had hitherto been lack
ing.
Up to now. another key dg-
ure in the White case, Su-
preme Court Justice Clark, has
not been heard from. He will
not only not see reporters but
has resisted what have so far
been tactful suggestions from
old associates that he should
stand up and be counted.
Justice Clark was Attorney
General during the period
when the FBI was handing
out its reports or Mr.. White
and Mr.. Truman promoted
him. One of Mr. Clark's for
mer assistants has said that
the Justice Department did
try to indict Mr.. White but a
grand jury refused to act. An
other. Theron Lamar Caudle,
has said he pleaded in vain
with Mr.. Clark to do some
thing.
1t is the Clark name which
carries the weight. It is his
version which counts.
During the hearings into
corruption in the Internal Rev.
enue Bureau. many demands
were made for Justice Clark's
testimony. He successfully re-
sisted them on the ground that
the court was withdrawn from
the political scene. The pres
sure this time is coming not
from the opposition but from
friends.
Evening star., 1953-11-11

Unexpectedly got the call as
the candidate favored by Pres
ident Roosevelt to replace Vice
President Wallace. Had Mr..
Byrnes won the vice presi-
dental nomination he, in
stead of Harry Truman, would
have been President.
President Truman honored
him later, when the occasion
came. by naming Mr.. Byrnes
Secretary of State. The latter
acted with considerable inde-
pendence in the post. often
acting first and telling the
President afterward. In time
that CALLED President Truman.
So Mr.. Byrnes left the State
Evening star., 1953-11-11
Thon1os L Stokes
Trunnon-Byrnes 'Feud' Renewed
Many Are Asking Why the Governor if He Felt So SronqIy
About White Case Didn't Make Public Issue Of II Before

Once. in the very early years
of estrangement between the
two men, President Truman
had quipped EFT tu, Brute"
when Mr.. Byrnes, then a pri-
vate citizen, had pounced upon
the Truman Fair Deal of
which the one-time Secretary
of State had been a part. But
Mr.. Truman no longer is sur
prised-the feud has gone long
past that stage. Neither sug-
gests quarter, in Latin, Eng
lish, South Carolinian or Mis-
Sourian.
The denouement of the
Byrnes break with Harry Tru-
man and with the Democratic
Party came last year when
the South Carolina Governor
bolted to Gen. Eisenhower and
celebrated the occasion in q
Jamboree for, the Republican
candidate at the capitol in
Columbia during the cam
paign. He was unable, how
ever, to carry his State for
Gen. Eisenhower.
What has happened be-
tween the two men may have
had its origin back in the 1914
Democratic convention. SEN
ator ByrneS. as he was then.
was a leading candidate for
the vice presidential nomina-
tion. He was being supported
by Senator Truman of Mis-
souri, who, in fact, still had in
his pocket a nominating
speech for his South Carolina
colleague when he. himself.
Evening star., 1953-11-11

able to Mr.. White and trans
NIT it to President Truman.
Long before Mr.. White was
publicly mentioned by Eliza
beth Bentley and Whitaker
Chambers as belonging to a
ring cooperating with Soviet
agents, similar charges were
being bruited in Washington.
1 cannot remember the exact
date, but it certainly was be-
fore the end Of January, 1916,
that I lunched with four Sena-
tors in the Capitol. For in
January, 1946. Mr.. White was
appointed executive director
for the United States in the
International Monetary Fund,
and at the time of our lunch
con he was still in the Treas
ury Department.
We discussed the Morgen-
thau plan for Germany, which
I believed, if carried out, would
have disastrous effects upon
Western Europe, and benefit
only one state and one move
ment-the Soviet Union and
world communism.
I had noticed that although
no proposals remotely resem-
bling the Morgenthau plan had
ever emanated from the Soviet
Union itself, American Conf
munist publications were plug
ging for it, which logically
argued that Russia wanted us
to take the responsibility for
reducing Germany to utter
chaos. mobilizing all Germans
against us, and destroying the
European economy, in order
that the Soviets and their
agents. the European Com
munistS, should fall heir.
The Senators, whose names
/ do not mention because it
was an off -the-record conver-
sation. then told me flatly:
1.-THE author of the Morgen-
thau plan is the Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury,
Harry Dexter White. This