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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-21
One Way to Erase a Smear
ADA Urged to Distribute as Many Copies Of Browne
Letter on Mccarthy as 1t Did the Original Charges

of having Communist connec-
tionS, not a single case has
ever been proved against the
Wisconsin Senator of bringing
anybody before his committee
who had not in some way been
mixed up with Communist Or
CARNATIONS. The extent Of
this association, however.
when met with frankneSS by
the witness has brought no
public condemnation. Those
who have used the fifth
amendment to refuse to testify
or those in Government Serv-
ice whose cases have been
acted on adversely by loyalty
review boards have been the
object of criticism. It must be
noted also that in virtually
every case, even those not dis
missed, there was a basis for
questioning Communist con-
nections or sympathieS, and
these cases are usually not
publiciZed at all.
Conceding, on the other
hand, that the Wisconsin SEN
ator may have made some mis-
takes in certain instances, two
wrongs do not make a single
right, and it will be interesting
to see whether the distribu-
ton Of many thousands of
copies Of charges against SEN
ator McCarthy by the Ameri-
cans for Democratic Action
will be followed now by the
distribution by this organiza-
ton of an equal number of
copies of the letters of exoner-
alton from the Department of
Justice.
Maybe if this is done it will
have a salutary effect on all
extremists and produce an
era of better feeling on the
subject of congressional in
quiries. For, if the harm done
can be offset by proper cor
receive measures generating
the innocent, there will be a
greater concentration on get
ting at the really guilty.
Reproduction Rights Reserved.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-21
Dorothy Thompson
Gen. Thimoyyo and the POWs
w.. N. Accused of Trying to Make the Indian General
A Scopeqoot Because He Did His Wretched Duty

a noble Indian. doing his
wretched duty, the scapegoatf
Why insult a man who, II
India is ever attacked by the
Soviet powers, will be in the
front line Of its defense? And
why inflame the prisoners
suspicious, not only Of the
Poles and Czechs, but Of the
Indians?
If the prisoners survive the
ordeal to which the armistice
terms condemned them, with
out giving in, they will come
into the custody Of Gen. Thu
maya. The neutral commits.
sion's work will be finished.
If we care about these much.
tried prisoners. isn't it obvious
that we should cultivate the
confidence of their future GUS
todian and not make him an.
other enemy Of the United
States?
Against whom is the "psych.
war" being waged anyhow?
Against everything and every
body. including the American
people?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-21

The Socialists Of all shades
who form the opposition to the
Ade1auer administration are
opposed to rearmament as a
general principle. They point
out that all the misfortunes
of the German workers and of
all other Germans who have
lost two wars since 1914 are
due to their fine and efficient
military machine.
The Socialists do not ques-
ton Adenauer's honesty Of
purpose and real democratic
ideals. But they say that the
span of life Of the 78-year-old
Chancellor is necessarily short
and who can say what may
happen after his disappearance
If some over-ambitious young
man takes his place? An army,
they say, is q dangerous tool
in the hands Of such a person.
The proximity of the Soviet
border and the reaction of the
MuScovites to a limited but
effective German rearmament
are worrying the opponents of
a modern army more than
these academic fears.
Ambassador Conant spent a
pleasant informal evening re-
Gently with Socialists of all
shades at Hamburg. The ques-
ton of rearmament came up.
The high commissioners hosts
spoke at length about the atom
bomb and its disastrous effects
on cities such as Hamburg and
Bremen which started only re-
Gently to replace the debris
left by American and British
bombers with new homes and
business houses. They all en-
phaSized that because of the
proximity Of Soviet bases, Ger
many would be the first to be
annihilated without a chance
Of resisting.
Conant listened patiently,
then said II am sure. gentle
men, that I am the only per-
son in this gathering who
knows something definite about
the A-bomb and its effects,
since I alone among you have
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-21

Senator had shaken down the
FEC plum for a man involved
with him in the controversial
Maryland campaign in which
John Marshall Butler defeated
Willard Tydings. Because he
got no reply, Wiley charitably
assumes that the decision was
made at a lower level than
Eisenhower's own desk.
Mr.. Brewster was associated
throughout his Senate career
with that band of Republican
isolationists who daily make
more plain their determination
to assert congressional as
cendancy over the White
House. The most revealing as
pect of his present fortunes,
however, is that the Joint
Commission appointment does
not require confirmation by his
former brethren.
Senators believe that the
confirmation requirement sty-
mied Mr.. Brewster'S aspira-
tons for such better-known
commissions as Maritime,
Federal Trade and the FEC.
His successor, Senator Payne,
an KEENAN,, with whom he
went through a bitter cam
paign, is openly hostile.
The new senior Senator
from Maine, Mrs. Margaret
Chase Smith, also pro-Ike, had
made no secret of the fact
that it was no fun to be Junior
to Mr.. Brewster in the Senate.
She has declined now to be
an administration alibi in any
sense, simply saying she will
not oppose Mr.. Brewster for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-21
Thomas L. Stokes
The Move to Kill IVA and REA
Head Of Commission on IntergoVernnentoI Functions
Accused of Hovinq Closed Mind on the Subject
Functions

other commission is a student
of the law. Formerly he was
dean of Notre Dame Univer-
sity's law school. In his tele-
vision appearance, with his
insistence upon constitutional
theory and his own interpre-
tation of it, he impressed at
least this observer as a man
who had kept his eyes too long
on his books and had never
got up to look out the window
at the world in recent years
and see what our people are
doing for themselves. He
seemed a man confused with
fears of democracy at work,
anxious lest the people permit
too much power to the Federal
Government.
Both the issues upon which
he expanded offer fine exam
pies Of democracy at work.
IVA Sprang from the needs
of the people, and Congress
representing the people and
recognizing the need, approved
it and made it possible. It is
a decentralized, regional OPP
Grafton, independent of the
Federal Government and sub
ject to constant check by Con-
gress representing all Of our
people. Likewise REA is a
grass roots democratic opera
ton. perhaps our finest ex-
ample of free, private enter
prise. It came into being when
the private utilities refused to
expand their operations to
farmers as needed.
iva and REA have been
ratified by our people at five
successive national elections
beginning in 1886 after their
creation and extending down
through 1852 when Gen. Eisen-
hover ran on a platform that
approved both and said on his
own behalf repeatedly in the
campaign that he would pre-
serve the social gains. of which
these are outstanding exam
piles.
1t begins to look as if we got
spoofed by campaign oratory.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-21

My neighbor, Vincent
Sheean, knows 1t. Gen. Thi-
maya we'll. He has stayed in
his house, seen him, he tells
me, with all kinds Of people:
Social workers trying to re-
patriate Indian women abb
Quoted during the communal
wars following the partition of
India; all kinds of soldiers;
Hindu and Moslem refugees;
with the press (the Indian
press, which Sheean declares
is the most obstinate, inquisi-
tive, and bumptious in the
world; on the frontier, in
army messes. His ability
to get along with all sorts of
people was manifest.
Mr.. Sheean says he has the
highest opinion of his tact,
skill, good humor and impair
TALLY. Of his military capaci-
ties-in Italy, Burma, "all over
the place"-his combat record,
citations, and decorations tell
the story. HE is an absolutely
f1rst-class commander of men,"
His training, of course, is Brit
ish, and he speaks English even
with his wife. He is about
SO. six feet tall. husky, hand
some, very dark, but with
rather Roman features, a first
class polo player, very good at
tennis. His wife is small, white
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-21

seen it explode. It is terrifying
indeed. But insofar as Ger
many being the first line OF
attack, I want to tell you that
Los Angeles, Chicago and New
York, thousands Of miles away
from here and from the Soviet
borders. are the first and real
targets Of the enemy"
The high commissioner con-
tinued to say, according to
reports from some of those
present, that since America,
which is the main objective Of
the Kremlin's hatred, is will
ing to take her chances, why
should others whose freedom
is being threatened fear the
brutal Red force?
This is also the thought Of
the Adenauer administration,
which has learned that q ma
ton which does not take q
calculated risk to defend, not
so much its independence, but
the freedom of all it's citizens,
cannot exist for long.
Rearmament. say those who
think like the Chancellor, is
an unpleasant and costly bur-
den. But it is necessary so
long as the Kremlin casts its
shadow over the globe.
But more than all these ar.
guments. the spontaneous ex.
plosionS of June II in Berlin
and other parts Of Eastern
Germany have taught an OBJ
ject lesson to all those who still
wonder about the wisdom Of
German rearmament.
The East German outburstS
were not political or calculated
to bring about a political ef-
feet. They represented the re-
action Of a people who could
no longer endure the Commu-
mist yoke-even If that yoke
was imposed on them by ma
tive followers of the Musco-
vites. These rebellions con-
WINGED the rank and file Of
the Germans in the West that
rearmament may be unpleas.
ant but it has now become an
urgent necessity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-21
Fletcher Knebel-
Potomac Fever

Our Government suspends United States aid to Israel. We
can't have our guns used against the Arabs-theyre needed in
Trieste for a couple of other allies to use against each other.
Senator Mccarthy and Army Secretary Stevens search for
spies at Fort Monmouth. Republicans admit the blame isn't
all one-sided. The old spies were due to Democratic softness-
the new ones to Russian toughness.
Secretary of State Dulles reports to the Nation on the world
situation. Our side has a fine lineup of alles-most of whom
are waiting in line to fight each other.
\
The Commerce Department says the United States re-
ceived $3.50 million last year in loan payments from other
countries-or almost enough to pay the interest on the money
we borrowed to help them repay us.
Interior Secretary Mckay warns the coal industry it should
solve it's own problems. This is practically brand-new advice.
The administration used it only once before on the farmers
and once was enough.
X
The U. N. Security Council debates the Israeli-Arab dispute,
These small nations are so nconsiderate-alway trying to
start a new fight before the big nations have finished the
last one.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-21
a New German Army
Idea Is Not Entirely Popular With Reich Politicians,
But They Seem to Feel That It's the Only Way Out
Constantine Brown

BONN, Germany (By Air
Mail) Paper preparations are
sufficiently advanced to per-
NIT Germany to create, in less
time than was originally an
ticipated, a homogeneous mill
tary force which would in
clude, besides IL ground divi-
sions, a coastal navy and a
limited defense cir force.
The whole question at pres
ent whether this force will
be a part of the European de-
Tense army, integrated in a
continental European army, or
whether it will be a purely
German force cooperating
with the American and prob
ably British forces stationed
at present in Germany.
Whichever it may be. there
is little doubt that by the end
of next year the present blue
print German army will be-
come an effective force ready
to defend, in cooperation with
others, not the Rhine but the
Elba boundaries.
The creation of a new army
after the Germans solemnly
renowned even partial rear
mament is not exactly popular
in the Bund but is regarded as
a necessary evil. The rank
and file of the population
who work hard to make life
as pleasant as it is now in
free Germany do not relish
the idea of joining the army
again.
Big and little businessmen
are equally lukewarm. The
creation of a new military
force will mean increased tax
alton to meet an expenditure
of at least SIS billion a year.
They see how powerful and
wealthy America is breathing
hard under the burden of a
limited rearmament. One of
the reasons why Germany is
prosperous today is that it is
not weighted with arms ex-
penditures and the correspond
ing taxation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-21
David LoWrence-

When q man is smeared by
a congressional committee, do
the facts actually catch up and
erase the smear?
This is a question often de-
bated here in Washington, and
the best answer is that, if a
man is considered innocent
until proved guilty, the Amer
lean public will hesitate to
condemn a man on mere &C
cusationS and will await the
final verdict.
Having stated the general
attitude toward such cases, the
question now arises whether
the Americans for Democratic
Action and the Senate Sub
committee on Elections, which
did a smear" job on Senator
Mccarthy Of Wisconsin with
innuendoes of guilt, will now
undo the damage they both did
and distribute as widely the
latest official Information
which exonerateS him from
violation of any Federal laws.
For the Justice Department,
through a letter written by
Attorney General Brownell,
now declares that the criminal
division has reviewed the
charges enumerated by a Sen
ate subcommittee but on which
the committee itself refused
to pass judgment. The Sen
ate subcommittee said only
that it was transmitting the
report to the Attorney General
"for such consideration as may
be within the Jurisdiction and
the responsibility" of the JUS
tice Department. The Attor-
ney General now says he has
examined the report to see if
any Federal offenses had been
committed. He states:
1.-THE report fails to show
the commission of any such
ohenSes. The subcommittee
spent a great deal of time,
effort and money in its inves-
legations made prior to the
preparation of the report and
there is no reason to believe
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-21
Doris FIeeson-

Who is advising President
Eisenhower to make strategic
appointments which are often
sive to Republican Senators
who support him and build up
the power of Republican Sen
ators usually to be found in
opposition?
Politicians are asking this
question on the basis of two
recent developments. One is
the Eisenhower choice of a
close political and personal
friend of Senator Met arthy,
Robert E. Lee, for the Federal
Communications Commission.
The other is Secretary of State
Dulles check of Senators for
their consent to the appoint
ment of former Senator Brew
ster Of Maine to the Interna-
tional Joint Commission.
Mr.. Lees appointment is a
direct slap at McC arthy's COL
league, Senator Wiley, chair
man of the Foreign Relations
Committee, who fights Eisen-
hower's battles as tenaciously
as Nc earthly works against
him. Wiley personally wrote
to the President and asked
him to name a Wiley associate,
Julius Calm, to the FEC job.
Calm, incidentally, has written
most of the speeches which
mark Wiley's conversion to an
internationalist foreign policy.
While he was still awaiting
q reply, whatever it might be,
the senior Senator from Wis
consin learned that the junior
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-21
D0rEs FIeeson-
Is|ke ockIingO Own teammates?
Appointment Of Lee to FEC Is Described as q Direct Slap
To Senotor Who Has Helped President in light PIoys

anything the President wants
him to do.
Politicians see no gain of
any description for the White
House in either the Lee or
Brewster moves. They con-
cede that a President must
sometimes placate his enemies
with favors owed his friends;
they would not quarrel with a
favor dispensed to a hostile
source when a close roll call
doomed. AS they see the Lee
Brewster situation, however,
Eisenhower is only helping to
entrench the enemy before the
fight begins.
Carthy's plum is of course
the most important, as FEC
handles the last of the public
domain-television channels.
If confirmed, Mr.. Lee will join
three other Republicans-one
of them from Wisconsin-on
that seven-man commission.
For a politician with strong
personal ambitions, Mccarthy
will be doing fine. He will be
in a position to have great in
fuence with one of the vital
media for disseminating pub
lie information. Already he
has a pipeline to the security
forces of the Nation through
Scott Mcleod, the State De-
partment security officer.
There is no evidence at all
that the President intends or
wants to help the forces
pleased by the Lee-Brewster
developments. Hence the ques-
ton: Why does it happen?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-21
Thomas L. Stokes

Television can be most use
full.
AS when it revealed, in the
space of a very few minutes,
the viewpoint of a man who
can have much influence on
whether we continue to reap
the benefit of economic and
social reforms we won in the
last 20 years. This is Clarence
E. Manion, chosen by PreSi-
dent Eisenhower to be head
of, and direct, the so-called
Commission on IntergoverR-
mental Relations. It's task is
to investigate the field Of
Federal, State and local func-
tons and suggest how they
might be reallocated.
Chairman Manion unveiled
himself as a man of very fixed
and positive views on some
subjects under the purview OF
his commission before the COM
mission even begins its study.
He enters upon his important
job with a closed mind and an
attitude, it may be added, that
is in conflict with that of a
majority of our people, if we
may Judge from successive
national elections from 1882
to now.
It must have been no sur
prise to his televiSion audience
then when q member Of the
panel, Gilbert A. Harrison,
publisher of the New Republic,
arose to express "shock" that
a man chosen for so important
q task did not approach it
effectively but already had
made his own decisions. To
this Mr.. Manion replied that
his views were we'll known and
that there was only one view
where constitutional questions
are involved; in short, that no
change is possible in such
q view.
The chairman'S attitudes
that prompted Mr. Harrison
to speak out concerned IVA
and the Rural Identification
Administration and came out
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-21
Longshoremen Strike
Extended
By the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Oct. 21.-A Fed
eral court Injunction, extended
to the full 80 days permitted by
the Taft-H Hartley Labor Law, to-
day barred any Atlantic Coast
longshoremen'S strike until
Christmas eve.
The original Injunction, which
was to have expired last night,
ended a five-day walkout from
Maine to Virginia by members
of the international Longshore-
mems Association.
Federal Judge Edward Vein
field extended the restraining or
der in an action yesterday.
He had granted the original
temporary order after President
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-21

Eisenhower made his first use
of the national emergency pro-
visions of the Taft-Hartley law.
The strike had cost shippers an
estimated SIS million daily. A
wage-contract dispute was in
volved.
Judge Weinfeld, meanwhile,
reserved decision on a Govern
ment motion to have the injunc-
ton apply to the AFL Pier
Union. He said he would make
his decision by Sunday night.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-21
Three Leukemiu Deaths

WASHBURN, N. OAK, Oct. 81
R.-Leukemia has struck it's
third fatal blow in Is months
at the Emanuel Keck family.
MARVEL Keck, 80, died of the
dread blood disease July %,
1852; Eugene, 25, died six
months ago yesterday; Curtiss,
&c, died early yesterday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-21
Mr.. ROOSEVELT SAID go.
STAIN SAID 49,.
/ SAID ....
Now you can read Churchill's word-for-word account OF the
fateful conference of the Big Three at Yalta.

STARTING this Friday, LIFE is publishing
Triumph and TT0gedy-the sixth volume
of Sir Winston Churchill's Nobel Prize
winning Memoirs Of World War II.
The chance to listen in" at Yalta is
Just one of a thousand reasons why you
don't want to miss a single installment Of
Triumph and Tragedy.
You will walk side by side with the
only one OF the Big Three still alive to
give a frst-hand account of the momen,
tous days when we we're winning the war
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-21

but losing the hope of peace.
Triumph and Tragedy is great writing
about great events 1t is prophecy come
true in our time. 1t is a clear light shining
on the mhy Of the world you live IN today.
Read it IN LIFE-n FIVE issues begin
nlng this week
Evening star., 1953-04-25

Pittsburgh: A few weeks ago
you used the word "miSlocution." "
Would you please define it for
me, as I am unable to ind it in
our dictionary?-A. M.
A. Mislocution Is merely an
other way Of saying that a phrase.
a word, or q usage is incorrect.
The word Is formed from locu-
ton, style Of speech or phrase
ology," plus the prefix mis-, bad;
erroneous"
Washington: Please discuss
the term Welsh rabbit. I often
see and hear "rarebit," but my
Webster's says 1t Is wrong
M. j. B.
A. The dish Of melted cheese
is properly called Welsh rabbit.
In Wales, because Of the scarcity
Of game, cheese was spoken Of 81
Evening star., 1953-04-25
A One-Mtnute Test of You
NetDS knowledge
NEWS QUIZ
By ON Henry

1. INVITATION - Why
has President Eisenhower
invited the 48 State gover-
nors to the White House
next month?
2. HONORS-W What 30
year-old American was ap-
pointed an honorary Knight
Grand Cross of the Most
Excellent Order of the
British Empire recently?
3. CHECK Why should
the Daughters of the Amer
lean Revolution feel salts
fed with the United States
gold supply at Fort Knox?
4. TOSS-What new dis
Gus throw record has been
set by Sim 1ness, Southern
California Olympic star?
S. QUOTE-Who is our
Secretary of Agriculture who
said: 1.-THE time has come
when we must face the hard
facts of squaring our spend
ing with our income?
Answers:
/. To give them a first
hand picture of the state of
the world and the role Of
the United States in it," 2.
John w. Davis, Democratic
presidential candidate in
1924 and former envoy to
Britain. 3. The gold has
been checked and found cor
rect; last spring the D. A. r.
was worried over reported
losses. 4. A record Of 1876
feet 5H inches, breaking his
own record Of 1873 feet 5A
inches set in 1851. 5. Ezra
T. Benson.
Tom Henry's "Quiz EN-"
appears every Sunday in
THIS WEEK Magazine with
The Star.
Evening star., 1953-04-25
Rubber Face Comic Faces
Rubber Check CHARGE

Johnny (Rubber Face) Frisco
"a night club face contortionist
was arrested yesterday by Dis
trict police in Atlantic City on
a charge Of passing bad checks
here.
Detective Sergt. John J. Fitz-
patrick Of the Check and Fraud
Squad made the arrest on q
warrent sworn out by an ofncial
Of the Parkside Hotel. 1900 block
Of I street NV.
The 46-year-old comedian is
accused Of passing two worthless
checks totaling $3.50, according
to police. Frisco at one time en-
tertained at the Picadilly Club
here. 1t. Dave Higgins said.
Sergt. Fitzpatrick had trailed
Frisco through Philadelphia,
Baltimore. New York, Richmond,
and Boston before making the
arrest yesterday.