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BRICK RAMBLER

din. rni.. equip. XII. with % din. space'
2 bedrms. with tile bath and master
bedrm. with H-bath. full bsmt., At
tached garage; very accessible to
Washington Memorial Parkway.
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RIVERWOOD

This most unusual rambler, situated
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Memorial or 14th st. Bridges. Ali
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Constantine Brown

A reign of terror, without
precedent since the days when
communism was being eStab-
lished in Russia, is now raging
in most of the satellite coun-
tries.
Reports from these areas
say that the attitude of the
Kremlin's Satraps recalls the
short-lived terroristic rule of
Bella Kun in Hungary in 1919.
In East Germany, the new
woman Minister of JUS
tice, Hide Benjamin, known
throughout the country as
Red Hide" not because of
her communism but because
of her lood-thirSty reputa-
ton, is showing her mettle.
There are more knocks on
the door after midnight"
throughout East Germany
than there were in 1945, when
the advancing Soviet army
was killing, raping and ar
resting people indiscrimi-
nately. "Red Hide" is not
only trying to stif1e the unrest
due to impossible living and
working conditions, but is also
settling personal scores. So
are her henchmen.
The number of Germans
escaping across the borders
into West Germany is hitting
new high. The refugees in
clude not only private citizens,
but members of the Wanted
East German Peoples Police,
the pride of the puppet gov
eminent.
Officials heretofore believed
loyal to the Communists be-
cause Of their regulations as
convinced MarxiSts are fleeing
to West Berlin. They prefer
the security of refugee camps,
even jail, to the risks Of their
jobs.
Those who cannot flee are
attempting to resist the new
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Credit Union Of the District Of
Columbia.
Shares at S..
The capital for the union
would be obtained by selling
shares at SIS each. To be admit
ted to membership a person
would have to be a District en-
ploye and pay an entrance fee
Of 81. and subscribe for at least
one share of stock. The maxi
mum number of shares available
for subscription would be 10000
and any member is limited to 200
shares. The board of directors
of the union would be elected
from the general membership
and serve for one year.
A loan would not exceed $500
which would be made without Sc
curity. The rate of interest would
be fixed by the directors but
would not exceed l per cent a
month on unpaid balances. A
member failing to pay an INSTALL
ment on loan when due would
be fined two cents a week on
each So.
The Commissioners are ex-
pected to authorize the establish
ment of the union in the near
future.
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Fletcher Knebel-
Potomac Fever

Adlai Stevenson cutaway coat to have tea with
Queen Elizabeth Democrats Adla not buy
coattaShe partys going Esenhowers.
House committee summons Methodist Preacher Jack
Mcichael to Red charges This will be known the
steepejack Congress-its climbed churches
Gov Dewey to Washington plead for public power
Dewey admits he's ouand-out Repubcanbut figures he
deserves out before he's retired.
Defense Boss Wilson is contradcted by Draft Chief Hershey
and House Military Chairman Short who draft calls will
remain high. No wonder they're ngerprintng
Washngton-the place is loaded with second-sory
Harry Truman says play golf while he
the White House How the heck get away
for round Of golf when his pals yelling "Deal Deal
Spencer Miller of New Jersey in
tary Of Labor His job to organize
tay Of Labor Dunwho missing naction since
committee approves plan to admit 24o 900
immigrants Republican Congressman figure that
can't break the White House habit of giving
foreigners the least they do is
foreigners.
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Dorothy Thompson
Dorothy Thompson
Responsibility but No Authority
Declining Power Of Executive Branch Seen as Brinqinq
Political ImPotency of the Kind PIoguine France

If the usurpation by Con-
gress of the Executives func-
ton continues and accelerates
we shall approach the condi-
ton of political impotency
which is the mortal disease of
France.
Americans who follow inter-
national politics at all see
clearly that France is today a
country incapable of conduct
in a foreign or even a do
nestle policy. This is not be-
cause there are no able men
in France. It is because able
men are unwilling to assume
responsibilities without au-
thority. They are increasingly
allergic to accept offices which
demand that decisions be
made, only to find that when
they propose decisions they
are thrown out of Office by
petty politicians, whose inter-
eSts are not national or inter-
national but party and pro-
vincial.
In June. for the first time
in the history of the Fourth
French Republic, a French
Premier refused to accept
again the nations highest Of
flee until or unless he could
be guaranteed greater sta
bility for the executive ad-
miniStration. Paul Reynaud
demanded that the National
Assembly grant him in adj
vance a tenure of Office for at
least six months in order that
he might conceivably get some
thing accomplished.
In France the problem is
constitutional. The presidency
is an honorary Office with no
power at all. The administra-
ton is the puppet of the sin
gle-chamber Parliament-the
National Assembly. Constitu-
tionally no government has
momentary majority may over
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Thomas L. Stokes
Ihomos [. Stokes
The AcquittoI Of Bishop Oman
VeIde Committed Procedure Is Seen as Infringing
On Religious Freedom; Churches May Fight Move

Fortunately, it is still pos
sible to smile, if a bit wanly,
at such a spectacle as that of
the House Un-American Ac-
Invites Committee when, in
the middle of the night, after
a 10-hour "trfal''-for that was
what it vast voted an &C
quittal for a distinguished
bishop of the M e t h o dist
Church. He was not guilty of
membership in the Communist
Party!
Bishop C. Bromley Oman
had not, of course, been &C
cused of membership in the
Communist Party. But Repre-
sentative Doyle, Democrat, of
California, who seemed to
think the whole fantastic pro-
ceeding nonSensical, as did
most of the audience, added a
final whimsical flip by sug-
costing that the bishop. like
other witnesses, should be
asked what has come to be
known around here as the
S64 question"-to wit, whether
he ever had been a member
of the Communist Party. This
seemed a little too much for
the committee members, who
could not enter into the spirit
of gaiety, so Mr.. Doyle then
moved that the bishop be exon
Grated of any affiliations with
the Communist Party. Sol
EMMY he was voted expiration.
1t was possible, too, to laugh
out loud, in truth it was an
involuntary reflex not to be
suppressed, when the bishop
was asked formally, like the
character in the old-time
vaudeville act, about a speech
he was supposed to have made
on a certain date back in 1922.
AS a matter of fact, the bishop,
who seems to have kept a de-
tailed record of practically
every day of his life, was able
to supply the information, and
to show again, as he did time
after time, how the record
the committee has compiled on
him is replete with errors and
lies, and altogether a shame
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while the Republicans seem
headed toward a present adj
vantage in tiEne and circum-
stance, their younger members
are less able and the Demo-
Gratis are coming up strongly
with much bright new blood.
OF course, fate and the tides
OF politics can always change
the Senate draStically in spite
OF the six-year terms enjoyed
by its members.
At the moment, the Senate
sick list consists only of Sen
ator Taft. When his doctors
recently failed to give assur-
anceS that he would return for
the next session, it was realized
here that if he must retire, the
Democratic Governor of Ohio,
Frank Lausche, could be ex-
pected to appoint a Democrat.
Other things being equal,
this would of course upset the
Senate balance. Democrats,
however, privately say that in
the matter of one vote, they
will be in no hurry to seek
Senate control.
Such considerations as the
foregoing suggest always be-
come a matter of moment
when adjournment nearS, the
work piles up and the Con-
gress aches to leave the Wash
ington heat. Yet, it is always
reluctant to inflict a firm
schedule on itself and reluc-
tant to adjourn August l with
a promise to return in the fall.
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EisenhoWer's First Six Months
Misguided White House Advisers Blamed for Errors
That Resulted in Several Negative Developments
Dovid Lowrence

President EiSenhower'S reply
at his press conference this
week to a question asking for
an appraisal of his first six
months in Office has occasioned
a variety of comments-some
of them making the point that
the President seemed on the
defensive.
Gen. Eisenhower is not the
type to blow his own horn, and
yet he is well aware that peo-
pie are impatient for certain
fundamental changes in the
Truman policies that have not
yet been made. There was
something, therefore, modest
and restrained in the Presi-
dents evaluation of his first
half-year. Actually he has
made real progress in learn
ing what the presidency is
about.
Disinterested persons, ire
spective of political aftiliation,
will concede not only that
Gen. Eisenhower is as well
liked as any President in a
half century, but that there
exists on almost every side a
sincere wish to have him sue
coed.
Having paid tribute to Gen.
Eisenhower's consciousness
of purpose and fairness, as he
understands the issues, one
can still say that his first six
months have recorded a num-
Der of negative developments
for which misguided advisers
have been largely responsible.
Every President is in a sense a
puppet. He is pushed in one
direction or the other by those
with a prejudice in favor of
this or that policy, and often
the group preSSures reach him
and influence him when he
least suspects them.
There are, however, certain
memorable rules about politics
In which sound advisers would
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litfcal viewpoint-an unneces-
sary manifestation Of hostility
toward a substantial number
of Republicans in America
who feel deeply on the subject
of left wing" penetration into
our institutions.
The President told his press
conference he has not been
trying to create friction or in
dulge in personalities. He has
failed nevertheless to erase
the impression on Capitol Hill
that he has declared war on
a large body of American citi-
Zens throughout the country
who happen to think Nc
Carthy's anti Communist cru
SADIE has been necessary to
alert other citizens on how
readily the Communist con-
Spiracy can dupe well-meaning
clergymen, for instance, to say
nothing of persons in other
institutions like labor unions,
the press. and the colleges.
But, irrespective of the
merits of these controversial
subjects, the fact remains that
after six months the Repub-
lican Party is split badly and
harmony" is sadly missing in
Congress, and it goes deeper
than mere differences of
opinion" It is all the more
tragic because sound political
advice could have prevented
the break. Maybe the next six
months will bring a reconcilia-
ton. The President will learn
with more experience that,
while a battle with Republic
cans in Congress and the
alienation of millions of Re-
publican voters throughout
the country may bring ap-
plause from Democrats and
"left-wingers" who never vote
the Republican ticket any
how, such tactics will not win
more seats for the Republican
Party in Congress in 1854.
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Terror at Oppressors' Hands
Knocks on the Door After Midnight Are Increasing
In All Countries Where KrennIin Puppets Rule

Red terror. often they have
the surreptitious support of
the Peoples Police. But reg
ular Russian troops are being
rushed to the troubled areas
with orders to quell unrest at
the point of the bayonet. These
troops have little hesitation in
firing point blank at the
slightest resistance to orders.
The situation in Poland is
more obscure, but uncon-
flrmed reports persist of upris-
ings and resistance along the
Polish German border. The
long-antagonistic Germans and
Poles seem at last to have
found a degree of unity in a
common hatred for their OPP
preSSors.
In CzechoSlovakia, and also
in Hungary, restleSsness in
creaseS despite ceaseless gov
eminent efforts to suppress
and divert it. Vague improve
mentS in living conditions
have been offered, but have
made little impression. Prague
and Budapest seem quiet on
the surface, at least, but in
the provinces ruthless sup
preston is the rule. Conditions
in Romania and, to a lesser
extent, in Bulgaria are similar.
Red army garriSonS along the
Danube are relied upon to
put down such uprisings as
that in the arms factories of
Pilsen nearly three weeks ago.
The impact of this restless
ness and resistance on Krem-
lin policies is difficult to gauge.
Embassies of Western powers
in Moscow know virtually
nothing of what goes on be-
hind the stone walls of the
ancient and forbidding for
tresS which is the capitol of
world communism. But it is
readily apparent that unrest,
riots and strikes have seriously
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affected industrial production,
depended on to produce i'm
portant equipment for the Red
army. Much of the equipment
captured by U. N. forces in
Korea has been of Czech and
East German origin. Uranium
mines in Saxony and Bohemia
have been hard hit by strikes
and sabotage.
Despite the angry shouts Of
the Red leaders that all this
unrest and disorder is the
product of american spies
and provocateurs." the plain
fact remains that elementary
living conditions, not politics.
are chiefly responsible. Most
of the resistance to date has
come from the satellite work.
ers, not the former owning
classes who are disinherited
and destroyed. The signifi-
canoe of spontaneous worker
upriSingS in the Marxist socie.
ties of the satellites Ia ire
mendous.
Moscow knows this, yet has
ordered its hatchetmen In the
satellites to deal with these
uprisingS with unrestrained
harshnesS. It is Moscow.
Wanted mecca Of the worlds
working classes. headquarters
of the workers ideal state,
which has issued Draconian
orders against these very work.
erS, whose existence is sup
posed to be communism's only
reason for being. The lesson
is not in danger Of being lost
on the world.
The purging Of Beria seems
to have sounded the signal for
a severe Tightening of the
police state apparatus through
out Red-dominated areas. The
signs indicate a Kremlin die
tatorShip even more repressive
than has bound its subjects in
steel-sheathed terror in the
past.
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throw it. But the ablest lead
erS are demanding, if not a
constitutional reform to in
crease in principle the power
of the Executive, at least a
parliamentary agreement to
guarantee a few historical
minutes of life to each par
ticular government.
In the United States the
problem does not demand a
constitutional reform. Short
of impeachment the Constitu-
ton guarantees each admins
tration a four-year tenure in
which to make it's record and
then stand on it before the
electorate. It also defines the
powers of the Executive, both
houses Of Congress and the
judiciary. In this trinity the
Executive has powers Surpass-
ing those in any other republic
can form of government, which
largely explains why this
new" Nation is still the worlds
Oldest uninterrupted republic.
But these powers can be
rendered impotent by other
means than an impotent- max
ing constitution. During F. D.
RS administration, Roosevelt,
usually with a docile Congress,
so expanded the Executive
power as to make an eventual
reaction all but inevitable. The
80th Republican Congress be-
gan taking back powers long
exercised by a Democratic Ex-
ecutive. But so heady is
power, by whoever exercised,
any security OF tenure. Any
that today a Congress with a
Republican majority is busy
working to make the Eisen-
hover administration more
impotent than Truman's.
With q scant majority Of any
kind of Republicans, including
those who take q dim view of
the men around President
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with Democratic Governors.
In contrast, the six Republic
cans in the 70-or-over age
group-SenatorS Butler of Ne
braska, Tobey, Alexander
Smith, Martin. Duff and Elan
ders-are all from States with
Republican Governors.
The age patterns of the SEN
ate consistently display the
same potential Republican adj
vantage.
Among Senators 60 to 70, ten
of the Is Republicans are from
Republican States; only five Of
the eight Democrats are from
Democratic States.
Senators in their fifties in
clude 81 Republicans of whom
all but one is from a Republi-
can State; II Democrats, of
whom Is are from Democratic
States, and one Independent,
Senator Morse, whose State is
governed by a Republican.
There are 81 Senators under
so. Seven of the eight Repub-
licanS are from Republican
States, with only Potter of
Michigan faced with q Demo-
cratic Governor. That Gov
ernor incidentally is the young
liberal, Mennen Williams, who
hopes to depose Senator Fer
guSon next year.
There are Is Democrats
under SO including some of
their prizes. Nine are from
Democratic States.
Generally speaking, the Sen
ate age patterns suggest that
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Of the committee in releasing
as public information" ma
terial it has not checked or
evaluated which, as the bishop
insisted very accurately, could
ruin anybody's reputation. The
bishop, for all his ordeal. per-
formed a public service in
showing how this had been
done in his case, item by item.
It was a devastating analysis.
The trial" also revealed
that. despite previous disclaim-
ers by Representative Velde.
Republican, of Illinois, COM
mittee chairman. he and an
other member, Representative
Jackson. Republican, of Cali
fornia, are obviously inching
up gradually to an investiga-
ton of Protestant churches
represented in the National
Council of Churches of Christ.
a majority of the Protestant
churches. One attack on these
churches is from the American
Council of Christian Churches,
a group of fundamentals
churches which oppose the
liberal attitude on social issues
taken by some churches and
some church leaders, among
them Bishop Oman.
How serious the Protestant
churches take this threat was
manifest in the way they rail-
lied about Bishop Oman at
the hearing, at which were
representatives Of various
Protestant denominations from
many parts of the country.
Representatives of the funda-
mentaliSt group were on hand,
too. Mr.. Jackson has been the
leading figure on the COM
mittee in the attack on Bishop
Oman, and delivered recently
a scathing diatribe from the
floor of the House under the
protection of his congressional
immunity.
Assumption of authority by
the House committee over
Protestant churches would, of
course, be a direct invasion by
the state into religion which
Protestants have always re-
sisted and which they will
resist now. On their own, it
is possible they may make
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Doris FIeeson-
Statistics Of Senator'S Aqes
The Best Informed and Most Influential Members
OF Minority Porty Include Some Of Its Oldest

Senator Clinton Anderson's
complaint against the day-and-
night schedule of the congress
sional adjournment rush was
much more than an emotional
outburst from a conscientious
legislator who habitually drives
himself beyond his strength.
Senator Taft's serious ill
ness has given pause to his
colleagues who had rather
formed the habit of not dis
cussing the losses they have
SO steadily sustained. Senator
Taft is much missed for him.
self as the days work unfolds.
At the same time, his absence
has brought home to his COL
leagues the potential vicissi-
tudeS of a Senate divided as
this one is between 48 Repub-
licanS, At Democrats and one
Independent.
Back of the Anderson COM
plant also is a delicate stu
alton on the Democratic side
which has long been a matter
of concern to it's leaders.
The best informed and most
influential minority Senators
include some of it's oldest mem
bers. These are the Senate's
only octogenarian, Senator
Green of Rhode Island, who is
Sc. and eight others who are
70 and over: Senators George,
Hoey. Nicely, Hayden, Gillette,
Murray, McCarran and Leh-
man.
Only four of these nine
Democrats are from States
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Eisenhower, a few Senators are
able to make the Executive
accountable to them for every
appointment. Nobody knows
whether his boss is his superior
in the State Department or
any other agency, or some
where on the Hill. The result
for the Executive is RESPONSE
bility without authority, which
always means decentralization
fear. timidity. cowardice,
boot licking or boredom.
Since able, superior. and
self-reSpecting men won't &C.
cept this kind of position, the
condition tends toward what
it is in France. It is utterly
incompatible with what we call
world leadership"