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Evening star., 1953-12-23
Doris Fleeson-
Doris E!eeson-
Long Changes Statehood Views
Hawaiian Prospects Are frightened Considerably
BY Louisiana Senator'S Decision to Vote for Bill

Senator Russell Longs deci-
sion to vote for Hawaiian
statehood in committee and on
the floor has measurably i'm
proved its prospects, chiefly
because it insures apparently
that it can be brought to the
floor. It is still a long way
from home yet.
What prevents the Senator's
action from being decisive is
the changed temper of the
Democratic minority as it goes
into the second year of the
Eisenhower administration al
most on par numerically with
the majority. This situation
not only affects the Demo-
cratic liberals, normally
strong for statehood, but it
gives the South a new bargain
ing point, since the liberals
want the South'S help to fight
what they call Brownellism.
Much attention is being
given to the rescue of the
Eisenhower leadership by a
Southern Democrat on an is
sue involved with civil rights.
The South has in general OPP
posed statehood for Hawaii
and Alaska because their nota-
BILE lack of racial prejudice al
most insured their taking the
North's civil rights positions.
Evening star., 1953-12-23
More Soviet Propaganda Bait
Russians Described Having Nontentions Of Sincere
Discussion About Solving Atomie-PoMer Problem
Constantine Brown

The gift-wrapped package
sent by the Kremlin has been
a disappointment. President
Eisenhower and Secretary of
State Dulles, who opened it
with eager hands. discovered
that it contained mainly trash.
The Muscovites saw no OBJ
jections to sitting down and
talking over Gen. Eisenhower's
proposal for an international
bank of fashionable materials.
But, they asked, What about
the abolition of atomic weap-
ons?" The President had not
mentioned that in his speech
before the United Nations
General Assembly. Comrade
Molotov made it clear that the
disposition of this question
should take precedence over
everything else. He further
added that the question of in
ternational controls must be
discussed only after the atom
weapons have been outlawed.
Such answers had been ex-
pected by experienced politi-
cal observers in Washington.
They recalled a short speech
back in the '30s by Senor
Madariaga, the Spanish repre-
sentative at the old League of
Nations. The question of lin
itation of armaments on an
information scale was then
being hotly debated. Each dele
gate favored reduction of such
ornaments as his country
could not well produce. Britain
considered submarines mere
defensive weapons; hence they
should not be limited. France
was certain that heavy artil-
lery and airplanes were inno-
cent weapons intended merely
for defense. We had an idea
that cruisers carrying 8-inch
guns were harmless defense
vessels. The Russians believed
that most weapons which were
the result of chronological ad-
vances should be placed on the
junk heap. The discussions
were interminable.
Finally Madariaga got up
and told the delegates the
fable of the meeting of the
animals to reach a decision on
Evening star., 1953-12-23

Democrats in the Senate, are
refusing to entertain Alaskan
statehood with H a W a iia n.
Alaska is almost certainly
Democratic, H a wall appar-
entity Republican.
It would not improve the
Republican position. it is
thought, to admit both. Hence
their decision to give Hawaiian
statehood top priority on the
Senate calendar and continue
to contend that Alaska is mot
ready" Some Democrats, in
cluding Senator Long, share
that view.
But if the Democrats can be
brought to feel that this is
only another step in the war
OF determination they feel At
torney General Brownell has
begun against them, they have
a plausible ground to stand on.
It is that they and Alaska are
being Disseminated against for
partisan political reasons.
There is no doubt an attempt
will be made to tie Alaska on
to the Hawaiian statehood
measure. The question is
whether enough Democrats
can be induced to stand fast
as a party matter. Unhappy
Democrats make dogged fight
erS.
Evening star., 1953-12-23

was advanced that they did
not have enough of them to
guarantee a decisive victory
over the United States. Pessi-
mists in America and in the
allied countries discounted
this belief as "whistling in the
dark" Many of the NATO
countries have recently been
looking for way out to avoid
total destruction at the hands
of the Russians by suggesting
that we adopt a policy of COM
promise-as if one could COM
promise with a rattlesnake.
The eagerness of the Mus
covites to place the abolition
of atomic weapons ahead of
everything else shows once
more their concern that they
may not be able to cope with
us in chronological advances.
Comrade Molotov also knows
that once he can get us to d
conference table to discuss this
particular problem first, his
country'S worries would be
over. The U. S. S. r. could
then proceed without fear to-
ward its goal of dominating
the rest of the world. The
Reds in the Kremlin know
that once an agreement to
outlaw atomic weapons were
signed and sealed we would
live up to our pledges faith
fully But not so Russia.
Hence his suggestion that the
question of organizing inter-
national inspection teams,
which we declare a must" in
any such agreement, be taken
up after the major decision
has been agreed on. Past ex-
perience has shown us that
such international inspections
are easily thWarted in Com
muniSt countries.
The Kremlin may go
through the motions of dis
cussing the Eisenhower pro-
posals if it thinks that such
discussion could yield at least
a propaganda dividend. But
in its answer to Washington
it aims at one thing only
that we do away with our
present advantage and accept
"the bears big hug"
Evening star., 1953-12-23

incurably warlike, that must DO
exterminated.
On the Town Hall of the Air
in Montreal, in a meeting in
which I participated, a speaker
maintained that if we allowed
a single German child to grow
up, We would be lost-and peo-
pie actually applauded.
Yet the fact was that since
the Renaissance and the mod
ern era, 278 wars involved' Eu-
ropean countries; that-as q
measure of relative bellicosity
Great Britain fought %,
France 26, Spain Is, while
Germany, including Prussia,
fought only eight-one more
than Denmark.
The eXcesSes of the Nazi
revolution were allowed to
eclipse those of the Russian
revolution whose casualties
vastly exceeded the German.
When ! returned from Eu-
rope in July, 1945, with a COM
prehenSlve story of the mar
tyrs of the German UNDER
ground, no magazine would
print it, though it was sensa-
tional news. Then, THE only
good German is a dead Ger
man"
Such propaganda as "psy-
Geological conditioning" for
war is a terrible newcomer
upon history's stage: it makes
any aim except unconditional
surrender impossible; and it
cannot easily be obliterated
from mems minds by later ap-
peals to reason and realism.
1t prolongs wars. 1t makes
reconciliation-which is peace
all but impossible.
Evening star., 1953-12-23

how to live in harmony forever.
Each animal suggested that
the armament" of the other
be done away with. The tiger
suggested that the elephant
remove his tusks; the wolf de-
manded that the stag drop his
antlers, and SO on. Finally the
bear urged in an impassioned
speech that everybody get rid
of whatever weapon it had and
all get together in a great big
hug" Maxim Litvinov, who
represented the U. S. S. R.,
laughed loudest and applauded
most heartily for the Span
iard'S speech.
Washington expected the
men in the Kremlin to answer
President EiSenhower'S hu-
manitarian offer in exactly the
sense they did. They gave the
Eisenhower proposal enough
lip service to permit their sat-
elites to shout: You see. the
Soviets are willing to accept
any reasonable offer for peace
and love among all nations"
Then they came back with the
question: What about atomic
WeaponS?"
Although the U.S.S.R. pos
seSses the formula for atomic
production, its leaders are still
uneasy lest they may not be
able to catch up with our
output.
Since early in 1946 when we
broke up the most formidable
land and air forces this coun-
try ever had, our leaders have
maintained that our exclusive
production of the atom bomb
was the greatest deterrent to
Soviet aggression. Many Amer
ican soldiers were convinced at
the time when there was only
a very thin curtain of troops
on the Elbe, unable to stop the
Red legionS for more than a
few days in any march toward
the English Channel, that it
was fear of an atomic bomb
which restrained the Krem-
Inns aggressivenesS.
Even after we discovered
that the Reds had pilfered our
secrets and had managed to
m facture devastating
atomic weapons, the theory
Evening star., 1953-12-23

that Tin legislation under which
the United States is operating
this year one finds SO per cent
of the money appropriated this
year for prospective members
of the European defense COM
munity cannot be paid over
except to the EDO ITSELF" He
added that half the funds are
now legally tied up so they can
not be paid out of proceeds
except on condition that the
edo comes into existence-on
that basis you can draw your
own inferences."
60 On December is, Presi-
dent Eisenhower held a press
conference at the White House
and permitted first-person quo
tation of his answers to news
papermen. some of whom had
asked him about the blunt
warning" of the Secretary of
State that, If France didn't
ratify Che edo pact, the
United States would have to
reappraise its troop commit
ments and its policies. Gen.
Eisenhower said in reply:
Ladies and gentlemen, the
law of our land-read the
Richards amendment - what
can the Secretary Of State say?
The law of our land says that
so per cent Of this years
appropriations - I believe.
starting January 1, isn't it-50
per cent of the appropriation
must be given out through the
European Defense Community.
If EDO does not produce, what
do we do?
II am a little bit astonished
that any one should take this
as something new. and par
ticularly blunt. but it is just
one of the things that the
Richards amendment requires
of u.s."
How many people, indeed,
who reacted so vehemently to
the Mccarthy speech. or wrote
to the White House, knew any
thing about the Richards
amendment adopted as a part
of the appropriation law of
July Is, 1853, by Congress or,
for that matter, the provisions
of the Mutual Assistance Con-
troll Act of 1857? Both meas
ures, overwhelmingly supported
by both parties, express the will
of Congress that our allies
must cooperate or lose the
financial support of America.
That's exactly what the Wis
Evening star., 1953-12-23
State Department Propaganda
Dulles and Aides Accused of Pulling Wool Over Eyes
Of People in Issue Over Aid to Nations in Red Trode
David Lawrence

The American people are
having the wool pulled over
their eyes by the Department
of State under the present ad-
ministration in somewhat the
same fashion it was done by
the Truman-AcheSon regime.
The official propaganda con-
cerning the relations Of the
United States to its allies, for
example, still denounceS any
member>of the Senate or House
who proposes an embargo on
financial aid to the unco-
operative allies. But the facts
show conclusively that the will
of the Congress, as expressed
in laws threatening the with
drawal of financial aid from
allies that are not cooperative.
cannot be thwarted by such
propaganda. Here are the
facts:
Cd On December /, the De-
partment of State issued a
statement declaring that it
resented criticism which said
the Al eri a n Government
should withdraw financial and
economic aid from those ma
tions sending strategic ma
terials to countries behind the
Iron Curtain. The statement
deplored any threats or in
timidation' and said there
was mo reason for sacrificing
friendship by attempting to
coerce."
(2) From one end of the
country to the other came GER
tain vehement criticisms of
Senator Mccarthy for daring
to express an opinion on
foreign policy-supposedly the
exclusive province of the Presi-
dent-and it was further
argued that he was proposing
that America "coerce" its allies
by Withholding financial and
economic aid If they traded
with Red China and other
countries assisting the ag-
greSSor.
60 On December IA, the
Secretary of State, speaking
at Paris, made a speech plainly
stating that economic and
financial aid will be withheld
If France does not ratify the
European defense treaty. This
statement was characterized
by the French press as coercion
and intimidation.
a. The Secretary of State on
the same day met newspaper
men in Paris and pointed out
Evening star., 1953-12-23

consin Senator advocated, but
the Department of State pro-
fessed establishment over his
speech.
The 1851 law reads in part
as follows:
''It is further declared to be
the policy of the United States
that no military, economic, or
financial assistance shall be
supplied to any nation unless
it applies an embargo on such
shipments (of strategic mate
rials) to any nation or combi-
nation of nations threatening
the security Of the United
States, including the Union Of
Soviet Socialist Republics and
all countries under its domina-
ton.
"This act shall be admins
tered in such a way as to
bring about the fullest support
for any resolution of the Cen
eral Assembly of the United
Nations, supported by the
United States, to prevent the
shipment of certain commodi-
ties to areas under the control
Of governments engaged in
hostilities in defiance Of the
United Nations"
The same law permits the
President to hold in allegiance
such a penalizing program if
the cessation of aid would
clearly be detrimental to the
security Of the United States"
But the President is required
to give his detailed reasons
Immediately to two commit
tees in each house of Congress.
Here. then. is the will of
Congress expressed in a law
ordering an embargo. Yet,
when a prominent Senator
urges that the law be en-
forced, he is vilified from one
end OF the country to the
other for challenging" the
Presidents leadership. The of
flcial propaganda does nothing
to put the American people
straight on this issue, and
they are not reminded that
existing laws already provide
for the exercise of drastic
pressure on unwilling or unco-
operative allies. Such sup
preston of essential facts
will not tend to strengthen the
confidence of the American
people in future pronounce
ments of their Department of
State.
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Evening star., 1953-12-23

Germany and later liberated
by the Allies her government
had abandoned is hardly a vic
tor. Germany has been reduced
to her smallest area in CEN
turies and all her ramparts in
the east, the trough of every
eastern invasion, are under
Russian control. World power
has passed to the Eurasian So
Wet Union allied with China.
and to the United States.
In this situation elementary
prudence demands a Franco
German reconciliation of the
most fundamental kind.
Why does it not occur? Why
has it been impossible after
the last two wars to create
more than a truce?
I suggest that a contribut-
ing element has been the reck-
less and unlimited use of
propaganda as an instrument
of total" war.
Before World War I, nations
at war never presented enemy
peoples as a collection of con-
genitally tainted beasts. Bel
ligerents were restrained by
the attitude that wars were
lamentable Interruptions of
normally congenial relations.
But during World War I -
largely by the campaign of
Lord Northcliffe - the whole
German people were presented
as lacking every human virtue.
The technique of radically
Severing all human bonds with
an enemy-characteristic of
bolSheviSm-waS thus initiated
by leaders of Western opinion.
The doctrine of exclusive
guilt went into the treaty of
Versailles, and propaganda
reached the summit of sys-
tematically indoctrinated ha-
tired in World War II.
Without that wave of blind
hatred, no state could have
called its people to war for
unconditional surrender" nor
could there have been support
for the lunatic proposals of the
Morgenthau plan.
Propaganda presented the
Germans as a "paranoid" race,
Evening star., 1953-12-23
Thonos l. Stokes
The Inside Story on Christmas
Air Is So Full Of the Story of Christ ChiIds Birth That
Confidential Bulletin Is Needed to Make Us Value 1t

least a beginning toward peace
and good will this Christmas
than for many Christmases in
a long time.
This is because there has
been a beginning again Of eff
forts to control the awesome
power Of the atom.
Our President boldly re-
opened that vexing question of
our age in his speech before
the United Nations urging an
international pool or bank" of
fashionable material to be de-
voted to peaceful uses. and So
Wet Russia has come through
to agree to negotiations.
This of itself is a triumph
for public opinion exerted in
a mighty impulse for peace.
President Eisenhower gave it
release. The rulers of the
Kremlin clearly were unable to
stand up against the favorable
reaction among people all over
the world to the Presidents
proposal.
We are both moving eau
tiously, ourselves and Russia.
That IS all right. just so we
keep moving forward earnestly
noW that negotiations are
agreed to. Russia, in her note,
reiterated her plea for outlaw
Of atomic weapons. It was her
lnSiStence upon outlaw first
and international control and
inspection afterward that stale
mated previous negotiations.
We insisted upon inspection
and control as a preliminary.
But that should be no real
barrier, if we are both sincere.
Russia expressed skepticism
of the Eisenhower plan on the
ground it did not attack the
real problem. that is, elimina-
tion Of the bomb as q weapon.
But that is not so, as Secretary
Evening star., 1953-12-23
FutefuI Number

DALLAS. Tex. (R.-Attorney
John P. Green Is no ambulance
chaser doesn't ordinarily
stop at wrecks.
But one auto was so
demolished that he stopped to
look on his way to work the
other day. Even noticed the
license number was one issued
to a State official. ..
At his Office. checking up. he
asked his law partner, Bare
foot Sanders, "how would you
go about finding out who has
license plate No. SO-128?"
That's easy" answered Mr..
Sanders. a State representa-
tive. Its mine"
And that's how he learned
his wife and baby were in a
wreck.
Doctors said they didn't be-
lieve Mrs. Sanders and her
infant were seriously injured.
Evening star., 1953-12-23
,els. Boiler heat, that is.

novels. Boiler heat, that is.
The Kaywin Publishers, Inc,
decided yesterday not to contest
Federal action claiming the
books are obscene.
Death in the boilers of Federal
Building, then. was decreed for
the paper-bound novels worth
an estimated $4,000.
"Our clients thought there
would be a ready substantial
market for such books, but the
market was not big enough, u
Herman I. Katz, attorney for
Kaywin. said.
Evening star., 1953-12-23
Greeting Buckfires

ST. LOUIS P.-A 50-year.
old prisoner, insisting he coulc
"do a better job" than a court
appointed attorney, pleaded his
own case yesterday and ended
by wishing the jurors a Merry
Christmas.
The circuit court jury replied
by returning guilty verdict and
sentencing Sol Newstead to two
years in prison-the maximum
for obtaining narcotics fraudu-
lently.
Evening star., 1953-12-23
Fletcher knebeIE
Potomac Fever

Government Office parties in Washington ordered to be
dry this Christmas You gotta admit this administration
sistent. No eggheads-no eggnogs
tries for week without getting President That's
nothing After 20 Of trying Repub
licans aren't sure they've got one yet either.
Secretary Dulles Russia can't risk because
satellites more dsconented Russia that's lie Com
munss in satellite countries aren't disconnected
than they Russia
Chances for Hawaiian statehood improve in Washington.
Democrats still wish they could trade off of the old
for Hawai-say Vermont Joe Mccarthy.
The Agriculture Department produced 10 per
fewer hogs this It's been Secretary Bensons fault The
things going the little pigs afraid
the world for fear the Democrats would get back in and kill
them off,
Democratic Kefauver urges Ike to confer with
Democratic leaders After ALL there's
let the Republican Party monopoe the policy disagree
mentS.
Evening star., 1953-12-23

of State Dulles explained. Our
President suggested the peace
full atomic "bank" as q first
step. a beginning of a positive
nature which possesses the
psychological advantage Of
stressing peaceful use of atomic
energy rather than military
utilization. But he made it
plain that our eventual aim is
Ito diminish the potential
destructive power of the worlds
atomic stockpiles" which GER
tainly means atomic disarma-
ment and international control
Of atomic energy as the ulti-
mate objective.
In his appearance before
the National Press Club this
week Secretary Dulles ex-
planned that negotiations would
not be limited to the Presi-
dents atomic bank" pro-
posal-which was the inten-
ton the Russian note seemed
to try to attribute to us-but
would have a broad base as, he
said. the President himself had
made clear.
The public opinion of the
world that surely played so
much a part in bringing Rus
sia to the negotiating stage
could carry both nations reso-
lutely forward, if all of us all
over the world exert our Twill
to accomplish" with faith and
hope-the faith and hope of
this season in which this new
venture was born. Secretary
Dulles Is optimistic. What he
said to the National Press Club
should be repeated:
"The coming year will be
a year for great decision.
There lie ahead European
unity. a possible recession Of
the horror of atomic warfare
and of a beginning Of an end
ing Of the unnatural division
Evening star., 1953-12-23
Life in the u. S.
Santa Gets
In Wronq

BY the Associuted Press

DALLAS, Tex, Dec. 23.-It
was time for the Christmas
party at Mrs. j. w. Sanderson' S
kindergarten.
The tree was up and trimmed.
The kids were excited. The door
bell rang.
Sure enough, it was a re-
splendent Santa Claus at the
door. Mrs. Sanderson was agree
ably surprised, and the young
sters were delighted.
With a chance to relax, Santa
and Mrs. Sanderson struck up a
conversation. And, yep, Santa
was at the wrong party.
Evening star., 1953-12-23
Porty Snowbound

POTWIN, Kans. P.-A big
party was planned by Mrs.
Fannie Wilson yesterday but a
heavy snowfall trimmed the
guest list to a couple of rela-
tives and a few close neighbors.
impossible roads kept the
others away.
1t was a shame. too, because
Mrs. Wilson got up at 4 am.
to prepare the food for the
feast. And she was celebrating
her Tooth birthday anniver-
Sary.
Evening star., 1953-12-23
Forecuster Flunks

KANSAS CITY P).-On Mon
day, Paul Waite, Weather Bu-
reau spokesman, predicted a
light snow for this area.
Yesterday 3-foot drifts, piling
up from an 8-inch snowfall,
blocked the driveway at his
home.
Donning heavy clothing, he
started walking the six miles to
his job. A motoriSt gave him
a ride part of the way, but Mr..
Waite still was late for work.
Evening star., 1953-12-23
Thomas L. Stokes
Notes of the season.

NOCeS Oh CLle season.
The first page of a "con-
fidential bulletin" distributed
by a New York businessman to
members of his own organiza-
ton and a trade association
which he heads is devoted to
the Christmas story as told in
st. Luke, with other conf
Dental" items following on
other pages of the pamphlet!
And with q Bible on every
living room table, or at least
that used to be so. Anyhow
the radio and television now
give US the story around the
Christmas season so that no.
body can miss it, nor miss the
Christmas carols for which
the singing is staged against
such beautiful backgrounds.
Come to think Of it, the
story Of Christmas never was
told so often or SO widely as
In recent years. That presents
Q paradox-for peace and
good will on earth were never
perhaps at so low an ebb as
in our troubled time when mass
communication has reached
its zenith.
Perhaps the New York busi-
neSsman has hit on something.
Perhaps the air is so full of
the Christmas story that it
has lost that personal, conf
Dental, individual quality
which makes people value it.
ponder it. and act on it. That
is the secret of the "conf1den-
tial bulletin" or INSIDE story"
technique. Maybe the Christ
mas story does not really get
inside" any more.
II it could, here and all over
the world, and the faith that
goes with it, there might
bs . better prospect for at