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Evening star., 1953-04-17

above whispering pines - i,
place dear to him almost as
life itself-the journey ended"
, for Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The quotation is from the
first public speech ever made
by William D. Hassett, who was
at the side of Mr.. Roosevelt as
Secre tary and confidant
through the arduous days of
storm and stress. who was in
the cottage at Warm Springs
with him when he died and
who, after he had gone, faith
fully served in the same ca
pacity for Harry S. Truman.
Ever the unobtrusive, behind
the-Scenes figure, Bill Hassett
emerged from his anonymity
to speak at ceremonies at what
has come to be called The
Little White House" at Warm
Springs on April IL, the
seventh anniversary of the
Second World War Presidents
death.
1t is a speech seasoned with
the wisdom of recollection,
clothed in that spare and trim
eloquence that we associate
with tall trees of winter
against the SHOWS of Vermont
whence Bill HaSsett comes,
and reminds us of so much that
is well to remember today if
we go straight and do not
wander from the path of our
appointed destiny.
For that reason it should be
read widely. There is space
here only to pull out a memory
or two from so many, and a
sage observation or so from so
many, which seem especially
pertinent for events today.
They may serve as a warning,
though Bill Hassett did not
utter them with any note of
remonStrance, but as the way
side philosopher, warm of
heart and kindly of intent.
1t is popular today to con-
denim the approach of Govern
ment in the last 20 years be-
fore the recent change as
socialism" Those of us who
lived with it closely, who saw
the terrific problems it con-
fronted in depression and war,
know differently, as does Bill
Hassett. We know that what
was attempted, and achieved
most successfully, was to use
the power of the people,
through the instrumentality of
their Government, to restrain
certain selfish and blind inter-
estS which, unwiseiy if not
Intentionally, had used their
own instruments of power, eco
nomic and political. to restrict
the freedom of the people. The
aim was to free the citizen so
that he could help himself and
become a self-reliant and re-
spected member of society in
his own right.
In his speech Bill Hassett
recalled graphically the low
state to which our society had
fallen in that grim winter of
1928 when, as he put it,
"the days were evil and the
times perverse, with business
and industry virtually at
standstill, banks closing at an
appalling rate, farms being
Evening star., 1953-04-17
Fletcher KnebeI:
Potomac Fever

President Eisenhower challenges Russia to end the Asia
wars lift the Iron Curtain and to disarm In return
apparently we're willing to finance Russas unemployment
crisis that will arise when she calls all her home
House Banking Committee Republicans against
and vote to end rent controls believes
in the woparty system He relies the Republicans
hm-and the Democrats to carry out his program.
Ike throws out the first ball. There for time looked
though the baseball fans would have keep the baand
throw out the President.
Adlai Stevenson is forced down in hecopter Malaya
The heicopter ideal craft for Sevensono other vehicle
makes fancier show of while lowering the
old spot.
Senate foes fbuster the administration bill to give the
oil tideands States It's unWren
you give anything in a non-election year.
Russian Embassy official hears atomic speech at the
Baltimore Rocket Society The Soviets in about
this time-aready they have their heads in the clouds.
Mystery Man Henry Grunewad testhes he got $4,000
Jobs received through New Dealer Tommy Corcoran thing
about the New Deal Once in the game-you
get your cut.
Evening star., 1953-04-17
Fdndticism Obscures God|iness
International and InterreIigous Row Over Orphans
Of Nozi Victims Recalls Judgment Of Solomon

in defiance of the laws of the
Nazi-imposed regime.
The Catholic Church held
that the persecution of Eu-
ropes Jews was q crime
against God. The institutions
and foster parents who har-
bored Jewish children risked
imprisonment and even their
lives to save them.
Baptized or not, the chill
dren were reared in Christian
homes - naturally so, for
Christian n consciences had
commanded the risk in the
first place. Then, with the war
over, parents or relatives who
had escaped the death cham
bers appeared to claim them.
In thousands of cases, the
c children n were relinquished
without trouble, though the
separations were often heart
breaking for foster parents,
who moved legally to adopt
them.
This spanked a movement by
Orthodox rabbis to "save" the
unclaimed children from their
Christian guardians. The
question was brought before
European courts and the U.N.
Committee on Human Rights.
The rabbinical claim was, in
reverse, identical with that of
those Catholics who have Sc
creted the Finally boys. It was
that every child born to Jewish
parents belonged to the Jewish
group forever, and that the
group had a proprietary right
to it. Israel claimed the chill
dren not on religious grounds
but as members of the Jewish
people,"
The courts and the U.N. held
that the question was not
essentially religious, but that
Evening star., 1953-04-17

initiative in the fight for peace.
The last word on the form
of the speech came from the
working press table where the
question was posed: did he
get Adlai Stevenson to write
it?"
In connection with its &C
tual proposals, a Southern edi-
tor recalled a Democratic poll
tician once rather generally
derided. AS the President re-
counted the schools, power
plants and pavements that
armament money would buy
and made his offer to devote
substantial percentage of dis
armament savings to world
reconstruction, this editor
drawled:
why. Henry Wallace was
downright parsimonious COM
pared to the President. Henry
only wanted to give the Hot
tentots a quart of milk a day."
The fact is that the late
Senator Brien Mcmahon often
urged that disarmament be
proposed to Russia with the
promise to devote a large part
Of the savings then possible to
Russian reconstruction.
AS he would be the first to
say, such credits are not very
important; in the fight for
peace there are glory and
honor for all.
Evening star., 1953-04-17
Doris Fleeson:

A great occasion, greatly met.
President Eisenhower fought
for peace in his address to the
American Society of Newspaper
Editors with the same firm but
generous resolution he dis
played as commander of the
military crusade in Europe.
The death of Stain had Of
fered the opportunity for a
striking new move by the
United States. The President
had resolved to seize it even
before recent Communist moves
emphasized the softening of
Moscow's attitude.
In seizing it he rose above
the compromises, some of them
of an extremely serious nature,
which marred his campaign
and his recent execution of his
high Office.
Not a single provocative
word was permitted to tarnish
his call to the new Soviet lead
ership Ito help turn the tide
Of history" This was accom-
plished without a tinge of ap-
peasement; in short, plain
words the President said what
this country would not do.
Nor was there any appease-
ment directed toward domestic
political factions. The too
clever, insinuating implica-
tions OF some early speeches
were absent.
Evening star., 1953-04-17
Metropolitan Heart Guild
Elects New Officers

Mrs. Albert Feldman, $500
Woodley road NV, has been
elected president of the Metro
politan Heart Guild.
The guild provides assistance
to those suffering from heart
disease who are unable to meet
expenses. Other officers elected
were:
Mrs. Sidney Kohn, vice presi-
dent; Mrs. Clifton Hershberg,
corresponding secretary; Mrs.
Goldie Bass, assistant CORE
spending secretary; Mrs. Flor
ence Sussman, recording secre-
tary; Mrs. Murray Du Bois,
treasurer; Mrs. Irving Patlin,
assistant treasurer; Mrs. Joseph
Willenson. historian, and Mrs.
Newman Room, parliamentarian.
Elected to the Board of Di-
rectors were Mrs. Michael Har-
ris, Mrs. Meyer Ostrower, Mrs.
George Nathan, Mrs. Charles
Sidman and Mrs. Sidney Min
del. The retiring president is
Mrs. Bernard General.
Evening star., 1953-04-17
Dorothy Thompson:

The case Of Robert and
Gerald Finally continues to stir
bitter controversy in France
and inflame the worlds Jews.
The two boys are the orphans
Of Austrian Jews, DR.. and
Mrs. Fritz Finally, who fed
from Hitler's Austria to Gren-
oble. France. When the Nazis
began rounding up Jews in
France, DR.. and Mrs. Finally
entrusted their then infant
children to a Catholic social
worker, Mile. Brun. The par
ents were eventually deported
to the Auschwitz gas cham
bers. The children were passed
over, as not Jewish.
After the war, Robert and
Gerald were claimed by an
aunt who lives in Israel. Mile.
Brun refused to relinquish
them. A legal battle enSued,
the French courts ruling that
the children, who had become
Catholics, must be returned
to their relatives. But the
boys disappeared. despite ef-
forts of Catholic authorities
to recover them. They are be-
lieved to have been Smuggled
out Of France to Spain, and
several priests and laymen are
charged as accomplices.
The case touched of q fiery
religious and political fight.
between clericals, anti cleri-
Gals, Jews. and the French
courts.
A few days ago 80 prominent
French educators and writer's
issued a strong statement
denying the validity of the
children'S baptism without the
parents consent, and charg-
ing the church with having
usurped secular powers by TAX
ing physical control of the
children.
Although some high church
functionarieS claimed that the
baptism gave the church pro-
priety Of the children above the
secular authority, this is not
the official church attitude.
The tragedy is that the case
has obScured one of the
noblest Christian efforts in
Western Europe under the
NaziS.
Thousands of Jewish chill
dren were shielded by Chris
tian institutions and families,
Evening star., 1953-04-17
Eisenhower States the Issues
In Challenging Russia to Practice Peace, Presiden
Spoke the Mind ond the Heart Of Al! America
David Lowrence:

President Eisenhower, in a
historic speech heard round
the globe, brought back to the
world Of today the principles
of the Atlantic Charter of yes
terday-the pact signed in
January, 1912, by Soviet Rus
sia and IS other governments
Of the world pledging to all
peoples the right to choose
their own form of government.
This charter was the basis
of the war aims of World
War II. It was directed at the
totalitarian regime of Hitler,
but it applied as we'll to dicta-
torships of the future.
Mr.. Eisenhower's phrasing
was this:
Every nations right to a
form of government and an
economic system of its own
choosing is inalienable.
ANY nations attempt to
dictate to other nations their
form of government is inde-
fensible."
The Atlantic Charter was
worded this way:
First. their countries (the
signers) seek no aggrandize-
ment. territorial or other;
Second, they desire to see
no territorial changes that do
not accord with the freely ex-
pressed wishes of the peoples
concerned;
Third, they respect the
right Of all peoples to choose
the form Of government under
which they will live, and they
wish to see sovereign rights
and Self-government restored
to those who have been for
chilly deprived of them"
The President has marked
out the issue for the leaders Of
the Soviet Union to see clearly.
He reminds them pointedly Of
Evening star., 1953-04-17

IF not-where then is the
concrete evidence of the So
Wet Unions concern for peace?
The test Is clear"
The Eisenhower address. de-
livered before cheering mem
bers Of the American Society
of Newspaper Editors at their
annual convention here, was
followed by virtually unani-
nous expressions of approval
not only from the editors but
from members of both parties
in Congress. For the Presi-
dent had spoken the heart
and mind of America ire
spective Of political faction.
In the IL weeks since TAX
ing the oath of Office. Mr..
Eisenhower has formulated a
foreign policy that now pro-
claims the basis Of world peace.
But whether American ideals
will be realized depends on
whether evil men will change
their designs and transform
themselves into virtuous part
ners in the world Of tomorrow.
Skepticism Is mixed with
fear because there is nothing
in the situation now except
mere rhetoric" as the Presi-
dent called it, and the time
for proof with deeds that are
truly meaningful is at hand.
Meanwhile, it may be ex-
pected that the plain-spoken
advice of the President will
be concurred in by our allies.
If the Soviet leaders spurn the
hand OF peace as offered by
America. speaking for the free
world, the pressure inside the
Iron Curtain to realize the
Eisenhower terms will inten-
sify as the crusade for self
liberation begins among the
oppressed peoples of Europe
and Asia.
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Evening star., 1953-04-17

the facts of life in Eastern Eu-
rope, where small nations have
been deprived of the right Of
Self-government. He calls for
"a free and united Germany
with a government based upon
a free and secret ballot"
AS for Asia, Mr.. Eisenhower
diSpelled all doubts about fu-
ture American foreign policy
by calling for "the holding of
free elections in a united
Korea" There ends any talk
of a divided Korea"
The basic principle through
out the speech is self-govern-
ment. While the President
didn't say anything specifically
about the government of Rus
sia or the right of the people
Of Russia to choose their own
form of government by a free
and secret ballot, the inference
is there-that peace will not
come to the world until the
Russian people themselves are
free to choose their own form
of government. Whether it be
socialistic or capitalistic or
whether it be a monarchy or
a republic is up to the Russian
people-so long as they do the
choosing without intimidation
or coercion.
Mr.. Eisenhower did become
rather pointed when he re-
ferred to nations like Poland,
Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bull
garia and Romania, as he is
sued a challenge to the Soviet
Union.
"Is it prepared" the Presi-
dent asked, Ito allow other ma
tions, including those of East
ern Europe, the free choice of
their own forms of government
and the right to associate
freely with other nations in a
worldwide community Of
law? ...
Evening star., 1953-04-17

I've to free movement of per.
sons, of trade and of ideas. This
community would include a
free and united Germany with
a government based on free
and secret elections. This free
community and the full in
dependence of the East Eu-
ropean nations could mean the
end of the present unnatural
division of Europe"
This portion of President
Eisenhower's speech is likely
to be jeered in Moscow. It re-
emphasizes the promises made
during the electoral campaign
for the freeing of the satellite
states, not by aggressive
means as Moscow had then
charged, but by elections in
our Western democratic pat
tern.
Only after all these vital
preliminary conditions. have
been accepted in good faith by
the Kremlin may the free
world proceed with the next
great wOrk-the reduction Of
the burden Of ornaments now
weighing so heavily on all ma
tionS.
While President Eisen-
hower's appeal to our Western
European friends may have a
salutary effect, particularly
since he limited a continuation
OF Americas full cooperation,
it seems highly questionable
that it will be acceptable to the
MuScovites, whom Gen. Eisen-
hover challenges to answer,
and 'let the answer be plainly
spoken"
1t is doubtful in the light Of
the current military opera
tionS, launched few days ago
in Laos in Indo-C China, if Mos
cow will be willing to use its
decisive influence in the Com
munist world" to show that
the truce in Korea is not
merely an expedient. 1t is
even more doubtful if the
Kremlin will allow "other ma
tionS including those of East
ern Europe the free choice Of
their own forms of government
and the right to associate
freely with other nations"
Whatever the Kremlin's re-
actions may be, it is certain
that Gen. Eisenhower has
achieved one of the main OBJ
jectives of his address. He put
Moscow in a situation where
it must show by deeds that its
peace offensive is not aggres-
sion in disguise.
Evening star., 1953-04-17

sold, farmers burning their
produce. farm mortgages fore
closed, and millions and mil
lions of unemployed walking
the streets.
ITO the White House." he
said, "came Big Business, hat
in hand, and said, in effect,
We can go no further, take
us over What happened in
the next hundred days is eco
nomic history. The Nation ex-
perienced renewal of life-a
new birth of hope and free
DOM"
Franklin D. Roosevelt could
have become a dictator-even
Big Business would have con-
Sented. He chose the hard
way of democracy. For he was
a democrat with the small "a,
a Staunch defender of the free
enterprise system, as Bill Has
Sett who knew him so we'll re-
minds us again, saying:
1T will shock those whom
F. D. R. called economic roy
alistS'-the Bourbons of Amer
lean politics who learn nothing
and forget nothing-to be told
that Franklin D. Roosevelt, far
from being a socialist, was the
most enlightened proponent Of
the free enterprise system that
this country has known since
the enactment Of the Sherman
antitrust law at the turn of
the century The purposes Of
the Sherman Act were laud-
able. It's performance has
been different.
Under the operation Of this
law we have witnessed such a
concentration of conomic
power that trust-busting cases
have clogged the dockets of
our Federal courts for the last
so years. There remains to-
day a sufficient backlog of
these cases to test the talent
and the principles and the
policy of our new Attorney
General, Mr.. Brownell."
Bill Hassett went no further
with this theme-but it can
be added that the same big
interests are back today, no
longer with hat in hand, but
cocky and outspoken, conf
dent overlords of that con-
centrated economic power, cry
ing socialism" about all that
has been done to free our
economy in the general public
interest, calling for new
shackles for their special priv
ilege.
A reading of Bill Hassett's
speech is recommended for
them.
For the people won't stand
for long what some Of them
seem to have in mind.
Evening star., 1953-04-17
Union Chiefs Meet Today
On GE Wage Deadlock
BY the Assoeiatsd Press

NEW YORK, April 17.-Ofd-
cials of the CIO Electrical
Workers Union scheduled a
meeting today to discuss further
action-possibly the setting of a
strike date-in deadlocked wage
talks with the General Electric
Co.
The 75-member GE Conference
Board of the CIO International
Union of Electrical Workers was
to meet as union and company
negotiators were reported unable
to make progress in contract re-
opener meetings. The reopening
period expires today.
On March 81 the Tue Board
asked the unions locals for au-
thorization to set q strike date.
A spokesman said then that the
authority, if granted, would be
used before April 81 unless there
was agreement.
Results Of the polling of locals
for the authorization have not
been announced.
Evening star., 1953-04-17
Thon7os l. Stokes:
Looking Backward 20 Years
Recommended Reading for Money Changers Who Once
Stood With Hats in Hands and Asked to Be Sociozed

It is sometimes helpful in
the midst Of the changing of
the guard, such as is going on
here now, to take quick look
into the past, contemplate that
a biz. and get perspective so
that we may better evaluate
the new order.
We have been led naturally
back into the past in the last
few days, back to a cottage at
Warm Springs. Ca. where "in
this quiet mountain retreat,
Evening star., 1953-03-23
Take Nv Word for 1t

too tired for him to think
clearly.
Reaching the top Of the hill,
a lake was SEEN" Who was
reaching? Not the lake. Better:
Reaching the top of the hill, we
saw q lake.
while writing the last SEN
tence, the lead Of my pencil
broke" Logic is satisfied if we
write the sentence thus: The
lead of my pencil broke while ]
was writing the last sentence.
Wheeling the chair to my
desk, the last edition went to
press" Correct: AS / was wheel
ing the chair to my desk. the
last edition went to press.
"Grinning widely. my world
seemed almost q pleasant place
to BE-" Clear: I grinned widely:
Evening star., 1953-03-23

Probably the stumbling block
which causes the writer the most
anguish land the readers the
most merriment) is the mis-
placed modifier. The secret Of
all good writing is: CLEARNESS.
Unless the modifying words or
phrases are placed next to. or
close to, the words they modify.
the resulting confusion is usually
ludicrously hilarious.
The best way to understand
what is meant by misplaced
modifiers" is to study q few ex-
amples Of how not to write:
"At the end Of q long day. the
clerks feet were too tired to
think clearly" Who was think
ing? Not the feet. Improved
and clear: The clerks feet were
Evening star., 1953-03-23
By Fronk Colby
suddenly my world seemed al

suddenly my world seemed al
most q pleasant place to be.
Many writer's suffer from
"with-itis"-an occupational dis
ease which places the simple
proposition with" after the
wrong nouns, producing such
loonieS as this:
"A lean, tired man leaned
against the desk with three sons
named James Anderson" ] sup
pose the desk called its three
sons Jim, Jim, Jim, for short.
There's no way to make any
sense out of that sentence unless
we back up and start all over:
A lean, tired man named James
Anderson leaned against the
desk. His three sons were with
him.
Distributed By NcNausht Syndicate.
1nc)
Evening star., 1953-03-23
Contract Bridge
By EosIey BIockwood
Washington, D. c.
MONDAY, MARCH 23, 1883

eSSsSl
When Mrs. Keen rebid two
diamonds after opening the bid
ding with one club, Mr.. Dale
might have passed. He had a
very weak hand-and he had
much better support for dia-
monds than clubs. With Mr..
Muzzy for a partner he probably
would have passed. But he knew
Mrs. Keen was a sound bitter
and the order in which she had
made her two bids promised a
very strong hand.
North dealer.
Both sides vulnerable.
NORTH
(MrS. Keen)
AK94
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&AJ852
WEST EAST
CMr. AheD (Mr. Champion
ASQJ105 ASA
1K982 2Q3
o83 1J1042
&Q96 %K1043
(SOUTH
(Mrs. Dale)
ST. AA73
0J1o7654
nQ76
~
The bidding:
North. East. South. West.
I club Pass heart Pass
2d'm'ds Pass 2heartS Pass
3NT Pass 4h'rts All pass
The reason for that is that if
Mr.. Dale had happened to prefer
clubs over diamonds he would
have had to go to the three level
to express such a preference.
Mrs. Keen, then. was practically
guaranteeing that the hand was
safe at three odd, no matter how
weak Mr.. Dale'S hand was.
So Mr.. Dale took another bid,
rebidding hearts. Mrs. Keen
promptly bid game at no-trump
and Mr.. Dale, with an unbal-
anced hand, decided to try four
hearts.
The queen of spades was
opened and won on the board
with the king. There was a sure
spade loser and therefore Mr..
Dale could afford to lose only
two trump tricks. With this par
ticular combination of cards in
the trump suit he made the one
play which gave him the best
chance for his contract.
After cashing the ace OF
hearts he came to his hand with
the queen of diamonds and led
his smallest heart-not the jack.
Mr.. Champion won with the
queen and returned spade. The
ace won and now Mr.: Dale was
in a position to drive out the
king of hearts with the jack and
pick up Mr.. Abel'S last heart
with his ten.
Note that if the second heart
lead had been the jack. Mr.. Abel
would have had king-none over
Mr.. Dale's ten-seven and the
hand would have been defeated.
OF course, if the opposing hearts
were divided 3-3, any play of the
suit would have been satisfac-
tory.
But if they were A "a more
likely diStributionO then the
hand was going to be set unless
one opponent held doubleton
= honor. Mr.. Dale played for that
chance and was rewarded with
10 tricks.