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Evening star., 1953-12-04
Thomas L. Stokes

LOS ANGELES, Dec. At is
enlightening to take your stance
a long way from Washington
for a bit, for instance, as far
away as this sprawling giant
of a metropolis, to listen to the
folks, hear what questions they
ask, and get the picture OF
Washington and the chief
players Of the national politl-
cal stage there as they see it
from here.
It might be of some interest,
for instance. to Secretary OF
State Dulles who recently
raised his voice against Sena-
tor Joe McCarthy's intrusion
into the field of foreign affairs,
to know that he is a step be-
hind developments in the do
main of McCarthyism.
Joe Mccarthy is still a big
figure in this Southern Cali
fornia section, to be sure. He is
subject of heated controversy
as elsewhere between his de-
voted champions and his de-
tractors. He has plenty OF the
former in the numerous and
rabid isolationiSt anti-foreigner
anti-United Nations bigoted
fringe element that thrives and
operates here as perhaps no
where else in our country
through a corps of self-an-
ointed evangels and rabble-
rouserS who make it pay OH
financially.
But this element has an
other hero not so much a rival
of Senator Mccarthy as an
ally. So far as the purposes
of the fringe element is con-
cerned, he is valuable to them
because he has the stamp OF
approval of the Eisenhower
administration and thus the
respectability that goes with
that. He was selected per-
sonally by the President and
still enjoys prestige out here.
We speak Of Attorney Gen
eral Herbert Brownell.
The interest he has aroused
here through his revival of
the Harry Dexter White case
and his attack on former
President Truman is wide
spread and permeates into
every stratum. He has become
in the space of a few days
perhaps the best-known figure
in the Eisenhower cabinet. He
has. in fact, diverted the spot
: light temporarily from Joe
Mccarthy, which was regarded
in Washington as one of the
aims Of his maneuver. If that
Evening star., 1953-12-04

President and his Secretary OF
State and that they were doing
little to escape it.
Next to an American de-
preston, those Europeans who
struggle against Europe's neu-
tralism fear an American Gov
ernment rendered incapable of
creative moves to solve the
present problems and ease the
world tension.
Besides the statements of the
President and Secretary Of
State, the Western alliance got
an important shot in the arm
which passed relatively little
noticed here amid the excite
ment at the White House.
1t is the survey of Americas
military problems which Ad-
miral Arthur Radford, making
his first speech as new chair
man of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, delivered at West Point.
In it he said that America,
needing her allies as much as
they need America. must not
infringe upon their sover-
eighty"
He also warned that peace
depends upon a small group in
the Kremlin," and that "the
hard fact that the threat of
war has not diminished will not
go away simply because we
hope it will"
Normally it would not per-
haps be so important that the
Evening star., 1953-12-04
Dorothy Thompson

New York is "the greatest
city in the world" the great
est port in the world" the
richest metropolis in the world,
the seat of the United Nations.
But a month ago, for nearly
a week, nobody could buy a
drop of milk in that great city.
Then, for days, nobody was
able to buy any of its famous
newspapers. e.
And, for the second time in
two months, shipping in the
New York port, which accounts
for half the Atlantic Coasts
dry-cargo seagoing commerce,
was threatened with a general
water front labor tieup. On
Wednesday rs per cent of the
port was tied up.
The milk strike was called
by workers in the processing
and distribution plants and
the drivers of delivery trucks.
1t was settled by granting sub
stantial increases to these
workers. 1t was not directed
against the farmers who sup
ply the New York milk shed.
But the strike cost these nom
combatants and fellow workers
millions of dollars. It also
added a cent a quart to the
price of a universal COM
modify.
New York newspapers were
shut down by 207 people,
minority of 500 photoengrav-
ers-when 10000 members of
allied newspaper unions re-
fused to cross their picket line.
The photoengravers, who were
earning $120-$131 a week. de-
manded a package increase of
SIS a week.
Who suffered? The pub
fishers?
Yes, the publishers suffered
grievously. But so did the
Evening star., 1953-12-04
Fletcher KnebeI-
Potomac Fever

Mccarthy says challenging leader
shpand he hopes everybody who doesn't believe him will wire
the White House at
goes the Big Three It's
in American dipomacy-he left his checkbook behind
Penagon committee coSt-oflvng increase for
the armed forces All the CT living good
Saturday night town to live it up in
Churchill and Premier Lane hold conference before Ike
arrives Bermuda The idea and Britain
agree what the United States afford.
Senator Joe Mccarthy Americans to write the Pres
dent protesting trade with Red China address letters
of the White HouseJoe expects to be- around later
pick his mail
Premier Nehru of India he doesn't think there will be
That's why he's trying hard get both sides
fellow would feel foolish being the middle something
isn't going to happen.
Agriculture Secretary defends his soil conservation
revamping Republicans promised to oufarm the Democrats
and already of them trying to farm Benson
Evening star., 1953-12-04
Ber|in's S Free School
is Five Years Old
By the Associated Press

BERLIN. Dec. 4.-West Ber-
Inns Free University is letting it's
fifth birthday pass without a
celebration today because it's
"too young"
For university, five years is
no time at ALL" said DR.. Ernst
E. Hirsch, rector of the educa-
tional haven for youth from
Communist East Germany.
DR.. Hirsch added:
"We still lack books, equip
ment and space. as well as a
tradition - all of the things
which an old university has.
However, we have fulfilled
our first task. The Free Uni
versity was established as a CEN
ter for students from the Soviet
zone who wanted to come here.
Today, almost half of our stu
dents are from East Germany.
"The Free University is, in
fact, free"
The American-aided institu-
ton was born during the Soviet
blockade of Berlin in 1948. The
formal opening represented a
protest against Russian suppress
sion of educational freedom at
the old University of Berlin, re-
opened in East Berlin under
Communist control after the war.
In the first year, Free univer-
sity enrolled 2,100 students,
about one-fourth of them from
the Soviet zone. It's present stu
dent body numbers 5000. OF
these, 2,400 are youths from East
Germany who have forsaken
their homes, perhaps forever.
Most attend on scholarships.
DR.. HirSch, also a professor of
law, said the university suffered
a "blow of great significance" in
the death last September of
Ernst Reuter-, West Berlin's
Mayor and a vigorous foe of
communism.
Evening star., 1953-12-04
Doris FIeeson-

The stirring events of this
week have greatly strength
ened President Eisenhower's
hand at Bermuda where a new
attempt is beginning to "cre-
ate a world fit for the ordinary,
decent citizen to live in" The
quotes belong to the host,
Gov. Hood of Bermuda, and
they well express the whole
aim of the Western alliance.
Europeans have openly
feared that the President was
being so boxed in at home by
the pressures of domestic
politics he would have no
room to maneuver in the field
of foreign policy. The Presi-
dent has now acted to explode
those pressures and to rally
the country to him.
This is the Eisenhower that
Europe knew and Bermuda
will be brighter and braver for
it, even though the hard con-
tours of the worlds problems
are relatively little changed.
Beyond Sir Winston Church
Ills wistful hopes of a meet
ing with Malenkov, Americas
allies seem to have no special
plans for dealing with the new
management in the Kremlin
They have felt, however, that
the same congressional wise
which caught the Truman
Acheson leadership in its grip
was closing around the new
Evening star., 1953-12-04
Presidents Hand Strengthened
Our Allies Likely Find Comfort in Admiral Rodfords Plea
That u S. Must Not Infringe Foreign Sovereignties

United States military should
so strongly and openly back
the White House. But Admiral
Radford's appointment to the
top military strategy job came
about in a rather special way.
as everybody knows.
A stated aim of influential
Republicans in Congress was
to get a complete new sweep
in the Pentagon, in which
they included the top brass
They were successful, and
in Admiral Radford, whose
principal experience has been
in the Pacific, many Re
publicans thought they had
a spokesman whose views
leaned toward those of Con-
gress.
Admiral Radford's. notably
timely remarks will give no
aid or comfort to. opponents
of Gen. Eisenhower in foreign
policy. 1t was a sober and
intelligent review of the world
situation with earnest en-
phasis on the maintenance of
the NATO alliance and the i'm
portanceg of public opinion in
Europe and the world in gen.
eral.
Europe's leaders, who had
feared the admiral they knew
so much less well than Gen.
erals Eisenhower and Bradley,
will read every word he said
and be comforted.
Evening star., 1953-12-04
Armistice Violation Is Chorqed
IT, NJ Command Said to Have information That $50 MIC
From Russia Are Stationed on New ArfeIds in Korea

which the armistice was sup
posed to permit is being built
up by the enemy in Korea,
because, if hostilities are re-
sumed, American troops would
be at a disadvantage. This
certainly was never intended
under the arnistice terms.
The present truce agreement
in Korea isn't, however, pact
in which the U. N. is the victor,
but one in which the enemy
can disregard armistice terms
at will and feel quite sure
nothing will be done about it.
The allied governments which
have had forces in Korea
signed an agreement threaten
ing to extend the zone of hos
tilities if an attack was made
by the Communists on U. N.
forces during the armiStice.
But, with the attitude taken
by the British government
that it will decide for itself,
after perhaps lengthy parlia-
mentary debate, whether an
attack" should be repulsed-
it is unlikely that the U. N.
commander in chief will be
able to do any more than he
did before the armistice This
means a fight against odds
solely within the confines of
Korean territory. Meanwhile.
there is no peace conference"
in sight, and the Communists
of China and Soviet Russia are
entrenchlng themselves mill
tarily for all time in Korea.
The present line near the 38th
Parallel is the new frontier for
the Red Chinese-Soviet al
lance.
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Evening star., 1953-12-04
Dovid Lawrence

While the bigwigs gather
in Bermuda, more than $50
MICS of the Russian jet
fighter type are violating the
armistice agreement in Korea.
This fact has been trans
mitted to the United Nations
command from reliable sources
behind the Communist lines.
Responsible officers of the
United States Army in Korea
are much concerned about the
enemy's build-up of air
strength. For it means that,
any moment the Communists
care to launch an attack. they
can do so without running the
risk of immediate interception.
The distances from the many
new airfields that have been
built to the American encamp-
ments south of the 3Sth
Parallel are so short that it
would take only a matter Of
minutes for the Communist
MICS to reach the American
and South Korean lines.
Before the signing of the
Korean armistice not a single
MIG was based in North Ko-
rea. They operated during the
entire course of the Korean
war from bases in Manchuria.
Even if the Reds had desired
to base their planes in North
Korea, the bases would have
been destroyed by American
bombers.
But now six airfields have
been built in the northwestern
sector and MICS, with a speed
of $50 miles an hour, could
now hapasS the United Nations
lines. They are already cauS-
Evening star., 1953-12-04
The Drive for q Big 4 Meeting
Eisenhower Faces Terrific Pressure From Churchill
And LoneI to Agree to PorIey With Molenkov

France on sufferance. The Ma
tional Assembly gave him linn
tied vote of confidence last
week for the sole purpose Of
permitting France to have an
official representative and not
a mere observer at the meet
ing between Eisenhower and
Churchill. According to reliable
reports from Paris, that vote
of confidence was given only
after ca ain groups holding
the balance in the Assembly
had been told that the main
purpose of Bermuda was to
get the Americans to meet
with Malenkov and Molotov.
The tenure of Office of M.
Laniel will end on January
19 when the new President OF
France takes Office. He might
be entrusted with the forma-
ton of a new cabinet, if he
could bring back to Paris the
acquiescence of the President
of the United States to par
ticipate in a Big Four con-
ference which our European
friends believe must neces-
sarily lead to one including
the Chinese Communists.
Churchill is less concerned
with his political future. But
he wants to leave the political
arena in a blaze of glory. He
wants to be the British states
man who after having brought
the ship safely into port in
the stormy seas of war has
performed the same feat in
even more stormy postwar
times.
Hence, both the French and
British Premiers are less in
tereSted in solving the misun-
derstandings between their
countries and the United
States than they are in OBJ
tanning the consent of Ameri-
cas- Chief Executive to attend
a Big Four meeting at least
as an exploratory" operation.
A number of advisers on in
ternational affairs believe that
in spite of the administrations
reluctance and misgivings,
such an encounter may have
become inevitable.
Evening star., 1953-12-04

ing a reign of terror in the
South Korean population.
The new airfield which is
farthest from Seoul, the capi-
tai of the South Korean gov
ernment, is only 1875 miles away,
which means a matter OF 10
or Is minutes to reach Ameri-
can troops. But the other air.
fields that have been con-
structed since the armiStice
are even closer. Some are only
SIS and so miles away, so that
it is possible for a sudden at
tack to be launched in a few
minutes and catch the Re-
public of Korea's army un-
awares.
It has been argued that the
United States bombers based
in Okinawa and Japan would
instantly retaliate but. unless
the MICS could be pursued to
their bases north of the Yalu
to which they certainly
would fly after the first at
tacks-the American bombers
would not be able to do any
more than pound away at the
new bases. Presumably there
would be many a dogf1ght by
rival fighter planes before air
supremacy could be established
again over the whole of North
Korea. especially if the launch
ing of an attack should take
place in a season of bad flying
weather.
The American Government
has been advised of what is
happening in North Korea and
apparently is regarding it as
a Calculated risk" Military
men don't like the fact that
military power beyond that
Evening star., 1953-12-04

is so with folks here, it must
be so elsewhere.
How much it is so here has
become very apparent to this
reporter from the fact that in
question and answer periods
following talks to varied groups
almost invariably the first
question is:
What will be the political
effect of the Harry Dexter
White case?"
This is followed usually by
another:
who won? Attorney Gen
eral Brownell or Harry Tru-
MANI"
The second question testifies
to our American love of a con-
test and politics is more un-
derstandable and enjoyable
when it can be put in terms
of a contest. The first ques-
ton shows not only the wide
spread interest still in the
Brownell coup, but also how
it is taken for granted as it
is that it was purely political
in purpose.
This is demonstrated further
by questions that pop up fire.
quently as to what is the per-
sonal political goal of the At
torney General. Where does he
want to go politically, aside
from his manifest desire to
help his party win next years
congressional elections?
Questions about Senator
Mccarthy are confined chiefly
to whether. he intends to run
for President.
To one who lived through the
Truman era in Washington as
several before that, the most
disturbing discovery out here
is the picture that has been
built up in the public mind
about that era by the Brownell
episode. Intelligent persons
who never were too much con-
vinced by Senator McCarthy's
ranting and raving and reck-
lesSnesS now ask seriously on
the basis of Attorney General
Brownell'S indictment if the
Government was riddled by
Communist spies who did &C
tually dominate and direct our
foreign policy. Such a dis
torted picture of our Govern
ment at any time in the Tru-
man administration is distress
ing and could do great damage.
Attorney General Brownell
knew better himself. So does
Secretary of State Dulles, who
had important roles in the
Truman administration and
belatedly sought to reassure
Evening star., 1953-12-04
6. 0. P. Says Women
Get More and Better
Jobs Under lis Rule

The Republican National Com
mittee is getting a lot of salts
faction out of what the Eisen-
hover administration, and par
ticularly President Eisenhower
has done for women, placing
them in high governmental
posts.
Miss Bertha S. Adkins, assist
ant to Republican National
Chairman Leonard w. Hall and
director of the Women's Divi-
sion, made public today a 1858
survey OF Women in the Public
Service"
The survey, Miss Adkins said
shows a record high of Federal
appointments of women in the
first 11-month period of an ad-
ministration. The Eisenhower
administration has named wom-
en- to 40 top posts. Several are
"firsts." For example, one is the
first American woman Ambassa-
dor in major European capital
Mrs. Clare Boothe Luce. Am
basSador to Italy. Another is
the first career woman elevated
to Amabassador-Miss Francis
Willis, Ambassador to Switzer-
land Miss Willis has been in
the Foreign Service for 20 years
This survey" Miss Adkins
continued. reflects the ever-in-
creasing recognition of women
and their qualifications for i'm
portant places in Government
It points up the extent to which
women are currently assigned to
major policy making response
bilities and specialized admins
trative work in Federal, State
county and local governments
1t is picture of women's prog
ress in all governmental fields
but more significantly in Federal
and State elective and appointive
catagories."
Leading facts stressed in the
survey are:
/. The 83d Congress. recon
vening January 8, will have l;
women members-one Republi-
can in the Senate, Mrs. Margaret
Chase Smith of Maine, and sis
Republican members of the
House, and five Democratic
women in the House.
2. Nearly half million women
are in the Federal service, ap.
proximately % per cent of the
total in continental United
States.
8. About 5000 women are serv-
ing in important State appoin-
tive posts, the greater proportion
recorded in the 80 States with
Republican Governors.
4. State legislatives have 28S
women members, a gain of 81
over the 1852 total. Republi.
cans outnumber by 80 the womer
Legislators of all other parties.
$. Approximately 125 womer
are serving in judicial posts
Federal, State, domestic rela-
tions, and juvenile and county
and municipal courts.
6. Thirty-one women in q
Evening star., 1953-12-04
Big Luncheon Planned
To Honor Terp Grid Team

Maryland's national cham
pion football team will be hon
ored at a luncheon put on by
the Touchdown Club and Board
of Trade at the Hotel Statler on
Wednesday. December 16.
The affair will include a pa
rade from Ninth and K stree.s
to the hotel, and early plans for
the luncheon count on 1900
| persons attending.
Evening star., 1953-12-04
Dorothy Ihon1psor-
The Workers Riqht to Strike
AtWhot Point Does the Right Of One Become incompatible
With the Liberty and Security of All Workers?

The docks were tied up with
out an official strike because Of
a quarrel between the old
gangster-ridden International
Longshoremen's A SIS o citation
and the AFL which has read
it out of the Federation.
r. Who suffered?
All the shipping companies.
against whom the longshore-
men have no quarrel. All the
passengers, against whom the
longshoremen have no quar-
rel. The entire city of New
York.
The right to strike is a
cherished American liberty.
But at what point does the
liberty of one become incom-
patible with the liberty and
security of all?
In the immensely integrated
modern economic system a
strike is the assault of the
few upon the many: of work.
ers against other workers; the
target is not the employer, but
human society. The question
of justice-of a just wage or
a just price-hardly enters the
contest, if it enters it at all.
The conflict is purely a test
of power-power to demoralize
the whole economy, or vast
sections OF it.
There cannot possibly be
any innate moral right to do
that. Yet. a right" must also
represent right or the claim is
a mockery. Does any group
have the right to wage a pri-
vate war against his brothers?
Is it right?
Evening star., 1953-12-04

country's newsprint makers,
who deliver the paper for 5
million newspapers a day. The
closing down of one single pa
per meant a loss to the news
print trade-and, of course, to
the workers engaged in it-of
100000 a day. But the photo
'engravers had no quarrel with
. the newsprint business.
The department stores that
had laid in stocks of merchan-
disc to move quickly by pro-
r1otional ads suffered.
But the photographers had
no quarrel with the stores.
I buy my newspapers from
Joe, who has a tiny news and
bootblack stand on the nearest
corner. Joe has a hard time
supporting his family, which
includes a crippled son. on his
tiny enterprise. If it rains,
nobody has mis- shoes shined.
Newspapers are his Stcck-in-
trade. Out of his little ,asiness
he nets SO or $40 a day The
strike took Sc or 81 off that
muniflcent income.
But the photoengravers had
no quarrel with the hundreds
of Joes, who similarly suffered.
And photographers are not
essential to newspaper publi-
cation at all. Newspaper pic
lures could be produced so to
100 per cent cheaper and more
efficiently by a Photographic
offset process.
Who profits? The business
of which the photoengravers
are a part? No. Radio and
television. which employ no
photoengraverS,
Evening star., 1953-12-04
Thon1os l. Stokes
Viewing the Capital F rom Afor
Outin California Most People Want to Know What
Will Be the Political Effects of the White Case

our allies on the eve of the
Bermuda conference that Nc
Carthy's ideas on foreign pol
icy are not his or the Presi-
dents.
One could hardly expect
Secretary Dulles to catch up
with events and also tap his
cabinet colleague, the Attorney
General, on the wrist.
Evening star., 1953-12-04
Former Lepers Return

Because local superstition pre-
vents them from resuming nor
NAL lives. cured lepers are COM
ing back to leprosariums in Ma
laya for companionship and
work, Singapore reports.
Evening star., 1953-12-04
Horses FIy AtIuntic

Britain's jumping team flew it's
six horses to New York for the
National Horse Show this year
the first time a foreign equestri-
an team has flown it's mounts
across the Atlantic.
Evening star., 1953-12-04
CouIs to Newcastle

Holland has shipped 81 tons Of
chicory root to South Africa
where rains had washed out local
paintings, Amsterdam reports.
South Africa normally exports
chicory root.
Evening star., 1953-12-04

States are in top Statewide elec-
tive offices. Republicans lead
with Is of the posts.
Z. Almost 10000 women are
serving as county officials in the
3,O72 counties of the 48 States.
The Illinois times. (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1953-11-30

able group as any With which I've
been associated since | began writ
ing sports, and that goes back to
June, 1901. We are justifiably
proud of the team"
Looks All-Americans will be
flown to New York aboard a charter
ed plane for round of awards, pub
lie appearances and other festivities
Thursday through Saturday. The
plane will leave Los Angeles We'd
nesday evening and pick up All
Americans in Dallas, Nashville and
Chicago, arriving in New York at
noon Thursday. Included on the
program is an appearance on Jackie
Cleason's TV show Saturday night
which local fans may see via WCIA.