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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-22
Ihon1ds Il Stokes
A Story of Political Conflicts
Touch of Drama Finally Seen Emerging After Six Months
Of Rather DuF Performance by the Administration

promoter Of a measure that
runs counter to the Presidents
whole foreign-trade philoso-
ply and policy. This is a
straight tariff increase bill,
specifically to increase duties
on lead and zinc by a sliding
scale formula, and also to re-
strict imports of oil by putting
oil imports on a quota basis.
This bill has been approved
by the House Ways and Means
Committee, of which Mr..
Simpson is a member, and
also cleared for House con-
sideration by the Rules Com
mittee. 1t may get by the
House. Administration leaders
do not intend to let it come
up in the Senate at this ses-
sion. But it will lie around
as a threat and as a token of
the thinking and intent of a
substantial number of Republic
cans who, if left free to act,
would probably bring in a gen.
eral, old-fashioned tariff in
crease bill such as had not been
admitted to the floors of Con-
gresS since the Hawley-Smoot
Act of 1930-and of sad mem
DRY. Thereafter, tariff making
by Congress was done away
with. Instead, the State De-
partment was delegated to
negotiate agreements with
other nations for lowering
tariffs from the Hawley-Smoot
peaks under the terms of the
Reciprocal Trade Act of 1884,
sponsored by then Secretary
Of State Cordell Hull in the
Roosevelt administration.
That machinery for reopen
ing trade channels has been
continued with successive re-
newals by Congress since.
But it faced a real threat
this year--in fact. still does.
That also is part of the Simp-
son story which is a part of
the Eisenhower story.
Mr.. Simpson sponsored the
original bill in this Congress
to extend the reciprocal trade
program for a year-but
tackled on to it were the in
creased tariff provisions. That
wouldn't do at all. The Presi-
dent finally got these pro-
visions eliminated from the
reciprocal trade measure, and
Mr.. Simpson put them in his
other bill now awaiting floor
action. Both House and Sen
ate then passed the reciprocal
trade extension bill.
But the House bill still con-
tanned an offending provision.
This would increase the U. S.
Tariff Commission, now a BIZ
partisan agency with equal
representation for each polit-
ical party, from six to seven
members so that Republicans
could get another member,
and a majority to insure con-
trolls The Senate baked at
that, and so does the admin
istration. Now the measure
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-22

largest single group supporting
the Communist apparatus in
America.
Dem ocratic wrath won
enough Republican backing in
the Mccarthy committee to
force Matthews resignation as
staff director. But after q
Republican face-saving gesture
for Mccarthy, giving him die
tatorial power to hire and fire
the staff, the Democrats walked
out for good, with all sections
OF the party cheering.
Republican leaders are
among many thoughtful people
in Washington who fear the
religious and racial stresses
implicit in these events. The
political results must be bad.
they know, for in such troubled
waters only the political dema
gogues can fish happily.
That Chairmen Mccarthy
and Velde are nevertheless per-
mitted to pursue their present
ways goes far to prove Senator
Monroney's charge that the
congressional investigating au-
thority is out of control. Hence
his demand that Congress
make new rules for it's investi-
eating committees, including
provisions for calling offending
members of those committees
to account,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-22
Thomas L. Stokes

This is six Months of Eli
senhower" week with copious,
if not always Illuminating,
analyses of the administration
to date.
What it all has come to so
far may be epitomized in an
incident of this same week.
This involves Representative
Richard M. Simpson, Republi-
can, of Pennsylvania, who
happens to be chairman of the
Republican Congressional
Campaign Committee. which
has the job of electing as many
Republicans to the House as
possible. In looking forward
to next years congressional
elections, in an interview with
the Associated Press, Mr..
Simpson said the Republican
campaign theme will be that
President Eisenhower needs a
Republican Congress to COM
plete his full four-year pro-
gram. A good slogan for a
campaign manager, certainly.
But, without meaning to be
overly cynical, it seems pro-
vocative to ask, with pardon
able political license:
Republicans like Mr.. Simp-
SOM"
For the Pennsylvania, who
is in charge of the campaign
for electing Republicans to
support the President, is the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-22
The Final Appeosennent by u. S.
Our Allies Must Know Now That Signing of an Armstee
Is the Last American Concession to the Enemy

This we never did in the past.
We have fought in Korea,
since the Intervention Of the
Chinese. q purely defensive
campaign, and have been
satisfied to kill Chinese"
without ever seeking a decision
in the field.
The armiStice contains no
political terms, since it is only
a military instrument provid-
ing for rules for a cease-f1re.
But this administration is
officially on record regarding
its expectations at the politi-
cal conference. We are going
to insist on the unity of Korea
in accordance with Western
principles of freedom and will
not yield on the Communist
d mand to substitute the
Peiping men in the United
Nations for the Nationalist.
Thus those who will gather
some time in November around
the diplomatic table know by
now our terms. The British
and French governments also
know that the American Gov
eminent will not bulge from
its position, which is fully in
dorsed not only by Congress
but also by an overwhelming
number of the American peo-
pie. Our principal Western
allies have also been told that
in the event the armistice is
broken by the enemy or if he
resumes hostilities because his
demands are not accepted by
us, this country will not hesi-
tate to face a showdown in
company Of whatever free
nations wish to remain on our
side.
The specter of a Soviet in
tervention which panicked the
previous administration and
the majority of our allies no
longer inspires in Washington
any real fear. The number Of
those who did not believe in
the past that Russia would risk
a third world war for the sake
of China has substantially in
creased. Neither the Chief Ex-
ecutive. the Secretary of State.
nor the new Joint Chiefs Of
Staff shudder at the prospect
of challenge from the Reds.
whom they regard as colossi
with clay feet.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-22
Doris FIeeson-

For the first time in the his
tory of the United States the
church power has been called
to account before the civil
power for it's political opinions.
This is the significance of
the appearance of Bishop G.
Bromley Oman of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church before
the House Un-American Activ-
tiles Committee. Beside it the
details of the hearing are I'M
important.
Although new here, the prac-
tice is not of course unheard
Of. Politicians have tried it be-
fore-and history has signally
failed to vindicate them.
The Encyclopaedia Britain
MICA, for example, still devotes
admiring columns to the
famous English non-juring
bishops who refused to take
the oath to William of Orange
for reasons of conscience. Of
the most eminent Thomas
Ken. author of the doxology,
praise God from whom all
blessings flow" his biographers
say, Ken lives in history
mainly as a man of unstained
purity and invincible fidelity
to conscience"
The Oman hearing is not
the only such cloud on the
horizon.
While it was taking place
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-22
The Report on rode With Reds
Just What Will Our Allies Have to Say in Justification
Of Buying and Selling With the Common Enemy?
David lawrence

A well-documented report by
q Senate committee which vir-
tually accuses Americas allies
in the U. N. of faithleSsness in
allowing strategic goods to
reach Communist China while
the armies of that country
have been engaged in a war
with our troops now has been
available for several days to
the foreign offices of the world.
The big question is what the
U.N. will do about it, and what
in particular the allies will
have to say in justification of
their trade with the common
enemy. For If the principle of
going 1t alone" and trade-as-
each-nation-pleases is upheld
as in accord with modern mo-
rality in wartime, it will injure
permanently the cause of in
ternational cooperation in this
country. Indeed, back in the
'30s it was this issue which
wrecked the League of Nations,
because the allies refused to
impose embargoeS on oil
against MusSolini when he be-
gan his overseas war against
Ethiopian aggression which
emboldened the dictators later
to assume that the allies
wouldn't fight as a team, and
hence a chance could be taken
on a general war in Europe.
The Senate committee report
brings out the fact that "our
own large military machine
uses only approximately 10000
tons of natural rubber per
year." Yet the same report dis
closes that. while the United
States Government prohibited
the shipment of any rubber to
the Reds, "in 1851 the free
world exported 100000 tons Of
natural rubber to the Soviet
bloc, and in 1852 the Com
munist nations received 1874, 900
tons Of natural rubber from
the free world"
England sent $4,000 tons of
natural rubber to Russia alone
in 1851, and in 1852 about
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-22
Dorothy Thompson
The Essays Of Edmund Wilson
A Look Back at the Twenties, When Men Saw Church
And Monarch as Becoming Increasingly important
g Increasingly important

wholly without power could, as
a result, grow in prestige, along
with the rise of the working
class, in a time when every one
has seen such horrible abuses
of power.
During the first half of this
century monarchy suffered an
eclipse unparalleled in history.
What had been for 500 years
the normal basis of statehood
in Europe and Asia fell to re-
publics, even without political
convulSionS-which came later.
Monarchs meekly surrendered
before the first show of dis
content.
The renascence of the Brit
ish monarch is thus most as
toniShing. But it is fact. The
nationwide absorption of the
British people in the corona
ton; the spectacle of hundreds
of thousands of men, women
and children sitting or stand
ing from earliest dawn in a
cold drizZle only to catch a
glimpse of pale young woman
in an ancient coach, and to
shout, God save the Queen"
is a fact-as it is a fact that
God and Queen are intimately
related in the mystical ritual
of coronation.
Stranger, from the viewpoint
of the twenties, was the way
other peoples were caught up
in the British enthusiasm,
even expressing wistful envy
that in one place was a force
that could call forth such
unanimously thunderous af-
f1rmation.
What we did not imagine"
was that in nearly every
human being is a hunger for
beauty, glory and purity.
Shorn of power, the mon
archy is disassociated from
every discreditable policy and
innocent of evil. 1t shines
serene, comforting as a ia
miliar star to wanderers I'M
sure of their way; blameless
for all that it has no power to
initiate; and symbol of unity,
continuity, and survival.
We failed to imagine, in an
agnostic age, that civilizations
are not rational creations. but
have in them something mag
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-22
Dorothy Thompson

I have been reading the
essays Of Edmund Wilson,
written in the twenties and
thirties and happily repub-
lished as The Shores Of
Light" Mr.. Wilson is one of
our best literary critics, and in
these essays he dealt with the
literary lights of 20 or more
years ago.
A fascination of this book
is that in it one recaptures
many of ones own previous at
titudes, and discovers which
of these have stood the test
of even so brief a lapse of
time.
One essay discusses John
Dos PaSSoS and T. S. Eliot.
Dos Passes was then involved
in what his critic called the
mirage" of the claSs-conscious
proletariat, and T. S. Eliot
then, as now, in ian ariSto-
cratic myth" including elias
sicism. royalism, and Anglo
Catholicism"
Mr.. Wilson comments: ut is
as hard to imagine royalty and
the church becoming more in
stead of less important in
England as it is to imagine
American employees becoming
less instead of more middle
class"
Mr.. Wilson'S view was once
mine, but we were both wrong.
What has developed in England
is the rise of a claSs-conscious
proletariat simultaneously with
the renascence of royalty.
Most of the June issue of
the British Twentieth Gen.
fury was devoted to analysing
the phenomenon that the
prestige of royalty is at an all
time high. A Laborite, j. G.
Weightman, who acknowledged
that as a youth he was strongly
Republican, confesseS change
of mind:
THE British monarchy
has become a valuable in
stitution because the mon
arch is now a pure symbol
whose function it is to repre-
sent the whole of a COLLECTIVELY
with which the politicians have
to deal"
This Is what could not be
imagined-that an institution
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-22

$4,000 tons were exported to
that country, according to the
Senate committee report. Nat
ural rubber was so important
to Soviet Russia that it consti-
tuted 80 per cent of the dollar
volume of her purchases from
the United Kingdom last year.
under these circumstances"
says the report, sit can. there
fore, be assumed that the U. S.
S. R. Is not only receiving
ample natural rubber for her
immediate military needs, but
she is also stockpiling this ma
terial for later use."
Rubber is used mostly on
trucks and airplanes, and the
vast supply lines which the
Reds have had to the front in
Korea could never have been
maintained in the last three
years of fighting if it had not
been for motor transportation.
Yet the British do not Off
cially consider rubber to be a
strategic" material for Soviet
Russia, the source of supply
for North Korea.
The same Senate committee
report says that, since the
outbreak Of the Korean war.
non-CommuniSt countries have
carried on a trade of So billion
with Red China, and adds:
Even after three years of war
this trade is not only flourish
ing but is increasing between
many of our allies and China"
The Senate committee re-
port says that the United
States Government has been
striving to get this trade cur
tailed but that the allies have
not been willing to go along.
Thus the government of Cey-
Ion, a member of the British
Commonwealth, made a deal
with Red China to supply 50,-
900 tons of natural rubber a
year for five years and to take
payment in rice. The United
States under the Truman ad-
ministration tried to buy the
same rubber from Ceylon but
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-22

was unwilling to be held up for
an extortionate price. The
Ceylon government promptly
arranged to send the rubber
to Red China in Communist
ships, but the return cargoes
were carried mostly in British
ships.
"Ninety-five per cent Of the
blood and money expended in
Korea by the United Nations"
says the Senate committee re-
port, has been American.
Under these circumstances the
subcommittee is of the opinion
that all of our allies should be
willing to discontinue their
trade with our mutual enemy,
the Chinese Communists.
cit should also be empha%
sized that when and if a
Korean truce is signed, it is
a truce and nothing more than
that. Until we have peace in
the Orient, we and our allies
should not relax our vigilance
SO as to allow an upsurge in
trade which would enable the
Communists to repair and re-
build their war machine. .
While our allies who are
engaging in this trade with
Red China give many eco
nomic reasons why they should
continue this profitable. bust
ness, there is no logical or
moral reason why any nation
should trade with the enemy
during a period of armed con-
f1ict."
The report was signed by a
subcommittee of four Repub-
licanS - Senators Potter of
Michigan, Dirksen of Illinois,
Mccarthy of Wisconsin. and
Mundt of South Dakota-but
it was largely the staff work
of Francis D. Flanagan and
Robert F. Kennedy, the latter
a son of the former American
Ambassador to Great Britain,
Joseph Kennedy, and a brother
OF Senator Kennedy of Mas
sachusetts.
Reproduction Rights Reserved.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-22
Broker Amendment
Due for Sidetrack
AT Present Session

The Bricker constitutional
amendment to curb the treaty.
making power and to enable
Congress to regulate the Presi-
dents power to make executive
agreements with other nations
appears to be headed for a side
track until next year.
The Republican Policy Com
mittee failed yesterday afternoon
to bring about an agreement
between Senator Bricker, Re-
publican, of Ohio, and admins
tration spokesman. In the alb
sence of such an agreement, the
the subject would be too contro-
versial to add to the crowded
docket for the remaining days
of this session.
Although the policy commit
tee took no action yesterday,
Chairman Knowland said there
is doubt the question will be
be taken up unless an agreement
is reached.
Senator Knowland made public
a substitute he said Secretary
Of State Dulles and Attorney
General Brownell were willing to
accept.
Senator Bricker told reporters,
however, he would "stultify"
himself if he agreed to the sub
stitute.
The Bricker resolution pro-
vides that no treaty could have
the force of domestic law in the
United States unless followed by
an act of Congress which Con-
gress could have passed in the
absence of a treaty.
q. The substitute would merely
state that the Senate, in giving
it's consent to a particular treaty,
could stipulate that an act of
Congress would be necessarily to
give that treaty the effect of
internal law in the United States.
The substitute also would write
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-22

is stalemated in conference
between the two branches.
Representative Reed of New
York. Ways and Means Com
mittee chairman who gave
the President so much trouble
on taxes, Is chairman Of the
conference committee. He is
sitting tight for the Tariff
Commission membership in
crease voted by the House,
and seems determined to con-
tinue to sit tight.
In short, the history Of the
first six months of the Eisen-
hover administration has de-
veloped into a story of conflict
on major issues-which our
foreign trade policy certainly
is-between the President and
members of his own party.
There are other major issues
in conflict, including foreign
aid.
This all has a very familiar
aspect. It recalls the constant
battles of his two Democratic
predecessors, Messrs. Roose-
welt and Truman, with ele-
ments in their parties, prin-
cipally and usually Southern
Democrats, and on domestic
reforms largely. 1t is in the
field of foreign affairs that
Gen. Eisenhower has had his
troubles-and Democrats have
rescued him there from sabo-
tage by his own party.
President Roosevelt met the
dilemma by calling upon the
great reservoir of popular
strength he had and bringing
that to bear on Congress. In
his campaign. Gen. EiSen-
hover leaned over backward to
support all Republicans. in
Guiding Senator Mccarthy Of
Wisconsin. on the theory that
he must have Republicans to
support him, which now is
echoed by Mr.. Simpson. After
he became President, Gen.
Eisenhower sought to cultivate
Congress in every way. Expe-
rienced observers warned him
that wouldn't work. Now he
has come around to see that
himself. and in the last few
weeks has begun to stand his
ground.
So the end of the first six
months is a somewhat differ
ent story than the beginning.
Finally there is a touch Of
drama to what has been a
rather dull and lack-luster
performance without any really
noteworthy achievement.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-22

nificently arbitrary; tn at
their life rests on "funda-
mental acts of faith and
choice"
The cry, 1.-THE King is dead
long live the Queen" is ut
terly affirmative, the more so
in a time when many despair
whether life will go on or be
worth living. The British
ceremony of kingship is a
sacrament and a covenant:
the crown a burden: the burden
a majesty; the symbol a hope
full promise: and the whole,
like life itself, a mystery.
God lives, it aff1rms, and
God and her people will save
the Queen, symbol of our best
selves.
Institutions survive when
they satisfy the national and
individual soul. What the
mental twenties failed to
imagine and acknowledge was
that man is a soul. .
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-22
Actress S71,45O Jewels
Are Recovered in Store

WEST LOS ANGELES, July
22.-The $71,450 in jewelry re-
ported missing by Actress Andrea
Leeds has been found under a
cushion of a department store
sofa, police reported yesterday.
officers said a silk bag con-
tanning the jewelry apparently
slipped from Miss Leeds purse
while she was shopping. A floor
walker found the bag after the
actress asked the store to make
a search.
The jewelry was at first be-
lieved to have disappeared from
a hiding place in a radio. Later,
however, Miss Leeds recalled she
took them with her on a shop
ping tour.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-22
Husband Frees Women
jailed Because of Doc
BY the Associafsd Pres.

MILWAUKEE,. - When a
woman was hailed into court on
a vicious dog charge by neigh
bors who said her canine, Lady,
doesn't act like one, she declared
she'd go to jail for 80 days rather
than pay a $25 fine.
But after few hours, her prin-
ciples had to be compromised.
Her husband bailed her out be-
cause, he said, he needed her at
home.
To take care Of the dog. nat
urally.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-22

into the constitution a require
ment for a roll call vote on the
ratification of treaties.
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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-03-21
Cards Showing
Spring Slump
In Training
BY BEN PHLEGAR
Associated Press Sports Writer

Now that the Cardinals have a
new owner and the Browns aren't
shifting to Baltimore, you might
expect the baseball situation in st.
Louis would be back to normal.
It isn't.
Take a look at the teams spring
records. The Cardinals, perennial
pennant threats and the last Ma
tional League club to win the
World Series, have won only three
of IL spring games.
Spring results don't mean much
and the Browns would be the first
to agree that seven Of their 10 sue
cesses have come against Pacific
Coast League, rather than major
league, opposition.
But a little early momentum
never hurts.
Yesterday the Cardinals took
their worst licking of the spring
as Milwaukee won for the first
time since coming into the Ma
tional League. liz. To top it off.
young Stu Miller, who set the
league on fire late last season,
bore the brunt of the 17.hit as
sault and left in the fourth inning
with a pulled shoulder muscle.
Manager Eddie Stanky had been
counting heavily this year on Nil
Ter, a slow stuff specialist.
The Browns, on the other hand,
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-03-21

got revenge for their only major
league loss of the spring as they
beat the Chicago Cubs, 5-4, Virgil
Trucks and Don Larsen pitched
for the Browns and Larsen'S sixth
inning home run proved the even
tual victory margin. Larsen, a
strong highlander, has looked
very good in 10 innings this spring
after being released from the
Army. but he is still signed to
minor league contract.
The Philadelphia Athletic S
fumbled away a 81 decision TO the
Boston Red Sox when they made
two errors in the 10th inning.
The New York Yankees put on
their best hitting display to date.