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Evening star., 1953-11-06

in keeping with the internal
situation in Spain, and crea-
ton of another political party.
OF course, nobody can say
definitely what Ell Caudillo
thinks. He is aloof and has no
personal friends in whom he
conf1des. At one time he had
cronies. but not now. He keeps
in touch with everything and
everybody but has placed him
self in position where nobody
is forward enough to ask him
what his next steps will be.
Some seven years ago, be-
fore the members of the United 4
Nations perpetrated the stu
pendous folly of recalling their
ambassadors from Madrid,
Franco S position was Shaky.
He had by and large the con-
f1dence of the country but was
being slyly undermined by
some of the men in his immedi-
ate encourage. He had won
the civil war militarily. But he
had not proved himself a
leader in time of peace. There
were many who entertained
the idea they could do better,
particularly since they had not
been tarred as enemies of
democracy"
During these last seven years
Franco has piloted the ship of
state with unexpected aStute-
ness. He did away with any
vestige of corruption in the
government and despite the
virtual economic blockade i'm
posed by the allies on Spain
for more than three years,
managed to avoid an economic
catastrophe. He also showed
himself a clever diplomat. The
American-SpaniSh "A agreement
for naval and air bases has
made Spain-at least in the
minds Of the vast majority of
his fellow citizens-the virtual
ally of the United States, the
greatest power in the world.
Spain "stock" was low in the
United States from the begin
ming of the civil war until very
recently.
The ambitious men coveting
Frances position have faded
away. They can no longer
challenge a man regarded by
the Spanish population not
only as an able military leader
who defeated the dreaded "Ro-
jos" (Reds) but also as an able
Evening star., 1953-11-06
Dorothy Thompson
Fundamental POW Question
Bosic Issue Regarded as the Assault for Political
Purposes on the Minds of Helpless War CoPtVes

calling it free choice, while
eager partisans mark up the
score with glee or disappoint-
ment.
! do not want my country
to participate in this squalid
Sbattle for racked human
minds, in order to win back
the % GIs who have refused
repatriation. I find it far more
compatible with their dignity
and the honor of this country
to freely release them from
their privileges and duties as
American citizens.
Their choice is not irrevo-
cable. Those refusing repatria-
ton will be returned to civilian
status as wards of the Indian
custodian. India-Which. via
Gen. Thimayya, has shown ex-
ceptional dignity and human
ity in a horrible situation
may then be able to segregate
Evening star., 1953-11-06
Formal Action Asked
On Moves in Guiana
BY The ASsociofed Press

LONDON, Nov. 6. - Prime
Minister Churchill's government
has asked parliamentary action
on an order formally suspending
British Guiana's constitution
and setting up an interim ad-
ministration.
The new organization plan,
submitted to Parliament last
night, provides for an executive
council and legislative council.
The two bodies will be closely
supervised by the British gov
ernor. and he will appoint de-
partment heads.
The governor has been admin
istering the South American COL
ony under emergency powers
granted him by the colonial Of
flee after it suspended the Gui-
anan constitution on October g..
At that time the government of
the Progressive Peoples Party
was kicked out on grounds It was
conspiring to establish a Com
munist state.
The House of Commons al
ready has passed a resolution
approving the governments S
drastic moves in Guiana.
Last night Britain's opposition
Labor Party disassociated itself
from the Progressive Party.
The party headquarters sent
letters to its local offices accus-
ing Progressive leaders of pur-
suing Communist policies and
advising local party leaders not
to provide platform for Pro-
greSsive speakers.
Evening star., 1953-11-06
Democrats Score Biggest
Win in Kentucky County
By the Assoeiosed Press

PINEVILLE. KY, Nov. g.
Democrats apparently have
scored their greatest local elec-
tion success in history in tradi-
tionally Republican Bell County
in southeastern Kentucky.
Democrats led in all county
races except for jailer and attor-
ney with ~ of Sc precincts tab
ulated officially. The county had
gone Democratic in only two
previous elections, one State
wide and one national.
Incumbent County Judge
Robert Maddox, Democrat Serv-
ing by appointment. topped the
ticket with 5,089 votes to 4,070
for Republican Ed Asher.
Democrat Will Routh led Re-
publican Durham Howard, 4,286
to 1890, in the representatives
race in the 88th district BELL
County.
At Middlesboro, F. r. Whalin
became the city's first Demo-
cratic mayor in 90 years on the
basis Of complete unofficial re-
turns.
Evening star., 1953-11-06
Nevada Ranchers Oppose
Price Supports on Cattle
BY the ASsoeiotsd Press

RENO, New, Nov. 6.-Cattle-
men meeting in Reno yesterday
voiced strong opposition to any
Government price supports on
beef cattle.
Delegates to the 10Th annual
convention of the Nevada State
Cattle Association went on rec
ord with a 1872 vote against such
supports.
The Nevada ranchers branded
as wildcats" the group of cat
tiemen who visited Secretary Of
Agriculture Benson in Washing
ton to demand cattle price sup
ports.
Jay Taylor of Amarillo, Tex
first vice president Of the Amer
ican National Cattlemen's Asso-
citation, declared in an address to
the Nevada Tanchers that such
price supports are only candy
coated delusionS" which result III
tremendous waste and expense.
Evening star., 1953-11-06
David lawrence

They have a White House
rule that doesn't permit first
person quotation of everything
a President says in a press
conference.-the it's most un-
fortunate, because by all odds
the most interesting piece of
news about the elections was
what President Eisenhower
said about it to the press.
There were at least three
opportunities for him to be
Gevious-to avail himself of
the tricks of the political game
or to boom forth with a sweep
ing statement of confidence in
the future of his party, as if
rothing adverse had happened
Tuesday. But he turned them
all aside and talked frankly,
earnestly and without guile.
For one thing, the President
declined to be drawn into an
analysis or Interpretation of the
election results. He frankly
said he didn't know any more
about it than-if as much as
some of the newspapermen in
terrogating him. But he did
recognize that in some places
Republicans had lost and in
some places they had won, and
he didn't feel that he should
say whether or not the election
was a test of his policies, be-
cause he frankly didn't know
At one point in the CONVEX
sation Gen. Eisenhower told
the press that, as most people
know, he is a novice in poll
tics and has never claimed to
be politician. But he does
pin his faith to a belief in the
common sense of the Ameri-
can people when they are in
formed He thinks they have
to be informed as to the basic
factS-and some of these facts
are rather stark and disagree
able-and the administration
has the duty of putting forth
and enacting program that
the mass of the American peo-
pie will say is a good one. The
job of the administration. he
says, is to provide a dynamic
and forward-looking program.
Evening star., 1953-11-06

intimidators and remove the
others from the international
propaganda struggle in an at
mosphere more conducive to
free choice The % GIS can
still change their minds and
request repatriation, and un-
der the armistice terms repa-
triation must be granted.
But the United Nations
should consider not merely
charges and countercharges.
The fundamental issue is the
systematic assault for political
purposes upon the minds Of
helpless captives.
The Communists initiated
the "re-education" of pris-
oners but others have adopted
it, confirming Emerson's die
tum that we tend to become
what we hate, and to adopt
what every civilized principle
must deplOre.
Evening star., 1953-11-06

edge of who's who in the
White House. The offlcehold-
ers are set forth in various
publications and can be more
or less studied through their
own statements and actions.
1t is the social life, however,
which reveals the personal
connections and affords a use
full if somewhat sketehy ba-
rometer of individual popular
ity. AS the White House is
the great powerhouse of the
Capital, its social news, of
course, always is featured and
it is read with as much eager
ness and informed attention at
such male oases as Burning
Tree as in the beauty parlors.
No correspondent would
dream of skipping the society
pages here. One is supposed
to have admitted once that
they were his principal source
of leads for political predic-
tionS.
The Eisenhower dinner lists
have included a few labor
leaders but show a preponder-
ance of the businessmen who
gave him such important sup
port last year. AS the lists
continue to appear the women
who felt they too had done a
great deal to bring about last
November's result began to
mention that important women
were not being included.
There have been some NUT
terings also about what is de-
scribed as the White House
tendency to push off every
thing connected with women
on Mrs. Eisenhower. Mrs.
Eisenhower is extremely popu-
Evening star., 1953-11-06

Eisenhower and His Dinner
Women Feel They Have Been Sighted, and They Will
Not Be Amused by the Presidents AIib-Ciche

lar here as through the coun-
try. She, no more than any
other wife of a President, is
not viewed by women polltl-
clans as substitute for the
President.
Women campaign contribu-
tors and national committee
women want to, see the Presi-
dent personally. They will be
glad to come for tea also, but
such social notice they class
as dividend.
There is no question that
the social demands upon the
President and his wife are a
great and wearing burden for
them. The EisenhowerS are
doing a great deal. With a
cabinet dinner this week, they
have embarked upon a sched-
ule of state dinners and recep-
GlOIIS W1I1CIl. WILL WI 1llS 1lOL11
them literally thousands of
handshakes and personal pleas
antrieS.
AS the country gets bigger,
the White House parties seem
to get bigger. There is prob
ably special pressure upon the
first Republican administra-
ton in 20 years. The Wash
ington cliff dwellers who went
into semiretirement with the
New Deal are also back on the
scene.
Recently an enterprising re-
porter published the new State
Department protocol list show
ing who sits where for the
benefit of aspiring hostesses.
1t is a list of staggering length,
further proof if any were
needed that Washington is now
the capital of the world.
Evening star., 1953-11-06
Constantine Brown

MADRID, Spain (By Air
MaiD Some 10000 Falan-
gists gathered in the Chamar-
tin Stadium in Madrid on Oc-
tober 20 to celebrate the goth
anniversary of the founding Of
the Falange. the only official
political party in Spain.
The crowd Justify cheered Ell
Caudillo. But there was more
apprehension than enthusiasm
among the cheer leaders. Many
Spanish observers who attended
the festivities had the definite
impression that this rally may
have been the swan song Of
the Falange Party.
The speakers renewed their
assurances of undying loyalty
to Franco and pleaded almost
openly that in the forthcom-
ing reshuff1e of the cabinet the
loyal Falangists be given more
positions than they now have.
Franco read his speech and
coldly intimated that love and
devotion to the fatherland
were the duty of every good
Spaniard and rewards must be
sought in the satisfaction of
serving the country and not in
jobs. 1t was the first genuine
cold shower he has given his
enthusiastic followers.
The demonstration was of
course fully approved by Ell
Caudillo Rumors had been
circulated in Madrid since
September 26, when the Ameri-
can-Spanish agreement was
signed, that Franco might seek
a gradual characterization of
this country's political system.
A number of shreWd Spanish
observers believe that this is
more than a mere rumOf. Inc
Falange, they say, has out
lived it's original usefulness.
During and after the civil war
no other political formation
was possible. Now, 20 years
later, when Spain has entered
the concert of free Western
powers, gradual changes must
take place and the possibility
of two-party system in this
country is definitely in the
cards.
Franco does not intend to
junk the party which stood by
a him through the difficult times
of the last 20 years. But he
may have in mind a loosening
of the strict political controls,
Evening star., 1953-11-06
Doris FIeeson-

Republican women leaders
and officeholders are quick to
say that they are not among
the women who told Presi-
dent Eisenhower not to include
their sex in his White House
dinners for leaders of America
because the women couldn't
decide who should come.
The President said that
women-whom he refused to
identify-gave him that ad-
vice. .--s-
There are no women on
the Presidents White House
staff of higher than a private
Secretary's rank. Since women
politicians deny the impeach-
ment, the question of "Who
told him that?" remains open.
The President showed a GER
tain distaste for being asked
why no women had been in
vited to any of the seven din
ners the White House has de-
scribed as being for leaders in
American life.
Many women in turn will
not be amused at the PreSi-
dent of the United States fall
ing back on the tired cliche
that women do not like each
other. Apparently in a pinch
it still comes in handy.
The President started his
dinners for private citizens
important in industry and the
professions soon after his in
auguration. The star-studded
lists were each time. released to
the press and were widely pub
lished as they deserved to be.
Nothing is more important
to people with a job to do in
Washington than a real knowl-
Evening star., 1953-11-06
Thomas L. Stokes

Senator Joe Mccarthy has
called attention to an omission
or oversight in the Republi-
can campaigning preceding the
recent series of off-year elec-
tions which may be significant
and encouragingly so. though
not in the way he would like.
The Wisconsin Senator at
tributed the series of Repub-
lican SetbackS to the failure
of the candidates, with a single
exception, to campaign on the
issue of Communist infiltra-
tration of Government" which,
as we all know by now, is his
stock in trade.
Republicans have got to
learn before next year." he
said magisterially. that they
can't duck the real issues and
can't talk about sweet moth
ings. don't think the Ameri-
lean people want to go back to
the Truman-Acheson adminis-
tration of communism. COR
ruption and unending war"
It's barely possible that
other Republicans are a little
ahead of the Senator. Maybe
they have learned already that
the Mccarthy issue is worn
threadbare. and no longer
thrills and chills, and that the
people generally are interested
rather in what the Eisenhower
administration can accomplish
and do not want to be told
over and over again about
what Joe Mccarthy calls the
Truman-Acheson adminiStra-
tion." The Eisenhower admin
istration is responsible for
Government now.
1t seems probable that if
the Republican candidates,
who knew they were hard
pressed, had thought there
was any salvation for them in
Evening star., 1953-11-06
Largest Grain Firm
In j. ). Accused OF
illegal Marketing
BY the Associoted Press

CHICAGO, Nov. 6.-Cargill
Inc, the country's largest grain
commission firm. and its Cana
dian subsidiary were accused in
a Federal Court suit yesterday OF
illegal transactions in the oats
market on the Chicago Board
of Trade.
The suit for unspecified triple
damages, charged Cargill i'm
ported large quantities of Cana
dian oats in 1851 and 1852 and
sold them at a loss. This de-
pressed the Chicago oats futures
prices, the suit stated.
The company thus realized
arbitrary profits on its specula-
lively short Chicago oats futures
market position" the suit stated.
Defendants In Suit.
Named defendants in the ac-
ton were Cargill. whose main
office is in Minneapolis: its
Canadian subsidiary, Cargill
Grain Co., Ltd, and Erwin E.
Helm and Julius Hendel, both
vice presidents of Cargill at
Minneapolis.
The action, charging violation
of the Federal antitrust laws,
was filed by Lee A. Freeman,
attorney for F. Arthur Jost. ST.,
member of the Chicago Board
of Trade, and Aaron B. Weiner,
a grain trader.
The complaint seeks an in
junction restraining the defend
ants from alleged further viola
tions of the Sherman Anti
Trust Act, the Clayton Act, and
the anti-dumping provisions of
the Revenue Act of 1916.
Cargill imported 30 million
bushels of Canadian oats in the
two years, the suit stated, con-
stituting between Ala and At
per cent of all oats receipts on
the Chicago market.
Prices Depressed.
Cargill caused domestic "oats
prices to be depressed far be-
low farm parity price levels,
the suit charged, thus adversely
affecting the Governments price
support program.
Mr.. Jost testified before a Sen
ate Agriculture Committee hear
ing April % that Cargill's action
caused the price to drop 20 cents
a bushel. The loss to farmers on
3 billion bushels. he said,
amounted to $500 million.
The suit alleged that Cargill
for two years before March, 1853,
dominated the Chicago oats mar
ket through ownership of so per
cent of public grain elevator ca
pacity; maintenance of market
ing facilities, Offices. agents and
grain elevators throughout the
country, and establishments o1
a commanding Speculatively
short futures position in oats
futures.
Mr.. Freeman said the dam
ages probably would amount to
more than $500,000.
The Agriculture Department
issued a complaint in June
against Cargill, claiming the firm
attempted" and "in fact did
manipulate" prices of oats on
grain markets in 1851 and 1852.
Evening star., 1953-11-06
Dorothy Thompson

Some readers have taken
vehement exception to a recent
column in which I advocated
that no attempt be made by
American explanation teams"
to persuade the % GIs who
have refused repatriation, but
to accept their designations
from America. One CORE
rcndent asks, Have you no
compassion on these poor
lads?"
Perhaps I did not express
myself adequately on a subject
which engages my most indig-
nant compassion, and for the
prisoners of both sides. 1t
seems to me that far more
than the fates of the Korean
prisoners is involved. The fate
of all human personality is in
volved.
Many international conven-
tions are designed to protect
prisoners of war. But no con-
vention forbids political pres
sures on prisoners by their
captors or agents of their cap
tors, with a view to recruiting
them for service in behalf of
their captors.
The conditions of a prison
camp are not conducive to free
choice. The attempt to con-
vert prisoners from allegiance
to the nations whose uniforms
they wear is invariably accom-
panied by methods of force or
persuasion, punishment or re-
ward, exercised on men who
cannot escape. With or with
out physical brutality it is
psychological warfare against
helpless captives. The former
soldier, out of the war, dis
armed and in captivity. be-
comes a continuing object in
the power-political struggle,
with his conversion or re-
Sistance marked up as a
propaganda asset for one side
or the other. This is stressed
in every dispatch from Pan
munjom.
Repatriated American pris-
oners have reported atrocities
committed against them to
compel them to accept, and
implement by confessions, the
Communist view of the war.
Their accusations, which I
believe true, have been put on
the agenda of the U. N. AS
sembly.
This will certainly lead. how
ever, to countercharges. A
correspondent of the London
Observer, writing from Seoul
October "a, made the unQuali-
fed statement that the U. N.
prison camps "are controlled
internally by terror and tor
ture. A man must risk his
life, must escape from his
fellow prisoners in order to
ask for repatriation"
I do not know to what ex-
tent this is true. But a state
ment from the Swiss delega-
ton on the neutral commits
sion, released November 4 by
the Swiss government, while
strongly supporting - against
the CommunistS-the Indian
decision not to use force to
compel prisoners to listen,
confirms Communist charges
that some prisoners in the
U. N. camps are intimidating
others, though the commits
sion has absolutely failed to
discover who the intimidators
are"
From the beginning, this
column has protested dragging
prisoners, mostly simple men
who have already been grueled
in the camps. to a neutral
zone. submitting them to a
tragic circus performance, and
Evening star., 1953-11-06

to the string of Republican
reverseS was that the party
must put through Congress
a program that will appeal to
our people, and that it must
be solid, real and progressive.
He recalled again at his news
conference this week that the
Republican Party has been
a minority party and can only
win elections with support of
independents and Democrats.
With the latter Joe Nc
Carthy has no standing. and
he seems, as a matter of fact,
to have lost it with many
Republicans.
Evening star., 1953-03-15
On the Air
Networks F ace q Matter of Fair P|ov
Mons Reputation Is Too High Price to Pay for the Freedom
OfTeevson to Cover Congressional Hearings Only Part

Two weeks ago it was sug-
gested here that it might be
well to re-examine the de-
gree of public interest served
by televiSing portions of pub
lie hearings. These, by their
very nature, are one-sided.
They are more akin to grand
jury sessions, where suspicion
of guilt is pursued, than court
room trials, where justice is the
aim.
When a television network
picks up only an hour a day of
a Senate committee hearing it
diminishes even more the like
lihood that both sides of a
story will be heard. There is a
frightening danger of damag-
ing beyond repair an innocent
mans reputation. This, the
thought was. is too high a price
to pay for the television cam
era's freedom to roam at will.
Nothing has happened since to
change that view, not even this
dissenting letter from a Silver
Spring housewife:
"I completely disagreed with
your viewpoint of shielding
Senator Mccarthy from the
TV audience" she writes, neat
ly misinterpreting the motive.
II acquiesce that his treat
ment Of certain witnesses can
be very damaging to the wit
Evening star., 1953-03-15
U-Boot Hero
Film Facing
Court Row
By Anthony Terry
BERLIN.

A legal battle to decide who
has the right to make a film
Of the life Of Germany'S idol,
Comdr. Guenther Prien, who
sank the battleship Royal Oak
in Scapa Flow, may be fought
out in the courts.
The plaintiff is his attractive
blond widow, Frau Storm
Prien, who disputes the right
OF Germany's film-star pro-
ducer. pretty, dark haired
Sonia Ziemann, to make a
movie about the Nazi U-boat
ace who was killed in an en-
counter with a British convoy
in 1941.
Prien's widow, who remar-
ried in 1943, means to take her
claim to a part share in the
managing of the film to court.
But her legal advisers have
warned her that she does not
stand much chance of winning.
For. by German law, the u
boat commander rates as a
historical figure" about whom
any one can make a film 10
years after his death.
Only if the film portrays her
own life inaccurately has Frau
Storm - Prien a chance of
legal redress. Millions Of Ger
mans to whom the U-boat
commander Is still a hero are
waiting with excitement for
q decision In the case.
(Released by NANA.l