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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-12-29
Society News
Miss Virginia. Mills
Makes Bow at Home
Post-Debutonte Jill Jonison Hostess
At 81 Cocktail Party; Other Fetes

The debutante whirl slowed
down considerably yesterday, al
though there still were enough
things going on to keep the young
ladies and their escorts on the
move.
Making her formal bow yester-
day was Miss Virginia Alban
Mills. who was presented by her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Abbot
Paige Mills, at an afternoon tea
dance in their home in Chevy
Chase. Miss Mills received with
her mother in the library, which
was decorated with evergreenS,
yellow chrysanthemums and
white candles. The debutante
wore a pastel blue nylon bale
rina dress with an intricate pat
tern of white on the bodice. She
held spray of white gardenias.
Mrs. Mills wore a gray pure
silk cocktail-length dress with
a touch of pink at the neckline,
and corsage of orchids.
The debutante was assisted by
her sister, Miss Clara Paige Mills.
and by Miss Mercer Preston and
Miss Angelica White, former
classmates at the Potion a c
School. Miss Elizameth Hub
bard Of st. DavidS, Pa, was
a house guest for the occasion.
Music for the party was fur
nished by Chauncey Browns
orchestra of Warrenton, Va.
Miss Mills was graduated last
June from the Baldwin School
in Bryn Mawr, Pa, and will enter
Bryn Mawr College next fall.
She is a talented ice skater and
this September at Lake Placid
received the gold medal award
for proficiency from the United
States Figure Skating Associa-
ton of America.
Debut Cancelled
Another debut which had orig
inally been scheduled for yeSter-
day. that of Miss Deirdre Bishop,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. H.
Russell Bishop, has been indefi-
nitely postponed because of Sc
rious illness in the family.
A bright spot for the debutante
set yesterday was the California
street apartment of Capt. and
Mrs. John Wendell Jamison,
whose post-debutante daughter
Jill gave a to cocktail party
for debutantes of this year and
last year and their lateS.
Miss Jamisons brother, Mid.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-12-29

The marriage of Miss Mar
guerite Warren, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Rudolph Warren of Ar
lington, to Mr.. James E. Rich
ardson, jr., son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Richardson, also of Arlington.
took place December % at st.
AIMS Catholic Church.
The ceremony was performed
by Father James B. O'Hara.
Evening star., 1953-12-10

party leader. G. A. Arutiunov.
He was fired and expelled from
the Central Committee. -
Probably Arutiunov has also
been arrested. He and his CO.
horts are charged with harbor-
ing henchmen of Lavrenti P.
Beria, Malenkov's top deputy un-
til his down fall and arrest last
summer.
The charge easily could be
true, since Beria apparently had
general responsibility under Sta
lin for all the three TranScau-
caSian republics-Georgia, Ar
menia and Azerbaijan. Arutiu-
nov was no doubt responsible di-
rectly to Beria for many years
for his policies and appoint
ments.
But there is another angle to
this latest purge.
Khrushchev early in 1851 pub
lished a now famous article in
Pravda urging development of
"agrogorods"-coll farm
cities. The article aroused op-
position in Moscow and the next
day Pravda printed a "correc-
ton" declaring the Khrushchev
article was to be the basis for
"discussion"-not yet Soviet gos-
pei. This seemed to open the
Evening star., 1953-12-10

IF you did not believe 1t
then, I am sure You no longer
have doubts about it, espe-
cially those of you who have
been in touch with your con-
stituents as I have been with
mine.
Republican partisans have
lost all interest. The DEM
ocrats who worked with us
have lost hope and are disil-
lusioned Members of the
third party and their friends
are giving us the horse laugh
unless we are willing to re-
main quiet and take defeat by
default, SO to speak, we had
better stiffen our spines and
demand of the only man who
has the traditional authority
to do so that he break the
stranglehold, which, if allowed
to continue, will forever de-
stroy the American two-party
system.
'It will take a presidential
decree. Nothing else will suf-
flee. The American people
are demanding it, and it will
be warmly applauded by most
of our citizens not employed
in the third party. The Presi-
dent must be told how we feel.
Nov, how shall we do it?"
Walter S. Hallinan, formerly
chairman of the Republican
National Committee and still
its member from West Vir-
ginia. said in a letter to this
correspondent:
Certainly Congressman Neal
does not eXaggerate the Situa-
ton in any respect. The feel
ing of encouragement among
the rank and file of Repub-
licans is most disheartening."
The disappointment inside
the Republican Party is due
primarily to the indifference
of the President toward his
own party. He is represented
as feeling that he cannot root
out the Truman appointees.
His man on the Civil Service
Evening star., 1953-12-10

door to Khrushchev's critics. :,
Only two critics appeared.
One was the leader Of the Azer-
baijan Communist Party, M. D.
Baglrov. He was purged right
after BeriaS arrest. The other
was Arutiunov. who was particu-
larly rough on Khrushchev's
ideas.
Khrushchev was forced to pub
licly repent his error. Today he
is cracking the whip-and both
Bagirov and Arutiunov have
had it.
Malenkov and Khrushchev
thus have completed a clean
sweep of the leadership in the
Transcaucasian Soviet republics.
Georgia's Premier boss V. M.
Bakradze was fired in September.
Stain, a Georgian, let the
Great Russians" do little in
terfering in Transcaucasian af-
fairs. He handled those three
republics personally or left them
to Beria, another Georgian
equally jealous of Russian domi-
nation of their homelands.
But the Russians are now in
the TranscaucasuS in big way.
Plenty of other areas may be
in for the same treatment. The
Central Asian republic may well
be next.
Evening star., 1953-12-10
Lowell MeHett-
Why Not a Pool of Good Will?
Gen. Eisenhower S Proposal Concerning International
Atomic Research Leads to Bizarre Suggestion

The Presidents new ap-
proach to the problem Of
atomic power has two great
merits. If accepted and car
ried out by the other nations
principally concerned it would:
l. Hasten the utilization of
atomic energy for constructive
and peaceful purposes, with all
that may mean in terms of the
worlds good.
2. Set a small pattern of CO.
operation between nations now
bitterly antagonistic that
might, if successful. grow into
full co-operation-with all
that could mean in terms of
the worlds good.
There is nothing in the pro-
posal that would necessarily
outlaw atomic warfare, the
threat of which hangs over
the world like pail, but alb
sorption for time with nom
belligerent developments might
mitigate the menace. The
world might obtain a pro-
longed breathing spell in
which to wrestle with prob
lem even greater than the
atomic bomb. That is the
problem of orderly interna-
tional relations, the problem
the United Nations was set up
to solve. This problem would
be with us if there we're no
atomic bomb or even if an ef-
fective method of controlling
its use were devised. We would
still have war and it would be
war as destructive and CHASTITY
as atomic war; merely requir-
ing more time for it's devas-
tating work.
The problem to be solved is
political. And the solution
may some day be achieved by
the United Nations, although
progress to date has been dis
hearteningly slow. There is
too much i'll will in the world
and i'll will is a destructive
force. 1t is this that the United
Nations was organized to con-
troll, but for which it has thus
far furnished chiefly a forum
for expression and possible
enlargement.
Evening star., 1953-12-10

master of destinies in any
proletarian republic - living
conditions for this supreme
man" are worse among the
800 million peoples in the
countries behind the Iron Cur
tain than they are in any
other part of the world.
This well-known situation
is being brought to the fore
again to show how little in
terest the hierarchy in Mos
COW and Peiping - the new
aristocracy of the former Red
proletariat - has for it's sub
jects. There must have been
smirking in the Kremlin
at Gen. Eisenhower's speech
about the incorrigible idealism
of the American President who
is concerned with the happi-
ness of people within and
without his country.
Despite the Moscow radios
adverse reaction, in some quar-
ters in Washington there is a
small degree of optimism that
the Presidents proposition will
not be officially rejected. This
very limited optimism is based
on the fact that the U. S. S. r.
at present is engaged in a vast
propaganda ca mpai gn in
Western Europe, particularly
in France, to break down the
Western alliance, which has
been missing at least couple
of cylinders in the last II
months. Western Europe con-
siders itself, wrongly, a closer
target of the Red bomberS
than the United States. While
we are sometimes credited
with having the necessary re-
taliatory power, most people
shake their heads and say.
What good will it do to us,
if you destroy Moscow or
Evening star., 1953-12-10

Which brings up a bizarre
suggestion. Why not, once we
get an international group of
scientists working together on
the atomic problem, organize
a similar body to work on the
problem of i'll will? For this
you would not select special
lists in i'll will, of which every
nation seems to have an abun-
dance. Instead, you would re-
quire specialists in good will,
of which every nation must
have at least a few. Russia,
for example, cannot be COM
posed entirely of Vishinskys,
any more than our own coun-
try is composed entirely OF
McCarthys.
These men of good will
would retire to some secluded
spot, high up a mountain or
deep in a peaceful plain and
undertake their labors in Sc
crecy as complete as that
contemplated for the atomic
scientists. They would be freed
from all outside interference,
most particularly from inter-
ference by their own govern
ments and/or politicians.
Some day these men of good
will would return to the world.
with a program on which they
had agreed as one that could
promote friendly international
relations. Or they might re-
turn to report they could only
agree to disagree. In the lat
ter case we would be left just
where we are and free to con-
tinue our mad race toward
mutual destruction. But if
they did come forth with a
new or modern version of the
Sermon on the Mount they
might at least cause mankind
to take a fresh look at itself
Evening star., 1953-12-10
Fletcher Knebel-
Potomac Fever

committee to investigate rain making.
administration distressed about the weather-ts
thing hasn't discovered how to postpone yet.
Republican Representative Curtis he's been bockaded
hatchet left wing" They obviously
raft with nothing but small tin of water and
carton of mixed metaphors
and Republicans hail Ikes atom speech to
N A-bomb knows party 1t invented by the
Democrats inherited by the Republicans stolen by the
Communists
Secretary Defense Wilson imposes another 10 cent
cut on the The generals contend it damages
strength abroad-they have to recall whole
division of officers to fight the cut at home
Philip Carbon o named head of the U. N. food
The idea to food to support bigger
populationn hopes we'll eventually produce somebody
smart enough get off this merry y-go-round.
the H-bomb equals millions of tons of TINT.
thing about this world that it's almost out Of
world
Evening star., 1953-12-10
President Looks Ahead to Peace
Administration Expected to Press Forward With Its
Plan to Let Light Into Atomic Energy Field

to have made important prog
ress which our own policy of
secrecy has withheld from
mutual exchange. That they
should be throwing their crea-
tive energy and enthusiasm
into such a search for cheap
power is, of course, readily un-
derstandable. When England
got the steam engine and the
coal to run it ahead of other
nations she achieved the pros
perity which made her a great
power. Her jet engines show
that her confidence in the in
ventive powers of her people
is not misplaced.
France also has gifted
atomic scientists who under
the present system are barred
from the exchange of infor-
nation but who are going
ahead at home with vital prof.
ects.
The road ahead in the
peacetime atomic field is not
smooth any more than the
road the President outlined
for control of atomic weapons.
Congress and the public both
will require education and re-
assurance before the concrete
steps which now seem so de-
sirable to Gen. Eisenhower can
be taken. 1t is possible also
that Secretary McKay's policy
in the Interior Department re-
garding electric power, which
is to make it cost more, will
need some re-examination, too,
to make it dovetail with the
prospect ahead.
Evening star., 1953-12-10
Turbulence Inside the @. Q. P.
Many Republicans Reported as Complaining That
Eisenhower Paws Too Little Attention to His Party

Commission, Philip Young,
votes with the Democrats to
keep in policy-making posi-
tions certain officials who
came into the last administra-
ton on a political basis and
are devoted to the policies of
the previous regime.
This criticism of the failure
of the President to stand up
for his party is spreading
throughout the country among
the workers, and the fear is
that their zeal and enthusi-
asm in coming elections will
be lost. Political parties de-
pend on organization even
more in congressional years
than in presidential years.
The administration has been
very slow in bringing about
the changes that members of
Congress, for example, have
been talking about. Most of
the adverse comments have
been given in private thus far,
but they now are breaking out
into the open. Gen. Eisen-
hower's blunder in alternating
a substantial number of Re-
publican voters by approving
the statement issued by Sec
retary Dulles condoning trade
with Red China by our allies
"a statement, incidentally,
that the other members of
the cabinet knew nothing
about in advance-has only
served to add fuel to the
flames. The feuding started
inside the Republican Party
when the President made his
fight against Chairman Reed
of the House Ways and Means
Committee last spring, and
there has been a gradual ac-
emulation of grievances, so
that it is an understatement
to say the party is merely
faced with the customary diff
ferences of opinion. It's mo-
rale is in a state of rapid dis
integration.
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Evening star., 1953-12-10
David Lowrence-

Disaffection inside the Re
publican Party is growing
rapidly. Some observers are
saying that if the congress
Aonal elections were held
today, President Eisenhower
would receive the shock of his
career-the Democrats would
get control of both houses.
While Gen. Eisenhower is
himself popular, as all the
polls show, he, no more than
any other President in the
past, can transfer his strength
to the party candidates in a
congressional election in mid
term. The special elections in
Wisconsin and New Jersey
showed that still to be true.
Evidence of the turbulence
inside the Republican Party
comes to the surface in con-
versations with Republican
members of Congress, who fear
that Republican voters in
large enough numbers will
stay away from the polls, as
they did in New Jersey and
Wisconsin, to forfeit the
election.
Typical of the expressions
heard privately is the comment
made by Representative Will
E. Neal, Republican, of West
Virginia, who has written a
letter to all the Republican
members of the House of
Representatives complaining
about the fact that, while the
people voted for a change
from the Truman regime, they
are not getting. it. Mr.. Meals
letter follows:
ITO my Republican COL
leagues:
DO you remember my letter
of September i. 1858, calling
your attention to the manner
in which the present Re-
publican administrations con-
duct of affairs is being
usurped by a third, or gov
ernment,' party2
Evening star., 1953-12-10
Soviet Union Behind Eight Ball
Eisenhower's Atomic Proposal Seen as Master Stroke
In Psychological War to Put Russia on the Spot

Stalingrad after our cities
have been razed?"
Gen. Eisenhower's proposals
do not provide for the aboli-
ton of atomic weapons: they
provide only for a first step for
collaboration among the ma
tionS possessing the fashionable
materials for purposes other
than war. If the Muscovites
were to turn Gen. Eisenhower's
tame proposals down cold,
reaction in Western Europe
may conceivably be unfavor-
able to the Red anti-American
propaganda. Some American
official bservers wonder
whether the Kremlin can af-
ford it at this juncture, when
the gulf between the United
States and its European allies
has been so successfully Wild
ened.
In addition to these argu-
ments, these American obServ-
ers remark that since Gen.
Eisenhower has offered no sug-
geStionS for even holiday in
the construction of atomic
weapons or a United Nations
, inspection program to control
the output of the fashionable
materials, there is not much
the Soviets can object to. An
acceptance "in principle" to
discuss Gen. Eisenhower'S prof.
ect would gain them enormous
propaganda advantages not
only in Europe but also in this
country. The Red representa-
tives have proved themselves
past masters at finding bugs"
in any international confer
ence: they are also artists in
prolonging and delaying inter-
national conversations, while
they attempt to attain more
practical objectives in other
fields.
Evening star., 1953-12-10
Russian Chiefs Push
Purge Of Opponents,
Fire Armenia S Boss
BY the Assoeioied Press

NEW YORK. Dec. 10.-The
purge of possible enemies by
Soviet Premier Georgi Malenkov
and party boss Nikita Khrush-
chev continues, carrying with it
overtones of personal vengeance
and strong indications that the
men of MoScow-centered Great
Russia are cracking down.
Moscow dispatches last night
revealed that KhruShchev, fresh
from ridding Leningrad 10 days
ago of it's party chieftain V. M.
Andrianov, now has settled an
old personal score down in
Armenia.
He sent a favorite hatchet
man, Peter N. Pospelov, to the
Transcaucasian republic to boot
out the entire Armenian party
leadership.
Special disgrace was reserved
for the long time Armenian
Evening star., 1953-12-10
Fund Drive 10 Expand
BoWditCh Institute

Bowditch Institute of Ruxton.
Md, the only hospital of its
type caring for emotionally dis
turbed children. is conducting
a nd-raising drive this month
to expand the institutions ia
cilities, it has been announced
by Harold Babbitt. fund chair
man.
A majority of the children be-
ing treated by the institute are
from the Metropolitan Area, he
said.
Cooperating in the campaign
is the Maryland and District
Association to Control Epilepsy.
Containers have been placed
on the counters of stores and res
taurants throughout the Wash
ington area.
Evening star., 1953-12-10

the gifted business brains of
the Eisenhower administra-
ton is their awareness that in
any case the intense industri-
aliZation of this country will
present an awkward problem
in the atomic age. 1t will
often be very difficult to effect
a transition to atomic power
where other power investments
are now heavy.
The fact must be recognized
that the undeveloped coun-
tries-and Russia is one-may
be able to rush into atomic
development more speedily
and efficiently than the cur
rently most modern ones. The
former will be able to skip
intermediate steps that must
be taken justly and carefully
by the United States.
1t is believed here that Gen.
Eisenhower was amazed and
staggered by what he has
learned about the manner in
which other countries, includ-
ing our allies and the common
enemy, have been pressing
ahead with atomic research
and development for peacetime
use. 1t is suggested that the
galvaniZing force behind the
historic speech before the
United Nations was the con-
tribution of the two experts
Lord CherWell for Great Brit
ain and Chairman Lewis
Strauss of the Atomic Energy
Commission who attended
the Bermuda sessions.
The English are understood
Evening star., 1953-12-10
Doris FIeeson

In striving to unshackle the
atom, President Eisenhower is
looking ahead not only to
peace, but to prosperity.
All students of the subject
know that the first country to
devise practical methods Of
utilizing atomic energy in in
dustry will get the brass ring.
The President would be doing
less than his duty if he did
not try to put the United
States into that competition.
Even if the Soviet Union
sticks to its initial Snarling
reception Of the Eisenhower
proposals, the administration
will press forward with its
campaign to let the light into
the atomic field so that the
celebrated knoW-hoW of Amer
ican private industry can get
cracking. The cooperation of
Congress toward that objective
is confidently anticipated.
1t is one of the many vicious
parodoXes of our time that the
United States in Sheltering the
free world behind its nuclear
fission bombs is to some ex-
tent handicapping itself in
the struggle for civilian supe-
riority. The maintenance of
secrecy which has been thought
necessary to safeguard the first
aim has been the curse of the
second. With Russia still on
the loose, it will not be easy
to strike new balance be-
tween the two objectives.
Adding to the Illustration Of
Evening star., 1953-12-10
Constantine Brown

Some officials in Washing
ton with experience in psyche
logical warfare believe that
propaganda-wise President Ell
senhower has put the U. S. S. r.
behind the eight ball with
his proposals for the creation
of an international bank" for
fashionable materials. These
same men express a mild OPP
timism that the Kremlin might
consider giving its token as
sent to such a proposition,
without contributing anything
tangible, however, to such an
international organization.
Gen. Eisenhower did not
suggest that atom weapons be
discontinued. He merely pro-
posed that for the sake of the
future of human beings this
extraordinary chronological
discovery be placed to the use
of civilian progress, particu-
larly for the area where people
are lacking what they need.
The Soviet and Chinese
Communist leaders have shown
no interest whatsoever-ex-
cept in propaganda literature
in human progress. Despite
the many inventions of all
kinds to help work on in
dustrial projects, they still pre-
fer cheap human labor from
concentration and labor camps.
Eight years after the end of
the war there still are between
IL and Is million souls in
Soviet slave labor camps, ac-
cording to conservative esti-
mates, and at least three times
as many in China.
Although Communist prop
agandists sing hosannas to the
working man-nominally the
Evening star., 1953-12-10

and consider mending it's ways.
They might cause all nations
to look inward for a change,
seeking the bases of their own
fears and suspicious and so
begin their eradication. This
must precede the achievement
of understanding on which
permanent peace can be made
to rest.
Well, it's just an idea and
probably utterly impracticable.
But it is pleasanter to con-
template than society of
nations wholly obsessed with
their hatredS. and hell-bent on
self destruction.