Evening star., 1953-12-27

shocking. It ended with the ghost
of Harry Dexter White rampant on
field of red.
The White case was top news of
the month. 1t was opened in speech
at Chicago by Attorney General
Brownell. in which former President
Truman was Tin effect) accused of
appointing to high Office White,
man he knew to be a Communist
spy. Mr.. Truman went on televiSion
to deny the charge, and to explain
that he was helping the FBI keep
tabs on the late Assistant Secretary
OF the Treasury. A day later, Mr..
BroWnell and FBI Director j. Edgar
Hoover went before a congressional
committee to deny Mr.. Truman's ex-
planation. And midway in the pro-
ceedings. Senator Mccarthy found
an excuse to get into the case.
What started out to be an anti
Truman address by the Wisconsin
Senator ended as an anti Eisenhower
campaign speech in which Senator
Mccarthy outlined his own foreign
policy and delivered it to the Re-
publicanS-or else. Like all things,
this, too, passed. But it had the Gov
eminent in an uproar for nearly the
whole month. And by December.
Harry White and Harry Truman
were almost forgotten--and Joe Nc
Carthy remained in the limelight.
Big Three Meeting
Meanwhile, the Reds carried on
their peace offensive, urging four
power meeting Can idea that seemed
to appeal to British Prime Minister
ChurchilD. The long delayed Big
Three Bermuda meeting was sched-
uled again-this time for Decem-
ber 4-8.
In the Philippines. the pro-Ameri-
can Ramon Magsaysay won
humping victory in a presidential
race against the aloof incumbent
Elpidio Quirino.
The White House busily compiled
a muSt-liSt of legislation for the
second session of the 83d Congress.
rms list, containing seven major
points including defense, fiscal pol
icy, farm policy and Taft-Hartley
law revision, was the essence of rec
ORD on which Gen. Eisenhower hoped
the Republicans could run success
fully in 1854. Other Republicans
however, Senator Mccarthy among
them, would have none of it. They
wanted to run on the issue of Com
munists-in-Go Government.
Peoce ToIk Stolemote
In Korea at this time. United
States Envoy Arthur Dean continued
TO Wrangle with the Reds over a
Far Eastern peace conference. The
deadllne suggested in the Korean
truce agreement had long since
passed, but no one-now including
even President Syngman Rhee-
seemed overly anxious to start the
nghtlng again. The big issue block
Ing agreement seemed to be the
status OF Russia. The U. N. already
had decided that only belligerents
were to be represented; that if
Russia wanted to come along, it
could sit where it belonged, on the
North Korean-Chinese side of the
table. The Reds, however, wanted
neutrals present-and wanted Russia
as a neutral. It appeared that the
West might hold still for neutrals
after all. But Russia could not be
one of them.
Again. in November, the dove of
peace flew out from behind the
Kremlin walls. A new Russian note
gave the West encouragement that
the Soviet would talk at last about
Austria and Germany. But the
spectre of Red China - a subject
Russia always wants to bring into
any diScuSsion-continue to haunt
the West in its hope for European
conference.
Still. things looked so good at the
end of the month that Foreign
Operations Administrator Harold E.
Stassen was able to express the
belief that large cuts could be made
in foreign aid appropriations for
fiscal 1855.