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Evening star., 1953-05-22
Time We ToIked With Our Allies
Bermuda Meeting Will Offer Opportunity for the Kind
Of Heort-to-Heort Chats Needed to Close the Gulf
Constantine Brown:

The meeting of President
Eisenhower, Prime Minister
Churchill and whoever is the
head of the French govern
ment at the middle of June
was decided only within the
last few days when it ap-
peared necessary for the
leaders Of the three major
Western powers to get together
to iron out the growing diver
gences between the European
nations and the United States.
It is expected that a deci-
sion will be taken at the Ber-
muda meeting as to the USE
fulness of a conference with
the U. S. S. r. this fall. At
present, Britain and France
are strongly in favor of such a
four-power parley-even if it
produces no tangible results.
The United States still insists
on some concrete evidence of
Russia's peaceful intentions.
The gulf between the Amer
lean and Western European
concepts concerning the allies
attitude toward the Reds has
been brought into the open in
recent weeks.
Britain, France and most Of
the other NATO nations are
interested in Europe and the
Near and Middle East. They
are willing to write off the
Far East politically and strive
only to increase their trade
with that area.
The facts revealed before the
Mccarthy committee speak for
themselves. France and Brit
ain increased their export
trade with Communist China,
with whom they are factually
at war, nearly 20 times since
last year. Britain's exports to
Red China amounted to 1884,
900 in the first two months of
1852, while the figure jumped
to $5,750,000 in the first two
months of this year. Frances
exports to the enemy increased
from $74,0O0 to $2,584, 900 in
the corresponding periods of
1852 and this year.
These trade figures explain,
partially at least, the pressure
of our Western allies to force
us to call off the Korean war.
This pressure has existed for
the last two years and it was
only the opposition of public
Evening star., 1953-05-22
Dorothy Thompson:

The problem that our side Of
the cold war is not overcoming
is that of the European econ
omy.
Unemployment is growing in
Europe. In the Netherlands,
one-third of the workers are
unemployed or underemployed.
Manufacturing plants there
and elsewhere are laying off
workers. The answer to their
inquiries is mo market" The
workers reply, "Why doesn't
America buy?"-and anti
American feeling is famed.
The people Of the Netherlands
have never forgiven the United
States for the loss of Indonesia,
the source of so much Dutch
(and IndoneSian) prosperity.
They even get a certain ironic
satisfaction that the republic
we contributed to liberate will
not permit American planes
and ships en- route to Korea to
refuel in its oil-rich ports. The
French, struggling in Indo-
China and knowing that, win
or lose, Indo-C China will be as
lost to, France as 1ndonesia to
the Netherlands, want to
abandon a burden costing them
more than Marshall aid and
killing the flower of their Of
ficers corps and professional
army. Their attitude is that if
no parts Of Asia are to be
privileged markets and sources
OF, raw materials they even
tually will have to do business
with those who can deliver.
The Iron Curtain is being
quietly penetrated by Euro
pean buSinesSmen-the East
European satellite states, the
Soviet Union, and Red China.
I have seen a detailed conf
Evening star., 1953-05-22
Wilson Squeezes Operations
For Funds for Combat Paw

being flown commercially to Eu-
rope each month. It is believed
a large proportion Of these can
be carried in military aircraft
by cutting down on non essential
cargoes which will go by ship.
The $1.2 billion was needed to
meet the costs of a military pay
raise. extra combat pay, muster
ing out pay and for a slight in
crease in Army strength.
Congress authorized these
items but told the Pentagon to
try to get the funds from ap-
preparations already made.
Early this year the Truman
administration sent request for
funds to finance the items, but
Congress did not make an ap-
preparation. Mr.. Wilson stepped
into the picture with a heavy
hand and officials said sufficient
funds. now had been squeezed
out Of operating costs to finance
the items without touching COM
bat operations or procurement.
Evening star., 1953-05-22

what happens in the Far East.
They once adopted the slogan
that Trade follows the flag"
The new slogan is that Peace
follows trade" For nearly Is
months, London and Paris
tried to sell" this point Of
view to Washington.
Our allies have made real
efforts to convince us that
once the trade channels be-
tween East and West are re-
opened some kind of peace
based on political give and
take can be developed. This
belief was clearly expressed by
Winston Churchill in his re-
cent speech in the House Of
Commons wnen he suggested
that nothing must be done to
help liberation of the Euro
pean satellites, such as Poland,
because the U.S.S.R. must be
reasSured by the existence Of
such buffer states that there
will be no aggressive move
against her. The American
Government Is on record that
it will do its utmost to liberate
those unwilling satellites by
peaceful means.
These fundamental diver
gences have been played down
in the past. But after the Brit
ish Prime Minister and the
leader of the opposition, Clem-
ent Attlee, chose to bring
them strongly before the pub
lie in their speeches. WASH
ington could no longer ignore
them.
President Eisenhower became
worried about the British
stand and Churchill became
alarmed when he found what
devastating repercussions his
trial balloons had on American
public opinion. Unlike a num-
Der of European political men
the British Prime Minister and
his French colleague realize
that the security and progress
of the free world depend on an
intimate collaboration with
America. So does President
Eisenhower and the over
whelming majority of the
American people. But a point
has been reached when heart.
to-heart talks have become es-
sential. And this will be done
next month.
Evening star., 1953-05-22

emergence upon the national
political scene of Senator Stu
art Symington, Democrat, of
Missouri, former Air Force Sec
retary and National Security
Resources Board chairman.
Senator Symington will play a
leading part in the effort to
restore the defense cuts. If he
does it we'll, his known aspira-
tions for the presidency will be
assisted. Anyway the country
will get a good look at him as
a politician.
It will be a real fight. Major
ity Leader Taft diStrustS a
large military establishment
and has just achieved a major
triumph in the Eisenhower de-
cision to make a clean sweep
of the present jos, whose
judgment the new budget does
much to discredit.
Some Democrats have ques-
toned the wisdom of a party
fight on the defense cuts and
it may be that all cannot be
modified for it. However. even
the position of a famous econ
omizer like Senator Byrd of
Virginia cannot be finally fore
cast on defense questions. He
has been a pillar of the de-
fense effort in matters great
and small.
Evening star., 1953-05-22
DorothY Ihon7pson:
WhyOur Allies Trade With Reds
Russia Is Taking Business Not Conmunism to Nations
Of Western Europe Whose Economies Are Aneoc

dental report from one Of
them-a West German-to his
firm. All these states, he re-
ports, are ready to do business
tomorrow morning on a
straight barter basis; or, when
queried about other means of
payment, Russian function
aries suggested pound sterling.
of which, they said, they pos
sessed ian important account
in London"
The Soviet Union and East
European satellites appear to
be working as a unit, Red
China independently. Chinese
Red trade functionaries said
the Soviet Union was unable
adequately to supply China's
industrial needs.
All Communist countries
want agricultural and min
ing machinery, Diesel engines.
locomotives, generators, and
floating materials. China also
wants aniline dyes-in return
for tungsten and tung oil. The
Soviets offered immediate de-
livery of grain, and were pre-
pared to wait two or three
years for West German iron
goods in exchange.
In Siberia, north of Sinkiang
Province, an area practically
invulnerable to bombing, the
Soviet Union and China to-
gether are building one of the
greatest industrial complexes
in the world. It is self-sufh-
cient in Gil and iron. Hun
dreds of thousands of Chinese
are employed at higher wages
and under better living condi-
tions than they have ever
known. They are first-rate
labor. and also show excep-
Evening star., 1953-05-22
Doris FIeeson:

Democrats have definitely
picked defense cuts for their
first fight against the leader
ship of President Eisenhower.
The decision was taken in con-
Sultation between congressional
leaders and the national com
mittee.
Their asserted reason is
that the Eisenhower Slashes
are a strictly political conces-
sion to the Republican budg-
ct balancers and tax cutters
with whom the President is
having so much trouble. Their
tactic will be an intensive in
terrogatory of every admin
istration witness and every
defender of the cuts, eSpe-
cially in the Senate, where the
main battle will take place.
Reminded that they will be
taking on in such a fight not
only the President but the
victor in Europe, Democrats
reply: I'VE may be taking on
the supreme commander but
Republicans are taking on the
Joint Chiefs of Staff"
That reply is supported by a
Senate hearing on military ap-
preparations at which Defense
Secretary Wilson evaded the
question of whether the Joint
Chiefs had approved the cuts.
Evening star., 1953-05-22

members cannot be impartial
because they are District off,
cials. He has requested that
three members of the District
Bar Association, not connected
with the District government,
try him.
Executives on Panel.
Scheduled to hear the case on
June 8 are Robert F. Cogswell,
District Rent Control adminis-
TRAITOR; 1t. Col. Harry F. Hansen,
Assistant Engineer Commits
sioner, and Donald Clemmer,
superintendent of the Depart
ment of Corrections.
He recently won the right to a
$3,665 a year pension, but his
retirement has been held up
pending Trial Board action. His
superior, Chief Robert v. Muir
ray. has been endeavoring to
learn how Bullock and his wife,
former WAC officer, managed
to save approximately $4,000
more than he was paid for the
years 1916 through 1948.
Evening star., 1953-05-22
Bermuda Meeting Is Wise Step
Russia Will Be Shown That Western Allies Stand Together
And History Will Know That We Tried for Peace
David Lowrence:

President Dwight Eisenhower
achieved a master stroke by
inviting the heads of the gov
ernments of Great Britain and
France to meet with him in a
few weeks to discuss problems
of world peace. Their accept
ance was immediate.
It was essential, indeed i'm
perative, that something dra-
matte be done to show Soviet
Russia that the Western allies
are not at odds and that, in
matters of substance as
against Moscow, they stand to-
gether.
Unfortunately, Rene Mayer,
Premier of France, was forced
out of Office almost Simultane-
ouSly with the announcement
of the forthcoming conference,
which he undoubtedly was in
Strumental in getting Gen.
Eisenhower to convene. But
another French Premier will
attend and doubtless will pre-
sent the same viewpoint as Mr..
Mayer might have expressed.
Nevertheless, the incident does
rather expose the fallacy of
Clement Attlee's tart comment
in the House of Commons re-
Gently about the American
constitutional system and the
possibility that an American
President might not be backed
up by the Senate.
Actually, all democracies
have constitutional difficulties
with their parliaments-in-
Guiding at the moment the
governments of Germany and
Italy. This is not new and
merely emphasizes the i'm
portance of a free play of
public opinion and a free
press, which in a democracy
can bring all elements to-
gether in a common interna-
tional policy irrespective of
partisan politics. Mr.. Attlee
the other day spoke too
hastily, and by inference was
unnecessarily critical of Gen.
Eisenhower in implying that
the Senate would not work
with the present Chief Execu-
tive. Actually, there is more
evidence of harmony already
between Gen. Eisenhower and
both Democratic and Repub-
Evening star., 1953-05-22

lican leaders in Congress on
matters of foreign policy than
has been manifested in any
previous administration in
many years. Mr.. Attlee was
simply uninformed.
No better example of the
leadership of Gen Eisenhower
on world affairs can be given
than the support which he re-
ceived from coast to coast in
America and from virtually
all groups and factions after
he made his historic address
before the American Society
of Newspaper Editors last
month.
The comments, moreover,
that have just come from
Capitol Hill since the an
nouncement of the three
power meeting, called by Gen.
Eisenhower, were unanimous.
They prove that all the talk
about obstruction from the
Senate is poppycock.
The significance of the
three-power meeting is this:
America will explore the view
points of the British and
French governments and pre-
sent with them a solid front
to Soviet Russia. If, for ex-
ample, it is decided to ask
for a high-level conference
with the head of the Soviet
government, the Bermuda
conference will set forth the
conditions for such a meeting
with the Russian government.
Matters have gone along so
far already that it will be
politically difficult for any
government in the West to
oppose a meeting with Ma
lenKOV, even CnOugn Cnefe may
be little assurance of Subse-
quent progress. Prime Minis
ter Churchill prefers an in
formal type of meeting-like
the ones at Yalta and Pots
dam-where there is ample
opportunity for exchanges of
views at the top without too
many subordinates around to
give the affair the appear
ance of a "plenary session"
Such a meeting with Ma
lenkov-probably to be held
in Berlin-could be a fate
full affair. If it proved fruit
Evening star., 1953-05-22

less, it would demonstrate to
those abroad who have had
unbounded faith in the sin
cerity of the Russians that
mere conversation doesn't
solve anything. If, on the
other hand. war came in the
next few years, such a meet
ing would be historic evidence
that the allies had sought
every honorable method of
maintaining peace.
Any idea that Moscow in
tends to yield her claims and
demands and suddenly be-
come cooperative in Europe
would seem far-fetched. be-
cause Moscow feels she has
been winning the cold war
and that she is negotiating
now from strength rather
than weakness. Some minor
concessions by Russia are
likely, provided the allies are
willing to relax restrictions
on the movement of raw
materials and manufactured
goods into Iron Curtain coun-
tries. For the real purpose of
the Moscow peace offensive"
is to get a breathing spell for
the Soviet armament program,
to build Communist prestige
in weaker countries which
have been wavering between
support for the East and
West, and to get time in which
to enlarge the Russian mill
tary forces and equipment
with facilities and materials
that the West might be guilt
BILE enough to furnish.
1t took 267 meetings to dis
cover that Soviet Russia
didn't intend to make an
agreement on the Austrian
treaty. It has taken nearly
two years to ascertain
whether or not the Commu-
nists want a truce in Korea.
1t may take the heads of the
three governments only a few
days to set up a series of sub
sequent meetings by foreign
secretaries and their deputies.
But it might take another
couple of years or more to
hold such meetings with So
Wet negotiators. The cycle of
talkfests is about to be re-
Sumed.
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Evening star., 1953-05-22
Thonos l. Stokes:
Eisenhower Takes the Reins
He Has at Last Exerted His Leadership in Effort to Rally
The People to an Austerity Progrom-Annericon Plan

plain why no balanced budget
and no tax reduction.
So the President was almost
literally dragged up to the
rostrum to lead. Once there
he did a good job-and he
seems to like the role.
The rest will be up to his
party leaders in Congress, to
the public, and also to the
Democrats. The last will be
needed because a substantial
number of Republicans, more
in the House proportion
ately than in the Senate, were
not Eisenhower Republicans
before the Chicago conven-
ton, and are of the old
fashioned, conservative G. o. p.
mold, with strong traces of
latent iSolationism. They will
become important factors in
the battle to extend the Re-
ciprocal Trade Act, for they are
high tariff inclined, and in the
fight over foreign aid. of
which they favor very little,
as we'll as in the controversies
over budget and taxes. AS to
the last, they would swing the
meat AK on spending Of all
kinds, and cut taxes immedi-
ately.
They are epitomized in big,
bluff Representative Dan Reed,
Republican, of New York, who
speaks for them in his periodic
blasts at the administration
for failure to live up to its
campaign promises, as he puts
1t. He carries weight because
of his Seniority-he has been
in the House "a years-and
because he is chairman of the
House Ways and Means Com
mittee which handles tax and
tariff legislation.
The irony of this whole
situation is the fact that it is
Dan Reed who has become
the anti Eisenhower leader in
Congress. No one ever would
have forecast that, for he is
q stalwart of the stalwarts, q
regular Of the regulars.
Evening star., 1953-05-22

work-that is, if a President
expected to lead and have a
successful administration.
AS some of these forecast,
it all resulted in time in the
confusion and drift" with a
lack of sure direction, that
began to exhibit itself several
days ago, dramatizing itself
most pointedly in the mixup
over budget and tax reduction.
For Congress, of itself, is not
able to provide leadership,
though it can, in a negative
fashion, become a powerful
obstructive force-and signs
of that were beginning to ap-
pear.
Significantly enough, but
not unusual, the initiative for
presidential leadership came
from Congress, not from the
President. If Gen. Eisenhower
possessed the political witness
and stratagems of Franklin D.
Roosevelt. it might be sus-
pected that he planned it that
way, that he let his party in
Congress get itself into a mud
die from which he. alone, could
extricate it. But the pres
ent occupant of the White
House is a simple and direct
person.
The distress signals finally
went up. we may recall, when
both Secretary of the Treasury
Humphrey and Secretary of
Defense Wilson expressed, and
very publicly. doubts about
balancing the budget and cut
ting taxes in the near future.
This was just too much for
Republican members Of Con-
gresS who had promised so
much in their campaigns, and
who have been reminded in
an increasing stream of letters
from back home about these
promises and the failure of
fulflllment. Their leaders
took their distress to the
President. He just must get
them of the hook and ex-
Evening star., 1953-05-22
Fletcher KnebeI:
Potomac Fever

Ike will meet with Churchill and the
month In difference British-who little
hearted ately- will be known the Big Half"
conference.
The French government falls after Premier
Mayer to meet with Ike Churchill
the true believers in sefgovernment-
Churchill selects Bermuda the site of the British
American meeting Bermuda straegicaly
spot OF British soil closer to the United States
Ike names Douglas Stuart vice president of Quaker Oats
Ambassador to Canada Ike believes early morning
habits at homeland breakast-food diplomacy abroad.
former member of the National Labor Relations
refuses to whether he Communist The
administrations apparently had all the answers-they
bothered to question those who worked for them
Secret Service agents will impose on
conference trip to Bermuda Not single sand will
unguarded
Marshal Tito of Yugoslava his stick
the Western allies Tito is becoming the
police statesman.
Evening star., 1953-05-22

tional skill as managers and
mathematicisns.
Years ago, the late H. r.
Knickerbocker wrote a book
predicting the coming Red
trade menace. The menace is
here. It is not the United
States but the Soviet bloc
which is offering trade not
aid. Soviet negotiators' don't
talk communism or capital
ism, according to my capital
iSt informantS, but straight
business, and it is music in
many European ears.
They are playing for time.
The Soviets believe that in a
very few years they will top
American production and via
the vast EuraSian market will
eventually control Europe.
Any military venture will be
in Asia, via Indo-C China, Siam.
Malaga. which they consider
a hopeless terrain for Ameri-
can troops, and a hopeless
political climate for white
Westerners in general, ans
where, as in Korea, Russian
troops need not be engaged.
In Sinkiang Province Mos.
cow-Peiping have a school,
turning out 800 Asian Com
munlst missionaries" per
month in all Asian languages.
Meanwhile, the United
States, with an annual pro-
duction and consumption
worth some $500 billion, i'm
ports European products worth
only about 81 billion a year.
Twice that amount would
give an uplift to European in
dustry to Offset Soviet offers
of a way out. We can't get
around economic realities by
exporting the taxpayers dol
lars and the words of the
Voice of America.
Evening star., 1953-05-22
Bullock Challenges
Trial Board Again,
Saysltvio|atedR Right!

Police Inspector Albert I. Bull
lock today challenged, for the
second time this week, the make
up of a trial board scheduled to
hear INSTRUMENTATION charges
against him.
Through his attorney, Charles
E. Ford, the suspended police
inspector contended the Board
of Commissioners violated his
constitutional rights when they
turned down an earlier chal-
lenge yesterday.
Not Present at Talk.
He pointed out that the Com
missioners' answer to his first
challenge stated that the Com
misSioners had conferred out OF
Bullock'S presen ce to determine
if any reason existed as to why
the three might be unable to
accord Bullock a fair hearing.
Such action the suspended Of
f1cer's letter stated, violated his
rights.
The new lett Ter was sent by
registered m all to the Commits
sioners this morning.
Bullock has been fighting the
board on groun DIS that it's three
Evening star., 1953-05-22
Thomas L. Stokes:

Two questions arose nat
urally after President Eisen-
hover finally, at long last,
exerted his leadership in the
effort to rally the people be-
hind an "austerity" program
of the American sort, to wit,
no quick, substantial tax cuts.
He and his administration now
have made this official as es-
sential to maintain our de-
fense at a safe level and to
effectuate continued aid to our
allies.
The questions:
/. Why did he wait so long?
2. Did he wait too long?
AS for the second, it can be
pointed out that the PreSi-
dent clearly has tremendous
reservoir of popular support.
If this now can be brought to
bear effectively upon Congress,
as Franklin D. Roosevelt was
able to achieve that, Gen.
Eisenhower may come out of
what is now being recognized
as a real dilemma within his
own party with a good deal
that he asks. though with pos
sibility of some compromises.
. 1t will be a long and hard
fight.
AS for the first, it may be
explained that Gen. Eisen-
hover has studiously avoided
any conflict with Congress in
conformity with the policy he
adopted when he became PreSi-
dent. which was to be especially
kind and nice to Congress. He
sincerely intended to be the CO.
ordinate branch of government.
He was determined to have
no quarrels with Congress. In
fact, he gave orders to his
White House staff that they
must get along with Congress,
must mind their manners. and
say please" and "yes, sir"
This went to such lengths of
open appeasement that it dis
turbed longtime observers
who had never seen that policy
Evening star., 1953-05-22
Killed by Soft Drink

EUGENE, Greg. May % R.-
Samuel D. Bernstein, 68, owner
of a junk and machinery COM
pany, kept battery acid in soft
drink bottles at his place. At
lunch the other day he reached
for a soft drink. He got q bottle
of acid. He died in a hospital
yesterday.