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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-05-18
David Lawrence:

President Eisenhower thinks
1t was most unwise for Clement
Attlee, former prime minister
Of Great Britain, to declare
that Communist China should
be admitted to the United Ma
tions as soon as a Korean
armiStice is signed. The Presi-
dents view can be said to in
clude Prime Minister Church.
i'll insofar as the latter may
have indicated agreement with
Mr.. Attlee.
This is the real news Of what
has been happening in Wash
ington in the last few days
and not the exaggerated i'm
portance given by some sec.
lions Of the press to the Attlee-
Mccarthy e~; ilange Of political
complimer.
For several weeks now q
deliberate effort has been made
in this country by the left
wingerS'-and now it is taken
up in the European presto
give the impression that the
most important thing in Amer
lea is the method by which the
Wisconsin Senator is fighting
communism. AS a matter of
fact, Senator Mccarthy never
had and never will have the
influence on international
policy which the cleft wing" so
persistently seeks to attribute
to him. The drive on Sen.
Mccarthy is an effort to split
the Republican Party and leave
Gen. Eisenhower helpless in
Congress on domestic issues.
The cleft wingers" are mostly
Democrats.
What Mr.. Attlee said about
the American Constitution and
his gibe asking if Senator Nc
earthly or Gen. Eisenhower
were more powerful in Amer
lea in making international
policy was in bad taste, but it
certainly seems to have been
given far more attention than
the real news Of the Attlee
speech. That news was his an
nouncement that Red China
should be admitted to the U. N.
and Mr.. Churchill'S acquies-
cence despite the fact that Red
China was denounced formally
as an aggreSsor by the United
Nations in a resolution voted
for by Great Britain early in
1851.
PreSid ent EiSenhoWer's
counter-comment at his press
conference last week has been
given a meaning that is in
accurate. This correspondent
has obtained a memorandum
from a reporter who has since
revised his notes to conform
exactly with the stehographic
transcript maintained at the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-05-18
Constantine Brown:

No fewer than $50, 900 Soviet
advisers, technical personnel
and experts" are now in China,
attached to various branches
Of the Chinese Communist re-
CINE.
This total does not include
the Russian military men at
tached to all the Communist
army units as instructors and
advisers, nor the undetermined
contingents of actual Soviet
troops on guard duty" on the
Manchurlan railways. Nor
does it include the aviators
who still are flying many of
the MICS and other modern
jet planes.
These figures, the result of
q painstaking analysis by in
telligence services, show the
grip Of the Muscovites in China
and give a rather positive an
swer to the wishful thinkers
who maintain that Mao Tse-
tung may, IF properly hand
led" become another Tito.
According to these reports,
the bulk of the Russian civil
ianS-more than 80 per cent
lis located in Manchuria, the
most developed industrial area
of China which is linked with
the industrial development of
Siberia and the rest of the
U. S. S. r. empire. Southern
China is apparently neglected
by the men in the Kremlin,
since fewer than $500 Soviet
civilian experts are there.
North China, which in
cludes Hopei, Shantung, Jehol.
Peiping and Tientsin, con-
sidered second in Importance
to Manchuria, has some $4,000
Russian helpers"
There are no reliable figures
available yet on military per-
sonnet reported on the way
south to strengthen Chinese
Red armies poised on the Dor
ders of Indo-C China. But, &C
cording to reports which have
proven reliable in the past.
Russian engineers are now
actively building air strips in
that area for Soviet-made
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-05-18
Welfare Budget Cuts Hurt
Hospital Building Program Hardest Hit by Economy Efforts;
Rural and Poorer Stotes Will Feel Effects Most

year beginning July / for the
National Institutes Of Health
so that research could be ex-
banded. For the Institutes his
budget provided for $85 million
as compared with expenditures
this year estimated at $58, 1884,
$50.
In its revised budget, the
Eisenhower administration rec
commended considerably less
than the Truman budget and
a little less than is being spent
this year-$56,340, 900. How
ever. the House Appropriations
Committee, In the bill reported
over the week end embracing
the Departments Of Labor and
Of Health, Education and
Welfare, boosted the Health
Institutes appropriation to
SOL ,586. 200, so that research
into the major diseases can go
on at about the level of this
current fiscal year ending June
80.
During the hearings, word
Of the proposed cuts in the Eli
senhower budget for these re-
search projects got around and
protests began to come in.
Among those protesting were
Is medical schools. all of
which now rely heavily on
Federal aid for research.
So the committee provided
for this research. But it cut
deeply into appropriations for
the Public Health Service as
. whole, whacking 500, 800. 800
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-05-18

cause to do 50 would have q
damaging effect on the Ko-
rean truce negotiations and
on relations between America
and Britain. This interpre-
tation of Mr.. Eisenhower's re-
marks is also what two top
Republican leaders in the
House and Senate have given
this correspondent after being
apprised Of the exact word
ing Of the Presidents state
ments at his press confer
ence.
This writer had a CONVERSE
ton at Paris just q year ago
with Gen. Eisenhower, and the
general reviewed then the
same historic argument about
recognition and expressed his
keen understanding Of the
British viewpoint, just as he
did last week. But when asked
pointedly by this correspond
ent whether, since the Red
China government had COM
mitted aggression, he would
favor her admission to the
United Nations, he uttered an
emphatic negative.
1t is more important. there
fore, now to find out why
MessrS. Churchill and Attlee
favor admission of Red China
to the U. N. after a Korean
armistice than what thew
think of Senator Mccarthy.
For the Mccarthy issue is Just
a convenient smoke screen that
could continue to obscure the
real issues. These are: Shall
an aggressor government fight
its way into the U. N. and shall
the British governmental
there is no Korean truce-con-
tlnue sending, in the future as
IN the past. war supplies to
Soviet Russia which are then
trans-shipped to Red China
to help kill American and Brit
ish soldiers?
An answer to one of these
questions has just been given
by the Scripps-Howard news
papers in an editorial which
declares that it is time for
President Eisenhower to in.
form "our appeasem emit
minded allies that the United
States will not accept Red
China as a member Of the
United Nations" and the allies
Should be told that the day
the Reds walk in. we walk out. /"
The editorial. adds: If the
Communists Can shoot their
way into this organization. it
isn't any place for U.S."
There is a movement start
ing in Congress to express that
very same point of view in a
joint resolution of both houses.
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rely for manufactured equip
ment on their Mukden arsen-
ais and some other less i'm
portant ones in Southern
China.
Some military equipment.
apparently surplus" is being
purchased, however. This is
sent to Hainan Island at the
entrance of the Gulf Of Ton
kin. Hainan, which until three
years ago was in the hands
of the Nationalist, was either
conquered by force or pur-
from its Nationalist
defenders. It has now assumed
a new strategic Importance.
According to the latest re-
liable information, no fewer
than five Communist divisions
are stationed on Hainan:: Rus
sian and European satellite
experts are constructing there
a number of modern airfields
which may prove very handy
next fall when the major Red
drive against Southeast Asia
is expected to begin. Hainan's
two main harbors are being
deepened and equipped to
serve as submarine base for
the Russian navy.
The modernized Chinese
Nationalist army in Formosa
is capable of attacking and
retaking Hainan before it is
too late and thus removing q
real threat to the French in
Indo-China. But the allies,
including the United States,
are unwilling to give Chang
Kai-shek the green light for
such a major operation which
would necessitate the CO.
operation of American war;
ships.
Chang has sufficient forces
capable Of successfully UNDER
taking amphibious operations
against that island which Is
like a dagger at the heart Of
the Wet Nam city Of Hanoi,
but the Western powers are
afraid to allow him to move
lest such initiative may
further annoy the Chinese
Communists and their allies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-05-18

discretion in his public COM
mentS on the current confu-
sion, is known to be concerned
about the lack of progress to
date. The opportunity it af-
fords for clamor on the far
right is, Of course, a threat
to his middle-of- the-road
leadership.
The Presidents main trouble
is that he is what one Demo-
cratic Sen tor has called
"overpromised." This over
promising was principally in
three areas-taxes. the budget,
and Korea.
It is customary for presi-
dental aspirants to promise a
great deal more than they can
deliver and the victors often
have had to display notable
agility in persuading the voters
to excuse it, please. Gen. Eli
Senhower, unluckily for him,
was explicit on major, easily
grasped issues affecting both
the emotions and the sensi-
tive pocketbook nerve.
Having control Of Congress,
he has no scapegoat at hand,
like Mr.. Humans worst
80th." One of his problems is
that a determined minority of
his own party. powerful be-
cause Of seniority, intends
that he shall make good on his
promises, no matter how much
conditions as he finds them
may have altered his views.
The President also is on the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-05-18
Elizabeth Returns
From baImoraI Castle
BY the Associated Press

LONDON, May 18.-Queen
Elizabeth II-refreshed by q
weeks rest at Balmoral Castle
returned to Buckingham Palace
today to prepare for her coro-
nation just over two weeks away.
A crowd of several hundred
cheered and waved as she left
Kings Cross station to motor to
the palace.
Her sister, Princess Margaret,
arrived back in London last night
after attending the wedding Of
Princess Ragnhild in Norway.
It was moving day for Prin-
cess Margaret and her mother,
Queen Elizabeth. They trans
ferred their residence from Buck
ingham Palace to Clarence
House, the former home of
Queen Elizabeth and the Duke
of Edinburgh before she came
to the throne.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-05-18
Leader Lauds PTAs
For Interpreting U. n.

OKLAHOMA CITY, May 10
Mrs. Newton P. Leonard, Provi-
dence, r. l., president Of the Ma
tional Congress of Parents and
Teachers, praised the Nations
PTA's today for accepting "the
responsibility of interpreting the
United Nations and UNESCO
against the mounting tide of
criticism"
Mrs. Leonard, in a speech pre-
pared for delivery at the opening
session Of the 57th annual ma
tional convention, said the as
ISOLATION has promised to sup
port school programs which
would help young Americans
learn the languages Of other ma
tionS."
Some 5000 delegates swarmed
into Oklamhoma City for the
three-day convention.
Mrs. Leonard said the Nations
PTA's have IAN obligation to take
the lead in developing opinion
sensitive and sympathetic to the
needs of public education.
She urged delegates to join in
an action program for better
homes, better schools and better
communities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-05-18
Fletcher KnebeI:
Potomac Fever

Ike returns to Washington from his last trip aboard the
yacht Williamsburg The Williamsburg will be laid 1t
small for driving range
Reporter Bill Oats to freedom after
Czech jail. Nothing much has changed here, Bill
except that it's the Republicans stockpng
problems.
It only natural that the military services marched
shoulder to shoulder to celebrate Armed Forces After
ALL they spend all trying to get with other
Gen. Ridgway flies home to testify foreign aid.
spending has been investment peace-every
year fewer Of allies feel like fighting
The State Department denies it made any deals
Bill Oats You'll catch the State Department confesng
that it did something.
Democratic Senator Symngton blasts Eisenhower
tense cuts Democrats claim they're much better fitted
wars-snce is by nature wasteful operation
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-05-18
Doris FIeeson:

In the midst Of the inten-
sive discussions which preceded
President EiSenhower's adeci-
sion to assert his leadership
before the country on taxes
and the budget, defense and
foreign aid, a telephone call
arrived in a Congressional Of
fee from the only living Re-
publican ex-President.
II hear" said Mr.. Herbert
Hoover. that some Republic
cans down there are talking
about losing control Of Con-
gress next year and suggesting
1t may not be a bad idea to
relieve ourselves of total re-
sponsibility. I think I may
claim to be the country's lead
ing expert on that subject and
I will tell you that it Is a very
bad idea"
How influential Mr.. Hoover
Is with President Eisenhower Is
q question, but arguments that
the President must act quickly
to stem q defeatist drift in his
own party won the day.
The President has agreed to
call the signals loudly and
plainly. Congressional lead
ers also are insisting that "the
team" especially Treasury
Secretary Humphrey and De-
tense Secretary Wilson, must
fall IN line behind him in all
the many appearances they are
now making on Capitol Hill.
Senator Taft, q marvel Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-05-18
DorothY Ihorpson:
Con'tWe Take q Tail Twisting?
America Had Better Learn to Accept Criticism From Our Allies
Because A1ti-U. S. Revolt Is Brewing in the World

demonstrate the validity Of
most of the criticisms-that.
for instance, certain Ameri-
cans" do not want peace in
Korea.
That charge has been uni
versally denied here. AL
Americans, without exception.
want peace" But peace" I'M
der present conditions means
a negotiated peace, not a die
tated one. General Van Fleet
does not want such a peace.
Senator Mccarthy does not
want such a peace. On the
contrary. the Senator appar-
emily wishes to extend the war,
not only to China, but to Bril-
tain-and to begin sinking
British ships! To declare war.
as it were, on the entire world.
Senator Mccarthy is. and no
doubt sincerely, fighting COM
munism. But his speech in the
Senate on May IA, probably
will swell the European Com
muniSt vote.
Although French sensible
ties were wounded by Prime
Minister Churchill's speaking
without previously consulting
France, the most important
French reaction was taken in
the foreign affairs commission
of Parliament, which called on
the French government to
make specific proposals at the
earliest possible moment" for
a four-power conference on
world problems.
We are spending hundreds Of
millions of dollars to sell"
American policy to "the free
world" But If all we are will
ing to hear in return is the
sound of our own voices, we
are spending it in vain.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-05-18
Dorothy Thompson:

Twisting the lions tail" so
long has been a favorite Ameri-
can sport that We cannot I'M
derstand the outcry that has
gone up here over Clement
Attlee's pull at the eagles tail
feathers.
Official and unofficial per-
sonalities, and organized and
highly vocal groups here never
have hesitated to criticize the
British or tell them what to
do about nearly every matter
with which they have been
concerned-beginning with the
Irish question. During the war
it was often difficult to dis
Germ whom we were fighting and
in what order - Germany,
Japan, or the British empire.
Our platforms and press were
crowded with speakers and
writer's denouncing British
policy in India. The attacks on
the British in Palestine were
of a virulence-and often of a
mendacity-unexampledi in the
history Of relations between
so-called friendly powers.
Many Of the postwar results
that we now universally de-
plore were due to the overrid-
ing of British advice on how
to conduct the war, and at
the various conferences with
Stain.
At Teheran, President Roose-
velt-by the account of his
son Elliott, who was there
slapped Churchill down in
Stains presence when the lat
ter calmly announced that af-
ter the war $4,000 German
officers would have to be ex-
ecuted. Churchill, Mortified, re-
YnorkoH that 0h;e ~ao;an&,,,m
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-05-18
Thomas L. Stokes:

The budget problem faced by
the Eisenhower administration
and Congress may be spelled
out simply in something close
to all Of us-health.
Since the end of the Second
World War, this country 'has
launched the most extensive
research offensive against dis
ease that the world has ever
known" as it was put by DR..
w. H. Sebrell. jr., Assistant
Surgeon General and director
of the National Institutes of
Health, an agency Of the
United States Public Health
Service in the new Department
of Health, Education and Wei
fare.
DR.. Sebrell was teStifying be-
fore the House Appropriations
Committee about the urgent
need for continued research in
cancer, mental health, heart
disease, arthritis, neurology,
blindness, and such ailments
for which the Institutes grant
funds to medical school and
other non-Federal institutions
and to States. as well as oper-
ating its own laboratories.
In dealing with the major
chronic diseases, DR.. Sebrell
said, I'VE must think in terms
Of q 30-year war and not in
terms of a 5-year skirmish."
It was in that spirit that
President Truman, in his final
budget, recommended increased
appropriations for the fiscal
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-05-18

from the proposed Truman
budget, which will hamstring
many Of its widely ramifying
activities in behalf Of our
health. It recommended a
total appropriation Of $207,-
900, 200, which also. was below
the Eisenhower budget.
Hardest hit is the hospital
program under the Hill Burton
Act for which Congress has
been making a fixed appropria-
ton of SIS million each year.
The House Committee reduced
this to $50 million. That will
affect the building program in
several States which have
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-05-18

government does not execute
prisoners of war" Roosevelt
laughingly conceded that
$4,000 would be sufficient. One
recalls this apropos the issue
today in Korean prisoners.
Neither unconditional sur
render nor the Morgenthau
plan, from which flowed so
many woes. were British or
even Russian ideas. And when
the history Of the last war is
truthfully and impartially
written and read-if it ever
is-it will be found that its I'M
limited nature, with results
that we are now spending
blood and treasure to undo,
can largely be laid on the
American doorstep.
The art of politics is to deal
with things as they are, not as
they ought to be.
For more than a year this
column has been trying to tell
the American people that an
anti-American revolt is brew
ing all over the world. The
easy response is to denounce
the critics. That is all very
well for home consumption,
but it accomplishes nothing
whatever on the international
scene.
Wise policy continually takes
new bearings, and criticism is
one way of learning where one
stands.
If Churchill and Attlee had
only voiced their own opinion,
their speeches could be dis
missed as Insignificant. Ac-
tually. Attlee expressed the ap-
prehensions of a large part of
British and European leaders
and public, and Senator Nc
Carthy Immediately rose to
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-10-23
New Scottsvil|e High
Band Makes Rapid
Progress, Lions Told

Capt. @ r. Edgerton, band di-
rector at Scottsville High School.
told the Scottsyille Lions Club
Wednesday night he has never
had a group of students make
more progress in the six weeks
than he has the new Band class in
the school here.
The first concert was given
Wednesday afternoon in the High
School auditorium. and everyone
was enthusiastic about what has
been accomplished There are IL
boys and II girls in the band.
The Lions Club has sponsored
the band The School Board and
Board Of Supervisors of Albemarle
County appropriated $1,000 Of
S2.l00, cost of the basic instru-
ments. The Lions Club is paying
the balance
A quartet from Fork Union.
composed Of G. r. Edgerton.
Henry keck. Jackie Davis and
Phil Seay entertained at the We'd
nesday night Lions Club meeting
with selection of songs.
The School Band will be guests
Of the Lions Club on November IL
for supper and Will give a concert.
The Lions Club sponsored
Barter Theatre play, All, Wild
erness' in Victory Theatre here
October IS for benefit OF the High
School Band
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-10-23
Recent Chestnut Gr0re Ners
Chestnut Grove Church Extends
Invitation To Burned-Out Neighbors

Members of Chestnut Grove
Baptist Church are disturbed. A
fire practically destroyed their
neighboring Concord Baptist
Church. Fire broke out Sunday
morning shortly after the janitor
had built fire in the building and
the flue collapsed. Men arriving
early at the scene removed pulpit
furniture and benches, which was
greatly damaged Buckingham
and Farmville Fire Departments
were called and they did all they
could to save the building. The
church had been completely re-
modelled in the last two years
floors were refinished. masonic
put around az waynescoatlng
plastered walls and celeteX CELL
ing new colored glass windows
and new pulpit furniture The re-
modelling expenses were approXi-
mately $4,000
Chestnut Grove invited Concord
congregation to worship vi II
them
Mr.. and Mrs. l. H. Routeon and
Miss Ruth Routon. OF Lynchburg
visited Mr.. and MIS- w T. Cook
Sunday afternoon.
The Rev. David Lee Bailey. of
Evergreen. visited Mr.. and Mrs.
A. N. Morris. Friday evening.
CurdSville Guests
Mr. and Mrs. Sweden Allen, Of
Curdsville, visited Mr.. and Mrs.
j. c. Bersch. Friday evening
Mr. and Mrs. George Shumaker
and Junior. Mrs. Luther Harris
and Miss Edna Harris, of Shep-
pards, visited Mr. and Mrs F. H
Chernault. Saturday night
Mrs. jamie Williams. Of Buck
ingham, and MISS Christine
Forbes. of Roanoke, visited w. A.
Forbes. Saturday afternoon.
children and w l.. O'Brien, Of
children and w l.. OBrien. OF
Prospect were Sunday guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. R. l.. Harris