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Evening star., 1953-08-03
Fletcher KnebeI-
Potomac Fever

Secretary Of State Dulles flies to Korea He won't
abroad long Congress would him of trying
our foreign affairs with bunch of foreigners.
Senate Republicans to elect leader What's
wanted is of convicions-whos afraid
with them
Congress votes Ohio into the union retroactive 1903
long we're rghng old mistakes ask how
they about expungng President Polk record He's
the who let in Texas
Congress and SIS Foundation square off
to investigate each other About the only people
country not being investigated the Hoover
Edgar-but j. Edgar's the only who's of it,
Republican Senator Malone and President Ike exchange
81 money clip and two autographed dollar bills
they were experts at passing the buckbut only the Republicans
would make ceremony out of it,
Capt Harry Truman meets his old Battery Minnesota
encampment Harry loves life in Independence No. much
that he spends most Of his time travelling
people about it.
Registrations SHOW that washington
the Congressman For make the PEOPLES
law it takes two to help them get around it,
Evening star., 1953-08-03
Constantine Brown

Our lack Of vigor in exploit
ing the almost unhoped-for
situation in the satellite coun-
tries in Europe is difficult to
grasp.
During the electoral cam
paign last year our present
leaders did not hesitate to pro-
claim loudly that one of the
objectives of our foreign poll
icy would be the liberation of
the Subjugated peoples in
Europe by every possible means
short of war.
These utterances were taken
lightly as a mere election trick
to catch the votes of the mil
lions of descendants of East
European stock. What other
means short of war could be
adopted to free these peoples?
The puppet governments, it
was argued, were we'll en-
trenched in their respective
countries with strong police
and military forces loyal to
the hand that fed them. And
anyhow, what could masses
OF unarmed individuals do in
totalitarian countries against
machinegunS and tanks?
Now the unexpected has
happened. Soon after Stains
death, while the men in the
Kremiin were engaged in a
dog-eat-dog fight, the people
OF Eastern Europe, especially
in Eastern Germany, defied
their masters and did exactly
what was regarded as an i'm
possible feat-fought tanks and
machineguns with bare fists,
Among the subjected peoples,
the East Germans were at one
time the Kremlin's favorites.
The Muscovites, even in
Stalin's lifetime, believed that
they could use the East Ger
mans to attract those in the
Bonn Republic for uniflcation
under Moscow's wing. Twice
since March, 1852, the Krem-
lin has suggested such unity.
1t offered vast concessions for
rearmament and free elections
Evening star., 1953-08-03
Voice. Broadcast
IoChina on Strongest
Station in World
BY Albert RovenhoIt
Foreign Correspondent Of The Siar and
the Chicago Dolly News

MANILA, Aug. 3.--The most
powerful radio station in the
world has begun broadcasting
from Northwestern Luzon Island
as part of a Voice of America
project to penetrate the bamboo
curtain"
This l million-watt broadcast
ing station-20 times as power
full as the strongest commercial
station in the United States-is
located at Poro Point near San
Fernando on the coast above
Lingayen Gulf.
Covers All Acres.
The United States Govern
ment has just completed con-
struction of 27 antennas, an
electric generating plant, and
specially designed equipment.
The installation, which includes
staff Offices and housing, is
spread over All acres known as
Camp Wallace"
Almost a mile above Poro
Point, the Voice has built a re-
ceiving station specially designed
to overcome problems of Com
munist jamming and tropical
weather.
Programs that originate in the
New York, Washington, D. c..
and other Voice studios are car
ried by land lines across the
United States. They are broad
cast over stations on the West
Coast, relayed over stations in
Hawaii and monitored on the
mountain top near Baguio. The
signal is then moved to Poro
Point and the broadcast beamed
to Communist China and ether
areas of the Far East.
Another l million-watt broad
casting station, almost identical
to the Philippine installation,
now is nearing completion on
Okinawa. It, likewise, will be
Evening star., 1953-08-03
The Future Of the Republicans
The Party Is Almost Divided Now as 1t Was in 1852
Before the Convention; Will New Party Be Built?

American officials which pre-
vented a vigorous American
ism in the Far Eastern war.
He was against boondoggling
of American billions abroad.
He will be vindicated in the
next decade of history-for
he was American to the core.
Europeans as well as some
groups of Americans mis-
understood and distorted the
Taft philosophy and record.
Most Of the labor-union lead
ers in America and their pub
licaUlons and almost all the
so-called liberals" preached
a hymn Of hate about the au-
thor Of the Taft-Hartley Act.
They called it a "slave labor"
law though it merely served as
balance wheel to the one-sided
Wagner Law. Some few of
those who fought Taft in his
1850 campaign for reelection
as Senator went to extremes
in an effort to smear him.
They circulated q picture of
him taken many years before
when he appeared on a plat
form to debate with a Com
munist speaker. They sought
by this maneuver to give the
impression that he condoned
or fraternized with Commu-
nists. Some of his labor oppo-
nentS went so far as to use
campaign posters making a
display of the Senator's ini-
tials-'R. A. T." Such are
the tragic penalties in the life
time Of a political figure.
But what is the verdict now?
Here and there are some eau
tiouS comments or some flip
pant damnings with faint
praise by New Deal writer's but
almost everywhere else there
is universal acclaim for one of
the greatest Senators in the
history of the United States.
He will rank with Clay. Web
Ster and Calhoun. For Robert
Alphonso Taft has earned the
most deserving epitaph that
could be engraved today on
the tombstone Of a man in
public service: "He was Mr..
American"
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Evening star., 1953-08-03
Gem Hunt Allowed
Only During Niqht

COLOGNE, Germany - Only
by night and on royal authority
could search be made in ancient
times for the peridot, a precious
stone that combines yellow. the
color of heavenly grandeur, with
pale green, a symbol of hope
and a promise of early spring.
This gem was believed to as
sure its wearer of persuasiveness
and eloquence. 1t was dedicated
to st. Bartholomew. Treasured
peridots found their way into
cathedrals during the Crusades,
the most outstanding being those
in the Treasury Of the Three
Magi, in Cologne.
Evening star., 1953-08-03

No matter which one is
right, the Senator or the Sec
retary, the budget will Ger
tainly be in the red when the
President, with another elec-
ton just ahead, must attempt
to deliver on his tax-cut cam
paign.
Democrats add this up to a
drive for a general sales tax,
for which the businessmen
and bankers of the admins
tration have said kind words.
1t will be fought to the death
by the minority, and many
Republicans, who may not OBJ
ject to it in principle, will join
them on the ground it is politi-
cally unwise at this time.
A severe testing is certainly
ahead for Secretary Humphrey
for whom the debt limit de-
feat is a direct and personal
setback. The politicians of
both parties resented what
they call this last-minute
squeeze play and they took
some pleasure in putting him
on the spot. The shine is
off the fine impression he
made initially and like some
of his Cabinet colleagues he
will have to work for his sup
porting votes in the future.
Both the right and left are
oiling their guns for the
Treasury Secretary. The con-
servativeS think him not Spar
tan enough. The liberals de-
plore his management of the
national debt.
Evening star., 1953-08-03
IN. Eisenhower

were chosen to be the party's
Presidential candidates.
AS administration leader in
the Senate, one of Senator
Taft's chief values to the
President. aside from his ex-
traordinary capacities as a
legislator, was the tempering
influence he could exert on
that wing Of the party Of
which he was the recognized
leader - the staunchly con-
servative, anti-internationalist
(for want of a better term)
element largely concentrated
in the Middle West and domi-
nant in key positions in Con-
gress. .s
His passing removes that
moderating factor. That may
prove to be a greater Toss to
the administration than the
loss Of the strong and forceful
legislative leader that he was.
The fringes of the Taft bloc
in Congress in particular have
a nuisance potential that can
not be overlooked, as they do
in the country itself. They
have demonstrated that this
session. Senator Taft often
was unable to restrain them,
though he kept their damag-
ing effects down somewhat.
For the long range, the in
i1uence of the Taft wing with
in the party should, however,
be leSsened, and that influence
was often debilitating to party
unity. especially in the field of
foreign policy. There is no
leader Of the standing and
prestige Of the Ohio Senator
now in sight bo take his place
in the wing Of the party that
he dominated for so long.
That fortuitous lack would
seem to give Eisenhower
elements in the party an op-
portunity to strengthen their
position. In Congress they
Evening star., 1953-08-03

an anonymous donor. The
East Germans know where this
food comes from but we are
refraining from spreading to
the enslaved peoples the in
formation as to its origin.
It is true that the best char
ity is anonymous. But in the
present circumstances our
shipment of food is not char
ity. It represents Americas
traditional concern for starv-
ing people wherever they may
be and that need not be kept
a secret from the recipients
or anybody else.
The timidity Of our policy
makers toward the plight of
the satellites, who are now in
open rebellion in Germany
and are in an effervescence in
other parts of Eastern Europe
and the Balkans, is hard to
understand unless it is due to
the fear of upsetting the al
ready delicate relations with
Great Britain and France.
These two countries have
definite treaties of alliance
with the U. S. S. r. signed in
1912 and 1945 which are valid
for another 10 years.
Since Stains death, our
British friends have urged us
not to do anything that might
upset the Kremlin apple cart.
The argument was used that
any weakening of the Soviet
regime may produce chaos
which could throw Russia into
confusion for many years.
Hence we have been advised
to watch our step and do noth-
ing that might cause a major
upheaval in the area between
the Elbe and the Urals. This,
our European allies fear, would
upset their best chances for an
economic revival.
The British and French ar
gumentS apparently have had
definite impact on our atti-
tude and that is about the only
plausible explanation of our
present timid policy.
Evening star., 1953-08-03
Thomos L. Stokes
Thon2os [: Stokes
Taft and the Great Con0nnoner'
The Senator'S Passing Appears to Give Gen. Eisenhower
An Opportunity to Mold the Party in His Own Image

To an extent that is rare in
our history, Senator Taft had
become a symbol of a politi-
cal party, his own, the Repub-
lican, and had established an
identity in which the man and
the party were merged and
could not be separated.
That was recognized and
simply expressed in the popu-
lar designation: "Mr. Repub-
lican."
That was true despite the
fact that he had never, during
his entire career, represented
all of his party, but only a
part of it; and it was true de-
spite the fact that, SYMBOL that
he was, he never could win
enough support at his party's
national conventions to be-
come its candidate for PreSi-
dent, though he had a capable
and widely-ramifying political
organization.
For a parallel of similar
identity and symbolism, one
must go back many years and
to the other of our major
parties. back to William Jen-
nings Bryan, the Democrat,
though the two men were en-
tirely different in almost every
way, having in common only
that party identity and de-
votion. Mr.. Bryan was nomi-
mated three times but never
elected. Senator Taft was a
candidate for his party's nom
ination three times, but never
nominated. But he, like the
Great Commoner" from Ne
braSka, was during all the
time Of his trying for the
Presidency the dynamic and
dominant fact with which. his
party always had to contend.
Like VILLA m Jennings
Bryan. Senator Taft was re-
garded as q man who could, If
he chose, wreck the campaign
Evening star., 1953-08-03
David Lawrence

When 'Mr. Republican"
died, did the Republican Party
die, too?
This is the fateful question
which really challenges the
political world today as the
memory of beloved Bob Taft
is honored by the Nation. The
widespread praises for his fair
ness, sincerity, forthrightness
and intellectual integrity sound
strange, indeed, when read in
the light of what was being
said and written about the
Ohio Senator by his oppo-
nentS not only a year ago but
just a few short weeks ago as
he advocated. in his speech at
Cincinnati, a foreign policy
based on truly American prin-
cipleS.
Had Bob Taft lived he might
have shaped the Republican
Party into an effective express
sion of the wishes of a ma
jority of true Americans.
When the Senator learned that
recovery of his health was
doubtful, his chief lament was
that he could not help the
President for whom he had
developed a real affection.
Taft wished he could be spared.
For, as he said to a friend,
like needs me-"
President Eisenhower, to be
sure, has needed the advice
and counsel of Senator Taft
especially in these last few
weeks. For "Ike," the man of
genial personality and high
sense Of duty, is new and un-
tried in politics and civil gov
ernment. He already has shown
signs of inexperience, if not
gullibility, as So-called "lib-
erals" have forced him into
dilemma after dilemma so
that the Republican Party is
almost as sharply divided
again as it was before the ma
tional convention of 1852.
Taft is dead-but the mil
lions Of voters who wanted
him last year to win the presi-
dental nomination are not
dead. They were for Taft's
principles, first. and for him
as a man, second, because he
eSpoused and fitted those prin-
ciples. 1t is a following more
Evening star., 1953-08-03

Senator Kerr of Oklahoma,
a member of the Finance Com
mittee, who incidentally sup
ported the Treasury on the
debt limit, has dropped an un-
obtrusive little bill into the
hopper with the idea of dram
atizing through the medium of
personalities what he thinks is
wrong about present debt
management. It would create
the post Of UnderSecretary of
the Treasury in charge of debt
management and provide that
the Senate must confirm the
nominee for the job.
Kerr will press for early
hearings next year on this bill.
With it he hopes to attract
attention to w. Randolph
Burgess, who has been setting
policy on debt management
from the non-statutory post of
Deputy to the Secretary.
Senators understand that
Mr.. Burgess demanded the
non-Statutory post because
he did not wish to give up Ger
tain stock and pension rights,
as did the Defense team. From
the start, some Senators
thought this bad government
and they like it less now.
1t is probable that the DEM
ocratS will display considerable
solidarity during these fiscal
trials next year. Those shrewd
politicians, the Southerners,
don't like general sales taxes.
They are also sensitive to mat
ters of form in the Govern
ment.
Evening star., 1953-08-03

and administrations of others.
That was dramatically exhib-
tied as recently as the last
campaign when the big ques-
ton for weeks after the con-
vention was whether Senator
Taft would come warmly and
actively to the support of his
successful rival, Gen. Eisen-
hover. When the partnership
finally was effected, it is sig
nif1cant of the Senator's posi-
tion in the party and his
power that Democrats satiri-
cally labeled the event "the
surrender Of Morningside
Heights" and everybody un-
derstood who was surrender
ing to whom.
Though Senator Taft, after
the administration took Office,
proved himself a completely
loyal leader in Congress, yet
there was always the hidden
fear that, at some future date,
he might part company with
the man in the White House.
This is not to say that any
thing Of the kind ever would
have happened. but only to
emphasize that the very fear
that it might was, in itself,
recognition of the power that
resided in "Mr. Republican"
Despite his identity with the
Republican Party as a whole,
Senator Taft was the leader
OF a faction. and always that.
That was the chief weakness
OF his position so far as his
personal political aspirations
were concerned and, because of
the power he exercised in that
capacity, it also was the chief
danger to his party. He had
been through the years. a
divisive, instead Of a cohesive
force. which perhaps helps to
explain why others always
Evening star., 1953-08-03

militant than ever in seeking
to have the Republican Party
become not just an extension
of the Truman-Acheson ad-
ministration but a truly Re-
publican administration. If
unsuccessful this large group
of Republicans will inevitably
be compelled to build a new
party with help from the
South and give up the name
Republican as the Wings gave
up their name 100 years ago.
Who is there to do battle
now in the councils of the
White House where the future
of the Republican Party is to
be decided? Who will speak
now for true Republicanism as
Congress and the country wit
ness "the struggle for Eisen-
hower's mind"-the realistic
phrase written by Mayor Clark
of Philadelphia, liberal"
Democrat, a few weeks ago?
That question may not be
answered soon because there
is at present no other Repub-
lican of Taft's ability or
prestige.
Bob Taft was denounced by
partisans as behind the
times" He was actually ahead
of his times. He foresaw the
possibility of making the Re-
publican Party into a living
expression of an American
policy that was neither reac-
tionary nor addicted to fuzzy
liberalism" He advanced
constructive proposals of his
own on Federal aid to educa-
ton. public housing and
health.
On matters of foreign policy,
Taft did not believe in allow
ing American sovereignty to
be whitfield away by deviating
from the original objective of
the United Nations. He saw
the U. N. as a federation of
sovereignties and not as a
Super-State in which American
boys could be ordered at will
by foreign governments to any
part Of the globe. He didn't
favor making pawns of Ameri-
can soldiers on the battlef1elds
of either Asia or Europe. He
admired the sturdy American
ism of a Macarthur and de-
plored the British influence on
Evening star., 1953-08-03
ID Hurt as Racing Car
Strikes Spectators
By the Associated Press

MONTREAL, Aug. 3.-At least
IA persons were injured yester-
day, nine seriously, when a stock
car going so miles an hour
Swerved from the dust track of
a local raceway and plowed
through a group of spectators.
A crowd of 1000 was watching
the races at the track, which
has no stands.
Evening star., 1953-08-03

have a more difficult task than
among the party rank and file
and its local leadership in the
Nation. For in Congress they
are in q minority.
Only with help from the
President can they achieve
what it seems now in their
power to achieve.
He, has a real chance to
make the party over somewhat
closer to his own image.
Evening star., 1953-08-03
Gasoline From Coal

DALLAS. - Experiments to
develop gasoline from coal are
said by scientists to assure the
United States of enough oil for
5000 years at present consump-
ton rates.
Evening star., 1953-08-03
Autograph Auction

Arthur Alvey, an accountant
OF Cape Town, South Africa,
toured Europe seeking auto
graphs he will auction to raise
Community Chest funds.
Evening star., 1953-08-23
BY the Assoeioted Pres.

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 22.-
Several million birds, from coots
to crows, don't know it but one
of their favorite feeding places
is being saved. thanks to every
one from bird watchers to
bankers.
The dining spot is the Tinicum
marshes, 1853 acres of low-lying
land within the extreme southern
limits of Philadelphia.
There the year around, some
times heading north and some
times south, come herons, hawks,
gadwalls. gallinules, coots, COO
COOS. ducks by the millions and
short cared owls. Many other
species fill the trees and shrub
berry around the area with their
songs.
Quintin Kramer, Philadelphia
insurance man and amateur
ornithologist, said that one
winter a million pin tails were
numbered in the area.
But the swamp, never set
aside as a wild life preserve,
was selected some six months
ago by the Army engineers and
the American Dredging Co. as
the most likely spot to dump
silt to be removed from the
Schuylkill River as part of a
cleanup program.
Several hundred members of