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Evening star., 1953-06-18
BY the Assoeioted Press

Senator Knowland of Cali
fornia, the acting Republican
leader. says a proposal to boost
postal rates generally is "a prob
ability" for action this session.
Postmaster General Summer
field, working out final details
of the administration bill, re-
fused to divulge it's contents.
It has been reported the plan
would raise the price on out-of-
town letters from 3 to 4 cents
an ounce. on domestic air mail
from 6 to z cents. and authorize
substantial increases in postage
for most newspapers, magazines
and packages.
Opposition is anticipated on
both sides of the Capitol.
Senator Knowland told news
men following a G. O. P. Policy
Committee meeting yesterday
with Mr.. Summerfiled that con-
gressional leaders would meet
more frequently with top admin
istration officials to get to know
them and their programs more
intimately.
Evening star., 1953-06-18
No Time to Give In to the Kren|in
Anti-Red Ouburst in East Berlin Nay Have Frustrated
Soviet Attempt to LuII Germans Into False Security

peaceful means the liberation
Of the free nations which had
been forced by the Kremlin
behind the Iron Curtain were
received with a combination Of
anger and uneasiness by our
European allies. Such a policy,
the Republican candidates
were admonished publicly.
could cause. only useless blood
shed in the subjugated coun-
tries, and increase the an
tagonism Of the Kremlin
against the West. Prime Min
lister Churchill attempted to
pour oil on troubled waters
when he stated early this year
that he believed the U. S. S. r.
should have frontiers safe
guarded by the existence of
buffer states closely associated
with the Soviet government.
This was interpreted in Mos
COW to mean that Britain, for
one, would be willing to &C
cept on a permanent basis the
present Soviet line in Europe.
Our efforts to keep alive the
hope for freedom in the satel-
lite countries were considered
in Europe as unrealiStic. Yet
we have rekindled the hopes
of those downtrodden peoples.
There are apparently millions
behind the Iron Curtain who
place freedom and humane
treatment above life itself.
Last weeks uprising at Pilsen,
Czechoslovakia's main indus
trial center, is a typical illus
tration. Czech officials attrib-
uted it to the devaluation Of
the Czech currency.
There may be something to
that inaSfar as a preteXt is
concerned. The Czech work.
ers have been accustomed to a
hard life ever since their
country lost it's independence
after the last war. The pros
poets of an increased life Of
austerity merely added fuel
to the fire-the ardent desire
of the Czech masses to be free
once again. The people Of
Evening star., 1953-06-18
Constantine Brown:

The anti-C Communist out
burst in East Berlin, sup
pressed quickly and bloodily
by q Red army combat team,
may have frustrated Moscow's
well-calculated plans to give
the West German people the
illusion that the unity and
salvation Of the Reich depend
exclusively on a close CO.
operation with the U. s. S. r.
and a diSaSSociation with the
Western powers. The violent
demonstration of the $4,000
German workers in East Ber-
lin should douse somewhat the
eagernesS of our British and
French allies for a settlement
Of the cold war on Russia's
political terms, provided the
Muscovites open up the trade
channels between the indus
trial countries in Western
Europe and the hundreds Of
millions Of prospective clients
behind the Iron Curtain.
This country has been under
strong pressure since Stalin's
death, particularly from Great
Britain, to accept the Red
peace gestures at their face
value and overlook the moral
issues involved in the present
conflict for the sake of busi-
ness as usual, at least for our
economically hard-pressed al
lies. These moral issues are
not academic: they concern
freedom, the paramount reason
for which World Wars I and
II and the Korean war have
been fought. It has been sug-
gested to us that it would be
hopeless to try to do anything
positive for the captives of
the Kremlin in Europe and
suicidal" to attempt to help
the hundreds of millions /of
Chinese who have fallen under
the Communist yoke.
President Eisenhower's and
Secretary Dulles declarations
last fall that this country
would strive to obtain by
Evening star., 1953-06-18
Baruch Hits Notions
About u. 5. Power
BY the Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA, June 49,
Bernard Baruch says Europeans
who cling to a misguided notion
that American power alone can
stop Communist aggression are,
in effect, asking the United
States to go it alone.
Mr.. Baruch told the Junior
Order, United American Me-
chanics, last night that the
question els whether Europe will
force us to stand alone by fail
ing to make its promised con-
tribution to the common de-
fense."
But, said Mr.. Baruch, who was
honored by the order as the
American Citizen of the Year."
may I emphasize that we as
we'll as the Europeans have
fallen down on the goals set in
the past"
ALREADY, before a truce in
Korea seemed likely" said the
white-haired adviser to Presi-
dents, 'presSures for tax reduc-
ton and arms cuts were build
ing up. Some Government lead
ers here and abroad had begun
to talk of national economy be-
ing more important than ma
tional security"
Mr.. Baruch said the future Of
the North Atlantic Treaty Or
ganization hinges on Cd the Big
Three meeting later this month
at Bermuda, and CO the possible
lulling effect of a Korean truce.
Evening star., 1953-06-18
BY the Associated Press

MOSCOW, June 18.-The So
Wet Union has told United States
Ambassador Charles E. Bohlen
that it will let four more Russian
wives of Americans living in
Moscow leave Russia for the
United States.
Soviet Foreign Minister V. NJ,
Molotov informed Mr.. Bohlen
that exit visas would be issued
to the wives of Thomas P. Whit
ney, a correspondent for the AS
sociated Press; Henry Shapiro
United Press correspondent; An
drew Steiger, Reuters CORE.
spondent, and George Atkins
buildings manager of the Amer
lean Embassy here.
The Embassy announced last
week the Soviets had agreed to
permit two other Russian wives
Of Americans and the two chill
dren of an American-born di-
vorced wife of a Soviet citizen to
leave for the United States.
Among this first group was Mrs.
Eddy Gilmore, wife of the APPS
chief of bureau in the Soviet
capital.
Evening star., 1953-06-18
Study Of Grunewa|d
Testimony Is Asked
|By House Probers

A House Ways and Means
Subcommittee. it was learned
today, has asked the Justice
Department to study whether
Henry w. Grunewald lied under
oath.
The subcommittee headed by
Representative Kean of New
Jersey sent to the Justice
Department voluminous tran
scripts of its hearings on irregu-
larities in the Internal Revenue
Bureau.
Accompanying the transcript
was a letter from Mr.. Kean sug-
gesting that the Justice Depart
ment study whether Grunewald
committed perjury during the
hearings.
Grunewald testified repeatedly
about the tax-f1xing errands he
ran for Washington officials,
Republican as well as Demo-
cratic. Much of the testimony
by various witnesses conf1icted.
On June 4, Federal Judge
Alexander Holtzof fined Grune-
wald $1,000 and gave him a sus-
pended sentence of 80 days after
Grunewald pleaded guilty to one
charge Of contempt of Congress.
He was indicted for refusing
to testify. Later, he freely took
the witness stand, but his testi-
mony often left the House 1nves-
tigators unsatisfled.
Evening star., 1953-06-18
Riots, the Spark Of Rebellion
Disorders Under Soviet Heel May Be the Beginning
OfLiberotion Movement Throughout East Europe
David Lawrence:

The most important news in
the world today is not the
Rosenberg case or the book
burning" controversy or even
the events in Korea. It
Is the fact that Germans in
side Soviet jurisdiction have
demonstrated so vigorously
that the Communists had to
turn machine guns and tanks
against them,
For this may be the begin
ming Of the much-discussed
liberation" movement through
which alone there can be an
overthrow of totalitarianism
and the attainment Of q peace
without tension.
The riots that have been re-
ported, not only from East
Germany'S zone under Soviet
rule but from Bulgaria and
CzechoSlovakia and other
points behind the Iron Curtain,
are significant of a deep un-
rest which at any moment can
become the revolution that
must take place In Soviet
Russia itself before there can
be safety for the democracies
of the world.
The latest disturbances may
be quelled by force, but they
will have left their imprint.
The fact that thousands have
stood up to the machine guns
is indicative of the mood of de-
f1ance of millions of others. It
will be said that the Soviet
armies can always put down
such rebellious movements. But
1t may be asked what happens
when the troops in the Soviet
army begin to be rebellious
themselves-when they refuse
to fire on innocent persons who
are striking against a govern
ment that takes away their
farms and their food and re-
duceS their incomes?
The mutiny at Kiel in 1918
was a small affair in itself, but
it touched off the revolution
that caused the Kaiser to flee
from Germany to Holland. The
little revolution in 1917 which
Evening star., 1953-06-18

speech. Mccarthy and his fol-
lowers are not resting.
The evil of the confused
censorship resulting from
McCarthy's successful assault
on the State Department is IL
lustrated sharply by the case
of Edgar Snow, one of the
American writer's whose books
have been blacklisted. During
the course of a quarter century,
Mr.. Snow, a newspaperman,
war correspondent and author,
has won the esteem of most
persons engaged in similar
work. His books have been
compiled largely from reports
first written for the Saturday
Evening Post, whose 100 per
cent Americanism has never
been open to question. If he
has any weakness it probably
is his sympathy for the human
race and his disposition to
consider that people are still
people, wherever he finds them.
This has not endeared him
to dictators. In q rather rue
full letter to the New York
Times, he says:
"All my books are banned in
the Soviet Union and the
satellite counties. Such books
as I had written before 1912
were banned in Hitler's Ger
many, in totalitarian Japan
and in most countries Of die
tatorship. They were banned
in Spain and in Kuomintang
China. and they are now
banned in FormoSa.
He calls attention to the
fact that he has been officially
cited for patriotic and out
standing and conspicuous
service as an accredited cor
respondent with our armed
forces" Hundreds Of thou
sands Of copies of his books
have been distributed d in
armed forces editions for CT
reading and for use In officers
training courses. Several are
listed by the Army War Col
Evening star., 1953-06-18
Knowand Predicts Action -Four More Russian Wives Basketball xe Accused
This Session Mail Rates Of Americans Get Yas In Banking Loan Racket
Special Dispatch 10 The Stor

NEW YORK, June 18.-Irving
Schwartzberg, convicted college
basketball fixer released from
Jail six months ago. was back
in custody today on charges that
he headed a racket which de-
frauded New York banks of more
than $4,000.
Schwartzberg was arrested
early yesterday after a high
speed chase through the the
atrical district which involved
mounted policemen, detectives.
off duty officers and the city's
Motor Vehicle Bureau.
Arraigned on grand larcency
and forgery charges, Schwartz
berg was described as the brains
of a ring that used counterfeit
registrations and licenses and
Army discharge papers to get
bank loans.
Police began looking for him
after the arrest in a Flushing
bank of another member of the
ring, according to Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Warren Tenney.
The madcap chase started when
Schwartzberg's. car was spotted
at a traffic light.
Evening star., 1953-06-18

is not waiting while the White
House worries but returns next
week end to give battle to his
detractorS.
The Senator will tell an
Amvets convention in Beloit,
Wis, that if the Republicans
who put across that censure
resolution last week end
thought they could scare him
into retreating, they were
sadly mistaken. With this de-
f1ance firmly on record, he ex-
poets further to defend the
Eisenhower foreign policy, root
and branch.
The Foreign Relations chair
man will more or less review
the same situation next week
end alta United World Federal
ist gathering in Chicago. This
essentially is a further dose Of
defiance for Wisconsin Nc
Carthy Republicans, as the
isolationist Chicago Tribune,
which can be expected to give
full coverage to the Wiley
views, circulates widely in
Wisconsin.
Washington is having to ad-
just its sights in order to take
in Senator Wiley, the war;
riQr. A pre-Pearl Harbor
isolationist, the Senator's amia-
bility had seemed his out
standing characteristic even
after he began to espouse the
internationalist point of view.
It takes much more courage,
Of course. to fight for the Eli
senhower foreign policy in
Wisconsin than in New York.
Evening star., 1953-06-18

the police come over to the
side of the rebelling people. It
is the idea Of keeping alive
the spirit of liberation, and
keeping up hopes and inform
ing oppressed peoples that on
this side Of the Iron Curtain
are friends ready to help them
at the opportune moment.
which is basic in the whole
liberation" concept.
The point of view was quick
ly grasped by President Wilson
in 1917 when he told the world
that America was not making
war on the German people, but
on their autocratic govern
ment. The German people ul-
timately revolted. Today it
needs to be said that the Amer
ican Government and its allies
are not building armament to
use against the peoples Of So
Wet Russia and of the Satel-
lite states but against the i'm
perialism Of a small group of
evil men who rule from Mos
COW.
The riots and uprisings con.
firm the fact that a liberty
loving people will not indefi-
nitely tolerate despotism, and
it may well. be proved by sub
sequent developments that.
when 200 million people in So
Wet Russia want to get rid of
a tyrannical government, they
can do so without an extensive
civil war and by virtually a
bloodless revolution.
Tyranny begets enemies, ac-
tive and passive. and the more
innocent persons are shot down
by machine guns, the more the
seeds Of a greater revolt are
sown. Big developments seem
to be on the horizon in Europe
and the peace that the world
yearns for may not be as far
away at it has seemed. The
Soviet rulers have been bluff
ing the U. N. in the Far East
and in Europe. Maybe the al
lies will see the true Soviet
weakness now.
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Evening star., 1953-06-18
Fletcher KnebeI:
Potomac Fever

Supreme Court Justice Douglas grants stay OF execution
the Rosenbergs the The law clear this
pon-the Supreme Court itself time 1t At
OK the State Department to ban books that
the Communist doctrine This literary ad
mnstraon knows everything about books except how to
balance them
riot against Communist rule. The trouble
with running police state that later spend
most of your time running.
The Eisenhower administration presents security OF
information The idea is to the public with
official that the reader won't time turn to the
sports to how often Ike played golf that day.
post go up. Living getting expensive that
red approach baggage-laden travellers with Garry
your wallet sr?"
Korean negotiators agreement cease-fre
line America, will its know
when q ally may threaten to join
Evening star., 1953-06-18
Lowell MeNett:
An Open Challenge to President
He Could Countemond the Ode Says Senator Mccarthy;
Eisenhower Needs to Implement His Dartmouth Speech

It should not need to be
said that we cannot defeat a
repugnant alien theology by
adopting some of it's worst fea-
lures. But it does need to be
said, over and over. The ban
ming or burning of books is
part Of the totalitarianism
from which we wish to keep
America free. Yet it has not
ended with the Presidents
vigorous denunciation of the
practice and it will not end un-
less he takes action to imple-
ment his words. This is made
clear by Senator McCarthy's
sneering comment on the
Presidents Dartmouth speech.
obviously" said the Sem
ator, Eisenhower agrees with
what his cabinet officers are
doing or he could countermand
the order"
His reference was to the
directive from the State De-
partment under which many
books have been removed from
overseas libraries operated by
the department. 1t is obvious
that the President has failed
to exert the influence or the
authority over the department
that the circumstances re-
quire; that he has failed to
command it to stand and fight.
In saying, HE could counter
mand the order" Mccarthy is
openly challenging him to
do so.
If the President accepts the
challenge he will need all the
popular support he can get.
Mccarthy isn't the only per-
son In this country who has
thought everything out to his
own satisfaction, has therefore
stopped thinking and believes
everybody else should do the
same. Hts demagoguery has
had and still has a wider ap-
peal than generally realized.
The President must have
found the response to his book
burning speech very crafty
ING, but he cannot rest on that
Evening star., 1953-06-18

It was Wisconsin, where isola-
tionism is endemic, which
killed the 1914 aspirations of
the late Wendell Willkie.
Senator Wiley is also fur
nishing Washington with the
heartening spectacle of a SEN
ator prepared to take on the
grass-roots war against those
elements and opinions which
furnish so large a share of the
basic strength of McCarthyism.
Most Senators are putting
their ears to the grass roots
rather than explaining in their
States the situation which
finds the popular new Republi-
can President repeatedly stale
mated by members of his own
party.
A further Wisconsin straw
in the wind comes shortly when
Gov. Kohler calls a special pri-
mary and election to fill the
House seat of the late Repre-
sentative Merlin Hull.
An announced candidate Is
Assemblyman Arthur L. Peter
son. a husky Marine veteran
of the Korean war, who has
denounced Mccarthy in the
State Legislature. Mr.. Peter
son, who will be 81 next month.
was renominated for his AS
sembly seat while in Korea
after he had taken his stand
against Mccarthy. He was re-
nominated by only 400 votes
out Of 1000, but he swamped
his Democratic opponent two
to one.
Evening star., 1953-06-18

Pilsen and the neighboring
towns took not a calculated
but a positive risk to show the
West where they stood. And
many paid for this with their
lives.
The Berlin incident" is
even more telling, since the
East German authorities had
just issued. on orders from
Moscow, a new set of regula-
tions purporting to give their
subjects far more freedom
than in the past.
Our observers knew that
these new regulations were
mere eyewash intended to i'm
press the people in Western
Germany before they go to
the polls next August. The
Soviet maneuver would have
been highly successful had it
not been for the patriotism
of the workers in East Berlin
who offered themselves as tar
gets of Soviet machine guns
by demonstrating in compact
masses and demanding that
the Russians leave Germany.
At the risk of their lives, these
Germans showed up the big
Communist lie.
Even in China there are
local upriSings. For more than
a year Peiping has claimed
that it has complete control
over the Chinese people. Up
to that time the Peiping broad
casts admitted some trouble
with organized brigandage.
Then, suddenly, last week, the
Reds were forced to admit new
acts Of "brigandage" had
broken out in Yunan and
Kwansi. The term "brigand"
is applied by the Communists
to all who oppose them.
Those who doubt the intense
feeling against the Red regime
should look at the figures in
volving the Red army soldiers
who surrendered to us in Korea
and prefer to live as displaced
persons rather than return to
their homeland.
Evening star., 1953-06-18

had overthrown the Russian
Gear could not have become
nationwide so quickly with
out the support Of the rank
and file Of the Russian Army
itself.
For several years now in
America there has been a
steady emphasis on the idea
Of supporting a liberation
movement in Europe so as to
attract the peoples of Soviet
Russia and her satellites. This
writer has repeatedly referred
in these dispatches to that
movement as a constructive
program for America to aid.
When last summer. during the
presidential campaign, Gen.
Eisenhower proclaimed his in
terest in liberation" of OPP
pressed peoples, he was
promptly assailed by large sec
tions of the British and Euro
pean press and by political
opponents at home, including
Secretary Acheson, as favoring
American intervention by force
of arms behind the Iron Cur
tain.
John Foster Dulles, who was
looked upon at the time as
likely to be Secretary of State.
clarified the point in a speech
by insisting that the United
States was not seeking to start
any wars but merely was eager
to lend moral support to any
liberation m ov e m n is that
might be begun. Nevertheless
in European circles, particu-
larly Britain. it became FASH
ionable to pooh-pooh the whole
liberation idea as impracti-
cal and unwise. 1t was argued
that such outbreaks as might
be encouraged would result in
a needless loss Of life and
premature uprisings.
But the critics failed to ex-
erciSe their imaginations-
they could see only interven-
ton by force of arms. They did
not perceive that popular SEN
timent, once aroused, can
spread in such proportions that
Evening star., 1953-06-18
Doris FIeeson:
Another President 'Aqoinst Sin
Gen. Eisenhower Refuses to Do Battle With the Sinner
Wiley Not Afroid to Stick by nternotiono!ist Views

President Eisenhower in his
press conference stuck by his
preferred attitude of hating
the sin but declining to fight
with the sinner.
A political situation is devel-
oping however in the State Of
Wisconsin which adds a new
dimension to the problem.
There Senator McCarthy's ad-
mirers have stirred up a storm
against his senior colleague,
Senator Wiley. the basis Of
their dissatisfaction being his
leadership in behalf of the
Eisenhower foreign policy.
Senator Wiley has a key role
in this field because he is
chairman Of the Senate For
eign Relations Committee.
House Ways and Means Chair
man Reed. the tax-cut man,
is currently illustrating just
how important the chairman
Of an important standing COM
mittee can be to a President.
The White House says it
realizes that the attacks on
Senator Wiley are attacks up
on Eisenhower policy. They
admit that last weeks Wis
consin Republican State con-
vention gave them seriously to
think when 1t passed a resolu-
tion Of cenSure against the
Senator for opposing the
Bricker amendment. The Pres
1dent opposes the Bricker
amendment because it impairs
his treaty-making powers.
Senator Wiley, fortunately,
Evening star., 1953-06-18

lege library as recommended
reading for general officers.
The case Of Edgar Snow Is
not unique. Others of our
best writer's have come under
the ban, chiefly because the
State tment in its
present jittery state is at
tempting to do the impossible.
The President should relieve
it Of this task and spell out
for the American people, in
words of one syllable. why he
has done so.
Evening star., 1953-06-18
Fuirfux Citizens to Meet

Fairfax County sewage prob
lens will be reviewed at a meet
ing Of the Federation of Cit
liens Associations at. .8:15 o'clock
tonight at Annandale School.
Evening star., 1953-06-18

Dads the fellow who sends flowers to the
family the year round, SO it is only fair to
treat him to the extra thrill of receiving
flowers from you on Fathers Day!
, 1953-12-24
NOTICE

There were recently passed
by the Municipal Council, and
are now in effect as law,
"Rules and Regulations for
the Municipality Of St Croix
in accordance with section 3
Of the Building Code Of the
Virgin Islands" and a list of
Fees for Permits, Surveys,
Licenses, ETC., in accordance
with 1The Building Code Of
the Virgin Islands, Sections
3 and "A, respectively.
There will therefore be a
charge for all Permits for
Buildings, Electric Wiring,
Sewer Connection, and Salt
Water Connection issued after.
December 1, 1858.
Copies of these enactments
may be seen at the Public
Works Office.
a. Paralit;ccr
Superintendent of Public
Works.