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Evening star., 1953-09-27
Travellers Notebook
Steum-Powered Troins Disappearing, So RoiI
Fons Pick One for Outing Next Sunday
By Jacques FutreIle, Jr.
The Stor's Trovel Editor

little Neville. So the village will
break out the band for the visi-
tors.
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cape feeling its effects. Jokes
will continue TO be made about
Eisenhower's golf, as they were
about Truman'S loud vacation
shirts, but no one here seri-
ously questions the need of
Presidents to relax if and when
they can.
The President will need re-
newed energy and abated ten
sion in the months ahead.
Pressures will mount for a Spe-
cial call to Congress to enable
it to get a head-Start on the
huge workload it must handle
next year. The truce in Korea
is only a truce. The tremen-
dously complicated Job of ar
irving at peace suitable to all
sides, including President Rhee,
is still ahead.
The President will have no
chance of avoiding hard ques-
tionS in relation to next years
budget, the deficit and taxes.
Many emergency taxes are
scheduled to go out of exist
ence in 1854. There will be
urgent efforts to let them stay
dead even in the face of the
Treasury'S need of greater in
come to balance the budget.
The inevitable result may be
strong attacks even on the
reduced defense spending al
ready in effect, and similar
efforts to reduce foreign aid
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customed to seeing us dance to
their tune that they believe
that our present stand is in
tended as q mere face-Saving
device for domestic purposes.
Even some inveterate op-
timists in Congress who advo-
cate the utmost patience to-
ward the antics Of our allies
in the U. N. in the hope that
some day, somehow, that or
ganization may become an et-
fective instrument for peace,
have become really concerned.
They wonder what the future
will hold for the free world
if, because of the selfish inter-
estS of Britain, France and
their followers, the U. S. s. r.
or India, or both, are given
seats on the side of the 16 ma
tions which fought and bled to
repel the aggression against
South Korea inStigated by the
Kremlin in 1850 and executed
by the North Korean Chinese
Communists.
Russia has definitely identi-
fed herself with the aggreSSor.
Not only have the Muscovites
given moral support to the
enemy, but it has been def
nitely established that all the
Red planes were of Soviet
make and manned in part by
Russian and satellite pilots,
and the bulk of the enemy
tanks are of well known Rus
sian manufacture and even a
considerable proportion of the
small arms were made in the
II. S. s. r.
Hence by all international
rules and by any standard Of
elementary ethics the Krem-
Inns conferees should be on
the side of the Chinese and
North Korean Communists.
Unless this happens, there
seems to be no doubt in the
minds of our top officials that
the forthcoming conference,
probably to be held in Geneva,
will turn into an international
brawl in which a number of
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ing an H-bomb-to assume
otherwise would be foolhardy."
Mr.. Cole warned that the
United States must not under
rate" the SovietS.
mo one," he said, "has given
us any reason to doubt that Rus
Sia has the A-bomb. In fact,
they have given us positive proof
that she does"
To meet the Russian threat.
Mr.. Cole said. this country must
maintain and increase our
atomic lead. and keep up our
ability to strike a terrible coun-
terblow against any aggressor
who attempted an atomic Pearl
Harbor. For another thing, I
think we have to build a much
more far-reaching and effective
system of defenSes in depth
against atomic attack from the
air and the seas. I'm thinking
here of measures which would
give us warning of attack while
the enemy was still hundreds or
thousands of miles from our
shores, so that we could have a
real chance to intercept him be-
fore he reached our cities.
I'm other words, this isn't an
either-or proposition. We need
good civil defense plus good con-
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Test for the U.N.
Survival of Organization Is Seen Dependent Upon
How Its Members Decide to HondIe Peoce IoIks
Constantine Brown

The survival of the United
Nations depends on the man
ner in which the majority of
it's members decides to handle
the Korean peace talks Sched-
uled to start in October.
Besides the formal statement
by Senate Majority Leader
Knowland that he will present
a resolution asking for with
drawal of the United States
from the United Nations in the
event Communist China is
given seat in the U. NJ, Am
bassador Henry Cabot Lodge
has received a number of tele-
grams and letters from other
members of the Senate to the
same effect.
The chief American delegate
to the U. N. knows we'll that
this sentiment of the Senate is
not an empty threat from a
few Middle Western isolation
lists" but represents the deter
mined views of a large number
Of Senators from both parties.
Secretary Of State Dulles,
who has made a habit of keep
ing his ear close to the ground
for senatorial opinion, is said
to have urged Ambassador
Lodge, before leaving for a
weeks vacation, not to yield
on Russia or India participat-
ing on the allied side of the
table at the Korean peace
talks.
The State Department had
ample warnings that Britain
and most of our Western
European allies would insist
on at least the U. S. S. RS
participation as a peacemaker.
And although appropriate
hints were given to London
that any attempt to force our
hand on this matter might
have very serious consequences
on the whole attitude of the
American people toward the
U. N, they apparently re-
manned unheeded. Our Euro
pean allies have become so ac-
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Fletcher Knebei-
Potomac Fever

Ike moves to halt illegal Mexican immigration Foreigners
are funny bunch They yell at Yankee homeland
then try to beat to it
Premier MoSSadegh rules Iran after the Shah fees the
country This is bad century for kings Even England the
average prefers prefers aces
Senate G. O. Leader Knowland Republicans
proved the moral climate" Washington
rushing down to enjoy Washngtons moral climate
should be nobodys improve the
regular
The Commerce Department says American per capita in
come has hit record 81 639 capita
lncome-after taxes it's decapitated income.
Foreign aid boss Harold Stassen
ing may have to continue for long time This growing
busineSS-every year there foreigners
Civil Aeronaucs boss Lee he's trying down
plane noises civilian airports Air much
simpler solution for the probem-a they've
just done away with the planes
Senator Mccarthy investigates Communists Government
printing Joe giving his out of
the Congressional Record No Senator could make greater
sacrince-unlesS he spent the summer reading it,
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financial compensation is no.
toriously small.
This is not to say that he
may never reform. The vilest
sinner may return to the fold,
of course. But it should take
more than a profession of new
ly acquired purity to make him
the perfect witness against al.
legedly erring brothers, some
of whom. if the Daily Worker
has. any power Of persuasion,
he must have helped to wean
away from the paths of right
eousness. Any McCarthyite
will tell you that any Commu-
mist will lie when asked if he is
a Communist. Yet the Nc
Carthyites ask you to believe
the word Of men known to have
been hard-bitten, active Com
munists over a period of years.
DR.. Talbot's point is well
taken. but there should be an
investigation not only of the
investigators, but also of the
selected witnesses.
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Atomic Chairman Is Certain
u. S. Leads in NucIeor Field

Representative Cole, chairman
Of the Joint Atomic Energy
Committee. said today the
United States unqueStionably
still leads the world in atomic
development.
But he said he is convinced
Russia has. the A-bomb, and he
warned 1t would be "foolhardy'
not to assume that she has also
developed the hydrogen bomb,
as claimed recently by Premier
MalenkoV.
The New York Republican
made his comments in a copy
righted interview in the weekly
United States News and World
Report"
Nothing to Confirm Claim.
There is no doubt whatso-
ever that she (RuSsia) has the
A-bomb." he said. IF the same
people who told us they had the
A-bomb - American scientists
and public officials whose judg-
ment and knowledge can be re-
lied on-told us that Russia also
has the H-bomb, I would be in
clined to accept that fact. But
I've had nothing to confirm
Malenkov's claim. think
we have to assume that SovietS
have been successful in develop
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men, are their sources of in
formation accurate?
Can we ever really trust
as a witness a turncoat whose
mind has been warped by
years of party discipline?
When you start to search out
treachery, treason and cor
ruptlon, you must be careful
that your inquiring medium is
itself reliable and that it is
not distorted by the very
thing it is set up to expose"
This goes to the very heart
of one evil practice common
to the Mccarthy and McCar-
ran type of Investigations. 1t
relies heavily on the testimony
of former Communists. Not
merely on men or women who
at some time in their lives
may have been unduly i'm
pressed by the philosophy of
communism, but who have
been active participants in
what we have come to con-
slider a conscious conspiracy
against our Government in aid
to the Russian government.
The arch symbol of Commu-
mist Vaccinations in America
is generally held to be the
Daily Worker. Any Govern
ment worker who admits
reading it. except in the line
of duty. becomes suspect and
is likely to be fired. Yet a
former managing editor of
that paper has been used over
and over again as a witness
against persons put on trial
by congressional committees,
and his statements have been
accepted at their face value
even his sometimes Self-con-
Trajectory statements.
No managing editor of the
Daily Worker is an innocent
Stooge. He is necessarily at the
very neart of the papers OPP
erationS. He needs to be skilled
in the distortion of facts. The
receptions he practices are de-
liberate. His heart and soul
must be in his work, since the
Evening star., 1953-08-18
Policeman Cleared
In Death Of Patient

Second Precinct Pvt. Samuel
L. Franklin, %, was cleared by
a coroner's jury yesterday in the
fatal shooting of Ralph c.
Brown, 38, colored, a District
General Hospital mental patient.
The ruling was justifiable homi-
eide.
Brown was killed on the hos
pital grounds a few hours after
he attempted to take his own
life by stabbing himself at his
home in the 900 block Fourth
street S.W. He had been sent
to the institution for mental
observation.
The patient, undergoing
treatment for a wound in the
chest, dashed from the emer-
gency room and ran toward
Pvt. Brown who had heard the
cries of an attendant to stop
the fleeing man.
AS he grappled with Brown,
the policeman testified, Brown
grabbed Pvt. Franklin's black
jack and knocked him to the
ground. The officer got up and
fired when Brown came at him
with the blackjack in a threat
ening manner. -.
A few moments before he died
of two gunshot wounds in the
abdomen. Brown turned to a
doctor treating him and said,
This is just the way I want it,"
Evening star., 1953-08-18
Doris FLeeson-
Eisenhower Smile Returns
End Of Congress and Colorado Vacation Credited
With Relieving Some Tension in the President

below levels the President and
his advisers might consider
adequate.
The issue of leadership must
be faced as well, now that the
strong direction of a Taft is
unavailable.
Gen. Eisenhower was not
rendered the usual honeymoon
period with Congress: he had
difficulties in this direction
right from the start. He has.
of course, had a honeymoon
with the public which from all
appearances continues. BY and
large he has been safe so far
from partisan attacks from
the Democrats. but with next
years election looming, no one
can imagine that this state of
affairs will continue. It is
highly unlikely that any at
tacks will be leveled at Eisen-
hover such as Truman and
Roosevelt had to bear. But
with the return of Gov. Ste
venson and preparations for
former President Truman to
make major speeches begin
ming with Detroit on Labor
Day, the Democratic big guns
will more and more be leveled
on the issues and the President
may be forced to action to pro:
tect the esteem in which he
and his party are held by the
public.
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Doris FIeeson-

This city, always peculiarly
sensitive to moods and condi-
tions of Presidents, has noted
with pleasure that President
EiSenhower'S sojourn in Colo
RADIO seems to be relieving the
tension built up during the last
weeks of Congress and that the
old warm smile is again light
ing up the presidential coun-
tenance.
Probably the reaching of the
present uneasy truce in Korea
and the end of Congress seS-
sion have had as much to do
with Gen. Eisenhower's relax
alton as have the curtailed
work load and Colorado'S Salu-
brious climate. But whatever
combination has accomplished
the trick, Washington is glad
of it.
Before the departure for Den
yer some of the Presidents
senatorial supporters had re-
ported worriedly what they be-
lieved to be signs of tension
in the President. One re-
marked that the famous smile
had become detached" The
news from Denver plus the
evidence of photographs has
now relieved such concern.
The enormous responsibility
of the presidency is such that
no man, no matter how
strongly constituted. could es-
Evening star., 1953-08-18
Who Is on Which Side in U.N.?
Coumnist Finds Out That You Can't Tell the Players
Without q Score Cord-Throueh All the Double Talk
David Lowrence-

Who is on which side" in
the United Nations Assembly
as it prepares to select the
member countries of the So
called political conference"
that is supposed to settle the
Korean problem?
India says she is neutral"
and is willing to be helpful
to both sides"
What does neutral" mean
in the U. N. when the
American people have Just
been told that 100000 Ameri-
can casualties were suffered in
behalf of "the U. N. COM
mand'?
The United States says it is
willing to have Russia par
ticipate if the "other side" is
agreeable to the proposal. In
this sense, the "other side" is
Red China and the puppet
government of North Korea,
which is in turn a creature of
Soviet Russia.
British diplomats at the
same time tell American re-
porters that the U. N. must
be careful not to offend the
Russians by implying that
maybe the Soviet Union be-
longs on the "other side"
which means that somebody
may possibly suspect the
Moscow regime was really a
"belligerent" in the Korean
war or aided a belligerent.
One wonders why all this
rigmarole is necessary when
Vishinsky frankly told the
United Nations Assembly a
few months ago that, of
course, the Soviet Union right
along had been sending NUM-
tionS to the Red Chinese and
the North Koreans.
The plain fact of the matter
is that the United Nations
an institution with an aura
of reSpectability far from de-
served if it is judged by it's
recent conduct - condones
treason within it's own ranks
and is afraid to call treason
by it's right name lest it offend
the "other side" the Soviet
government.
To the average American
who isn't encountered by too
much knowledge of the in
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trigues and double talk of di-
plomacy, the fact remains that
war broke out in June, 1850,
and it was formally, officially,
publicly, and specifically de-
scribed by the U. N. as an
aggression by the Communists
of North Korea. Then in
February, 1851, after the Red
Chinese had intervened in the
war, the same U. N. declared
the government of Red China
an aggressor The U. N. also
had publicly by resolution
called on all member nations
to lend assistance to the U. N.
action and to refrain from aid
ing the aggressors. Who,
therefore, could be neutral"
and still be faithful to the
U. N. objective-to repel ag-
gresSion?
So the first order of busi-
ness in the U. N. is not to
avoid or evade the issue about
letting Soviet Russia partici-
pate but to try the Soviet re-
gime on charges of treason
and to expel such a regime
from the U. N. as a menace to
the future peace of the world.
The U. N. however. today
is dominated by some pussy
foot diplomats from Europe
who still think that the way
to get peace is to appease and
bootlick the Russians. In due
time the fallacy of that course
will become evident, but only
after a lot of time has been
wasted which might have been
spent in oStraciZing the Soviet
regime and applying the moral
force of the world toward the
ultimate goal of liberating the
Russian people from their
gangster government. The
Russian people could be told
that a free government would
be a welcome member of the
U. N.
Double talk, however, will be
the order of the day for some
time to come as so-called di-
plomacy twists and turns and
tries to keep from offending
the present Soviet government.
Double talk still persists also
in other phases of the Far
Eastern situation. The other
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problems entirely extraneouS
to the Korean situation will
be brought UP for discussion.
There Is q suspicion, in fact,
that the fate of the Korean
republic will become in such
an eventuality an entirely Sec
ondary matter.
Our position at such an in.
ternational gathering will Ger.
tainly be unpleasant. In the
light of q number of ofiicial
declarations by Prime Minister
Churchill and by the Spokes-
men Of the Labor Party, it has
become evident that we cannot
count Britain and France on
our .Side unless we agree to
''liquidate" the Far Eastern
question in accordance with
their own concepts. These are
definitely opposed to ours.
The smaller Western Euro.
pean members Of the o., N.
take their cue on matters
which are not their immediate
concern from Britain and
France. The Arab-Asian bloc
has no love for Britain but
neither is it likely to be in
clined to pull the chestnutS
from the fire for the United
States.
The entire area from Mo-
rocco to PakiStan identifies US
with the British insofar as
imperialism" is concerned.
All these countries are likely
to follow the leadership Of
India, and Prime Minister
Nehru has left no doubt about
his warm feelings toward the
Chinese Communists with
whom he hopes to identify
India in the future.
Thus the presence of Russia
among the Is countries which
have fought Communist ag-
gresSion in Korea will unques-
tionably put us on the spot
and will result in our going to
that diplomatic gathering with
the cards stacked against us.
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day, for instance. it became
known that a unit Of the
British Navy-an aircraft car
rier-interfered with the block
ade, imposed by the Chinese
Nationalist government against
Red China, by reScuing some
merchant ships from the hands
of the Nationalist Navy. Since
Nationalist China is still a
member of the U. N. and try
ing to carry out its obligations,
why should the British Navy
interfere with military opera
tions undertaken by a U. N.
member against a non-mem-
ber which has been declared
an aggressor?
The American Government
is about to lend or lease Is
destroyers to the Nationalist
Navy. Congress authorized it
by law just signed by the
President. Does this mean the
British Navy will seize those
destroyers if they attempt to
keep strategic goods from
reaching Red China? Recently
in the British Parliament as
surances were given that the
British Navy would be used to
protect Ceylon, which has
made a barter deal to supply
rubber-a strategic commodity
to Red China, On which
side is Great Britain herself?
The British diplomats often
boast about their experience in
world affairs, but they never
have made a bigger miscalcu-
lation than in the assumption
conveyed in their present poll
cies that it is more important
to have Red China in the U. N.
than the United States. Re-
publican Leader Knowland has
announced that the day that
Red China goes in, a resolu-
ton will be sought in Congress
to have the United States step
out of the U. N. Judging by
the temper Of Congress in both
political parties, such a resolu-
ton will pass overwhelmingly
Then the Communist Chinese,
the Communist Russians and
the British appeasers. if the
British people keep them in
Office, can run the U. N. to
their hearts content.
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tinental defenses plus a high
level Of striking power"
Representative Cole said Pre-
mier Malenkov had better make
up his mind to the fact that a
Soviet atomic attack would meet
with a terrible answer on our
part" But he said he was not
sure this would be enough to
deter the Soviet dictator.
"I think history shows" he
said. that whenever a dictator
makes up his mind to wage war,
he tends to believe exactly what
he wants to believe, and he
treats as untrue any unpleasant
information which might dis
courage him"
Mr.. Cole said he thought
every one in authority agreed
that the public should have more
information on the atomic ener-
gy program but he said "the
argument comes when you get
down to cases and try to specify
exactly what you're talking
about" He said he didn't think
it necessary for the public to
know the exact size of the Amer
lean Stockpile.
II think it is important, how
ever" ne said. that the public
be assured that we are produc-
ing atomic materials as rapidly
and as efficiently and as eco
nomically as we can"
Mr.. Cole predicted that within
the next five years there will be
at least one-"and perhaps as
many as a dozen re-
actors producing electric power.
Within Is years, he said, II
would guess that nuclear reactors
will become really competitive
with conventional power"
Evening star., 1953-08-18
Lowell MeHett-
Clergyman Makes q Suggestion
Thinks an Investigation Of Investigators Might Be Useful
Could Also Consider Witnesses on Whom Probers Rely

Some good may be result
ing from the abortive efforts
of Chairman Velde of the
House Un-American Activities
Committee and Chairman Nc
Carthy of the Senate McCar-
thy committee to involve the
American clergy in the sinister
Communist plotting against
which they have undertaken
personally to protect the
American people. This is be-
cause it has brought forward
from among the clergy a num-
Der of men capable of discuss
ing the question of commu-
niSm and subversion with ex-
ceptional clarity. One such
was revealed on Sunday in the
person of the Rev. DR.. George
H. Talbot, pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church in Pas
sale, N. j.
Speaking from pulpit in
New York, he declared the
Government has "the right
and duty to protect itself and
to ferret out possible sources
of subversion and treason in
the country, no matter where
they exist. The clergy as a
group are no more immune
than any other class of people.
Nor do / believe any self-re-
specting clergyman wants an
immunity not granted to all
others"
Saying he knew of no re-
sponsible clergyman who
would not be willing to an
swer any question that might
be asked by a congressional
committee, DR.. Talbot ex-
pressed doubt as to the COM
petence of some of the Tex
perts" employed or used by
the committees. An inveSti-
CATION OF the investigators
might be useful. he suggested.
How do we know these in
vestigators are pure and unde-
f1led?" he asked. Granted
that congressman are woIthy
Evening star., 1953-08-18
Branch Bunk Approved

RICHMOND, Aug. Is. P.-
The Citizens Bank g. Trust Co. of
Charlottesville, was given per-
mission yesterday to establish q
branch bank at 1922 West Main
street in that city. The State
Corporation Commission gave
the authorization, which super
cedeS previous approval for a
branch bank at $50 Preston
avenue.