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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-10
Lowell MeHett:

Immediately following the
elevation of Malenkov to the
Soviet throne our Government
went into a huddle with itself
and allowed it to be known
that it was considering how
best to create "chaos and
confusion" in RusSian-domi-
mated lands and when would
be the best time to start doing
1t. Some experts thought we
should not lose a minute,
others that We should wait
until confusion developed of
itself and then begin exploit
ing it. So we make first-page
news of the problem and her
aid it to the world. Which may
or may not be good psychology
cal warfare. There is room for
doubt that it is. The people
of the lands we are seeking to
influence have now been APP
priSed of our purpose and may
be set to resist our propaganda
efforts, no matter how cleverly
conceived. They may just re-
fuse to believe anything we
say and let 1t go at that.
And yet you have to admit
that If any outfit is qualified
to create confusion and chaos
1t is the one that has taken
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-10
7 Minor District Bills
Are Passed by Senate

The Senate yesterday passed
two minor District bills, sending
them to the House for action.
One is an amendment to the
Districts Credit Union Act to
bring it more into line with the
Federal credit union law.
Aside from correcting some
language errors in the old city
measure, the bill would eliminate
the present restriction that a
credit union member may own
no more than 200 shares. 1t
also would permit credit union
member to own shares jointly
with any other person designated
by the member.
Another change would permit
investment Of the reserve funds
Of credit unions.
The other measure would grant
an additional $1,000 for payroll
purposes Of the District Rent
Administrator Office to carry
the staff from the end of Febru-
airy to April 80, the present
terminal date on District rent
control.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-10

les, has succeeded in draining
the French treasury and is i'm
pairing our military and eco
nomic strength. But the obvi-
Gus trends of the Eisenhower
administration to put an end to
the impossible situation in
Korea cause fear in the Krem-
lin that its attrition tactics in
the Far East may soon fail.
Hence, the partisans of &C
ton within the Kremlin believe
that their interests will be
best served if they beat the
iron while it is hot. They are
convinced that because of the
delay of the NATO nations in
Western Europe to prepare
themselves effectively against
the Red onslaught, the U. S.
S. r. should strike before the
organization of the NATO
armies is stepped up. They
believe in taking a calculated
risk while the bulk of Ameri-
cas- organized forces are en-
gagged in the Korean war.
Stain is reported to have
leaned toward the cuIn-war
school of thought not because
he was reluctant to plunge the
world into another blood bath,
but because at his advanced
age he was cautious and I'M
certain of final victory.
Malenkov, in order TO assure
his succession to the Red
mantle, sided whenever nee
essary with the failing Stain.
He took a middle-o the road
position. In his own mind he
is believed to agree with the
"actlonists" led by Lavrenti
Beria, v. M. Molotov and Mar
shall Bulganin. He is con-
vinced that a powerful kick
would bring the downfall of
the remaining free countries
in Western Europe and that
America, engaged at present
in an unfinished war in Asia,
would not be able to muster
sufficient strength to fight eff
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-10

spirit by more than one admin
istrator under pressure from
congressman with job-hungry
constituents to satisfy. Presi-
dent Eisenhower. having abol-
ished civil service status for
several hundred policy-making
jobs, Senate Majority Leader
Taft doesn't believe the Presi-
dent is going far enough. He
is prepared to point out many
more places that could be i'm
proved by replacing Democrats
with Republicans and is will
ing to aid with the necessary
legislation to make such a
project legal.
Defense Mobilizer Flemming.
formerly a Civil Service Com
missioner. offers his expert
opinion that 100000 Federal
workers are enjoying civil serv-
Ice protection they do not de-
serve. not having passed COM
petitive examinations.
Confusion of another and
even more unpleasant sort may
be making itself felt very soon
if the suggestion of Budget Di-
rector takes hold. This is that
every Government employe
should consider it his duty to
carry to his superior any sus-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-10

can boys. Was it some one IN
the Pentagon, or was 1t some
one in the State Department
who frustrated the bombing?
The sad truth is that
civilians have been the ''strate-
gists" in running the Korean
war, and military men. in
Guiding the Joint Chiefs, have
been sidetracked. So deeply
ingrained is the idea today
that military tactics must be
governed by diplomacy" that,
whenever an important step
required by military logic is
to be taken, it has to be re-
ferred to higher levels" which
happens to consist of a few
bureaucratS in the State De-
partment, in conference some
times with some foreign diplo-
mats who know nothing about
military strategy at all.
If the new inquiry by a
special committee reveals
nothing else than the number
of times our military men have
been hamstrung by civilians
in the State Department and
in the foreign offices of allies
abroad, it would be worth
while. If it only disclosed how
weak the present setup is
wherein the Joint Chiefs Of
Staff so often do not perform
any sound military function
but operate merely as a relay
between the State Department
and European foreign Offices,
on the one hand, and the
field commander on the other
it would be very helpful in
deed. If it did no more than
to discover why foreign diplo-
mats got high priority for
ammunition that went to
Europe, where there was no
war, instead Of to the Far
East, where a hot war was in
progress, it would be useful
and would open the eyes of
the American people to the
methods and manner of con-
Quoting a modern war-not by
military men who know how
to fight it but by diplomats in
foreign offices abroad. In one
instance on the American
desk" in the British Foreign
Office during the Korean war
was a diplomat who later fled
behind the Iron Curtain after
having presumably told Mos
cow how easy it is to sabotage
the Korean war effort through
diplomatic channels.
Much has to come to light,
and only by a congressional
inquiry can it be done. The
Republicans would be making
a mistake to be talked out of
it by cries that the revelations
would laid the enemy" The
Russians know the plumbers
already - only the American
people are in the dark about
them.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-10
Dorothy Thompson:
Iowa States Educational V
College at Ames Also Has Countys Largest Department
Of Home Economics, and 1t Is One Of the Best

Radio and TV have many
positions for home economics
graduates, as demonstrators
of cookery and household
equipment. They become buy
ers for department stores,
home service operators for gas
and electric companies. The
extension services of the Agri-
culture Department are eager
to employ them. They become
food managers of restaurants.
hospitals and other institu-
lions, and, of course. teachers
in nursery schools and teach
ers of home economics. And
men consider them to be SUI
premely manageable.
Iowa State is devoted
entirely to pure and APP
piled science. What struck
me at Ames-and not for the
first time-is how far in adj
vance are our educational
institutions devoted to science.
and particularly to applied
science, compared to those
teaching the humanities and
philosophy. "Know-how" is
certainly outpacing know
why" That may be the root
trouble with our times. The
liberal arts colleges are failing
to give a liberal education in
the real meaning of those
words. and have become a
catch-all for students who do
not know what they want to
do or why they should do it.
They Increasingly teach
their students foreign Ian
guages. But. l learned at Iowa
State in the Atomic Energy
Institute. any young scientist
who wants to get ahead must
know at least two foreign
languages. Its library is full
of publications in all the Eu-
ropean languages. The eager
young scientist must keep pace
with what is being done in the
rest of the world.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-10

The sad state of the Senate
calendar was discussed. The
hard fact is that major legis-
lation is taking shape slowly
and even matters of relatively
less moment are in difficulty.
Senator Taft said he hoped
to get Hawaiian statehood up
and approved by April l. The
schedule just ahead also in
cludes the bill giving the
States a quitclaim to ofshore
oil. The leadership headache
on this double parcel centers
in the South.
Southerners have never
wanted to give statehood to
Hawaii and Alaska on the the
DRY that they would add four
new Senators to the civil
rights faction. They have in
formally given command of
their Hawaiian debate team
to Senator Stennis of Missis-
sippi but are not telling just
how much of the old f1libuster
try they plan.
Cloakroom report has it
that if the Republican leader
ship puts the offshore oil bill
first and succeeds in passing
a version acceptable to the
States Fighters. the South
erners might prove more
amenable on Hawaii. There
are two flaws in this neat pat
tern.
One is that Attorney Cen
eral Brownell has admitted to
finding constitutional ques-
tons in a quitclaim bill. The
other is that Northern liberals
plan to consume a great deal
of time on this issue.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-10
MoIenkov Belongs to War Party
New Dictator Fears PostPonng Showdown With
Will Give Free World Time to Form Opposition

fectively on the European
front as well.
America, say those who
claim to know something about
the thinking of the Red
"actionists," could not afford
to abandon the Far East. that
is to say not only Korea, but
also Japan and the Philip
pines, in order to rush to the
rescue of Europe. The Red
troops could reach the Chan
mel long before America was
able to call a total mobiliza-
ton.
The question of whether a
shooting-war policy will be
adopted by the new master of
the U. S. s. r. depends largely
on the decisions of the army
leaders. During Stains life
time these were instruments of
the Red dictator's policies. Not
so Malenkov, who among other
drawbacks, does not possess
Stains glory of having saved
Russia from a military dis
aSter in the last war.
The present situation in the
U. S. S. r. cannot be compared
with that which followed Len
ms death. Then the secret
police were all powerful. To-
day, Russia is an armed camp
with more than 5 million men
IN combat formations within
its confines. This force is led
by professional officers who are
no longer controlled by politi-
cal commissarS. The prepara-
tions for the last war and the
needs for actual military lead
ership during the war has
created in the U. S. S. r.
military caste which did not
exist when Stain assembled the
throne. His death will place
the Red armies under their Of
ficers' control more than at
any other time.
Unlike Stain. Malenkov
needs the generals and will
follow their wishes in foreign
affairs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-10

in America are closer to earth,
to life and reality, and some of
them already have attracted
Nationwide attention. includ-
ing an article in Readers
Digest.
Iowa State also has the
largest home economics de-
partment in the country, and
one of the best. When I went
to college, the home economics
girls were considered by us, IN
liberal or fine arts, as among
the dumber biddieS. Today,
Iowa States home economics
graduates-and those of other
f1rst-rate colleges of the kind
ARE giving their sisters a run
for the more lucrative careers.
Home economics graduates
are, for instance, snapped up
by industries and department
and speciality stores manufac-
turing and retailing anything
and everything sold to house
holds: Furniture, textiles.
kitchen and heating equip
ment, and children's toys. They
become designers, demonstra-
tors and research workers for
such business houses.
A wide range of journalism
is open to those who specialize
in this field of home econom-
les. They become food editors
of newspapers, and, as I travel
through the country, I am
amazed to see how much space
in newspapers is devoted to
recipes and menus. They be-
come :esearch workers and
writer's for women's magazines
at splendid salaries.
An Iowa State graduate was
one of the two young women
who designed and supervised
the installation of a Ladies
Home Journal" kitchen in my
Vermont home last summer.
Not only was she a superb
designer, but she could teach
most plumbers and electri-
clans a thing or two. 1t was
a pleasure to meet her mother
in AmeS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-10
Time for Full Korean Probe
nePt Civilians Have Been the Strotegsts' in Running
The Wor1 and Military Men Have Been Sidetroc<ed
David Lowrence:

Investigation of how the
Truman-Acheson administra-
ton conducted the war in Ko-
rea would bring out facts
which, far from aiding the
Communists, could eventually
bring about their defeat.
Objections heard that for
Congress to carry on such an
inquiry would mean civilians
interfering with military STRAIT
egg really constitute the very
reason for making the study.
This is because civilians have
already interfered with mill
tary operations to such an ex-
tent that America today has
no truly effective system for
the functioning Of a top mill
tary command, and if large
scale war should break out,
great danger Of a military dis
aster Of tragic proportions
would arise. The existing
system is inferior to that
which prevailed in World War
II. The Joint Chiefs of Staff
IS at present a clumsy setup
with the status of an advisory
committeeman even directly
a part of the National Security
Council.
Naturally there are those in
Congress who want to protect
the Truman-Acheson admin
iStration from blame, because
the truth. when fully exposed,
will be politically injurious-as
inevitably it must be when
incompetence is revealed. But
in the interest of obtaining for
America an effective top COM
mand, it becomes necessary to
bring out not the details of
military operations at all but
the details of how military op-
erations have actually been
hampered by civilian interfer-
ence from the State Depart
ment, which, in turn, reflects
civilian interference from al
lied governments. Gems. Mac
Arthur, Almond, Van Fleet and
O'Donnell can testify on these
points.
There wouldn't be the
slightest difficulty, on the
other hand, if the top military
men in Great Britain sat down
together with the top military
men in the United States to
conduct a war like that going
on in Korea. Military men un-
derStand each other. They know
what certain weapons can do,
and they know that the pur-
pose of a military operation is
to win and to. end the casual
ties. In the Korean war, now
ever. the British Labor Party.
which was in power when the
Korean war broke out, has
played an influential part in
hampering the Churchill gov
eminent. Military men in the
Far East. in effect, must first
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-10

This group is not a large
band; it was able to muster
only 18 votes against the con-
firmation of an avowed enemy
of public housing, former Rep
resentative Cole of Kansas, for
housing administrator. Mr..
Cole has a clear voting record
Of opposition to major aims of
the program he now will run.
Mr.. Coles peculiar genius,
of course, lies in the fact that
he managed to get defeated by
a Democrat in one-party Re-
publican Kansas, the year a
Kansas native son, Gen. Eisen-
hover, was elected President.
The Cole successor, Represent
alive Howard Miller, is the only
Democrat in the Kansas con-
gressional delegation and State
administration.
The liberals are, however,
taking the trouble to debate
each issue, putting facts and
arguments into the record. AS
the majority Senators are I'M
easily aware. all this could con-
ceivably be potent ammunition
in the off-year election in 1854
when the glamorous figure of
President Eisenhower will not
be on the ticket.
Republicans are already be-
ginning to talk. not about what
they will accomplish this year,
but what will be accomplished
by the 83d Congress which has
two years to go. This repre-
sents chiefly their glum fore
boding that budget balancing
and tax cuts are not in sight
this year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-10

get the permission of civilian
legislators in Londoa before
they can take logical military
steps. Plans as to the scope of
future military steps have
frequently been revealed in
House of Commons debates.
The hearings by the Senate
Armed Services Committee
when Gen. Macarthur was re-
called as result of consid-
cradle pressure against his
policies by the British Labor
government did not bring out
all the facts. Some significant
messages from the Joint Chiefs
in Washington to Gen. Mac
Arthur were first inadequately
presented at the hearings and
finally were introduced with a
second paraphrased version
that didn't resemble the first
paraphrased message at all.
Just who in the Pentagon was
interested in covering up the
inefficiency and incompetence
Of the whole setup whereby
confusing orders were trans
mitted to the field commander,
Gen. Macarthur, has ever
been revealed.
II the new inquiry does
nothing more than show the
slipShod methods that have
been characteristic of the re-
lations between the so-called
top command in Washington
and a field commander, it
would be the most constructive
step from a military point of
view that could be taken. It
will be recalled that the testi-
mony showed that meetings
of the Joint Chiefs are appar-
emily not run in any business
like fashion. Gen. Bradley,
chairman, told the Senate
committee, for example, he
couldn't even remember who
at the White House instructed
him to call a meeting of the
Joint Chiefs to discuss recon-
mendations in the Macarthur
case. Yet the meeting was
called for the very day after
Representative Martin, Re-
publican, then minority leader,
received from Gen. Macarthur
a letter which was never in
tended to be made public at
all, but which made a natural
comment on the use of Ma
tionalist troops in Korea.
What commander doesn't want
all the troops he can get to
help him fight a war?
The new inquiry could find
out also who was responsible
for the instructions in the
autumn of 1850 to Gen. Mac
Arthur countermanding in
three hours his own orders to
bomb the bridges across the
Yalu River, over which tens of
thousands Of Chinese Com
munist troops were coming in
order to kill and main Ameri-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-10

picion he may entertain con-
corning the loyalty or trust
worthineSs of any fellow en-
ploye. Operation Snitch," this
is called-in whispers-by some
Government workers, who
thought they already had seen
about all that could be con-
templated of that character
during the wide-ranging &C
tivitieS of certain congress
sional committees.
But the level at which con-
fusion has been worse con-
founded is the very top. Ma
jority Leader Taft's announce
ment that he wouldn't mind a
full-scale investigation of the
war in Korea. one that would
lay everything bare to the
enemy. has upset the policy
makers even more than the
troublesome tactics of Senator
Mccarthy. There, in the opin-
ion of some of them at least,
is where chaos would begin.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-10
Doris FIeeson:
Little Real Action on Capitol Hill
Senate Calendar Is in Sad State and Moo Legislation
IS oking Shape Slowly; Republicans PRETTY G!um

President Eisenhower and
his congressional leaders closed
ranks at their legislative con-
ference this week.
Majority Leader Taft said
he didn't really mean to call
for a full-scale investigation
of the Korean war. He said he
was willing to make a fresh
start on an anti-enslavement
resolution to replace the Dulles
version that fell victim to
intense Republican emotion
about Yalta and Potsdam.
The President said that
Secretary Dulles still felt
something could be accom-
plished by a resolution which
could get bipartisan support.
1t was agreed to leave the in
itiative with the Secretary.
Most Senators would prefer to
let this project stay dead, but
Mr.. Taft of course has it with
in his power to help restore it.
The President acknowledged
that his Secretary of Labor's
Labor Management Advisory
Committee was a dead duck.
Called together for the pur-
pose of seeking prior agree
meut on Taft-Hartley Act
changes, the committee split
on procedural matters and
went home mad.
In a polite nod to Senator
Taft. it was then decided to
let the Senate and House hold
hearings on these changes.
This amounts to tacit approval
of the Ohio Senator as the ad-
ministration arbiter in labor
policy.
Evening star., 1953-01-04

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$3.50. WTOP-Welcome to WASH
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