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Evening star., 1953-02-27

done. Soviet Russian agents
are financing the demonstra-
tionS which are certainly a
suitable subject for legislative
inquiry.
Then there are the college
professors, 80 per cent of whom
are as bitter in their denuncia-
ton of Communism as the
anti Communists In any other
field. But the truth about the
one per cent or less who were
mixed up with the Communists
ought to come out. if only as a
warning to others lest they in
nocently join the various Com
munist-front organizations. It
isn't primarily a question of
teaching or of academic free
dom, but a question of honesty
and dishonesty in admitting or
concealing conspiratorial con-
nectionS.
The common outcry OF the
"left-wingers" is that the Nc
Carthy inquiries constitute q
guilt by association" doctrine.
But on that subject Associate
Justice Robert H. Jackson, in
a concurring opinion of the
Supreme Court of the United
States in May, 1850. said:
"'Guilt by association is an
epithet frequently used and
little explained except that it
is generally accompanied by
another slogan, guilt is per-
sonal.' OF course it is, but
personal guilt may be incurred
by joining a conspiracy. That
act of association makes one
responsible for acts of others
committed in pursuance Of
the association"
The congressional inveStiga-
tionS have uncovered conSpir-
acleS that the courts and the
Department of Justice were
unable to detect-notably the
Teapot Dome scandals in
the '20s and the Alger
Hiss conspiracy at high
level in the Department of
State in recent years. Small
wonder that Congress has
voted again this week. as it
has a score of times in the
past, to give adequate funds
to investigate communistic
activities inside and outside
the Government.
Reproduction Rishts Reserved.)
Evening star., 1953-02-27
Allies Can't Watch and Wait
Russians Move Only When They Meet No Resistance
Since AS, They Have Backed Up When Challenged

attention today to a few hum
dred million dollars worth Of
trade with the countries be-
hind the Iron Curtain than to
stopping the Politburo in its
tracks. Britain, for instance.
is more interested in the re-
munerative trade between
Hong Kong and Red China
than in preventing the slow
digestion by the Communists
of the 500 million people who
live in that enormous area.
They dislike the idea of a
complete rehabilitation Of
Japan and still insist on re-
stricting her to only domestic
markets. The London govern
ment frowns whenever it hears
suggestions of how important
that empire could be as a part
of the rampant against Red
penetration in Asia.
All our Western allies, with
out exception. are scandal
lied, worried and irked when
ever they hear rumblings from
Washington that this country
may be compelled to throw of
the shackles which forced US
to international complacency
in the last few years and meet
the Soviet menace in the same
manner we met the German
attempts at world rule in the
last two wars.
Evening star., 1953-02-27
Thomas L. Stokes:
Thomas L. Stokes:
Thorns in EisenhoWer's Side
Old Timers Like Reed, Hold Key to Power on the HiI
Congress Nay Need Proddinq From White House

Such clouds as have ap-
peared thus far on the Eisen-
hover administration horizon
are chiefly the creations of his
party in Congress, which ran
behind him in the Nationwide
total Of votes.
His was a personal victory
rather than a party victory, as
has been pointed out here be-
fore. But, as also was pointed
out. it is the party that must
manage his program in Con-
gress and get it enacted. That
is the rub, as it has been for
other Presidents before-only
so recently as Harry Truman.
This is a potential source of
trouble especially in the House
of Representatives. For, in
looking over the party man
ayers there, we find some in
key places, old-timers, whose
reelection victories also were
in the nature Of personal
triumphs for them. They have
become veritable landmarks in
their districts. Their success
last November owed nothing to
the head Of the ticket in some
notable cases. And it Is also
because Of their election year
after year that they have
moved to places of power in
Congress through operation of
the seniority rule. There their
attitudes become important
for the man in the White
House.
This helps to explain, for
example, q veteran Of the
House who already has be-
come a sort Of one-man re-
bellion against Eisenhower
administration policy in two
important particulars. Refer
Evening star., 1953-02-27

must assume positions the
Democrats will support. In a
contest now, Senator Taft
would lose.
The Senator is described by
close associates as determined
to hold to q middle way. which
will keep Republicans from
public quarrels with their pop
ular President. and enable
them to consolidate their
gains. To put it plainly, he
thinks Republican principles
ought to prevail, and he. is
willing to make temporary
concessions to a popular Pres
ident to insure that they do.
Because the President is a
domestic conservative, it is
easier for Senator Taft to hold
his fire. Nothing is going to
happen in domestic legislation
that he can't swallow. he feels
sure.
If his friends are correct,
Senator Taft is more likely
to break with the extreme Re-
publican right than with the
White House.
One warning must be stated.
Some of the Senator's friends
needle him constantly to fight
his victorious rival, Mr.. Ell
senhower, and he himself is
temperamentally impatient and
sensitive.
The President may exercise
the utmost tact because Mr..
Taft can be so useful, but the
stupidity Of others around
Gen. Eisenhower might light
the fuse Of the uncertain Taft
temper. Once it Is lighted. the
war will be on.
tReleased BY the Bell Syndicate, Inc,
Evening star., 1953-02-27

corning Iran, the Muscovites
were told in no uncertain terms
by Washington that unless they
withdrew their forces, which
had reached the gates of
Teheran, we would be COM
PEELED to act. The Reds with
drew. Later the United Ma
tionS was given credit for that
victory.
Thus since the end of the
war. the Russians have given
UP every time they met with a
strong stand and diverted
their attention to other lands
they found easier to conquer.
These incidents demonstrate
that whenever the U. S. S. r.
felt that it might rush into
a head-on collision with the
West. particularly with the
United States, it gave way.
But when it found only soft
ness and encountered no more
than a weak vocal resistance it
carried out its imperialist aims
as speedily as possible. It is
in this manner that the Krem-
lin has succeeded in enslaving
no less than 600 million people
since the end of the war.
These are clear facts which
the administration hopes will
be carefully considered by our
allies who seem to pay more
Evening star., 1953-02-27

ence is to bluff Representative
Daniel A. Reed Of upstate New
York, who has been in the
House for "a years come
March 4, is beginning his 18th
successive term and, through
the process Of seniority, has
become chairman Of the very
powerful Ways and Means
Committee.
President Eisenhower could
do nothing about Mr.. Reeds
key position but accept it.
The story Of Big Dan Reeds
tax rebellion has been told in
detail-how he carried his
committee with him to ap-
prove a 10 per cent tax reduc-
ton bill, and how this conflicts
with President Eisenhower's
dictum that tax reduction must
await an approach to a bal
anced budget. The bill now is
in allegiance. temporarily locked
away in the House Rules Com
mittee. But Mr.. Reed does
not intend to wait too long.
Meanwhile he has stirred
up another rebellion against
the administration. This is
the policy Of delay in expan-
sion Of the social security Sys-
tenn which he got his commit
tee to accept by providing for
an exhaustive survey of the
whole social security Setup,
which would prevent action at
this session Of Congress.
This could do political dam
age to the Eisenhower admin
iStration in the long run,
whereas tax reduction, Of
course. would be politically
helpful. The voters would love
q tax cut. That embarrasses
the Eisenhower administration
Evening star., 1953-02-27

than real, that it represented
an opportunity rather than a
conclusion. He already is look
ing toward 1854 and 1856.
He hopes that in those years
the party can make such a
showing that it will be clearly
the choice Of the American
people. He sees 1854 especially
as the chance to show that Re-
publicanS are not Eisenhower
coattail riders, because. of
course, in that off-year contest,
the President will not be rum
ming. ..
It so happens that conditions
favor the Taft ambition to in
crease the G. o. P. margin of
control in the Senate. Demo-
Gratis are admitting that while
they might rule the House in
1855, their chance of adding to
their Senate representation is
slim. Republicans up in 1854
r are from safe States, most
Democrats from doubtful ones.
The vast power of the White
House tends to shield the
President and his advisers
from political realities. AS Ma
jority leader, Senator Taft
faces certain facts daily.
He rules a two-vote ma
jority. In his flock are many
die-hard conservative nation
alists. For support of posi-
tions the President has taken,
and must take If he is not to
break entirely with his past,
Gen. Eisenhower must deal
with the Democrats.
Senator Taft perceives, his
friends insist, that If he forces
the issue now, especially on
foreign policy, the President
Evening star., 1953-02-27
Mccarthy HeckIer Fined
81 al Trial Costing $3.50
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

CHICAGO, Feb. q. - Dale
Pontius. political science pro-
fessor. was convicted yesterday
OF disorderly conduct Stemming
from his heckling Senator Nc
Carthy. Republican, of Wiscon-
sin during a televised campaign
speech.
The minimum sentence, a 81
fine. was set by q Municipal
Court jury. The jury could have
fined Mr.. Pontius up to 5000.
The charge was placed against
MI. Pontius At, last October q
after he was arrested for inter-
rupting Senator McCarthy's Ma
tion-wide television broadcast in
behalf Of President Eisenhower.
Mr.. Pontius, a professor at
Roosevelt College, paid the fine
and said he would not appeal.
Judge Cecil Corbett Smith esti-
mated the two-day trial cost the
city $3.50.
Evening star., 1953-02-27
British Help Held Vital
In Blockade Of Red China
By the A..oclased Pres.

TAIPEH, Formosa, Feb. 27.-
Nationalist China's Foreign Min
lister, George Yeh, said today he
doesn't see how either the United
States or the United Nations
could blockade Red China with
out the help of Great Britain.
Mr.. Yeh, clearly critical of
Britain's recognition of the Chi
nese Red regime, said the Ma
tionalists could not now enforce
such a blockade. He doesn't
know, 'he said, whether the
United States would take inde-
pendent action.
"I have no reason to believe, f"
Mr.. Yeh said in an interview,
that the British will change
their policy toward Red China
IN the immediate future.
They never rectify their mis-
takes very quickly"
Evening star., 1953-02-27
Constantine Brown:

The administrations for
eign policies in the next few
weeks will be aimed at con-
vincing our Western allies
that they will go down to
disaster if they are content
to do nothing but merely wait
paSSively and watch the ac-
tivities Of the enemies in the
Kremlin.
This is the consensus Of
those members of Congress
who follow closely the policies
of the administration and
have talked at length with
President Eisenhower and Sec
retary of State Dulles.
Our foreign policy trainers
realize that they have q steep
road ahead Of them. They
also realize that hand-to-
mouth policies. following gen.
orally the line Of least resist
ance, mean playing into the
hands Of the Kremlin. Dur
ing his recent trip to some
of the NATO countries, Mr..
Dulles attempted to make
clear that such a policy no
longer suits the American peo-
pie and the Government they
have just placed in Office.
The Secretary of State has
not been able to report much
encouragement from his OPP
posite numbers, particularly in
Paris and London. President
Eisenhower hopes that after
Britain'S Foreign Minister
Anthony Eden and Frances
Premier Rene Mayer visit
Washington next month they
will return to their homelands
with different views than they
now hold.
Eden and Mayer may be able
to convince their rambunctious
parliamentS on whom depends
their cabinets political lives
that they must make an early
choice between continuing the
present extremely remunerative
cooperation with the United
States by more action or de-
pend in the future on only
their own resources.
What most Of our allies have
overlooked-and we ourselves
have fallen in that error in the
past-is that since 1945 the
Muscovites have pulled in their
horns whenever they encoun-
tered firm resistance from the
West. For instance. Greece had
been slated to fall behind the
Iron Curtain. The quick de-
termination of America to lend
all possible assistance to that
helpless country saved her from
the clutches of the Kremlin's
imperialism. A similar Situa-
ton occurred in 1948 in regard
to Berlin.
These are situations which
have been officially recorded.
Two other incidents have not
been put on record officially.
One concerned Turkey, the
other Iran.
The Russians sent a thinly
veiled ultimatum to Ankara de-
manding that the Turkish gov
ernment send representatives
to Moscow to settle" the con-
troversy over the Dardanelles,
which the U. s.: S. r. wanted
to control. The Turks refused
and decided to fight a losing
war. A strongly worded note
from Washington to Moscow
told Stain that America would
be compelled to intervene If he
used force. The Turks have
never again been urged by the
Kremlin to settle the Darda-
nelles question.
In the second incident, con-
Evening star., 1953-02-27

order given by Gen. Macarthur
to lombard the bridges at the
Yalu River over which the
Chinese Communists were
pouring into Korea was coun-
termanded within three hours
from Washington. Also. how
did it happen that the Chinese
Communist commander was so
confident of his opportunity to
put an army across the Yalu
that he knew the bridges
wouldn't be destroyed by the
U. N. air force?
The President is represented
as unfamiliar with Senator
McCarthy's aims in his pres
ent inquiry. The purpose, of
course, is not to cast asper-
sions on the new regime in the
State Department, but to get
at the record Of the past which
has been suppressed by one
pretext or another. This in
wolves a chain of circum-
stances that not only ham
pered the fighting in Korea
but previously caused such a
serious delay in the furnishing
of military aid to Chang Kai-
Shek as to lead to his defeat
by the Communists.
The cleft wing" is trying
desperately to stop all legis-
lative inquiries here into COM
muniStic activities. But the
overwhelming vote of 315 to 2
in the House of Representa-
tives. when the House Com
mittee on Un-American Ac-
tivities was granted 100000 to
continue its Investigations, is a
sign that the American people
have not been swayed in the
least by the cries Of "hysteria"
which have come from the cleft
wing"
The story of Klaus Fuchs,
who stole the secrets of the
atom bomb and gave them to
Russia, is well known now, but
the story of the propaganda
campaign in behalf of the
RoSenbergs. who helped Fuchs
an organized movement of
Communist sympathizers-evi-
IDENTIFY doesn't interest the
"left wing" It is well known
that the Rosenbergs can have
their sentences commuted If
they tell what they know, as
many another prisoner has
Evening star., 1953-02-27
Doris FIeeson:
Doris Eeeson:
Why Taft Goes Along Quietly
Friends Say He WithhoIds Fire on White House
In Order to Build Up G. O. P. for '54 and SO

The major political phenom-
enon on Capitol Hill is the
quiet, cooperative behavior of
Senator Taft. It had been un-
expected. Even when he chose
to take the majority leadership
with its implicit commitment
to party regularity, Senator
Taft made certain gestures in
dicating he proposed to sway
policy in a direction away from
the White House.
Instead, he is proving a team
player to the extent of acting
as a restraining influence upon
his own most emotional ad-
mirers.
What does he have in mind?
His friends think they know
the answer. Before giving it,
they prefer to open two escape
matches:
l. The Senator from Ohio is
more complex and contradic-
tory than most people realize,
2. He is entirely capable of
making his friendly interpre-
tiers look foolish by an i'm
pulsive act like his instant
condemnation of the appoint
ment of Martin Durkin as
Secretary of Labor.
They still insist that Senator
Taft is utterly devoted to
establishing his party in power
with a sufficiently long tenure
to insure a permanent change
OF direction in the course Of
Government. To that change,
they say, Mister Republican is
unSelf1shly dedicated.
This is their story:
Senator Taft realizes that,
from the point of view Of the
Republican Party, its Novem-
ber victory was more apparent
Evening star., 1953-09-17
Stevenson sProposa|
Backed by Flanders
BY the Associated Press

Republican Senator Flanders
of Vermont last night supported
Adlai Stevenson's proposal for
a disarmament pact with Soviet
Russia as the cheapest" method
of insuring this country'S safety.
Mr.. Stevenson suggested at a
party rally in Chicago Tuesday
night that the United States
should press Russia anew for in
ternational disarmament.
Without mentioning Mr.. Ste
venson by name. Senator Fland-
ers said the United States should
try to induce the Soviet govern
ment to "sit down and discuss
total guaranteed disarmament"
Senator Flanders made the
statement on an ABC radio pro-
gram in which he declared:
The Russian people are wide
open because they too must be
raising the question in their own
minds why they should be spend
ing billions on defense and en-
during slavery and penury when
the United States is willing to sit
down and talk about disarma-
ment.
I'VE can get through to the
Russian people. through the
(radio) jamming, and we ought
to keep that message going day
and night.
I'VE can get the Russian peo-
pie so stirred up that the govern
ment will have to spend its en-
ergy at home. rather than at
tacking us. The Soviet army
wouldn't dare to move"
Evening star., 1953-09-17
A.B.Sp|itsSubsidy
From AirmaiI Costs:
To Pay Separately
BY The Assesiatsd Press

The Civil Aeronautics Board
has severed air mail subsidy pay
ments from airline mail-hauling
costs and will start paying the
subsidies out Of its own pocket
October /.
The actual cost-of service
rates, rs fixed by the board,
range from As cents a ton mile
Zone ton carried one mile) for
the most efficient airlines, to
$7.26 a ton mile for helicopter
service in three large cities.
These are the service mail pay"
rates the Post Office Department
will pay.
The rates are generally higher
for the smaller airlines than for
the larger firms because of
shorter hauls, smaller business
volume and other cost factors.
The boards action was in line
Evening star., 1953-09-17
BY the Asseeiated Press

NEW YORK, Sept. Pretty
blond Lila Cloud, thanks to a
fake Czech army armored car,
today made good on a vow-to
find some means for coming to
America to join her husband.
The 31-year-old Mrs. Cloud,
one Of seven persons who fed
Red-ruled Czechoslovakia last
July in a homemade armored
car, arrived here by plane en-
route to Sioux City, Iowa.
I'm very happy" she said.
She added she had spent four
years hoping and waiting for a
chance to be reunited with her
husband, Leonard Cloud, a sales
man, whom she met when he was
in the American Army in Czecho-
Slovakia.
She hasn't seen him since he
was returned to the United
States in 1949. The Czech gov
ernment wouldn't let her come
with him.
She told her husband then,
Evening star., 1953-09-17
IcebOx Ordinance
Read al Alexandria

The Alexandria City Council
last night took the first step to-
ward banning discarded iceboXes
and refrigeratorS.
An ordinance making it a mis-
demeanor to abandon such con-
tainers without first removing
snap locks or doors to prevent
them from becoming death traps
for children was read for the
first time.
A public hearing will be held
on the ordinance next Tuesday
when final action is scheduled.
In a survey of the city recently
city officials discovered a. aban-
doned iceboxes and refrigerators
which were termed potential
death traps because there was
no means of opening them from
the inside.
The survey was undertaken
after a series of deaths of chill
dren throughout the country
who had crawled into similar
containers and died of suffoca-
ton.
Evening star., 1953-09-17

with Government reorganization
plan No. 10 recently put into eff
feet by President Eisenhower.
Heretofore mail payments have
been determined by the board
and paid entirely by the Post
Office Department with subsidies
and service payments Jumped to-
gether.
Under that plan, some Con-
greSs members and others COM
planned, it was not clear what
part of the payments represented
the airlineS' actual costs of haul
ing mail, and what part repre-
sented a subsidy to continue air
mail service over Improbable
airline routes. .-
The board has estimated that
actual compensation will total
$50, 3,972,000 for the fiscal year
which ended last June 80, $685.
070,000 for the current fiscal
year, and $50, 100000 for the
1954-55 fiscal year.
Subsidy totals are estimated at
$75, 100000 for the past fiscal
year. $80,655,00 for this year
and $50. .252. 900 for the next fiscal
wear,
Evening star., 1953-09-17
Life in the u. S.
Life in the u. 5.
Acting Chief
Seeks Steady
Governors Job
BY the Assoeiaied Press

SACRAMENTO, Calf, Sept.
17.-Goodwin j. Knight. who has
been acting Governor of Califor-
mia Sc times. likes it so well he
wants to drop the acting"
Mr.. Knight, a two-term Re
publican Lieutenant Governor.
formally announced yesterday
he is a candidate to succeed Re-
publican Gov. Earl Warren, who
recently said he won't seek a
fourth term Gov. Warren's third
expires in January, 1855.
Mr.. Knight, Sc, said he will
seek both the Republican and
Democratic nominations in next
June's primary election. Califor-
mia law permits filing on both
tickets.
Mr.. Knight has piled up his
remarkable Sc times in the Gov
ernor's chair while the widely
travelled Gov. Warren was out
of the State.
Evening star., 1953-09-17
Cleric Says Priests Signed
Red Appeal Under Duress
BY the Associated Press

WARSAW. Poland, Sept. IT,
The Rev. KWladyslaw Widlak
told a military court yesterday
that although many Roman
Catholic priests in Poland signed
the Communist -spon sore d
Stockholm peace appeal they
did so against their convictions.
He made his statement after
pleading guilty to a long indict-
ment charging him with espion-
age for the Vatican and the
United States. He is on trial
with Bishop Czeslaw Kaczmarek
of Kielce, two other priests and
a nun.
(The Vatican newspaper
OsServatore Romano today
denounced the trial as a
shameful episode aimed at
bending not only physical per-
sons. but also consciences, to
the will of atheiStic tyranny
Father Widlak said he had
carried on anti Communist
propaganda since 1945 and had
opposed the governments land
reform and state farm program
because no compensation was
paid the original owners.
The nun, Sister Waleria Nj
keWska. took the stand and said
she had handed on information
to United States authorities 18
times.
Evening star., 1953-09-17
Story With q Sting

WORCESTER, Mass. R).-
Three Worcester police cruisers
yesterday surrounded an auto
mobile containing two hooded
men and a mysterious box.
The car stopped. The men
protested. The police per-
sisted
Whats in the box?"
Bees"
"A likely story"
Look and see."
AS the police drew nearer.
the box buzzed ominously and
several angry honey-makers
emerged. The officers with
drew.
Wallace r. Parker of West
Boylston and Harold E. SWasey
of Observation-Disclosures garbed
in the mask of their trade
drove on,