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Evening star., 1954-10-24
not to produce on their soil at
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not to produce on their soil at
all:
The A-B-C weapons or any of
their components including nu-
clear fuel and harmful insects
or other living or dead organ
isrnS."
Long-range missiles, guided
missiles, influence mines (such
as magnetic). warships of more
than 5000 tons displacement,
submarines of more than $50
tons displacement. warships
driven by atomic power, bomber
aircraft. This list can be changed
if two-thirds of the members of
the union agree.
Controls Over Armaments.
The ornaments agency will
have powers to inspect and con-
troll stock levels. production and
import Of these types of arms:
Ammunition and guns, how
itzers and mortars exceeding 90
nm. caliber, including a main
component of these weapons
the elevating mass which is the
thing that raises the barrel and
aims these weapons.
All self : propelled missiles
weighing more than Is Kilograms
(about 80 pounds.
All mines, excepting anti-tank
and anti-personnel mines which
have q defensive use; tanks and
other armored fighting vehicles
of more than 10 tons; warships
of over $500 tons displacement;
submarines; small vessels ca
pable Of a speed of more than
80 knots; aircraft bombs Of more
than 1000 Kilograms (about
1900 pounds.
All military aircraft, except
ing trainers, transport and COM
munications planes, helicopters,
air frames for military planes
and jet engines, turbo-propeller
engines and rocket motors.
These bars do not prevent the
Germans from developing purely
peacetime research in nuclear
physics, or the fields of biology
and chemistry.
The arms agency Is to have a
director-general appointed for
five years. It viii be his job to
build up staff and a plan Of
organization.
French Want More Curbs.
The nervous French have not
yet given up hope that they will
be able to develop this control
pattern to cover the actual pro-
duction and Standardization of
the ornaments of all their
partners.
To that end they have per-
suaded their six partners to set
up working group in Paris
with the assignment beginning
next January II to study further
their detailed proposals for such
program.
The NATO Council agreed to
strengthen the control powers of
American Gen. Alfred M. Gruen-
ther. supreme allied commander,
Europe. He has been given rights
to:
/. Comand all NATo's forces
on the continent, including
Britain's disposition Of four di-
visions and her End tactical air
force which now are in Ger
many. The only exceptions are
those NATO-member forces
needed for international pur-
poses or for assignment over
seas-not Africa in the case of
France or the Belgian Congo in
the case of Belgium.
2. Deploy these forces as he
sees fit in accordance with
NATO'S strategic needs.
8. Veto the use or movement
Of national forces assigned to
him.
a.. Integrate the national
forces of NATO members at
army group level and at tactical
air force level where different
Evening star., 1954-10-24
BY the Associaied Press

PARIS, Oct. 23.-FOurteen al
lied nations signed interlacing
pacts today to lock and control
most of the conquered German
nation within their global de-
fense system against communism
until nearly 1000 A. d.
The government of Chancellor
Konrad Adenauer solemnly and
eternally renounced the use OF
force as an instrument Of policy
in the process. His signed dec
laration was part of an historic
act that climaxed four-year-
long allied haul to line up Ger
man men and guns in defense of
the West.
The United States. Britain and
Canada Joined six West Euro
pean nations, first in London
earlier this month and then in
Paris this week, in building up
a new European defense system.
It has been designed to replace
the European Defense Commu-
nifty which France rejected 81
days ago. The United States and
Canada, while helping to shape
the alliance, will not be members.
Seven countries agreed today to
go into 1.-THE six nations which
would have gone into EDO, plus
Britain. The EDO six are France,
West Germany, Italy, Belgium.
Holland and Luxembourg.
Group to Defend Europe.
On this group the defense of
Europe is to be based.
It represents an enlargement
of the 1948 Brussels alliance that
bound it's five members-Britain.
France. Belgium, Holland and
Luxembourg - automatically to
fight if any of them in the
next A years became the inno-
cent victim of German aggres-
sion. The a1liance-renamed the
Western European Union"-has
been modified to admit West
Germany and Italy. another war;
time enemy, and to resist aggres-
sion no matter where it comes
from.
The seven nations of the group
also will form the hard European
core of the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization into which the Ger
man federal republic has been
invited to join as it's 18th mem
ber.
Tight Pattern Of Control.
A tight, complex pattern of
control against runaway German
rearmament ran through the
four main agreements and a va
riety of supplementary accords
that were signed. The agree
ments aim at:
/. Ending the American Brit
ish-French occupation Of West
Germany that began with the
total surrender of the Third
Reich in May. 1945.
2. Expanding the Brussels alli-
ance to admit West Germany and
Italy under carefully spelled out
safeguards which are intended
to allay the fears Of millions OF
Europeans who suffered during
the war Hitler started in 1889.
8. Admitting West Germany
into NATO as a full and equal
partner so that her tremendous
resources of energy, production
and men can be hitched to the
allied defense effort.
4. Settling the future Of the
important uSaarland basin whose
coal and steel territory are COW
etously eyed by both the French
and the Germans.
All these agreements have still
to be ratified by the national
parliaments concerned.
Curbs Direct and Indirect.
The curbs on the Germans are
both direct and indirect.
They range from the indefinite
presence of American. British
and French troops on German
soil to precise definitions, written
by soldiers and scientists, OF the
sort of forces she can raise and
the machines she can make fol-
years to come.
The controls are to be shared
between new agencies to be
set up under the Western Euro.
Evening star., 1954-04-18

era. "A century from now,
men may think it strange that
we so long spoke of our times
as the age of anxiety; that we
let the greed of ordinary men
and the poWer-luSt of dicta-
tors and demagogues get out
of bounds for even a brief span
of years; for parallel with the
anxiety and the terror and
the inquisitors and exploiters
and the awful poverty and
ignorance there is another way
of life building firmly, steadily.
swiftly on scientific facts and
technics and on mems newly
discovered humility and dig
nifty and their concern for
each other"
If THE Journey" lacks the
absorbing force of Miss Smiths
novel of a lynching. Strange
Fruit" and her straight-from-
the-shoulder comm en- IS in
killers of the Dream" on
racial injustice and other evils.
there is much that is reward
ing, in a quieter, more con-
templative vein, in the new
book.
&C. B. j.
Evening star., 1954-04-18
Boder's inaugural

The inaugural exhibition in
Franz Bader's new gallery,
1705 G Street NV. will be re-
moved a week earlier than
originally planned. as eight
paintings were sold, and the
number of exhibitions on his
program has increased to the
point where shorter periods
seem advisable. Consequently,
only 4 days (through Thurs
day. remain to see the cur
rent show, which is definitely
worth while. On Friday, the
preview of Helen Rennie's show
will be held.
Some 80 paintings in the
current display range from
distractions to representa-
tional work, with a large pro-
portion of the kind, pleasing
in theme and treatment, COM
petent in technique, that ap-
peals to the average home
owner.
Landscapes, except for the
beautiful one by Margaret
Gates, and Andrea Zerega's
much simplified Campus"
run to scenes where land and
water meet, as in Alice Ache
sons BASS River Mill" John
Gernand's romantic Beach,"
Edward Rosenfeld's The
Cape" Herman Maril's "Har-
Dor Evening" and Mitchell
JamieSon's Moon and Wave"
all covetable paintings.
Statue of Dante" by Mar
Evening star., 1954-04-18

by Sam Fischer, at the Obelisk
Gallery. 3241 P Street, George
town, to remain through next
Sunday.
The artist, a New Yorker,
had more than a years study
in Italy on Fulbright scho-
larship (1951-52). In February
'53 a group of his paintings of
Italy was introduced to Wash
ington by the Obelisk. His cur
rent return engagement COM
prises more paintings Of Italy.
not seen before, and an equal
number Of interpretations Of
New York, as we'll as few
NEUROLOGICAL and miscellane-
Gus subjects.
The majority of his paint
ingS are done in collage and
tempera. Layers of tissue pa
per, in various shapes and sizes,
with over and under painting,
sometimes build up into effec-
tive entities, such as Road to
Naples" and Italian Isles"
both showing picturesque little
old Italian hill towns dWarfed
by the eXpanse of towering
mountains. =
Texture is the objective of
Mr.. Fischer's laborS with lay
ers of paper as a painting SUR
face, for there are subtle
changes with shifts of view
point and illumination. What
he does with paper, scissors
and paints is demonstrably
successful.
Evening star., 1954-04-18

he really never left home. A
common problem in fiction and
IN life.
Summoned back to East
Bank from his job as a couth
young Manhattan publisher,
Tom finds his father and uncle,
two old Tories who had been
glumly sinking to the grave,
suddenly recalled to violent life
when industrial development
menaceS the colonial purity of
East Bank. Tom, worried about
his fathers heart condition,
tries to force the old gentleman
fout OF leading the "Save East
Bank" committee to certain de-
feat. Tom princeton '42) has
always been embarrassed by
his father. princeton, 'O4) but
never more than when old
Albert charges about trying to
arouse an apathetic public
opinion against the building of
an oil refinery.
The ToothIess Lions
Eventually he begins to per-
celve that while his elders do
not share his views on Hem
ingway and social progress,
fhoxy 11ovo a
Evening star., 1954-04-18
Books in Review
Historian Bruce Cotton Writes
Finest Biography of Gen. Grant
u. S. Grant and the American Military Tradition
BY Bruce Cation. little BroDn; $3J
Reviewed by Carter Brooke Jones

largely cleared away; imitation
had been stopped, the national
credit restored. "a solid cur
rency had been not so much
restored as created-for the
nation, had never before really
had a uniform, stable money
system" Relations with Great
Britain had been Strengthened
out and all boundary disputes
settled.
President Grant was blamed
for the disastrous effort of Jay
Gould and Jim Fisk to corner
the country's gold supply. All
he actually did was allow him.
self to be entertained by them
in New York. Grant also fell
for a shady scheme by the
President-dictator of San
Domingo to sell the island to
the United States. And Grant
was naive enough to feel that
most of the freed Negroes of
the South could be settled on
San Domingo. The Credit
Moblier scandal broke over
Grants troubled head, and at
least one member of his cab
met was involved in fraud at
Army camps.
These unhappy events were
remembered, while Grants
honesty, good will and actual
achievements as President
faded. The General entered
the White House wanting more
than anything for the country
to be reunited. But he also in
sisted that the Negro not be
made a victim of the healing
process. He was unable to cope
with the politicians who, under
the pretense of assuring the
Negro'S rights, exploited the
South for themselves and made
the reconstruction years a
nightmare.
The trouble was, as Mr..
Cation says, Grant saw him.
self and the country wanted
to see him, as a purely admin
istrative officer. Therein lay the
tragedy of his eight years in
the White House. The
times called for powerful lead
ership.
The biography is written
with the glow that infuses
everything Mr.. Cation writes.
1t is interesting to learn
that ~. S. Grant and the
American Military Tradition"
is the first book in a new series
to be published by the Library
of American Biography, edited
by Oscar Handlin, professor of
history at Harvard and Pulitzer
prize winner.
Evening star., 1954-04-18

LII all IIle years since APP
pomattox, only one man has
suffered death by musketry"
for the crime of desertion.
He was Pvt. Eddie Slovik of
Detroit, who for a few short
hours was a rif1eman in a line
company Of the 28th Infantry
Division.
A product of the depression,
the Slums and the Army re-
placement system, Pvt. Slo-
vik was tailor made for the
firing squad. He went over the
hill when the heat was on and
surrendered himself just when
the European theater of
operations needed a goat to
stem the growing tide of de-
sertions just after the Battle
OF the Bulge.
So one cold morning in
January, 1945, Pvt. Slovik was
strapped to a post in a court
yard in Eastern France. Then
and there, while his division
commander watched and a
chaplain prayed, Pvt. Slovik
died. just 18 days short of his
25th birthday.
Apart From the Hero Dead
His dishonored remains lie
now in a military cemetery in
France, segregated with 95
murderers and rapists in a
little plot apart from the
hero dead of the Ardennes
and the Vosges.
Pvt. Slovik's is a pitiful
story, and Mr.. HUE tells it
with pity and understanding.
Why was this one man-of all
deserters-shot to death by
musketry? Was his crime of
desertion so grossly aggravated
as to deserve condign punish
ment? Or was it that Pvt.
Slovik's prewar record as a
juvenile deliquent worked
against him when high head
quarters reviewed his case: was
lt-as the condemned said to
his priest moments before he
died - They're. not shooting
me for deserting They're
shooting me for the bread I
stole when I was IL years
old"?
Mr.. HUE went all the way
back to Pvt. Slovik's child
hood to find the answer. AS
the author says, he probably
knows Pvt. Slovik today better
than any one on earth-better
than his mother, better than
his wife, better certainly than
the men who shot him or the
priest who stood by him in the
hour of his death.
Still Mr.. HUE does not know
Evening star., 1954-04-18
Turkish Artist

The quality of the Turkish
Army is we'll known in the
United States, but the char
acter of Turkeys art is not. A
Turkish artist who is. also an
Army officer, Maj. Sukru Err
diren, provides a glimpse Of
contemporary Turkish paint
ing in his one-man show at
the Veerhoff Galleries. 1919
Connecticut avenue. through
next Saturday.
Twelve paintings include
portraits of an American Army
officer. and a little blond girl.
which received first prize in an
art exhibition in Woodbridge.
N. j., last January. There are
several flower studies. rich in
color, and landscapes, both
American and Turkish.
Maj. Erdiren came to the
United States last September
to study in the Signal Corps
School at Fort Monmouth. un-
der the mutual defense assist
ance program. He has pursued
military and art careers si-
multaneously since his youth
in a military high school at
Tokad, Turkey. He also stud
led painting with noted
Turkish artist. and holds a
certificate as ar art teacher
at the Educational Institute at
Ankara.
These mellow representa-
tional paintings will doubtless
seem to some laymen more
american than a majority
of our own artists expert
mental paintings.
Evening star., 1954-04-18
Mysteries
By Miriam Ottenbero

Journey to Nowhere. BY Nedra
Tyre. (Alfred A. Knopf,
Inc; $2.750
A girl harassed by neurotic
fears starts on a journey OF
recovery. Odd things happen
in New York-like a telegram
from an unknown man and
various attempts on her suit
case-but there's always the
chance it might be Just
imagination or coincidence.
The author skillfully keeps the
reader balanced between i'm
patience at the girls timidity
and an uncomfortable feeling
that she really may have
something 70 fear.
Evening star., 1954-04-18
Kesselring-A Soldiers Record
BY Field Marshal Albert Kesselrng. (Morro,o: s5J
Reviewed by Belmont Fories

resources were inadequate and
the Italians unreliable. Driven
from Tunisia and Sicily, he
fought a skillful delaying ac-
ton up the Italian peninsula
which robbed the Allies of any
easy victory.
American forces were al
ready over the Rhine at Rema-
gen when he replaced Won
Runstedt as commander-in-
chief in the West. There was
not much to be done but to
try to get the best possible
surrender terms.
Most of Kesselring's book is
straightforward military his
tory of the war as he saw it.
More personal is his account
OF his prison experiences. A
British military court con-
demned him to death for re-
priSals in Italy. Many British
military leaders and legal ex-
perts considered the verdict
unjustified by the evidence. AS
a result Of their protests, his
sentence was commuted to life
imprisonment and he was A.
nally pardoned in 1852.
After reading KesSelring's
own account of his activities
and the introduction by Brig.
Gen. s. L. A. Marshall, chief
historian Of the European
Theater, it would be hard to
disagree with Gen. Marshall's
opinion that Kesselring was
an honest and honorable pro-
fessional officer. steadfast In
his duty as he saw it.
Evening star., 1954-04-18
YWCA Exhibition

An exhibition of art by the
students Of the YWCA faculty
will be on view next Friday
from 4 to 8. and Saturday
from 10 to 5 on the sixth floor
of the administration build
ing. Seventeenth and K streets
NV. Instructors are Laura
Glenn Douglass, Josef Pielage.
George Hamilton, Prentiss
Taylor, eodora Kane.
Esther Blackburn. Rubye
Schevlin and Fremont Davis.
The art exhibit jury is COM
posed of Henry Caldwell, as
sistant director of the Cor
coran Gallery of Art; John
Gernand, curator of the Phil
lips Gallery, and The Stars
art critic.
Evening star., 1954-04-18
Brooks Novel Is Delicate
Exercise in Nostalgia
A Pride Of Lions
BY John Brooks. (Harper & Brothers; $780,
A Pride of Lions
Reviewed by Mary McGrory

John Brooks first novel,
"The Big Wheel" a lean, clean
satire on stuffy magazine pub
fishers, didn't read like a first
novel at all. Strangely enough,
his second one does. That is to
say, it has the photographed
hints, and the little details
that seem more important to
the writer than to the reader
that usually go into the debut
book. "A Pride of Lions" is ad-
mirably written and on a valid
theme, but it hasn't the
sparkle and bite of THE Big
Wheel"
With a Marquandian care
for domestic atmosphere and
community structure, Mr..
Brooks shows the return of a
bright young man who finds
Evening star., 1954-04-18


''He probably knows Pvt.
SlOvik today better than any
one on earth."
the answer. He suspects Pvt.
Slovik was partly right and
partly wrong. The court-mar-
ltial that sentenced him to
death knew nothing of Pvt.
Slovik's civilian past. But the
court almost certainly did not
expect its death sentence to
be carried out. Still, the men
who reviewed his case did
know about Eddie Slovlk, cl-
villain, and parts of the subse-
quent record indicate that at
least some of them thought
Pvt. Slovik a sufficiently un-
worthy vessel to be shattered
for the cauSe-and small loss
to any one.
But did the shattering of
this vessel serve the cause?
Again, Mr.. Huie does not
know. It is unlikely, he says,
that any one ever will be ex-
ecuted for desertion in the fu-
ture of a free America-but
this is due to a change in law,
and has nothing to do with
the death of Pvt. Slovik.
And will the new, more lem
lent law cause soldiers in fu-
ture wars to desert rather than
fight? Mr.. HUE does not
know the answer to this.
either. In fact, Mr.. HUE does
not know many answers. But
in this compelling tale of lit
tie man caught in the web of
conditions, he poses many pro-
voking questions.
Evening star., 1954-04-18

1t may be said with fair GER
tainty that this is the best
short biography of Gen. Grant
ever written.
Within 200 pages Mr.. Cation
has at least outlined the i'm
portant phases of Grants
career. He has summed up,
sympathetically and yet with
the effectiveness of a good
historian, the traits that made
Grant a great soldier and yet a
President rated mediocre.
AS Mr.. Cation points out in
a postscript, Although few
Americans have been written
about more than Ulysses S.
Grant, a really comprehensive
biography of the man does
not exist" The student who
seeks exhaustive material
must go to many books. But
his best place to begin is with
the general himself. Grants
Personal Memoirs" is one of
Americas fine autobiogra-
phies. Lloyd Lewis set out to
write a ''definitive" biography,
but he was able to complete
only the first volume. Captain
Sam Grant," before death in
terrupted.
Mr.. Cations book should
fill distinct need. Not every
one who wants to be informed
about American history has
time or energy to wade
through vast essays in detail
and Recommendation. And ac-
tually the main trends are apt
to be blurred with accumula-
ton. The author is fair. He
feels that sympathy for his
subject without which no
biographer can understand
q persons pOlnC or view,
and yet Mr.. Cation is critical
enough to see failures and
shortcomings.
The author. a Washingto-
nian. approached his task fresh
from the research which pro-
duced his three remarkable
books on the Army of the
Potomac, the last of which,
"A Stiffness at Appomattox,"
won the National Book Award
for nonf1ction, in January.
In assaying Gen. Grants two
terms as President, Mr.. Cat
ton sets down what is apt to
be forgotten, that "he accom-
plished a good deal, and after
ward he looked back on his
record with a pride that was
not altogether unjustif1ed."
BY the time he left Office. Mr..
Cation explains. the economic
wreckage of the war had been
Evening star., 1954-04-18

coin" Mr.. Stern describes the
events leading up to and fol-
lowing the assassination and
summarizes some of the testi-
mony. Mr.. Pitman, a skilled
court reporter, was a brother of
Sir Isaac Pitman, who devised
a shorthand system still in use.
Benn Pitman emigrated from
England in 1853 and served in
the Union army during the
early years of the Civil War.
The publishers and Mr.. Stern
deserve the gratitude of all
with any interest in American
history for reviving this record
and making it readily available.
&C. B. j.
Evening star., 1954-04-18

rightneSs for radio, took a
chance on him. and he
bounced back. 1t wasn't until
he joined a group of alcoholics,
who helped him to feel less like
an outcast. set for him a daily
goal Of not drinking and i'm
posed upon him social respon-
sibility. that he stopped those
heroic binges.
This is Norman Broken
shire" is no literary event. It's
a fascinating book, though,
both as history of radio and
Of self-conquest. Every one
has some kind of a battle with
himself. Mr.. Brokenshire's was
tougher and more bruising
than most and makes salutary
reading. M. Meg.
Evening star., 1954-04-18

course of which she explores,
in the light of her experiences,
her philosophy of life and
death. Fragment of the
thoughts and deeds of many
persons she has known come
into her long essay.
Miss Smith chooses in the
end to take an optimistic view
Of our violent, fear-ridden