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East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1954-12-30

in all 4S states died December 22nd
at Huron Road Hospital. He was
a skilled furniture finisher and
before World War II was with the
old Marble and Stattuck Co. for
80 years.
A resident of East Cleveland for
25 years, he had made his home
the past year at 24295 Harrington
DIR. He was a former member of
the Woodmen of America.
Mr.. Blonska's wife, Mrs. Mar
garet May Blonska whom he mar
ried in 1909, died in 1920. Sur
viving are son, Francis P.
Blonska; a daughter, Mrs. Alice
Burnstein and two grandchildren.
Funeral services were conducted
Monday from ST. Philomena's
Church with burial in Calvary
Cemetery.
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From Our Deck of Cards

From Our Deck of Cards
Waiting to pass the ball down
the floor in the picture are four
Shaw High Cagers not yet pic
tured in this series. Two are from
the Varsity and two sophomore
JV's.
First on the left, AL Kregenow
of 14207 Scioto ave-, is a Var
sity guard. His older brother
Floyd will be remembered from
Shaw teams of a few years back.
Al, Junior at Shaw, played bas-
ketball at Kirk and with the Shaw
JV's prior to this year. He is
also interested in baseball.
Next is Dave Lawson, Varsity
center. Dave, of 1926 Hayden ave-,
also prepared for his present posi-
tion by way of Kirk and w bas-
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Daniel GrOssma an

Daniel Grossman, resident of
East Cleveland for the last 20
years, died in his home, 13411
Third ave-, Thursday, December
10th. Rabbi Stone of The Temple
conducted the services on Sunday,
December 10Th.
Mr.. Grossman is. survived by
his wife, Fannie S. Grossman, to
whom he was married 33 years.
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1954-12-30

His pastor, Rev. Rudolph Raber of
Hough Evangelical a Reformed
Church conducted the services on
December 22nd. Burial was in
Knollwood Cemetery. Norwood, a
student at Kirk Jr. High School,
had undergone a leg amputation
last May.
The Shepards have two other
children, Rosella, IL, and Jean, 16
months.
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1954-12-30

WE wish to express our sincere thanks
to the neighbors and friends for all
their kindness to US during the ILL
ness and following the death of out
son, Norwood, and for the many
contributions to the Cancer Fund in
his memory.
Mr.. and Mrs. Norwood Shepard
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John L. BlOnska

Born in Cleveland, 79 years ago,
John J.. Blonska was proud that
he had been a lifelong Cleveland
resident.
Mr.. Blonska, who had travelled
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Deofhs :
Norwood Shepard

Norwood, the 13-year-old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Norwood Shepard Of
1857 Milan ave-, died December
10Th following a prologned illness.
Evening star., 1954-06-07
AttIee's Journey to Red China
Blunt Announcement Made Of Trip by Labor Party Leaders,
British Don't Realize How Deeply Americans Will Resent It,
Dovid Lowrence

LONDON, June 2 - How
readily the relations between
Great Britain and the United
States can be subjected to
acute irritation when all the
facts are not put in perSpec-
tive is well illustrated by the
blunt announcement that
eight members of the British
Labor Party in Parliament,
headed by former Prime Min
lister Attlee, have decided to 60
for a visit to Red China this
summer.
If some of the minority
leaders in Congress had sud-
denly decided during the sum-
mer of 1910, after Britain had
been bombed. to go on a visit
to Adolf Hitler, it can easily
be imagined what the reaction
inside Great Britain would
have been. Furthermore, if to-
day some of the Democratic
Party leaders had decided to
visit the Kremlin without hav-
ing consulted the United
States Department of State in
advance and if the announce
ment had said that the pur-
pose was to discuss public
policies with the Moscow gov
eminent. The British Press
would properly have hailed it
as an unwarranted interfer-
ence with the prerogatives of
the American chief executive.
There would be even more
criticism than there was a
few months ago when Senator
Mccarthy undertook to per-
suade Greek ship owners to
carry out the spirit of the
American embargo on trade
with Red China.
But while the announcement
Of Mr.. Attlee's proposed visit
has been adversely commented
upon in some of the British
newspapers. and while the
Foreign ONCE has denied that
it was consulted or that it
approved of the mission, the
fact remains that the British
people as a whole are not at
all exercised about the epi-
sode and few persons really
know how deeply the Attlee
mission can wound the sensi-
bilities of the American
people.
Q Why, it may be asked. is
there such indifference? The
answer is that the sacrifices
made by the American people
the 10000 casualties in Ko-
rea-are not now and never
have been impressed upon
the British people by most Of
Evening star., 1954-06-07
Regime

which now is assured by this
Republican Congress. Like
wise, the public housing which
was at issue. among other
matters, in the comprehensive
housing measure was author
lied In the Truman regime:
though the Eisenhower pro-
gram Of $4,000 units annually
for four years, which the Sem
ate approved, was less than
that Of $4,000 q year originally
contemplated in the Truman
program.
But. In both cases, Republi-
can votes now were doing for
President Eisenhower what
they had denied to President
Truman.
And>with good and sufficient
political reasons. The Fair
Deal kinship In Social Security
expansion and housing is Q
happy circumstance politically.
Rank and file voters 60 for
both. Undoubtedly 1t was Gen.
EiSenhower's 1852 campaign
pledge that he would preserve
the social gains" that drew to
Evening star., 1954-06-07
Fletcher Knebel-
Potomac Fever

Senator Byrd the payroll dropped by jobs
last month That leaves the Government with only
employees carry the job of montong phone
calls.
Nobody Secretary failing
example and pois-heS
Ada Stevenson ignorance and fear the land
Americans danger of becoming robots Things
foul shape fellow hardly whether yawn
There a good points phone between
Army Secretary Stevens and Democratic Senator Symngon
Mccarthy them including point
touchdown.
attack country will to stem the invasion while
the other two call Washington for help-collect.
Mccarthy speaks at ceremonies marking the Tooth
the Republican Partys creaonand perhaps even
the first anniversary of its eclipse.
Democratic Senator Symngton wasn't the only to
help Army Secretary his fight against Mccarthy All
aides busy too In fact time Stevens called
for help-he got the busy signal.
Evening star., 1954-06-07
Dorothy Thompson
DorothZ IhonPson- =
Sees More Parallels to Hitler
In Germany, Communists Outwordy Opposed the Fuehrer
But Backed Him Because They Saw Destructive Force

This column once minim-
lied any comparison between
Senator Mccarthy. the men
around him, his methods of
mass appeal, and the national
situation with the forces that
taken together produced
Adolf Hitler. We no longer
take so optimistic a view, see
ing too many parallels.
The history of national So
cialism has been consciously
distorted by left-wingers.
The Communist line has
been to present Hitler as a
tool" of the German Army,
the industrialists, and the
JunkerS. No objective contem-
porary historian has subStan-
tiated this.
Hitler's first supporters were
demobilized and disgruntled
veterans, rowdy and deluded
youth, derailed intellectualS,
middle classes suffering from
a declining standard of living,
unorganized labor, small farm
ers, and, to some extent, Senti-
mental women.
His supporters were never
equally distributed through
the nation but were concen-
trated in parts of it. They were
weakest in the capital, Berlin,
in the industrial centers, and
in Prussia, and strongest in
the predominantly agricultural
states. such as Thuringen and
Bavaria-where it started.
The primary target of what
rapidly muShroomed from
nothing to a mass movement
was the German Constitu-
tional Republic and all its
institutions, which Hitler ac-
cused. in his inflammatory
speeches. and not wholly
untruthfully, of harboring
corruption, covering for Com
muniSts, and selling out the
nation on two fronts, west and
east. to foreign powers.
Until his popular following
had grown to immense proper
Evening star., 1954-06-07

tions, he did not have the sup
port of a single prominent in
dustrialist. These only later
joined the rolling bandwagon.
The Christian nobility never
Joined it.
The tactic of the conserva-
tive parties, however (seeing
his popular power) was to sur
round him, take the charla-
tan into camp" "diSarm him"
in short, cajole and appease.
Thus he became chancellor
in a cabinet overwhelmingly
composed of conservative op-
ponents.
They never, however, under
stood him, for they never un-
derstood as most American
Republicans still do not under
Stand-the techniques of war
and revolution. Along with
millions of respectable Ger
man citizens. they were against
what he was against; Com
munism, corruption, compla-
cent bureaucracy, the lewd
frivolity of metropolitan So
ciety. A peculiar eunuchoid-
type himself, who finally mar
ried to dispel unpleasant ru-
morS, and having among his
intimates numerous notorious
ly perverted young men, he
nevertheless conducted a "pur-
ity" campaign against the very
types he protected-Some of
whom he eventually killed.
Born a Catholic, he deSpised
the diSciplines of his church
and eventually prosecuted it.
But what he was for neither
the German people nor the
conservative leaders saw. They
recognized left-wing revolu-
tionaries, but could not recog-
nize an avowedly anti-left wing
leader. who was equally a rev.
olutionist, advised by students
and admirers of Communist
techniques. welcoming any ex-
Communists who espoused his
cause, actually sharing the
Communist aims; the destruc-
Evening star., 1954-06-07

their journey. Mr.. Attlee de-
tends his course in an inter-
view published in the London
News Chronicle:
"Our politicians are too ig-
norant Of the China Of today.
We want to make an honest
report about the changes TAX
ing place in this vast country
whose civilization is thousands
of years old. We want, if we
can, to see how we can make
friends in this great commu-
nifty and to gain the good will
of its leaders. I cannot see how
anything but good can come
of such a visit"
There is something naive
about a man of the experience
of Mr.. Attlee who believes that
he will be able to get an hon.
est look at anything behind
the Iron Curtain or that the
hand of friendship should be
extended to a government
which holds in prison many
American citizens captured in
the Korean War and never re-
turned as the armistice agree
ment required.
Prime Minister Churchill,
moreover, has just told the
House of Commons that the
Government of Red China
has snubbed for four years q
British offer to exchange am
baSSadors.
Is it, therefore, the function
of a group Of minority mem
berS of the national legislature
to conduct the foreign policy
of the British Government and
decide for themselves whether
or not 1t is opportune to start
their own conversations with
Chou En-lai, the foreign min
lister of Red China, who can
not but feel he is dealing with
the British Labor Party and
possibly with the men who will
head UP the next British Gov
ernment? The American peo-
pie may confidently expect
that all this will be clarified
before long. For never in the
heyday of his assertion of con-
gresSional powers in inquir-
ing into international policy
has even a certain Wisconsin
Senator ever suggested that he
or his associates go abroad to
deal directly with a foreign
government. especially when
his own government, as well
as the United Nations, are still
in a technical state of war
with that aggressor govern
ment.
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Evening star., 1954-06-07
The Germans Are impatient
v 5 Failure to Do Something Beside Promise Reomonent
Is Costing Adenouer Friends in His Own FOLLOWING

When this reporter talked
to some of the highest mem
berS of the government at
Bonn last October they seemed
to have no doubt that early
this year Germany could pro-
ceed with its rearmament pro-
gram regardless of what the
French National Assembly did.
More than $2.5 billion were
earmarked for this program as
its initial expenditure. The
German economy had become
so prosperous that the Ger
man government felt it could
finance cost of the organiza-
ton Of a 500,000-man army
almost entirely by itself.
Even the Socialists led by
Herr Ollenauer, while openly
opposing the rearmament plan
on such a scale, were actually
anxious to see their country
in a position to join the allies
in the defense of her territory.
The country was willing to 60
ahead and make the neces-
sary sacrifices.
One story current in Bonn
official circles was that enough
applications for enlistment
had been received from men
between 18 and As to make an
army four times as large as
that planned under the EDO.
1t appears, however, that the
German leaders misconstrued
or misunderstood our words
about giving them a green
light in the event France had
not ratified the pact by the
end Of the winter. Summer is
here and there is no indica-
ton as to when and how we
shall lift the ban on Germany
becoming an active partner in
the defense of the territories
west of the Elbe River.
There was some expectation
that the matter might be set
tied at the last Berlin confer
ence between the Western al
lies and the U. S. S. r. But all
the Berlin meeting produced
was the Geneva conference.
The Germans are getting
impatient and are now blam-
ing Adenauer for either hav-
ing permitted himself to be
deceived by interpreting the
Evening star., 1954-06-07
Constontine Brown

Not only enlightened pub
lie opinion" in Western Ger
many but a number of par
liamentary groups supporting
Chancellor Adenauer are get
ting restless over the political
future of Germany and the
failure of the American Gov
ernment to do something
tangible" about German re-
armament.
The situation is something
like this: Early last year, soon
after John Foster Dulles re-
turned from his first visit to
France as Secretary of State,
he warned the French people
that he might have to make an
agonizing reappraisal of our
policies in the event the Ma
tional Assembly did not ratify
the EDO pact permitting Ger
many to organize IL divisions
for service in a European
army. The ominous warning
made little impression on the
French Assemblymen.
Chancellor Adenauer came to
Washington where the red car
pet was rolled out for him. He
is reliably reported to have
been assured by our highest
officials that if by sometime
early this year France still had
the EDO pigeon holed his
country would receive the
green light to go ahead with
its minimum rearmament
plans.
British Prime Minister
Churchill Joined in this ap-
proval in a speech which was
interpreted in Bonn to mean
that Britain too had decided
to have Germany rearmed re-
gardless Of the views Of the
French parliament.
Military representatives at
SHAPE also made statements
to the effect that a German
army Of at least IL divisions
was a must" insofar as they
were concerned to bolster the
forces of resistance against the
overwhelming Red armies east
Of the Elbe.
Adenauer ran for reelection
last summer on the "amity
with America" platform and
received a handsome majority.
Evening star., 1954-06-07

the newspapers here. There
is a sort Of sits all in the
days work" attitude in Brit
ain which seems to say, well,
we have had many killed in
little wars for the last hundred
years." This is but another
way Of brushing of the Ko-
rean War itself. which seems
never to have been convinc-
ingly presented in Britain as
a war for an ideal-the. re-
pelling of aggression 5000
miles away from home pri-
marily by the forces of a coun-
try with no colonies in the Far
East and with no commercial
interests to defend. There is
no other logical explanation
for the tendency in the Brit
ish Parliament to forget so
soon that Red China was de-
clared an aggressor by formal
resolution of the United Ma
tions in February 1851 and
that she has done nothing
since to atone for her sins
before the world. Americans
cannot understand the British
willingness to take the blood
covered hand of the Red
China government.
But it would be a mistake
to say that the British govern
ment, and particularly its
Foreign Office, is unaware of
the American attitude. Had
the Attlee mission come be-
fore the cabinet for permis-
sion. which apparently it does
not need to obtain, the answer
would have been, mot at this
time"
Also there are plenty of
members of Parliament who
say privately that the Attlee
mission is a grave mistake and
they hope America will under
stand it is not a policy of the
British government or of the
majority in Parliament. For
after all, Mr.. Attlee and his
aSSociateS-among them the
fiery Aneurin Bevan-do not
represent Britain, but only
themselves.
Clement Attlee himself has
a deep prejudice on the mat
ter of American policy in the
Far East. He thinks the
United States should have
abandoned Formosa to the
Reds. Mr.. Bevan believes
America caused the aggreS-
sion by the North Koreans
and the Red Chinese. Both
men are mature enough to
know the comfort that the
Communists will derive from
Evening star., 1954-06-07

words of the American diplo-
mats too optimistically: or Of
having deceived the German
electorate. And the opposi-
ton to the 78-year-old chan.
cellor is growing not only
from his political enemies but
among his own followers.
The Germans feel that they
cannot remain unarmed for
long in this tense world. Their
loyalty is now to the West and
particularly to the United
States. But Adenauer is being
reminded that only two years
ago. in March. 1852. the Soviet
government offered the Bonn
government unity with East
Germany, the right to build
an unlimited military force.
no restrictions whatever on
German industry to produce
any kind of weapons on the
sole condition that Germany
would break all political ties
with the Western powers.
Although on the surface the
Kremlin demanded that Ger
many remain a strictly neutral
republic, in effect it offered the
integrated Reich a close asso.
citation with the U. S. s. r. Re-
liable. but still officially un-
confirmed. reports say that in
addition to this open offer.
Moscow promised Germany
support in the Saar question
and also a rectification of her
eastern borders at Poland's
expense.
This offer was rejected by
A d en- auer's administration
with the approval of the Ger
man people who saw in it q
trick and based their hopes Of
becoming politically a strong
power in Europe with Ameri-
cas- support. The attitude Of
the Republican administration
"a year later-further con-
vinced the German govern
ment of its wisdom in reject
ing the Soviet offer. But now,
after IA months in which no
progress has been made
toward achieving the rearma-
ment goal. the German people
are asking themselves whether
their aged leader did not per-
chance err.
Evening star., 1954-06-07
Thonos [. Stokes
Thon1os L. Stokes
Hopes on Legislation Brighter
IN wo MATTERS Republican Votes Are Doing for President
What They Had Denied to Truman Reoime

There's been. at long last,
q slight break in the clouds
hanging forbiddingly over the
Eisenhower legislative pro-
gram in Congress.
Swift action last week on
two important measures in the
social welfare field-social Sc
curity expansion in the House
and housing in the Senate
occurred. fortuitouSly, almost
coincidentally with the new
demand by the President at
his mid-week news conference
for enactment Of his program.
This gave the appearance Of
good timing, though it was not
exactly q case Of cause and
effect. Other factors were in
volved. The observation Of one
press gallery wag gives Q clue
to other influence at work. He
said:
THE Truman program is
finally beginning to win out"
Which was. of course, q fact.
For the previous Democratic
President had espoused-
though in vain-the expansion
Of the social security system
Evening star., 1954-06-07

Republicans in the House.
They were responsible for re-
jecting the Presidents public
housing program and includ-
ing none at all in the bill q
few weeks back. How much
public housing there will be
in the end will depend upon
conferences now between the
two branches on the measure
and subsequent votes in House
and Senate on the conference
report. The range is between
nothing and $4,000 units O.
year for four years.
President Eisenhower's re-
newed demand last week for
his legislative program may
have had some influence in the
Senate housing bill action. It
was, indeed. surprising in its
promptnesS, with the final
vote the same day the meas
ure was taken up, whereas it
was thought a week might be
necessary. The urgency, how
ever, had aspects Of political
necessity other than White
House pressure.
This, affecting both parties,
grew from the sudden rebel
lion against public housing by
Senator Maybank, Democrat,
of South Carolina, hitherto
its chief sponsor, because of
resentment over the recent
Supreme Court decision for
bidding segregation in public
housing in a San Francisco
case. This disturbed Senator
Lyndon johnson, Democratic
leader. who feared the South
ern rebellion might become
general enough to expose pub
licly once again how the DEM
ocratic Party is divided on
civil rights issues and thus
spoil the pretty picture Of
unity" about which he has
boasted so much. Also. the
Southern detection might be
enough to defeat public hous-
ing and put the blame on the
Democrats. Senator Knowland,
the Republican leader, also
had something to lose, which
was the Eisenhower public
housing program. It was more
important that he win that
for the President, than lose
and be able to blame the
Democrats.
so Messrs. Knowland and
johnson got their heads to-
gether to work out the best So
luton for each party. They
arranged o quick vote on the
Maybank motion to kill public
housing, and without q roll
call. So 1t was shouted down
In q voice vote, but with no
record to show how many
Democrats were voting their
segregation sentiments. Sub
sequently, the Presidents pro-
gram was adopted.
As for social security, it was
old-fashioned political bar
gaining that creased the way
to slide that measure quickly
through the House. Chairman
Reed, Republican, Of New York
Of the Ways and Means Com
mittee. put the steam behind
that when the President pub
licly abandoned his elaborate
foreign trade program to
which Mr.. Reed u 20 bitterly
opposed.