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Evening star., 1954-07-28
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK.
Men and Maids, and Stuff:
Gen. Chennault's denunciation
of the French Indo pact as a
Munich Sellout swiftly confirmed
by Chinese Commies' contemptu-
Gus and murderous attack on a
British airliner carrying British
and United States nationals.
Experts believe that regardless
of later cynical apologies. the
wanton attack was designed (1,
to spell out in red letters to
entire Far East that the GeneYa
pact was a humiliating Allied
surrender: t2) to make it inn
Kodiak mirror., 1954-11-27
DIJA KNOW

That in this modern day and age of dog-eat,dog there are still some people left who can
Kodiak mirror., 1954-11-27

1 week that one of Kodiaks cit
 zens had passed into the great beyond. Knowing the plight and suffering that the survi- vors( several are children )must be enduring, these noble ladies got together and decided to do sometging about the situation.
 They did not give money to this family, but something that meant much more. Thurs day was Thanksgiving and the Lord knows this family felt anything but thankful. Yet when a Turkey (stuffed and cooked along with all the trim mings) was delivered to them, without ceremony, we feel sure that some of the straln was relieved. That this family knows that there are still de- cent people left in the world and that they can look the fu- ture in the eye and not feel entirely hopIess and loney.
 ON THE LIGHTER side Harry O'Lindgren claims that being a bachelor is strictly for the birds. Sweedens gift to the Irish stomped into the Bel mont the other n orning, look ed the Menu over hastily, caught Georges eye and gave this order for breakfast: Give me an order of eggs un- dercooked, some bacon and toast burned to a crisp and a cup of last weeks coffee. " Anything else?" George in quired. Yeah start an argu- ment with me-" was Harry's quick reply, Whats the mat ter with you?" George asked. Its this way" Harry began. "The wife and daughter are in Seattle and Pm lonesome" "
 MISSING PERSONS l Athanasopulos, Apostoles-- Born in Greece. a resident of 1 Alaska for at least 55 years. Last heard from several years ago when his sister received a snapshot with "Holling & Co.,, Quality Finishing, TOP Jeffer- son" on the back.
 Berg, Albert V. Sr.--Born St. Louis Mo. in 1898 or 1899. Worked for Alaska Railroad during early 1930s. Married Susan Charles in late twenties. Four children, all born in Nen- ana-Pearl, Albert, IT,, Carol, Merle. Divorce granted Albert Berg and Dorothy P Berg March IA, 1852, Tn Anchorage, Alaska.
 Creutzburg, William H. Age 28; height 5'8"; weight, 150- 165lbs; wavy dark brown hair, small mustache; eyes, dark. Marine Corps veteran of South Pacific 1942 45. Nicknames Chick and Smiley. Tattoo on left arm above elbow "Honolu- lu 1854" Scar on cheek. Work ed for United Mining Smelling
Kodiak mirror., 1954-11-27

go out of t heir way to sprea Ia little sunshineon somecneless fortunate than themselves lt'' true! One of our leading wo
Evening star., 1954-04-14
The Shoe Is on the Other Foot
America Sheds Old Tradition and Becomes nernoonoIst
Other Motions Depor From Post to Erbroee Notionosm

the late President Roosevelt
and his aides.
But no sooner did we become
part and parcel of the world
picture than the very nations
which less than 20 years ago
were clamoring for our partici-
patton in world affairs, are
asking US bluntly. What are
you doing here anyhow"
Our policy toward the pres
ent scourge of the world. the
Communists in the U. S. S. r.
and in China, is described by
our allies as rankly amateurish.
and unless it is restrained by
them, likely to involve them in
another war. There was a time
between the end of the First
World War andRthe advent Of
Hitler and Mussolini when we
were told that an American
commitment to send a mere
corporal's guard to Europe
would have been more than
sufficient to insure peace.
We have today close to $780,
900 men in Germany, Austria,
Trieste, Britain and France
to say nothing of thousands Of
planes. Yet it is difficult to
detect any feeling on the part
of our, allies that we are con-
tributing to peace.
In the summer of 1940
Premier Reynaud of France
cabled President Roosevelt ask
ing him to send over "swarms'
of American planes. Americans
who had lived long in Europe
returned to this country to re-
cruit pilots in violation of our
neutrality laws. These few
hundred pilots were welcomed
with enthusiasm not only by
the governments of France and
Britain but by the people
themselves. Today we hear
all over Europe the words,
Yankee go home" a Com
munist- inspired slogan adopted
by millions of anti-Com-
munists.
We are described these days
as juveniles in world policies
by our allies who are not op-
posed to accepting our eco
nomic and financial assistance
but who don't believe that we
Evening star., 1954-04-14
Dorothy Thonpson-
The Mind Of the Free Reporter
Mccarthy Is Going to Take Journalists, He Will Face
A FiqFt-From Men Professionally Conditioned to Fight

Hitler and of Stain. And lib
eral or conservative they are
overwhelmingly anti-McCar-
thy, surely a fact of social i'm
portance. Recently the Over
seas Press Club, by secret ball
lot of the profession itself.
cited five of it's members for
the best work in reporting and
interpreting world events in
the press, and on radio and
television. Every award went
to an opponent Of Senator Nc
Carthy. One went to Ed Muir
row. Is the profession a pack
of jackals? Or does the jackal.
perhaps. have an exceptionally
acute sense of smell?
There are perennial pres
sures on journalists to con-
form to each popular wave.
But there is also deep-rooted
resistance. They are not cow
ards. They have fallen on
every battle front. They have
risked their lives without the
compensation Of a veterans
bonus. They have languished in
jails. And among them-in a
most competitive profession
is an enormous esprit de
corps.
So if the Senator is going
to take them on, he will have
a fight. and from men and
women professionally condi-
toned to fight. and not at all
conditioned to blind obedience.
Evening star., 1954-04-14
Constontine Brown

American observers Of world
politics remember with a GER
tain amount of nostalgia the
good old days before World
War II when Europe looked
longingly to the great power
on the western shores of the
Atlantic and believed genu-
inely that our participation in
her affairs would assure last
ing peace.
Today most Of our Euro
pean friends have come to the
conclusion that we are med
dlerS" and that our presence
among them increases the
danger of another world con-
f1agration.
There was a time when a
mere indication on the part
of the United States that we
would not tolerate a breach
of peace would have kept the
aggressors at home. The many
limitation : Of arms confer
ences held between the two
world wars failed because the
European nations feared and
suspected each other. We
promoted and attended most
of them.
The European statesmen
claimed then that only a COM
mitment from the United
States to intervene against any
peace-breaker would justify
a limitation of arms. The ad-
ministration in Washington
could make no such commit
ment. The American people
believed firmly. up to the time
of Pearl Harbor, in George
Washington's doctrine of no
foreign entanglements and
that Americas place was in
America.
The influence of a relatively
small group of intellectual
internationalists who believed
before the last war. as they be-
lieve now, that this country has
a God-given mission to save
the world from itself was
negligible in the pre-Pearl
Harbor days. But like all
minority groups it was vocal
and highly effective since it
had the unstinted support OF
Evening star., 1954-04-14
Dorothy Thompson

Senator McCarthy's menda-
cious and incorporate attack
on Edward Murrow leads me
to a few observations about my
own profession.
Apparently the Senator now
aspires to determine who shall
or shall not communicate with
the American people. the test
being whether the journalist.
whatever his medium, is pro-
or anti Carthy. He argues.
II am the leading anti-Com-
munist, the Communists are
anti-me, ergo, all who are anti
Mccarthy are pro-Commu-
mist"
This "dialectic" has been
taken over from the Commu-
nists perhaps by way Of ex-
Communist advisers. The
Communist argues: "Commu-
nism is anti-Fascist: fascism is
anti-Communist, ergo, anti
Communists are FaScistS.
They have won many adher-
ents this way.
Such an argument precludes
the possibility that anyone can
be against both Satan and
Beelzebub. If anti-communism
were the sole test of public
virtue we should all have sup
ported Hitler and overlooked
the fact that by the logic that
we tend to become what we
hate, the Interstate embodies
all the worst vices of commu-
nism: Rule by terror, rigid
conformity of thought and be-
havior, lynch justice, and po-
litical control of the whole
economy.
The Fascist and Communist
nind-form is akin. In Ger
many, people often switched
from communism to naziism
and vice versa. The step was
short. But few ex-Communists
or ex-Nazis are ever able to
take the long step from totali-
tartan concepts and methods
to the camp of liberty, law.
and the free mind. And ex-
Communists are largely Sen
Evening star., 1954-04-14
Social Security Program
Hit by Clio, Business
By the Assoeiofed Press

The CIO yesterday called Pres
ident Eisenhower's Social Secur-
ity expansion program a half
way measure" and told House
members they would make no
political hay by adopting it.
The labor organization called
for bold action" to provide big
ger benefits, including payments
for loss of wages due to tempo
rary sicknes or total disability.
At the same time the Council
of State Chambers of Commerce
strongly opposed the benefit in
creases proposed by Gen. Eisen-
hover. Business spokesman said
these boosts would destroy indi-
vidual incentive and "could well
lead to moral and financial
bankruptcy for this country"
The clashing views were aired
before the House Ways and
Means Committee, which is con-
sidering Gen. Eisenhower's pro-
poSals to expand coverage to
10.5 million additional persons,
boost Social Security taxes, and
provide bigger benefits for re-
tired workers or survivors.
Evening star., 1954-04-14

lean people who have repeat
edly demonstrated their own
strong vein of idealism. Rus
slams. not Americans, damp
ened that climate. When re-
peated Soviet aggression was
followed by news that the
SovietS had exploded an
atomic bomb, practical con-
siderations overbore all mis-
givings.
The employment of DR.. Op-
penhemier and other reluc-
tant scientists both on the
atomic and hydrogen bombs
was a calculated risk taken
by the Truman administra-
ton and, up to now, by Presi-
dent Eisenhower and his as
Sociates.
They knew the purported
facts. The Joint Committee
on Atomic Energy of the
House and Senate has stepped
up to say that it knew them,
too, and was kept fully in
formed about the Open
heimer situation.
The committee will assert
it's jurisdiction in behalf of
Congress should any occasion
for hearings arise on matters
of this kind. This is a relief
to Washington where it's
reputation for responsible be-
havior is great.
But in deciding to fight
rather than accept dismissal.
DR.. Oppenheimer has called
Evening star., 1954-04-14

attention to problems far
greater than his personal JUS
tification.
Something has been added
to the cost Of calculated risks
these days. It's name is Nc
Carthy. It is accepted here as
a fact that the Oppenheimer
affair had got to the Senator's
1, ears-as everything connected
with security does-and that
the story was leaked to avoid
his springing it as a sensation
designed to overpower the
McCarthy-Arm fight.
The cost to Oppenheimer
though he be vindicated in
the end. is great. What it is to
the Presidents power to take
risks. to act boldly, to exercise
his Judgment freely, cannot
be measured.
The times demand Of Amer
lean Presidents and high Gov
ernment officials a wisdom al
most more than mortal. The
people have in the past often
seemed far too tolerant. They
are now being spurred to the
opposite extreme, told they
must not forgive nor forget
mistakes. It was DR.. Open
heimer who said: Men of our
time will never have a sense
Of security" He did not in
tend it politically but atomic
ally; both are in a fair way of
becoming true.
Evening star., 1954-04-14

ator McCarthy's advisers. They
change their minds but not
the way their minds work.
To the unintimidated jour-
nalist reporting and interpret
ing public affairs, the Com
munist- Fascist type Of mind
is anathema. He is profess
sionally concerned with as
senbling accurate facts as a
basis for Judging public poll
cieS. The perennial question he
asks himself is: Is it true? A
free, inquiring mind is the
first professional requirement.
There are. intellectual rack
eteers among journalists. fell
low travellers of all camps,
peeping Toms, men who can
be corrupted, and anti-Com-
munists who see Senator Nc
Carthy as a kind of necessary
evil. But the central corps of
serious American journalists
and I have been in this pro-
fession 80 years-command as
high a level of general intelli-
gence and intellectual and
moral courage as any profess
sion.
Journalists are radicals, lib
erals and conservatives. But
the corps as a whole has an
occupational allergy to sup
preSsional trends from right or
left. Their skepticism of all
party lines is instructive and
their judgment of public per-
sons acridly antiseptic. They
are quick to detect the phony
and, they can distinguish a
patriot from a patrioteer.
They have a sixth sense
about all powers that threaten
the free mind, born of the
simple instinct for survival.
Other professions may sur
vive the imposition of po-
litical conformism. Industrial
managers can become direc-
tors of even Communist state
trusts. "Know-how" has a
market in all regimes. Scien-
lists car pursue their work.
There is no Communist or
Communist way of disin-
tegrating or fusing atoms. For
most professions survival only
depends on keeping their
mouths shut.
But journalists justify their
existence by opening their
mouths to report what they
really see and say what they
really think. When liberty
goes. they are not even ac-
corded the luxury of silence.
They must become the lackeys
Of politicians or die; they
must report the opposite of
what they see and testify to
the opposite of what they be-
lieve-the most degrading
form Of forced labor.
Despots diStrust free jour-
nalists above all men. Core
spondents are the first to be
thrown out of police states.
They smell suppression when
it is only a scent on the wind.
They were the first to warn of
Evening star., 1954-04-14
Thonos [. Stokes
Oppenhein1er and Communism
Case Apparently Pubicized Before Senator Mccarthy
Could Sound Off on 1t in Texas Next Week

next week. scheduled just the
day before the Senate COM
mittee begins its investiga-
ton here into himself, his
aides and Army officials grow
ing out of special privileges for
Pvt. G. David Schine, former
ly of his staff. Senator Nc
Carthy is known to have been
working on the Oppenheimer
matter for a long time.
The FBI made the investi-
cation originally, Where Sen
ator Mccarthy got his in
formation has not been re-
vealed.
When Senator Mccarthy
took out after the Army some
time back he was striking at
big game. But the Atomic
Energy Commission is even
bigger, especially now with the
hydrogen bomb and the pub
licity Of the recent blasts and
the necessary secrecy of Acc
operations which lends itself
to his special type Of reckless
exploitation.
Evening star., 1954-04-14
33 Pct. Roise Urged
For BruziI Workers
BY the Associated Press

RIO DE JANEIRO. April IA
The National Economic Council
recommended a 80 per cent wage
increase yesterday for Brazilian
workers, subject to approval by
President Getulio Vargas.
The councils recommendation
would increase wages in the Rio
and Sac Paulo areas from 1900
cruzeiros to 1000 cruzeiros a
month (from $50 to 500. The
minimum wage, however, in some
Of the States is as low as 600
cruzeiros $500 a month. The
base pay in these areas would
increase proportionately.
Evening star., 1954-04-14
Fletcher KnebeI-
Potomac Fever

HBomb Scientist j. Robert Oppenhemer suspended by
the Government pending security charges Oppenhemer
awful lott might just to suspend the
H-bomb.
moudering Federal Housing Administration scandal
explodes appears that didn't waste all
OF our money-they got cheated out of of it first
Ike throws out the first ball of the
learned last that if President to throw out
the baseba-the fans liable President
The United States Britain urge collective defense
alliance against the States will do the
defending-our allies will do the collecting.
It be harder to be good winner-but
the hardest thing these days is to
finally realize that you'll break even.
Australia grants political asylum Soviet diplomat
There's doubt that spreadng-but some of the
comrades are outrunnng it.
Senate House committee billion highways
Republicans figure the people who hit the
there be hanging around home complaining
tration in Washington.
Evening star., 1954-04-14

preston made him see in
time how abhorrent a phi
losophy they nurtured. So he
parted company with them.
And was, withal, wiser for the
experience, as he reveals in
the amazing testament of his
mature life contained in his
letter to the Atomic Energy
Commission replying to the
charges raised against him
which everybody should read
in it's entirety. He fulfilled
this concluding paragraph:
I'm preparing this letter, l
have reviewed two decades of
my life. I have recalled in
stances where. I acted un-
wisely. What I have hoped
was, not that I could wholly
avoid error, but that / might
learn from it. What ! have
learned has, think, made me
more fit to serve my country"
We don't have an Abraham
Lincoln around today who
could understand. He could
see into the heart of things
and into the hearts of people
and could apply wisdom and
common sense and balance
which are so sadly missing
now in our troubled and
frightened society.
The "Oppenheimer case," as
this is bound to be called,
shows how monstrouS a shad-
ow Senator Mccarthy casts
over Washington and how
much of an influence he has
become with the managers of
Government. There is no
question that the fear of
the Senator and the spirit of
fear he has generated among
our people led the administra-
ton last December to explore
again incidents that had been
investigated and reinvesti-
gated for a dozen years in
volving DR.. Oppenheimer and
subsequently to suspend him.
Every new look, at the case
has hitherto only reafiirmed
confidence of responsible mil
ltary and civilian officials in
DR.. Oppenheimer who has been
given one delicate and impor-
tant assignment after another.
The case was, publicized at
this time. it is apparent. to
beat Senator Mccarthy to the
punch. He was prepared to
spring it in his Texas speech
Evening star., 1954-04-14
Doris Fleeson-
Scientists, Security and Atoms
Hiring Of Dr. OPPenheimer and Other Reuctonts to Work
On Bomb Was Calculated Risk Taken by Government

DR.. j. Robert Oppenheimer's
moral doubts about proceeding
with the hydrogen bomb were
so widely shared by his fellow
scientists that at one point
David Lilienthal, then chair
man of the Atomic Energy
Commission, said he wasn't
sure he could get enough SCI
entists to build it.
A participant in that partic-
ular conference-one of many
which preceded President Tru-
mans decision in January,
1850. to go ahead-described
the late Steve Early, then Dep
uty Secretary of Defense, as
furiously disagreeing. Mr.. Ear
ly, rejecting the Pentagon
view, argued it could and must
be done.
The H-bomb was made and
has exceeded even the theo-
retical estimates of its deStruc-
tive power, so much so that a
new jargon of megatons and
megadeaths - shorthand for
millions of tons and millions
of deaths-has been invented
for it.
Actually the atomic brood
ings of the scientists were
never a secret. They pushed
in every forum a campaign for
international regulation and
development.
Their cries of inca culpa"
were in postwar days heard
sympathetically by the Amer
Evening star., 1954-04-14

should play the first fiddle in
the concert of world powers.
Our trouble is, we are told,
that we are considering issues
as either black or white. A
mixture Of both is the color
adopted for centuries by Euro
pean chancelleries. We are
loath to accept compromises
with the enemies of our civili-
zation lest we lose a priceless
heirloom. Our allies, who
claim a far longer diplomatic
experience, believe in expedi-
ency. One of the highest of.
ficials in France told this re-
porter last fall. I'VE would
have been wiped off the face
of the earth had we not
adopted a policy of compro-
mise and expediency. 1t some
times failed temporarily, but
the end result has been that
we are still here"
1t is Europe which has be-
come isolationist these days
and America internationalist.
Nowhere in Europe can one
hear the acknowledgements
ment idea discussed. And
only government officials make
occasional coolly- polite refer
ences to the United Nations.
Narrow nationaliSm is ram
pant all over the world, except
in this country. France re-
fuses to bring the Indo-C China
war before the United Nations
because it might reflect on her
sovereign rights in that coun-
try. France has rejected the
Moroccan and TuniSian pleas
to bring before the U. N. the
question of limited independ-
ence for those countries for
the same reason. Britain
maintains her stand on the
Suez Canal for national con-
Siderations. And so on.
We may be ahead of world
trends and the days of one
world may be in the distant
future. But today we certainly
are out of step with those very
countries which in the past
looked to us as the one coun-
try which could contribute
more than any one else to the
peace of the world.
Evening star., 1954-04-14
Dovid Lowrence

The strange case of DR.. j.
Robert Oppenheimer, leading
atomic scientist, who has been
formally suspended by Presi-
dent Eisenhower and the
Atomic Energy Commission
from access to classified ma
terial pending a study of his
security status, illustrates bet
ter than millions Of words of
debate or television pictures
what a difficult problem the
Government Of the United
States is up against nowadays.
On the one hand, the con-
gressional committees are as
sailed as unfair and as en-
gagged in witch hunting" and
the cry is heard that every man
must be considered innocent
until proved guilty. But, on
the other hand, affiliations with
the Government is not a right
or privilege and employees can
be ruled as security risks
merely because there is rea-
sonable doubt as to their
eligibility to remain in the
Government. 1t is not a court
procedure at all.
At this writing, nobody
knows whether DR.. Open
heimer is or is not a good Sc
curity risk for continuance as
a member of the science ad-
visory committee under the
Office of Defense Mobilization.
His file has been under review
for some time, and his Sus-
pension took place in Deem
Der, 1853. In accordance with
the rules of fair play, the
Else n hover administration
didn't publicize this fact. It
refused to be a party to the
arouSing of public suspicion,
since it was not prejudging the
case but was dealing with it
confdentially and in an or
derly manner.