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Evening star., 1954-01-07
David Lowrence-

For five months now the
United States has been appeaS-
ing Communist Russia without
letting the American people
know, the facts. The Soviet
government has known that a
gradual relaxation in shipment
of strategic articles for use be-
hind the Iron Curtain has been
going on-but the people of
this country have been kept in
the dark.
Secret diplomacy usually
arises because of a fear that to
tell the people the truth will
bring restraints on the policy
adopted. In this case there is
no evidence that the United
States ever got anything in re-
turn for the valuable conces-
sions made to the Communists.
For the last few months
America publicly has been in
the position Of begging the
Communists. in vain. to set a
time and date for q peace con-
ference to settle the Korean
problem. Several hundred
American boys have been held
as prisoners, despite the terms
Of the armistice providing for
their return. Yet important
concessions have been made
which allow Russia to build
up her armament for World
War III.
The official facts now indi-
cate that British diplomacy has
= won one of its biggest tri-
umphS. This correspondent
wrote on December Is calling
attention to a British govern
ment public statement that the
embargo on trade with the
Communists on strategic ar
ticles was being relaxed. In
that dispatch the British were
accused Of defying the United
States Congress. But apologies
are due, for it turns out that
the London government had
the secret approval of the
United States Government,
permitting her to engage in
the enlarged trade in strategic
items with Red China and
Communist Russia.
The new policy, it now is
Evening star., 1954-01-07
u. S. Accused Of Appeosement
Government Charged With Groduol Relaxation Of Low
Banning Shipment Of Strategic Goods to Iron Curtain

lately have been compelled to
ship out gold to get foreign
exchange with which to buy
needed articles. It is pointed
out that this shows how the
embargo has been pinching.
But there is no explanation
as to why. when an embargo
is becoming effective. 1t is sud-
denly decided to relax 1t. What
did the United States and the
Western countries get by way
Of concessions from the Com
munists. II anything?
The four-power conference
is about to start in Berlin, but
the allies have been throwing
away their economic leverage.
Today the Communists know
the West will not use military
power to gain its ends. and,
since the West is forfeiting its
economic trump cards. there
seems no logical reason why
the Communists should not
continue to act arrogantly and
to prosecute their "cold war"
tactics throughout the world.
The official information is
given out here that all this
relaxation of trade in strategic
articles is due to a decision by
the National Security Council
and that the action was taken
last summer. This group.
headed by the President, con-
ducts it's sessions in great Sc
crecy-supposedly to keep the
enemy from knowing what is
going on. Evidently the pur-
pose here also was to keep the
American people and the en-
tire Congress from knowing
that the spirit. If not the let
ter, of its laws forbidding trade
in strategic commodities with
aggressors was being fla
grantly violated. It Is a dis
tressing chapter in American
history, and 1t is not likely
that all members of Congress
will accept without vigorous
protest the announcement OF
what appears to be a new sur
render to the Communists on
the eve Of the four-power
conference.
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Evening star., 1954-01-07
Constantine Brown

A military defense group
ing extending from Pakistan
through Iran and Iraq to
Turkey is now In the making
and receives full encourage
ment and support from WASH
ington. Congress is expected
to appropriate the necessary
sums for economic and mill
tary improvement in this area.
The situation in Europe is
not particularly encouraging.
Internal problems have rem
dered most of the NATO
countries ''gun-shy." France
and Great Britain, the two
pillars of the defense system
of Western Europe, are far
more interested in keeping the
German Federal Republic dis
armed and in the prospects of
a remunerative trade with the
U. s. s. r. and China than In
standing up to the aggressive
imperialism of these dictator
ships.
While the Big Three are get
ting ready to meet at the end
Of this month at an important
conference with the U. S. S. r.
in Berlin, the representatives
of our allies in Moscow are
now having private" confer
ences with the heads of the
Soviet government. There is
a strong suspicion, based on
the divergent views between us
and our allies about what stand
we should take before the
MuScovites. that the British
and French ambassadors are
trying to ferret out of the Reds
what particular advantages
their respective countries could
obtain in preconference dis
cuSSionS.
No official cognizance is
taken in Washington Of these
developments. There is an in
creased feeling in official quar-
tiers, however. that Americas
security can be best assured
under present conditions-par-
ticularly when we consider the
threat to Korea and Southeast
Asia-by a coordination of the
potential power of the Moslem
countries from Pakistan to
Turkey. They represent up
wards of 120 million people
overwhelmingly Moslem-who
have not been inflltrated by
communism.
Evening star., 1954-01-07

mediate debate two controversial
issues, the st. Lawrence Seaway
and the Bricker amendment.
and they intend quickly to add
a third, Hawaiian statehood. In
theory, it is good strategy to
start early on the hard but not
crucial ones so that plenty Of
time will remain for the abso-
lutely vital.
Senator Knowland has said
firmly that if filibusters rear
their ugly heads. the Senate will
hold. night sessions. He hasn't
the votes to enforce that deci-
ssion-or any other with respect
to such matters.
The opposition against the
three major lead-of proposals
cuts across both parties. Yet
any filibuster can almost count
on a hard core of support from
Southern Senators determined
to preserve the principle of the
right to unlimited debate. Those
Senators are not merely power
full now in what constitutes the
numerical majority of the Sem
ate; they lead it both technically
and actually.
There is another factor
about which little will be said
but which will operate power
fully when Democrats consider
the degree with which they are
willing to cooperate with Sen
ator Knowland. It is that
among their most valued men,
bers are some elderly men
whose health will not take day
Evening star., 1954-01-07

thought they heard echoes Of
the New Deal in several pas
sages of the speech.
It could be that the Presi-
dents principal purpose was to
try out some new speech
making techniques. One was
the use of teleprompters. This
is a method of reading a speech
without seeming to do so. The
manuscript, printed in big
type, is placed beneath the tel
evision cameras. The speaker
appears to be looking into the
camera and thereby directly
at his audience. but all the
time he is looking at the text
of his speech. The desired IL
lusion is perfected by the use
of two cameras and two copies
of the text, enabling the
speaker to turn his head
slightly from time to time in
the most natural manner. With
a last-minute lesson from
Robert Montgomery. a TV pro,
the President mastered the
trick nicely. He read his
speech smoothly and we'll.
He read it much better than
he read his recent atomic-pool-
for-peace speech before the
Assembly Of the United Ma
tions. There he read frankly
from manuscript and occa-
sionally stumbled over a phrase.
But nobody noticed or minded.
The President had something
to say, and attention was held
by the contents of his speech,
regardless Of its delivery. No
body has called that a bad
speech.
There may be a lesson in all
this for the President and his
advisers. The American peo-
Pile didn't elect him to obtain
another radio and television
star and they are not demand
ing that he make himself into
anything Of that kind. They
have better uses for q Presi-
dent.
It Is possible that the White
House stan Is haunted by the
ghost Of r. D. Roosevelt and
Evening star., 1954-01-07
Lowell MeHett-

The President didn't get a
very good press on his Mon
day night radio-TV appear
ance. billed as a report to the
people. Vague and not very
impressive" said one news
paper, usually numb cred
among his admirers. Con
tanned little that was either
significant or substantial" !"
said another friendly critic.
Some Of the banner headlines
were even more critical. in a
left-handed way. "Ike Prom
ises Prosperity" one shouted.
like Pledges to Keep Pros
perity," another told the world.
One can imagine the copy
desks struggling to find head
line material in the speech and
finally coming up. tongue in
cheek. with those two. There
is something amusing in the
suggestion that a President
favors prosperity.
The trouble seems to have
been that the President al
lowed himself to make. or was
persuaded to make, a speech
when he had nothing to say.
That is. he had nothing to
say on this particular occasion.
Any real substance the speech
might have contained was re-
served for the state-of- the
Union message due to be de-
livered today and for GER
tain special messages to Con-
greSs to follow thereafter.
Some one seems to have had
the idea that an advance ap-
pearance by the President
would somehow pave the way
for a proper reception Of his
legislative proposals when they
were offered. This might have
been the case, If the President
had been prepared with a
strong emotional appeal
some hot denunciations Of the
Democrats, for example, or
any other enemies. AS it was,
the only emotional response
has come from Republicans
and right-wing Democrats who
Evening star., 1954-01-07

officially conceded by the For
eign Operations Administra-
ton here. began to 60 into
effect by degrees tlve months
ago. It is disclosed also that
there have been continual
conferences with congressional
staff members on it and that
there were varying reactions
from certain members Of Con-
gress. Whoever these men,
bers were, they did not see At
to enlighten the American
people. though. of course.
Moscow and Peiping knew all
the time the items of trade
that were being sanctioned.
Under the new policy. for
instance. rubber has been
taken off the strategic" hist.
In both World War I and
World War II rubber was so
considered. Evidently 1t doesn't
matter to the Eisenhower ad-
ministration if rubber is ex-
ported for the trucks that
carry ammunition to kill
American boys in Korea or in
countries where the Com
munists may resume their ag-
gression. Evidently rubber for
the tires of the MICS and the
bombers that constitute the
Communist air force is not to
be considered strategic" any
more. just because there's
money TO be made in it among
the British colonial possess
sions. 1t would be safer for the
American Government to buy
and stockpile such rubber to
keep it out of the hands of
the Communists.
The other strategic" items
now being allowed have not
been made public, but 1t is ad-
mitted that the list has been
contracted, while the list Of
so-called "non-strategic items
has been expanded.
The argument is made here
that a stricter control Is be-
ing exercised now over the
items that remain on the
strategic" list and that other
nations have agreed to these
controls. 1t is also contended
by the Foreign Operations Ad-
ministration that the Russians
Evening star., 1954-01-07
Vicar Blasts Masonry,
Bars Pulpit 10 Pre|ate
By the Assoeioted Press

LONDON, Jan. 7.-An Angli.
can vicar has stirred up three
year-old controversy simmering
in Church of England councils
by banning from his pulpit all
Freemason clergymen - includ-
ing the Archbishop Of Canter-
bury.
The Rev. Thornton Thrapp.
former Raj chaplain and vicar
iof st. Mary Magdelene in Lon
don's Paddington district. sim
gled out DR.. Godfrey Fisher, the
Archbishop Primate of England
and a past grand master of Brit
ish Freemasonry, for attack in
his parish magazine yesterday.
Because the Archbishop is q
Mason" wrote the Rev. Mr..
Thrapp, 1--WE may fairly assume
his opinions are unorthodox, and
far more dangerous because they
are kept secret from the nom
Masonic rank and file"
He urged DR.. Fisher to state
in public the case for Christian
Masonry" and added:
Until he does, can he really
expect our trust. our confidence
and our loyalty? I cannot give
him mine"
Evening star., 1954-01-07
Doris FIeeson-

Before the shooting starts on
Capitol Hill, a kind and under
standing word is in order for
the conscientious young man
whom fate has made respon-
sible for the discipline of the
Senate without giving him the
power to enforce his orders.
No majority leader in the
history of the Senate has been
in quite as ticklish a position
as Bill Knowland of California,
though many have had their
troubles. BY reason of q con-
sidered political decision of
the Democrats he is majority
leader, and he has been able
to organize the Senate, name
committees and control Senate
patronage. But he leads only
Al Republicans, and he must
face the fact that the lone in
dependent, Senator Morse, has
made no commitments to him
except on organization matters
but probably will Always vote
with the 48 Democrats.
Tactically therefore, Senator
Knowland Is a general withou
the power Of court-martial. tn
teacher of a troublesome school
denied a birch rod by the schoo
board. There is some evidenc'
that Knowland himself and hi
Policy Committee advisers do
not quite realize how very stick,
the situation could get when tn
chips are down.
They have scheduled for i'm
Evening star., 1954-01-07
When IMAM Has Nothing to Say
Then Is Time Not to Make Speech; or So the Presidents
Friendly Critics Seem to Feel Following Mondays Effort

the ghosts of his ghost-writers.
(How else account for that
ghastly phrase. prophets Of
gloom and doom"?) But they
should learn that there usually
was more to a Roosevelt speech
than felicitous language and
felicitous delivery. There
usually was some substance.
They could learn also from the
experience of Harry S. Tru-
man. Truman never did mas
ter the art of reading. At his
best, despite painful effort, he
was worse than Eisenhower
ever has been. But, when he
had something to say-as was
nearly always the case-his
logged earnestness made him
as effective as he needed to be.
Evening star., 1954-01-07
Gov. ov.DeweyDemands
Legislation 10 Curb
Greedy Politicians
BY the Asseeioted Press

ALBANY, N. Y, Jan. Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey, whose ad-
ministration has been struck by
scandal, yesterday demanded
drastic legislation to prevent
public officials and party officers
from using their positions for
personal gain.
The Governor. in his annual
message opening the 1854 New
York Legislature. called also for
a broad social program running
into hundreds of millions of
dollars and indicated he would
balance the budget without in
creasing taxes.
In pressing for early imposi-
tions of curbs on greedy politi-
clans. the Governor insisted that
the public is entitled to expect
from its servants a set of stand
ards far above the morals of the
market palce"
The people," he said, expect
not only personal honesty but
the absence of any reasonable
suspicion of dishonesty or even
impropriety."
Gov. Dewey also proposed:
l. A $3.50 million bond issue
for expanding mental hospitals.
2. A huge bond issue for more
low-rent public housing. The
tentative figure is $265 million.
3. A broadening of health serv-
ices, with special stress on aid to
children.
4. A code of fair play in State
Investigations in order to pro-
tect witnesses from being
"Smeared."
5. Full support of State de-
velopment of hydro-electric
power at Niagara Falls,
Evening star., 1954-01-07
Life in the u. S.
Life in the u. S.
Rafting Good
Plot: School
Skeleton
IY ihe ,A.,oeioted Pta,s

DENVER, Jan. 7.-R. A.
Wright. assistant principal at
East Denver High School. COM
planned to police yesterday that
some one ratified of with the
school biology departments
brand-new skeleton.
Make no bones about it. he
informed officers. the school
wants its skeleton back. It cost
East High $225 only a few weeks
ago.
Evening star., 1954-01-07
Conscience Fund

MARYSVILLE, Calf. (R.-
The envelope was postmarked
Sacramento. A $40 bill flut-
tered out onto the city clerks
desk. The unsigned note with
it read:
This moneyswas stolen some
years ago. I hope you can re-
place it. I wish to start the
new year clean"
At a loss how to carry out
the sender's wish. Clerk
Chester Gates said he will ask
Evening star., 1954-01-07
Surplus Begins at Home

WORCESTER. Mass. up. -
Joseph T. Brown, Plymouth
County agricultural agent. gave
dairy farmers a hint last night
on how they could help reduce
milk surpluses.
Addressing the 37th annual
union agricultural meeting, he
said:
1.-THE dairy farmers could help
by drinking little more milk.
I couldn't help noticing that
there was no milk served at the
Purebred Dairy Association
luncheon today"
Evening star., 1954-01-07
Candles Light Jail Trail

OKLAHOMA CITY R.-
Two teen-age burglars who
pulled three jobs by candle
light were in Jail today, crossed
up by telltale candle drip
pings.
Officers said red candle
drippings were found at the
scene of each theft. One bur-
glary was solved. The youths
were arrested and confessed
to all three.
Evening star., 1954-01-07
Burber Outsmurts Bow

ATLANTA up. - Customers
were waiting in a suburban bar
ber shop when a 2-year-old boy
was lifted into a chair and burst
into outraged squalls.
Adults were resigned to a
noisy wait. when the barber
leaned over and whispered to
the lad. who suddenly shut his
eyes and mouth as if hypno-
tized.
One Of the customers later
asked. "What'd you do, tell him
that If he didn't shut up you'd
clip of his ears?"
Not at all" said barber John
r. Orr. "All I do is whisper,
Close your eyes so / won't get
hair in them No child can cry
with his eyes closed"
Evening star., 1954-01-07
Trees Leaving Farm, Too

NEWHALL. Iowa (P.-To
many persons q tree is just Q
tree.
But to Harvey Hartz. the
three naples he planted 38
years ago on his farm near
here are more like old friends.
Mr.. Hartz is moving to
town and the three trees are
going with him. He has hired
specialists to move Them to
his new home.
Evening star., 1954-01-07
Bowler Scores Strike

KANSAS, CITY (P.-Fred De
Hass, former Marine. reported
his car stolen last night while
he was bowling.
AS the 6-foot-4-inch. 230-
pound Mr.. De Hass walked out of
the bowling place he saw his car
moving in a slow line Of traffic.
He dashed into the street,
grabbed the drivers collar and
ordered him to pull to the curb.
The driver meekly complied.
Police held the man, James
Price, 80. for investigation.
Evening star., 1954-01-07
Painters Do It Aquin

SHERMAN, Tex. (P.-Cal
Williams had a newly painted
house today. Didn't cost him
a penny. Painters mistake.
Wrong house,
Evening star., 1954-01-07

the city attorney what to do
with the money.
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