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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-20
Chinese Reds Expect Victory
Mao Exerting Menocing Pressures on Formoso
And Japan in Anticipating Truce at Geneva
Constontine Brown

The Chinese Communists
are throwing their weight
around In the Western Pacific
as II they had already won at.
Geneva.
AS a result Of strong Elm
direct representations" - q
newcomer to the diplomatic
vocabulary-from Peiping, the
Tokyo government has asked
us to remove from Japanese
territory to Okinawa the bases
Of the B-47s which are sup
posed to deliver the H-bomb
in the event Of q war. In order
to avoid q menacing policy by
the Reds against our Far
Eastern ally and also to avert
the possibility Of internal dis
turbances by subversive
elements, Washington is COM
plying with this request.
At the same time. the North
China News Agency, which not
only provides the world with
Red propaganda but also re-
fleets the policies of the
Peiping rulers. has begun a
campaign for the liberation"
of FormoSa. It calls on the
Chinese people to grid them
selves for a new struggle which
must lead to "Formosa's re-
turn to China" It also warns
the United States that the
conclusion Of a defense pact
with the outlaw Chang Kali
shek" will bring grave long
term consequences" And all
this is happening before we
know definitely whether or
not an armistice will be agreed
on at Geneva.
1t appears, from reports re-
ceived over the week end from
the conference headquarters,
that unless there is an eleventh.
hour change of heart on the
part Of the Reds, an agree
ment over Indo- China is now
more than likely. The Western
nations no longer care whether
the arInistice line will be at
the 18th, 10th or even 18th
parallel. Since the return to
the conference Of MeSsrs.
Mendes-France, Eden and Be-
dell Smith, they have put up
a fight only concerning the
time when elections will take
place in Wet Nam.
Russian Foreign Minister
v. M. Molotov and Red China
Premier Chou En-lai demanded
originally that elections should
take place within six months.
The allied diplomats have in
sisted on q longer period-at
least 10 months. They believe
there might be q chance to
elect . Communist gov
eminent If the Vietnamese
were given q chance to get
over the shock Of a Red vic
tory and reassert their own
wishes as to the form Of gov
eminent under which they
want to live.
This delay does not seem
to disturb the Reds, who have
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-20
Dovid Lowrence

There are two big myths
floating around nowadays
one that the fight which Sen
ator Mccarthy has been wag-
ing so aggressively against
Communists in Government
and defense plants is "hurt-
ing the Republican Party" and
the other that it Is "harming
America abroad"
So far as Europeans are con-
cerned, they know little and
care less about the internal
workings Of the American
Government, and their only
interest in the Wisconsin SEN
ator-and now in Senator
Knowland alSo-is that Con-
gress may cut of public funds
hitherto sent abroad by the
billions.
This writer, when In Europe
for two months recently, found
few Europeans talking about
Senator Mccarthy but did
note now intensively the cleft
wing" and Communist news
papers were trying to keep the
issue alive by almost daily dis
tortions Of what was happen
ing in the United States.
Americans abroad, of course,
talk to each other a good deal
about Mccarthy, as they do in
this country. Also, disgruntled
Trumanites fired from their
gravy train" jobs abroad have
kept up a furious offensive
against Senator Mccarthy.
The most persistent piece
Of Communist propaganda -
swallowed nowadays by not
few Americans on this side of
the Atlantic, too-is that Sen
ator Mccarthy is another
Hitler" This is perhaps the
most palpable effort of all to
tie In. the anti-C Communist
fight with "fascism. For
every Communist paper calls
any anti Communist a 'fas-
cist."
It will be noted that the
Wisconsin Senator has never
had anybody put in a concen-
tration camp and instead has
had the temerity to stand up
for two Jews-Roy Cohn and
David Schine-at a time when
an anti Semitic campaign
originating in Germany has
been waged to excoriate the
two young men who served on
the Senator's staff. Also the
Wisconsin Senator could hardly
be regarded as q potential
presidential candidate by any
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-20
Fletcher KnebeI-
Potomac Fever

Senator Flanders popones his Senate showdown against
Joe Mccarthy. These fellows who go ring against
Mccarthy spend almost getting by
their seconds as they do ducking.
Agriculture Secretary bad case sunburn
Just when Secretary who enough
Of the rain-it stops raining.
Senator Fubrght Ike ought quit
win in November This excellent hotweather contribution
You can always tack it to tree during lawn parties and
watermelon seeds at it,
Masses Of crops Minnesota. Defense
otcas doubt these real army-snce they're able
to make progress without help from the Marines
Maj John Eisenhower gets brief duty at the White
Republicans always have the than Eisenhower will
to like the place.
The Bureau Of Prisons the Nations prison population
has increased to 172000 Things have been little crowded
since word that Uncle
and room in lieu of taxes.
Senate Investigators that the mil
honae shared in housing wndfa profits No wonder the
Democrats loved the little
when they got through with him
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-20

Texas as the Minute Women
and Bricker amendment adj
vocateS with some financing
from the oil jillionaires might
cut down his vote consider
ably. It is believed Senator
johnson was a prime mover
of the postponement strategy.
Senator Margaret Chase
Smith Of Maine and Senator
McClellan's colleague, Sena-
tor Fulbright, are among the
Senators who have openly de-
clared their support for the
Flanders resolution. They
also helped persuade him to
put it in its present form.
The original, they told him,
was practically and psyche
logically unwise. Any threat
to deprive any Senator Of a
Craftsmanship almost auto
matically puts standing
chairmen and all high-rank-
ing Senators in the opposition
camp.
The censure motion is clear
cut and direct, privileged mat
ter not subject to parliament
tary blocks. And If successful,
it can later be used to fight
a Mccarthy Craftsmanship.
Behind the scenes, the Presi-
dent could deciSively affect the
issue by private, arms-length
appeals to men such as Busch
Of Connecticut. He is doing
nothing, though the Mccarthy
faction gives him all his legis-
lative trouble in his party and
has nowhere else to go.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-20

q vast experience In handling
free elections" as they have
demonstrated in Poland, Hun
gary, echoSlovakia, the Bal
kans and North Korea. They
feel that victory will be theirs.
regardless of how the future
armistice commission is or
ganized. What happened in
Korea can be repeated in Indo-
China While the free nations
which have participated in
the Korean war have observed
the armistice conditions scru-
pulously, North Korea has been
transformed into q powerful
fortress during the IL months
since the signature Of the
ceaSe-fire.
The situation in Indo- China
may be even more favorable
to the enemy, If the French
and the British yield at Ge-
neva, because the Vietnamese
themselves are irked and dis
appointed. The battles have
involved their country more
deeply than any one else's.
They have lost heavily. Yet
nobody seems willing to listen
to their protests that they do
not want their country
chopped up.
The representatives of the
Wet Nam government are
crying aloud that they want
their country unified under a
free government. Theirs is a
cry in the wilderness. They
are being told by the West and
by the Communists that we
know what Is best for them.
Should an armiStice be
signed along the lines out
lined in the latest Geneva re-
ports-and that is not sure
at the time of this writing
there is little doubt that the
bulk of the Wet Nam popula-
ton from the coolies in the
rice paddles to the gentle
men" in Saigon will resent
bitterly what they regard as a
betrayal. Under these 'condi-
tionS, the Reds have excellent
reasons to believe that when
ever the elections may take
place, 6 or 10 months hence,
the vote will go overwhelm-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-20

ingly to the Communists, who
have shown to the Asiatics
that it is they. and no longer
the free nations Of the West.
who have the real power.
The Reds are justiflably
feeling their oats. They have
learned since the Yalta days
that all they need do to defeat
the West is to hold confer
ences. Because Of the fear Of
another war, which most COM
petent Western military minds
say the Russians and the Chi
nese are not prepared to fight
for another two or three years.
the Western nations manage to
lose their shirts at every one
Of these international gather
ings. The Soviet Union has
established herself as the great
power In Europe and Asia not
through military prowess but
thanks to the conferences held
since 1945.
Communist China escaped q
disastrous defeat in Korea in
1851 because the sly Soviet
diplomats induced the United
Nations to stop fighting when
the odds were overwhelmingly
against the Communists. The
final armistice was signed at
Panmunjom, where once more
we lost our shirts.
We went to Berlin to discuss
peace terms for Germany and
Austria. The Russians maneu-
vered us into the Geneva con-
ference, which has all the ear
marks Of a second Munich.
Another 20 or 80 million people
may be handed over in the
course of this year to the Red
conspiracy. But the Western
leaders are satisfied that they
have averted, temporarily at
least, another blood bath. So
were Prime Minister Chamber
lain and Premier Daladier 16
years ago this fall.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-20
7okyo's Radioactive Produce
Debunked by Atom Experts

ways present in the air and the
SOIL" said DR.. Woodbury.. "By
failing to deduct this background
count when you announce your
Geiger counter reading, you can
discover radioactivity in the most
innocent items.
1.-THE natural potassium in the
human body is slightly radioac-
tive and can cause up to q half
million Geiger counts per min
ute"
Vegetables Cause Reaction.
vegetables contain potassium
and potassium causes a reaction
from the Geiger counter" DR..
Woodbury. went on. "This
doesn't mean that the vegetable
is radioactive"
Recently announced discover
les Of radioactive" rain water
were meaningless, DR.. Miller said.
because the discoveries had adj
mitted using a quart or more
Of water in their experiments.
Because Of cosmic rays and
the presence Of natural radio
activity resulting from cosmic
rays in rain water at all times,
1t is possible to obtain an ac-
curate reading only by, using
a small amount in the Geiger
counter examination, DR.. Miller
explained. When large quantities
of water are used the total
count must be divided by a sum
which would give the Geiger
count Of an ounce or less Of
water.
Accounts of radioactivity in
rain water were exaggerated q
thousand times or more in re-
ports given out by the more
persistent finders Of "radioac-
tive" rain, DR.. Miller said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-20

into the Democratic Party.
The fuzzy thinkers on the an
ti-Comnunist issue probably
never deserted Mr.. Stevenson
in 1852 and, IL some did and
now are going to return to the
Democratic Party. their num-
Der will be more than Offset
by those Democrats who will
vote Republican next time in
protest against the handling
by the Democratic admins
tration Of Harry Dexter White
and other communistic indi-
viduals as revealed since the
1852 election.
The three big issues which
constituted the negative tide
that rolled in the 1852 cam
paign against. the Truman
administration were Korea,
corruption, and communism
The anti Communist tide
swept millions Of Democrats
into the Republican Party and
these independents" are still
of the opinion that, where
there's smoke, there's fire.
They know that the revela-
tions Of recent months have
been followed by a determined
effort by the left wing to min
imize the Communist menace
and center the attack primar-
lily on the man who helped to
alert the country to the dam
gers of Communist infiltration.
The only way the Republic
can Party can be hurt in the
next elections is through any
action indicating that it wants
to squelch the anti Commu-
mist agitation by congressional
committees and revert to the
false doctrine that the execu-
tive agencies can do 1t all by
something which
no responsible official in the
Eisenhower administration has
as yet been willing to say.
Politics Is fundamentally
governed by negative rather
than affirmative issues. A 10
per cent "stay at home" defec-
ton next time could ruin Re-
publican chances Of victory.
The only thing that can lick
the Republican Party this au-
tumn is a lack Of enthusiasm
by the regular organizations.
The Presidents job in the next
few months-as it was in the
autumn of 1926 to convert
a conservative support that's
rather passive now into an
active, enthusiastic force for
his congressional slate.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-20
Doris FLeeson-
On|yoChonce to Curb Mccarthy
Republican Leadership Still Seeking to Avoid Mess
Fight and White House Remains Silent on Issue

course nothing to fear in the
general election, and II de-
feated. nothing to lose.
In fact, II he loses, Senator
Mccarthy might be the reason.
His antagonist, former Gov.
McMath, has made much of
Senator McClellan's past in
action on the Mccarthy issue.
Democrats realize that if
they do not substantially sup
port Senator Flanders, they
will lose McCarthyism as an
election issue. Their many
candidates who contend that
the best solution is to elect a
Democratic Congress and so
fatally cripple Senator Nc
earthly, would look ridiculous.
Another important Demo-
crat who will be relieved of
political anxiety by July 80
is Senate Minority Leader
johnson of Texas. Senator
Johnson will win his primary
this week, but as an aspirant
for the presidency he needs
a big vote of confidence.
When he won his first term
with a majority of only 81
votes, including those from
controversial Duvall County,
Senator johnson was nick
named Landslide Lyndon"
1t is not precisely the best
nickname for a presidential
campaign; he Is hoping and
expecting to erase it this
year.
A last-minute outburst by
such Mccarthy admirers in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-20
Doris FIeeson-

For the first time q reason
able chance exists that the
Senate will accept its respon-
sibility for the behavior of
Senator Mccarthy.
a It can be no more than q
chance, with the Republican
leadership still seeking to avoid
the struggle and the White
House remaining mute. In such
a situation lie the excuses for
evasion of the issue by Sen
ators more afraid of being
called pink than yellow.
Definite advances have, how
ever, been made by the anti
Mccarthy forces. They have
improved the form Of their
challenge and they have an
important recruit in Senator
Mcclellan of Arkansas, behind
whom the. hitherto rather in
different Southerners will be
inclined to rally.
Senator Mcclellan is respon-
sibly described here as having
promised to support the Elan
ders resolution of censure if
1t were postponed to July 80
when his tough campaign for
denomination is over. Ar
kansas sources say darkly he
has yet to be so definite on
the Mccarthy issue back home.
NonethelesS, whatever his
other faults, Senator McClel-
Ian is not devious. If he has led
Senator Flanders and fellow
Democrats into a firm impress
sion, he will perform on sched-
ule. If renominated he has of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-20
By the Associated Press

HIROSHIMA, Japan, July 20.
DISCOVERIES of radioactive"
vegetables were depicted here to-
day as scientific incompetents.
Members Of the United States
Atomic Bomb Casualty Commits
sion also debunked widely pub
Hcized accounts Of radioactive
rain and dangerous Geiger count
er readings.
Some japanese scientists have
been locating radioactive" rain,
vegetables and fish ever since the
United States hydrogen bomb
tests at Bikini this spring.
DR.. Robert w. Miller, Roches-
ter, n. Y, who has been associ-
ated with atomic studies on a
public and private basis for the
last seven years, described a we'll
publicized photograph Of an
atomic fish" as a fraud" The
photograph had been distributed
among newspapers to prove"
that fish caught since the Bikini
hydrogen bomb tests were radio
active.
Wet Hand Works Also.
The picture caption said the
fish was laid on a sheet Of un-
exposed film resulting in a pho
tograph which proved" that the
fish was radioactive.
"You can make the same type
Of photograph by laying your
wet hand on a piece of unex-
posed film," DR.. Miller said.
Finders of radioactive" vege-
tables were told by DR.. Lowell A.
Woodbury., Salt Lake City, to
check their Geiger counters.
"Any Geiger counter will give
of so to so counts per minute as
the result Of cosmic rays or nat
ural radioactivitiy which is al
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-20
For the Record
Political Acunnen in the JunQIe
Mogsoysoy, Filipino President, Has Record Indicating
He Cont Be Showed Into Orbit of Communist Chino

chief was somewhere in the
mountains near the Army's
Camp Keithley.
Mr.. Magsaysay had brought
some Signal Corps men with
him, and they went to work
with their gear at a place he
had chosen for the meeting
with the Moro chief. He knew
that Tawantawan and his men
were coming in closer and
closer, but the scouts and pa
trolls, trained and skilled as
they were. couldn't see a single
Moro warrior.
Mr.. Magsaysay's own expert
ence as a guerrilla during the
war had given him a kind of
sixth sense. When he judged
the moment was right, he
stepped up to the microphone
which he had had his Signal
Corps men rig up to a con-
cealed loudspeaker. He was
absolutely cold and controlled,
fearless before the hidden,
fanatical enemy. He didn't
whisper what he had to say.
He made the 1oudspeaker roar.
Then he disappeared into a
brush cover and waited.
Within minutes the Moro
chief and his followers APP
peared. They were fully armed
and their wickedly sharp bolo
knives shone in the sun. But
Tawantawan was a subdued
man. He had a look of awe
on his face. Mr.. Magsaysay's
aide stepped out to meet Ia
wantawan, and the Moro chief
said to him: This man Mag
saysay-your chief-he must
be Q giant Of q man. He has
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-20
For the Record
By Irene Corbolly Kuhn


Irene CORDIALLY Kuhn is
author OF Assigned to AdDen-
ture" and "The Enemy With
IT," and has contributed to
the Cosmopolitan. the Read
er's Digest and other national
D1dgGsines.)
Ramon Magsaysay, President
Of the Philippine Republic. has
been under powerful pressure
from politicians who advocate
moving into the orbit of Red
China. But Magsaysay's record
doesn't indicate that he is an
easy man to push around.
On my last trip to the Phil
ippineS, when Mr.. Magsaysay
was still Secretary of Defense.
I saw evidence of his keen and
courageous methods. He had
proved himself a master of
psychological warfare in COM
batting the Huks, the Philip
pine brand of Communists
and terrorists in general.
One Of Mr.. Magsaysay's chief
headaches in his post as Sec
rotary of Defense was a Moro
chief named Tawantawan, who
had run wild during and after
the war. The Moro chief had
created so much havoc in the
province of Lanao that he had
Stampeded the Christian Fill
pines away from their homes
and farms.
Mr.. MagsaySay sent an ulti-
matum by courier to Tawanta-
wan in his hideout in the
mountains. and gave him three
weeks to surrender. The time
passed and the zero hour came
up. Mr.. Magsaysay knew the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-20
Virginia to Droft 4l0

RICHMOND, July 20 (P.-Vir-
GINA has been ordered to call
410 men for military service in
September, the State Selective
Service headquarters here said
yesterday. This figure is five men
under the August draft call.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-20
Phones for Flyers

Britain's Royal Air Force air
dromes are to be equipped with
radiotelephone facilities designed
to provide immediate contact be-
tween rescue squads, IRE equip
ment and control towers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-01
Dr.. Buck, Assistant Librarian
OF Congress Retires Almost

Universities Of Indiana, Illinois,
Minnesota and Pittsburgh and
has q doctor OF philosophy de-
gree from Harvard.
Among the retirement mes
sages he received from all over
the world was one from former
President Truman. VINO wrote:
If we are to write the history
Of our country successfully, we
must be sure that the records OF
the Nation are properly pre-
served.
Your career is the more sig
nificant because you have COM
bined the profession of the
archivist and the profession of
the historian. You have played
an important part in the move
ment that has given us an archi-
val profession in this country In
whose hands the records Of our
national life are secure"
DR.. Buck and his wife. Eliza
beth Hawthorne Buck. who coll
Elaborated on two of his books,
live at 321 A street Sc. just q
short walk from the library ma
mex. where he has his studio
office.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-01

DR.. Scion j. Buck, assistant
librarian at the Library Of Con-
gress, retired yesterday but will
go right on going to work there.
He viii be the Library's hon.
orary consultant for American
history research materials, work
ing Monday through Friday.
At the age of 10, he has had
nearly 20 years Of Government
service.
He Joined the then new Ma
tional Archives in 1885 as publ
cations director. In l941 he
became the Nations second
archiyiSt.
One Of his many contributions
was especially outstanding, con-
sidering Washington govern
mental habits. DR.. Buck fostered
a system of eliminating useless
records, and destroying those no
longer needed.
He has taught history at the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-01
Argentina Horbors
No. l Guatemala Red
Isy ne Assoeloted Pfs.s

GUATEMALA, Sept. /. -
Guatemala's No. | Communist,
Victor Manuel Gutierrez. has
gained asylum in the Argentine
Embassy after eluding govern
ment police for the past two
months. authorities have dis
closed.
The former secretary-general
Of the outlaWed Communist led
General Labor Confederation
scaled the garden wall Of the
Embassy at am. Monday while
police and soldier guards re-
Taxed their vigilance. He was
highly influential during the
regime of deposed President
Jacobo Arbenz Guzman. Arbenz
is in the Mexican Embassy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-01

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