davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
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ances for architectural work.

ances for architectural work.
Recent conferences held by
FILA with representatives Of
the American Institute OF
Architects have led to plans
for a new fee schedule for
architects.
Part of the FHAs 608 multi
family housing scandal involved
pocketing by builders of part
of the fees allowed for archi-
tectS. Under new law. build
ers are now required to GER,
tify tina t the architect has
actually received the full
Continued on Page B-8, Col. A.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-28

was a coverlet of snow on the ground and air
planes roaring in salute overhead; q royalty.
diplomacy and plutocracy were there in pro-
fusion; - during the Mohammedan ceremony.
the bride and groom sat on sofa before which
was gold cloth laden with eggs. herbs and
copy of the Koran - symbols of health. pros
perity and happiness. Following local custom.
the bride, radiantly bedecked with emerald
Continued on page rs
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-28

Who is this perfect wife. this cover-girl
queen, whom many consider more beautiful
than any Of her sister sovereigns? She's
Cinderella girl, who won her prince with
photograph instead Of a slipper.
The miracle came true because of a decree
promulgated by the present Shah's father.
who abdicated in favor Of his son in l94l. This
was law liquidating the ancient and pictur-
esque royal institution, the harem.
Maidens all over this ancient land of
Omar Khayyam Immediately began to dream
of sharing jug of wine. loaf of bread and
100000 barrels OF oil annually as the legal
spouse of the Shahinshah Shah of Shahsl.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-28

med Reza Pahlavi was already married to King
Farouk's sultry sister, Fawzia. But this union
ended in divorce after nine years. leaving the
pathway to the Shahs heart once more open.
One day the Shah's slightly older sister -
Princess Shams - an incorrigible match
maker - thrust photograph in front of his
face as he was busy signing some papers at his
desk. His royal eyes popped. For Shams was
holding closeup Of Soraya, now fully bios
somed into blend OF seductive Fatima and
brunette Briinnhilde.
1t was love at first shutter-click. The Shah
sent Shams in fou-motored plane to fetch
her from the Alps. And when their eyes finally
met, the sparks that few
could have ignited all the oil
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-28

only was she an eapatriate - her parents had
left Iran when slseHWas still babe in arms =
but her mother was German.
IL SOraya ever dreamed Of becoming
queen. she did il - rather unpatrioti-
cally in very rusty Persian. though in
fluent French. German and English.
OF course, there was another pesky trifie IN
the way of any commoner's mounting the
throne: the swarthy, handsome Shah Moham-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-28

Among those who could
scarcely be considered a con-
tender was a fair-skinned,
ruby-lipped charmer with
eyes that could melt stone,
named Soraya Esfandiari.
For one thing, Soraya.
daughter of a wealthy tribal
khan. was only eight years
old in l94l. She was still
wearing boomers and play
ing jacks at a girls school in
Lausanne, Switzerland, far
from the sandy caravan
routes Of her homeland. Not
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-28

met, the sparks that flew
could have ignited all the oil
in Iran.
ElAhogaSe
HE wedding in ornate
Gulistan Palace - home of
Persia's ancient Peacock
Throne - was sumptuous
beyond the capacity of
newspapermen to handle
the facts. There was gen.
eral accord on the following
particulars: u the date was
February IL. 1851. and there
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Constantine Brown
HonnnnorskjoId's FotefuIMission
Strong Suspicion Prevails That Visit Will Be Used
By Peiping as Propaganda Sounding Board

an embargo on their sea trade
have been frowned on by the
U. N. Had the United States
insisted ON such a measure it
unquestionably would have
been defeated.
This became evident last
week when Mr.. Anthony Nut
ting, Britain's chief represent.
ative in the U. N. who ven.
tured to express views support.
ting our stand in connection
with FormoSa. was quickly
slapped down by his govern
ment. Mr.. Nutting's remarks,
were based exclusively on what
is specifically provided for in:
the U. N, Charter. There is
no doubt IN the minds Of
American diplomats that this
diSavowal gave considerable
comfort to the Reds. Mr.. Nut
ting's words might otherwise
have been interpreted by Pei--.
ping as an indication that
Britain has changed it's poli-s
cieS in these critical times and
decided to stand foursquare
behind the United States.
The important thing at pres-
ent is. however, the early lib
Grafton of the Americans jailed
by the Red Chinese. There is
by no means any over.
optimism that this will be-
achieved through Mr.. HAM
marskjold's intervention. y
The Chinese undoubtedly.
will ask a good price for the
flyers over and above with
drawal of the prohibitions
against the 35 Chinese science.
students returning to their
homes on the China mainland.
Considering what the Russians
and their ASiatic ally have
already obtained in techno-i
logical secrets from the Ro-
SenbergS. Dr.. Klaus Fuchs and
others who have betrayed their
trust. the contributions these
young students may be able
to add will be insignificant. =
What can be more injurious
to the free world is the likely
propaganda and diplomatic
victory which the Chinese
Communists will win from this
spectacular incident which
they have so Skillfully devised.
Evening star., 1954-12-20
Fletcher KnebeI-
Potomac Fever

The Eisenhower teams defense manpower plan is
pected become the best universal military training
that Congress defeated
Democratic Senator Sparkman charges housing official
fired ito make for Republican, And that amt the
worst One Democrat claims that almost Federal build
ing outside the White House has Republican in it.
Michigan doctor claims the world will December 81.
House Republican Leader Joe Martin thinks the of
date. Martin knows the world ended November q
Deputy Attorney General Rogers says nobody will be
cuted for lying the Army Mccarthy hearings wasn't liars
that bothered the administration that hearngbut the
who refused to quit telling the truth.
Statehood for Alaska Hawaii looms early
Congress- There's that Ike is willing to make deal
with the West Coast He'll take Alaska and Hawaii in swap
for Senator Knowland. -
Ever since Labor Secretary Mitchell sided with the C1O
against right laws the White House considered
wiring AFL "Al forgiven Send back that plumber
Atomic says he'll disclose the facts of radio
active fall out Fact No Things aren't bad they're
painted No. 2-Dont believe everything hear ncud
ing Fact No l.
Evening star., 1954-12-20
Doris FIeeson-
Doris Fleeson-
Balanced Budget Notin Sight
Decision to Cut T Toxes Plus Realities of Politics,
Economics and Cold War Spoil c. O. P. Goal

The Federal budget which
has been out of balance for
18 Of the past 81 years will be
unbalanced again next year.
Thus three years will have
gone by without the Eisen-
hover administration meeting
one of the primary goals of
the Republicans. There is not
much likelihood in fact that
the budget will come into bal
ance at anytime during PreSi-
dent EisenhoWer'S term.
The prudence and efficiency
which the President believed
would come with the installa-
tion of his business mans
government have had to bow,
in this instance, before the
grim realities of politics. eco
nomicS and a world involved
in a cold war. Like Harry
Truman before him, Gen.
Eisenhower has confronted a
condition and not a theory.
The deficits for this year
and next arise however not
from accident but from choice.
If taxes had been allowed to
remain at the level of last
year, there would not only
have been no deficit for this
year or next but enough in
come would have been left
over for a tidy reduction of
the national debt.
The Republican dilemma
was that they had promised
both a balanced budget and
tax reduction. When they dis
covered they had to choose
Evening star., 1954-12-20

chairman of the finance COM
mittee next year. excused the
President for the deficit in his
first year of Office on the
ground that he was, after all,
operating on another mans
budget. But there has been
no doubt about whose budgets
the President has been operat-
ing under since then.
Congressional D e m o C r ats
will grasp at the deficit as
an additional excuse for hold
ing down any large program
of general economic aid to
Asia. A So billion aid program
which has been mentioned in
the administration appears
unrealistic in light of the mood
of Congress.
Another likely casualty of
the budget deficit is the gigan-
tic 500 billion Federal high
way program which the Presi-
dent proposed to the Govern
or's Conference last year.
Bigger than all the relief and
public works programs of the
Roosevelt era put together,
this program has powerful
support from interests con-
nected with motor transpor-
tation. They declare-and the
governors agree-that if the
Government would only ear
mark gasoline taxes for high
ways. it would be self-sustain-
ing. But the Government
shows no signs of willingness
to oblige and the new program
will probably stay where it is
today-in the planning stage.
Evening star., 1954-12-20

between them, tax reduction
seemed more imperative.
Treasury Secretary Hum
phrey's fling at hard money
policy also added to the budget
deficit. He had to abandon 1t
but not before he had added
about a billion dollars to the
cost of carrying the debt. In
this area, too, defeat has been
admitted; like the balanced
budget, a hard money policy is
now merely a future hope.
Today some Republicans
even talk about the size of
the budget being a matter
of general rather than fiscal
policy. This is the theory of
the late Lord Keynes whose
followers among the New
Dealers used to be roundly
condemned by Republicans.
In any event the balanced
budget may be no less sacred
to conservatives than it was,
but it is becoming about as
elusive as the grail.
The continuing deficit will
force the President to call for
continuation of emergency
taxes which otherwise would
expire April /. These include
a tax of five per cent on corpo-
rate incomes plus a number of
excise taxes on such items as
liquor and tobacco. 1t probably
means that no serious effort
will be made to implement the
fond hope of some Democrats
that individual income tax
exemptions can be raised.
Senator Byrd, who will be
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less search in every avenue
that may lead to their better
understanding of our peace
full purposes.
"They know, as well as we,
that the world is large enough,
the skills of man great enough.
to feed and clothe. and to
house mankind in plenty and
peace. This UNIVERSAL knowl-
edge could be the fruit tful be-
ginning of prosperous life
together"
Lest these sentiments. how
ever, be misconstrued at home
or abroad as weakness or fab-
bi1ess, the President inserted
this forceful admonition:
America speaks from
strength, strength in good al
lies, in arms, in readiness. in
ever-increasing productivity,
in the broader sharing Of the
abundant fruits of our econ
omy, in our unchanging devo-
ton to liberty and human jus
tice. Her voice is for peace,
based upon decency and right.
But let no man think that we
want peace at any price; that
we shall forSake principle in
resigned tolerance Of evident
evil: or, that we pawn our hon.
or for transitory concessions"
These are fine words. They
come from the heart but they
are spoken to barbarians who
may discount them. The test
will come in a few days when
the Secretary General of the
U. N. takes up with Chou En-
lai in Peiping the fate of the
II American airmen held cap
tive by the Red Chinese. Will
America agree to pay the ram
SONS demanded? Will the
United States pawn its honor
and make a deal with a gov
ernment, previously condemned
as an aggressor, which now
has flagrantly violated the Ko-
rean armistice terms? Maybe
Red China will perceive the
words of warning in that
Christmas message but. if her
rulers do not, then 1855 will
hardly see an end to the world
tension which wiShful think
ing has sought to minimize in
a wave of sentimental hopeful
ness at ChristmaStide.
Reproduction Rights ReservedJ
Evening star., 1954-12-20
Dorothy Thompson
He Doesn't Believe in Ghosts
Harrison Smiths Blast at Library Of Congress Script
Called WeIl-Amed Attack on Bad Practice

vial. involves principle and
honesty. Ghost writer's and
their moutnpiecas contribute
to perpetudte a fraud upon the
public. 1t is SO common today
that one can almost say that
our thoughts are guided and
governed by ghosts. We read
books bearing the names Of
men who never wrote a word
of them, listen to speeches by
statesmen who have read them
only few hours or minutes
before delivering them. peruse
articles ostensibly authored by
the name that heads them but
actually researched. prepared
and even written by a Govern
ment empioye. public relations
counsel, or secretary.
Although statesmen Cor poll
iticiansl and persons in public
life rewrite in part what is
submitted to them, and make
elisions and changes. they are
merely editing. They present
the people with knowledge
they do not command, elo-
Quence they do not possess,
and ideas they do not originate.
Our manner of conducting
national political campaigns
makes this inevitable. A can
didate cannot possibly pre-
pare one or more thoughtful
speeches to be delivered daily
while travelling. They are pre-
pared for him, usually by q
voluntary staff.
Ghost writing undoubtedly
influences the minds of its
Charlie McCarthys. That is
its appeal to a talented and
ambitious man. He wishes So
and-so, who occupies or aspires
to high Office or enjoys ma
tional prestige, would think
and say thus and thus. He
Evening star., 1954-12-20
100000 Germans
Will Leave Poland
BY the Associated Press

BERLIN, Dec. 20. Com
munist Poland has decided to
ship out to the West more than
100000 Germans still living on
Polish soil.
The first group of IS, mostlr
women, arrived in West Ger
many last week. The goal for
1855 is total of $4,000. The
remainder will be repatriated in
1856. The plan was drawn up
by the Warsaw government and
the German Red Cross. All of
the Germans concerned will be
settled in West Germany.
Details of the campaign were
Evening star., 1954-12-20
Constantine Brown

There is a strong suspicion
that the men in Peiping will
use the Hammarskjold visit
principally as a. propaganda
sounding board, :,
However. high officials in
Washington speculate that
there may be a glimmer of
hope, the Reds will agree to
swap the American airmen
which they hold for 35 Chi
neSe students who were edu-
Gated in some Of our highest
institutions of archaeological
learning.
The fact that the secretary
general of the august United
Nations. which has branded
Communist China as an inter-
national outlaw, asked for an
invitation to confer with Pre-
mier-Foreign Minister Chou
En-lai and appears in the
Red capital as a petitioner
with hat in hand has definite
propaganda value. And the
Communists never miss a
chance to turn to their ad-
vantage every possible incl
dent which they create.
The speculation in American
and British official quarters
is that Mr.. Hammarskjold will
be given some sort of diplo-
matte brain washing. He will
hear once more about our
miSdeeds in ''fomenting
trouble in the Far East" He
will hear severe complaints
about our mutual assistance
pact with Nationalist China.
And he probably will be tod
forcefully how substitution Of
Evening star., 1954-12-20
Dorothy Thompson

Harrison Smith, president
and associate editor OF the
Saturday Review of Literature,
blew his top the other day
over the manner of preparing
a radio program by the LII
brary of Congress. MIR. Smith
had been invited. with others.
to participate in a broadcast
discussion of the work OF
Sinclair Lewis, which he is
well fitted to do. His friend
ship with the late novelist
began when they were both
students at Yale and lasted
as long as Mr.. Lewis lived.
Mr.. Smith was also one OF
Mr.. Lewis publishers.
A broadcast with several
participants must be organ
lied, If only for timing. But
the proper way to do 1t is to
discuss in advance what ques-
tions should be raised. and
how time should be allotted.
MIR. Smith received instead a
! finished script, which he pro-
tested as ghost-written. Since
the Library of Congress had
written him that he should
"feel free to suggest other
topics and, of course, to alter
your own speeches" Mr..
Smiths wrath appeared some
what like a tempest in a tea
pot. But we think it is not.
= The Library of Congress
argued that it was done to re-
lieve the participant of work
and there was no desire to
put words in his mouth that
he didn't want to say. But
why should a speaker be re-
-lieved Of work or why should
what he might say even be
suggested to him?
The matter, apparently tri-
Evening star., 1954-12-20
japanese Diet Ratifies
Peace Pact With Burma
BY the Assoeiaied Press

TOKYO, Dec. 20.-The Japa-
nese Diet today completed rati-
f1cation of the Burma-Japan
World War II peace treaty and
reparations agreement.
The upper house unanimously
added it's approval to the ratifi-
cation voted last Friday by the
lower house. The documents
are expected to get cabinet in
dorsement, a mere formality. to-
morrow. Burma is expected to
act on them in February.
Reparations talks still are
pending with Indonesia and the
Philippines.
Today's agreement provides
Evening star., 1954-12-20
President Strikes Right Note
Christmas Message Praised as Rare Document
Full of Ideals and Meaning for All Peoples

But having made that con-
cession to the principle where
by every nation can decide its
own policies, the President
nevertheless emphasized in a
most forceful way that the
"neutralism" sentiment which
has been sweeping Asia with
the suspected help Of the So
Wet propaganda apparatus is
not going unnoticed here.
Such a message as the Pres
ident broadcast will be trans
lated into many languages by
the Voice of America" and
relayed to the four corners Of
the world. Hence, what was ad-
dressed implicitly to India will
be reprinted there and in other
Asian countries.
Not the least of the inpor-
tant paragraphs in the Presi-
dents message were those di-
rected to the people behind
the Iron Curtain. This was a
little harder to say and per-
haps a necessary vagueness
had to be employed. But there
is a great deal of meaning be-
hind the following paragraph:
80, mankind's unquench-
able hope for peace burns
brighter than for many years.
Our hope, true enough, is
blemished by some brutal facts
Oppression, privation, cruel
suffering of body and mind
imposed on helpless victims.
These scourges still wound in
too many places the daily liv-
ing of mankind.
Even at this happy season,
we dare not forget crimes
against justice, denial of
mercy, violation of human
dignity-to forget is to con-
done. and to provoke new out
rage"
This was intended to give
hope to the peoples in op-
pressed lands--a reminder
that America isn't forgetting
their plight. And then came
the message to the Kremlin
itself in a kind of paraphrase
of the doctrine of peaceful
co-existence."
NOW" said the President,
with those who stand against
us in fear, or in ignorance Of
our intentions, we have chosen
the hard way of patience, tire
Evening star., 1954-12-20

prepares and submits a manu-
script. witty. logical, persua-
sive. knowledgeable, interesting
and the receiver uses it, and
thereby becomes his instru-
ment. 1t is a form of intel
lectual seduction. The number
and names of intellectuals-
writers, journalists. college
professors, and advertising
men-who put out their own
ideas this way would, if the
public knew it, astonish, and
in some cases, disrnay it. It
inf1lters ideas and opinions
into public life, while passing
away responsibility for them.
1t is influence by anonymity.
Yet it is so taken for
granted that one university; I
believe, offers a course in ghost
writing!
Mr.. Smith is being finicky in
the right place.
released by the Bell Syndicate. Incl
Evening star., 1954-12-20
David Lawrence

Rarely has a pronouncement
from a President of the United
States expressed so fittingly
the mood of the times-the
hopes and aspirations of a
worried world-as does the
Christmas message broadcast
last Friday from the White
House.
Written in implicit terms
that have a significant mean
ing for the people of the
United States directly and in
directly for the peoples of
other countries including the
Communist lands, the docu-
ment will rank as a state
paper of the finest idealism.
It contains overtures of peace
as we'll as warnings subtle in
their phraseology but def1n-
itely addressed to the Com
munist enemy. It seeks deli
cately to dissuade countries
like India from adopting a
course of ''neutralism"-the
passive acceptance of evil as
a matter Of sole concern to
those engaged in the contro-
versy.
There are some" said the
President, who have believed
it possible to hold themselves
aloof from today's worldwide
struggle between those who
uphold government sed
upon human freedom and
dignity and those who con-
slider man merely pawn OF
the state.
THE times are so critical
and the difference between
these world systems SO vital
and vast that grave doubt is
cast upon the validity of neu-
tralistic argument"
81 India's neutraliSt govern
ment which has been a source
of worry to America has lately
been drawing other Asian ma
tions into her orbit. Again and
again India's spokesmen have
said they merely differ with
us" and that of course we have
a right to differ with them.
Hence, the President handed
back the same argument in
the following words:
"Yet we shall continue faith
fully to demonstrate our COM
plete respect for the right Of
self-decision by those neu-
trails"
Evening star., 1954-12-20
Costs to Be Exported

A Danish firm in Copenhagen
has plan to export plaster casts
of ancient Egyptian and Greek
art sculptures and reliefs, Of
which. the originals are on dis
play in the Carlsberg Sculpture
Gallery there.
Evening star., 1954-12-20
Iroq Gets U. S. Aid

BAGHDAD, Iraq, Dec. 20 (P9.
The first shipment of United
States military assistance to
Iraq arrived yesterday at Basra.
The shipment was described as
military vehicles.
Evening star., 1954-12-20

that Japan will pay the Burmese
$3.50 million in cash and capital
goods during a 10~year period.
Evening star., 1954-12-20

disclosed by Polish informants
in Berlin. The aim is threefold:
! /. To accomplish a humani-
tartan goal in the cases of fam
lilies divided by the Iron Curtain
which want to be reunited in
the West,
2. To get rid of many elderly
persons and others who are un-
employable and cannot con-
tribute a great deal to the Polish
economy. which needs labor and
lots of it.
8. To eliminate a source of
unrest and discontinent. pos
sibly even the hard core of an
anti Polish, anti Communist
fifth column.
Regardless of Warsaw's OBJ
jectives, the West German Red
Cross accepted the plan. For
years, it has been trying to do
something for Germans left in
Poland.
Evening star., 1954-12-20

the Communists for the Ma
tionalist Chinese In the U. N.
would further the cause of
! world peace.
Chou will exploit to the
utmost the documentary
proof" he says he has gathered
against the Americans sem
fenced to long Jail terms on
spy charges. He may also
show evidence" against
others who have not yet been
tried but are known to be kept
+, in Chinese stockades despite
the armistice terms.
This evidence" based on
confessions obtained after
many months Of physical and
mental tortures. cannot be
rejected ais such by the U. N.
official. He is neutral in this
matter. In his role of good
will ambassador, trying only to
release the prisoners in accord
ance with the instructions Of
his employers. he cannot tell
Chou that all this is ''hokum.
He will have to accept the con-
fessions at their face value,
plead only for mercy and indi-
cate what an important impact
China's. willingness to free
these men would have on the
u. N.
These conjectures are based
on the fact that Mr.. Ham
marskjold has no other weap-
ons than humility in his hands.
The demands from certain
sections of Americans in pri-
vate and political life to pun
ish the Chinese Reds by i'm
posing a blockade or at least