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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-24
David Lawrence

The Republican leadership
in the Senate has allowed it
self to be boxed in by the
Democrats, and the whole
Cohn-Schine Adams affair
which, In the end, will be
found to be much ado about
nothing"-is having the effect
of stopping Investigations into
the inflltration of Communist
sympathizers into the various
Government departments UNI
der the Democratic admins
tration.
When all the testimony has
been taken and all the cross
examination has been con-
cluded in the Cohn-Schine-
Adams controversy, it will be
found that no crime was COM
mitted by anybody. AS for the
issue of veracity between the
two sides, it will prove to be
the usual neutrality-suspicious.
which sometimes occur when
somebody tries to put on paper
his recollection of CONVERSE
tions that took place over a
period of many months before.
On its face, the so-called
Army report has an ambiguous
aspect which indicates clearly
that much has been omitted
concerning the regular bust,
ness between the Mccarthy
committee and the Pentagon.
An effort apparently has been
made to give the impression
in compiling the report that
all that was talked about at
various conferences was the
giving to Pvt. Schine of a diff
ferent assignment or some
weekend passes. AS for those
who compiled the So-called
Army report, their words
sometimes give an impression
which perhaps doesn't always
take into account the facetiouS
vein in which some Of the con-
versationS were doubtless car
ried on.
Although those who are try
ing to discredit Senator Nc
Carthy are emphasizing that
there is an issue of truth-tell-
ing involving the Wisconsin
Senator himself, it will be
noted that, many of the men,
oranda issued by Senator Nc
Carthy in reply to the Army's
report were written by Fran
els Carr, who was for II years
with the FBI and occupied a
position Of responsibility. Mr..
Carr is trained in such things
as truth-telling and court tes-
timony under oath, and it was
not Mr.. Mccarthy but Mr..
Carr who wrote on December
9, 1858:
Again today John Adams
illegal counsel for the Secre-
tary of the Army came down
here after the hearings and,
using clever phrases, tried to
find out, What's there in it for
us? If he and Stevens did
something for Schlne. He re-
fers to Schine as our hostage
or the hostage whenever his
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-24

pay a heavy price for being
McCarthy's right-hand man.
Although Cohn and his fam
lily are orthodox Jews they are
now being blackballed by many
Of their co-religionists. Justice
Cohn is said to have suffered
q heart attack last November
as a result of his grief over
the attitude of some who in
the past were his friends but.
who now scorned him because
of Roy's position in Washing
ton.
According to some "out-
siders" who were in close con-
tact with the Mccarthy COM
mittee when it was conducting
Investigations of the Fort
Monmouth case in New York,
many of the charges and
countercharges contained in
the memoranda of the Army
Department and of the Nc
earthly committee were mostly
horseplay. Mccarthy and the
members of his staff, they say,
used to go to dinner and oc-
casionally to night clubs with
the representatives Of the
Army, including John G.
Adams. There was full har-
mony between them, these re-
ports say, and such exchanges
as I'VE are going to wreck the
Army If you don't treat our
Dave WE'LL" which were an
swered with HE David
Schine) is our hostage" were
quite frequent. Neither, re-
portedly. meant what they
said. The Mccarthy group
held the combat forces in high
regard. Joe" is proud of his
commission in the Marines.
Schine was no draft dodger.
After being rejected by the
Army during the war because
of a floating spinal disk he
joined the Merchant Marine.
Cohn himself tried twice to
get into West Point, preferring
the military to the legal career.
Nobody can, of course, alb
solve Cohn and Mccarthy of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-24
Dorothy Thompson
Revolution Is Never Unlimited
International ConsPirotors Require Drastic National
Breakdown for Initiating Successful Social Upheovo

The two most incipiently
revolutionary spots outside the
Communist orbit are Italy and
Japan. They are not so be-
cause of strongly organized
Communist parties. The
parties are strong because a
condition favorable to extreme
measures exists. ~
Italy, a country about the.
size of California. has a popu-
lation between a third and
fourth as large as that of the
United States, annually ex-
banding at rate approaching
half a million. Except in the
Pc Valley, it has little fertile
land. Apart from electric
power it has no industrial raw
materials. What little coal
it possessed now belongs to
Yugoslavia, a relatively under
populated country With large
mineral resources.
Until World War I, Italy
mitigated this problem by ex-
porting it's population. either
to colonies in North Africa or
to the Americas. Now emf
grafton is reduced to a tricke
and the North African colonies
have been liquidated.
Japan, with a rapidly grow
ing population half the size Of
that of the United States, like
wise without adequate land or
resources for industrial devel-
opment. has been augmented
by 8 million returnees forced
to leave the Pacific areas,
some of which had been COL
onized by japanese as far back
as the 4th century. How are
these people, in the long run.
going to live?
Senator Mccarthy wants the
United States to cancel aid to
any nation that trades with
Red China. With just whom
shall Japan trade to survive?
Will the United States Senate
throw the American market
open to japanese goods?
Japan, with American con-
sent, is even exporting stra-
tegic materials, such as steel,
to Red China. What solution
do those who oppose it offer?
Revolution in Japan?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-24

A notion prevails that ele-
mentary social upheavals are
successfully accomplished by
little groups of international
conspirators, and that if ma
lions could rid themselves of
these they would Danish the
specter of revolution and the
world would settle down into
comfortable stability. This. 1t
seems to me, Is a naive view.
The Communists, a thor
oughly disciplined. interna-
tional organization. are experts
on capturing leadership if or
when a national breakdown
occurs. An organization per-
petually ready for such oppor-
tunities, it nevertheless needs
the breakdown previous to
action.
Such breakdowns occur when
traditional leadership proves
incapable of dealing with ele-
mentary problems of national
and human survival. The
condition may be created by
the chaos arising from a
long -drawn-out and hopeless
war and the incompetence Of
leadership to win or end it.
The INTERPOLATION of war and
revolution has been demon
strated throughout history. In
our own times the Russian and
Chinese revolutions are the
results of two wars.
Blind elementary upheavals
also may be precipitated by a
temporary economic collapse
if accompanied by paralysis
of will and action in public
leadership.
Or it may be the culmina-
ton of incapacity to solve
more fundamental problems
more fundamental because
they are insoluble by peaceful
means within the capacity of
any government, the problems
being not temporary but en-
demic.
OF all such problems the
most fundamental is the pres
sure of population upon the
resources necessary to sustain
life at a humanity tolerable
level. In such a condition a
vital nation that has not set
tied into stagnant squalor
either expends its means of
subsistence by war or explodes
internally as a preface to ex-
pansion.
Statesmen whose object Is
to prevent war and revolution
must therefore create policies
which offer mitigation of this
problem.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-24
c Constantine Brown

Regardless of the outcome
of the rumpus between the
Army Department civilian
leaders and Senator Mccarthy.
the sub C o m m / t tees chief
counsel, Roy Cohn, is deter
mined to leave his present
post. It brought him much
less income than he could have
earned in private law prac-
tice and many more headaches
than he had bargained for.
i His youth and, to some, his
offensive cocksureness not
withstanding, Roy Cohn is a
brilliant attorney. At 81 he
has to his credit the success
full prosecution of William
Remington, former Commerce
Department official; the grand
jury presentment regarding
the presence of American
Communists in the United
Nations and the grand jury
indictment for perjury Of the
former Johns Hopkins pro-
fessor and specialist in Mon
golian affairs, owen Latti-
more, a case which is still
pending before the United
States Court Of Appeals. I
AS one of the many assist
ants to the Attorney General.
in charge of prosecutions.
Cohn could also have had a
spectacular career in the JUS
tice Department. Before he
Joined Senator McCarthy's
staff as chief counsel, a Demo-
cratic Senator from the West
who had followed his rise with
interest advised him not to
accept the offer and to con-
tinue for a while his career as
a prosecutor. The Senator
warned that the fact that he
and his father, justice of the
Appellate Court Of New York.
were registered as Democrats
would not shelter him from
bitter attacks as soon as he
was caught in the slightest
error. Coin was also admon-
ished that he might have to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-24
Doris Fheeson-
Situation in Indo-Chino Is Grim
No Public Issue Compares in Importance but Signs Indicate
1t Is Late in the Day to Muster Support for Action

worthy and important aside
from its political impact, is
reaching the congressional
calendars. Any hint of war
would swamp it, of course. No
one would suggest that the
President would put politics
ahead of his duty, yet he can
not be unmindful Of the ap-
preaching elections in which
his control of Congress is at
stake.
Public apathy and lack of
information about how serious
the Indo-China situation is,
the cool reluctance Of Con-
gress to share the burden
these are things. too, the Pres
ident must contend with. The
process of education is already
too long delayed and now it
is strictly up to him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-24
Correction

In the column by David
Lawrence appearing in The
Star of Monday, March %. 1t
was stated that the Army De-
partment's memorandum on
Cohn and Schine was clan
deStinely sent to IA Democrats
and only one Republican on
Capitol Hill by the Office of the
Secretary Of the Army"
That statement was ques-
toned and in response to in
quiries by The Star, Assistant
Secretary of Defense Fred
Seaton said that the memo
randum In question was de-
livered to Senators Potter,
Mcclellan. Holland, Mccarthy,
jackson, Smathers, Bush. Rus
sell, Symington, Mundt and
Dirksen, and to Representa-
tives Short and Hess. The re-
cipients were about evenly di-
vided between Democrats and
Republicans. Subsequently, the
same memorandum was de-
livered to six other Republican
Senators.
Mr.. Lawrence acknowledged
his misunderstanding in a note
to The Star. ~
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-24

Measures taken by the Allies
after World War II totally
ignored this basic cause of war
and revolution. Overcrowded
West Europe was augmented
from the more sparsely settled
agricultural East European
areas: East Germany, Hun
gary, Romania, Czechoslo-
vakia, Yugoslavia. Venetia
Guilia. Why?
."Why?" during the war was
the unasked question.
Great problems are not
solved by psychological war
fare" but by foresighted poll
icies.. If blind policies create
relief rolls, with internal ex-
plosions as the alternative, the
have" nations liquidate an
international WPA at their
peril.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-24

A really startling number of
experienced members of Con-
gress who have led in the for
eign policy and defense fields
calmly say they regard Geneva
as the first step toward rec
ognition of Red China.
For every reason, the deci-
sions President Eisenhower
must make are cruel. The Ko-
rean truce proved how sick
and tired he is of bloodletting
and how he would hate to let
the country in for more Of it.
He approved it despite warnings
that an Indo-C China truce with
the Reds and its eventual loss
were a probable corollary.
The need for action comes
just as the Eisenhower pro-
gram, which to him seems so
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-24
RoyCohn Determined to Resiqn
His Family Is Reported to Have Suffered as Result
OF His Position on McCorthy's Subcommittee

their agerness to make
Schine's life easier as a buck
private. The files Of the Pen.
tagon will show. If Mccarthy
asks that they be offered in
evidence. that large number
Of Senators, Representatives
and even important members
of the White House star have
interviewed with the military to
either obtain an untimely pro-
motion, q transfer from an UNI
pleasant assignment or special
privileges for sons or other
relatives. This has been done
throughout the world ever
since regular armies have been
in existence.
Cohn and his boss made
the mistake. of asking for
minor advantages for Schine.
in the face of a special situa-
ton. Because of the highly
controversial nature Of the
committees work. all its
members should have remem-
bered that they must be as
much above reproach as
Caesars wife. They should
have known that the slightest
faux pas. warranting normally
only mild criticism, would be-
come in their special case q
major misdemeanor. The
vociferous and powerful groups
that attempted to make a case
against Mccarthy when there
was no justification, such as
his war record. were sure to
raise a hue and cry when they
discovered that some evening
passes. had been sought for
one of the members of the
staff of the controversial
Senator.
But it is young Cohn who
is likely to pay the heaviest
price for the broken pots.
Mccarthy is certain to stand
by him. But few, if any, mem
bers of the seven-man COM
mittee will adopt a similar
attitude. They don't want to
hurt him. But they will give
a sigh of relief the day he
presents his resignation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-24
Thomas [. Stokes
Douglas Likes Air
Canal Hike Makes Sense
As Mccarthy Row Continues

Associate Justice William o.
Douglas of the Supreme Court
seems to be making much
more sense than some other
folks in Washington just now.
Bill" Douglas, the globe
girdling mountain climber, is
leading party of mixers from
Cumberland. Md, toward this
city along the towpath Of the
old Chesapeake and Ohio.
Canal built by George Wash
ington. He's not out just walk
ing for his health, though he
appears to be enjoying it, from
the dispatches we get back
daily in our local papers. He's
trying to prove that the old
canal, which parallels the Po-
tomac River, and it's beautiful
rustic setting should be left as
it is, in its natural state. in
stead of becoming the route
of a modern automobile high
way.
It's a long walk to prove
anything, some 189 miles or
Whereabouts. But, anyhow, he
and his companions are out in
the open and, however the
argument comes out, it will re-
suit in something useful. No
matter whether the scenery is
left for the hardy nature low
ers or is opened to many more
folks who prefer to take their
scenery from an automobile
window rather than on the
hoof.
It makes much more sense
than the extended melo-
drama that is playing itself
out here day after day over the
row between Senator Joe Nc
earthly and his investigating
subcommittee counsel, Roy D.
Cohn. on one hand, and Sec
rotary of the Army Stevens and
his administrative assistant,
John Adams. on the other.
We Americans can make
mole hills into mountains, and
be so deadly serious about it.
That's a national trait. But it
is doubtful if ever in our his
tory, going clear back to the
time when George Washington
was busy about that canal,
there has been anything to
match the preliminaries for the
coming Senate investigation, or,
as 1t is sometimes called, the
Showdown" between the Nc
Carthy-Cohn team and that
from the Army.
What's It all about?
It's about how Messrs. Nc
earthly and Cohn plagued the
Army about special favors and
privileges for a rich private
who got caught in the tolls of
the Army, G. David Schine,
Pvt. Schine happened to be a
member of Senator McCarthy's
investigating staff before the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-24

name comes up. I made It
clear that. as far as I was con-
cerned, I don't personally
care what treatment they give
Schine. and that. as far as ]
was concerned, he was In the
Army. I did say I thought it
wasn't fair of them to take it
out on Schine because we were
investigating the Army, or to
keep using it to try to stop our
investigations. I told him the
only contact we were author
lied to have with him about
Schine was on Investigations
committee business.
my telling him this does
no real good. as he constantly
Jumps together all his talk
about Schine with suggestions
that we stop holding hearings
on the Army. I am convinced
that they will keep right on
trying to blackmail us as long
as Schine is in the Army"
The foregoing will be sworn
to by Mr.. Carr. But it is also
possible that his interpreta-
ton of the motive back of the
conversations about Schine is
as faulty as are some Of the
interpretive statements in the
Army's report.
Thus, on December 10, 1853,
in the Army's document an
emphasis Is given to some
things that really may have
occupied much less attention
at the time or could easily
have been forgotten weeks
later. The report says:
"At Senator McCarthy's re-
quest, Secretary Stevens and
Mr.. Adams lunched with SEN
ator Mccarthy and Mr.. Fran
els Carr at the Carroll Arms.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-24
Schine Case Called Exaggerated
After All testimony Is Token, Evidence Is ExPecte.
ToShow That No One Committed Any Crimes

According to Mr.. Carr, Mr..
Cohn was too upset. to attend
the lunch because Of the Pvt.
Schine situation and the
Army's unwillingness to settle
on Pvt. Schine's future assign
ment, and had departed for
New York Immediately after
the conclusion Of the morning
hearings"
Now, what were the facts?
Was this all they talked about
at lunch? Mr.. Cohn was up
set, but about what2 On that
day. Mr.. COINS father had
suffered a heart attack and he
rushed back to New York.
Mr.. Carr will doubtless have
sworn testimony on what he
did say to Mr.. Adams about
this
Another portion of the Army
report gives an altogether err
roneous impression, for in
stance, by emitting to give the
details of what was actually
discussed and leaving the in
ference that the subject talked
about was the very one re-
ferred to in previous sections
of the report. The Army's
memorandum of February Is,
1854, says:
''Mr. Carr stated that If the
Army would be reasonable,
probably the committee would
be reasonable. Mr.. Adams
inquired how Mr.. Carr thought
that the Army should be
reasonable and Mr.. Carr an
swered rather facetiously that.
If the Army would only do all
that had been requested Of it.
the Army'S problems would
be at an end"
Now. any person reading
that section Of the report
would assume this was q ref
erence to requests from COM
mittee staff members in the
past concerning the treatment
of Pvt. Schine. Actually the
Schine matter had nothing to
do with 1t. The subject under
discussion was how to set up a
meeting of the Senate sub
committee at which the Army
would produce certain wit
nesses desired by the commit
tee, and the issue was which
side would try to meet the
convenience of the other or
try to satisfy the requests of
the other. The reference did
not concern the Schine situa-
ton, but many readers have
jumped to the conclusion that
here was a bit of bargaining
on q matter relating to
Schine's assignment or his
treatment in the Army.
When all the facts are
brought out in sworn testi-
mony. the basis for the conflict
will readily be understood and
the whole episode will prove
to have been given exagger-
ated Importance.
iReproduetion Rights Reserved.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-24

Army caught up with him. as
it does eventually with every
mothers son of US, sooner or
later. But not, for the rest Of
us. with privileges and week.
end passes added.
It seems to be established
that special favors were sought,
and sought necessarily. for
Pvt. Schine, at least from the
Army's own play-by-play rec
ord. Lots of people are ready
to accept that. and wonder
why Mr.. Cohn wasn't just fired
summary by the subcommit-
tee. and Senator Mccarthy
censured. either by the COM
mittee or the Senate, or both,
and the Army also singled out
for criticism for giving in to
the political pressure.
So now We have it, day after
day.
Solemn meetings of the SUBJ
committee, now directed tenn
porarily by Senator Mundt.
Republican. of South Da-
kota, to talk for hours about
the niceties of the coming
hassle over Pvt. Schine and his
special privileges. The sub
committee must have a special
counsel. Yes sir. So a subcom-
mittee of the subcommittee
was delegated to pick an
eminent lawyer to abandon
whatever important work he
might be doing and conduct
this momentous case. Another
subcommittee of the subcom-
mittee was named to puzzle
about procedure. Should Sem
ator Mccarthy be permitted to
sit on his own investigat-
ing subcommittee investigating
Senator Mccarthy? The an
swer seems plain-but not to
Senators who must think in
curves their wonders to per-
form. Shall Senator Mccarthy
be allowed to cross-examine
witnesses? The answer seems
clear there. too, if you are to
hire eminent counsel for that
job. Except to the Senate.
Some fine day or other we'll
get all these questions settled
and get down finally to the
gigantic problem before the
Nation, to wit:
How come Private Schine
got all those privileges and my
boy got none?"
Somehow it's much more
refreshing to think Of Justice
Douglas and his companions
walking along the old canal.
taking in the beauties of ma
ture. And that calls up another
nature lover of long ago. a
fellow named Thoreau, who
once wrote, as he was recount
ing the miracles Of nature:
Much more is adding than
Congress wotS Of"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-24
Weather Bureau 10 Issue
Improved Forecasts
BY the Associated Press

The Weather Bureau said to-
day it will open a revised and
more informative farm weather
forecast program on April /.
On that date, the bureau said,
the agricultural weather fore.
cast program for this years crop
growing season will begin over
most of the country. =.
1t said the program has been
redesigned to deliver weather
information to farm homes early
in the day. Main forecasts will
be put on the air through local
radio stations from 6 to 8 am.
local time.
The bureau said it would try
to provide more information on
winds, drying conditions and the
extent of cloudiness or clear
skies for three days ahead.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-24
By Tom Burke

Washington has super sales
man today. He'll direct the
Board of Trades efforts to bring
new business to the city.
Albert E. Baker, A, Of Nor
folk, Va. has been named to
the post, according to Harry L.
Merrick, president Of the board.
A native of the Eastern Shore
and a graduate Of schools in
Salisbury, Md, Mr.. Baker was
industrial engineer for the Nor
folk Industrial Commission from
1949 until his resignation last
Friday.
He was graduated from WASH
ington College, Chestertown,
Md, with majors in chemistry
and mathematics.
$4,000 Yearly Budget.
Mr.. Bakers appointment i'm
plements the Trade Boards
plan to enter the race with
other major cities seeking to
bolster their basic economy. He
will have a budget of about
5000 a year for the next three
years with which to promote
Washington's economic advan-
tageS.
i A big factor in the job he has
undertaken, Mr.. Baker said yes
terday. will be the development,
under one cover, Of a great deal
of basic data about the District
and its surrounding area.
How many people live in q
100-mile radius, what are the
average weather conditions, what
is the spending potential here,
what is the condition of the wa
ter supply and myriad other
questions will have to be an
swered," he said.
/ Personal Follow Up.
Once these answers are gotten
land furnished to q specific bust
ness enterprise the follow UP will