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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-01
David Lawrence
Just Another Armonents Race?
Once Again. Each Side Feels the Other Will Be frightened
Into SeIf-Restroint, but That Has Never Happened

mo more world wars?"
That's the wiShful query which
the terrifying tests Of the H
bomb has propounded, but
there is nothing in human ex-
perience which indicates that
nations have ever been scared
into peace just because terrible
weapons have been invented.
After the close of World
War I, the late President Will
son made speeches about the
awful bombing and devasta-
ton that would come if an
other world war were fought.
and he told his audiences Of
the new inventions of weapons
of horror-the block busters
that would kill civilians-but
these didn't stop World War II
from breaking out.
The alternate testing of the
H-bomb by Soviet Russia and
by the United States is remi-
niscent of every armament
race in history. Each side
thinks the other will be fright
ened into self-reStraint and
that aggression will never
occur again. But it does. And
the reason it does is that
neither side, when it starts a
little war or defends itself
against a local aggression.
thinks the conflict will develop
into anything bigger.
The most conspicuous fact
about today's situation in the
world is that neither Soviet
Russia nor the United States
will want to use the H-bomb,
but nobody can be sure that
either side will not do so if it
thinks it must defend itself
against the use of such a
weapon by the enemy.
The Secretary of Defense
has said that he cannot imag-
inc the United States develop
ing atomic weapons and not
using them. Admiral Radford,
chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff, says that if there Is
to be any limitation Of aUna-
ment by agreement, It Can
not be on the basis of atomic
weapons only, and that there
must be limitation on ground
armies as well and on conven-
tional weapons. too.
This is an important obser-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-01
Lowell WeHett-
Political Blight Plaques Housing
Administrations Modest Program Encounters Trouble;
DisiIIusioning Experience for Housing Commissioner

On Monday Charles E. Slus-
ser, Commissioner of Public
Housing in the Eisenhower
administration, made a speech
in Akron, Ohio, his home town.
There he had engaged in the
real estate business and, for
10 years, had been Mayor. He
had come on this occasion to
preach the gospel of low-rent
public housing to his fellow
citizens. including the local
real estate board, hostile like
most such boards to public
housing. This hostility had
prevented his achieving a pub
lie housing and slum clearance
program for Akron during his
years as Mayor. Still hopeful,
however, he told the Akron
folks what he had found in
other cities that had taken
advantage of the Federal as
sistance program to rehabili-
tate their blighted areas. He
told of reduced expenditures
for police. health, fire and
other services, and of actual
benefits to the real estate
business as well as the COM
munity at large. At one point
he became eloquent, saying:
THE vast new suburbs that
have spearheaded postwar
housing construction have
caught the public eye. They
have given the impression
that housing today is riding
the crest of dream ramblers
and ranch houses-that urban
America is sitting comfort
ably behind picture window
looking out upon f1agstone
patios and grills. Unfortu-
nately. the fact is, too much Of
America looks through broken
windows at outhouses and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-01

financial. moral and political
aid but with military help only
where Americas vital interests
demand it.
This is the most important
statement of American policy
that could be made at the mo-
ment. It is an authoritative
pronouncement of how the
United States plans to help
enforce world peace. But the
President was careful to point
out that each case has its own
degree of risk for the United
States and each must be met
on it's merits, and he would
not generalize.
Such a announcement wise
ly leaves unanswered the ques-
ton of when America will re-
fuse to be drawn further into
a lot of local wars and will
consider what can be done to
cure the infection at its source.
This is what massive retalia-
tion," as proclaimed by Secre-
tary Dulles, could mean and,
despite criticism here and there
from the appeasers or the poll
ticians who feel they must
oppose for partisan reasons
American military and foreign
policy, the decision will stick.
Soviet Russia is on notice that
she cannot expect to drain
American resources and those
Of the free world by a series of
local wars like Korea without
running the risk of drastic ac-
ton being taken against her.
self as a partner in any future
aggreSSionS.
War is a terrible thing, but
America is not going to follow
the pacif1st line and find her
self eventually dragged into
war anyhow. The sureSt de-
terrent to a world war is ade-
quate preparation militarily.
a resolute and clear-cut policy
announced in advance to the
world, and our willingness to
go to war, If need be, no
matter what the cost, if the
enemy takes steps that really
threaten our safety. President
Eisenhower is a military man.
He doesn't want war, but he
doesn't think it can be avoided
merely by hoping the devil
will become a saint.
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program was being kicked
around. In the House the pro-
posal to build $4,000 units a
year for four years was changed
to provide a total of $4,000 in
two years and no more to be
built thereafter. This was en-
bodied in a huge appropria-
ton bill covering a number
of Government agencies. The
all-powerful Rules Commit
tee, however. had sent it to
the floor without any rule
protecting it against points of
order. and enemies of public
housing promptly raised the
point that the housing provi-
sion constituted legislation.
not permissible in an appro-
priation bill.
However, it developed that
the opposition maneuver was
fruitleSS, as the Controller
General ruled that commit
ments already made for $4,000
units this year are legal and
must be fulfilled. Legislative
authority for extension of the
program will be asked.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-01

sacrificial resistance in the
event of a Red onslaught.
Had the French politicians
been less self-centered and
more trusting Of the American
and British assurances that
they will be fully protected
against German aggression in
the dim future, the NATO
forces would have been in q
considerably stronger position
already. But France appears to
remain adamant. Her lead
ers make the urgency of this
matter conditional on all kinds
of extraneous matters: Con-
cessions in the Saar. legalistic
protocols, and so on, which
have no relation to the i'm
mediate and dangerous situa-
ton.
The crisis in Indo- China
may reach a climax which
may compel us to rush actual
military forces of our own.
The opponents of such an ac-
ton in Congress have a strong
point. They say that, under
the present political circum-
stances, it would appear to all
the Asiatics that the United
States is intervening in q fight
to maintain French colonial
ism. Our past support Of
Frances objections to the eff
forts Of the Moroccans and
the Tunisians to bring the
question of their sovereignty
before the United Nations may
confirm this feeling of the
ASiatlcs.
There would be only slight
opposition in this country to
saving Southeast Asia from the
Communists if the Indo- Chi
nese themselves asked us to
intervene. The present admin
istration has done it's utmost
to convince the Paris govern
ment to give full sovereignty
to Wet Nam, Cambodia and
Laos. but 1t met with a blank
wall. The peoples of these
states are fighting only half
heartedly against the Com
munists because they do not
consider themselves masters in
their own country. They feel,
by and large, that they are
called to fight their own coun-
trymen in behalf of the ma
ton which has occupied them
for nearly a century and a
half. If France were to remove
the stigma of puppets" from
the established governments of
the Associated Nations, there is
no doubt that the Indo- Chinese
would fight more enthusiast
tically. Moreover, the ideolog-
ical obstacles for an about
American intervention would
be removed. France apparent
ly has no such intentions, how
ever. And her stubbornness in
this matter renders our own
and our allies position In the
Pacific DANGEROUS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-01

shacks and upon despairing
humans. This is the blighted
panorama that stretches from
the downtown shops and
theaters all the way out to
the nicer residential districts
And a great part of the Ma
tons $500 billion investment
in urban property comprises
this bleakness. To the average
commuter these slums and
blighted areas assure the
chance to read the morning
paper without missing any
thing worth looking at out of
the window. / say that it's
high time the commuter put
down his paper and took a
good hard look. He is paying
for that drab scene"
Using an argument made
familiar during the days when
the New Deal launched the
first Federal housing program.
he said:
I'm Atlanta, for example,
slums consumed So per cent
of city services and paid less
than 6 per cent of the real
estate tax. In Baltimore every
acre of slum produced a deficit
of $4,000 per year. In Biz
mingham % slum areas cost
three times their revenues. It's
the same story everywhere,
differing only in degree"
He explained the Eisen-
hover program. providing for
$4,000 units of public housing
for each of the next four
years, and detailed the elab-
crate provisions against UNI
fair competition with the pri-
vate housing industry.
It was q brave effort on
the part of Akron's former
Mayor. but even as he was
talking his whole housing
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-01
Lite in the u. S.
Whe's ANerqy
To Husband
Wins Divorce
BY the Assoeioted Press

| LOS ANGELES, April Am
allergic wife, Mrs. Rose S. Save
nick, "a, won a divorce yesterday
on testimony that she developed
a rash at the mere sight of her
husband, Jerome Savenick, 30
year-old attorney.
II became allergic to him." she
testified, because of his abusive,
belligerent and offensive treat
ment. I would break out into
a rash all over my face and body.
My face became so swollen once
that I could hardly see for about
three months"
The court approved a settle
ment giving Mrs. Savenick So, $50
in lieu of alimony and $50 a
month support for their son
Philip, 2. The Savenicks were
married in 1947.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-01
Constantine Brown
French BottIeneck
France Blamed for Fact Allied Forces
In Europe Are Too Weak for Reds

There is increasing irritation
in official Washington over the
irresponsible and selfish atti-
tude OF France in European
and ASiatic affairs. The French
cabinets demotion of Mar
shall JUN is a reaction to this
American feeling that is be-
ing watched here with inter-
est, but not too much hope.
The world is sitting on a vol
cano which threatens to erupt
any day. Moscow and Peiping
are continuing their ruthless
drive, for world domination.
Conditions in Indo- China have
become such that it is now
open talk in Washington.
particularly after Secretary
Dulles Monday night speech
in New York, that before long
we. may have to intervene with
ground forces in Southeast
Asia.
Most American military men
are convinced that any action
on our part in one area, say
Indo- China, would. call for a
Red counteraction not only in
the Far East but in the West
as well.
The Soviets have frightened
their grip on Europe. The re-
cent creation of a sovereign"
East German Republic may be
described as propaganda pop
pycock. The measures now
taken to implement it, how
ever, give the East Germans a
feeling that they are slaves
of their own German regime
and not that of an alien power.
More important Is the fact
that the East German Peoples
Republic has now a full
f1edged army Of her own and
compulsory military service
has been introduced, just like
the old days when these Prus-
SLAMS and Saxons were free.
We may scott at. this empty
gesture" but we must remem-
Der that the German martial
spirit has not been eliminated
either by defeat or occupation.
In event of a general con-
flagration we may be sure that
the East German army of 100.-
900 well trained and equipped
men will march and fight we'll.
Let's not be mistaken about
what makes people tick: They
are on the side of the strong
est. And the Muscovites APP
pear the strongest to them
now.
We could have countered
this move had we succeeded in
convincing our French friends
that the Bonn republic be given
full sovereignty and a national
army. For two years we have
begged, cajoled and warned
the succeeding French govern
ments to accept the formula
proposed by their own leaders
and allow the creation of IL
West German. divisions to take
their place within the Euro
pean army for the defense Of
the West. A treaty to that eff
feet was signed two years ago,
but Frances Parliament has
not ratified it. It looks as if
there will be no early ratifica-
ton of the EDO.
The wanton procrastination
on the part Of the French
places us in a definite position
of inferiority vis-a-vis the Reds
in Europe. Despite many OPP
timistic official statements that
the NATO forces are in excel
lent shape to meet their task.
there is not a single sober mind
among the Western military
who believes. that the allied
forces in Germany and across
the Rhine are sufficiently
strong to- put up more than a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-01
DORIS FLeeSon-
Lindsay Worren's Successor
Controller Generals Impending Retirement Stimulates
Efforts in Behalf of Cole and Trice

named, and Republicans are
divided on the appointment.
While most House Republic
cans are for their colleague,
there is one important excep-
ton, Representative Dan Reed,
the tax-cutting chairman of
the powerful House Ways and
Means Committee. Mr.. Reeds
son. William Reed. is Senate
majority clerk. It is under
stood that he will at least be
considered to succeed Mr..
Trice in the pleasant post of
Secretary to the Senate should
Mr.. Trice get the Controllers
job.
Mr.. Warren, who is retiring
because of i'll health. suited
Congress so well they have
already pensioned him. In his
case congressional leaders in
sisted unanimously in 1910
that a President-RooSev
name him. Mr.. Roosevelt
liked the then Representative
from North Carolina, but Mr..
Warren was a fiscal conserva-
tive and the New Deal had had
a lot of trouble with the late
j. r. McCarl, who held the
post in the early New Deal
days.
New Dealers wanted a New
Dealer, but Congress won out.
1t got just what it had speci-
fed. Tough, but fair, indie
pendent and industrious, Mr..
Warren laid about him when
ever he saw anything wrong,
irrespective of persons or par
ties. He retires after nearly
IA years with the thanks of
the Republic.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-01

walton because obviously If
H-bombs and A-bombs were
to be outlawed or by mutual
consent withheld from en-
ployment, just as was the case
with poison gas in World War
II. the superior strength of
Soviet RuSSia's ground armies
would be decisive in Europe.
The new look" for Amer
ica's military establishment
has been predicated on the use
of atomic weapons. Air power
has been strengthened on the
theory that America must be
able, If necessary, to carry the
bomb from overseas bases and
from the decks Of naval air.
craft carriers. If the big
bombs were outlawed, it would
mean a complete revision of
the military setup of the
United States. This, accord
ing to the President, is not
contemplated.
But. even assuming that
neither side wants to start a
big war. the danger is that
Soviet Russia might continue
to carry on the cold war" by
intensifying the war in Indo-
China so that it becomes a
second Korea. What then
would American policy be?
Former Secretary of State
Acheson has stated publicly
his belief that America must
be resigned to little wars and
particularly to more wars like
Korea. But President Eisen-
hover has, in effect. repudi-
ated the Acheson concept. At
the Wednesday press confer
ence, the President was asked
If American troops were to
be deployed all around the
world. He answered that he
can conceive of no greater dis
advantage to America than to
be employing its own ground
forces. and any other kind of
forces, in great numbers
around the world meeting
each little situation as 1t
arises.
Gen. Eisenhower added that
the United States is trying to
make her friends strong
enough to take care of local
situations by themselves with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-01
Fletcher KnebeI-
Potomac Fever.

Secretary Dulles tells the Communists that they push
farther Asia they'll be That's the odate model of
old diplomatic device; known ultimatom.
British surprised learn Dulles has included them
against Reds He's lawyer When
he wants volunteers he subpoenas
Those forthcoming pictures Hbast said to
be in process. 4-D. Death, destruction and devasa
tion-de- classified.
Senator symington calling budget too small.
says period Of total danger Things little
better that than said they when he Air Secretary
Secretary butter
his difference he except in
election years.
British poll shows the people know DR. Knsey just well
as they know Mccarthy That's funny We heard Of
Kinsey taking testimony television .E.>
Battesips Wisconsin New Jersey and Iowa said to be
headed mothbas the Republicans lost elections
n two Of those States. what's Iowa done wrong?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-01
President Clamps Quota
On Rye Products Imports

President Eisenhower has
clamped a quota on imports Of
rye. rye flour and rye meal.
A proclamation issued late yes
terday said the quota limitation
was necessary to prevent i'm
ports from materially interfering
with the domestic price support
program for rye.
The proclamation puts into
effect previous recommendations
of the Tariff Commission. 1t
provides for an import quota Of
81 million pounds of rye. rye
flour and rye meal from today
until June 30. and for 1876 mil
lion pound quota for the IL
months beginning July /.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-01

ring a few days ago, she decided
to go along with the gag. Later
she took another look at the
toy" It was real diamond.
She called the boys mother,
who had been worried since she
misplaced" the ring after taking
it off to wash some clothes.
Everything's all right now,
Mrs. Sweigert said. Mark has
his eye on 5-year-old blond"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-01
Struw in Snowtime

DES MONIES (P).-A fellow
sauntered up to the receptionist
at the State Safety Department
offices the other day and asked
if any one had found his straw
hat.
It seemed to Receptionist Ora
Garrett a foolish question. since
snow blanketed the out-of doors
at the time. But she made a
search in the departments lost
and-found division.
Sure enough, there was the
mans hat.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-01
Doris FIeeson-

President Eisenhower's own
preference for Controller
General of the United States
to succeed Lindsay Warren is
Representative Sterling Cole
of New York, chairman of the
Joint Committee on Atomic
Energy.
Mr.. Cole is the choice also
of $50 members of the House
who have signed a petition
asking the President to appoint
him. It is their view that in
his 19 years in the House he
has not only acquired the
necessary experience. but has
demonstrated the toughness
of fibre a fiscal watchdog must
have.
Mr.. Coles stumbling block is
a commitment to Mark Trice,
Secretary of the Senate. on the
part of the principal Eisen-
hover leaders in the Upper
Chamber. Senator Bridges,
chairman of Appropriations, is
one of these and last summer
secured a Trice Endorsement
from the Policy Committee.
Senators like Mr.. Trice, a
career employe in their service
who began as a page, and they
are reluctant to take sides pub
hcly in the present backstage
maneuvering.
Privately. senior members
have done a good deal of talk
ing about the situation. The
few who are willing to say
that Mr.. Trice is not in their
opinion sufficiently formida-
BILE for the job are Demo-
Gratis.
There Is nothing personal in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-01
CreditubIe Crush i.

KALAMAZOO. Mich. (P.-
Her car brakes wouldn't work.
So Mrs. Nellie Mohney, 38, de-
liberately drove into a heavy
steel post yesterday, avoiding
a collision at a congested
street intersection.
Mrs. Mohney not only es-
capped serious injury but got
official compliments from the
Police Department.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-01
Gen. GoethoIs Honored

BALBOA HEIGHTS. Canal
Zone. April l ga memorial
to the builder of the Panama
Canal. Maj. Gen. George w.
Goethals, was dedicated yester-
day by his son, DR.. Thomas r.
Goethals of Boston, who pulled
a rope which unveiled a marble
shaft. President Eisenhower
sent a message and President
Jose Antonio Remon of the Re-
public of Panama was q guest
Of honor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-01
Admiral Briscoe Wins
DSM for Korean Work
By The Associated Press

TOKYO, April 1.-Vice Ad-
miral Robert P. BriScoe was
awarded the Distinguished Serv-
ice Medal today for his work
as commander of United States
Far East naval forces.
The citation praised the three
star naval commander for "the
absolute supremacy of the seas
attained by his forces" during
the Korean war. He has been
reassigned to Washington as
deputy chief of naval operations
for fleet operations and readi-
ness,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-01
Swain FLIGHTS Troth

TROY, Ohio (P.-Mrs. Flea
nor Sweigart was f1attered when
one of her pupils in the first
grade at Kyle Elementary School
told her he loved her.
She says 6-year-old Mark (she
doesn't want to embarrass him
by giving his last name) often
would approach her shyly and
say:
Remember me? I'm the one
who is going to marry YOU"
Or, "You wait for me. I'm
getting taller, don't you Think
And, she said yesterday, when
Mark handed her an engagement
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-01

their attitude. They simply
recall that the object of Con-
gress in creating the Control
Ter Generals job in 1921 was
to get a monitor of fiscal af-
fairs who was experienced,
intrepid and above all, indie
pendent OF the executive
branch and transitory party
majorities They believe Mr..
Cole qualities. A Trice APP
pointment they would put
down as party patronage. de-
structive of the original prin-
cip1e.
To get the kind of man it
wanted. Congress fixed the
Controller Generals tenure
at Is years with a stipend Of
$17,500. This was social Sc
curity of a high order in those
days and still ranks with the
better jobs in Government.
1t is understood that Sena-
tor Byrd is deeply interested in
the filling of the Warren va
cancy. He is keeping his own
counsel. but in view of his
close and friendly relations
with the President. whom he
supported, it will be surpris-
ing if he does not get word to
him somehow about how he
and other congressional vet
Grams feel.
Perhaps better than any
other person in Congress, Sem
ator Byrd knows the work
done by the Controller Cen
eral.
1t Is obviously not a situa-
ton in which party lines can
be drawn. Democrats natu-
rally expect a Republican to be
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Death Row Novelist

SACRAMENTO. Calf. (P)s-
A San Quentin prisoner sched-
uled to die in the gas chamber
has written Gov. Goodwin j.
Knight-not for clemency but
for a plug for his book.
Caryl Chessman, "a, Los
Angeles lovers lane bandit
convicted of kidnap with
bodily harm, sent along galley
proofs with the notation:
Should you have any COM
ments to make, I know the
publishers would value them
most highly"
The Governors Office said
yesterday Gov. Knight hasn't
read the proofs and doesn't
know whether he'll do so.
Cheeseman's book-"Cell 2455,
Death Rows scheduled to
be published in July. But
Chessman is scheduled to be
executed next month.