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would total 81 million trained, or
ganized men in active units all
over the Nation by 1860.
Each branch of service could still
recruit long-term volunteers. And
che new draftees would draw straws
to see who would get two years
service and who would get four
months training.
RoA Comment
The organization most interested
In planning and maintaining
strong Reserve. the. Reserve Officers
Association. liked the Hannah plan;
BIT, Col. G. M. Boyer, ROA exec
utive director, pointed out. "All that
trouble Is unnecessary. They could
achieve the. same thing by imple-
nnenting the laws on the books, with
some small notifications
The ROA wants an organized,
equipped and trained Reserve. It
falls short in all three attributes at
present, Col Boyer believes. But
drafting and training of Reserves
and firm operational control of the
organization from the top of the
Pentagon, he believes, will solve the
problems. And this could be done
without elaborate new laws.
The NSTC likes the plan with one
reservation, according to Edgar G..
Shelton, jr.. executive director. The
group believes it is neither fair nor
practical to force veterans to be ac-
tive in the Reserves. An attractive
Reserve program, however, would
gain voluntary participation by vet
Grams, Mr.. Shelton believes.
Draft Chief Hershey. who must
produce the men,. says men will be
available for both programs in view
OF the expanding population, the
shrinking armed forces and backlog
of draft-age, deferred men (includ-
ing IL million men who became
fathers during Korea).
The NSTC points out that there
is surplus of men in the foresee-
able future-some 3.5 million men
will be of draft age and physically
At. but uncalled by 1860. These men
could profit from basic training ana
Reserve service.
The armed forces, on the topmost
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for information and propaganda
with those Of q federal security
office ="
At the time. this report was holly
denied in official quarters and when
Chancellor Adenauer last September
formed his second cabinet, it looked
like the unhappy DR.. LEM had been
left out In the cold. For the next
few months, the "superministry"
appeared to have been reburied for
good in the chancellery files.
Curiously enough, 1t was again Der
Spiegel which reported this devel-
opnent and gave q plausible ex-
PLANTATION of what had happened. In
an article about Robert Pferdmenges,
banker and influential "e1der states
man" In Bonn politics, who Is known
to be on intimate terms with Aden-
auer, the magazine reported on JAM
uary q, 1854: when State Secre-
tary Otto Lenz was planning his
ministry for information and propa-
ganda. which already has become
myth, Pferdmenges drily advised the
chancellor: This would be just about
the most stupid thing we could do
And so Lenz was out"
Another Chongs
But now, apparently, the situation
has changed again, for the latest
I news out of Bonn leaves no doubt
that DIR. LEM Is back and that his
questionable scheme, after an over
hauling that may have taken of
some of the sharp edges. is going
to be carried out after all. Signifi-
cantly, 1t has been reported from
Germany. in recent press dispatches.
that the original co-sponsor of the
LEM PLAN" DR.. Globke, at present
state secretary In the chancellery,
is to sit side by side with DR.. Lenz
on the new "co-ordinating commit
tee."
One important name also men
toned in the controversy that ragged
around the LEM plan" last year has
not yet popped up again SO far: Gen.
Reinhard Gehlen, head Of the West
German intelligence service, Accord
ing to the original story In Der,
Spie0el, Gen. Gehlen. an old
friend Of Globke's, was to be the
third man in the super-ministry, in
charge of security.
Although the present version Of
the LEM plan" about to be real
lied. 1t seems, is not nearly as OBJ
noxious as the one originally
planned, it still is very serious
matter. One can hardly blame the
German press for sounding the
alert. German editors, who lived for
IL years under the thumb OF q
minister propaganda and public
enlightenment" are susceptible TO
any indications of more of the same
to come. 1t is q healthy sign that
they are reacting, with near-una-
nimity. to this latest attempt by q
government TO gain control Of . free
press.
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recommendations. The NSTC rec
commended training and Reserve
program to fit the outline already
approved by Congress (adding one
new gimmick: Permit veterans in
the standby Reserves to be recalled
only by Selective Service. under
regular draft rules,
The ODM pretty much agreed.
but said 1t had doubts that enough
persons were available to run the
UNITS program and the draft ut
the same time.
DR.. Hannah and the ODM were
then asked to recommend pro-
gram. AS DR.. Hannah had been
critical of the UNITS plan in the
past. Washington was startled last
month when he and the ODM made
their recommendation-which was,
except for details. the long-dor-
nnant plan. M
The National Security Council
and White House are expected to
approve.
Honnoh's Plan
The program. as outlined by Dr..
Hannah, Is this:
Men needed by the Armed Forces
would be drafted and would serve
their two years. All other physically
and mentally fit young men would
be conscripted for q brief basic
training period perhaps four
months after which they would be
put into the Reserves to finish their
eight-year total military obligation.
Men finishing two years active serv-
ice also would go into the Reserves,
for six years. (They could choose the
National Guard rather than Re-
ServeS.l
Men who had been trained, but
had seen no combat, would go into
- "service-callable Reserve" to be
summoned first by the armed serv-
ices in time Of emergency. The COM
bat veterans would be put into a
MISUNDERSTANDING Reserve" to be
rnobilized If needed by the local
craft boards. with deferments and
exemptions granted just as to new
draftees.
It was estimated the Reserves
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effect when special code Of con-
duct for the trainees had been APP
proved by the Congress and when
the armed services decided all man..
power was not needed by the mill
tary.
All two-year draftees would have
six years Of active Reserve duty
alongside the trainees. The Reserve
would be divided into first and sec
ond line groups, readable In that
order.
Today, the lesson having been
learned and corrective measures hav-
ing been taken, the Reserve remains
essentially q long list of names.
wrong addresses and obsolete per-
Sonal histories.
Signal Not Given
The signal for setting up the
UNITS program was never given.
Therefore the undrafted men were
not trained and channeled into the
Reserves. Most veterans refused to
participate in the obviously made
quate program. neglected by the
Pentagon, while their young neigh
bors were given no military obliga-
lions.
An active, well-trained, organized
Reserve unit today is q rarity.
Last year. when the Korean war
ended, the new administration spoke
up for better Reserve but had no
time to reform the program. But
when the new look" military budget
began to take form last year, 1t be-
came obvious, according to Presi-
dent Eisenhower and Admiral Ar
thur Radford, chairman of the Joint
Chiefs Of Staff. that better Reserve
was essential. .
The budget called for gradual
reduction in armed strength from,
80 million men to about 2.8 Million,
q cut from 10 divisions to II. To
make up for that loss In standing
power, Congress was told, the, Re
serves would have to be strength
ened.
The President asked the National
Security Training Commission and
the Office of Defense Mobilization
to study the problem and make
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in the North African government
in-exile. The following year, he
went to Washington to take part in
the Breton Woods conference. On
his return to Algiers he was named
Minister of National Economy in
the provisional government.
About this time, M. Mendes-
France began to show what kind of
an economist he was. Drawing up
plans for Frances postwar economic
program, he included demand for
full authority to carry out pro-
gram of drastic reform. Among his
proposals: strict rationlng, freezing
of wages and salaries, a breakdown
on the black-market, national serv-
ice. reform of taxes, conf1scation Of
illegal profits. blocking of accounts
and the issuing of new currency. 1t
was too much for a government
which included Socialists and Com
munists to swallow. The Mendes-
France program was thrown out in
toto and the minister resigned.
In 1945, he was asked back by
Premier Gouin. His program hadn't
changed. But in addition to the
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Adenouer Plan
German Press Fears Another Revival
Of the Old Ministry Of Propaganda
By Joachim Joesten

Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's
long standing feud with the press
appears to be coming to q head.
German newspapers and magazines
Of all political shades are up In arms
against the Bonn governments al
legged attempt to set up q propa-
ganda ministry in disguise. Two of
the three principal political parties
in the Bundestag, the Social Demo-
Gratis, who are in the opposition, and
the Free Democrats, who are in the
government coalition, have already
manifested their diSpleasure.
On the surface, the project just
announced by the Adenauer govern
ment looks innocent enough. A
special committee is to be created
for the purpose Of "co-ordinating
the distribution and evaluation Of
government and parliamentary
news" All draft laws sponsored by
the administratio are to be sub
mitted to this committee which will
then map plans for popularizing the
proposed measures. These propa-
ganda campaigns will be financed
out of the Federal budget by means
of a special fund of many millions
Of marks.
According to current reports from
Bonn. this "co-ordinating commit
tee" Is to be headed by DR.. Otto
Lenz, 50-year-old former state secre-
tary in charge of the governments
press and information Office. He is
the original author and principal
prepayment of the controversial LEM
Plan" aimed at the establishment of
a "super-ministry," with virtually
dictatorial powers. From all indica-
tions. 1t is somewhat watered down
version of this plan that is now to be
put into effect via the backstairs. ;"
The Lenz Plan
The LEM Plan" was first
brought to public attention on
August %, 1853. by the German
newsmagazine Der Spiegel. In view
of what is now happening in Bonn,
some quotations from the uncannily
accurate forecast made by that
magazine are in order.
IF Konrad Adenauer. after the
general election, again. should form
a government for the next four
years" wrote Der Spiegel Just be-
fore the crucial poll that was to
become the Chancellor's biggest tri-
umph, two of his top aides, DR..
Hans ClObke and Dr Otto Tanz
will get out of their files, behind the
closed doors of the chancellery, far
reaching plans for the establish
nent of new authoritarian regime.
The two men propose to erect, be-
hind the scenes of parliamentary
government. and within the existing
constitutional framework, new
executive power controlled by them.
TO this end, they will set UP q super
ministry ... whose vast powers will
combine the functions Of Q ministry
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lations governing the registration of
Canadian brokers and stock issues
if the Canadian authorities would
straighten out their own house.
Since then the SEC has approved
more than 70 per cent of the stock
applications from Canada.
This working arrangement has
been to the benefit of both. coun-
tries. It has meant greater sales
by legitimate Canadian brokers,
who greatly outnumber the sharpers,
and higher influx of United States
investment capital. Conversely, it
has meant increased opportunities
for Americans to share in the
development Of Canadian resources.
ALI this the Reilly company was
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Pentogon Has New 50 Foior Solution to Reserve Mess
By Richord Fvklund

Announcement that the National
Security Council is putting finishing
touches on q new military Reserve
plan was greeted with mixture of
approval and evaporation by almost
all persons concerned.
I. Approval, because every one
thought it was on the whole good
plan: evaporation, because virtually
the same Reserve program is already
the law Of the land. a law that has
never been used.
The plan was worked up by the
Defense Departments manpoWer
chief, Assistant Secretary John A.
Hannah, and by the Office Of De-
Tense Mobilization, the group which
keeps track of civilian manpower.
In general, the plan has the backing
of Selective Service Head Lewis B.
Hershey, Of the Reserve Officers' AS
ISOLATION, the National Guard, key
Senate and House leaders and the
National Security Training Commits
sion. The Presidents Endorsement
seems certain.
With all that approval the plan
must be a wonderful one. But. one
may we'll ask, If it's so ALTERED good,
why hasn't its already enacted twin
been put into operation and the
dangerous Reserve mess been
cleaned up?
The Reserve Story
Well. it's long story. And it
goes something like this:
Before World War II the military
Reserve wasn't much In size or quail
ity, but then neither was the regular
Army and Navy and the Nation did
not expect to use either. Then came
the frantic military buildup for the
war against the axis. Both the
Regulars and Reserves proved in
adequate, but there was enough time
to draft and train millions Of civil
ians who fought most Of the war. &.
After the peace Uncle Sam was
more Reserve conscious. The young
veterans were signed up for the Re
serves while they went through the
discharge procedure. All sorts of
grandiose plans for organizing and
training reserviSts were announced,
but none got to first base. The Re-
serves remained little more than q
long list of names, wrong addresses
and obsolete personal histories. And
twice Congress rejected q universal
military training bill.
Then. in 1850. Korea.
Again the Regulars were too small
in numbers. And this time there
was no chance to wait for the draft
ing and training of young civilians.
The reservists had to be thrown into
the breach.
Almost million reservists were
called, about 70 per cent Of them
veterans. The veterans were fathers,
essential workers. students, or just
plain men who had done their duty
once. But they fought while younger
men, who had never served, were
draft-deferred for being fathers, es-
sential workers and students.
Unfoirness Noted
Congress was deeply disturbed
by the unfairness Of 1t, and the law
makers in 1851 wrote a new law to
provide for universal military train
ing and service and In 1852 approved
a law recognizing the Reserve pro-
gram.
The UNITS law provided for six
months basic training Of all physi-
cally fit young men not needed for
two years Of drafted service. Train
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Je0pardizing, so the Csc put It out
Of business.
It took the same action against
p. ]. Scanlon q Co. on the grounds
Of even more fragrant violation Of
brokerage ethics. The commission
charged that the Scsnlon company
put out deliberately misleading in.
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!. a piece OF moose pasture

formation this spring in an effort to
sell stock In the Falgar Mining
Corp, Ltd. A promotion map
showed the Falgar property to lie
between two giant producing
mines conbridge Nickel Mines,
Ltd. and the Carson Mine of In
ternational kel- whereas in
reality it lay considerably to the
south.
Foked Mop, Foked Photos
Called in to explain this discrep-
ancy. the Scanlon company denied
it had lied in its Falgar literature.
and offered photographs in evidence.
The commission discovered the pho
tos were faxed. Commission Chair.
man O. E. Lennox described the case
as lone of the most brazen types
of fraud and subsequent brazen
course of conduct disclosed in many
years."
Stockateers operating from this
country-many of them Americans
who had hoped the border to cir
cumvent the more stringent United
States laws-were mulcting the
American public of millions before
the present cleanup started. Lennox
estimates they crossed 50 million q
year. Other estimates are higher,
like the $52-million-a-year figure of
the Better Business Bureau of st.
Louis, Mo.
There's no doubt that as a result
of action on both sides of the border,
the take from sucker-list operations
is much reduced. Moreover, it's
bound to decrease more as additional
operators of the Reilly and Scanlon
type are either uncovered or scared
into responsibility.
The mere knowledge that the
Canadian authorities are prepared
to do something about their finan-
cial shenanigans has itself caused
some of the bucket-shop operators
to straighten up and fly right.
However, Americans will continue
to lose money in Canadian specula-
tive stocks. Just as Canadians do.
And depending on their judgment
and luck, they'll continue to make
money. For there's plenty of risk
in even genuinely honest miningsand
oil issues. If there weren't, there
wouldn't be the opportunity to turn
~ into $40 without working.
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Tomorrow: Chou may move to
reduce fears OF Asian neighboFs.
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3 County Officials Face
Trial on Gravel Buying
BY the Associated Press

SNOW HILL. Md. Nov. o.
Three Worcester County commits
sioners are scheduled to 60 on
trial tomorrow on charges of
malfeasance in the handling Of
gravel purchases for the county.
Two of the officials. Eugene p.
Matthews and Joseph G. Har-
rison, were reelected to the
county's three-man board. The
third, Samuel E. Shockley, was
defeated in last June's primary
elections, but Is serving out his
term Of Office.
Three other Worcester County
officials will also be tried this
week on charges they did not
file proper expense accounts for
the primary election.
All three-State Senator Ralph