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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-01
ey - Assoeiaied Press,

BERLIN, Dec. /. Allied quar-
tiers in Berlin said today that the
Moscow Conference threat To
beef up 4 Communist East Ger
man army Is probably pure bluff.
Prime Minister Otto Grote-
wohl declared at the satellite
security gathering IN the Soviet
capital yesterday that his gov
ernmelt would feel obliged to
build an army If the West rati-
fies the Paris treaties to rearm
West Germany.
Western circles in Berlin
viewed the Moscow declaration
ais propaganda designed to throw
q chill into those segments of
Western parliaments which still
have some doubts about the
wisdom Of giving West Germany
q Acknowledgement military
force.
Allied military quarters con-
tend.
|. The present East German
army Of 10000 men represents
almost the limit of military man
power the creaking Soviet. zone
can afford at the moment.
2. Voluntary recruiting has
been a failure and even repres-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-01
Husband Links Death
Of Swimming Star
To Film Ambitions
y he Assosiaisd Prs.s

Los ANGELES, Dec. 1.-Fear
that childbirth would interfere
with her plans to break into the
movies was blamed today for the
abortion death of Virginia Hop
kins Watson. former swimming
champion.
Her husband, Arthur Watson,
told police he wanted q child,
but that his wife had a movie
part in Jungle Jim" with John
ny Weissmuller. He told Detec-
tive Sergt. Herman lander that
his wife informed him she
underwent the surgery November
Is and noticed no i'll effects until
last Friday. She died of perito-
nitis late Monday night.
Police seek to determine who
performed the illegal operation.
The 32-year-old Mrs. Watson,
q swimming instructor at Holly
wood Athletic Club, set q ma
tional 400-meter relay record in
1899 with her twin sister, Marion
Hopkins, Eleanor Chamberlain
and Esther Williams of the films.
Their time was 4 minutes 46
seconds, established at Des
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-01

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-01

Moines. Iowa. beat the former
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style championship in 1899. The
Hopkins twins appeared later
with Billy Roses aquacade.
Victor Cefalu, Los Angeles
County autopsy surgeon. said
that poisons resulting from the
operation overtaxed the kidneys.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-17
ItDepends Whose Gored
Democrats Accused Of Wanting to Restrict Free Speech
In Trying to Amend Hatch Act in Scott Mcleod Case

the Undersecretary of State
for Administration, Donald
Lourie.
It seems passing strange that
when Adrian Fisher, legal adj
wiser to the Department of
State under the Truman adj
miniStration, made political
speeches-and the legal adj
wiser certainly is in a quasi
judicial" or judicial" position
on almost every question that
comes before him. including
the security Of personnelAno
objection came from any Of the
liberal" Senators.
Nor was there any fuss
raised by the same liberals"
when Conrad Snow, head Of
the State Departments loyalty
security board. began making
speeches in the autumn of 1851
attacking Senator Mccarthy
Of Wisconsin at George Wash
ington University in Washing
ton and the Harvard Club in
New York. In one of these
speeches he said: "The Hiss
case and the case of Judith
Coplon in the Department Of
Justice have done more harm
in terms of public confidence
than any harm Hiss or Coplon
ever did in the delivery of
classified papers"
Mr.. Snow was Intercepted
rather severely by the Senate
Internal Security Subcommit-
tee because of that comment,
but nobody introduced legisla-
ton to keep him from making
any more speeches.
Just why should anybody in
the United States Congress be
afraid to let a Government Of
fetal express himself on any
subject of public interest.
whether it is at a political
meeting or a non-political
gathering? The line of de-
marcation between a speech
eXtolling administration poll
cies. yet not mentioning the
name of a political party, and
an address which happens to
use the name of a political
party or candidate is too thin
to recognize. Any official or
employe of the Government
can make so-called non
political" speeches at any
time and yet be immune from
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-17

band of Democrats in the Sem
ate who have sought for years
to reduce the oil-depletion
bonanza to be at it again this
session.
Secretary Humphrey is on the
spot also in another oil matter.
He has been asked why an
exemption from taxes was al
lowed Facts Forum" the
radio program financed by
H. L. Hunt, perhaps the rich
est of the Texas oil barons.
That program was described
as "a vast propaganda ma
: chine financed with tax
exempt dollars" recently by
Senator Mike Monroney,
Democrat. of Oklahoma, who
said that "any connection with
the concept of a fair debate is
rather remote" in its presenta-
tions. Mr.. Hunt contributed to
the 1852 campaigns of a num-
Der of Republican senatorial
candidates. including Senator
Joe Mccarthy of Wisconsin, as
we'll as to the Eisenhower
presidential campaign.
Secretary Humphreys ruling
on the Facts Forum" tax
status is awaited with interest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-17

are Republicans who are def
nitely on record against this
country recognizing Commu-
mist China. And there seems
to be a genuine unity of views
concerning the withdrawal Of
the United States from the
United Nations in the event
the majority Of that interna-
tional organization attempts
to ram down our Threats the
membership of the Peiping
regime in that body.
Yet the furore Cccasioned by
the dispatch of $50 Ameri-
can Air Force mechanics to
Hanoi and the accusation
that the administration is at
tempting to get America into
a Far Eastern war by the back
Goor is puzzling the White
House and State Department.
In Mr.. Dulles absence mo-
body ventured to give a COM
plete picture of what we are
aiming to do in the Far East.
He will appear before the Sem
ate Foreign Relations Com
mittee next week and is ex-
pected to make a clear, UNI
equivocal survey of our policy
in the Far East, connecting it
with what he has seen develop
in Berlin.
In keeping with the pledges
he had given the leadership Of
Congress, the Secretary stood
his ground against Red as
saults to bring China into the
concert of world powers. Con-
trary to his own expectations,
however, the French and Brit
ish representatives stood by
him almost 100 per cent. They
are said to have felt that the
Secretary was speaking with
full authority not only on be-
half of his own party but also
on behalf of the opposition
party.
Mr.. Dulles is expected to
point out that the sending of
American technicians and mill
tary instructors to Greece
under Gen. James Van Fleet
while that country was fight
ing Moscow-supported Com
munists did not get this coun-
tN into a war in the Medi-
terranean. The same thing can
be said about Turkey on whose
borders the Reds had massed
approximately 80 divisions in
1916 at the time we decided to
bolster the Turkish forces to
fight back a possible Red on
slaught.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-17
David Lawrence

This is certainly a topsy-
turvy world-if one takes Sc
riously the news dispatches of
today which show liberals"
trying to restrict freedom of
expression and another group
on the opposite side, called
''reactionaries." trying to pre-
vent such restriction.
Some Senators Of the Demo-
cratic Party usually described
as liberals" are sponsoring
legislation which would pre-
vent certain high officials in
the Department of State from
speaking at political meetings.
They. say that the Hatch Act
should be amended so as to
prohibit the security officer of
the State Department, R. w.
Scott Mcleod, from making
political addresses.
Normally one would expect
any liberal" to be interested
in widening rather than re-
stricting the area of express
sion for the individual. No
more reactionary piece of leg
islation was ever put on the
statute books than the Hatch
Act, which takes away from
Government employees their
right to speak their own views
on the subject Of public af-
fairs. With all the shouting
that has been done lately
about a "hysteria" that would
deprive citizens Of guarantees
given them under the Bill OF
Rights. it is surprising that
an effort now is being made
to make the Hatch Act more
rather than less restrictive.
The fallacy in this move
ment can readily be discerned
when it is noted that the
Hatch Act does not deprive
presidential appointees" OF
their right to speak at political
meetings. In the State Depart
ment, for instance. the legal
adviser as well as the various
Assistant Secretaries Of State
and the Secretary himself all
have duties to perform with
reference to decisions on the
security or loyalty status of
employees. Mr.. Mcleod may
gather data, but his is not the
final decision on security and
the employee who is charged
with irregularity CT any kind
has the right of appeal above
Mr.. McLeod's jurisdiction to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-17
Dulles Facing Democratic Ire
Secretary Will Be Questioned in Senate Committee
On Sending Technical Assistance to Indo-Chino

We assumed the bulk of the
financial expenditure for the
Indo-C China war and suggested
support with military contin-
gents. We did not say whence
these would come. The as
sumption was, however. that
they would be provided from
Communist forces avail
able in the Pacific. To fulfill
these promises President Eisen-
hover approved the sending of
some $50 technical experts to
help servicing of the planes
we dispatched to Wet Nam in
keeping with the overall policy
of doing everything in our
power to- help the French and
their native allies fight the
Wet Mini forces successfully.
According to some uncon-
f1rmed reports, one of the rea-
sons why French Foreign Min
lister Georges Bidault held the
line in Berlin so successfully
against Molotov's repeated at
temptS to get France on the
Soviet side was the prospect
that America would strengthen
Frances hand against COM
munism in Europe as we'll as
in Asia. The capture of Indo-
China by the Communists is
regarded by many American
military experts, including the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, as a
greater potential threat to our
national security than even the
loss of Korea.
The administration could
have adopted the same meth
DDS which the late President
Roosevelt used before Pearl
Harbor. Of smuggling" help
to our allies without the
American public knowing any,
thing about 1t. It would have
been just as easy to detail
quietly $50 Air Force mainte-
s nance men to Indo-C China as it
was for the late President to
order American destroyers to
convoy British merchantmen
or the sending of American
troops to Iceland before we
became involved in the Second
World War.
Such methods were consid-
cred unnecessary because both
political parties in this coun-
try appeared to agree that the
Far East had become at least
as important as Europe from
the national security point of
view.
There are as many Demo-
Gratis in the Senate as there
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-17

the Hatch Act penalties. but
the moment political parties
are mentioned. freedom of
speech for the Government
employee vanishes. One Won
ders what the Supreme Court
of the United States will say
to all this some day If 1t gets
a clear-cut case of a Hatch
Act violation based on public
speech at a political meeting.
On Its face. the law seems in
valid.
Liberal groups, moreover,
are adopting resolutions adj
vocating restrictions on con-
gressional committees. They
seem to forget the words of
wisdom which came from the
pen of a well-known liberal
then an esteemed professor
of law at the Harvard Law
SCHOOLGIRLS Frankfurter. who
wrote in a magazine article in
1924:
"The question is not whether
peoples feelings here and
there may be hurt or names
dragged through the mud as
it is called. Critics. who
have nothing to say for the
astonishing corruption and
corlrpting soil which have
been brought to light, seek to
divert attention and shackle
the future by suggesting re-
strictions in the procedure OF
future congressional investi-
cations"
What brought forth that
C I'm m mt from Professor
Frankfurter? Scandals In a
Republican administration
which were being exposed by
the relentless methods" Of
Senator Tom Walsh, Demo-
crat, Of Montana-who, Incl
dentally, had presidential am
billions that year.
The persons whose names
were being publicized then
were just businessmen who
were protesting violations of
the rights Of privacy by con-
gressional Investigations. So
it all depends on whose OK is
gored - whether and when
liberals" really stand for the
widest congressional investiga-
tions and the freest express
sion by individuals in the Gov
eminent.
Reproduction Rights Reserved)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-17
Life in the u. S.
Guns Bang
Turns a Boo!
Into Boo-Hoo!'
ey the Associoied Press

McCLOUD, Okla. Feb. ia
boo" led to bang as prac-
teal joke backf1red here yester-
day.
CurtisS Haskell Smith and his
wife Audrey paid her mother,
Mrs. Lena Cotney. visit, but
found she wasn't home.
1--WE thought it would be
funny to hide in the closet and
holler boo when she came in"
Mr.. Smith told Deputy j. C..
Farris.
But Mrs. Smiths 14-year-old
brother. Marvin, was the first
to return home. He heard
noise in the closet. grabbed a
.22-caliber pistol and went to
investigate.
When Mr.. Smith yelled "Boo!"
the boy pulled the trigger,
wounding Mr.. Smith in the ell
bow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-17
Dorothy Thompson

There is reason to be con-
cerned about the effect of the
failure of the power
conference in Berlin upon the
West German people. 1t is
reported that in East Germany
the opinion persists that I'M
derneath the apparent struggle
over German Identification
there is actually a tacit agree
ment between the opponents
to settle for things as they
are and buy their own peace
at the price of keeping Ger
many divided.
I think there is an element
of truth in this. Although
Georges Bidault, the French
Foreign Minister, has gone
along with the United States
in urging free elections and
reunification. it is doubtful
whether he speaks in this par
ticular for the parties and
public opinion of France.
France has perennially favored
German separatist movements,
to weaken the German nation
by it's disintegration.
The British attitude is other
wise, but German unity does
not concern them, one might
say, nearly as much as reach
ing some sort of modus vivendi
with the Soviets. And it is
my impression-and more i'm
portantly the impression of
the East Germans-that the
United States is more con-
cerned to establish the dubi-
Gus EDO than to end the I'M
natural and appalling division
Of the German people.
It is clear that the Russians
are determined not to end
their rule over 18 million Ger
mans except under conditions
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-17

that augur well for the extern
sion of it to another so mil
lion and therefore to the whole
of Western Europe.
But the East Germans ex-
pected nothing from Vyache-
slav Molotov. What disilluSions
them is the haste with which.
to their frantic eyes, the West
ern allies have been willing TO
drop the German question and
turn to other matters. I should
think they would miss also any
really ringing words on the
outrage that has been. and is
still being, perpetrated.
It seems to me that the
Western allies should have
stated at the beginning that
they were prepared to consider
any solution of the German
problem that provided Cd for
the Identification Of Germany
under a thoroughly represent
alive government: 90 for the
security Of the German nation
under more than paper guar
anteeS; 90 for the security of
Germany's neighbors, East and
West. Every proposal should
then have been explored from
these viewpoints.
1t did not even seem to me
psychologically wise to dismiss
the Russian proposals for all
embracing security and mu-
tual-assistance pacts between
the SovietS and the European
states. The proposal that the
United States should step out
of the picture except as an
observer, along with Commu-
mist China, was of course pre-
posterous. History also has
demonstrated that such pacts
are often in a showdown mere
pieces of paper when not other
wise secured. But the Western
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-17
Fletcher Knebel-
Potomac Fever

The Senate final vote Senator BrckerS
clip likes treaty Republicans making
thrift pledgestheyre trying foreign affairs
Internal Revenue Boss Andrews than half
people make favorng themselves
When contest the American always
the under-dog.
Ike to California for a rest isn't so much the
strain of being President of all the
head of all the Republican parties
From the recent hulabaoo in Washington would appear
that the Democrats dumped the country
Republicans too busy yelling Man overboard
Admiral Carney Navy boss. says the next may be
nucear stalemate You might well things
that your headyou be down the anyway
Ten thousand in India strike
Teachers don't strike here They're debt
to afford it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-17
Constantine Brown

Secretary Of State Dulles is
facing another hot battle in
Washington after four har-
rowing weeks in battle with
Soviet Foreign Minister Molo-
tov
Mr.. Dulles is due to testify
in executive session before the
Senate Foreign Relations
Committee not only on the
inside story of the Berlin con-
ference but also on our aims
and detectives in Indo-C China.
And on this subject many
Democratic political knives
are being sharpened. There is
a growing suspicion in Demo-,
cratic ranks that the admin
istration intends to lead the
country into an about war in
the Far East by the back door
of technical assistance" to
the French and Wet Nam
forces.
Until recently there seems
to have been a general agree
ment among our leading legis-
lators regarding the admin
istration's policy in the Far
East which consisted of a de-
termination not to sell the Ko-
rean Republic down the river
and to oppose any Communist
expansion in Southeast Asia.
The administrations
spokesman stated clearly that
a French defeat in Indo-China
would mean the establishment
of MoScow's and Peiping'S
puppets not only in that coun-
try but also in Thailand, Ma
laya. Burma and Indonesia. It
would mean, they said, the
eventual collapse of the non
Communist governments in
the Philippines and Japan and
necessarily the fall of Formosa
into Communist hands.
Our foreign policy was
aimed at preventing, with all
means at our disposal. such a
catastrophe. To implement
this policy a treaty of mutual
assistance with the South Ko-
rean Republic was signed and
later ratified by the Senate.
More assistance was pro-
vided for Chang Kai-shek's
80 divisions in Formosa, and
Japan was urged to overlook
the constitution imposed after
her defeat by the United States
and start reconstruction of her
armed forces. France was as
sured that we would not let
her down in Indo-China.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-17
japan to Admit Russians
On Trudinq Missions

TOKYO. Feb. II (P).-Japan' S
Foreign Office and Ministry of
international Trade and Indus
try have agreed to permit the
entry of Soviet nationals on
trade missions, Kyodo News
Service said today.
Hitherto. the government has
barred Soviet nationals because
there are no diplomatic relations
between the two countries.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-17
Thomas L. Stokes

Secretary Of the Treasury
George M. Humphrey is on the
spot because of political en-
tanglements Of the Eisenhower
administration with powerful
oil interests. You may remem-
Der how the latter contributed
so lavishly to the successful
1852 Eisenhower presidential
campaign as well as to the
campaigns of number of Re-
publican senatorial candi-
dates.
All that is being recalled
and publicized now in news
paper and magazine stories
about the Texas oil barons
which are timely because we
are about to enter another ma
tional political campaign. All
Of these articles refer to. the
windfall the big oil men get in
the 271a per cent depletion al
lowance deducted from their
incomes before taxes are fig
ured: for that gives them a
"kitty" with which they can
play politics on a big scale.
This is where Secretary
Humphrey gets involved in the
plot.
He is the first head of our
Treasury in nearly a quarter
OF a century who has not rec
commended a cut in the deple-
ton allowance for oil; though
his predecessors who urged a
sharp reduction never got
anywhere with Congress.
where oil has friends In both
parties.
Fs .af
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-17
Thonnos [. Stokes
Secretary Humphrey on the Spot
Described Opposed to Tax Break Given Oil Industry,
But Afraid to Offend Oil Tycoons Who Helped 6. O. P

trations have recommended a
reduction to Is per cent.
Why has 1t been retained
all these years. and at 2712
per cent?
It is hardly necessary to
point in answer to the politi-
cal power Of big oil. We saw
it in the last session of Con-
gress in passage Of the off,
shore oil bill which handed
over marginal oil lands to the
States as the big oil interests
demanded. President Eisen-
hover paid off his political
debt by signing the measure
which former President Tru-
man twice had refused to do.
We have another election,
a congressional election, COM
ing up. Republicans in partic-
ular hope to tap the oil gold
pot for that. That explains
the timidity to do anything
that might possibly offend oil,
including trimming of the
depletion allowance.
That explains the dilemma
OF Secretary Humphrey. This
will be exploited by such
Democrats as are not in
Inundated by oil-of which
there are some. They will
contrast continuation of this
bonus in the depletion allow
ance, this handsome deduction,
with the failure of the Eisen-
hover administration to rec
commend an increase in the
personal deduction for the
rank-and-file taxpayer, now
5000. You may expect a little