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Evening star., 1954-10-17

EOunQllngS, ana DfS. 6efDerG
johnson. on .sUnited Nations
Week"
Zonta Club Of Warrington
Wednesday. 1890 pm.
YWCA. United Nations Day
program.
Kelitah Group Of Hadassah
Wednesday. $3.50 pm. Air
France Building, 1913 x street
NV: speaker, Mrs Esther
Kravitz Cannon, Impressions
of q New Israel Against an
Old World"
Special Libraries Ass0cia-
tion, Military Librarians
Group - Wednesday, Z PM,
Army Navy Club. cocktails and
buffet supper.
Community Clubs
Silver Spring Woman's Club
- Tomorrow. 10:30 an.
Woodside Methodist Church.
music section. Wednesday.
1880 pm. literature section
luncheon. with Mrs. Ross Sill
kett. 9108 Columbia boulevard:
book review. Thursday. II
am, Department of Agricul-
>ture Auditorium. conservation
section: speaker, DR.. William
Van Dersal. Of the Soil Con-
servation Service: film, THE
Heritage We Guard"
Woman's Club Of Lyon VII.
lage-Tomorrow, Ills PM.
literature and international
relations departments. with
Mrs. Harold III. Mckinney.
1920 North Edgewood street:
book review and talk on what
Is the Point of international
Trade?" Thursday. 10::30 am.
and $50 PM, Lyon Village
Community House, art classes
sponsored by the club. Thurs
day, 12::45 PM, afternoon
bridge group, with Mrs. James
D. Cushman. Thursday. 8 pm,
evening bridge group, with
Mrs. Glen M. Poe.
Woman's Community Club
Of Kensington - Tomorrow.
1890 PM, book department.
dessert luncheon and program.
with Mrs. James Beddie, 1903
Washington street.
Junior Woman's Club Of Sill
yer Spring-Tomorrow, 8 PM,
Falkland Recreation Room.
East-West highway, arts and
crafts section, silk screening
demonstration by Mrs. James
Hall.
Woman's Club Of Chevy
Chase-Tuesday. 9:15 a.m.-12
noon, Spanish classes. We'd
nesday, IL noon, monthly club
meeting and luncheon; speak
er, Miss Marie Lefavre, Celia
nese Corporation. Beauty and
the Budget" Thursday, 10:30
am, creative writing; speaker,
Thelma Strabel. Friday. $3.50
pm, square dance section.
Junior Woman's Club Of
Woodside-Tuesday. 8:15 pm,
monthly meeting, with Mrs.
Charles Borcher, 9508 Riley
road.
Sixteenth Street Highlands
W0man's Club-Wednesday, 2
pm, dessert lunch with Mrs.
George H. Foster. 1912 Long
fellow street NV; book review.
Alexandria Woman's Club
Thursday, 2 pm, Department
Of Recreation, 1901 Cameron
street, executive board meeting.
Beverly Hills Women's Club
Thursday. 8:l5 pm, with
Mrs. William H. Crawford, 800
8. Overlook drive; program
on Indo-C China.
AIumnoe Clubs
Sweet Briar Alumnae Club
Of Washington - Tuesday, 8
pm. with Mrs. Lawrence
Jacob bsen. 4416 Edmunds
street NV. All Sweet Briar
alumnae invited.
Mothers Club Of Alpha ri
Chapter of Alpha Delta ri
Sorority-Wednesday, 8 pm,
2129 G street NV.
Alpha Delta ri Alumnae As
ISOLATION of North Arlington
and Falls Church-Thursday,
8 pm, white elephant sale,
with Mrs. John L. Palmer, 1929
North Woodstock street, Ar
hngton. Sale to ben efit
Cripped Children's Fund.
Alpha Gamma Delta, Old
Dominion Club-Thursday, 3
Continued on Page D-22.)
Evening star., 1954-12-29
Fletcher Knebel
Potomac Fever

idea the French Assembly operates get two
television the sound Channel and the
picture the other to Channel s. Then the next
and the vacuum cleaner
Oklahoma couple brings children and
Orders from Treasury Secretary Humphrey Seal the
borders Now they're smuggling in exemptions by the bsoad
Democrats to fight for public housing Democrats
claim this really measurewhen figure that
there a lot expensive ways to make votes
press survey that "bar girls fading from the
national Married don't get lonely Almost
every home has TV set.
An Air Force officer goes 632 miles an hour on land
she'd Modern confusing The Navy holds most
the air records the Air Force fastest the ground and
the Army missile that will go miles in the
The French Assembly wrangng German rearmament
reminds you the who backs
highway to avoid making U-turn.
Scientists United States shortage of
power for scientific work Things tagging badly
be another hundred before blow the
world.
Evening star., 1954-12-29
nnent Service

fer a too tempting field for ad-
ministrative blackmail where
it is felt that some Republican
would do a job better.
Democrats are interested in
possible changes in the land
reform policy which Mr.. Lade-
jinsky executed so ably. They
have recalled that in pressing
for the new legislation which
moves agricultural attaches
from State to Agriculture, Mr..
Benson stressed they ought to
be salesfnen for United States
farm surpluses.
The new Senate majority
would also like to get rid of
farm surpluses. But it be-
lieves Just as strongly that
land reform of the Ladejinsky
stripe is Americas best asset
In the Far East. They do not
want to abdicate United States
leadership in the field to the
Reds even for the intrinsically
desirable goal of selling sur
pluSes.
Generally speaking. farm
policy in all its phases cuts
across party lines. There is
very probably a better chance
for proper. hearings on the
Ladejinsky security case than
on any other. certainly than on
any in which the State De-
partment can be put on the
defensive.
Evening star., 1954-12-29
Ruling Puts Curb
On Strike Il Rich
BY the Asseeiaisd Press

NEW YORK. Dec. ga city
magistrate ruled yesterday that
the Strike It Rich" television
show cannot solicit funds from
the studio audience. but that he
can't stop its appeal to the Tv
audience.
The shows producer, Walter
Framer, Immediately announced
plans to appeal the ruling. A
spokesman said the studio audi
ence was never asked for funds.
Magistrate Samuel H. Obringer
said the violation Of the city's
administrative code was "a very
close question of law"
He held, however. that the
city could compel the program
operators to get a license to
solicit funds in the studio. On
the air was a Federal matter.
he said.
Welfare Commissioner Henry
L. Mccarthy had complained
that the show exploited human
misery and said his department
often had to help persons broken
in health and finances who came
here in the hope Of getting on
the program.
Evening star., 1954-12-29
BY the Assoeioted Press

MADRID. Dec. 29.-General-
issimo Francisco Franco and Don
Juan of Bourbon. pretender to
the throne of Spain, met today
for talks which may decide the
future of the Spanish monarchy
it was learned on good au-
thority.
There was no official con-
f1rmation and government
spokesmer maintained their
statements of yesterday that no
such meeting was planned.
Sources close to Gen. FRANCOIS
residence however. said the
Spanish chief of state left early
this morning to drive to the
estate of the Count de Rui-
senada, a leading monarchist,
near the Portuguese border.
Don Juan was reported to have
arrived there last night and the
counts Madrid. household said
he had gone to the estate.
Repeated telephone calls tC
the estate brought no answer to-
day. but telephone operators saiG
there had been extraordinary
Evening star., 1954-12-29

German rearmament as spe-
cific menace to her security.
Yet not one word has come
from the pacifists arguing
against the ratification OF the
pending treaties. This is
puzzling contradiction. for il
any government has a right to
consider the military alliance
now being lined up in Europe
as directed especially against
her. it is the Soviet regime.
The Western powers rightly
contend that their armament
preparations are for defense
against attack or aggression.
The. same argument, however.
holds good with respect to
Asia. where the aggression has
already occurred. The Ameri-
can Government seems to
have been checkmated in
carrying out an effective milf
tary policy ever since the
Chinese aggression in Korea
began. A considerable number
of Americans outside of Gov
ernment still cling to the
belief that the sacrifices made
by American troops in Korea
should not be rendered worth
less and that nothing can
bring on war faster than loss
of American prestige in the
Far East through any evidence
of weakness which can be
construed as moral cowardice.
In Europe, the same in
difference to a firm policy
could be fatal. To be satisfied
with a narrow-margin victory
in the French Parliament to-
day is, of course. to ignore the
dangers of relying on the
Western alliance with France
as a cornerstone. Overnight
the Western alliance can be
paralyzed by a parliamentary
reversal.
Soviet Russia knows all this
and in due time will exercise
her pressure. She will insist
that East Germany cannot be
reunited with West Germany
at any time if Germany re-
arms. She will strengthen her
infiltration machinery in Italy
and France and will depend
Evening star., 1954-12-29
Doris Fleeson-
Democrats Check Lodeiinskv
Congress Probers Will Ask Benson Evidence to Offset
ArericuIturist's Clean Record of Government Service

The case of Wolf Lade-
jinsky will be fully unfolded
In congressional hearings early
next year. Mr.. Ladejinsky is
the Russia n-born United
States agricultural attache at
Tokyo who has just been fired
by Agriculture Secretary Ben
sen for security reasons.
Mr.. Ladejinsky executed the
United States policy of land
reform in Japan to the full
and perfect satisfaction of
Gen. Macarthur. He has sew
eral other distinctions which
will add interest to his story.
His first avowed defender
was an unimpeachable Repub-
lican and Far Eastern expert,
Representative Walter Judd of
Minnesota. He had passed the
harsh inspection of Scott Nc
Leod, the pro-McCarth Sc
curity officer of the State De-
partment. Foreign Operations
Administrator Stassen has dis
closed he tried to borrow Mr..
Ladejinsky but was turned
down on the ground that such
an expert could not be spared.
This apparent isolation of
Mr.. Benson will be a part of
the hearings. Even If bis col
leagues should now wish to
protect him-and there are
some slight signs of it-they
cannot remove what is on the
record.
Evening star., 1954-12-29
West Virginia Apples
So Pct. Over SO Crop
BY the Asseeio,ed Press

CHARLESTON, w. Va, Dec. 20.
West Virginia's 1854 CONNER
cial apple production of $780,
600 bushels was So per cent above
the 1858 crop and 81 per cent
higher than the 1O-year average.
TIL. Federal-State Crop Re-
porting Service said the bumper
crop resulted primarily from
ideal weather during the wet sea-
son and good growing conditions
during most of the crop year.
Preliminary estimates valued
the 1854 crop at $8,622, 900, as
against $6,987, 900 a year ago.
Because Of the heavy production.
however. prices per bushel
averaged $1.80 in 1854, compared
with $3.50 in 1853.
Evening star., 1954-12-29
Life in the u. S,
CTS Sewing
Saves $4,000
For Buddies
BY the Associated Press

FORT KNOX. KY, Dec. 29.-
A quick man with a needle. Pfc.
Donald Langner has saved his
buddies about $4,000 in the last
seven months.
The private from Park Falls.
Wis. took up stitching last July
after a back injury put him on
the light-duty list. The company
invested in a sewing machine
and the soldier went to work.
Since then he's been sewing
on buttons, patches and alter
ing cuffs. He taught himself to
design and can make q suit from
his own pattern.
Now he likes the work so much
he plans to make a career of
tailoring after his discharge.
Evening star., 1954-12-29
Dorothy Thompson
Germ War Versus the GOSPELS
A
Blast En- With Bugs Theory Would End All Ethics
Writer Says, Leovnq Nothing to Live For

On Christmas we celebrated
the birth of One who pro-
claimed that God is love, who
taught His followers not to be
overcome by evil but to over
come evil with goodness, and
bade us pray that the King
dom of God may reign on
earth.
Believers and unbelievers
alike recognize the sublimity
of these teachings, and on
Christmas most of us miser-
able sinners at least recall
them, trying for one joyful
day to be our best, most iov-
ing selves.
But the newspaper with the
largest circulation in New
York celebrated Christmas eve
with an editorial entitled
BLAST EN- With Bugs? Why
Not?" While Silent Night,
Holy Night" sounded in nearly
every home, readers were ad-
vised that its editors admire.
Mai. Gen. William M.
Greasy of the Army Chemical
Staff, in arguing that United
States troops should be per-
mitted full use of germ weap-
ons in any future war" Gen.
Greasy, they approvingly
quoted, argues that ". the
object of war is to win as
quickly and cheaply as pos
sible," and I'VE now have germ
weapons which can defeat an
enemy with the least possible
expenditure of American lives"
The editorialist thinks the gen.
eral may be "overoptimistic"
but 1.-The basic principle he sets
forth is sound"
So now we know that in ad-
dition to H-bombs. each one
of which has the destructive
capacity of all the bombs
dropped on Germany in World
War II, we possess an even
cheaper and more effective
weapon for war whose only
objective and principle is to
"win"-the germ Just what
germs we have developed in
Government laboratories is
secret, but tif Gen. Greasy is
not 'overoptimistic") they
would paralyze an enemy ma
ton by killing of its crops, or
injecting its people with deadly
disease. There have been
rumors of the production for
such purposes of a concen-
trated poison present in de-
cayed foods, which introduced
Evening star., 1954-12-29
Can 'NeutroIs' Define Role?
Asion Premiers Moy Find Difficulty in Reconciling
Differences in Preparing for Porley With Africans

oligarchy in China, Since its
establishment in l949 this re-
gine has devoted all its ener-
gies to making China a mili-
taIy power. In this it was
under Soviet direction. The
upward of $l00 billion spent
by the American taxpayers
to counter this militaristic-
aggressive Communist policy
by reconstructing the world
economically and urging foes
and friends to live in peace
has paid no dividends.
Official reports and state
ments by the spokesmen Of the
last two administrations point
out statistically the great
economic strides which the
world has made. thanks to our
unstinting sacrifices. But we
have nowhere achieved the
goals we set up: The easing Of
the international situation and
peace. at least in our time.
The philosophers Of spend-
ing justified their policy by
saying that while our children
and grandchildren will inherit
an enormous national debt,
they will at least live in q
peaceful world. In this they
have been deceived, as the
present situation demonstrates.
Insofar as this Nation is con-
cerned, the contrary may be-
come a sad truth.
Our partners in the last
wars crusade have drifted or
are drifting away from US
whenever we show signs that
We don't want to co-exist with
the tiger "in his belly" The
peoples we have helped get
back on their feet so they could
enjoy the fruits of freedom
and self-respect for individuals
are now shaking their finger
at us and saying, Naughty.
naughty. You Americans want
to swap expediency for princi-
piles and international honesty
which have become outmoded
in this day and age. To follow
the line of thought of your
pious 'reactionaries' is danger
Gus. What will happen then
to our materialistic philosophy
which proves itself such an
excellent sedative?"
Evening star., 1954-12-29
Danger in Peoce at AnyPrce
Coumns Puzzled by Contradictory Attitude of Pocifists
On Reornng Germany dnd Strong Stond in Asia
Dovid Lawrence

While the whole world has
been waiting to learn which
way the whirns of the French
Parliament would swing the
vote for or against rearmament
Of Germany. it is a paradox
that the peace-at-any-price
pacifists in America have not
raised their usual argument
about the dangers of provok-
ing Russia into a third world
war.
When II American airmen
are sentenced as spies and
some legislator in America has
the temerity to suggest that
maybe a naval or economic
blockade would secure respect
for the rights of citizens of
the United States. wrongfully
held by the Communists, the
cry goes up that this would
lead to another war.
Also. when it is suggested
that maybe the Secretary Gen.
eral of the United Nations is
travelling all the way to Pei
ping to beg" for the release
of the American airmen, the
answer comes from the paci-
fists that to do otherwise is
TO fail to carry out what
they euphemistically call the
Christian approach" 1t is a
little hard to understand why
such forbearance wasn't advo-
Gated by them in June. 1850,
when American intervention
in Korea was ordered and some
10000 American boys had to
be killed to uphold the princi-
pie of using force to resist ag-
gresSion.
ANY intimation now that
force of any kind, naval or
economic, might be used in
Asia to bring an aggressor
government in Red China to
terms is promptly met with the
argument that the Commu-
nists must not be offended lest
they engage in a third world
war against us.
In Europe. however, a far
different approach is observed.
Soviet Russia sees the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization
as q threat to use force and
Evening star., 1954-12-29

For their part Democrats
who will run the hearings have
carefully checked the Lade-
jinsky story through the years
when their people ran the
Agriculture Department.
They found first of all that
he had clean slate both in
State and Agriculture. His
record was reviewed in May,
1850. after Representative Carl
Curtis, new Senator-elect from
Nebraska, complained In a
House speech about "a for
eigner" getting a job that a
dirt farmer from the Middle
West could do better.
The then Secretary Bran
nan was cynically advised that
he would be sticking his neck
out to support Mr.. Ladejinsky
but he refused to yield. Mr..
Brannan admits to being
greatly comforted by assur-
ances from Tokyo that if the
matter reached the public
brawl stage he could get as
glowing cables as he wished
from Gen. Macarthur.
II Secretary Benson has new
evidence he will be asked to
produce it.
He will also be asked about
his program of reponening all
security files on top jobs. There
is a growing feeling among
Democrats that these files Of
Evening star., 1954-12-29

into water would bring instant
death to any one who drank it.
A German scientist now in
this country has stated that he
worked as a prisoner of war in
a military chemical laboratory
in Russia which was producing
this poison. One may therefore
anticipate that if anyone starts
blasting with bugs" there will
be retaliation. 1t therefore
follows that if any weapon is
allowed, logical weapon would
be surprise attack on any and
every potential enemy. wiping
them out before they could
strike back. What is wrong
with this argument?
Nothing is wrong with it,
If we accept Gen. Creasy's
barbarous thesis that wars are
fought only to win. The only
justification for any war is
the necessary defense of a
civilization. But the essence
of civilization is restraint. A
civilized people is restrained
by innumerable inhibitions and
bound by innumerable codes,
ethical and legal, that have
hitherto governed conduct even
in war. In modern total wars,
these restraints and codes
have already been suspended
to a horrifying degree. The
result is that such wars are
never won for civilization but
serve to advance the dissolu-
tion of all ethical values, fur
thering universal descent into
barbarism.
Beyond winning q war there
is always its aftermath to be
considered An aftermath spir-
ftually conditioned by the saw
agery of the means employed
to win" will be a victory only
for british savagery. But in
condition of british savagery
no saved" life will ever be
Evening star., 1954-12-29
Franco and Pretender Confer,
Nav Decide Future of Throne

movement of automobiles in the
area.
Private sources with strong
monarchist connections said that
all minoi Differences between
the generalissimo and the pre-
tender had been cleared UP.
They said they believed the talks
would be general discussion of
Spain's future and the position
of the monarchy in this future.
Spain was officially declared a
monarchy without a king after
a popular referendum in 1947
which gave an overwhelming
majority in favor of return of
the crown. AT that time ma
chinery was set up for the nam
ing of royal heir to succeed
Gen. Franco eventually as the
head of the state.
Gen. Franco repeatedly wants
to name Don Juan'S eldest son,
l7-year-old Juan Carlos, heir to
the throne in preference to the
pretender. Don Juan previously
has refused to abdicate in favor
of his son, although most of his
advisers are in favor Of the move.
Juan Carlos, by agreement be-
tween Franco and Don Juan. re-
ceived his secondary education
in Spain. Just last week Don
Juan repeatedly agreed to
Francois demand that the boy
now get military education in
Spain and suggested 1t. Gen.
Carlos Martinez Campos, Duke
de la Tore. as supervisor of his
studies.
Evening star., 1954-12-29

estimate. But he certainly is in
error when in conversations
with representative Americans
he intimates that our stub
born attitude concerning
Communist China will be
chiefly responsible for un-
leashing another violent inter-
national storm.
Those abroad and in this
country who believe that by
showing real Christian spirit
and turning the other cheek
We can appease the successors
of Ghengis Khan, Hitler and
the japanese warlords are hid
ing their heads in the sand.
They are forgetting the les
sons of the recent past.
This Christian spirit, later
dubbed appeasement. intended
by our friends in Europe to
mollify the German. Italian
and Japanese dictators, did not
avert World War II. The more
the peace-minded peoples of,
the West yielded to this appe-
tite for power and world DOM
nation the more was de-
manded. Finally under the
most flimsy preteXts they
threw the world into the
unprecedented turmoil from
which it has not yet emerged
and from which it is unlikely
to emerge for quite a while.
The Communist dictators
who hold in their grip some
900 million people, mostly
primitive and resigned, have
vast resources of raw mate
rails at their disposal as their
Axis predecessors did. The
bulk OF these resources is be-
ing devoted exclusively to war
preparations. While the West
with its usual sporting spirit
disarmed as soon as our enc
mics surrendered in the last
war. the Russians conquered
nearly 100 million Europeans
with the tacit approval of
America and Britain. These we
had pledged ourselves to lib
crate from Nazi oppression.
Instead of reducing their
military power. the Reds in
creased it out of proportion
to their needs. Later, again
with the tacit consent of the
two remaining Western pow
ers, they created a Communist
Evening star., 1954-12-29
Mirrors Confuse Monkey

LONG BEACH, Calf. R.-
An escaped monkey in the Hall
of Mirrors left no time for
idle reflection in the Pike
amusement zone yesterday.
Earl Miller, l9, was polish
ing glass in the maze of mir
rors when he spotted the
monkey and 19 reflections of
monkeys staring at him. The
monkey saw, 20 Mr.. Millers
staring back.
Mr.. Miller left for help. The
monkey snarled and spat at
his freshly polished reflec-
tions.
Concession workers, animal
shelter officials and police ar
rived. Their reflections in the
maze of mirrors added to the
confusion. The monkey leaped
to the rafters and fed to the
quiet of q restroom, where
he sulked until captured.