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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-14
Dorothy Thompson
Red Cultural Gesture Is Fiosco
Haul Off Pcosso Paintings to Soviet Embassy in Paris
When Daughter of Collector Takes Legal Steps to Get Them

worked as q coolie pulling
boats on the Volga, was an
illiterate youth and what ed
ucation he had was self-ac-
] quired. But he was a business
genius, and eventually made a
huge fortune in the tea trade.
In the late 1880s this still
uncouth figure first appeared
in Paris, whittier he had been
directed in quest Of conven-
tional pleasures.
In those days many of the
painters who were revolution
izing art by new visions OF
color. form. light and reality,
and who, a generation later
were world famous, were dis
playing their pictures on side
walks, or greeted with jeers
if they found a gallery intrepid
enough to show them.
Pablo Picasso was not yet on
the scene, but the Russian was
Immediately attracted to his
predecessors. Originally with
out advice of dealers. though
later he dealt with the famous
Vollard, he began buying what
charmed, excited, and inn
pressed him, returning to Paris
regularly, visiting the artists
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-14
Constantine Brown

The sudden decision OF Sec
rotary Of State Dulles to ny.
to Paris for another talk with
his British and French COLI
leagues is attributed more to
Prime Minister Churchill,S
Monday speech in the House
of Commons than to the in
sistent demands of French
Premier Mendes-France.
The American policy
knew. not from diplomatic
leaks but from their own
personal knowledge, that
France and Britain had under
taken to push China into the
United Nations at the next
meeting of the General As
sembly. This subject was taken
up by Sir Winston. with the
usual Churchillian persistence
during his Washington visit.
The administration also had
strong reasons to believe that
the Mendes-France meeting
with Chinese Red Premier
Chou En-lai at Geneva had
resulted in q tentative agree
l1ent to yield Immediately
most of Vietnam to the Com
munists, and place Laos and
Cambodia In a position similar
to that Of Czechoslovakia and
Hungary before they were
swallowed by the Communists
through popular elections"
Under these circumstances,
our presence at the so-called
peace discussions at Geneva
was undesirable. It would have
been interpreted as a tacit
approval Of a political sur
render by the West. And this
was unacceptable not only to
the administration, but to the
American people as well.
The stand taken last week
by Senators Knowland, Nc
Carran and Lyndon johnson
left our friends across the
Atlantic in no doubt on how
America stood. Prime Minister
Churchill, whose political acu-
men remains unexcelled de-
spite his nearly 80 years, re-
allied that America could be
pushed no further.
To the surprise Of the adj
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-14
A Significant Point in Cold War
Working Out on Armistice for lndo-Chino Is Expected
To Take Long Time, Unless Reds Have Changed Stand
Dovid Lowrence

The Moscow and Peiping
governments have been given
q chance to demonstrate
whether they believe in
peaceful co-existence" or I'M
abatsd aggression.
Secretary Of State Dulles
went to Paris to find out
WHISTLER there is any chance I
for q real negotiation to end
The 1ndo- China war. If there
Il, he viii return to Washing
ton this week and send Under
secretary Walter Bedell Smith
10 Garry on ct Paris or Ge-
neva. II there is no chance,
Mr.. Dulles win. when he comes
back here In q few days, ex-
plain the situation to the
American people, and the
United States win disassociate
itself from any settlement
that appears to be heading
toward an abandonment of
the opportunities Of the three
associated states Of Indo-
China to realize their hopes
for freedom from Communist
domination.
Any idea that the whole
Tndo- China problem is going
TO be solved either at Paris or
Geneva in time for the July
20 deadline set by Premier
Mendes-France can be dis
missed now. For unquestion-
ably, If there is any tangible
hope for an agreement, it will
take many weeks to iron it
out. Thus the French Pre-
mier Is expected to resign next
Tuesday, <but President Coty
viii not accept the resignation
and viii ask Mr.. Mendes-
France to continue on for q
while at the head Of the gov
eminent. The French Par
lament undoubtedly will
grant the extension Of time.
II the situation looks hope
full, the negotiations at Ge-
neva may take at least three
or four weeks. Memories of
Panmunjom, where the Ko-
rean armistice was negotiated
during several months. make
that estimate q bit optimistic
but the pressure on both sides
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Fletcher Knebel
Potomac Fever

Congress- debates whether to outlaw pckeng Of the
House The trouble with pickeng the White House these
that you've got to the system the
White House-and one for the golf club
Herbert Ada argue what Hoover
accomplished And no wonder It's cnch they couldn't have
much Of argument what Stevenson accomplished.
The big question in New York this whether Gov
Tom Dewey will fourth term Dewey Nations
argument for local industry He's unbeatabe-as long he
stays out Of interstate commerce.
The Commerce Department says personal income increased
during May Personal income defined part Of the
Nations earnings that neighbor of you
Democrats demand that Mccarthy fire some in
vesgators Democrats Mccarthy He's been
quiet for MONTH they've had to back to work passing laws
we'd be better of without.
Governors Of the States consider es plan for $50 billion
in highways The nice thing about highway
that you get back home fast from the city couldn't
find place to park in.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-14
Dorothy Thompson

The story Of the Soviet's
Picasso exhibit in Paris has
elements Of comedy.
AS q gesture to improve re-
lations with France via the
cultural approach the Rus
slams opened in Paris an ex-
fibit Of the .Picassos from
Moscow's Modern Museum
of Western Art" which houses
a superb collection Of modern
French paintings. The Com
munists, who thus sought to
display their interest in
French culture had, however,
nothing to do with the ac-
QUESTION of these works,
though the pictures were col
lected by a Russian, Serge
Stchoukin.
Stchoukin, who ended his
days as an exile in Paris. did
not belong to the pre-Bol-
shevik privileged classes" He
was born q landless peasant.
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Doris Fleeson-
Doris FIeeson-
$50 Billion More for Highways
White Houses Handling Of Proposal Labeled Clumsy,
Thus Cooling Governors on an Ever Touchy Subject

BOLTON LANDING, N. Y.
The Governors conference,
where Republicans outnumber
Democrats 20 to 10, is replying
"Well, maybe" to President
Eisenhower's proposal for a $50
billion grand plan" of high
way construction. Almost surely
they will approve a resolution
for a special conference in
Washington next fall to talk it
over.
This curious political reac-
ton stems from the incredible
clumsir1ess and self assurance
with which the White House
handled the proposal.
Though they were dealing
with their closest friends. they
sprang the huge project as a
surprise. Furthermore. Cover
nors' conferences have been
discussing the same subject for
years and criticizing the Fed
eral Governments domination
of the field. In fact. barely
eight hours before Vice Presi-
dent Nixon read the Presidents
notes, the Governors were
burning up Congress for pass
ing a $500-million highway
bill without consulting them.
Apparently nobody read the
newspapers which were put
aboard the Presidents plush
plane, the Columbine, before it
took of from Washington with
the Vice President for the con-
ference here. Nor, apparently,
did any one bother to case the
joint after arrival here in the
early afternoon.
This despite the fact that
also aboard the Columbine
were Presidential Assistant
Sherman Adams, a former
Governor who has voted for
previous conference resolutions
on highways, and Presiden-
tial Press Secretary Jim
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this country could survive
without her European friends
while Europe. deprived of
Americas active support and
relying on the tickle "friend-
ship" of the Communists.
would easily go down the
drain.
At the time of this writing
the position Of Premier
MendeS-France in regard to
q peace at any price" in Indo-
China is still obscure. Upon
his arrival in Paris, Mr.. Dulles
announced he had not given
up the idea of creating q
Southeast Asian defense pact,
which he first suggested to
the French and the British on
April IS.
It was Mr.. Mendes- Frances
predecessor. Joseph Laniel.
who together with the British
turned down the idea as ''pre-
mature"
There is just q bare possi-
bility that this proposal may
now obtain q more careful
nsideration. But whether
Premier Mendes-France can
back out of the reported wide
concessions he already has
made to the Communists, Is q
matter Of French diplomatic
skill.
None of the Western allies
hope to save much of North
ern Vietnam. Surrender of the
Red River Delta, the bread
basket of Asia, and its key
city Hanoi appear inescap-
able. But there still can be
time to save the Laotian and
Cambodian kingdoms. Their
fate depends on the stamina
Of the French Premier and his
determination to reject the
Red demands that the two
kingdoms be "unburdened" Of
the assistance of any Western
technicians or military advis-
ors. 1t also depends on Frances
willingness to give them the
same complete sovereignty
that the British and the Dutch
gave their former Asiatic hold.
ings-India, Pakistan, Burma.
Ceylon and Indonesia--at the
end Of World War II.
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for q settlement is greater In
this instance. It all depends
on how far Moscow and Pei
ping are willing to 60 to ex-
plot q new position they may
assume as peace-n1akers. It's
q rare opportunity for their
propaganda and, If they really
want peaceful co-existence, z
the Indo-C China war offers al
constructive opportunity TO
show their good faith.
There are some folks in the
world who naively believe the
Indo-C China war is just q nat
ural movement by the people
there to gain independence
and that the rebels are merely
persons who have embraced
communism as q political phi
losophy. The evidence shows
clearly that Red China has
been guilty of aggression in
neighboring countries. Here
are the words of. Secretary
Dulles bearing on this point,
taken from q confidential ses-
sion with the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee Of just a
few weeks ago. as officially re-
leased now by the Senate for
publication:
1.-THE situation in Indo-.
China is fraught with danger,
not only to the immediate
area, but to the security Of the
United States and its allies
in the Pacific area. That area
is one which is vital to the
peace and safety Of the United
States.
Communist China has been
supplying to the Wet Mimi an
eyer-increasing volume of
munitions and military sup
plies. There Is also evidence
that Soviet arms have been
supplied in increasing guam
titles to Communist forces in
Indo-C China.
I'm their classic manner the
Communists have sought to
capitalize on local aspirations
for independence. and have
used these aspirationS to gain
control of a movement which
was primarily nationalistic in
its inception.
1.-THE rulers Of Communist
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China train and equip III
China the troops Of their pup
pet. Ho Chi-minh. They sup
ply these troops with large
amounts Of artillery and am
munition made in Soviet bloc
countries. They supply milf
tary and technical guidance IN.
the stan section of Ho Chi
minis command, at the d.
vision level, and in specialized
units such as the signal and
engineering corps. artillery
units. and transportation.
The plan is not only to,
take over IndO China but to.
dominate all Of Southeast
Asia. The struggle thus car
ries q grave threat not only
to Vietnal1, Laos and Cam
bodia but also to such friendly
neighboring countries as Thai
land, Malaga, Burma. Indo-
nesia. the Philippines. Aus
tralia and New Zealand.
The Secretary advocated the
grant Of flexible authority to
use the current appropriations
for whatever may be needed
in any new situation that
arises in Southeast Asia. If
there is a cease-fire and an
armistice, it is likely that MILF
tary support will be built up
behind the lines to guarantee.
that the settlement will not be
violated. America win help to
finance this just as is the case
in supporting the Korean ar
miStice line.
Once a cease-fire is attained
in Indo China, the military
stalemate there will resemble
the one in Korea, but the free
world will wait now to see if
there is any sincere desire by
the Communists to set up such
a line at all and end the ag-
gresSion or whether for q
while 1t will merely relieve the
Communists mischief making
strategists from duties in
Southeast Asia and turn all
such energies toward foment-
ing more trouble in Tunisa
and Morocco. The cold war
has reached q significant
stage.
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studios, and becoming q sought
after friend and patron.
Thus he acquired the collec-
ton recognized as one of the
worlds finest - incompatible
for its Gauguins, Matisses, and
Picassos.
The Bolshevist revolution
appropriated Stchoukin's col.
lection and their owner fed
to Paris to escape Siberia or
worse. For the Westerner Wis
iting Moscow. however, the
Stchoukin gallery ablaze with
light, color, warmth and grace
was a magnet drawing one
out of the general drearinesS.
In the Bolshevist bureauc.
racy one school regarded the
Stchoukin pictures as "degen-
crate bourgeoiSe." and the
other declared the artists true
revolutionists. But the revo-
lutionary movement that began
in France had no influence
whatever upon contemporary
Russian painting. / saw an
exhibit of 1t last summer In
East Berlin, entirely repre-
sentative Of academic realism,
and regardless of subject mat
ter as stuffy as the work Of the
Imperial era. commented at
the time that If Pablo Picasso,
whose Communist sympathies :
are notorious, were Russian he
wouldn't get wall room in the
Soviet Union.
However, the Stchoukin cell
lection is extremely valuable
and, as Soviet behavior demon
strates, useful to prove the
"progressiyeness" Of Soviet
tastes. Thus. the Paris exhibi-
ton.
Mr.. Stchoukin, meanwhile.
passed on, but not before
another Paris interlude. Ar
irving as q refugee he called on
the artists he had patronized,
asking for assistance. Some.
by then famous and prosperous,
refused a sou to the patron.
But eventually he got some
funds and began buying pic
lures again with his old In
fallible taste.
One would have thought that
the Soviets would argue their
case for socializing this prop
erty. But they were unwilling
to do so-and the French au-
thorities apparently displayed
considerable carelessness, not
posting guards to protect the
collection pending the legally
ordered hearing.
So Soviet officials were able
to strip the walls. load the
Picassos into limousines and
carry. them off in the early
hours to the extraterritorial
Soviet embassy.
Thus a cultural gesture"
ends in a flight with the loot.
Irene Stchoukin, however,
forced the pictures into a
thieves hideout and closed the
show. The cultural gesture was
q fiasco.
Where, by the way, Is the
Sistine Madonna Of Dresden?
Have the Russians removed it
to Moscow?
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to mind, Of 500 billion on
highways in 10 years led to
some humor about the New,
Deal, and the famous Harry
Hopkins line was revived, I'VE
shall spend and spend and
spend, tax and tax and tax,
elect and elect and elect"
The program, its pre-elec-
ton timing, its job-making
appeal all these are New
Deal ha1lmarks, or so Repub-
licans have always contended.
Nonetheless, New Dealers
VINO act on principle can only
rejoice that the President has
begun to note Americas fabu-
lous expansion and is willing
to educate people to it. It
Z is disheartening that he merely
mentioned the need for schools
and offered q Federal program
only for roads. But the roads
are needed for the economy
and national defense both.
Another storm is brewing
here and it is purely political.
Gov. Thornton has appointed
the bitter Eisenhower Demo-
crat, Gov. James Byrnes Of
South Carolina, as chairman
Of the nominating committee
of five. with another Southern
Democrat. Gov. William Um-
stead of North Carolina, and
three Republicans.
Democrats hear that Gov.
Byrnes and Sherman Adams
talked and came up with the
bright idea Of nominating an
other Eisenhower Democrat,
Gov. Robert Kennon of L,oui-
siana. as chairman Of the next
conference. It is q Democrats
turn.
This calculated insult to
former President Truman and
Adlai Stevenson will be fought
In executive session II 1t
materializes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-14
Old Issue Exhuned in Louisiana
BLENDERS Primary Opponent Claims Senator Did Little
To Help Successful Cause Of Offshore Oil interests

the law that Congress enacted.
But the States do have title
now out to the Historic boun-
daries." Congress, in effect,
repealed the Supreme Court
decision holding that the Fed
eral Government had para
mount interest in all offshore
lands.
AS q matter of fact, the
issue that the Louisiana Demo-
cratic National Committeeman
is attempting to raise against
the Senator is rather empty.
What members of Congress did
about the offshore oil bill was
not. in the end, the really
important matter.
Everybody knew that Com
gress would pass the bill. It
had done that once already.
But President Truman had We
toed 1t.
What was needed was .
President who would sign the
bill.
Gen. Eisenhower, who was
running for President. prom
ised in his campaign that he
would, II elected, sign an or
shore oil bill giving States
domain. Adlai Stevenson, the
Democratic candidate, stood
Arm for Federal Government
control despite intense pressure
which came. among others.
from Gov. Allan Shivers of
Texas. When the 1852 Demo-
cratic candidate rejected the
plea Of Gov. ShiVers to advo-
cate State control. the Texas
Governor came out for Gen.
Eisenhower.
80 Oh support and 81 money
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Hagerty. who attended Gov
errors conferences for years
as press secretary to Gov.
Dewey Of New York.
Besides this, here since Sun
day night and on the program
were two cabinet members
Interior Secretary Douglas
Mckay, also q former Gov
ernor, and Health Secretary
Oveta Hobby - and Meyer
Kestenbaurn, chairman Of the
Presidents Committee on
FEDERAL State Relationships.
And the conference chairman
is Coy. Dan Thornton of
) Colorado, the Presidents
hacker and golfing companion.
Gov. Thornton was sur
prised. He was also upset,
viewing the program, as Of
fered with no preparation, as
seemingly extravagant, hazy
and embarrassing to the Presi-
dents friends in the light Of
conference history.
Gov. Thornton appealed inn
mediately to Sherman Adams
after Mr.. Nixon spoke. and
they devised q clarifying
statement. 1t stresses Gen.
Eisenhower's devotion to Fed
eral-State cooperation and
says the problem has been
given to the Governors.
Gov. Thornton's valiant at
tempts to help out were not
altogether successful. He
pointed out that the Federal
Government was already
spending about 81 billion
yearly on highways, so the
Presidents SIS billion a. year
was little more. Unfortunately,
he had forgotten that the
Presidents notes referred to
the SIS billion dollars yearly
as being Gin addition to cur
rent expenditures"
The total, instantly leaping
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But 1t is an issue. and so
Senator Ellender must prove
that he was in there battling
for his State. ConServationists
allude to the law as "a grab"
or "a give-away" for the spe-
cia1 benefit of big oil interests
that. for their own purposes.
prefer State rather than Fed
eral Government control of oil
lands in the marginal seas
Senator Ellender did not
have to wait long for help.
Immediately the best possible
witness rallied to his side. This
was his colleague from neigh
boring Texas - Senator Price
Daniel, an Eisenhower DEM
ocrat.p Senator Daniel testified
that Senator Ellender did so
help to get the law on the
books, and in an outstanding
way, he added.
The Texas Senator ought to
know. He was In the thick
Of the offshore oil melee day
and night. In fact. he had q
bill Of his own. No skimpy
measure, either. No sir. It
did not stop with granting the
States the lands out to the
historic boundaries, . which is
three miles normally but IL
miles in the case Of Texas.
His bill. instead. conferred
title upon the States to the
whole continental shelf and
that. in the case Of Texas,
would have meant $50 miles
into the Gulf Of Mexico.
Senator Daniel did not get
away with that. That still L.
the domain Of the Federal Cow
eminent. and % recognized IN
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Thonoos [. Stokes

The silly season In politics
Is on-for sure.
Signs are plentiful here and
there. But good enough for
illustration is something re-
ported from Louisiana in the
Deep South.
1t has to do with a three
way race there for the DEM
ocratic nomination for United
States Senator. The contest
ants are Senator Allen j.
Ellender who has represented
his State here for 18 years;
Frank Ellis, the Democratic
National Committeeman, and
w. Gilbert Faux, insurance
and real estate man. The pri-
mary is July q. Democratic
nomination in Louisiana is
tantamount to election.
Now along comes National
Committeeman Ellis to charge
that Senator Ellender gave
''little or no aid" here on be-
half Of the bill to give States,
instead of the Federal Gov
eminent. domain over offshore
lands. Louisiana was, and is,
particularly interested because
Of oil off her coasts, as were
Texas and California.
How come this hobs up now
as an issue against Senator
Ellender? The bill long ago
became law by President
Eisenhower's signature. Louisi-
ana got what she wanted
and familiar to all Of us now
In our Sunday newspaper sup
plements and In our news
reels are pictures of the der
ricks ut sea along our Gull
Coast,
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Senator Humphrey Urges
Civil Defense Committee
By the Associated Press

Senator Humphrey. Democrat,
Of Minnesota said today State
civil defenses against atomic at
tack are inadequate and pro-
posed the creation Of special
joint congressional committee on
civil defense.
Senator Humphrey said that If
a recent Nationwide test Of
Americas civil defense had been
the real thing" 1t would have
cost more than Is million cas-
ualties.
Public apathy to the test was
the most alarming aspect of it,
the Senator said. He laid this
to q lack Of authoritative gov
eminent information and guid-
ance.
Senator Humphrey did not
criticize the functioning of the
Federal Civil Defense Admins
tration, but said its activities had
been restricted by too little APP
preparations.
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Work Load Dispute Closes
Armour Plant in Chicago
BY The Assoeiosed Pres,

CHICAGO, July 14.-The
Armour & Co. plant was shut
down yesterday by a strike of
some 1000 workers in a dispute
over work loads.
The strike was called at the
huge meat packing plant at
Union Stock Yards by Local BAT
Of the United Packing House
Workers Of America.
Leon Beverly, president of the
union, said the company had
sought to load one worker with
the duties Of two or three" A
company spokesman said the
dispute was over the amount OF
work an employee should do
under the firms modernization
program. II s,
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was assured for the Repub-
lican candidate who broke the
solid South and carried Texas
and almost carried Louisiana.
That's the way politics oper-
ates SO far as the really big
stakes are concerned - and
there's no sense in fooling our
selves.
It seems very silly to try to-
blame Senator Ellender for not
doing enough, when it really
did not matter what he did.