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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-31
No Need Exists for Confusion
Eisenhower Has Said Repeatedly Thot He Would Make
The Final Decision About Quemoy and Motsu

to give attention to what has
been said officially heretofore.
The situation is as simple as
this:
ID Quemoy and the Matsu
Islands are close to the Chinese
mainland and are important
only If those islands are used
as a base for a military attack
on Formosa by the Commu-
niStS.
ca If the Reds could take
the islands with ground artil-
lery and surface ships and
landing craft, and the Nation
alists were defeated, the United
States would not have any
reason to intervene. This
would be an internal Chinese
affair.
60 But If the Communists
used airplanes and those planes
were fought by Nationalist
planes, as it seems certain they
would be, then the air battle
would surely involve attacks
on American bases in Formosa.
and hence American military
power would have to be in
voked.
Now, unfortunately, the
Communists do not telegraph
or telephone to Mr.. Eisenhower
what their intentions are or
when their plans will mate
rialize. If at all. so it is re-
grettable that Democrats like
Senator Kefauver and others
are seeking to undermine the
President by insisting that he
outline specifically what Amer
lea will do and when. That
kind of information would be
invaluable to the Communists
from a military standpoint.
The important thing is not
whether the Democratic Sena-
tors are confused or whether
even the newspaper writers are
confused. It's important that
the Communists shall be suf-
flciently confused that they
will not risk an attack and in
terject factors that would force
American military intervention.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-31
Constantine Brown
Corney's off the-Record Talk
Intimate Press Conference Boonneroneed on Him,
Adding to Confusion Over Our Policy on China

June /. 1850. President Tru-
man said that we have never
been so close to peace as then.
On June Is the Communists
hit the South Koreans with
everything they had and reeled
them back behind the 38th
Parallel. Last year, President
Eisenhower remarked at a
press conference that Diem
Bien Phu could not be con-
quered by the Communists.
Within five weeks that French
held fortress fell into the
enemy's hands. These were
honest mistakes based on in
formation available at the mo-
ment they spoke.
The present snafu presents,
however, an apparent diverg-
ence of information and seems
to indicate that the Chief
Executive does not have the
same data on hand as his naval
chief of staff.
These unpleasant discrep-
ancieS, which create confu-
sion in the country, could be
easily avoided if responsible
officials Stunned off-the-rec-
ord gatherings for the purpose
of publication, and not merely
keeping reporters posted. II
they have something to say
concerning the future of this
Nation and feel that it Is
up to them to make 1t public,
they could do so at an open
press conference, not in the
intimacy of a private dining
room.
Secretary Dulles and other
colleagues of his have done it
in the past and their closed
conferences "for background
only" boomeranged. After one
of these dinners some two
years ago, Mr.. Dulles was re-
ported to favor the admission
of the Chinese Communists
into the United Nations, when
nothing, he said later, was
farther from his mind. He
mentioned then the possibilities
OF long-range diplomacy and
his listeners, familiar with the
official gobbledygook, inter-
preted his words to mean the
immediate future. It is pos
sible that last Friday Admiral
Carney may also have been
misunderstood.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-31
Thomas L. Stokes
Inon1ds u. 9toKes-
The Nations and Their PEOPLES
The Eost-West Quarrel Is Between Governments,
Not the individuals, Who Only Want Peoce~

Between now and the pro-
jected Big Four conference.
which likely is some months
away. we might do well to pom
der the overriding problem to
be met there. 1t involves a
state of mind and a method
of approach.
This problem derives. mi
TALLY, from the fact that the
issue Of peace or atomic war
lies within the say-so of only
a handful of persons-the cur
rent heads of state in our
country. Russia and China.
primarily. and, secondarily,
Britain, France and a few
others.
The issue is confined to so
few because to only a few is
given control Of the atomic war
potential that could destroy all
Never before in the history Of
the world have so few con-
trolled the. fate of so many.
Never before has the individual
human being counted for So
little.
The individuals feeling OF
futility is indicated in a Gallup
poll just published which
shows that three of every four
persons believe another war
will occur in their lifetime, and
most see it as q terribly de-
structive war, If not COM
pletely destructive. This is nor
because these people want war
Far from 1t. 1t is because Of q
hopeless feeling which must OF
itself reflect a lack Of faith in
the ability of those few who
have the decision to get to-
gether to prevent atomic war.
The problem. then, begins
with the few. It's essence, how
ever. is that these few are
themselves ensnared and In
extricably tied UP as repre-
sentatives of an entity, a ma
ton. They do not represent
people as individuals. A nation
is different from people as in
diyiduas. A nation has at
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or about disarmament, or
whatnot, will amount to Moth
ing and we can get ready for
the eventual blow-up that our
people seem. hopelessly, to ex-
pect.
Only if the individual human
being in every country becomes
the standard and the symbol
can this be averted.
How nations today, as ma
tons, are like duelists of
another era is aptly described
by Bertrand Russell, the
English philosopher, in most
provocative article in the cur
rent Saturday Review. He
explains that If either Russia
and her satellites on one side
of the Iron Curtain or we and
our allies on this side of it
were to renounce war, then
that would put whichever did
it at the mercy of the other
automatically.
Each SIDE" he wrote. may
long for an accommodation.
but neither side dares express
this longing convincingly. The
position is analogous to that
of duelists in former times.
No doubt it frequently hap
pened that each of the duelists
feared death and desired an
accommodation, but neither
could say so, since, If he did,
he would be thought a coward.
The only hope in such cases
was Intervention by friends Of
both parties suggesting an ac-
commodation to which both
could agree at the same mo-
ment."
His proposal to meet the
dilemma of our time is for
neutral nations to move to
bring about an accommodation.
1t is worth considering.
Whatever the solution. it will
only come if the few rulers of
the world who hold the destiny
of all of US in their hands can
act as mature, grown-up men
representing people as human
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-31
I Retired Phone Workers
Honored by Pioneers

Seven recently retired en-
ployes of the Chesapeake & Po-
tomac Telephone Co. have been
indicted into the Life Member
ship Club of the Telephone
Pioneers of America.
The group became members of
the Alexander Graham Bell
Chapter at a luncheon yester-
day at the National Press Club.
The new members are Mrs. A.
Pearl Gentry and Miss Jessie
Miller, who completed so years
OF service; Mrs. Ruby H. AL
BERTHE. 26 years service; Mrs.
Pearl v. Brown. 80 years; HAM
mond Rogers, Al years; Mrs.
Vivian r. Wright, 80 years, and
Harry B. Poynton, 81 years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-31
Constantine Brown

This reporter has recently
presented, after a check with
the best available sources OF
information in Washington, a
bird's-eye view of the ap-
proximate Chinese Communist
order of battle. Because OF
wide discrepancies concerning
the air strength concentrated
in the areas opposite the Off
shore islands, he did not men
ton the combat-ready Red
air power. The same consid-
Grafton applied to the size Of
the enemy's naval and logistic
forces available for an early
attack.
The summary showed that
the Reds have the potential to
try an invasion of Matsu and
Quemoy. 1t also mentioned
the fact that weather condi-
tions would be most favorable
for action in the next few
weeks. But inasfar as the
actual timing of the Reds
actions and whether it would
be a probing feint or an all
out attack, if it occurs at all,
Chou En-lai and his intimate
advisers alone can give the
answer. Our highest authori-
ties know only that the mill
tary potential for aggressions
exists and that the Peiping
rulers, supported by Moscow.
have shouted since last August
that they will liberate Formosa
in the course of this year.
Moreover, we know that Chou
has not minced his words when
he has discussed this topic
with Prime Minister Nehru of
India, the British parliament
tary delegation headed by
MesSrs. Clement Attlee and
Aneurin Bevan, and the Secre-
tary General of the United
Nations, Dag HammarSkjold.
when he went to Peiping on
his mission Of mercy to liberate
the II Americans in uniform
held in Jail by the Communists.
The lessons of the past have
proved that dictators do not
indulge in idle talk. Since the
early days of Adolf Hitler TO
date, they fulfilled all their ad-
vertised threats. Thus, it is
fair to assume that the Chi
nese Communists, unless they
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-31
Test Run Troubles
On Nautilus Caused
'Agonizine Minutes

GROTON, Conn.,, Mar. 81 (P).
The crew of the Nautilus suf-
fered an "agonizing" few min
utes when trouble which later
proved minor grumbled a warn
ing as the atomic submarine
backed away from her dock on
her first trial.
This and other incidents in
the now completed builders
trials of the Nautilus were re-
lated yesterday by Comdr. Eugene
P. wilkinson. the Nautilus skip
per; 1t. Dean L. Axene, execu-
tive officer, and others of the
crew in a news conference.
Comdr. Wilkinson said the per-
Torrance of the $50 million un-
dersea boat and nuclear power
plant has proved amazing.
Bugs" Cause Worry
But he also disclosed the mo-
ments Of worry when bugs"
common to any new craft ap-
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insures the President much
more room for maneuver than
his predecessor enjoyed. But
great as is Senator Georges
influence, there are members
of Congress who will demand a
decision now on Quemoy and
MatSu.
They would like to have
spelled out in the public mind
that Quemoy and Matsu are
one problem by themselves and
not linked inevitably and in
exorably to the defense of
Formosa. Senator Knowland is
the major spokesman for a
group which feels this is not
true. and that the islands can
and must be defended as part
of saving Formosa.
In a sense. there is a cold
war on here for the mind of
the President on this issue. 1t
will continue so long as he does
not finally make up his mind
and announce what he will do.
It seems to many observers
here that Mr.. Eisenhower finds
it more difficult than his i'm
mediate predecessors to make
up his mind. Roosevelt savored
the uses of power and took
responsibility as a matter of
course. Truman, a veteran of
a thousand Senate yes-or-no
roll calls. had a faculty for
making great decisions and
then not worrying over them.
It is also true, however, that
the job of President seems to
get harder and harder with
more portentous decisions
constantly to be made.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-31

have positive information that
the remaining free Nationalist
territories will be handed over
at. an international conference
without the necessity of the
Reds fighting American air
and naval forces. will make a
move against FormoSa and
the offShore islands sometime
in the near future. Even if
such whispered promises have
been made to them by sources
other than the United States.
it is possible they will make an
intimidation attack" They
did this in Wet Nam when a
determined attack against Diem
Bien Phu, resulting in its cap
ture, sufficiently Softened up
the French to have them sur
render the whole rice bowl Of
China a few months later.
Despite this obvious situa-
ton, an unbelievable snafu
has occurred in Washington
since last Friday, when the
Chief Of Naval Operations, Ad-
miral Robert Carney, report
edly informed a select group
of newspapermen gathered
around a dinner table that a
Communist attack in force
was expected to take place in
mid-April. This. of course,
made sensational headlines.
Some Republican Senators who
had heard in executive ses-
SionS a more or less similar
evaluation from some high
ranking officers, confirmed last
Sunday-with much more eau
tion-the published newspaper
reports.
Early this week the White
House got into the picture by
denying the imminence of the
aggression and indirectly dis
avowing the Chief of Naval
Operations. The victims of this
Washington smog were not the
men in Peiping but the Ameri-
can people themselves, who
don't know now what to think
or whom to believe. In the past
they have been accustomed to
think that the top men in the
armed services, who have no
political motives, were right,
and that the politicians tried
to cover up dangers of this
character from the Nation.
Many remember that on
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peared while "the eyes of the
world were upon US"
The difficulties. all quickly
corrected. were these:
/. Two small fires in electrical
panels on the first dive.
2. A loose screw on the casing
Of a reduction gear box on the
port propeller shaft which
startled the crew as the sub
marine moved out from her dock
January 17-and forced the boat
to operate on one of the twin
propellers until the trouble was
discovered and fixed.
3. A lashing storm with r.
foot waves and winds up to 80
knots-which stove in a plate on
the outside sheathing of the con-
ming tower structure and ripped
UP some deck planking but did
no damage to the pressure hull
of the boat.
Rolls in Storm
In this storm, during one of
her trial runs at sea, the worlds
first nuclear-powered submarine
rolled as much as 81 degrees
while surfaced. Some personnel,
including some of the ships
company. Comdr. Wilkinson said
with grin, we're quite green at
times"
The skipper said. in answer to
questions. that there has been
no dangerous radiation from the
submarines atomic firebox at
any time.
Only once did the news con-
ference turn to questioning
about an article Comdr. Will
kinson has written for the Sat-
urday Evening Post and which
has prompted a study by the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-31
Doris FIeeson-
DORIS Eleeson-
Only the President Can Decide
Cold War in Progress Here for Eisenhower's Mind
BY Those Who Have the Answer on Islands

Events and circumstances
are pressing President Eisen-
hover toward a decision on
com hitting United States
forces to the defense of Que
moy and MatSu. the NATIONAL
ist-held islands close to the
Red China coast.
Some members of Congress
who are comforting with him
on foreign policy this week
will try for his answer now.
Perhaps they will achieve it,
but to his press conference
the President gave the impress
sion of a man who still hopes
to put that bitter cup from
his lips.
What he did do in his weekly
talk with reporters was to
dampen down - imperSonally
and very firmly the war
scares Of the last week end.
He does not share the view
that the Red Chinese will be-
gin their campaign to capture
Quemoy and Matsu in mid
April. He deplored military
speculation generally.
But given a chance to diff
ferentiate between the prob
lem posed by Quemoy and
Matsu on the one hand and
the defense of Formosa on the
other, he baked. And he spoke
again of the necessity of main
tanning Nationalist China's
morale.
The hard decisions the Pres
tdent must make in Asia these
days are the cross that goes
with the crown Of the United
States presidency. There is no
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-31

one answer; there is only a
choice of alternatives, all of
which have their drawbacks.
Only the President can de-
eide. In this case he made a
specific promise to the Congress
that he alone would decide.
That he hoped then to use the
islands for bargaining pur-
poses in a cease-fire was COM
mon knowledge. It is since the
ease-fire collapsed almost be-
fore it got started that the
issue of the coastal islands has
arisen to plague him.
The Presidents remarks to
reporters will go far toward
reassuring the United States
and its allies that war in the
Formosa Strait is not i'm
minent. Thanks to Senator
George, he also has an alter
native policy to discuss-the
scheduled meeting of the Big
Four. Active consultations have
begun with Britain and France
on plans to meet with the
Soviet Union. West Germany
will be included in the pre-
liminaries.
Nor will Senator George
join those who are insisting
that the President decide now
about Quemoy and Matsu. The
Senator from Georgia, chair
man of the Foreign Relations
Committee, views with limitless
charity the Presidents prob
lens in Asia. He trusts the
Presidents conscience in that
awful hour of decision.
Senator Georges attitude
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-31
S80, 900 More AIIocuted
For Virginia Airport
BY the Associated Press


An additional $50, 900 has been
allocated to a proposed airport
to serve the Virginia cities of
Staunton, Waynesboro and Har-
risonburg. Representative Harri-
son. Democrat, Of Virginia re-
ported today.
Mr.. Harrison said he was ad-
vised by the Civil Aeronautics
Administration (CAA) of the ad-
ditional allotment, which is con-
tingent on local planners COM
plying with CAA requirements.
An ALLEGATION of $4,000 was
previously made available for
planning work.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-31

Defense Department looking to-
ward prabable issuance of an
order banning such writing.
A reporter asked Comdr. Will
kinson if there was any data on
the performance contained in his
article.
Comdr. Wilkinson answered
that Ito the best of my knowl-
edge there is no performance
data" He added that there was
mention of firing of dummy tor
pedoes in practice which already
had been announced officially
by the Navy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-31

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Evening star., 1955-06-19
Ditties By the Dozen
PROLIFIC IS the WORD FOR HANK FORT
Re- Ryiam RAu

called I Can Forget I was
disguised with all those love
songs about not being able to
forget you and the like, so I
composed my own version"
Since then, Hank has turned
out songs like an assembly
ine-"I wrote 60 or so before
I ever got one published" She
believes talent is like a muscle.
You have to keep usin' it
or it loses its stuff"
washington got Hank when
she came here two and a half
years ago to talk about the
possibilities of a televiSion
show. The TV deal fell
through, but she liked Wash
ington so much she stayed.
Entering actively into our
community affairs, Hank has
written songs for Muscular
Dystrophy and American Field
Service campaigns, a number
for House Speaker Sam Ray
burns birthday party, and one
entitled washington Winter
land" She directs a May
pole dance for the Salvation
Army benefit party every year.
She even wrote a song called
Home Rule"
Hank takes very few sing
ing jobs out of town, but
appears every year at the
Sigma Delta Chi Journalism
Fraternity breakfasts and was
at the Statler for two weeks
last winter. She did take a
job at a plush hotel in Nassau
earlier this year.
While in Nassau she wrote
a calypso number called Roll
Out the Carpet" for Princess
Margaret's visit to the Bahia
mas. After she had left, it
was recorded and the first
disc given to Princess Mar
garet. Hank donated the
royalties for the first 1000
records to a Bahaman
orphanage.
One of the lines in the song
goes: "She learns the latest
dances ev'ry where she 60,
we even understand she does
a mean mambo."
Unawed by big names, she
kids everyone in her songs.
One called Don't Tell joe"
written after the Mccarthy
hearings, starts this way:
When I play golf I use tees
that are Red, And I'm CROWN
some Pinks in my flower bed.
Even use Russian Potash to
make 'em grow, But oh, oh,
don't tell joe"
She has her own publish
ing company at her Massa-
chusetts avenue address. It's
called Gemini - her zodiac
birth sign. Although she's a
member of ASCAP she doesn't
Evening star., 1955-06-19

OatAtup, SIlOeleSS Oh CIle IlOOT,
or in an airplane.
No matter where she writes
them, the songs come out
bubbling with the ."it's-great-
to-be-alive" spirit that is
Hank Fort. Hank-short for
Hankins, her family name
is a transplanted Tennesseean
who now lives at 2122 Massa-
chusetts avenue NV.
Some Of her better known
numbers, a few done in col
laboration with other writer's,
are "Put Your Shoes On,
Lucy" II Didn't Know the
Gun Was Loaded" Save
Your Confederate Money,
Boys" "Kissin' Kim" "Proto-
COL" "Get It at the General
Store" and Southern Cookin'."
AS Southern and honey as
a plate of grits, the attractive
song writer singer stands on
no ceremony. Her song, PRO
tocol," which made such a big
hit at Mrs. Pearl Mesta'S first
party last year after she re-
turned from Luxembourg.
illustrates this point.
Il hadn't been in Washing
ton very long when some
friends took me to a big
party" she recalls. Il went
to get some food, and this man
offered to help me. He
asked me my name and I
said: Hank. What's yours?'
He said: I'm Percy
"He asked me what I did,
and I said: 'Songwriter-but
you wouldn't know any of my
songs Then I said: Wait a
minute, you might know Put
Your Shoes On, Lucy He
began to sing the words to
me.
II got so excited, I dragged
him over to my friends and
said: You all, I want you to
meet my buddy, Percy. He
knows my song There was
an embarrassed lull, then they
started sayin', We know the
Ambassador and things like
that. Turns out he was Sir
Percy Spender, the Australian
Ambassador. When I went
home, I knocked of Protocol
spoof1n' all that business"
Daughter Of two diStin-
guished Southern artists, Cor
nelius Hankins and Maude
McGehee Hankins, Hank grew
up in Nashville. She's still a
member of the Junior League
there, as well as in Washing
ton. And she still conducts a
dancing school in her former
home town.
I'VE didn't have much
money, so I earned my way
through girls school playing
the piano for gym classes and