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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-28
Europe and Atomic Power

During his recent trip abroad, Chair
man Lewis L. Strauss Of the Atomic Energy
Commission was deeply impressed by the
intensity of West Europe'S interest in the
Presidents atoms-for- peace plan. AS he
has just reported in speech at Rockhurst
College in Missouri, he found while over
there that the plan has stimulated dreams
and hopes "to an unprecedented degree"
and that these dreams and hopes have to
do largely with Harvesting nuclear energy
for the production of electrical power.
There is special reason for this frame
of mind among the nations of free Europe.
Taken as whole, their per capita require
ments for electricity are continuing to rise
steadily and sharply. Meanwhile, with
their water-power potential almost fully
exploited, they must meet their increasing
needs by using oil (most of which must be
imported at high cost and dwindling sup
plies of coal to generate the necessary
extra energy for homes and factories. In
Mr.. Strauss words, this means that in
practically all of these countries the in
eXorable growth of demand and the accel-
Grating consumption Of fossil fuels are
combining to produce-at no very distant
data problem of large proportions. 1t
is far more immediate problem for them
than for u.s.
Indeed, according to Mr.. Strauss, the
problem would constitute an incipient
crisis of the first magnitude we're it not for
the fact that nuclear energy is here to
solve it. The Western Europeans, whose
imaginations have been fired by the Presi-
dents plan, have become so well aware Of
this opportunity that they are eager to get
on with the task of building atomic power
plants to satisfy their ever-mounting
needs, and our country stands ready to
help. The plants, it seems safe to assume,
will begin to multiply in the relatively near
future as great operating symbols of how
wonderfully the atom can be made to serve
man rather than destroy him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-28
How Come, Congress-?

Amidst all the hassle over
how the District of Columbia
is to be financed. should like
to pose this question to the
Congressman who would '''cut
the District off without a
dime" until its own taxes are
raised: Have these gentlemen
ever considered what we get
for the taxes we pay?
Here are a few of the things
we get that make our taxes a
little more unpalatable than
most:
Cd Absolutely no voice in
how our tax money is spent:
Taxation without representa-
ton.
CD No vote even for Presi-
dent of the United States.
Second-class citizens paying
f1rst-class taxes.
90 A city kept beautiful for
visiting constituents. while our
welfare institutions, schools
and recreational facilities are
shortchanged and far below
the standards of many other
cities.
a. A city whose streets.
schools and ether facilities
are burdened with hundreds
of families whose taxes 60 to
a State they call back home"
though they haven't lived there
for 90 years.
60 Worst Of all, a Congress
cat whose mercy we are) and
District Committee all too
often unsympathetic and I'M
realistic about District prob
lens. A good example: The
bill sponsored by the chairman
of the House District Com
mittee and passed by Congress
exempting congressional en-
ployes from registering their
automobiles or obtaining IL
censes in the District If they
can claim residence in some
State. Another source of rev.
enue cut off from the District,
whose streets and parking
spaces they use.
Detected District Resident.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-28
American Turboprop

The American aviation industry has
passed an important beacon with certifl-
cation by the Civil Aeronautics Admins
tration of the Allison turboprop engine for
commercial service. For in this briskly
competitive international field British in
dustry has enjoyed leadership in the
development and utilization Of both turbo-
jet and turboprop powered aircraft that
has threatened our position as the biggest
supplier of civilian transport planes.
Already widely used in Europe and
more recently introduced in Canada, the
Vickers Viscount turboprop airliner will
make its bow in our own domestic service
within a few weeks under the Capital Air
lines flag. It's record in Europe has been
judged operationally satisfactory and eco
nomically successful. Comparable per-
Torrance here assuredly will increase in
terest of other American carriers in turn
ing to this type of plane.
The certified Allison engine, known
as Model SOL, already has been tested
extensively in a military version for use
by the Air Force and. volume production
has been ordered. Since almost two years
more will be needed before the commercial
engine is available for delivery, there will
be ample opportunity to test further the
reliability and economy Of the American
built engine before it enters airline service.
Meanwhile, the Viscount's performance in
competition with the piston-engine air.
craft of other American lines will provide
useful yardstick for measuring the real
promise of the turboprop principle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-28
Enigma in Belgrade

With Premier Bulganin standing ap-
provingly and perhaps subordinately in
the background, Nikita Khrushchev chief
of the Soviet Communist Party, has done
an unparalleled thing in Belgrade. Ad-
dressing himself directly to President Tito
and the people of YugoSlavia, he has
abjectly apologized for the Kremlin's past
actions against that country, and he has
appealed for full decentralization" of re-
lations between it and the Soviet Union.
OF course, in making this apology, Mr..
Khrushchev has sought to absolve the
Kremlin itself of any major responsibility
for the 1948 Soviet-Yugoslav break and
the Coninform's subsequent efforts to
overthrow Marshal Tito. The whole sorry
business, according to the Khrushchev
version, must be attributed to an "impe-
rialiSt" conspiracy carried out by tiny
Moscow minority made up of such "ene-
mics Of the people" as the late Lavrenti
Beria, the liquidated head of Russia's
secret police. But one may be fairly sure
that Yugoslavia's knowing and tough
flbered President, together with most Of
his countrymen, will regard this explana-
ton as fairy tale.
After all, the historical record is too
clear, and too fresh in the YugoSlav men,
DRY, to be beclouded by propaganda aimed
at making Beria the scapegoat for
Moscow's virulent and persistent assault
on the Belgrade regime from 1948 until
Stains death. Actually, every surviving
top Soviet figure-Khrushchev included
was at one time or another participant
in that assault Here, for example, are
afew excerpts from a speech delivered by
Marshal Bulganin In 1919: Judas Tito
and his helpers-these malevolent de-
serters from the camp of socialism to the
camp Of imperialism and fascism-have
converted Yugoslavia into Gestapo prison
E. All progressive humanity looks with
loathing upon these despicable traitors.
They will answer for their bloody crimes.
for their treachery, for their repulsive be-
trayal. :"
Certainly, considered against this
background, the top-level Soviet mission
to Belgrade must be viewed as a truly
extraordinary event unprecedented in the
history of Soviet diplomacy For what it
amounts to, wholly apart from giving
tremendous boost to Marshal Tito's pres
tige, is picture of mighty Russia going to
a relatively small country to eat humble
pie before the eyes of the entire world.
Why? One can only guess at the answer,
but all of us can be sure that the Kremlin
would not be resorting to such self-abase-
ment If 1t did not feel impelled to do so or
II 1t did not expect to gain substantially
from it,
Marshal Tito. for his own part, has
- - YTx,sA %o%4
in particular and the West in general that
Yugoslavia-which is indirectly associated
with the Atlantic alliance through its de-
Tense pacts with Greece and Turkey-has
no intention of changing its post-1948
policy. If this is so, then the men of the
Kremlin must know ia fact that makes
their apologize trip to Belgrade seem
doubly enigmatic and significant.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-28

"Now There's Rare Specimen"
various types of military air.
craft fly over Moscow during
the May Day show and deter
mine that the individual per-
Torrance of those aircraft
exceeds that of comparable
American types is very astute
and highly qualified observer
indeed - far more qualified
than anyone yet to appear on
the aviation scene.
If Aviation Week" had
factual, reliable information
available it should have been
turned over to the proper au-
thorities for evaluation prior to
release for public consumption
and possible miSinterpretation.
If we are, in fact, engaged in
an arms race with the Soviet
Union, isn't it logical to expect
them to develop new equipment
and build up their air power?
The May Day show is obviously
designed to impress the West
ern powers, and we shouldn't
allow ourselves to become
frightened so easily.
We surely would be foolish
to agree that our current build
up schedule is obsolete based
on observations of people who
become alarmed at a bunch of
airplanes flying over Moscow.
The Russians would be happy
if we adopted such policy and
would do everything in their
power to keep us operating a
prototype" Air Force by giving
better and more frequent air
shows in Moscow. 1t is recalled
that the Communists had nu-
merical superiority of jet fight
ers in Korea, yet the ratio of
kills was one American to Is
Communists.
Curtis A. Mckay.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-28
Congress on Inteqrotion

1 note that amendments in
PRODUCED on the military re-
serve bill aimed at racial
segregation were defeated, 1877
to 143. 1t, is significant that
Immediately thereafter the
move to defer action" on the
entire administration spon-
sored bill was supported in the
House by a vote of 161 to 1874.
Does this mean that mem
bers of Congress outwardly
are in favor Of indignation. but
inwardly are segregationists2
Paul Chiera.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-28
Doubts Red Air Power

The recent story in The Star
concerning Russian superiority
in air power would suggest that
Aviation Week" has a staff of
aeronautical experts and OBJ
servers far superior to those of
our Government and armed
forces. Certainly, an observer
who can watch formations of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-28

valuations up to date, the report pointed
out, was an average IS per cent rise in
assessments during the postwar period.
But the job is far from complete. Until
the reassessment task is done, the District
will continue to lose much-needed tax
revenues. A reasonable investment in
additional assessors should produce very
attractive return.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-28
LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names may be used II
letters carry UriterS' correct
names and addresses. All
letters are subject to conden-
Sdtion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-28
Questions and Answers

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to any factual question ~ writing
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reau 1900 Eve st. NV, Washington,
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Evening star., 1955-05-29
NoveIist's Philosophy

Conrad Richter, author Of
fine novels about the Middle
West when it was a frontier.
has departed from fiction to
weave together some philo-
sophical concepts. In "The
Mountain on the Desert"
(KnOpf; So, a character
named Michael, a rug weaver
who lives in the mountains of
New Mexico. explains his ideas
to several students visiting in
the region. "One reason"
says Michael, man has gone
so much farther with material
and mechanical things than
he has with himself is that
he isn't bound by the temporal
welfare or pleasure of the ma
terial or machine. He can put
matter through terrific heat,
pressure and many other trials.
He can't do that to man.
Especially not in a demo-
cratic state" Michael reduces
much of our feelings and de-
sires to what he calls energy
flow" Some of his ideas are
on the esoteric side, but care
full reading of the book prob
ably will be rewarding to
MANY readers,
Evening star., 1955-05-29

aSIllIlS IOLI.
More than 100 American
Jewish artists are represented
in the collection, which con-
sists of Sc paintings and water
colors and Is sculptures. Ger
tain of these artists would be
included in most lists Of out
standing American contempo-
1ary artists-painters of such
distinction as Max Weber,
Raphael Soyer, Adolph Gott-
lieb, William Gropper, Joseph
Hirsch, Louis Lozowick, Sig
mund Menkes and Aaron Boh-
rod, and sculptors 10 Davidson,
Chain Gross and William 70
rach.
One in six of the works in
the current show were invited;
the great majority were select
ed by a jury from hundreds
submitted by artists in all
parts of the United States. My
only disappointment is that
no Washington Jewish artists
are represented. The Tercen-
tenary print show held last
autumn in the Washington
Hebrew Congregation Temple
included work by Samuel
Bookatz, Jacob Kainen and
Jack Perlmutter.
Local FavOrites
Two sculptors in the exhibi-
ton are very familiar to Wash
ington. Dorothea Greenbaum
lived here in the late '30's and
early '40's. Her charming head
of a little girl is akin to the
sculptures she used to exhibit
here. Reuben Kramer Of Bal
timore is frequently represent
ed in Washington group shows,
and has won some coveted
awards here.
The exhibition is definitely
Jewish, due to the fact that
many artists sent paintings
and sculptures depicting jew
ish themes or people: Max
Weber's Rabbi" Marvin
Cherney's Wedding" Belle
Golinko's "Chanukah Prayer"
Samuel Sigaloff's "Talmudist,"
William Zorach's heroic head
Man of JUDAH" and other
works, executed with personal
awareness of their signifi-
canoe. Several artists have
used Old Testament themes
and characters effectively,
ranging from the amusing
"Susannah and the Elders"
Evening star., 1955-05-29
The Story Of 20 Security
Risks of an Earlier ime

Mrs. Vining has taken no
liberties with the facts of the
arrest, Imprisonment, banish-
ment and return of the 20
PhiladelphianS. To tell her
story, however, she removed
one of the original exiles and
substituted an imaginary
character, Caleb Middleton, jr..
a young Quaker who felt it
right to resist British tyran-
ny but felt more strongly that
he. must uphold his Quaker
beliefs of refusing to take part
in warfare or swear on oath to
any government.
The eight months of virtual
house arrest, hardShips and
often hunger in Winchester
before the exiles were freed
were not without their COM
pensations, at least for
Caleb. There, on the Vir-
ginia western frontier" he
met and wooed with sur
prisingly un-Quaker fervor)
the lovely l6-year-old Loveday
Parry, and found the courage
to convince his father that
becoming doctor, and not an
ironmaster, as his father had
been. was his true vocation.
The book is a timely and
powerful defense of liberty Of
conscience and the right of
the individual in q free coun-
try. MARY PAINTER.
Evening star., 1955-05-29
THE VIRGINIA EXILES. BY

THE VlkGlNlA EA1LES. ny
Elizabeth Gray Vining. Clip
pincott: $3.50
A book that should be Of
wide interest to Washingto-
mans today is this chronicle Of
20 people who were caught up
in the Government security
program" of an earlier time,
written by the woman who was
tutor to the Crown Prince Of
Japan after World War II.
Out of that experience came
Windows for the Crown
Prince" a chronicle Of her
experiences teaching democ-
racy at the Imperial Court Of
Japan.
Out of another episode
this one in American history
has come Mrs. Winnings first
novel, a readable, absorbing
story of a little known true in
cident during the Revolution
ary War. In 1777, 20 Philadel-
phians, all but three of them
members of the Society of
Friends, were arrested-not
for what they had or had not
done, but on suspicion of be-
ing "inimical to the American
cause" On their refusal to
subscribe to a loyalty oath to
the new republic, they were
exiled to Winchester, Va,
without trial or a chance to
defend themselves publicly.
Evening star., 1955-05-29
Valuable Outline
For Understanding
Total Diplomacy
POLITICAL WARFARE. BY

POLITICAL WARFARE. BY
John Scott. (John Day Co.;
$3.75D
What Mr.. Scott calls polit-
ical warfare is often called
psychological warfare and
could be called cold warfare
or total diplomacy. In other
words, it is a tremendously
broad subject. It involves
everything short of shooting
that a nation does to in
fluence friends, foes and neu-
trails.
Mr.. Scott, a Luce corre-
spondent, has tried to describe
political warfare in less than
$50 pages. Much Of the book
is essentially an outline-but
a valuable outline for under
standing new political warfare
techniques.
Where Mr.. Scott does elab-
crate, especially where he is
talking of his own expert
ences, he draws several good
pictures of what is or could
be done to promote the Amer
ican cause. His ideas for max
ing life more uncertain for
men in the Kremlin are
dandieS.
The book carries a foreword
by C. D. Jackson, President
Eisenhower's original psyche
logical warfare man, so pre-
sumably Mr.. Scott gives an
accurate picture Of what ut
least some psychological war
riors are thinking about.
RICHARD FRYKLUND.
Evening star., 1955-05-29
Life With Father

Another sort of life-with-
father saga is "My Phila-
delphia Father" Doubleday;
S4), Cordelia Drexel Biddle's
account of the late Col. An
thony j. Drexel Biddle. The
narrative, as told to Kyle
Crichton, is highly amusing.
Col. Biddle was perhaps the
most unconventional Million
aire and society man of his
times. He was an amateur
boxer of note, a singer. a Ma
rine who, though getting
along in years, instructed
World War II recruits in the
bayonet. He was apt to invite
a pugilist such as Philadelphia
Jack O'Brien, to a formal din
ner, and some of Tony Bid
dies harmless escapades were
the talk of society.
Evening star., 1955-05-29
Story of Cancer

Francelia Butler of Wash
ington has just published what
probably is the first history of
cancer aimed at the general
rea der. Her nontechnical,
easy-to-read story is called
Cancer Through the Ages:
The Evolution of Hope" Fair
fax Press; 81. 1t starts in an
cient times with King Heze-
kiah of Judah. who was trou'
bled with a tumor. 1t takes up
the various treatments of ma
lignancies through the CEN
turies up to the present highly
successful methods of extir-
pating early cancer. Mrs. But
Ter is the widow of Jerome
Butler, a Washington news
paperman who died of cancer
in 1949. She has been engaged
in research for her book ever
since. There is a foreWorG by
Joseph C. Aub, MD. director
of the medical laboratories at
the Coils P Huntington Me-
mortal Hospital of Harvard
University, and an introduc-
ton by Stanley P. Reimann,
Evening star., 1955-05-29
THE UNHURRYING CHASE.

ny II. L. V1' 4CoNOGC' \NAe'S
milan; $500
Audiart of Rouillac is no
conventional heroine of his
torical fiction, being tart,
practical and plain. This is
not to be greatly to be Won
dered at, since her creator,
H. F. M. Prescott stands in re-
lation to most other historical
novelists of today as the Mona
Lisa to Marilyn Monroe.
Miss Prescott VIII be long
remembered as the author OF
"The Man on a Donkey" a
story of Tudor England that
combined eetneSs and
grandeur to a dazzling degree.
THE Unhurrying Chase is
an early work, first published
in 1925. Here Miss Prescott
is less in control of her ma
terial, less the storyteller
weaving bright and dark
threads with marvellous con-
trast and effect. But there
are foreshadowings OF her
masterpiece here. and they
are worth noting.
In Audiart, as has been in
dicated, Miss Prescott has
fashioned an individual, not
a 18th century cut-out. Her
hero, less vividly realized, is
much more a man of his time.
At first a knightly figure,
though no knight, then cheat
ed of his land and his love
and in flight from God, court
ing iniquity as a reproach to
all he cherishes. Yves Of Ri
faucon is a troubadour, who
as disappointment and griev-
ance consume him, forgetS
heavenly courtesy, or even
human decency. He becomes
a mercenary soldier, a de-
spised being in medieval
France, seeking to hurt 9TH
ers as he has been hurt, think
ing his only enemy is the man
who stole his lands, Richard,
the Lion-Hearted.
1t is a story of ruin and re-
demption, which would be more
poignant if Yves changes Of
mood were not so abrupt and
more fully explained and If
the narrative were not unre-
Evening star., 1955-05-29
Classic Reprinted

"The Captive Mind" a de-
scription of the moral and in
tellectual condition of men
and women behind the Iron
Curtain, by the Polish poet
and novelist, Czelaw Milosz, a
book which has become some
thing of a classic, has been re-
printed in a 95-cent edition
by Vintage Books. These books
are distributed by Alfred A.
Knopf, Inc.
Evening star., 1955-05-29
MYSTERY AND SUSPENSE
Some Chilling Thri|Iers
For Hot-Weuther Reudino
BY MIRIAM GUTENBERG

is bent on destroying him.
Brilliant descriptive passages
give the illusion of powerful
writing but the author is mes
merized by the sound Of his
own words beyond conference
before finally plunging into a
swirl of amateurish melo-
drama.
THE CASE OF THE SUN
BATHER'S DIARY. BY Erie
Stanley Gardner. civilian
Morrow & Co.; $2.75.)
Perry Mason's client has
been literally stripped Of
everything when she calls for
help. Mason's Della Street
performs in that crisis but it's
up to Mason alone to cope
with this: If he proves his
client not guilty of murder, he
is the most likely alternate
suspect. More outside-the-
courtroom Sleuthing than
usual lends impact to the in
evitable courtroom finale.
THE HOUSE THAT DIED. BY
Josephine Eckert Gill. Dou-
bleday g. Co., Inc; $2.75Dl
Crime Club. ;
Proper Bostonians do i'm
proper deeds in this neatly
plotted tale of Back Bay dou-
BILE murder. A Boston report
er, sketched not too improba-
bly,. shares the detecting with
the homicide squad. A new
conner to the Crime Club ros-
ter makes an auspicious debut.
GRIM GROW THE LILACS
BY Marion Randolph. Mac
milan Co.; $2.50D
The excellent Murder Re-
visited" series now brings us
a skillfully etched saga of a
blowzy and painfully genteel
lady who becomes mistress of
a farm where group of art
lists had lived noisily but hap
PLY together for years. The
author behind the pseudonym
is Marie Rodell, who wrote
the widely respected Mystery
Fiction: Theory and Tech
nique." The technique is here,
all right, complete with subtle
characterization, climbing ten
sion and a tricky double cli-
max.
THE DARKEST HOUR. BY
William P. McGivern. Dodd,
Mead & Co.; $2.750
Red Badge.
The author of Rogue Cop"
introduces a different type OF
policeman in trouble this time
"a good man framed for muir
der, imprisoned and now burn
ing for vengeance. He cannot
accept love, friendship or even
decency. This is strong stuff.
but compassion gives it mean
ing.
THE MAN IN THE GREEN
HAT. BY Manning Coles.
doubleday g. Co.; $2.75o
Crime Club.
A British diplomat vanish
ing into the hills above Lake
Como can prove right embar-
RAISING to the government, SO
Tommy Hambledon is sent to
find him. There's talk Of q
fabulous treasure that disap-
peared the day Mussolini was
killed. Then, there's the mys-
terry Of the lovers found dead
in the same hills q while back.
Not too much mystery but
plenty Of excitement in the
Coles manner.
Evening star., 1955-05-29
Book Tells How
AIchemist Turns
Gold Into Dirt

Alfred Toombs, a former
Washington neWspaperman,
whose previous books, Raising
Riot" and Honeymoon for
Seven" entertained a lot of
people, has finished work on
a novel. 1t is called Good
as Gold" and describes the
adventures of a modern-day
reverse-type alchemist who
finds a way of turning gold
into dirt and tries to get a
Government subsidy for his
work. M. Meg.