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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-12

Who is the boss man in the
USSR these days? This ques-
ton is being anxiouSly asked
by our top-level policymakers
who are meandering in the
dark because they cannot find
a definite answer.
The best guess is that Pre-
mier Bulganin, Communist
Party Secretary General
Khrushchev and Foreign Min
lister Molotov are mere front
men and that Defense Minis
ter Zhukov is the strong arm
and the brain behind them.
For reasons of high policy he
prefers to remain in the back
ground for the time being.
This tentative conclusion has
been reached by process Of
elimination and by a study of
developments since the death
of Stain.
Premier Bulganin is neither
a politician nor a real mar
shall despite his title). More
over. some of the Americans
who were in contact with him
during the last war gained
the definite impression that he
is dull witted, ponderous and
highly uncertain of himself.
Unprecedented in Soviet
history was Bulganin's re-
versal Of himself last week
within "a hours after he had
rejected the Eisenhower pro-
posal for aerial inspection. It
plainly shows that he was told
by somebody that he had COM
mitted tactical blunder and
had better retract quickly.
And the speculation here is
that the somebody" was in all
likelihood Marshal Zhukov.
Nikita Khrush hev, the
Communist Party boss and
the No. 2 man in the present
Soviet triumvirate, Is hearty
and superficial. He has to ex-
ercise much restraint not to
show the effects Of vodka in
public. He got out Of hand
during his pilgrimage to Bel
grade where he cut a very
poor figure. His past perform
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-12
Is Zhukov the No. ! Communist?

German Krieg- Academic (war
college, in Berlin during the
honeymoon days between the
Weimar Republic and the
USSR.
zhukov is not known to be
politically ambitious but since
he happens to be the only
strong man in the present
Soviet hierarchy he may not
hesitate to take over when
events require such an action.
Stain worried about Zhu-
kov's popularity with the army
and exiled him after the war
to obscure commands where he
was under strict surveillance
of the political commissars.
Zhukov emerged from that
semiobscurity after Stains
death and the scuttlebutt in
foreign embassies in Moscow
was that without his support
strong man Beria could not
have been liquidated. Rightly
or wrongly, many informed
sources in Washington believe
that the present smiling tactics
of the Kremlin have been in
Spired by him.
Zhukov is a devoted follower
of the Lenin-Stalin principles
and believes in the establish
ment of a worldwide Com.
munist empire. But being q
careful soldier he does not be-
lieve that the Soviet forces
are yet ready to win a smash
ing victory over America. Like
Gen, Macarthur, he believes
there is no substitute for VIC
tory. But while the USSR could
take over Europe whenever 1t
likes by military force, she is
not strong enough at this time
to hope for a final victory over
the United States. AS minister
Of defense and actually COM
mander in chief of the Red
forces Zhukov knows that Rus
STA needs between three and
five more years to obtain SUI
periority over US in intercon-
tinental missiles. Until that
day arrives he is willing to
remain in the background and
let the puppets at present In
the Kremlin play their smiling
and deceiving diplomatic game.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-12
OF Top 4 Soviet Leaders, the Marshal
Is the Only One Who Fits the Pattern
CONSTANTINE BROWN

ances in the party where he is
supposed to fill Stains shoes
are less than brilliant. He is
not made of the stuff of which
successful dictators are made.
Men like Lenin, Stain, Hitler.
Mussolini and their predeces-
Sors in history, dastardly as
they were, did have some per-
sonal- magnetism which i'm
posed them on the masses.
Frozen Face" Molotov is q
good executive officer who has
been useful as an underling.
When he is told to scowl he
does it excellently; when he
is ordered to smile he can make
that effort, too. AS far as is
known to those who have fol-
lowed Russia'S foreign and
domestic policies in the last 20
years, Molotov has never done
anything else than obey strictly
Stains instructions, regardless
Of whether his position in the
USSR was that of Premier or
Foreign Minister. Molotov has
not changed under the new
setup. Nobody knows whether
he has any creative capacity.
But having lived under the re-
gimes Of Lenin and Stain when
men with personal initiative
died "untimely" deaths, he is
said to be determined to die
in his own bed. And this can
best be done in the USSR by
continuing as the colorless
executive officer he is now.
A triumvirate oligarchy can
not continue for long. The
strongest of the three even
tually takes over. But, as far
as can be gathered, there Is no
strong individual or personality
in the Soviet syndicate"
Hence the official American
analysts look behind the scenes
where they find the powerful
personality Of Georgi Zhukov,
a professional and highly COM
petent soldier. Like all Rus
sian marshals. Zhukov came
from the ranks but obtained
his strategic knowledge by
studying for four years at the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-12
DOROTHY THOMPSON
The Case of Midshipnun Londy

family loyalties and the IN
naturalness of family breaches.
And Of all such ties none are
stronger than that Of mother
and son.
A person may change his
political ideas. Most Of US
have done so in a lifetime.
People have abandoned one
country for another. But no
one has more than one mother.
The mother may be foolish,
stupid. even evil, and the son
may disapprove of her. But
his diSapproval, like that of
the mother of a hayward son,
is q source of grief. The
mother or son may feel he
must compensate society by
superior conduct. But the
instinct of each to defend the
other against outsiders is
fundamental in nature. Being
fundamental in nature it is
fundamental to society. For
the original social unit Of
society is the family. I would
say that a son who is not loyal
to his mother (deservedly or
mott lacks the most primitive
sense of loyalty.
: Totalitarian states, usurping
even such primitive loyalties,
encourage children to spy on
and denounce parents and
parents children, holding each
responsible for the errors of
the other, and rewarding fam
lily disloyalty. This appalls the
civilized mind. 1t is unnatural,
perverted, and thus evil.
We hazard the guess that
the Landy decision was a COM
pensating act for the Peress
decision with which 1t has no
analogy. If that was the mo-
tive 1t was an act OF bureau
cratic cowardice. But coward
ice. personal or bureaucratic.
has no place In the Navy. 1t
must not only defend the
physical existence Of America.
1t must defend the American
ethics and tradition. II that
fails there is nothing worthy
to defend.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-12

The case of Midshipman
Eugene William Landy will be
an acid test of public sensibil-
ity. Mr.. Landy, student of the
U. S. Merchant Marine Acad-
envy. second in his class of SO,
graduated last week with three
special honors and an award
from the OAR. He was en-
titled to a commission in the
naval reserve which was denied
to only two other classmates,
in their cases because of phys
ical disabilities. Mr.. Landy
more than met all tests, phys
ical, Intellectual, and ethical.
But on the eve Of his gradua-
ton he was refused d commits
sion for no official reasons
whatsoever. Unofficially ma
val spokesman" justified the
rejection because "Mr. Landy
had extremely close associa-
ton with his mother, who has
been Communist"
Nobody in this case invoked
the Fifth Amendment. Mr..
Landy freely admitted that his
mother had joined the party
in 1914 while working for Rus
sian relief, and his mother
confirmed this. Both said that
as the boy grew older Che was
10 in 1944) he begged her to
leave the party. which she f.
nally did.
II these are not the essen
tial facts, the Navy Depart
ment, whose Assistant Secre-
tary Albert Pratt called the
rejection "a considered action
Of the Navy" must present to
the public the entire Navy
version. II they are the basic
facts, those responsible for the
considered action" should
apologize and/or resign. For
no trifling matter is involved
but the most fundamental
principle Of civilized justice,
namely, that no person may
be punished for the errors of
others.
Compromising cruelty with
stupidity, young Landy, stand
ing with his class was not per-
T.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-12
Talbot Was a Good Air Force Secretary
He Should Have Been Better Politician

dent Eisenhower phrased it,
Mr.. Talbot was right under
the circumstances" in submit
ting his resignation. What this
means is that, even though
there was no illegality or fraud.
the continuance of Mr.. Talbot
in Office would have been a
basis for political attack on
the administration and hence
there was only one thing for
him to do-to resign.
1t is interesting to note the
condemnation which swept
over Mr.. Talbot like a tidal
wave. 1t came from the
right" and the cleft" The
right" saw danger to the ad-
ministration politically. The
left" saw a chance to bite
back because of the impro-
prietieS charged to Truman
officials in the last administra-
ton.
It's too bad in a way that
the error in judgment made by
Mr.. Talbot wasn't in some
way related to communism
or being a member of a
Communist-front organization.
Then he might have won wide
spread sympathy from the
left wing" and it would have
been averred that just for one
single mistake in judgment he
shouldn't be pilloried by his
fellow men for the rest Of his
life. Some foundation might
even have paid for a film to
exploit his biography among
the colleges.
In the Baltimore Sun the
other day. c. P. Ives, who
writes a signed article reg
ularly on the editorial page,
says that, while it would be
unfair in a sense to make any
comparisons between DR.. OPP
pepheimer and Mr.. Talbot,
because they are different
personalities, 1.-THE same two
basic issues appeared" in their
cases. He writes:
There was the issue of a
conflict of interest. There was
the issue Of personal be-
havior."
Mr.. Ives then quotes the Of
ficial record Of testimony to
show that DR.. Oppenheimer
lied to the military intelli-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-12
DAVID LAWRENCE

They blew taps on Harold
Talbott'S service as Secretary
of the Air Force-and the Sec
rotary Of Defense pinned a
medal on him for his out
standing performance as a
public official. But that didn't
erase the stigma he will carry
for life-the stigma of cruel
system of politics which cruel
fies a man forever because he
makes a single mistake In
judgment.
Harold Talbot was a re-
markedly good Secretary Of
the Air Force but a poor poll
tician. He worked day and
night in the interests Of the
enlisted men apd did many
things for which he will long
be remembered by the airmen
of America. But among other
things he was careless in the
use of office stationery - as
happens every day in every
business when employees write
personal communications about
personal affairs on Office let
terheads. It doesn't seem to
matter that Mr.. Talbot wrote
to persons who knew him In
business many years before
or that he told a Senate COM
mittee when it originally rec
commended confirmation to the
Senate that he would retain
business connection with a
firm of efficiency experts. 1t
doesn't seem to matter that
the engineering firm Of which
he remained a partner saved
companies a lot of money by
its methods and indirectly
saved the Government money
on its cost plus" contracts
something that caused Mr..
Talbot to be overenthusiastic
perhaps about mentioning it
to his old friends. If he had
held stock in a drug company
that had a cure for polio or
something, he mustn't recon-
mend it to his friends or let
the Army and Navy know
about it. That would be a
conflict of interest" modern
style.
Yet, when all is said and
done. it was a mistake in judg-
ment and could be exaggerated
on the stump. So, as Presi-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-12
Navy Must Defend Not Only Americas
Existence, but American Ethics as Well

mitted to swear allegiance to
his flag and country and a
photograph showing the class
standing with hands raised in
salute to the flag while Mr..
Landy's hung at his sides was
distributed throughout the
Nation. Were patriotic Amer
lean opinion that Of the Navy,
the damage to young Landy.
officially unaccused, would be
enormous. But Americans do
believe that the oath to the
flag represents a nation with
liberty and justice for ALL"
So the public indignation Is
directed not against Mr..
Landy, but against the Navy
whose brass took the unex-
planned considered action"
The OAR. displaying some
Of the CUTS that distinguished
their ancestors, refused to
withdraw their prize and con-
gressional leaders have taken
up the case, so Mr.. Landy has
reason to anticipate eventual
justice. But suppose no one
had done so. What would
young Mr.. Landy think and
feel about American justice?
AS far as we know in this
extremely close relation be-
tween mother and son." 1t was
the son, who, as he matured,
welded the stronger influence
and against his mothers pc!
litical affiliations. These began,
remember, in 1914, at the
climax of the war, when 1t
was generally considered dis
loyal not to trust our brave
Communist allies.
But suppose the boy had
failed to convince his mother.
Suppose she were still a Com
munist. What should he have
done? Denounce her to the
authorities?
Here we approach the most
delicate question Of loyalty.
In no court are q wife or
husband, parent or child. re-
quired to testify against each
other. The wisdom Of the race
recognizes the sanctity Of
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MOOSE P A s s NEW s NOTE s
By Mrs. DeIbert Wolfe

A meeting was held at the Quon- set Hut on Monday evening, Jan uary 17 to form a Boy Scout troop in Moose Pass. A Scout Com mittee of five members was form ed with William Merritt as chair man and Sherman Pearson as Sec retary-Treasurer and Robert Lie belt, Merle Reed and Live Saxton members of t h e committee. Paul Garwood will act as Scout master and Charles Cole will be Assistant Scoutmaster. About 13 or IA boys were present to receive their application blanks for mem- bership in the troop.
 Ray Stafford was 69 years old on Wednesday, January 19 and his birthday was observed with a din ner party and evening of cards at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Clements. Those present were, the honored guest, MT. and Mrs. Howard Brooks, Charlie Clements, and MT. and Mrs. Clements.
 This past week was ahard one for windows in Moose Pass - Billy Foster pushed Kent SaXton's shoulder through one of the win dow panes in the door of the Ray Foster home; MT. and Mrs. Glenn Miller decided to keep their dog Gypsy outside while she was pushed the glass out of the storm door so that the Millers could know that she wanted to be with them; and the Estes Brothers Snow-go threw ice through the two lower panes of the douple window in the community library.
 MT. Arnold Grandville, Educa- tional Supervisor for this area, visited the Moose Pass School on Friday and Saturday, January 21 and P. He was the overnight guest of MT. and Mrs. Theodor Brunner He planned to go to Homer and then back up the west side of the Kenai Peninsula, across to Cooper Landing and Hope and would be in Anchorage for the Teachers Conference which will be held February 3 and 4. This was MT. Granville's second trip to Moose Pass for this school year.
 
 Posters are out for a dance for the benefit of the March of Dimes which will be held at the Quonset Hut Saturday evening, January 29.
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gon in the Congress-, are partic- ularly concerned because enforce ment of the tentative CAB rule would virtually eliminate all di- rect air service between our state and one of it's great potential mar kets, the Territory of Alaska. This would be discriminating again t Oregon and highly unfair.
 Investors in the two companies would lose their money: state-side facilities would be abandoned, and many employees would be deprived of their jobs. Air, service to the Territory would be reduced, and in the event of emergency. Alaska would be wholly dependent upon two carriers. Steamship passeng- CT service between the States and Alaska has just been suspended. making the Territory wholly de- pendent upon air travel. This em- phasizes the need for more not less air service.
 Postponement of a decision on the StatesAlaska Case until the CAB has completed a contemplated investigation of intra-Alaska air routes and operators is unanim- ously opposed because such action would work an undue hardship on the carriers involved in their ef, forts to process financing essential to their service and facilities.
 We wish to re-emphasize the po- sition expressed in this letter re- presents the unanimous opinion of the Oregon Congressional delega- tion. Your attention is called to a similar letter from the Congress sional delegation of the State of Washington and the Territory of Alaska.
 Sincerely,
 WAYNE l.. MORSE. U.S.S.
 RICHARD L.. NEUBERGER.
 U.S.S.
 HARRIS ELLSWORTH, NC.
 WALTER NORBLAD, MIG.
 SAM COON, MIG.
 EDITH s. GREEN, MIG.
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Oregon Delegation Writes President

Honorable Dwight D. Eisenhower, President of the United States, The White House
 Dear Mr. President:
 The entire Oregon delegation in Congress is deeply disturbed over the tentative action by the Civil Aeronautics Board in the States Alaska Case (CAB Docket No. 5756) which would reduce service and eliminate operations of two licensed air carriers flying between the Pacific Northwest and the Ter ritory of Alaska.
 It is the unanimous opinion of the Senators and Representative from the State of Oregon that:
 1. The four carriers now serving Alaska points from Portland, Ore gon and Seattle-Tacoma, Washing ton should all be certified This is essential to maintain adequate transportation to the Territory for convenience of the public and for national defense.
 ?. The routes of the four airlines involved; namely, Pan-American World Airways, Northwest Airlines, Pacific Northern Airlines. and Al aska Airlines. should be unchang- ed. Competitive air service between the Pacific Northwest and Alaska will be continued, and monopoly in air service thus avoided.
 The CAB, by recent vote, has decided to eliminate Pacific North ern Airlines and Alaska Airlines from Portland, Seattle-Tacoma ser vice and to confine both carriers to intra-Alaska routes on which they are permanently certified. This would virtually destroy the two airlines whose organization and equipment have been expand ed to a point where restricted op- erations would not be efficient.
 We, as representative of Ore
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LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
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YOUR SOCIAL
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By JAMES G. BROWNE Alaska Manager. Social Security Administration, Room 519
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Alaska, s Manager, Social Security
 Administration, Room 5t9
 Federal Building, Juneau
 Q. Are members of religious or ders covered under Social Sec urity?
 A. Yes. Beginning January 1, 1855. clergymen, Christian Science practitioners, and members of rel igious orders who have not taken VOW of poverty may take an in- dividual election to be covered as self employed persons.
 o. How can I make such an election for coverage?
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LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF ALASKA
 THIRD DIVISION

GEOftbf hlM r lo\, f'ldlltlll, LORRAINE KIMPToN, )
 Defendant.
 SUMMONS The President of the United States of America,
 To the Above-Named Defendant.
 Greeting:
 You are hereby required to appear in the District Court for the Terri tory of Alaska. Third Division, within thirty days after the last publication of this summons, namely, within thir- tv days after the 18th day of January, 1855. in case this summons is pub date of it's service upon you. in case this summons is served upon you personally, and answer the complaint of the above-named plaintiff on file in the said court in the above-entitled action.
 The said plaintiff in said action demands the following relief: A de- cree of absolute divorce.
 And in the event you fail to so ap- pear and answer. the plaintiff will take judgment against you for want thereof, and will apply to the court for the relief demanded in his com- plaint and as hereinabove stated. WITNESS: the Honorable. J, l.. and the Seal of said Court hereunto 1855
 (SEAL)
 WILLIAM A. HILTON. Clerk
 /s/ STANLEY A. HALL, Jan. :, fl, 21, Ss. 1855.
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