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Evening star., 1955-02-23
Fletcher Knebel-
Potomac Fever

Patriotic statement of Government witness on George
Washngtons birthday II cannot tell lie Not only did chop
cherry treebut I'm ready to deny 1t under oath
his 1Oyear $00biion highway program to Con-
gres Democrats don't like it, Too much spending They don't
mind spending the hate spend 10
doing 1t.
Republicans accuse Democrats of demagoguing for tax
cut in the face unbalanced budget This the most
shameless bit poickng the Republicans did the same
thing last year.
Turnabout witnesses Washington writing
new articles faith, to be entitled: This Believe
but Nobody Else Will"
Vice Nixon tries to patch things between Costa
Nicaragua Everywhere he Nixon carries an olive
branch make between nations he's
swatting Democrats the head with it.
Fellow almost spring He heard the
first meadow-and the first Abombs in Nevada
Senate committee opens hearings civil defense The
is tagging Too many people are riding
cars-instead of learning how to run.
Evening star., 1955-02-23

tional situation at Labor
rally in New Castle on Satur-
day, said bluntly: I'VE want
to work with our American
friends, but that does not say
that we must" Considering
that our British cousins are
given to understatements, Mr..
Attlee's words are very mean
ingful. He opposes with all
his might our dangerous" pol
icy in Asia.
Mr.. Attlee's concept Of
American-British friendship
is that America should be the
paymaster while Britain is the
riding master. He does not
hide his belief that Red China
is in the right in whatever its
leaders are doing in Asia and
that we have no business in
terfering with their plans. He
agrees with his new friends,
Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-
lai, whom he visited in Peiping
last summer, that Formosa
belongs to the government of
the Chinese Peoples Republic
and he is not in the slightest
concerned with the strategic
interests of the United States
in the Western Pacific, al
though they affect Australia
and Malaga as well. Mr.. Att
lees heart has been bleeding
for Communist causes since
he visited the British brigade
fighting in Spain on the side
of the Reds.
Sir Anthony, with the rest
of the Churchill cabinet, is
more realistic and admits that
Formosa is of some Importance
to the free worlds defenses.
For this reason. following the
ancient British imperial think
ing, he is willing to help us
obtain a trusteeship over the
island through the United
Nations. He apparently is
confident that Moscow can be
induced to agree to such a
temporary solution, primarily
because it would keep America
and Communist China at
drawn daggers for some time.
Should We not heed the
British governments advice,
London has intimated recently
Evening star., 1955-02-23
Margaret Is Guest
Al Barbecue in Jamaica
BY the Assoeioied Press

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Feb. %.
Dressed in a native Jamaican
costume, Princess Margaret ate
charcoal broiled steak at a huge
open air barbecue last night in
Vaudeville. SIS miles through the
mountains from Kingston.
The princess, here on a tour
of the British West Indies, sat
on a platform built on a small
slope overlooking a grassy field
dotted with tables. With her on
the platform were officials of a
Jamaican aluminium company.
who gave the barbecue. About
500 guests attended the affair.
The princess wore a black
blouse and a white skirt en-
broidered with Jamaican figures.
The royal party returned to
Kingston on a one-car diesel
trolley. freshly painted for the
special trip.
Evening star., 1955-02-23
Dovid Lowence- -,
Democrats Called Socialists
Porty Accused of Wanting to Share the Wealth
BY Making Thrifty and Successful Poy Most

favor more and more exemp-
tions from taxation for the
maximum number of voters.
Both approaches, while con-
Trajectory from any stand
point of fiscal soundness, mean
a budget unbalanced by a wide
margin. Then the Democratic
Party spokesmen will claim
that the Eisenhower admins
tration has failed to balance
the budget as promised in 1852.
1t is beginning to look as
If the 1854 election was very
costly to the American people
because it was influenced by
the most deceptive piece of
campaigning that the country
has ever witnessed. The Demo-
p cratic argument was that a
depression was coming and
that the number of unem-
ployed would increase. 1t turns
out now that the mild recess
sion was short-lived and that
business is booming because,
in making 1855 plans, business
men have had confidence in
the fiscal policies of the Eisen-,
hover administration. They
expanded facilities after max
ing a remarkable adjustment
to the post-Korean war shrink
ages in Government spending.
If, however, the budget is
to be heavily unbalanced and
the Democratic Party in Con-
gress is to continue in power
after the next election. the
country will experience a real
imitation. That would come
from a rapid increase in the
cost of living and a severe drop
in the purchasing power Of
the dollar. That threat ap-
parently has no terrors for
the Democrats, who are out to
win in 1856 by what Repre-
sentative Daniel Reed of New
York, a veteran member of
Congress, describes as a scheme
for buying the electorate. 1t
remains to be seen whether
the electorate can be bought
by a $40 tax cut per voter, and
whether socialism. as offered
by the Democratic Party lead
ership, is going to be accepted
in preference to a sound dol
lar and a system of private en-
terpriSe.
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Evening star., 1955-02-23

the Atomic Energy Comrnis-
sion comedies that one exist
ing thermonuclear bomb could
wreak an incalculdble chain of
devastation; that its fall-out
blankets 1000 square miles
with lethally radioactive ma
terial; that human descend
ants could be affected. The
superbomb is 10000 times
more powerful than those that
wiped out Hiroshima and
Nagasaki. And it is not the
final consummation of scien-
tific genius.
The Russians have H
bombs; the British will pro-
duce them.
The United States concen-
trates on such weapons to off,
set the superior manpower Of
the Soviet bloc. Thus we have
a competition in means OF
death with no end in sight
until there are no more i'm
moral governments or there
is another war that will not
even be war as hitherto known,
but a holocaustic catastrophe.
Those who say that the
whole business should stop are
called "idealists"-a noble sort
of fool. But they alone are
using reason amidst the gro
tesque dance of death.
Total, universal, simultane-
Gus disarmament, to be COM
pleted within a definite time,
ending armies, navies, and air
forces. conscription and the
manufacture of conventional
and unconventional weapons. is
the only disarmament that re-
quires minimum external con-
troll. 1t would solve the di-
lemma of firepower versus
manpower.
The prohibition should be
written into the constitution
of every state, and proclaimed
throughout the world. It
would be impossible to violate
1t without immediate knowl-
Evening star., 1955-02-23
Constantine Brown

Secretary of State Dulles
and Britain's Foreign Secre-
tary Eden are now talking over
SEATO's future operations
with the other members OF the
so-called Asiatic NATO at
Bangkok.
The french, lacking a gov
ernment and also any real in
terest in Southeast Asia. are
represented only by an official
of the Foreign Office. former
Ambassador to Washington
Henri Bonnet.
Eden's chief interest is to
convince his American col
league that our policy on the
Nationalist-held islands in
Formosa Strait is all wrong
and If we want to continue our
close relationship with Britain
we had better reconsider our
commitments to the Taipei
government. Only an Amer
ican declaration not to par
ticipate in defense Of the off,
shore Islands. we have been
told in the last two weeks. can
keep the present American
British political friendship on
an even keel.
The British government is
not concerned over the reasons
which compelled us to take
our stand. It admits privately
there is little else that we can
do under the Chinese Commu-
nists' provocations. But the
political atmosphere in Britain
is such that the Conservatives,
who face an important general
election next year, cannot af-
ford to go against the present
trends Of the electorate.
Sir Anthony is expected to
tell Mr.. Dulles that unless the
United States agrees not to
intervene in an attack against
Quemoy and Matsu we must
face the prospects of a Labor
government in Britain next
year. And neither Clement
Attlee nor his "far to the left"
rival, Aneurin Bevan. is likely
to be cooperative with Ameri-
can policies.
Former Prime Minister Att
lee, discussing the interna-
Evening star., 1955-02-23
Dorothy Thompson
Mankind Is Ready for Peace
Total, Universal, Simultaneous Disarmament Is Seen
As the Only Solution to Dilemma Facing All of Us

edge. Every man conscripted,
every factory worker produc-
ing war material. would know
that he was breaking the law
of his country and of man.
kind.
Were any state to begin to
violate it. diplomatic repre-
sentatives of other countries
would learn about it promptly.
For thoue.4 it is possible Sc
cretly t., circumvent partial
disarmament, to overstep quo
tas, ETC.. it is impossible to
arm secretly per Sc. When such
action was even suspected
would be the moment for a
U. N. peace commission to in
vestigate. "A breach of the
peace" would not begin with
an act of war, but with the
first preparation for war, be-
fore the offender could resist
even one U. N. plane.
Mankind, whom our leaders
forever invoke, would them
selves be the primary means
of enforcing the only thing
they can enforce-a univer-
sally protected individual right
not to be drafted or otherwise
employed to kill or be killed by
others. 1t would create and
legitimatize universal consci-
entious objection.
Mr.. Dulles apparently be-
lieves mankind is not ready for
this 1t belongs to the far
future when man is regen-
Grated into a community of
saints. But no one needs to be
a saint to want to die in his
bed. The wicked also have an
instinct to survive,
Evening star., 1955-02-23
David Lawrence

There's an even more pene-
trating way to share the
wealth." as the late Huey Long
phrased it, than the Demo-
cratic Party leaders have
thought of with their $40 cut
in taxes for everybody. It's
equally logical and it could
mean an even bigger poten-
tial in vote getting.
Thus there are about SIS mil
lion citizens with incomes under
$4,000 a year. This is a siZab!e
number of voters and enough
to win an election if they vote
solely on selfish grounds.
A scheme could be devised
to free this entire group from
the payment of any Federal
taxes whatsoever. 1t would
cost the Treasury of the United
States $8.5 billion. But if dem
agoguery is to be the rule, then
there's simple way to make
it up-just increase the taxes
on the persons with incomes
of $25,Q00 a year or more.
They're paying $87 billion a
year already. The addition OF
$8.5 billion in tax payments
would, of course, virtually con-
fiscate the incomes of the most
thrifty and the most success
full citizens. Conflscation, how
ever, is the eventual goal of
the Socialists. and the Demo-
cratic Party is rapidly becom-
ing the socialistic party in
America anyway.
1t so happens that there are
about 100000 taxpayers in
this country whose incomes
are $25,000 a year or over.
They pay more in total taxes
than do the SIS million who
have incomes under $4,000 a
year. They are carrying the
heaviest tax burden already.
If the share the wealth"
doctrine is to become domi-
nant, it would mean the even
tual destruction of incentive
and a consequent drop in the
incomes of all persons now
earning incomes over $4,000 a
year. The goal of communism
- as we'll as of its twin
brother, socialism is to do
away with the managerial
class or so to weaken its spirit
as to cause the whole private
enterprise system to collapse.
Evening star., 1955-02-23
Crucial Debate on Arms Opens in Bonn tomorrow

four government parties to make
last-minute appeals for the solid
support of the 1886 coalition
deputies in the 487-member
Bundestag dover house,.
Mr.. Adenauer also summoned
the cabinet to q final meeting be-
fore the house begins the three
day debate on the decisive
second and third readings of the
treaties. Mr.. Adenauer, four
cabinet ministers and 48 deputies
were scheduled to speak during
the session.
Evening star., 1955-02-23

Union labor, which has
thrived under the system OF
risk capital. would not be able
to get the increases in wages
or pension benefits now en-
joyed If the management
class in America were wiped
out as it has been in Soviet
Russia or in countries where
state capitalism is in vogue.
1t is a paradox that the
labor union leaders in America
have lined themselves up po-
litically with the Democratic
Party, whose latest program
confirms a suspicion that the
party is bent on impairing the
very economic system that has
benefited labor so widely. But
the rank and file ofSthe work
ers do not have much to say
about the political maneuvers
of the labor bosses. Their
dues, which are supposed to
be used for union benefits, are
applied to pay big salaries to
executives of the unions who
spend a large part of their
3 time in political activities.
Also, by the use OF COM
pulsory unionization laws, the
union bosses hold the power OF
economic life or death over
the worker and, unless he goes
along with the political-cam-
paign progrems, even though
they lead to socialistic ends,
the ordinary union member can
lose his job as a punishment
for failing to conform.
The Democratic Party in
the last election said through
its leaders that it would sup
port the President and prom
ised also to favor policies OF
fiscal soundness. But the
Democratic-controlled Con-
gress has been here less than
two months, and it is becom-
ing crystal clear that such
campaign pledges have already
been abandoned.
A pattern of strategy is
emerging. The Democratic
leaders favor more and more
spending-more billions for all
kinds of socialistic adventures,
including a program of Gov
ernment-owned electric light
and power projects. They also
Evening star., 1955-02-23

serious difficulties and inquiring
whether the Russians could
launch an offensive in the east.
The Soviet Union responded
at once" Mr.. Kurov went on,
with an offensive. LAS a result,
the Hitlerite forces in the west,
which had massed for a new
blow, halted their offensive and
were transferred to the east
against the Soviet army. The
German offensive in the Ar
dennes was thwarted. and the
danger hovering over Belgium
and the allied forces on her ter
ritory was eliminated"
Despite all this, New Times
continued. the role of the Soviet
army was ignored when Belgium
marked the anniversary of Bas-
togne's liberation.
Cites Astounding Claim"
1T appears that the celebra-
tion's sole aim was to laud the
valiant United States the
paper went on. "The speeches
of Belgian politicians and the
articles in the Belgian bourgeois
press made the astounding claim
that the German offensive in the
Ardennes was thwarted by a
small American unit under Gen.
McAuliffe in Bastogne.
"A statement made by Gen.
McAuliffe. who had come to
Belgium especially to take part
in the ceremonies. revealed
nothing new. In a none-too-
modest speech. the general men,
toned his rather modest merits.
And he spoke of the allies who
had saved him from disaster
Evening star., 1955-02-23
BY the Assoeiofed Press

BONN, Germany. Feb. 23.--
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer
and the opposition Socialists
marshalled their forces today for
the crucial parliamentary debate
on the Paris treaties rearming
West Germany.
The debate begins tomorrow,
with Mr.. Adenauer's foreign
policy-and perhaps his political
future-resting on the outcome.
The 79-year-old chancellor
sent parliamentary leaders of his
Evening star., 1955-02-23

In his speech of February l6,
Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles made, I thought, a ref
erence and answer to the re-
cent speech by Gen. Douglas
Macarthur calling for the abo-
lition of war by total universal
disarmament.
Twice in our generation"
said Mr.. Dulles. efforts have
been made to secure peace by
broad agreements to abolish
war. 1t is good that
mankind should, by great pro-
nouncements, demonstrate its
hatred of war. But &.
treaty pledges will never
restrain powerful and ambi-
tious rulers as against such
despots there must be other
and further restraints than
words. :"
But Gen. Macarthur did not
propose that peace should
depend upon treaties and
pledges alone" He did not en-
visage total, universal and si-
multaneouS disarmament as a
platitude, like the United Ma
tions Charter that bids" ma
tions to refrain from the threat
or use of force. He suggested
an act-which would put into
effect the pledges they have
already given-namely. to re-
move from every nation the
power to make war.
At no time during peace has
the world been so armed.
Every human being on this
planet is being impoverished
by the ornaments race.
Each side claims that it en-
cages in it solely for defense
and peace:
The "other and further re-
straints" that the Secretary
advocates against the wicked
are Just more armies and more
terrible weapons.
Admiral Lewis L. Strauss OF
Evening star., 1955-02-23

only with the purpose Of fright
ening the Belgians with the
bogey of militant communism :"
Soviet 1t. Gen. Viktor Poz-
nyak, writing in the Russian
magazine news, agreed with Mn.
Kurov's assertion that 1.-The So
called heroic United States feat
in the Ardennes' was only a
hastily concocted myth"
Evening star., 1955-02-23
Reds Say They Won
Battle Of the Bulge
For u. ). and Allies

NEW YORK, Feb. % (NANA) .
Gen. Anthony c. McAuliffe,
new head of the American Army
in Europe, has at least one
strike against him as far as the
Russians are concerned.
He won fame in Belgium dur
ing the World War II Battle of
the Bulge when he retorted,
"Nuts!" to a German demand
for surrender. But the Russians
contend the Red Army, not
American troops, were the real
victors at Bastogne and that
Gen. McAuliffe, far from being
a hero. is "falsifier of history" ="
Soviet military men and civil
ians propagandists Joined in
presenting the Russian version
of the Battle of the Bulge on the
recent 10th anniversary of the
famous German winter counter
offensive.
Says West Feared Rout.
Writing in the magazine New
Times, which expresses the views
of Russia's ministry Of foreign
affairs. A. Kurov declared:
'"The defense Of Bastogne,
situated in the Ardennes, was in
the hands of United States Gen.
eral McAuliffe. The situation was
serious, and the words 'rout' and
catastrophe seldom left the
pages of British and American
newspapers.
"On January 6. 1945, Brit
aims Prime Minister Winston
Churchill addressed a message to
j. v. Stain, saying the battle
in the west was encountering
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-10
Louis N. Sheers Enters
Falls Church Council Race

Louis M. Sheers, a retired
Government instrument maker,
yesterday announced his candi-
dacy for the Falls Church City
Council.
Mr.. Sheers, IS, lives at 106
Westmoreland road. and is a
member of the Executive Com
mittee of the North Greenway
Downs Citizens Association.
In 81 years of service as a
Federal employee. Mr.. Sheers
worked for the Naval Gun Fac
tory, Naval Observatory and
National Security Agency. He
retired two years ago and is
president of the Falls Church
Chapter of the National Associa-
ton of Retired Civil Employees.
A native of New Haven, Conn,
he attended school in Washing
ton. He moved to Falls Church
about four years ago. He is mar
ried and has two married daugh-
tiers. A son, William, died in
1943 when his ship was torpe-
decd in the North Atlantic.
Deadline for filing for the
seven seats to be filled in the
June IA election is April IA.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-10
By ChorIes 6. Brooks

A 16-year-old boy, charged IL
separate times and having six
Juvenile Court jury acquittals,
yesterday demanded another jury
trial On a complaint of assault
with intent to rob.
Juvenile Court Judge Edith H.
Cockrill, after refusing his at
torney's request to withhold &C
ton pending his future ac-
ceptance into the armed forces,
set a seventh jury trial for April 4.
The youth. whose elder brother
is also known to the police Ju-
venile Squad. has been either
charged or tried by a jury or the
court for an attempted robbery,
attempted HOUSEKEEPING, false
pretenses, assault coupled with
unlawful entry and disorderly
conduct, another disorderly
charge, three robbery charges,
carnal knowledge and sodomy.
Judge Cockrill said she has
been asked by the armed services
not to use them as a substitution
for punishment or for rehabilita-
ton.
A year ago. the boy was ap-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-10
Tito Talk Criticizing
Soviet Is Distributed
To Russian Press
By ,he Associated Press

MOSCOW, Mar. 10. - The
Soviet news agency Tass dis
tributed to the Russian press
today a speech by Yugoslavia's
President Tito criticizing the
Soviet Union and Foreign Min
lister v. NJ. Molotov.
This was believed to be the
first time the official Soviet news
agency has made such criticism
available to the Russian press
without comment.
marshal Tito spoke Monday
to the years first session of the
Yugoslav Parliament. He indi-
Gated strongly that the NOR
malization" Of relations between
Belgrade and Moscow has gone
about as far as it is going to
go. Marshal Tito said anti
Yugoslav propaganda from Rus
STA and its satellites stopped
toward the end of last year.
He added, however, that attempts
still are being made to repre-
sent Yugoslavia's "normaliza-
ton" of relations with Comm
form countries as a realization
by Iugcslavia Of its errors and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-10
Boy With 6 Jury AcquittoIs
Seeks 7thin Trial for Assault

pretended for threatening q
housewife through an open win
dow. Police quoted him. at the
time, as threatening that he
could not be kept in the Receiv-
ing Home and that when he got
out he was going to kill some
body.
In all six previous jury trials,
the youth was freed.
His attorney yesterday told the
court:
Il haven't done much all year
but represent this boy. Once,
though. l took a little time out
and went to Florida for a vaca-
ton"
Judge Cockrill yesterday said
that she hoped to hear the boys
jury trial on April 4.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-10

that I'VE are trying to correct
them and similar nonsense
The Tass story quoted Marshal
Tito as saying Mr.. Molotov's
recent statement before the
Supreme Soviet did not cor
respond to reality" in regard to
relations with Yugoslavia.
It further quoted Marshal
Tito:
I'VE consider this an attempt
to conceal the facts from ones
own people-again at our ex-
pense. The time has come when
things should be explained as
they are and in the way they are
developing. instead of stopping
normalization halfway and Great
ing new doubts among peoples.
Displays of this kind do not
facilitate the improvement of
relations, but, on the contrary,
obstruct progress"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-10
Trade Bourd Forming
10Th Century Club

A 18th Century Club. COM
posed Of business firms organized
here before 1900. viii be formed
by the Washington Board Of
Trade.
The membership will be
limited to firms represented in
the Board of Trade, according to
Francis ]. Kane. Trade Board
president.
Eligible firms will be honored
at general membership lunch
con of the Trade Board on
March Is at the Hotel Statler.