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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-29

and no others, including his
military advisers. would give
the green light there.
What is happening now is
that the Chinese Reds are
gathering for an attack on the
Matsus. At any time they were
willing to forswear war to
retake Formosa, these islands
would have been yielded to
them without a murmur.
They seem to prefer war to
diplomacy. This is what gives
the Chang hackers here the
chance to contend that the
United States would be a pa
per tiger" if it lets Quemoy
and Matsu go.
In his dilemma the President
has had kind of tacit prom
Use from the Democrats in the
person of Senator George that
he will be supported in another
Encouragement" But the
Democrats, who almost all OPP
pose a China conflict in which
Chang will be our only ally,
have been slow to give battle to
the Knowlands. They are vul-
nerable to the charge that they
think it better politics to make
Mr.. Eisenhower take the whole
rap for an anti-China decision
which many in his party won't
like.
Meanwhile. the drift profits
the war party.
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Constantine Brown

The Chinese Communists
have gathered about 100000
battle-hardened veterans of
the civil war and Korean cam
pslgn in the coastal areas Of
Chekiang and Fukien facing
Matsu and Quemoy.
Among the troops known to
have been shifted are the
18th, goth and 26th Armies
with whom we crossed swords
in the well-known police &C
ton" in Korea. The 72d and
18th Divisions of the 9Th Army
also have been shifted. Ele-
ments of the Dist, 22d. oath
and other well-trained Red ar
mics also have been identified
in the area. And the Sd Field
Army which left Korea after
the armistice is reported to
be moving south.
The total REQ strength IN
Korea has been reduced from
100000 at the end of the war
to some 435,0 A 12,000-man
paratroop division has been
deployed in the Foochow and
Annoy areas opposite Matsu
and Quemoy. New Russian
manufactured long-range guns
have been packed into the
Weitou peninsula some $4,000
yards northeast of Quemoy
since they started arriving
last January.
simultaneously with the mil
itary build-up, the Reds have
pushed an airfield construc-
ton program which is expect
ed to be completed shortly.
The jet base at Nantai. some
35 miles from Matsu. is COM
pleted. 1t has concrete strips
10000 feet long. The Luchiao
and Ningpo strips, 100 and 200
miles to the north, are ready
for big bombers.
At Luchiao 10000 coolies
worked around the clock under
supervision of Russian techni-
clans to complete what for the
Chinese was an enormous
task. Latest type Soviet-built
jet planes are reaching the
area in numbers. Jet fuel is
arriving in small quantities by
sea, especially from Vladivos-
tok. But because of the strict
Nationalist control of the ap-
proaches to Annoy and Foo
chow the fuel has to be sent
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that the party should not
draft a reluctant candidate,
that is, should not try to press
the President into the race if
he really does not want to run.
This is interpreted by Dem
ocrats, whether rightly or not.
as a sure sign of the Senator's
own ambition for the 1856
nomination. Democrats will en-
courage such a suspicion wide
ly as means of dividing Re-
publicans if possible, and also
to bolster their own hopes that
the President will not run
again.
The tip-off of the new DEM
ocratic strategy of exploiting
the Senate Republican leader
and his repeated defiance of
his President came from Sem
ator Knowland's opposite num-
Der, Senate Democratic Lead
er johnson of Texas. Senator
johnson found his opportunity
in the belligerent remarks
about Quemoy and Matsu by
Senator Knowland on a Sun
day television program, which
were matched by those of an
other Senate Republican lead
er, Senator Bridges of New
Hampshire, likewise on Sum
day television program.
In his mock innocent way.
Senator Johnson rose in the
Senate Monday right after it
had convened and said we
don't want any war party in
the United States, nor do we
want an "appeasement party"
He was sure that Mr.. Eisen-
hover does not want a war
party" either.
This was recognized as a
maneuver to isolate the Repub-
lican Party's Senate leader
and also Senator Bridges, who
is chairman of the party'S
policy committeeman to line
Democrats up with the Presi-
dent as against the Knowland-
Bridges policy for China and
the Far East.
Senator Johnson's touch
ing up" of Senator Knowland
came after consultation with
many other Senate Democrats
over the week end and plainly
looked forward to this weeks
White House conferences on
foreign policy to which the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-29
David Lawrence

Gov. Edwin c. johnson of
Colorado. Democrat, was for
ten years a member of the
Atomic Energy Committee of
the United States Senate and
was, therefore, able to learn a
great deal about the super
bombs and their effects. He
retired of his own volition last
year. Recently he issued a
statement to the press deplor-
ing the attempts on the part
of certain scientists to exag-
gerate the effects of the atom
ic bomb tests in Nevada. He
said in part:
TT must be crystal clear to
everyone now that the care
fully planted fright campaign
launched by Drs. Lanier and
Puck of Colorado University
was merely part of a Nation
wide drive by American scien-
fists against the use of atomic
bombs.
Many of US could and would
share their opposition to these
lethal destroyers were it not
that the United States is in a
desperate and deadly atomic
race with ruthless Russia.
Much as the United States
would like to stop testing and
improving atomic bombs, she
dare not do so. :.
eve must not permit the
defenses of this country to be
weakened by wild and prob
ably baseless speculation about
the genetics of future genera
tons. Unless American scien-
lists remain way out in front
of Russian atomic scientists,
there will be no future gener-
atoms of Americans.
II am not accusing our
Boulder COLORADO University
radioiogists and their COL
leagues in other educational
institutions in their fight
against development of effec-
tive lethal weapons by the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-29
Doris Fieeson

The whole world is on ten
terhooks while President Eli
senhoWer debates whether or
not to fight the Knowland-
Enthusiastically wing of his
party.
This faction is demanding
that he commit United States
forces to the defense of Que
moy and Matsu. These are isl.
ands about four miles from the
Red China mainland and they
are now occupied by the Chi
neSe Nationalist.
The pressure on the Presi-
dent grows heavier and more
heated almost by the hour. It
is a supreme test of his Asian
policy from which he had
hoped SO much.
That policy is disengage-
ment from areas of conflict.
actual or potential, with Red
China.
1t began with Korea. There
the President accepted a truce
which former President Tru-
man had refused to consider.
But MI. Eisenhower had prom
ised in his campaign to reach
a Korean decision, and I'M
questionably what he did was
popular. 1t was so popular in
fact that few people ventured
to mention it's disadvantages.
In the spring of 1854, the
President had again to decide
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-29
Fletcher KnebeI-
Potomac Fever:

Adai Stevenson loses in the Supreme Court. This
that something of relief for Adlai He
got beat by only nine votes.
prayer Congressman is opened at the Capitol
vote for the party and next door
and pray for the country.
Democrats med because the squirrels were chased from
the White House lawn After the election Democrats had
hoped to bring them lot of new nuts.
Republican Senate Leader KnoWland the Republicans
could without All the Republicans need good
patform-and good Democrat to run on it.
One thing about this atomic age. No matter how much
fellow tries each shining hour he tends give
the minute it gets dark.
French shopkeepers strike against paying taxes Wouldn't
here high here that fellow who quits
liable to get arrested for loang on the Governments time
Visitors the of Representatives gallery forbid
den read applaud take citizen it's
sit quietly while Congress acand to think
to pay for it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-29
Thomas L. Stokes

The Republican Party's Sem
ate leader, Senator KnoWland
of California, has finally be-
come President EiSanhoWer'S
problem to such an extent that
he has been picked by the Dem
ocrats, at least temporarily, as
their secret weapon against
the Republican administration.
The Senator has provided
the issue Democrats long have
sought. He constantly adVer-
tises his differences with the
leader of his party, the Presi-
dent, with no prompting what
ever and upon the least excuse.
Democrats find him vulner-
able for a variety OF reasons.
For one thing, he dramatizes
the split over some aspects of
foreign policy within the adj
ministration, particularly as
regards China and the Far
East. He is perfect for this
political purpose since he is
the party leader in the Senate,
and ordinarily, and according
to all the rules, such leader
operates in close cooperation
with the White House.
For another thing, the Cali
fornian's insistence on about
war if Red China should attack
Quemoy and Matsu, the two
ofTshore islands held by Chang,
puts him in a warlike posture
that Democrats are eagerly try
ing to exploit. Since he is the
party leader in the Senate,
Democrats are making the
most of his bellicosity to try
to discount the Republican
Party's claim to being "the
party of peace" which proved
so effective for it in the 1852
presidential campaign.
Also, since the Presidents
own position is vague about
Quemoy and Matsu, there is
no positive refutation of the
impression of policy given by
Senator Knowland.
Another aspect of the Know
land affair which plays into
the hands of Democrats is his
own refusal to echo the con-
tinuous. if plaintive, cry of
every other Republican for the
denomination of the President.
The Senator says only--and he
has said 1t twice in recent
weeks in almost the same way
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-29

gested it be published on Sun
day, I said: If they know on
Friday that the lives of the
people of Denver are in dan
ger on Friday and keep such
facts under cover until Sum-
day, they ought to be arrested
LAS see it, the real ques-
ton here is: Shall the United
States abandon the produc-
ton, tactical development and
improvement of atomic weap-
ons, or shall we turn that field
over exclusively to Soviet
Russia?
u am convinced also that
upon the scientists of America
depends our security and
safety. The free world owes
them a great debt of graft
tude. To continue to protect
us from our enemies, the uni
versities and colleges must
turn out scientists in ever-in-
creaSing numbers. They gave
us the atomic bomb. They can
protect us from harmful radi-
alton. They have well-equipped
laboratories in which to do
these things.
But. remember this, no true
scientist leaves his laboratory
to run to the press with an
unproven suppo sition. The
true scientist develops his
theories patiently, quietly,
thoroughly, through the re-
lentless process of trial and
error"
Gov. Johnson's comments
are in line with the informa-
ton available here from Off
cial sources-namely, that the
amount of radioactivity out
side of the immediate testing
area is negligible and cannot
be regarded as having any
after-effect on future genera
tions, as the propagandists are
continually saying.
Reproduction Rights ReservedJ
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-29

taking notes. taking photos or
wearing of hats by men"
And one most commonly vio-
lated don't-no hats, coats, hands
and elbows or other objects may
be placed on the railing, and that
visitors shall not lean over the
railing.
Each card bears the name,
street number and home town of
the bearer, information that Is
duplicated at the Office Of the
Congressman issuing the card.
If a House doorkeeper finds a
card improperly filled out. it Is
picked up and returned to the
issuing member. Otherwise, 1t is
good for the entire 84th Congress.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-29
Controller General
Joins With Foes Of
Roads Program

Joseph Campbell, recently con-
firmed as Controller General over
the opposition of Senator Gore,
Democrat, of Tennessee, Joined
forces with the Senator yesterday
in opposition to President Eisen-
hower's big highway program
Mr.. Campbell told the Senate
Public Roads Subcommittee, of
which Senator Gore is chairman
that the financing method pro-
posed in the administrations
$21 billion road bill is "objec-
tionable."
The Controller. General said
the General Accounting Office
believed Federal borrowings con-
templated in the administration
program should properly be part
of the public debt.
Secretary of Commerce Weeks
and Gen. Lucius D. Clay, author
of the administration program,
had argued in previous testimony
that one of the key benefits in
the plan was that it wouldn't
add any money to the national
debt.
Part of Total Borrowings
But Mr.. Campbell said:
1T seems only right that such
obligations should be considered,
classified and disclosed as part
of the total borrowings of the
Government, that is. the public
debt"
Senator Cores bill, which
calls for So billion in Federal
road spending over the next five
years, asks for direct congress
sional appropriation of the
money.
The Eisenhower plan would
set up a new agency to handle
the borrowing. Congress would
earmark gasoline tax revenues
for the next 30 years to repay
the Federal indebtedness.
Mr.. Campbell said he also OPP
posed any specific earmarking
of the Federal gasoline tax. He
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-29
Radiation Scare in Colorado
Gov. johnson Costigotes Fright Campaign Launched
By Scientists Over Nevada Atomic Experiments

United States of being fifth
columnistS. But ! do think
their employing of fright
strategy to create public senti-
ment against the necessary
testing of atomic bombs is
most damaging to the defenses
of the free world"
Shortly after this statement
was issued, Gov. Johnson had
occasion to answer a letter
from Mrs. Connie MontfoIt of
Denver, Colo, and the follow
ing extract from the Cover
nor's letter reveals further de-
tails about the scare story"
Gov. johnson wrote:
1T seems to me the two uni
versity professors made a very
grave and unnecessary mis-
take. This is what they did,
"On Friday they called a
press conference and gave out
a very frightening story to
newspaper reporters about the
dangers to the people of Dem
yer of radiation caused by the
Nevada atomic experiments.
1t was agreed that the story
would not be published until
the Sunday papers, March 10.
why these professors did
not take the matter up with
the Mayor of Denver or the
Governor of the State, or even
the President of the United
States. only they can explain.
What did they expect the peo-
pie of Denver to do? Hide in
their Easements and demand
that the defense tests in Ne
vada be discontinued? The
Mayor, the Governor and the
President have the response
bility of protecting the people,
and if there be danger. very
quietly they should be alerted
first.
when I was told that they
held their press conference on
Friday and that they Sug-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-29
China Reds Prepare to Attack
But Chou En-Io Still Has Reason to Hope His Demands
For Formoso Will Be Won at Conference Table

desire of all our European
allies to get rid of the Chinese
nightmare and hand over
Formosa and the offshore is
lands to the Peoples Repub-
lie in one form or another even
at the price of a Far Eastern
Munich" They all realize
that some time during the
parleys with the Soviet die
tators the matter will come
up-just as the question of the
war in Wet Nam was raised
by Foreign Minister Molotov
at the Berlin conference in
1954-and they want us to
yield in the same manner
France yielded then.
But if American and Chi
nese Communist forces should
happen to, exchange shots be-
fore a conference can be ar
ranged, .our allies believe the
administrations hands would
be tied. They doubt that
American public opinion
would tolerate any conces-
sions to the Chinese Commu-
nists, no matter how willing
President Eisenhower might
be to discuss peace in our
time.
Hence. on the one hand.
London and Paris are insist
ing that we think twice before
we support the Nationalist
in the defense of the offshore
islands and on the other hand
the British and French am
bassadors in Moscow are urg-
ing Molotov to use his in
f1uence with Chou En-lai to
hold his fire. Our allies are
said to have intimated to
Premier Bulganin and Molo-
toV tnat Pelplng can get
everything it wants at the
conference table.
These efforts of the British
and French may be success
full Chou can't afford to give
up his much-trumpeted claims
that he will liberate FormoSa
by force if necessary. He is
willing to take a calculated
risk and lock horns with the
powerful forces opposing him.
But if he can fulfill his
pledges without firing a shot,
the Communist victory will be
as complete as that of the
Nazis at Munich.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-29
Admission Cards List Rules
For House Gallery Visitors

and observed sympathetically by
House Doorkeeper William M.
Fishbait) Miller.
I'VE just wanted to make
things easier" Mr.. Miller said.
II venture to say that 20 or 40
times day our doorkeepers have
had to correct someone for an
innocent mistake"
The don'ts include no packages,
bundles, cameras, suitcases or
briefcases in the gallery; no
standing or sitting in the aisles,
no smoking, applause, reading,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-29
BY the Associated Press

Visitors to the House of Rep
resentatives gallery got their
rules of behavior in black and
white for the first time yester-
day.
The little green admission card
which permits visitors to watch
the House in session now carry
the dos and don'ts of gallery
etiquette. .s
They are the result of embar-
RAISING experiences undergone by
visitors innocent of House rules
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-29
Wyoming Visitors Decline

CHEYENNE, Wyo.-The num-
Der of visitors to Wyoming and
the amount they spent both
dropped in 1854. Visitors totaled
2.776,893 and expenditures $121,-
419,644. In 1853 there were 81
051 ,531 tourists. who spent $124,-
los tn
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-29
Export Volume

NEW YORK. - About 40 per
cent of the total volume of ex-
port goods produced in the
United States is made up of in
dustrial machines, automobiles,
grains and cottons.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-29
Hon. to find
Health and freedom

The Christian Science Reading Room in
your community is maintained by your Chris
tan Science neighbors 1t stands as an outward
sign of their appreciation for the blessings they
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-01-14
BIG TRUCKERS GET OFF roo LIGHTLY


The legislature has big job before it in solving high
way financing hope they won't shr it they did in
1858 The interim committee suggests raising the gasoline tax
&C. increasing diesel fuel tax &c. revising the Gross Vehicle
Weight upwards to raise $850000 denact diesel
tax law permitting tighter enforcement to raise half million
We will always maintain the gasoline tax hits the auto,
pickup light truck driver hard The big commercial
truckers continue get off lightly In Montana $4,000
h. truck travelling 900 miles $287 in special
truck taxes In Washington the truck would $780,
Wisconsin 1925 Illinois 1884, and Oregon under weight
mile ST 237 In Idaho the truck would 1926 This weight
mile tax would if based Oregon raise the entire 37750OO
Montana highways need four million dollars revenue
but let's avoid nickng the little for almost all of it.
The railroads taxed to death Meanwhile their COMPETE
tors get by with murder The government has millions
for highways inland waterways shipping and apors, which
has made tougher and tougher for the railroad industry In
this county railroads pay almost third of the
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-01-14
Editorial
AGAIN. .BY VHAT AUTHORITY?

Recently December 24 this publication questioned by
what authority the Highway Commission could state funds
further the campaign for increase In the tax
gasoline, by of 67page booklet We questioned the
proprey of such by the of the people
having twice turned down any in the taxst
by direct vote the 1862 general election and then by adj
legislative action of their elected representative in the
1858 session.
chairman the Governors Highway Com
committee paid for the printing job and addition paid the
Highway department the Customary Is cent profit that
that department charges all outside work done in its print
ing office.
This latest revelation-and is indeed revelation!
again raises question the bounds of authority of the
Highway Commission By what statute is the Highway de-
parment permitted to commercial printing in
petition with dozens of axpayng printing establishments in
Montana?
AS nearly determine the legislature has at
given Highway permission extend its field of
tons into commercial printing Lacking such statutory
vision the general rule of law which states department
not authorized to exercise which not specific
ally granted it by statute is the governing factor
This usurpaton the Highway Commission would
abundant grounds legislative investigation not
only of Highway but of various other departments to how
they be oversteppng bounds For certainty if
printing profit follows it would be all right
instance for Fish and Game enter the retail fishing
tackle field for profit the Board of Health to compet
ton with retail dispensers of drugs, ETC., etc.
Those among who such stout believers in private
enterprise should certainly take note of this admission by one
the Highway Commission that that department
gagged in printing activities addition to permissible inter
office printed materials basis of cost plus the customary
Is per cent profit
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-01-14

The administration policy. in Asia,
unfortunately, is not so clear-sighted
as in Western Europe. What we face in
Asia is not the threat of massive war
but Of the slow shift of newly indie
pendent peoples against the West. The
new Southeast Asia Security Treaty
lacks support from any of the major
Asian powers, and in no sense is it a
parallel of our alliance in Europe.
Senator Knowland is likely to be
Mr.. Eisenhower's principal challenger
in regard to Asia. The reelected Re-
publican floor leader has never aban-
doned his demand for a BLOCKADE"
of Communist China and for a mas
sive foreign policy debate assailing
the leadership of his own President.
Here, however, the President can
count on substantial amount of DEM
ocratic assistance, and he should be
able to maintain his position as con-
stitutional director of foreign policy.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-01-14
USDA HIRES AUTHOR
OF STOCKMEN'S Bill.

WASHINGTON, d. C.-(CNS)-
A defeated candidate for senator,
Wesley A. D'Ewart, is the Agriculture
Departments new liaison man with
Capitol Hill. Secretary Ezra Taft
Benson named him as his special as
sistant January 5.
D'Ewart was a Montana congress
man for 10 years (1945-54) and ran
against Senator James E. Murray ID
Mont.) last November.
D'Ewart sponsored bill in the
83rd Congress to hamstring one
USDA agency, the Forest Service.
His bill would have given stockmen
permanent grazing rights on 81 mil
lion acres of forest land.