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Evening star., 1955-06-24
Macmillan Replies to MoIotov

only test was that the govern
ment should really be in actual
control of the territory con-
cerned - that's why we rec
ognized the government in
Communist China and sent a
mission there"
But, while arguing that this
doesn't mean approval Of the
governments being recognized.
he forgot that his own govern
ment today refuses to agree to
the admission of Spain into the
United Nations because 1t dis
likes Frances government =
which, of course, is in COM
plete control of Spanish terri
tory. Nor is the issue what Mr..
Macmillan presented. Nobody
quarrels with what Britain did
in recognizing Red China prior
to the Korean war, but the
critics rightly point to Britain's
expressed willingness to admit
Red China into the United
Nations after the Peiping gov
ernment intervened in the Ko-
rean war of aggression and
caused hundreds of thousands
Of casualties. 1t is British
readiness to ignore that phase
of the behavior of the govern
ment of Communist China that
has profoundly shocked Amer
leans, especially those who
don't believe international mo-
rality is advanced by reward
ing an aggressor.
Perhaps the frankest and
most candid expression that
has come on the subject was
in Mr.. Macmillan's comment
about the original reason for
British recognition of Red
China and other governments:
1--WE do it, to be frank, to
benefit ourselves-not to please
them. :. This may be the
right or wrong view Of what
is expedient. But it's certainly
nothing to quarrel about"
But that's the crux of the
whole problem of International
relations today. The British
cry out when their interests
are damaged in Malaga, but
they are evidently willing to
play the game of expediency in
other parts of the world. Amer
lea alone carries the torch of
idealism and morality. It is
too bad British materialism
and it's concern for trade
through Hong Kong, another
British colony, has caused the
British of both major parties
in Parliament to fail to see
that a shortsighted course
which makes compromises with
evil only compounds the fell
onies of international crime.
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Evening star., 1955-06-24
POTOMAC FEVER
FLETCHER KNEBEL

Congress clears pay for workers Gov
ernment wife: why didn't tell me you getting
rase?" Husband "You want should reveal Government
business-and get fired security risk?"
Ike touring New England he'll leave part of his heart
in Vermont One hardshe Republican is horred HE can't
do that! It's the only heart we've got in this party"
The House votes to condemn coloniaism. Their
fury against colonialis left the boys breathesso naturally
nobody could mention Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands
panel of top polio scientists indorses the Sak vaccine
by vote Of to About the only thing the polio doctors
unanimously is that you're better off with whoopng
cough.
House committee probes the administrations backou
Republicans decided they wanted only interesting
things written about reporters still looking
something that qualities
The Senate beats McCarthy instructions Ike" by
vote of n to Joe troubles started in childhood
He have been of those kids who learns
off the merry -go-round when the music stops.
Evening star., 1955-06-24
Police Boys Camps
lin Top Shape for
Monday Opening

officials of the Metropolitan
Police Boys Clubs yesterday
went on an outing and inspec-
ton of the clubs two summer.
camps at Scotland, Md.
Fred A. Smith and Police
Chief Robert v. Murray, as well
as others, checked up on the
grounds, cabins, dining halls,
medical and play facilities and
said the camps were in top con-
dition for the opening next week.
Largest of their kind in the.
country, the two camps are To-
Gated on the banks of the Poto-
mac River. Each year, they pro-
vide free tWo-Week summer va
cations for as many as
1000 underprivileged Washing
ton boys.
The first bus-load of young
sters will leave for the camps on
Monday morning. Physical ex-
aminations will be held at Met
ropolitan Police Boys Clubs.
Also checking in on the inspec-
ton were Wash B. Williams,
1past president and chairman of
the annual Metropolitan Police
Boys Club campaign; Charles B.
IDulcan, ST.. first vice president;
C. Max harrington, executive
secretary, and Capt. Forrest L.
Binswanger, director of the
clubs and camps.
The camps are stated by
trained police and civilian
trained supervisors. They are
supported through funds derived
from the annual campaign for
adult membership. -
Evening star., 1955-06-24
MoIotov's Spots Come Out Again

seat in the U. N. to Peiping
Immediately. This is in spite
of the fact that Peiping is.
still branded as an aggressor
by the U. N.
Hard-headed realists have
always strongly doubted the
ultimate intentions of the In
dian Prime Minister. Some
soft-mlnded idealists and Pc
rennial optimists in responsible
positions in Washington kept
hoping that while he could
not be swayed to our side he
could be induced to remain a
friendly neutral because of his
high principles ana also be-
cause he needed our economic
and financial support. He has
now on his own initiative dis
PEELED whatever hopes may
have existed among our politi-
cal leaders as to his position
in the world conflict. He has
sided officially with the enc
mics of this country.
Evening star., 1955-06-24
Nehru, Too, Shows His CoIors in Joining
Kremiin Gang in Exchange for Soviet Aid
CONSTANTINE BROWN

economic and industrial help
to India by the Russians. In
exchange Mr.. Nehru has
pledged himself to support all
the Kremlin's demands for the
establishment of Communist
China as a "de jure" govern
ment, incorporating in its ter
ritory all the islands now held
by the Free Chinese govern
ment. This agreement is in
terpreted by responsible off,,
cials in our Government as the
setting up of a formal Mos
cow-Peiping-New Delhi axis
much like the axis established
in 1888. India's military i'm
portance is negligible, but her
prestige in Asia is to be reck-
oned with. Much of this pres
tige was foStered by the poll
cies and utterances of the
American policy-makers who
have hidden their heads in the
sand and refused to recognize
Mr.. Nehru's strong leanings
toward the Communist bloc.
American political" ambas-
sadors, such as Chester Bowles
and now Sherman Cooper,
have been untiring in their
efforts to induce Congress to
spend lavish sums on the In
dian government. They con-
tended that while we might
not win Nehru ideologically to
our side we could assure his
neutrality through bonanzas
from America, financed by our
taxpayers.
The high-minded Nehru,
the envoys admitted, was in
corruptible. But by offering
much needed assistance -
without any political strings
he would recognize our hon.
esty of purpose and would
maintain a useful neutrality.
In the long run. it was, main
tanned by our political dip
lomats, Nehru will recognize
that in exchange for at least
a couple of billions in assist
ance we ask nothing but his
good will.
Nehru, we were told, is a
man dedicated to peace and
he would never play into the
hands of those who want to
disturb it. These reports were
mistaken. He showed his true
colors at Moscow when he ac-
cepted doubtful Soviet eco
nomic aid in exchange for
his complete political support
of the Communist objectiveS.
Not only has Nehru Joined
the Kremlin gang in demand
ing that we hand over For
mosa, but he also formally
supports giving Free China's
Evening star., 1955-06-24
Wheat Formers Forced to Vote Against
Poeketbooks in Deciding on Quotas

save it again. but Representa-
tive Hope of Kansas. the big
gest wheat-producing State
of all, is not optimistic.
Secretary of Agriculture
Benson is being widely ac-
cused of lobbying against the
flexible supports for which he
fought in Congress. He has
indicated that if acreage con-
trolls are rejected, he would up
the alternative so per cent
guarantee to go or 65 per cent.
This is described as an open
invitation to the wheat grow
ers to, breach the dixie. 1t is
only a little less than the flexi-
BILE support and would apply to
a larger crop.
The farmer organizations
are also split. The Farm Bu-
reau is against the controls
and the Farmers Union wants
to save them even at the lower
price for fear they will not
get anything better at this
time.
Those members of Congress,
including Republicans, who
have appealed to President
Eisenhower for help on farm
policy find him reluctant to
interfere. They, get the i'm
preston that he feels it is
hopeless to look for a work.
able program until somehow,
someway, present huge sur
pluses are liquidated.
Congress has not come UP
Evening star., 1955-06-24
DOII0 TEEE0O1V :.
New FIore-Up on Farm Policy

with any new ideas Of its own.
Mr.. Hope has a two-price sys-
tenn bill which he will push
but it has not caught on. A
bill to re-establish fixed 30
per cent supports has passed
the House but is languishing
in the Senate Agriculture Com
mittee.
The outlook is that nothing
will be done until the election
pressures Of next year stare
all the House and one third
of the Senate in the face. Even
then. it will be difficult to do
those things which might mean
immediate cash In hand for
the farmer now caught in the
squeeze of lower prices for
what he raises and higher
costs for what he buys.
Farm policy has not been
much of a partisan issue in
Congress. It is too important
to all members of both parties
in farm areas for that. But in
presidential years. If the farm
ers want to punish a President
or presidential candidate for
moves in Washington which
hurt them, they can do So
and they have.
1t may sound absurd, but
one veteran Republican poll
tician believes his party lost
control of the Senate because
eggs were so low in price. He
is on record as having warned
National Chairman Hall. Mr..
Hall tried to persuade Secre-
tary Benson to get excited
about it, but Mr.. Benson re-
fused.
Evening star., 1955-06-24

Soviet Foreign Minister
Molotov consented at San
Francisco to lift the corner
of the rug of good inten-
tions." but to the dismay of
Secretary Dulles and his col
leagues of the free countries
he uncovered the same ter
mites which have been gnaw-
ing at the worlds peace foun-
dations for the last decade.
When he spoke before the
congregation of peace-loving
countries at the United Ma
tons 10th anniversary cele-
bration, the Soviet foreign
minister's recent smiles had
changed to the customary
snarl.
The spokesman for Red
despotism was all for peace
in our time-on the Kremlin's
terms. His speech was inter-
preted by some Of the Ameri-
can representatives as being
addressed more to the United
States than its allies in the
West. He told us in effect:
"All right, you can have an end
of the cold war whenever you
like. All you must do is clear
out your troops from Ger
many, withdraw your assist
ance from the Nationalist gov
eminent of China and allow
the Communists to take For
moSa; and join us in kicking
the NationalistS out of the
United Nations to make room
for the Chinese Communists"
In some responsible quar-
ters in Washington Mr.. Molo-
tov's speech is interpreted as
having sounded the death
knell of the Geneva Confer
ence. Sources close to the
White House, however. indi-
cate that President Eisenhower
is determined to go through
with the summit parley de-
spite the obvious intentions of
the Soviet government.
The earlier atmosphere of
reserved optimism that Rus
sia might be willing to suspend
the cold war for a while and
play a make-believe peace
game is rapidly vanishing from
Washington official quarters.
More significant than Molo-
tov's warning that the price of
a cold war truce must be the
surrender of the Free Chinese
and eating of crow in connec-
ton with the admission of
Peiping to the U. N. is the
signing of an agreement be-
tween India and the USSR at
Moscow on the very same day
Comrade Molotov delivered his
unofficial ultimatum.
The agreement provides for
Evening star., 1955-06-24

even youths of 18) are still
reading picture books tcomics)
and counting on their fingers,
never having grasped ATTRACT
symbols. Bright children be-
come dull, dull children mo-
ronic. and this is attributed to
democracy and mass educa-
tion.
If this is the inevitable re-
suit of democracy-which this
Evening star., 1955-06-24
How Many Morons Does Teacher Make?
Next Generation Moy Count ON FINGERS

Repeatedly individuals or
groups Of experts burst into
print with Staggering" or
alarming" news about Ameri-
can education. 1t is revealed
that a majority Of high-school
students know nothing of
American history, or that few
can write a single paragraph
of correct and lucid prose. The
decline in the teaching of
antique and modern foreign
languages is notorious. But
it is argued when these de-
flciencies are aired-this is a
chronological age and cultural
studies Are naturally yielding
to the scientific.
Now we receive another jolt
from the directors Of various
government agencies concerned
with finding scientific techni-
clans for research and other
projects essential to the ma
tional security and well-being.
These projects require knowl-
edge Of mathematics and the
exact sciences. And. we are
told, the high schools are not
producing students with such
training, either. Only 24.6 per
cent Of high-school students
study algebra; only 11.6 per
cent have studied geometry;
only half the Nations high
schools offer courses in chem
istry, and So per cent offer
none in physics. Half a million
students have mathematics
teachers unqualified to teach
the subject--and there is. as
always, the key warning: The
Russians will outpace us
technolosically, and therefore
in the source Of modern power.
The warnings are justified
Evening star., 1955-06-24

but it is doubtful whether any,
thing whatever will be done
about it. We have the kind of
education the American peo-
pie want. and the kind the
National Education Associa-
ton. which determines educa-
tional content and teaching
method, demands.
Its critics are numerous and
well armed. In recent years
Canon Bernard Iddings Bell
has published Crisis in Edu-
cation; w. Mortimer Smith,
And Madly Teach" and "The
Diminished Mind; Albert
Lynd, "Quackery in the Public
Schools" and Arthur Eugene
Bestor's Educational Waste
lands"
These books-and there have
been others should have
awakened the Nation. But
they didn't. Their authors and
other critics are, instead, called
(by the intrenched educational
bureaucracy enemies of the
public schools" or enemies
of democracy"
For the American notion of
democracy has degenerated
into a universal worship of
mediocrity, combined. in edu-
cational circles, with a cynical
contempt for the intellectual
and spiritual capacities Of the
average American child and
youth.
Teaching has become so reg
imented that 1t can hardly be
called a free profession, and
able and conscientious persons
leave it or refuse to enter it.
not primarily because of higher
emoluments elsewhere, but out
Of self-respect and despair.
Teachers have almost moth
Evening star., 1955-06-24
Briton Tells About Red Subyersion,
Near Aggression in Moloyo Area

one thing, he wished to pay
his respects to those in both
America and Britain who talk
loosely about ''nationalism"
and "colonialism." He said:
"Nationalism. like alcohol.
should be taken in moderation
-as a stimulant, not as
drug. Anyway. nationalism in
Asia has often been the stooge
and stalking horse Of commu-
nism. These young countries
need patriotism-but they need
also to be protected from the
Establishments of communism
masquerading as idealism.'
Then Mr.. Macmillan went
on to tell the real story of
what's happening in Malaga
"a British colony. He de-
clared that 1t is a part Of the
world where subversion is
being promoted by open vio-'
lence--amounting to war" He
explained that the Communist
terrorists 'have recently turned
their attention to the cities;
to subverting political parties.
trade unions, and-most seri-
GUS of ALTO forming Com
munist cells in schools"
What a refreshing thing it
is to hear a British Foreign
Secretary talking about the
facts of life as the Commu-
nists shape them nowadays!
He added:
TITS easy to repeat old
sneers about British colonial
ism. I sometimes hear them
still - chiefly nowadays from
the leftists in our two coun-
tries - the intellectual bour-
bons who have forgotten
nothing and learned nothing,
and hope that those they write
for or speak to haven't either"
Mr.. Macmillan talked of the
elections held in Singapore
recently and the elections
soon to be held in the Fedora
ton of Malaga, and then re-
marked:
I've not heard of any elec-
tions in Communist-controlled
territories - except the ones
when 99.7 per cent of the peo-
pie vote obediently for one
party-the party of their mas
ters. DR. Gallup hasn't much
of a look-in under commu-
nisrn."
Unfortunately, the British
Foreign Secretary marred his
speech by an oblique defense
of the British policy in rec
ognizing the Red Chinese
government. He said that "the
Evening star., 1955-06-24

columnist vigorously chal-
lenges-then democracy will
perish and deservedly. 1t is
growing very late for reform.
Successive generations. the
products Of this kind of edu-
cation, will eventually not
know what education is.
Then another race, of stern
er stuff. will teach them in
the crueleSt way.
Evening star., 1955-06-24
DAVID LAWRENCE
sam FRANCISCO. june ..

SAN FRANCISCO. June "a.
Did Molotov torpedo the con-
ference "at the summit? Is
there any real possibility Of
agreement now? For the So
Wet Foreign Minister has an
nounced an .unalterable, rigid
line Of policy which offers no
concession-in fact. admits no
wrong in the Communist i'm
perialisrn and aggression of the
last ten years.
There are still among the
delegates some who refuse to
have their ardor dampened
and who profess to see in the
Molotov review of world af-
fairs a confession of weakness
and a vindication of the policy
OF military strength as a de-
terrent. But many others are
whistling to keep up their op-
timism. For the plain meaning
of the Molotov address is that
he wants peace-but without
any price at all to the Com
munistS.
The Molotov address was a
bombshell. It aroused adverse
comments in rebuttal from
the Cuban, Philippine and
French spokesmen. But every
body realized that, with the
speech scheduled for today
by the U s. Secretary Of State,
John Foster Dulles, there could
be only an implicit rather than
an explicit reply because the
rules of this U. N. session do
not permit direct attacks by
one country on another. The
insults have to be carefully
phrased so as to appear to be
general rather than specific,
What the American delega-
ton might have done was to
schedule a speech at the Com
monwealth Club here-outside
the U. N. MISUNDERSTANDING
the Soviet government to let
some American spokesman
have time on the television and
radio networks throughout So
Wet Russia. so that the people
there could get the other side
of the story of what has been
happening in the last ten years.
According to Molotov, only the
Western countries have been
committing aggression and
threatening attack.
The British Foreign Secre-
tary, Harold Macmillan, used
the device of a speech at the
Commonwealth Club to get off
his chest a lot of things he
wanted to say about what is
going on in the world. For
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-27

Without control, disarmament is
mockery.
True. the United States unilateral
deterrent has been supplanted-or
soon will be-by bilateral, mutual
deterrent. But 1t should have its
effect.
Even If the Soviet could land
a squad Of H-bomb saboteurs in
America by submarine, it could not
immobilize our No. / deterrent, the
Strategic Air Command. And with
the first H-bomb explosion here,
the Soviet Unions civilization.
such as it is, would be doomed.
Whichever side launches about
nuclear war now risks annihila-
ton itself. Only a lunatic would
risk 1t.
President Eisenhower repeated the
worlds best hope again last week,
at his press conference:
The concept of atomic war is
too horrible for man to endure and
to practice. and he must find some
way out of it."
Until the Krenalin is tanned, the
policy Of deterrent looked better
last week than the policy of dis
armament.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-27

They have their eyes on the United
States. If we seem to be backing
out, there may be an exodus from
the sinking Formosa ship.
Last week. the Chinese Commu-
nists were busily trying to help this
detection process get started. Gen.
Wei Li-huang. an old Chang gen.
eral whose blunder lost Manchuria
to the Reds back in 1948, had been
sitting it out in Hong Kong, but
suddenly turned up in Canton 10
days ago. Immediately he issued an
enticing come over to our side"
letter to his old friends and asso-
ciates on Formosa.
Chang no doubt will act vigor-
ously to prevent this move from
starting chain reaction.
Meanwhile, the tanker, Aruba,
which had been headed for Red China
with a load of fuel for jet planes.
turned around and headed back to
the Rumanian port where its cargo
had been picked up. The crew had
refused to take the vessel into Chi
nese waters where the Nationalist
said they would sink it, if neces-
sary. to keep the fuel from the Com
muniStS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-27
Who Tipped Peress?

Senator Mccarthy may not know
who promoted and discharged Maj.
Peress, but after the most recent in
vestigation of the Army dentist was
concluded last week, any objective
bystander would know.
He was promoted by an act Of
Congress which adjusted the ranks
Of doctors and dentists. and he was
discharged by confused Army
which was trying to get off the
hook created by series of previous
mistakes. There was no secret mas
ter" bent on keeping a Communist
in the Army.
Secretary Of the Army Robert T.
Stevens and his retiring chief coun-
sci, John G. Adams, were before the
Senate committee. trying to explain
it all away.
1t seems that after Army paper
work had belatedly caught UP with
DR.. Irving Peress, who had refused
to swear that he was not a Com
munist. MIR Adams decided the only
thing the Army could do legally at
that point was discharge him. He
ignored request by the Mccarthy
committee to delay discharge pend
ing an investigation.
Mr.. Stevens apologized on behalf
OF the Army for that discourtesy to
Congress.
The investigation closed with q
request tc the Justice Department
to study the hearing to see if any one
had lied along the line.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-27

Presidents z Moves
Roise Furry Of Talk
On New Plan for Peace

There was a new furry of talk
about disarmament last week,
precipitated, apparently, by two
recent developments:
First, the United States an
nounced intention to use nuclear
weapons in any war, large or small.
Second, the persistent deadlock
in big-power disarmament talks in
London.
President Eisenhower had made
the first overt moves. First he ad-
vocated using atomic weapons on
military targets. just like bullets.
Then he named Harold e. Stassen
as his special assistant for dis
armament matters. with cabinet
rank. Mr.. Stassen, now chief of
the country's foreign aid programs.
will become o sort Of Secretary for