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POTOMAC FEVER
FLETCHER KNEBEL

Republicans deny the White House suppressed news on
es health In fact the doctors did good job Repub-
can hope Ike gets bad toohache-So dentists can
prescribe third term.
Democrats hear four speeches at $100-a plate
dinner This quite bargain when figure they
penalized $25 a speech
One fellow the tranquizing pills are wonderful
Since he started taking them he has been arges
and three jobs.
Averell Hartman confers with Harry Truman Harrmans
chip off the old block Truman used to give he-and
Hartman is sure giving em heck.
Senate Republicans defeat Democratic effort build
high Federal dam in Idaho Republicans regard
worst kind of socalSm-he kind that won't enough
Republican votes to it.
Democrats consider gmmick to get the housewife
votegivng stamps with the Democratic
After three of studying the Washington
Republicans learned much about it, they decided give
it try in Illinois.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-20
Move Seen Tied to Belief That Japan
And Germany Will Invite Us to Leave
CONSTANTINE BROWN

ton for a Soviet attack against
American territory with such
missiles.
Hence, say the tank and in
.fantry advocates, any further
reduction of personnel by the
Army would place us at a
serious disadvantage vis-a-viS
Russia. This is particularly true
today when our Western Euro
pean allies give every indica-
ton that they want to reduce
their own armed forces as
seon as possible.
France has withdrawn most
of her troops from the NATO
and sent them to North Africa.
And as soon as the Algerian
troubles are over it is doubtful
the French government will
keep its present military estab-
lishment intact.
Inc German people are pref
ty well opposed to the creation
of a 500,000-man military force
of IL divisions. Despite the
favorable action of the Bonn
Parliament it is highly doubt
(. full that a force of that size will
come into being. The reduce
tion-possibly a drastic one
in American ground forces in
Europe is, however, neceSsi-
tated by the increasing hostil-
ity of the German people to
their presence, So long as these
were occupation troops, the
Germans knew that they
could do nothing about it and
accepted them as an inevitable
consequence of their defeat.
Since Germany has become
once more a sovereign state,
the discomfort of the Germans
has increased.
Although our men are in
Germany primarily to defend
German soil at the invitation of
the Bonn government, the
Americans are less liked than
when they were the masters"
by virtue of conquest. To this
must be added the fact that
discipline In our ranks has be-
come somewhat lax in recent
years. There has been more
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-20

The suspicion Of the ad-
ministration that we may soon
be invited to pull our troops
out of Germany and Japan has
had much to do with the an
nouncing of planned shifts by
Washington this week.
Secretary Dulles indicated
Wednesday that a reduction of
our forces in Germany would
not impair the overall
strength of the NATO forces,
since modern war machines
will replace men. This point Of
view is not shared by a num-
Der of Army leaders who say
the SovietS using their man.
power could overwhelm West
ern Europe after the size Of
the American and British
ground forces has been cur
tailed and not replaced by the
national armies of the French
and Germans.
These Army men say that
it is reasonable to speculate
that the Russians would hesi-
tate to use nuclear weapons
because of their devastating
power. But they have ire
mendous manpower SUPERIOR
ity which, even after the
present phony reductions of
some IL million men, still
would give them upward of
400 divisions within 80 days
after D-day. Hence, despite
their boasts that they have
caught up with us in nuclear
power, they would still prefer
to accomplish their goals by
old-type conventional war.
The nine American British
divisions in Europe are, of
course, no match for the avail
able Soviet strength in ground
forces. But they represent a
symbol, and their being over
whelmed by the Reds would
unquestionably spark a war to.
the bitter end between the
USSR and the United States.
The Reds know by now that
this country would not use A
and H bombs except in retalia-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-20
Marine Corps Combat
Correspondents Elect

Sam Stavisky, former WASH
ington newspaperman and now
public relations consultant. has
been elected the first president
of the newly formed Washington
chapter of the Marine Corps
Combat Correspondents Asso-
citation.
other officers are Jerry
OLeary, jr., and Frank Acosta,
vice presidents; William Frank,
secretary, and AL Lewis, treas
urer.
Executive board members are
Jack Gertz, Sam Shaffer, Capt.
w. Thomas Harrell, USMC. Cyril
y. O'Brien, Irv Scholossenberg.
Keene Hepburn and James Car
roll.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-20
Next -Four Years Believed Decisive
For Real Peace or AnnihiIotion

can only be destroyed. That,
undoubtedly, was what led
Gen. Gruenther to ask to be
relieved. That accounts for the
apathy or opposition in Ger
many to the creation Of a new
German army.
Obviously, no Western land
forces can match the immense
human reservoir of the Soviet
bloc. 1t is therefore logical to
concentrate on building fire.
power. which means thermo-
nuclear weapons, reducing
everything else to a minimum.
The thermometer race
ere ates astonishingly little
alarm only because the peo-
pie have been sold on the idea
that the weapons are a de
terrent" and hence an instru-
ment for peace.
But will this view continue?
Some time between 1860 and
1864 it is expected that the
intercontinental guided mis-
sile with a speed of 10000
miles an hour will be per-
fected, enabling a robot in
strument to launch a direct
attack from its own soil upon
the industrial and population
centers of a far-distant en-
envy.
In conceiving of such a war
anyone must see the enormous
advantages of the surprise at
tack. Secretary of State Dulles
has spoken of massive re-
prisals" that would be welded
against a major aggressor. But
repriSals following an attack,
destroying in a few minutes
our own industrial centers and
millions of people, can hardly
be advanced as a sound mill
tary policy. A sound thermo-
nuclear military policy Cif one
is conceivable). in a crisis that
seemed to indicate inevitable
war, would be to strike first.
At present. We are in q
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Huge Losses inflicted on Other Plants
And Employees as Effects Spread

against the stoppages in pro-
duction. In fact. before the
present strike occurred, such
an artificial stimulus was
given to steel purchases and,
as a consequence, the industry
runs into periods of abnormal
peak and then recession as
inventories are subsequently
liquidated.
To negotiate a contract in
a major industry today in
wolves more difficulties than
ever before. Clauses in con-
tracts in other industries
where conditions are different
are insisted upon. Thus an
industry which rarely works
double time or triple time on
week ends can afford to pay
the heavy penalty, but an in
dustry that must work fire.
quently on week ends finds it.
self unable to meet the higher
costs without asking many
users to pay an increased price.
Instead of negotiating a con-
tract based on conditions in
one industry, the tendency is
to demand uniformity ire
spective of the differences in
requirements. Likewise, inside
an industry, the larger enter
prises with more equipment
and better facilities which can
pay higher wages set the pace
which the smaller businesses
have to meet. 1t is little Won
der that business volume .grav-
itates to the larger units while
the smaller ones are slowly
but surely forced out of the
competition. Then Congress
wakes up and asks what's hap
pening to Small business"
But the worst feature of the
economic anarchy is the use
Of economic power that is
made by those who can WELD
it. The answer doesn't lie in
Government regulation or in
Government cartels or monop-
olies, because none of these
promotes the efficiency which
the rate of American produc-
ton in the past has achieved.
1t lies rather in better expo
sition to the whole people Of
the facts involved in each
controversy so that the public
interest can be safeguarded
through the processes of pub
lie opinion.
The workers themselves do
not know today all the back
ground Of the struggle and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-20
DAVID LAWRENCE

A form of economic anarchy
is revealed in the disastrous
strike now being waged in the
steel industry.
Innocent bystanders in in
duStries and businesses not at
all parties to the strike ne
gotiations are being injured.
Tremendous losses are being
inflicted on other companies
and their employees. Rail-
roads, trucking companies,
construction firms and their
employees have lost many
millions Of dollars a day be-
cause the steel companies and
the labor unions prefer to
battle it out with a strike in
stead of settling their differ
ences either by mediation or
arbitration or by mutual con-
cessionS in a negotiation.
The steel company managers
cannot understand why the
offer they made on what they
considered very generous terms
should have been rejected. Ger
tainly the offer of a total of
As cents per hour increase in
compensation over the pro-
posed contract period-repre-
senting actual increases in cost
to the companies and various
benefits copied from the i'm
portant contracts just nego-
tiated in other industries
indicates a desire at least to
meet the growing demands of
the steel union.
The steel managers sought
a longtime contract with the
union so as to insure stability
in the industry and make pos
Sible forward planning. On
the labor-union side, however,
internal politics and the pres
sure of rival leaders evidently
made it difficult for the pro-
pQsals to be accepted without
a strike. The story goes that
David Macdonald, steel union
president. was urged to stand
out for better and better
settlement on grounds he
would outshine Walter Reuther
and John L. Lewis as a master
negotiator.
The damage done by the in
ability of the two sides to make
an agreement is not confined
to the present strike. II means
that again and again, as the
time for negotiations ap-
proaches, steel users will pile
up inventories in advance so
as to protect themselves
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-20

Inc lnterSerVlce dispute set
off by the leakage of Admiral
Radford's report in opposition
to some degree to those of the
three Joint Chiefs over whom
he presides. will not die down.
For the dispute is inherent in
the international situation and
the fact that mankind is in
an entirely new epoch which
offers no precedents for war
planning.
The essence Of this epoch is
that for the first time man
possesses the power to annihi-
late mankind.
The great powers have the
apocalypse by the tail. Neither
dares let go lest the enemy
take over by default. Thus
the atomic race is on. Each
side calls for banning the
weapons, but neither will ac-
cept a system of controls salts
factory to the security con-
siderations of the other.
The United States and the
Soviet Union have sought pro-
lection by a system Of mill
tary alliances, the former ex-
tending from the American
island base throughout the
globe. the latter from the GEN.
ter Of Berlin, eastward to in
clude the whole of mainland
China.
But these alliances are
anachronistic in the age Of
thermonuclear war. They are
also. unless secured by the
complete servility of their
governments, unreliable.
They are maintained on the
assumption that they con-
stitute a "deterrent"-in short
that there will be no war.
Should a crisis develop so
acute as radically to shake
that assumption the present
trend toward neutrality would,
we predict. become a stampede.
In a thermonuclear war, the
narrow land space Of Western
Europe cannot be defended. 1t
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-24
pineau Urges
Arms Cut Talk

PARIS. Feb. "a R.-Foreign
Minister Christian Pineau yes
terday urged that the West con-
centrate on disarmament pro-
posals as q test Of Soviet policy
and Moscow's new world party
line.
He spoke to an hour-long news
conference and emphasized dis
armament in speaking of the
possibility of q new four-power
at the ministerial
level to take up German reunifi-
cation and other East West
issues.
I'VE believe in talking with
the Russians). but to talk you
need an agenda. II we start on
with the old agenda. we fan into
the old deadlock. Hence. I think
we should try for q new one
disarmament. greater East West
trade and cultural relations"
Disarmament proposals cur
rently are being considered by
the United Nations Disarmament
Subcommission. French Mem
Der Jules Moch has backed q
plan embracing President Eisen-
hower's "open skies" sinspection
idea, Soviet Premier Nikolai Bull
ganin's plan for on-the-spot SUI
pervision Of key ports, rail GEN.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-24
is Boilers Plan
Adenauer Party

BONN, Germany. Feb. "a P).
Sixteen ranking members Of
the Free Democratic Party bolted
last night and said they win
form a new pro-Adenauer party.
The l6-all members Of Par
lament and including four cab
met ministers-blasted the Free
Democrats recent action in
joining Socialists to Gust State
Premier Karl Arnold in the rich
industrial state Of North Rhine
Westphalia.
The Free Democrats and So
cialiStS formed a new govern
ment in North Rhine Westphalia
which excluded Chancellor Ade-
nauer's Christian Democratic
Party. The action imperiled Mr..
Adenauer's grip In the federal
upper house. whose members are
chosen by state legislatures.
The North Rhine Westphalia
defeat for the 80-year-old Chan
cellor spanked gleeful opposition
predictions that Mr.. Adenauer,s
era was ending. Last nights
walkout helped repair Mr.. Ade-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-24

soil and snow from other homes
and q railroad.
Scores of smaller slides cut
roads and menaced villages
throughout Italy's central APP
pennine Mountains. Landslides
also were reported in Yugoslavia.
United States helicopters In
Southwest France dropped food
to 40 resin collectors isolated in
vast fir forests.
New Shows In Britain
A temperature rise promised
Britain failed to materialize and
new SHOWS spread over the east
ern part of the island. More
cold weather was forecast. Snow
pillow teams worked through the
night to reach east coast villages
cut OF by l0-foot drifts. United
States helicopters stood by at
Mansion, Kent. to act as am
balances II needed.
The temperature In Paris was
8 degrees-a record low for the
second half Of February. The
Weather Bureau forecast con-
tinued cold.
Engineers blew up ice blocks
on the Seine and Marine Rivers
to avoid damage to bridges.
Berlin's overnight temperature
was I below zero-the lowest for
February "a In 125 years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-24

ADVERTISEMENT.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-24
'Thaw Sets Off
Slides in Europe

LONDON, Feb. "a iR.-A
slow thaw spread fearsome land
slides and flood threats over
parts Of Southern Europe to-
day. The rest Of the continent
shivered. with little sign Of q
break In the worst winter any
body could remember.
No deaths were yet reported
from the slides Of snow and
earth in italy and Yugoslavia.
But 1t was feared they would add
to the toll Of 83l known dead
in the record freeze, now in its
25th day.
Crop damage ran into hum
dreds Of millions of dollars. Food
prices docketed. Coal and other
fuel was running short.
$50 Homes Smashed
At Vasto, in Central Italy. q
Landslide smashed $50 homes.
Hundreds Of workmen fought to
divert the vast mass Of rumbling
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liyin' YET

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the Free Democrats in national
politics.
The Free Democrat dissenters
said they had enough Of the
party's defiance Of Mr.. Adenauer
They predicted more resigna-
tons from the Free Democratic
Party.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-24

ton. These two prosperous At
lantic isles have indicated con-
Germ lest the merger with their
poorer cousins lower their own
living standards.
Britain. under the planned new
constitution, will retain control
of the federation's defense, for
elgn relations and some aspects
of its financial policies.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-24

1eQerai parliament tnaL must De
elected by March. 1858.
The historic signing ended a
decade Of sporadic negotiations
to patch up time-worn racial,
political and economic differ
ences that have kept three mil
lion islanders divided for CEN
turtles. Before them was q vision
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dependent status as a full and
equal member of the British
commonwealth. Just like Canada.
Was Cleared for Action
In a windup speech, British
Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-
Boyd declared the way is now
clear for the Eden government
TO seek parliamentary sanction
for the federation.
Under the accord experts will
expand an agreed skeleton con-
stitution providing for forma-
ton of a customs union and Gre
alton of a federal civil and judi
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The federation win bring to-
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crescent Of coral and volcanic
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Two Can Join Later
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American mainland. British
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two territories thus far have held
aloof from the project although
they sent observers to the cur
rent London conference.
Two other nearby British colo
mics. Bermuda and the Bahamas,
have steered clear of the fedora
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-24

tiers and bases. and ex-Premier
Edgar Faure's proposal for In
spection Of military budgets.
ut Is only when we have made
some progress in the United
Nations" said Mr.. Pineau, that
we can think about going on to
some higher level"
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Siqn SeIf-RuIe Accord

LONDON, Feb "a -Britans Caribbean colonies agreed
yesterday band together in seing federation BY 1853
Leaders of the emerging l3iand state signed agreement
ornate Lancaster House conference in the latest face
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-24

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