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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-06

The French elections have
shown that the policies Of
timidity. sterility, indecision or
fear followed by the right-of-
center governments in the free
countries do not pay dividends.
The rank and file of the
people may be passive for a
while. But they eventually get
fed up. and when the time
comes to cast their votes they
favor direct action. as was
demonstrated in the large
French vote for Communists
and Poujadists.
In politically well-co-ordi-
mated Britain we see the be-
ginnings of a rebellion against
the wavering policies of Sir
Anthony Eden, who is handi-
capped by the after effects Of
a serious illness followed by an
operation in the United States
nearly two years ago. Sir
Anthony inherited from his
dynamic predecessor. Sir
Winston Churchill, a pretty
good situation. This is now
deteriorating. What inks the
British Prime Minister'S fol-
lowers most is the unimagi-
native foreign policy which
threatens whatever remaining
prestige Great Britain may
still possess in the Middle
East.
There is an incipient re-
bellion in the West German
Republic against the aged and
ailing Chancellor Konrad Ad-
enauer, who is being accused
by the members of the coali-
ton in power of being too
tough domestically and sterile
in his foreign policies. It is no
use camouflaging the over
whelming desire of the German
people for unity in Western
Germany. Chancellor Ade-
nauer's policy is wait and see
and hope that the Western
political-military coalition viii
somehow. at some time in the
indefinite future, effect the
much-sought reunion.
Much as the Reds are hated
in Western Germany, there
is a growing sentiment among
politicians as well as the gen.
eral public that only by "go-
ing again to Moscow" could
the Reich's unity be achieved.
The results Of the French cleo
tons have strengthened that
sentiment. The new compost
ton Of the National Assem-
bly, is not encouraging for the
NATO, which despite our ef-
forts and our outpouring Of
more monies is unlikely to
become now the strong shield
for the West.
Because Of the weakness of
France, one Of the main links
in the NATO chain, the Bum
destag is even less inclined to
vote appropriations for the
new German army, which con-
tinues to remain o blueprint.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-06
DORIS FLEEsON
Watching the Reporters Report

leries.' He was mistaken about
the President.
The undue concentration of
"McCarthyism" In the parent
committee of internal security,
Judiciary, is McCarran's legacy
to the country. From his pow
erful post as Judiciary chair
man, the strong willed Neva-
dan dictated his committee
membership and staff, choos-
ing them for sharing the
quality he valued which was
McCarran's style of thinking.
Well trained by the razor
sharp McCarran, Sourwine has
had no trouble with McCar-
rams successor, James Oliver
Eastland of Forest. Miss. The
New York preliminaries were
in fact conducted by Sourwine
in EaStland'S absence.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-06
New Scouting District Forms
In Eastern Section of Civ

Formation of a new scouting
district comprising areas in the
eastern portion Of the District
of Columbia has been completed,
The new unit, Anacostia Dis
trict, will supervise all Explorer,
Boy and Cub Scouts in the
Northeast and Southeast Sec
tons Of the city including an
area south of the Boiling Air
Force Base.
Committee assignments agreed
on at a meeting headed by Brig,
Gen. Stoyte o. Ross, USAF, last
night at Boiling Air Force Base,
were:
William F. Pritchard, advance
ment committee; Claude w.
Owens, jr., activities; Walter
Krieman. camping; Gustave A.
Wolf, civic service; Maurice Sui
Ivan, conservation; Robert
Blackstone, finance; I. P. Ham
bolton, health and safety; A. K.
Jacobs. organization and extern
sion; Alan W. WILDER, public
relations, and Harry P. Luckey,
training.
| Members at large elected to
the new District Board were
Arthur ]. Bergman, A. K. Jacobs
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-06
POTOMAC FEVER
FLETCHER KNEBEL

Ike asks Congress vote for schools, high
and farmers This is the 1855 Republican three Rs
program: Readn. ridn' an reelection.
They claim Adai Stevenson almost tainted when he read
es staeof heUnion Reason: mot only is the
running again. He's running both tickets"
Film Star Grace Kelly says she'll marry Prince Rainier
Monaco When she met him in tax-free Monaco, it
love at first sight Not single far
the could
The White House showed excellent staff work the
Eisenhower Union 1t read him
before it read to Congress
Democratic Chairman Butler found lot of political
milton in Ikes state Union message There's
Butler ordered expanded to 10000 words-for the
Democratic platform.
Democrats say there really nothing in President
es to Congress just sound New Deal doctrine
with very few conservative frills
Ike rules out tax cut until he pay something the
national debt Democrats outraged Ike intends
to take the Nation down the rocky road to solvency
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-06
DAVID LAWRENCE
Eisenhower Message Appraised

up for consideration by Con-
gress. Much viii depend on
the trend OF the current tax
receipts. Heretofore the
Treasury. under all recent adj
ministrations. has underesti-
mated receipts and overesti-
mated expenditures. Maybe.
that's a good mistake to make
in the preliminary appraisals.
But it does seem that the
revenues derived from a year
like 1855, which broke many
records in business expansion,
may surprise the Treasury not
only on total taxes collected
from corporations but from in
dividuals as well.
The President has said that
ne believes a modest" amount
should be applied to reducing
the national debt. Even the
use of $500 million for this
purpose would not be insig-
nif1cant SO far as improving
the position and prestige of
the American dollar through
out the world. If the rest Of
a $3-billion surplus, for exam
pie. were used for tax reduce
ton. the country would accord
the Eisenhower administration
full credit for a remarkable
achievement after a series of
almost continuous annual def
icits during this and preceding
administrations.
The political strategists, es-
pecially on the Democratic
side. will attempt to beat the
President to it by offering tax
reduction measures right away,
but the country will know that,
if an unexpected increase in
tax collections occurs. it will
be because of an unprecedented
prosperity achieved under the
Eisenhower regime.
There are in the Presidents
message many recommended
lions that have been made be-
fore, and the wording of a
message of this kind is done
carefully so as to endeavor to
get maximum advantage with
public opinion. Hence there is
a difference between hopes,
aspirations. promises and ex-
pressions of lofty purpose and
what is finally ironed out be-
tween the rival parties in both
houses.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-06
Zeckendorf Plans
I22-BIock Project

NEW YORK, Jan. 6 R.-I
Realtor William Zeckendorf has
strapped a proposed skyscraperI
project for a bigger-but more
horiozntal-plan covering % city
blocks in the Pennsylvania Sta
ton area.
Mr.. zeckendorf, president Of
Webb 81 Knapp, Inc, originally,
proposed a 40-story, $l00-millionI
palace of Progress" atop Penn
Station.
Now he emissions a 50-acreI
project west of the station cost
ling $500 to $500 million.
The original idea. Mr.. Zecken-
dorf said yesterday, has proved
economically unfeasible.".
The new proposal. he said,
would mean rehabilitation Of a.
50-acre site bounded by 9th and
18th Avenues and West 30th and
West 38th streets.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-06
White House Policy Sharply Criticized
In Light of Recent Russian Gains

It was no answer to the
speeches of Marshal Bulganin
and Mr.. Khrushchev for the
White House and the Secre-
tary of State to ''retort" that
"the American goal is still
peacefully" to free the East
European satellites.
The speeches of the Russian
leaders before the Supreme
Soviet were addressed both to
the Soviet peoples and world
opinion. They were not I'll
rades" as our press headlined
them. but carefully prepared
reports of a notable series of
diplomatic victories that Rus
STA has achieved since the first
Geneva Conference. And they
set forth again the ideas and
policies that have been respon-
Sible for those victories.
Since the period of peaceful
competitive coexistence" be-
gan the Soviets have really
been competing. II they have
made, in a few months, great
Roadway, especially in Asia.
Africa and the Middle East, it
is because they have better
analysed the political forces
and trends in the world, or in
large parts Of it, than WASH
tngton has done. They have
been offering a more accept
able line of goods.
1t is notable that this line of
goods does not include COM
munism. Again it was reiter-
ated that this is not an sex
port" article. The five princi-
Piles the Russians presented as
a basis for international relax
alton Of tensions were issued
Jointly by the Soviet govern
ment and the government of
India which is opposed to COM
munism: Respect for the ter
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-06
DOROTHY THOMPSON
Appeal of the New Soviet Line

lean Army in Europe is now
fully equipped with atomic
artillery.
We have consistently re-
jected the concept that any
great nation can remain neu-
trail, although we have been,
ourselves a great neutral ma
ton during most of our exist
ence.
Since Geneva we have
pressed for new military alli-
ances: together with the Brit
ish concluded the Baghdad
pact, which has inflamed India,
Egypt. Syria, and Saudi Ara
bia; and we are pushing West
Germany to choose eventually
between a military alliance
with us and enduring dismem-
berment, or some other course
compatible with national re-
union.
So inept have been our poll
cies that the Pope. in his
Christmas message. distinctly
Veered away from them, which
can have notable results In
sparkling Italy toward neu-
trality.
Ninety five per cent of the
thinking in Washington has
been concentrated on military
defenses. Indeed, what politi-
cal strategy there is has been
designed to support the mill
tary program. This. a reversal
OF the function of the military,
makes political action the
prisoner of military planning.
BY such means a nation can
effectively contain" itself in
to political inaction-which is
where we are.
The new Soviet line is full
Of Grass inconsistencies and
insinceritieS that should be
methodically exposed. But they
cannot be effectively exposed
from the ground Of our present
policy. 1t is not serving the
cause of liberation. peace or
American prestige.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-06
Impact of the French Elections

and leading from strength"
all over the world had to be
thrown into the junkheap. The
substitute was a dollar policy"
tending to win friends and In.
fluence people by a continue
ton of lavish financial OUTLAWS
abroad.
There are unquestionably
some countries which need and
deserve our financial assist
ance. But when we hear that
tax monies should be used in
vast amounts to counter the
phony promises Of the Soviets
in the Middle East and in the
Indian Ocean area, the in
evitable conclusion is that
some of our policymakers are
of the beam.
The French have indicated
clearly by their protest vote
against the do nothing" poll
ticians that they no longer
want governments guided only
by timidity and sterility. The
attacks against Sir Anthony
and the Conservative cabinet,
not by the Laborites but by the
Conservatives themselves, are
an indication that the British,
who in the past have favored
wait-and-see policies, are also
getting fed up. Similar trends
are noticeable in Western Ger
many. where the Western al
lance begins to be regarded
as a milestone around the Bonn
governments neck. This is
not prompted by any kind Of
sympathy for the Red regimes,
but because the West gives the
Germans the impression Of
timidity and fear.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-06
'ChineseStudeni
Will Go Home
BY the Associated Press

After six years in a Missouri
mental hospital. Liu Yung- Ming
lis being returned to his home
in Red China. His government
had charged that the 36-year-
old Chinese student was being
held against his will.
The immigration Service an
nounced last night it has re-
ceived approval from hospital
authorities and from British Of
ficials in Hong Kong to deport
the student. The deportation
order has been pending since
1851, on the ground Liu no
longer was studying at the Uni
versity Of Missouri.
The service had said earlier it
had been baked by inability to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-06

get a Hong Kong transit visa.
This has now been arranged, it
said. and doctors at the State
hospital at Pennington, Mo-,
have reported the student is now
well enough to travel alone. He
has received maximum bene-
fits" from his treatment. they
said.
An immigration ofiicer win ac-
company Liu to San Francisco.
from which he will sail January
8. the service said.
He was committed to the hos
pital In 1919 after his case was
diagnosed as schizophrenia. The
Chinese Reds charged December
Is that he was held In the hos
pital as a means Of preventing
his return to Red China.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-06
EostIond- Times Row Viewed
As Study in Extreme Opposites

Chairman Eastland of the
Senate Internal Security Sub
committee says he is trying
to find out whether a few Com
munists in the press influenced
public opinion and so aided the
Communists. His principal
target has been the New York
Times and most of his wit
nesses are drawn from the very
large staff of that newspaper.
He will find out that the
answer is no, they did not. It
would have been a little
cheaper for the taxpayers If he
had read the Times consist
emily for there is one thing
about writing: Once put down,
the words are there. This indel-
ible aspect of the trade lives
in the saying: would that
mine enemy would write a
book"
Anyway, Eastland will be
challenged to show Communist
influence and he can't. He
will get the headlines commit
tee counsel Sourwine promised
him. The insular, reactionary
minority of the Senate to
which Sourwine has been a
gray eminence since the late
Pat McCarran recognized his
special talents will enjoy the
harassment Of the press that
has so signally failed to appre-
ciate 1t.
This is the essence of the
conflict on Capitol Hill be-
tween Eastland and the think
ing he represents on the one
hand and the sophisticated
and internationalist New York
Times on the other. The one
Is everything that the other Is
not. The one fears the demo-
cratic institutions that the
other Il dedicated to uphold.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-06

For more than 1l2 years
from the presidency Of John
Adams to the Presidency OF
Woodrow Wilson-no President
ever read any message in per-
son to Congress.
President Jefferson aban-
doned the personal delivery
idea of Washington and Ad-
ans, declaring it to be too
much like the speech from
the throne" in England.
So President Eisenhower'S
enforced vacation compelled a
return 10 what had for decades
been the usual custom of the
Executive in having messages
presented to Congress BY read
ing clerks.
There are many advantages
in a personal appearance-ad-
vantages which have to do
with greater emphasis on the
points of the messages before
a bigger audience than might
read all of the text in the
press. Mr.. Eisenhower wisely
decided to make a summary
before the TV and newsreel
cameras which gave the night
time audiences a personal de-
livery of about the same
number of words as usually are
selected from the long adj
dresses. In fact. it may be
questioned whether enough
people have the time during
the day anyway to watch TV
or listen to the radio when
there is a message read by a
President. Certainly more citi-
zens hear the extracts given in
the evening over radio and TV.
What Mr.. Eisenhower said
in his message, of course. had
worldwide significance, when
he dealt with such ques-
tions as foreign policy and
economic and military aid to
allies. There will be reas-
surance abroad. because the
President asks Congress for a
long-range program Of finan-
cial measures which can help
stabilize the relations between
the United States and its
allies.
The words of caution
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-06
Putting Balanced Budget Ahead
OF Tax Reduction Took Courage

uttered by the President with
reference to trusting Soviet
policies will be noted around
the world. While not relax
ing any effort to promote
peace by sound methods. the
President made it clear he
isn't being fooled by Soviet
smiles or aggravated by Com
munist invectiyes.
There was throughout the
message a note of moderation
which will make a favorable
impression abroad. because it
shows that. despite the dis
couraging behavior of the So
Wet leaders and spokesman,
the United States is not aban-
doning its crusade for peace.
On domestic policies, the
message is a masterful pres
entation of a lot of delicate
points that are bound to be
the basis of debate in this
campaign year. Mr.. Eisen-
hover, like other Presidents,
has had the benefit of lengthy
memoranda from cabinet Of
f1cers and other advisers and,
as usual, the state-of the
Union message is a collabora-
ton Of many minds. Running
through it, however, is the Ell
senhower philosophy of "dy-
manic conservatism" and pro-
gressive thought in the realm
of economics as well as social
welfare.
Perhaps the outstanding
declaration - which will be
further amplified when the
April tax receipts are counted
relates to tax policy. The
President and his cabinet are
well aware of the strategy of
the Democrats in proclaiming
for many months now a prom
Use Of tax reduction. It took
courage. therefore. for the
President to say that he would
not favor tax reduction I'M
less and until the budget is
balanced.
But nobody knows at the
moment what the budget stu
alton will be by next June.
when a new tax law might be
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-06

In this struggle the East
lands and the McCarthys and
their friends have been on the
losing end for a long time.
They are losing in politics and
in the courts: the press is the
recorder of their losses and
Illustrations. Lacking personal
majesty Of any description,
they never rise above their
setbacks. Rarely if ever, in the
parlance of the theater. do
they get a good notice in the
great Washington and New
York newspapers which are
the Federal Governments daily
fare.
If responsible politicians were
holding the present hearings
the press would take them
very seriously. Congressional
leaders instead predict a hasty
retreat and a dull thud at the
end.
Perhaps, however. the poll
ticians are not too unhappy
watching the reporters report
the misdeeds and poor iudg-
ment Of reporters for a change.
Certainly these existed among
some Of the Eastland witnesses,
clannish as one would like to
be about ones own.
The feeling of politicians
that the correspondents sit in
Judgment all the time but are
never judged was expressed by
an important Republican who
had helped to bring about the
G. o. P. congressional victory
in 1916. I'VE got a new Con-
gress," he said with satisfac-
ton, land we're going to get
a new President in two years."
Then his face fell. "But I guess
we're stuck with you same old
reporters In the press gal
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-06

ritorial integrity and sover-
eighty of each state, nom
aggression. noninterference in
each others internal affairs.
for whatever reason-economic,
political or ideological-equal-
ity and mutual benefit, peace
full coexistence."
Any literally minded nation
could accept those principles.
They have been the basis of
United States foreign policy
during most Of our national
existence.
Along with them the USSR
has been selling the liquidation
of colonialism, a halt in the
further creation of military al
liances and the eventual liq-
uidation Of the existing ones,
no further testing of thermo-
nuclear weapons and the total
abolition under all circum-
stances of their use or of other
instruments of mass annihila-
ton.
The ideas are profoundly
popular.
What has America been
selling ? Our Government has
teetered on the colonial ques-
ton. and Mr.. Dulles did not
teeter but tottered ON the Goa
issue. 1t was not necessary for
him to say anything at all, but
If pressed by both sides, the
appropriate attitude should
have been that the issue was
between India and Portugal
and that he hoped they would
find a solution in harmony
with justice and equity.
Our Government has taken
the stand that there is no
danger In the further testing
of thermonuclear weapons, and
it was announced during the
holidays that the 7th Amer
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-06

8. Dolan Donohoe, A. Leftwich
Sinclair, Robert Blackstone, WAL
ter Fireman. Claude w. Owen,
jr.: Richard Ludke and Alan w.
WILDER.
The new district includes 12S
scouting units formerly in the
Congressional, Russell Douglass
and Northern districts.
Vice chairmen serving under
Sen. Ross are John A. Lang, IT,:
John H. Fallon, Van Dyke A.
Walker, ST.; Roy c. Swab, Fran
els A. Gregory and E. Paul
SechriSt. Sc.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-06
Welfare Aide Quits
For University Post
BY the Associated Press

Wilbur ]. Cohen, director Of
research and statistics for the
Social Security Administration,
has resigned to become a profess
Isor at the University of Michigan.
Mr.. Cohen has been associated
with the social security program
since 1t was started more than
30 years ago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-06

District voter registration Il
under way. Have you quail
fed to vote in the elections
May 1? Registration head
quarters are on the ground
floor Of the District Building.
Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1956-02-01

DURING THE THREE months and a
little more that spent in Iran visited
five different agricultural areas. In
four of them I found climate that was
quite similar to that of Eastern Mon
tana. The summer days were hot and
the sun was very bright as it beat down
upon a brown dirt terrain. Vegetation
was scarce because of the intensive
grazing by the herds of sheep and goats
and the mountains were rocky and bar
rem.
There were no thunder showers this
summer in Iran and that is usually the
case. The Persian farmer has become
used to four month winter of rain
starting in November, and an eight
month period of hot, dry days. There is
one compromising feature for the heat
and that is the cool and very beautiful
Persian nights. The moon and stars
seem close enough to touch.
Desert Oasis
However, the fifth area l visited was
on the Caspian Sea where rainfall aver
ages over so inches a year. There the
mountains were a mass of Shrubbery
and trees and the roadsides were shad-
ed by big trees and willows grew in
abundance. Here, rice paddles could be
seen for miles as well as cotton fields
with plants that were waist high. True
ly, this was an oasis in a desert.
But don't want to leave the impress
sion that Iran is desert country. To be
sure, it has large desert in its eastern
part, which compares to the Sahara as
far as aridness goes, but with irrigation
in other regions, river valleys and
plains have been made into productive
areas.
Winter wheat, cotton, and sugar beets
are the three ranking cash crops raised
by the Iranian farmers.
. Felt at Home
Except when l hoed in the cottor
fields, felt pretty much at home Gag
riculturally speaking). And l must say
that after month, began to regarC
Tehran (the capitaD as home becaus,
we would always return there befor,
going out into another area.
One day l was out. in a grain fiel
where two villagers were winnowin
wheat. This is the process of separatin
the grain from the straw and chaff b
using the wind. They used wooden tine
forks and made the operation look S
easy I was eager to try my hand at i
So I took fork and started. Afte
tossing two forkfuls into the air an
having it all come down. in the sam