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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-26
Guided Missile but No H-Bomb

GENTLY alert to the opinions
of Asian peoples.
The United States is not
pressing its military program
for purposes of aggression.
but of defense. When the argu-
ment is made that America
should put less emphasis" on
military alliances, it really
means that this country is
being asked to abandon those
alliances. This is the objective
of the Soviet propaganda
about alliances and overseas
bases. 1t has been going on
for some time now.
What is patiently spurious is
the Soviet demand for the
stopping of H-bomb tests,
when Khrushchev now con-
tends that the United States
hasn't been testing any hydro
gen bomb but only an lin
stallation." 1t would appear to
be time for the Soviet spokes-
men to take account Of what
their propagandists for a ban
on all H-bomb tests have been
saying.
Again, it's a case of an at
tempt by the Soviets to disarm
the United States and her al
lies--to frighten the West by
threatening bigger and bigger
bombs and demanding that.
unless trade advantages are
given. the military threats will
multiply. The news dispatches
do seem to bear out the theory
that military weapons still are
a talking point of the Russian
leaders and that apparently
only Americans must reduce
armament, abandon bomb
tests and keep from debating
military matters in Congress.
That's what the Soviet spokes-
men apparently want done.
and some Americans abroad
seem to think it's the way
to win ASIA" though it
could come to mean losing
America"
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-26
DORIS FLEESON
Nobody Setting Proiries on Fire

markings of a boom in a poll
tician's home territory. Not
that people are unfriendly;
they just don't know.
The net is to strengthen
prospects already more or less
dimly seen.
Stevenson must win nomi-
nation on the first ballot or he
is in for a struggle of uncertain
outcome. Kefauver will need
striking victories in Florida
and California to keep him in
the picture. The Democratic
convention probably will be
wide open.
Perhaps it never needed to
be proved, but it appears again
that moderation and high
level campaigning are not the
stuff of which United States
politics is made. 7
Real nostalgia exists. among
the disconnected at least, for a
give-'em-hell type of cam
paigning to exploit their griev-
anceS.
Among others. the general
complaint is that the campaign
is mot interesting" Yet they
are intensely interested in the
Washington story and the
Presidents actions.
If the voters are shown two
more or less parallel roads.
many of them &ill just stay
home.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-26

The tendency is to regard
him as a Southerner indistin-
guishable from other Southern
Senators. including those irked
by his refusal to string along
with the solid South. Gov.
Averell Hartman of New York
seems equally remote to the
dlssident farmers.
Former President Truman
senses all this with his back
ground of long experience. It
accounts for his hesitancy in
backing any of the front-run-
ners. He is being just as care
full not to knock down any Of
the dark horses mentioned.
The odds are that when the
chips are down at the Chicago
convention. what will count
with Truman will be a can
didate's vigor and apparent
public appeal. not old friend
ship or questions of political
philosophy.
Senator Stuart Symington
OF Missouri gets mentioned
often as possibility, but it is
with a question. What is he
like? Will he do? What does
Washington think of him?
These are not quite the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-26
IHOMAs L. STOKES
Confederocy Comes Alive Aqoin

federacy has come out Of the
books, where we could take it
or leave it. Once again some
of the Southern citizenry is
sneaking behind masks and
sheets in a revived Ku Klux
Khan. while others a bit drawer
about their prejudices are
joining White Citizens Coun-
ellis and other organizations of
like purpose where no masks
are worn.
In the midst of all Of this,
Confederate Memorial Day
came around again for lots of
us, living and dead. But when
We marched so long ago it
didn't seem in honor of what
we see around us today-the
passion. the fury, the white
robes, the burning crosses.
We marched in honor of the
burial of a tragic mistake.
Except We find we did not
bury it.
The great mistake roams the
land again. Our political lead
ers cringe and cover before it.
Some in the South whip UP
the frenzy for their own cheap
political ends, shamelessly.
Others in the North and in the
South and in places of great
power here in our Govern
ment hold back and hesitate
to assert the leadership needed
in this hour to calm the
tempest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-26
POTOMAC FEVER
FLETCHER KNEBEL

Senators subpoena Murray Chotner President Nixons
campaign manager in Army uniform scandals it's
to whether Republicans chart future
fore Democrats chart Chotiners past
Adai Stevenson is tired of He
into Massachusetts and Pennsylvania
twice in the day
Ike says Democrats right in centering their cam
paign fire him. The only candidate can't stand
is the silent treatment.
Ike declines to call of Hbomb There two
to this argument and intend working on the
bomb until explode blowing UP both sides
Democratic primaries thus far indicate no Democrat
has the inside track be nominated Augusfor honorable
mention in November.
Adla Stevenson thinks ought quit testing the H
bomb and speed guided missiles ALL if our Hbomb
doesn't work, we may have to get out Of here hurry
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-26
DORIS FLEEsON
Middle West Found Disconnected
With President, Wary of Democrats

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Mid-
die West discomfort is focusing
on President Eisenhower to a
degree that comes as a surprise
to the Washington visitor. In
the Capital, the President still
remains largely above the bat
tie, the joint result of Republic
can strategy and Democratic
timidity.
At the same time, no Demo-
cratic candidate for President
seems to have caught on in this
area, which is crucial to Demo-
cratic hopes for victory next
November.
Adlai Stevenson still has his
public and it still is fervent.
His difficulties are blamed by
his admirers here on bad adj
vice. the Americans for Demo-
cratic Action or the profess
SIGNALS. 1t is said that he is
mot being himself charge
the complainant has trouble
documenting but feels strongly.
Stevenson definitely is not set
ting the prairies on fire.
Senator Estes Kefauver is
simply not known in this area
and will have little chance to
become known before the par
;ty convention.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-26

in rejecting the farm BILL" the
council stated.
Although the administration is
opposing the two provisions
which would be accompanied by
"a rs per cent increase in Social
Security payroll taxes, Congress
sional sources have no informa-
ton to indicate Mr.. Eisenhower
would veto this bill.
Attack Mounting Cost
The State Chambers centered
their attack on the growing cost
of constantly increasing social
security benefits. Calling atten-
ton to periodical increases that
will go into effect in the tax rates
between now and 1875. the coun-
Gil said the future tax burden of
today's children will be twice
what their parents are now pay
ing to get the same benefits.
The council predicted that
lowering the age for women to
81 will be followed by pressure
to let men retire at 81.
And if the age limit were set
at 62 why not so as the next step.
which is the stated real objective
of many present advocates of a
retirement age of g."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-26
2 Social Security Issues
Delay Senate Decision

The Senate Finance Commit
tee has put off until Tuesday 9
decision on the two most con.
troversial features in the Social
Security bill. which were at
tackled last night by the Council
of State Chambers of Commerce
These provisions would lower
the retirement age for women
from IS to g., and permit dis
abled persons to start drawing
old-age insurance at so.
May Eliminate Both
There have been strong in
dications that the Finance Com
mittee may eliminate both OF
these House-approved provisions.
But the Council of Chambers of
c ON m cree conceded in its
statement that the present po-
litical atmosphere in Congress
is such that either the lower
retirement age provision or dis
ability benefits, or both. may
very well be in the bill when it
reaches the Presidents desk"
In such case. a veto would
require the same political cour-
age that the President displayed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-26
HyottsviIIe Man to Aid
Senote's Lobby Inquiry

John j. McGovern. 34-year-
old Hyattsville lawyer, has been
named associate counsel of the
special Senate lobby Investigate
ing committee.
Abraham Weber. so, Of New
York, has been named assistant
counsel.
The appointments were an
nounced by Senator Mcclellan,
Democrat of Arkansas, the COM
mittee chairman. as the COM
mittee rounded out its legal and
investigating staff for what
promises TO be a long and de-
tailed inquiry.
Senator Mcclellan said the
committee would meet Friday
morning to approve other staff
appointments and clear the way
possibly for its first public hear
ing in the near future.
Mr.. McGovern served with the
Air Force for ~ years and held
important legal assignments in
Tokyo. He is married and lives
at 2233 Charleston place In
Hyattsville, where he has been
in private practice for two
years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-26
End
Cited by Dulles

Secretary Of State Dulles last
night called the trend to self
government in formerly colonial
areas "the greatest peaceful
evolution the world has ever
known"
This evolution to self-govern-
ment shows that peaceful
change is possible. Mr.. Dulles
declared at the 50th annual
meeting Of the American Society
of international Law.
World opinion, which appears
in the United Nations, plays a
role equivalent to the common
law. Mr.. Dulles said.
Even the most powerful ma
tions feel it expedient to be able
to represent their conduct as
conforming to this body of world
opinion" Mr.. Dulles said.
The International Law So
ciety, which opened its three
day meeting in the Sheraton
Carlton Hotel last night, honor
ed Manley o. Hudson, q former
president Of the society.
Mr.. Hudson. So, a member Of
the Harvard University Law
School faculty since 1923, was a
Judge of the Permanent Court Of
International Justice from 1886
to 1916. He was president Of
the society from 1949 to 1852.
The medal given to Mr.. Hud-
son, its first recipient. had been
named in his honor the Manley
0. Hudson Award.
The president Of the society,
versity Of Chicago. told the
preliminary meeting that the
preliminary meeting that the
purpose of international law is
to bring less violence and more
predictability into international
affairs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-26
DAVID LAWRENCE
Presidents Answer Cited on Demands
To Push for One and Drop the Other

The flow of news sometimes
embarrasSes various spokesman
for present-day governments.
Nehru in India must be Won
dering now if he hasn't been
a bit harsh with the United
States, accusing it of sabre
rafting" and threats. Even
Walter Reuther. labor leader,
who has been stumping India
lately making criticisms of his
own government. must feel I'M
comfortable as he reads what
Khrushchev has just said to
the British people:
Il am quite sure that we will
have a guided missile with a
hydrogen bomb that can fall
anywhere in the world"
The Soviet leader also claims
that the Soviet Union was the
first nation to explode a hydro
gen bomb from an airplane.
He adds:
The Americans are only
intending to do so because
their previous explosion was
not Of a hydrogen bomb but of
a hydrogen installation"
Yet the Soviet government
Is protesting against the forth
coming test of hydrogen bombs
to be held by the United States
at the Marshall Islands in the
Pacific. And Nehru also is
against these tests.
But the main burden of the
Nehru speeches has been that
the United States emphasizes
military power and military
alliances. Reuther echoed that
criticism when he told audi
ences in India recently:
Like many Americans. I
have felt that United States
foreign policy in Asia has
placed undue emphasis upon
military power, military pacts
and military alliances. This
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-26
Souths Protest Against Supreme Court
Called New War of Great Rebellion

Down in Georgia this is
Confederate Memorial Day, or
was. Guess it still is.
1t was, in truth. the only
Memorial Day we had.
Memory goes back, way
back. to Confederate Memorial
Day and the big parade which
was the event of the holiday
for all Of us schoolboys. For
days before Memorial Day we
would practice marching in
company front at recess. try
ing to learn how to keep the
line straight. Then, on the
big day. We marched for hours
through the downtown streets
of Atlanta, neat in our cos
tunes designated for the occa-
sion-white shirt, our Sunday
blue serge pants. and black
shoes. Toward the end of the
journey. the lines would begin
to wobble and waver and sag,
and so would the young gen.
Grafton paying its respects to
those who had fought in a war
long gone.
Even then there were not
many veterans around. A few
of them marched. More rode
in wagons.
Now they all are gone.
But the Confederacy seems
to be more alive today than
ever, not in the misty nostalgia
of a dead lost cause, gracious
and graceful. but harsh and
rampant and noisy, like some
thing that a Southern gentle
man of long ago would have
abhorred.
In the last few years the
Confederacy and the Civil War
have come alive again and
been celebrated in a process
sion of books, so many. many
books that it became a parlor
question and answer game
like this:
who won the Civil Warp"
1.-The American Booksellers
Association"
II you are a Southerner, 1t
is more appropriate. II you can
afford It. to get your children
into the Book-of -the-Month
Club rather than into the
United Daughters Of the Con-
federacy or the Sons OF the
Confederacy or the Children OF
the Confederacy.
II you have come here to our
National Capital from the
South to live. you will discover
that you never get far away
from the Confederacy.
1t still survives in the Capital
OF the United States, where
Congress Is much under the
domination Of descendants OF
Confederates, 70 that, as you
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-26
Shifting to an Economic NATO

plans is now working only on
three cylinders.
Its Western European mem
bers, particularly France and
Germany, which were intended
to be the backbone of the
organizations, are extremely
prosperous. The high degree
Of prosperity has rendered the
German people reluctant to
support the organization of a
treaty force" of 10000 men
which. together with the six
American and four British
divisions supplemented by an
adequate air and naval force.
would have enhanced the
strength Of the defense wall.
The German government and
Parliament have been going
through the motions Of Great
ing the treaty force, but so far
1t still is only a blueprint.
The French were compelled
to remove their NATO ground
forces to trouble-ridden Al
geria. The struggle there may
last for some time, and the
French government is in no
mood to draft new forces to
replace those sent across the
Mediterranean. On top Of all
these considerations is the
overriding reason why the
military NATO" has been
faltering recently: The convic-
ton of most Western European
governments that Russia no
longer intends to use military
weapons to achieve her pur-
poses in Western Europe. This
has produced in some coun-
tries wave Of neutralism, in
others a lackadaisical attitude
toward military preparedness,
despite the assistance afforded
them by the United States.
Our friends in continental
Europe have now devised q
plan to transform NATO into
a benevolent association with
the United States as the chief
purveyor Of benevolence). In
order to avoid a flop with seri-
Gus political repercussions at
home Secretary Dulles, who
only a few weeks ago rejected
the idea of the coalitions be-
coming merely an economic all
lance. has reversed himself
and decided to accept the sug-
gestionS of Italy's President
Gronchi and Frances Prime
Minister Mollet.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-26
CONSTANTINE BROWN
Dulles Decision Believed Prompted
BY Military Coalitions Weak Points

NATO Is by way Of chang
ing its military character to
become another branch of
foreign economic assistance.
This column reported from
Paris some two weeks ago that
Prime Minister Guy Mollet, in
an effort to bolster up his
shaky political position due to
difficulties in Algeria, had sug-
gested a revamping of the
Western defense coalition. He
urged America in particular
to shift to accent on NATO
from a defensive military or
ganization into a kind of
welfare group with the pri-
mary purpose of helping out
the peoples in the undevel-
oped countries. He mentioned
specifically Algeria. where
France is fighting against the
Arab nationalist such a Sc
we're campaign that it had to
remove nearly all the troops
it maintained in Germany.
The proposition of M. Mol
let was not taken seriously in
RESPONSIBLE American quarters
in Paris. And for good reasons.
A few weeks earlier. while on
an official visit to Washington,
Italy's President Giovanni
Gronchi had suggested in a
speech in Washington that the
economic rather than the
military side of the alliance
should henceforth be stressed.
This suggestion was quickly
brushed aside by no less than
Secretary of State Dulles, who
stated at a press conference:
THE membership of the
NATO was picked primarily,
l would say, for strategic
and military considerations.
I think that the economic
problems can be dealt with
through other organizations"
And indeed we have the
ICA international Corpora
ton ADMINISTRATOR the sue
cessor Of the Marshall and
other economic assistance
plans. as the agency which
distributes tax dollars to our
allies.
1t was therefore somewhat
surprising when our Secretary
of State announced on Tues
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-26
Morse Royalty Cheer
'Porqy and Bess'

OSLO, Norway, April 26 (Pl.-
An elegant flrst-night audience
last night acclaimed a touring
American company's perform
ance of the opera, "Porgy and
Bess."
Led by Crown Prince Olav and
his daughter. Princess Astrid, the
spectators gave the singers a To-
minute ovation.
The theater, where the Every
man Opera Co. will give IL per-
formances through May 5, is sold
out for the entire run.
Several members of the all
Negro cast are scheduled to sing
over the Norwegian state radio
Sunday night.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-26

overemphasis on military pow
err has, in my opinion. tended
to trade reliable democratic
friends for doubtful military
allies"
Reuther didn't name the
reliable" friends or the
doubtful military allies" But
1t is significant that the line
taken by the labor chief has
been repeated in a general
way by Adlai Stevenson, who
came out openly last week
against the holding of H
bomb tests by the United
States. Without mentioning
Stevenson. President Eisen-
hover at his press conference
made this significant point
about the proposed ban on H
bomb tests:
1T is a little bit of a para
dox to urge that we work just
as hard as we know how on the
guided missile and that we
stop all research on the hydro
gen bomb. because one with
out the other is rather use
less. So I think research
without test is perfectly use
less. a waste of money"
The President was referring.
OF course, to the speeches of
Stevenson and other Demo-
Gratis complaining that the adj
ministration isn't pushing hard
enough on the development
OF guided missiles. But. if the
testing of hydrogen bombs is
to be frowned upon, then, says
the President. there's not much
sense to talk about stepping
up the guided-missile program.
Such inconsistencies are APP
parent also in the arguments
made by those who keep on
saying that America is losing
the cold war" or is not SUM-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-26
Voice Broudcusts
Fuce CeYlon Censors

COLOMBO. Ceylon, April 26
pa reliable source said today
the new government OF Ceylon
plans to exercise strict censor
ship on Voice Of America broad
casts over Radio Ceylon trans
The source said the minister
of broadcasting. c. A. S. Mark
kar, ruled that all scripts and
recordings must be scrutinized
and that any deemed adverse to
any country will be banned.
The new regime headed by
Prime Minister Solomon Ban
darsnaike is steering a so-called
neutral course something like
that Of Prime Minister Nehru in
India.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-26
BILLIONS IN BANK,
BUT NARY A CENT
FOR A NEWSPAPER
BY the Associated Press


The Governments Export
Import Bank. with assets OF
S2.7 billion, has had trouble
lately because sometimes it
had not so much as a dime
in cash for a couple Of hews-
papers.
The directors have rene
died the situation. A bank
executive said "our petty
cash fund was only $50. At
times 1t ran out. Now the
directors. after thorough
study, raised the petty cash
fund to 5000"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-26

day. without being specific as
to details, that he would take
to the next weeks meeting Of
the foreign ministers of the
NATO countries in Paris a
plan for Transforming that
coalition into a broader as
ISOLATION. shifting its objec-
tives Ito a permanent instru-
ment Of Western cooperation,
rather than a military deter
rent to Communist agrees
SION"
BY a strange coincidence.
Mr.. Dulles mentioned at his
Tuesday press conference eco
nomic assistance to Algeria
(Which is one Of the most
prosperous parts of France
and where the present troubles
arise from political and not
economic difhculties).
He also mentioned economic
assistance to Middle Eastern
countries, upon which Europe
depends for OIL" It happens
that Saudi Arabia, one Of the
principal "oil countries" is
extremely well heeled. So is
Iraq. another of the chief oil
purveyors of the world. In
both those countries the prob
lens are again political and
not economic. Iran is less
prosperous because it still feels
the i'll effects of the attempted
naturalization of its oil fields
and refineries under the Com
munist-inspired former Prime
Minister Mossadegh.
There is little or no economic
trouble in Syria and Jordan.
Turkeys present acute troubles
are due to that country's in
ability to meet its short term
obligations to Britain, France,
Germany, Belgium and Swift
zerland. The Turks have asked
us for a $300-million, interest
bearing loan. But this has
been denied to them.
The proposed shift on the
part Of the Secretary of State,
insofar as the concept Of
NATO is concerned, was
caused apparently by his
realization that the military
organization established in
l949 for the sole purpose Of
presenting a solid defensive
wall to the Soviet's aggressive
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-26

Senator Mcclellan also said he
had designated Paul Kamerick
as the committees chief investi-
gator. Mr.. Kamerick has been
on the staff of the Senate In
vestigating subcommittee which
Senator Mcclellan also heads.