Milford chronicle., 1956-04-13

Governor Averill Hartman is still
around, but he seems to have quit
warming up.
But, having mentioned these pos
sibilities, it should be remembered
that the Party's strong man
whose appeal is not only nation
wide but extends to large seq
ment of Republicans as wells
Governor Frank ]. Lausche, Of
Ohio. While he is presently con-
tending with George Bender for
his seat in the Senate, there is
no reason to believe the Governor
wouldn't prefer the swivel chair in
the White House.
Red Herring
The care-free British tour OF
jolly-boy Georgi Malenkov. the de-
posed successor to the mantle of
Stain who is now in charge of
proletarian kilowatts, appears TO
have gone sour. The high voltage
smile has been turned on and his
unaccountable gloom perceptibly
thickened with the arrival in Eng
land of the USSR'S chief killer,
head of the secret police and sue
cessor to the lately done-in Law
remit P. Beria.
While the British received their
latest visitor coldly, and without
the ceremony accorded the chubby
power-house pudit, it is UNDER
standable that the latter may be
even more disturbed by the mac
abre presence. And as of this writ
Ing, it is an open question whether
the official throat-slitter is in not
so-merry England to protect Conn
rade Malenkov (possibly against
any idea of seeking asylun) or to
arrange for the security of Com
rades Khrushchey and Bulganin on
their forthcoming visit.
Whatever goes on with Britain's
present guests fits in somehow
with the latest Soviet ferment, the
reputation of the demi-god Stain
by his former 1ieutenants This lat
est Kremlin coup was planned, it
would seem, to confound the free
nations with Russia's new morality
and to enable the Commies, pinkos
and felIow-travellers the world
over to make common cause with
the socialists whos in most coun-
tries, are slightly less suspect. That
this breath-taking switch may back
fire. is a good possibility. That 1t
can be consummated without some
further contradicts the Soviet pat
tern.
Certainly the challenge to "the
present surviving Communist hier-
archy", delivered in the Senate by
California Senator William F.
Knowland, has endorsement of all
those whom these leaders would
impress:
These men," he said, were the
partners in crime of Stain In the
mass murders, slave labor camps,
and destruction of sovereign ma
tions. They were accomplices in
the crimes They shared the loot.
Nov they want TO cast off the
evil acts, but not the benefits de-
rived They want to get a cloak of
respectabiIity before going to Lon
don and calling on the Queen.
Il would be more impressed il
the Kremlin would free the mill
lions in the slave labor camps OF
Siberia: ii they would agree 10
restore independence to Latvia.
Lithuania and Estonia; If they
would agree to free elections I'm
Eastern Germany and would free
their hold on Czeehoslavakia, Po-
land, Hungary. Rumania, Bulgaria
and Albania.
1T Is my belief that the Voice Of
America, Radio Free Europe and
other agencies should challenge
the Kremlin's rulers to perform
deeds repudiating acts OF Stain.
rather than use mere words of re-
pudiatIon The soyereignties OF cap
tive nations can be restored. This
would be the acid test as to whe-
ther there has been basic change
in Soviet policy"
There will never be better
time to call this colossal bluff
WE GATHER FROM THE COM
MENTS of Congressional leaders
who heard our travelling Secre-
fary of State give his report to the
home Office on that - day Asian
tour that he Is at least as good
saleman at home as abroad.