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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-17
Good-by to the Post

the sum OF the convention
action amounted to a reputation
Of the past. and between the lines
of the resolutions there seemed to
be running the belated observation
of Comrade Rubashov, the pitiful
hero of Arthur Koestler's Dark
ness at Noon: I'VE all thought
we could treat history like one
experiments in physics. The diff
ference is that in physics one can
repeat the experiments a thousand
times, but in history only once
Perhaps the American Commu-
nists had at last discovered that
fine distinction between history and
physics. But at this late date the
discovery would be of major i'm
portance only to the comrades
themselves. since their influence in
America today is minor. But there
was the remote possibility that 1t
could induce other Communist
parties to climb aboard what might
become a world band wagon OF
independent nationalism.
The break with the past was
nowhere more dramatically visible
than in the results OF the voting
for candidates for the national
committee. Leading them all was
Miss Charlene Alexander Of Los
Angeles, who at the tender age
Of rs Is no hardened Bolshevik.
Her 2l0l2 votes swamped Mr..
Foster. who led and lost the great
and bloody steel strike of 1870;
Mr.. Gates, who fought with COM
rades in Spain for the Loyalist
cause. and Mr.. Dennis. who went
to prison for devotion to the Com
munist cause.
The convention opened and
closed with the singing Of the
"Star Spangled Banner" There
were heard no refrains Of the en-
ternationale." There we're no pic
lures Of Soviet leaders In the hall.
no Soviet flags.
The American Communists had
reasons aplenty for their secession
LIST course. The new line might
possibly give members a built-in
immunity TO future convictions
under the Smith Act, which out
laws. the advocacy Of violent over
throw Of the Government. II is
possible also that the delegates.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-17
Dr.. Teller:
Grim Note

For some years now Ameri-
cans have heard warnings that
Russia is increasing and improving
her force Of scientists faster than
we are. In fact, the warnings have
been so frequent that repetition
has dulled their impact.
On Friday DR.. Edward Teller. the
eminent physicist who has been
called "the father of the H-bomb."
went one shocking step further than
his predecessors. Russia will out
strip us, he declared, and 1t is too
late to do anything about 1t.
Speaking at an Air Force Asso-
citation jet-age conference here, Or.
Teller said that III you extrapolate"
that is, estimate on the basis Of
known variables--"you will have TO
say that 10 years from now the
best scientists In the world will be
found In Russia
II am not saying that this will
happen unless we take this or that
measure" he added. II am simply
saying that II is going TO happen"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-17

partment was reducing the price
support levels of eight major crops.
seven Of them feed grains. The ac-
ton was taken in line with the
administration position that lower
price floors will help to cut surplus
production. Farm State members Of
Congress declared. however. that
there is no unmanageable surplus
in any Of the eight crops. with the
possible exception of cotton. which
has been moving into low-priced
export markets at fast clip. The
same members also warned that
the move might possibly set off a
depression.
All of the commodities affected
cotton, oats. barley. rye, grain
sorghums. soybeans, flaxseed and
cottonseed-have been selling on
the open market at prices higher
than the new support level.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-17
Dock Talks
Near Success

The end Of the East Coast long
shoremen's strike, involving $4,000
waterfront workers from Portland.
Me-. to Norfolk. Va. was believed
near settlement after days of long.
tense sessions.
The strike was resumed on Tues
day as the 00-day Taft Hartley Act
injunction against the international
Longshoremen's Association ex-
pired. The injunction halted a
nine-day walkout last November.
AS negotiations proceeded under
the auspices of the Federal Media
ton Service, a disagreement on the
Holman lila Bargaining Commit
tee developed temporarily. shatter-
ing hopes for a quick settlement.
But late yesterday the attorney for
the strikers said their leaders had
reached IAN agreement toward set
Element"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-17
Interrupted
Career

Nobody would deny that the ca
reer of Robert Trip Ross was a
success. He began it as a soda
jerker in a drugstore in Washing
ton, N. c. He ended it, for the time
being at least. as Assistant Secre-
tary of Defense in Washington.
d. Ca post he resigned last week
under fire.
Along the route upward he was
successfully Florida real estate
salesman, an advertising space
salesman. an automobile salesman,
member Of Congress from Queens,
New York, representative in WASH
ington for the New York State
Republican Committee, and deputy
to the Assistant Defense Secretary
for legislative and public affairs.
The trouble that led to his res
ignation under fire grew out of his
connection with company that last
year received $50 million in defense
contracts.
Mr.. Ross had been vice president
Of the company, though he contends
that he resigned this post in 1852,
and now has no financial interest
in the company. Nevertheless, his
wife in the meantime moved from
secretary-treasur OF the company
to president.
Members Of Senate subcom-
mittee looking into the matter
concluded that Mr.. Ross apparently
was not guilty Of any illegal activ-
tiles under the conflict of interest
law But, they added they thought
it would be wise II he resigned.
This he did on Thursday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-17
Around
The World

In London last week. American
Air Force Gen. Lauris Norstad. SUI
preme allied commander in Europe,
was firmly and politely told that
Britain's contribution to NATO
forces would be decided by civilian
authorities.
Gen. Norstad. in a speech to the
English-Speaking Union, expressed
concern over announced reductions
in British troop strength assigned to
the European continent. Prime
Minister Macmillan, speaking few
moments later. told the general that
the balance between defense and
other expenditures was a matter for
government officials responsible to
Parliament.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-17

a direct slap at JACQUES Duclos,
French Communist leader and a
pet of the Kremlin, who had writ
ten his American comrades that
he had noticed some dangerous"
rightist tendencies in the American
party of late.
The rebuff demonstrated how
low Mr.. Duclos has fallen in the
eyes of American Reds. 1t was he
who In 1916 engineered the purge
of former chairman Earl Browder.
who had some advanced ideas
about an independent American
party.
The party also decided to move
its headquarters from New York
to Chicago in order to be nearer
Americas 'heartland tread indus
trial "heartland"). And among the
monuments of feminist dogma it
abandoned was the conviction that
war, revolution and capitalist sui
eide are inevitable.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-17
The oil Lift:
Waning Crisis

House and Senate investigators
spent two weeks trying to set the
blame and find a remedy for the
Western European oil crisis re-
sulting from the closing of the
Suez Canal. Then last week, they
suddenly were told:
. That there is no oil crisis in
Western Europe.
. That our European allies had
never been given any assurance
that they would get more than rs
per cent of their oil requirements
from the United States, and that
they already we're getting four
fifths Of this rs per cent. (See
story by David Koonce on Page
A-27.)
Ernest o. Thompson, one Of the
three members Of the Texas Rail-
road Commission, which controls
Texas oil production, told the House
Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Committee that he did not believe
there was any oil crisis. and II
there was. ut probably was just a
newspaper crisis"
Defense Mobilizer Arthur S.
Flemming told Senate subcom-
mittee headed by Senator Joseph
O,Mahoney of wyoming that esti-
mates (of the amount Of oil going
to Europe) are more encouraging
now that more up-to-date infor-
nation as to needs and fulfillments
have become available.
OfIicials of the French govern
ment told The Sunday Star in Paris
that United States oil delivery eff
forts were only fairly satisfactory"
They said that a worrying slow
down" in imports was noticed by
the end Of January and that the
equilibrium is precarious" still,
since France has only is days sup
ply on hand. They were gratified
that this winter is the mildest on
record in France. but said that "if
we were hit with a cold wave any
thing like last years. we would be
in trouble.
An official Of the Power Ministry
in London said that Britain was not
getting all the oil she needed from
the United States, but that mo
serious disturbance in industry is
expected during the first half OF
the year"
The Interior Department on FRI
day announced that petroleum
shipments from the United States
in the week OF February 8-l4 aver
aged $4,000 barrels day. up Az
900 barrels over the previous weeks
rate. OF this, 100000 barrels we're
OF crude oil tEurope's most press
ing need. 10000 barrels Of gaso-
line, 81. 900 barrels OF kerosene. 215,-
900 barrels Of distillates. $4,000 bar
rels Of residual oil and 1000 bar
sells Of other oil products.
The goal is 100000 barrels daily
Of crude OIL
As for prices. Fred Seaton. secre-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-17
Coalition Takes Over

The party appeared to be bitterly
divided still as 1t elected 20 leaders
from the three major factions Of
coalitionist national committee. Mr.
Foster, Moscow's favorite. was out
at national chairman.
Indicative Of the new independ-
ent mood was u convention reso-
luton castigating party leadership
for "left sectarianism" and ignor-
ing rank-and-file opinion. In the
lingo Of the Communists, left Sec
tarianism means rigid over-dedi-
cation to party lire bureaucracy.
OF more interest to nom ommu-
Iiists. there was an expressed deter
mination to cease attacks on, and
TO seek the cooperation Of, social
democratic elements such as left
wing labor leaders and liberal. nom
Com m untst organizations--the
groups heretofore labeled in party
propaganda as social fascists" and
bourgeois reformers."
The conventions decisions were
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-17

in the Strip, and 81 ironclad as
surances that the blockade inn
posed BY Egypt on Israeli shipping
IN the Suez Canal and from the
port Of Elath would be permanently
abandoned.
Israel was assured of United
States support for the principle
Of free navigation for Israeli ship
ping. The assurance carried with
1t the implied guarantee that the
United States would act if the free
passage were hindered.
But even while Israeli Prime
Minister David Ben-Gurion and
his cabinet warily inspected the
Dulles suggestion. the regime of
Col. Canal Abdel Nasser in Cairo
denounced the plan as IAN Ameri-
can attempt to settle the Palestine
problem to Israel's benefit" Abdel
Kader Hatem. Egyptian informa-
ton director. charged that the
Dulles proposals were rewards for
Israeli aggression.
If the Egyptians were right, the
Israelis failed to see their alleged
rewards. Mr.. Benz urion asked
Washington for Qualification: Did
the United States mean only to
support the principle" of free
navigation, or was it willing to en-
force observance?
When Israeli Ambassador Abba
Eban delivered Jerusalem's aide
memoire to the State Department.
embassy spokesman described its
tone as generally favorable" But.
State Department officials, after
studying the reply. construed it as
a rejection.
In the note, Israel agreed to
withdraw her occupying forces from
the disputed areas. But SO long
and difficult a list of conditions
was attached to the offer that, for
sell practical purposes. it was viewed
as rejection
Mr.. Dulles. accompanied by
Henry Cabot Lodge. jr.. United
States representative at the U. N,
Immediately few down to Georgia
to confer with the mentioning Pres
ident. The presence of Mr.. Lodge
at the emergency meeting empha-
sized the serious concern Of the
administration over the impasse:
the possibility Of q renewed drive
in the U. N. for sanctions against
Israel seemed clear.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-17

placed by the dour, tough bargain
ing Andrea Gromyko. The sudden
switch, announced by the Krenlin
without comment, was Immediately
labeled by some Western diplomats
as certain indication that the
Soyiets were returning to the
tough" policies of Vyacheslav M.
Molotov and the late dictator Josef
Stain.
Mr.. Gromyko, former Russian
Ambassador to the United States,
and noted for the number and as.
cerbity of his glum walkouts when
he represented the Soviet Union
at the United Nations, has been
known as protege of Mr.. Molotov
and an advocate of harsh policy
toward the West. Mr.. Shepilov. who
returns to his old post of secretary
on the Central Committee of the
Communist Party, has been dis
ciple Of Nikita Khrushchev, advo-
cate of the peaceful coexistence"
approach to foreign policy.
Besides the probability of a re-
turn to the Molotov tough" policies
involved in the Kremlin reshuffle,
State Department officials saw evil
dence in the change that the post
OF Foreign Minister may have been
"downgraded." Since Mr.. Shepilov
remains as a member of the ALL
powerful Central Committees Sec
retariat, it is expected that he will
continue to play an important part
in the determination of future So
Wet foreign policy.
Moscow radio, as If to play down
the significance Of the switch,
broadcast assurances Friday night
that the Shepilov speech to the SUI
preme Soviet four days before was
correct" outline of Soviet policy.
The Shepilov report, the broadcast
said, was ian exhaustive and COM
prehensive statement Of the tasks
and aims of Soviet foreign policy"
But most observers of the mys-
FERROUS ways of the Kremlin were
convinced that Comrade Khru-
shchev was losing ground in his bid
to chart a new course for world
communism. Recent changes in
the top hierarchy of the party have
apparently given the Stalinists q
working majority. Although the
true balance of power seems to re-
main in the hands Of the military,
through Marshal Georgi Zhukov,
more than half the members of
both the Central Committee and its
ruling 11-man Presidium are con-
sidered to be "Molotov men"
At the December plenary session
of the Central Committee Mr.. Khru-
shchev was reported to have held
his commanding position by
precarious margin. Even that much
success was apparently bought at
the price of "downgrading" Of
Premier Nikolai Bulganin's execu-
tive authority and the restoration Of
old Stalinists to important posts.
Behind the increasing difficulties
for the Khrushchev Bulganin
peaceful coexistence" wing of the
Soviet Communist Party lies the
genuine worry in the Kremlin over
the unrest in the satellites. The
Molotov faction seized on the bloody
uprising in Hungary and the peace
able but significant nationalist
changes in Poland to charge that
the soft" policies espoused by Mr..
Khrushchev had failed. Western
newsmen in Moscow reported
definite signs that the Kremlin
feared more STRINGS of rebellion,
even within the Soviet Union itself.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-17

resolution. But some Senators ex-
pressed fear that the attempts
themselves. with the impressive
support they received. had already
seriously damaged the doctrines
prestige in world eyes.
On Wednesday the combined
committee accepted, on a strict
party-line vote, a substitute for
the military Intervention section of
the Presidents proposed text.
Senators Mansfield of Montana
and Humphrey of Minnesota, both
Democrats, moved successfully to
delete the word authorized" from
the section permitting the Presi-
dent to use American armed forces
in the Middle East against covert"
Communist aggression. The vote
was Is Democrats for the deletion.
Is Republicans opposed.
With the deletion accomplished,
the committee then adopted a
substitute text pledging the United
States to use force provided that
such employment shall be con-
sonant with the treaty obligations
of the United States and with the
Charter Of the United Nations"
Thus the new wording of the
resolution deprives the President
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-17
Israeli lmposse

The efforts Of the President and
Secretary of State Dulles to bring
about a compromise solution to
the Israel-Egypt deadlock had
borne no fruit as of yesterday.
The American proposal. made
after Israel had firmly rejected
the United Nations demand that
she withdraw from all Egyptian
territory. had offered the good Of
fices of the United States to bring
about, at least in part, the condi-
tons set forth by Israel as minimal.
They we're; Cd Firm guarantees
that Egyptian troops would not re-
occupy the GAIA Strip and resume
"fedayeen" commando raids across
the Israeli border: d2) continue
ton Of Israeli civil administration
4 q IL
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-17
THE NATIONAL SCENE
THE NATIONAL scene
CPUSA The Apron Strings Are Cut

IAN conscious workers must
Clearly realize the pemiciousness and
impermissibility Of foetionoIism Of ony
kind, for in proetiee foetionolism inevito
bly, leeds TO the weakening Of teamwork
and to intensified and repeated attempts
BY the enemies Of the party to widen
the cleavage lin the portyl. -.
Resolution Of Tenth Congress,
Communist Porty.
Moscow. March 8. 1871
Last year Soviet Communists
embarked on an adventure which
the free world press called de-
Stalinization." Bush-league Boil
sheviks all over the globe fell in
behind the mother party in Mos
COW and gleefully joined the orgy
of reaction against the idols and
gospels Of the Communist past.
In Hungary. the new-found free
dom led to a bloody reaction against
all things Russian. Poland stopped
Just short Of that.
Too late, the sadder but wiser
Soviet Communists began dis
ordered retreat back up the same
road they had Travelled. But on
the Journey back, the Red retinue
was smaller. Discrimination had
been an infectious thing. The yio-
lence persisted in Hungary. Poland
was lost to nationalisn. And Com
munists in other countries were
flirting with the idea Of independ-
ence from the Kremlin.
The Communist Party of the
United States was badly torn by
these developments. It divided into
the factionalism so sternly de-
nounced in the 1921 Moscow reso-
luton. There were the faithful
Stalinists. led by old william z.
Foster. the party's national chair
man; a Khrushchev centrist fac
ton under General Secretary Eu-
gene Dennis, and strong nation
alist wing led by John Gates. editor
Of the Daily Worker.
Last week the American Com
munists ended their first party
convention in seven years. It had
been called to decide what course
its 20,000-plus members would take.
It chose independence from Moscow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-17
Pressure on France

Frances troubles with rebellious
Algeria brought rumblings of immi-
nent danger to the long Lived cabi-
net of Premier Guy Mollet. Former
Premier Pierre Mendes-F France. at
odds with his former colleague, took
the offensive openly Friday when he
won call for a special Radical
Party congress next month from
the party's Executive Committee.
In the United Nations, the Juror
over Algeria quieted down and
France declared her satisfaction.
Two resolutions on Algeria, passed
by the General Assembly last week,
called for peaceful solution to the
Algerian problem and urged Joint
French-Algerian negotiations for a
cease-fire and a permanent settle
ment of the nationalist uprising.
Now it will be the immediate task
of Mr.. Mollet to bring about meas
urable progress toward pacification
of Algeria. Without clear gains to-
ward peace with reconciliation"
the Mollet government will face a
serious challenge to its continuation
in Office.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-17
Farm Supports:
Move to Save

The Commodity Credit Corpora
ton Of the Agriculture Department
lend farmers moneyon their crops.
II prices later fall below the loan
rates, the CCC takes possession OF
the crops and sells them for what
1t can get. letting the farmer keep
the loan.
During the four years OF the first
Eisenhower administration. the
Government took a loss Of $40 bill
lion on this program, compared to
Sill billion for the previous 20
years since the program was started
under the New Deal.
Last week. Agriculture Secretary
Ezra Taft Benson moved to reduce
this loss by 5000 million for this
year. He announced that his de-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-17
Soviet Reaction

Ever since President Eisenhower
set forth what has become known
as his Middle East doctrine in an
extraordinary address to Congress
last January 5, the world has been
awaiting the inevitab Soviet
counteroffensive.
Last week 1t came.
In Moscow, Russian Foreign
Minister Dmitri T. Shepilov told
the Supreme Soviet (parliamen)
that the attitude of the United
States was provocative and danger
Gus. and he unveiled a Kremlin
Middle East program consisting
mostly of points clearly unaccept-
able to the Western powers.
Mr.. Shepilov's speech was rela-
lively mild: he called for good
faith" among the powers, and in
sisted the Soviet Union was
sincerely interested" in promoting
friendship with the United States.
But at United Nations head
quarters in New York the other
barrel Of the Soviet counterof-
fenSive. fired almost simultaneously
with the Shepilov speech. proved
to have a slightly heavier charge.
The Russians told the United Ma
tions in a form a memorandum
that the United States was engag-
ing in aggressive actions :. which
create a threat to peace and
security" The Red memorandum
asked the General Assembly to
place the matter on the agenda for
debate.
The Soviet charges were called
a "thinly yelled and deliberately
timed attack" on the Eisenhower
Middle East proposals by the
Middle East proposals by Mr.. Lodge.
The Assembly's steering committee
rejected the Soviet request for de-
bate by a vote of 8 to 6-with the
United States voting with the Rus
slams. Mr.. Lodge explained that it
was American policy not to oppose
hearings on such charges mo mat
ter how foolish or malicious" they
might be.
Soviet concern with the develop
ing pattern of American policy in
the Middle East was highlighted
in Mr.. Shepilov's address in Mos
COW. The six-point program, for
mally presented to the ENJOYS of
France, Britain and the United
States before the Shepilov speech.
called for steps which had almost
all been rejected in the past by the
West. Among them were rejection
of attempts to involve Middle East
ern nations in military blocs"
taimed at the Baghdad pact. in
Guiding as members Britain, Iran.
Turkey. Iraq and Pakistan) and
elimination Of foreign military
bases and withdrawal Of foreign
troops from the area" the latter
a slap at existing American air
bases.
Except for the proposal for "solu-
ton Of all disputes by peaceful
MEANS" all the Soviet suggestions
clearly were aimed at present West
ern policy toward the Middle East. /,
Initial reaction to the Kremlins
doctrine" in London. Paris and
Washington quickly dismissed 1t as
merely another propaganda move.
But official British quarters saw in
its timing and content strong EVIL
dence that the Soviet leaders are
seriously concerned that United
States involvement in the Middle
East spells a threat to Communist
plans.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-17

Last week the U. N. General AS
sembly had shunted aside, for the
present at least, the demands of
nations of the Asian African bloc
for sanctions.
Spokesman for moderation, led by
the United States and Britain,
urged successfully that the ques-
ton of sanctions be pigeon holed
until efforts at compromise had
been explored.
Secretary General Dag Ham,
marskjold. although still firmly
insistent that Israel withdraw her
troops from all Egyptian territory.
also cautioned against sanctions.
He warned that the application of
economic, political or military
coercion against the Israelis would
only add new sources of conflict to
the dangerous situation.