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Evening star., 1960-02-08
Son of General Dies
After Bike-Cor Crush

PRINCETON, N. j., Feb.
(AP).-Frank Marty Evans. 6
Princeton University junior anc
son of an Army general, dice
in Princeton Hospital yester-
day from injuries suffered in 9
bicycle-auto collision January
80, his 2lst birthday.
Young Evans was the son Of
Brig. Gen. Thomas B. Evans
who had flown in with Mrs
Evans from Honolulu, where
they are stationed.
The son was riding a bicycle
when he was struck from be-
hind by a car driven by John
Golden, 38. of Penns Neck. He
suffered head injuries.
Evening star., 1960-02-08
Austrian Minister
Coming to U. S.

VIENNA. Austria, Feb. 9
(AP). - Austrian Education
Minister Heinrich Drimmel Is
flying to the United States this
week for the Winter Olympics
and a reunion with a wartime
employer.
He will stop in Kansas City,
KanS.. for a visit with Howard
Woodward.
Mr.. Woodward as an Army
captain commanded a World
War II prisoner Of war camp
for Austrian prisoners. The
two men have kept up a cor
respondence since the war.
Evening star., 1960-02-08
Nixon in Wisconsin,
Meets 6. o. P. Chiefs

MILWAUKEE,. Feb. 8 (AP)
Vice President Nixon, after
an overnight stay in Chicago
comes to Milwaukee today to
meet with Wisconsin Repub-
ilcan leaders and give a speech
tonight.
Mr.. Nixon will address the
Lincoln Day dinner sponsored
by the Wisconsin G. o. P. Or
ganization. More than 1000
party members have reserva-
tions.
Evening star., 1960-02-08

The California situation take.
on increased Importance ir
view of the evident support fol
Senator Johnson of Texas ir
the Southwest and some West
ern States.
Texas partisans who worked
the conference lobby here cred.
tied Senator Johnson with more
than 200 of the 271 Western
votes at the convention on tol
of the 400 they count in the
South.
Evening star., 1960-02-08
Kills Self Beside Bier

NEW YORK, Feb. 8 (AP) -
joseph Tulumello. 70, shot him.
self to death last night in the
funeral parlor where his wife
Domenica, 64, lay in her coffin.
Evening star., 1960-02-08
MIAMI BEACH. Fla, Feb. &

MIAMI BEACH, Fla, Feb. 8
(R).-The intramural wars
that have plagued organized
labor for half a century still
are a long way from being
solved.
That appeared clear today as
AFL-CIO chiefs gathered for
a winter meeting. Labor's role
in this years national politi-
cal campaign and the perennial
problem of interunion rivalry
topped the agenda for the ses-
sion.
Al j. Hayes, president of the
MachiniStS Union, worked out
a plan that would require af-
flliated AFL-CIO unions to sub
NIT any squabble with fellow
unions to binding arbitrations
Or decisions of neutralS.
Influential AFL-CIO COL
leagues, however, have ticketed
the Hayes plan for a side track
at the councils session. They
maintain it is premature and
needs more study and refine
ment.
Divided on Candidates
So far as presidential politics
are concerned the AFL-CIO
chiefs seem divided in support
among three Senators whose
names have figured in specula-
ton for the Democratic Party's
nomination.
The three are Senators Ken
nedy of Massachusetts,, Hum
phrey of Minnesota and Sy-
mington of Missouri. However,
no decision on AFL-CIO sup
port is expected this early in
the political maneuvering.
Evening star., 1960-02-08
HARy
(9MNJIERs

Cunard runs a successful com.
muter line-almost a quarter.
million passengers last yearl
Quite few businessmen travel
Cunard regularly between Gu.
rope and the States. They seem
to enjoy getting the best OF two
exciting worlds-one on either
end. with Cunard's vacation is.
land in between.
Consider: plenty OF time at sea
towork. play. or Just relax. Plenty
OF friendly people, and things to
do. Plenty Of famous Cunard
food to satisfy that sea-air appe.
tite. Always, flawIess British serv.
ice. Some businessmen com.
bIne the transatlantic crossings
with a vacation for their wives
a delightful second honeymoonl
An average Of three weekly sail.
ings the year around =. and 10
per cent reduction on Thrift Sea.
son round-trip tickets. Ask your
travel agent about Cunard's ex.
ira vacation to Europe.
Evening star., 1960-01-24

Atlantic-Arctic route, which was
the shortest and. most dangerous.
At times losses on that run aver
aged over 66 per cent, especially
in wintertime, when the Arctic ice
pack came to within 100 miles of
the North Cape, and fleets of over
300 Nazi planes, ranging from
Norwegian airfields, swooped down
on single convoy.
Radar equipment and other
electronic devices, plus such highly
strategic materials as machine
tools, electric batteries, ETC., went
by the safest-and the longest
route: From West Coast United
States straight south, then east
through the Straits of Magellan,
across the South Atlantic around
the Cape of Good Hope, then due
north towards the Persian Gulf
and Abadan, or some other
Iranian port such as Bandar Sha-
pur or Khorramshar, thence to be
carried northward to the USSR
over the rickety National Iranian
Railway, after the l8,000-mile sea
run.
Another relatively safe run was
over the Eastern Arctic sea route:
From the United States West
Coast northeastward, through the
Bering Straits, then along the
Evening star., 1960-01-24
u N Diplomats Mystery Role Deeper Than Ever

shown a marked inclination to
see duplicity everywhere, especially
on the part of those who disagreed
with his opinions, a readiness to
impute improperly and dishon-
esty to others, on the basis of
strained inferences from facts
which had reasonable and proper
explanations, but which in his
mind were distorted into circun-
stantial evidence of wrong-doing.
and a disinclination to adjust
himself to established practices
or to accept orders with which
he disagreed.
"In the light of the last para
graph above the investigating
committee suggested that consid-
Grafton be given to application, Of
a staff rule which states that a
staff member may be required at
any time to submit a medical
certificate as to his condition or
to undergo examination by a
medical practitioner named by
the Secretary General" Mr.. Bang
Jensen declined and the sugges.
ton was not acted upon.
To Mr.. Panuch, Clifford Forster
of the League for the Rights OF
Man and other of Mr.. Bang
Jensen's defenders, this part OF
the Gross report appeared as an
unwarranted aSperSion on Mr..
Bang -Jensen's mental health, al
though Gross and the U. N. denied
any such intention.
DR. Frederic S. Friendenberg, a
Brooklyn psychiatrist who treated
Mr.. Bang Jensen for a mild de-
preston" over a period of several
months before he died, says it is
utter nonsense to imply he was
mentally unbalanced. He was a
man of the highest intelligence.
He came to me because he was
slightly disturbed over his situa-
tion and wanted to get a better
insight into himself. He responded
to treatment very rapidly. I was
very surprised to hear he had
committed suicide"
Others who knew him felt that
while he may have been detected
at first over his fate. he soon got
over it and seemed fully recon-
ciled to the situation. CARE Off
cials, cognizant of the mental
question, put him through a rig
orous personnel test which he
passed with flying colors. Also.
only a few weeks before he died,
ne took an involved 10. test for
top executives and wound up in
the top 2 per cent.
Some of his friends and de-
tenders. including Mr.. Forster,
who identified the body, Importer
Just Lennin, who knew him over
period of years, and Mr.. Panuch.
have no doubt that he committed
suicide.
Others, like his wife, Mr.. Berle
and Brutus Coste of the League
for the Rights of Man. while hav-
ing no reason to assume that the
police were inaccurate, cannot
fully accept it without knowing
where he spent the missing AZ
hours
And still others. like Msgr. Bella
Varga of the Committee for Free
Hungary. think it is moot point.
What difference does it make
whether he was killed or driven
. to suicide? asks the monsignor.
THE important thing is that here
in this beautiful free country a
man of principle was compelled to
suicide. This is moral assassina-
tion and far more sinister than
physical murder" =,
Evening star., 1960-01-24
A SURVEY OF LEND-LEASE
a SURVEY OF LEN1LEAsE
Trying to Collect Millions Soviets Owe us
BY ALICK de MONTMORENCY
Contributing Writer


Contributing Writer
Three negotiating sessions on
the Lend-Lease debt owed to the
United States by the Soviet Union
have produced nothing more than
the familiar impasse. But this time
the deadlock is not a matter of
price. Soviet Ambassador Mikhail
Menshikov. dealing directly with
Charles E. Bohlen, Special AS
sistant to the Secretary of State
for Soviet Affairs. seeks to link the
Lend-Lease question with general
relaxation Of trade restrictions. In
particular, the Russians want
most favored nation" treatment
in trade with the United States.
The comforting diplomats have
not even begun to bargain on the
amount to be paid in settlement
Of the World War II debt.
And Mr.. Bohlen is trying hard
to convince the Soviet envoy that
Congress alone can relax trade re-
strictions, and that the johnson
Act of 1884 prohibits certain
credits to nations in default on in
debtedness to the United States.
In addition, 1851 act Of Con-
gress. passed during one of the
chilliest phases Of the cold war.
specifically bars most favored
nation" treatment for the Soviet
Union.
When settlement is finally made
the last chapter on one Of history's
most decisive operations will have
been written. 1t was the operation
which caused the seemingly ire
sistible advance Of Hitler's Wehr-
macht to grind to stop and then
to be reversed into an utter
debacle.
Although Lend Lease, which
started In March l941, was orig
inally voted by the United States
Congress for the benefit of Eng
land and her Dominions, the So
Wet Union came to be the second
largest recipient of this American
largesse. 1t got more than $11 bill
lion worth Of materials and serv-
ices out Of a total of $42 billions.
Only England received more.
This aid began to arrive in Rus
sia in September. 194l. At that
time the forces of Marshal Won
Rundstedt, which had gone into
Soviet-occupied Lithuania at the
outset Of the Nazi onslaught in
June, 1941, had also preached the
inner Stain line further south and
were rolling into the Ukraine.
The Cossack and Ukranian pop
ulation was reported welcoming
the Germans as liberators. And,
in fact, Of the 6-million- odd Red
Army troops whom Stain had
ordered into battle against the
invaders, many thousands had al
ready gone over to the Nazis,
according to Swedish war cores
pondents.
An even greater disaster had
Evening star., 1960-01-24

Arctic coast of Siberia to MUIR
mansk or Archangelsk.
On this sea route as we'll as on
others only a small part of the
materials was carried by Soviet
ships - which were largely
manned" by women and 13 and
IA year old boys. Most of the
cargo went aboard American,
British, Norwegian, Dutch, Dam
ish, Greek and other vessels of the
Western Alliance.
Because of the high priority
which shipments to Russia were
given by the United States, the
Soviet Union received in the four
years of its belligerency about all
the materials Stalin's government
requested.
Besides SIS billion worth of
aircraft (bomberS, fighters, trans
port planes. training planes and
parts), the furnitures of war ma
terial included SIT billion worth
of tanks and other army vehicles,
some $1.8 billion worth in ord
nance and miscellaneous military
equipment.
The Soviets also got $4.2 billion
worth of foodStuffs and industrial
commodities. Except for caviar,
food shipped to Russia included
about every item OF the menu,
from York hams and Virginia
Evening star., 1960-01-24

marskjold, would ever know their
names except himself and the
committee.
Some Names Known
The U. N. asserted Mr.. Bang
Jensen never was "the sole Gus
todian of the names Of the 81
witneSses"-some of the names
were already known to committee
members. Interpreters and other
staff personnel who screened and
interviewed them. The U. N.
further points out that Mr.. Bang
Jensen, in his position, never had
authority to make his promise
concerning their identity.
The list, or what Mr.. Bang
Jensen claimed was the list, was
eventually burned in his presence
on the roof of the secretariat
building.
Now. nearly two years after
that dramatic burning, a new
wrinkle has developed in the con-
troversial case. The Senate In
ternal Securities Subcommittee is
interested in finding out whether
Mr.. Bang Jensen became involved
in another mystery.
Certain allegations have come
to our attention which might in
volve the security of this country.
That is why we are investigating"
said Senator Dodd, Democrat Of
Connecticut, the subcommittee
vice chairman. I'VE have some
information concerning defectors
but apparently there was a leak
somewhere and the names got
into the hands Of the wrong
people"
Senator Dodd declined to say
whether one, two or three would
be defectors were involved, as
three separate unconfirmed ver-
sions circulating about the affair
variously attest.
There has been a published re-
Evening star., 1960-01-24
Eost-West Alliance
Price May Be High

America and Britain are willing
to leave the old for the new. They
are in better position to adjust
to security structure which
would not include NATO. Should
new system break down, they
would have hydrogen bombs and
missiles to fall back on; France
and West Germany might not.
Moreover. a new relationship
with Russia would imply recogni-
tion and acceptance by the West
Of the present Soviet empire. in
cluding Communist East Ger
many. This is much easier for
Britain and the United States
than it is for Konrad Adenauer;
indeed. it is virtually impossible
for him.
Frances Reluctance
So France and West Germany
Join in the search for a new re-
lationship with the greatest re-
luctance.
What America and Britain
would like to do, and hope to do,
is to explore the possibilities of
agreement with the Russians while
simultaneously integrating and
strengthening NATO.
But the very first step toward
agreement with the Russians,
as preliminary negotiations de-
veloped last year, would be a Ber-
lin settlement which involved rec
ognition of East Germany. Those
were Mr.. Khrushchev's terms.
This would demoralize West
Germany and quite possibly re-
suit in the overthrow Of Chancel-
lor Adenauer in the 1861 elections,
bringing the more neutralist op-
position to power. 1t would mean
that NATO, if it integrated, would
have to integrate without West
Germany.
The French see this as an elab-
crate Soviet trap-a trap In which
the West would be led just far
enough down the road of detente
to truncate NATO, neutralize West
Germany, and strengthen the So
Wet position in the Eastern zone,
but mot far enough to produce a
real East-West accord.
Britain and America doubt that
this is, in fact, Mr.. Khrushchev's
purpose. But they agreed at Paris
last month to protect themselves
against the possibility. The COL
lective NATO position now is that
there can be a serious approach
to the Russians, but that 1t must
not begin with recognition and ac-
ceptance Of East Germany. 1t
must begin either with unification
OF Germany or with extensive
arms control.
Since unif1cation of Germany
is unlikely in the extreme, and a
Soviet retreat on Berlin improb-
able, this means in effect that
there must be serious talk about
disarmament.
Evening star., 1960-01-24

on various sides, three former
Assistant or Deputy Assistant Sec
retarieS of State-Ernest Gross,
Adolf Berle, jr, and ]. Anthony
Panuch.
Even his death, though Of
ficially written of by police as
a suicide. has raised almost as
many questions as his short, un-
happy life in the U. N. limelight.
Mr.. Bang Jensen was last seen
alive on Monday morning, Novem-
ber %, when he kissed his wife
Helen goodby and headed to
his temporary job at CARE, Inc.
He had $40 in his wallet. A
woman nelghbor gave him a lift
from his home at Lake Success,
on the outskirts of New York City,
to a bus that connects with the
subway. She could not say
whether he had actually boarded
the bus.
Found Shot to Deoth
Three days later, Thanksgiving
morning, Mr.. Bang-Jensen was
found shot to death beside a bride
path in Alley Pond Park, less than
two miles from his home. The
pearl-handled .25-caliber auto
matte that he had bought in 194l
as a protection against Nazi
agents was in his right hand and
a suicide note addressed to his
wife in an inside pocket. Although
never released, the note pur-
portedly begged her forgiveness,
said he was respondent over his
o. N. difficulties and gave funeral
directions. A few feet from the
body police found discharged
cartridge. His wallet had "a in it..
One medical report said he had
been dead "a hours or less. An
other said "a hours or more.
Either way, it left some 48 hours
unaccounted for. Mr.. Bang
Jensen never got to his Office at
CARE. Nor did he bother clean
ing out his desk the previous FRY
day or in any other way indicate
to family and friends that he was
contemplating a drastic step.
Where did he spend Monday,
Tuesday and perhaps part Of
Wednesday? How did he survive
on $6? How long had the body
lain in the woods? Did he, as
his wife and others claimed, have
a mysterious meeting a few
months earlier with someone in
possession of new evidence in his
case? If suicide, what were the
motives?
His closest friends know that in
the first few months after his
firing he was depressed about
many things. About not being
able to find a suitable job. About
the future of his wife and five
children. About the manner in
which the U, N. handled his case.
About finally accepting the SIT 900
severance pay check after first
sending 1t back.
The question of Mr.. Bang
JenSen's behavior during the
period of his work with the COM
mittee was raised in a report
prepared for Mr. Hammarskjold
by an investigating committee
headed by Mr.. Gross, former
Assistant Secretary of State in
the Truman administration.
U. N. Report on Him
A U. N. press release said the
committee found, among other
things, that:
His acts and statements had
Evening star., 1960-01-24

hams to chocolate and to dehy-
drafted soups. .
The only item of Lend-Lease
which the SovietS rejected was an
AuStralian-style soup made with
alfalfa.
The only item which the United
States hesitated to deliver in ex-
actly required quantity was barbed
wire. Army experts had informed
President Roosevelt's administra-
ton that no army in the world
could possibly use that much
barbed wire. and the suspicion
was that much of it was really
destined for Stains new slave
labor camps where political pris-
oners and "unreliables" were be-
ing relocated far away from the
front line.
The United States Government
is not claiming any payment for
that war material which has been
used to fight the Axis, nor for the
food, clothes and other consumer.
items which have gone to sustain
Russian troops.
The Equipment Involved
But the United States is at
tempting to collect on industrial
equipment and on other peace
time equipment which had been
delivered to the USSR to help
replace the material lost during
the German advance into the
Soviet Union. ..
This includes such items as a
brand-new synthetic rubber tire
factory. It also included an oil
refinery, locomotives, rails, bat
teries, hydroelectric power station
machinery and $1.2 billion worth
of ships, many of which are still
plying the seven seas carrying
Soviet exports and imports.
There is altogether some $2.6
billion worth of such industrial
and other commercial equipment.
But the United States is trying to
collect only a fraction of that
sum on 1t all.
The previous two conferences in
which the United States and the
US.S.R. discussed the settlement
on this part of the Lend-Lease
came to naught, in spite of the
fact that the United States scaled
down its claim first to $1.3 billion
and then to $500 million.
1t is said that the Soviet argu-
mentS - poverty - were strongly
reminiscent of the essay on "A
Poor Family by a young Park
Avenue resident where everybody
was poor. Mother was poor. Father
was poor. The cook was poor.
The butler was very poor. The
chauffeur was poor, :" An6 the
most the U.S.SR. would offer in
settlement was $500 million
Today. however, the Soviets'
broad economic progress, loudly
advertised by Mr.. Khrushchev.
himself, has killed the poverty
argument.
Evening star., 1960-01-24

police. posed as a refugee in Vi
emma and managed to shoot pic
lures from a rooftop as the wit
nesses entered the building. The
pictures later appeared in a Buda-
pest Communist newspaper and
the families of all five were de-
ported.
When the committee returned
to New York in mid-April, 1857,
Mr.. Bang -Jensen's claims of sabo-
tage in preparation of the report
increased. Ultimately they got
him into trouble with fellow Dane
Alsing Andersen, the committee
chairman, and Australian Am
bassador Keith Shann, the official
rapporteur in charge of drafting
the report. There followed an in
cident in the delegates lounge in
which Mr.. Bang g-Jensen seized Mr..
Shann by the arm and tried to
get him to listen to his accusa-
tions. A sheaf of papers tumbled
to the floor in the embarrassing
episode, and Mr.. Shann COM
planned to Mr.. Hammarskjold.
In October, 1857, the question of
the list first came up. For more
than six months Mr.. Bang-Jensen
had been hiding it. No one had
bothered to ask for it. No one, ac-
cording to the U. N, even knew
he had it until an inquiry came
from the United States mission
about a deportation case involving
a Hungarian who claimed he had
testified before the committee.
Fearful that the list might fall
into Soviet hands and suspicious
of who actually wanted it, Mr..
Bang Jensen refused to give it up.
Through Andrew Cordier. an
American who is Mr.. Hammar-
skjold's executive assistant, the
U. N. insisted it was perfectly
capable of keeping top-secret
documents and never had a leak
in it's entire history.
Cite Soviet Worker
Mr.. Bang-Jensen and the Inter-
national League for the Rights OF
Man, which came to his defense,
argued that this was nonsense as
long as the Russians worked at
the U. N. in high positions. They
pointed to the case Of U. N. en-
ploye from Ceylon who. was fired
for passing confidential informa-
ton to the Russians at the very
time the Hungarian Committee
was at work. The U. NJ, however,
says this case did not involve con-
fidential information in the Gus
tody of the secretary general.
Mr.. Bang-Jensen asserted two
months later he was escorted of
the U. N. premises by uniformed
guards, told he had been sus-
pended, and instructed to discuss
the case with no one, not even
the members of the Danish dele
CATION who were to dine at his
home the following night.
The U. N. now admits that the
method by which his suspension
was carried out was personnel
blunder." Mr.. Bang-Jensen said
1t was done that way to keep him
from getting at the documents
that would prove an attempt had
been made to sabotage the re-
port, something which the U. N,
denies.
From that time on the case
became a cause celebre involving
some Of the top people at the
U. N. including Mr.. Hammar-
skiold, Mr.. Cordier and Undersec-
retary Ralph Bunche and arrayed