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i Is TTIHIIE WCDISIL TIMS WEE IS- FT" oviets Frightened by German!. RearmaiiirientPmspecf Ike Faces Dissent On Foreign Policy By J. M. ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst i THEY thought? when Sen. Knowland (R-Calif) arose that he was going to talk about the McCarthy case, which is the occasion, of the present session. - But the Republican floor leader,, the man responsible for putting through administration legislative proposals, took off on foreign policy " It was just before Wednes day's conference with leaders of both parties at whjch President5 Eisenhower sought to insure that the more or les3 genera J agree ment which has existed on for eign policy would not be en--dangered. by "political! moves i in the forthcom ing Democrat ically - con trolled Con gress. Knowland s a id he' wanted to jet his views in 1 the record be fore the coll-: f erence, and by doing so virtually I assured a new : 1 ofcft foreign policy debate. The Dem ocrats and some Republicans, es pecially Knowland's fellow Asia firsters, were sureotake advan tage of the opportunity. ; f More Hearings j Fellow'members of the For eign Relations Committee, how ever they might prdfess to fail to understand just what Know land was driving at, Were never theless aware of the circum - stances. ; t i j j KnoWiand said he thought Congress should hold hearings for State and Defense Depart ment officials who could tell it where the present policy was , going. ' j i v, ; ! : If it is merely allowing-the Russians to approach a period when there will be a stalemate n atomic strength, which would produce a period of "coexist ence," then it is dangerous, said Knowland. f t i Perhaps, he amplified, it is, time to tell the Kremlin, with regard ".o the previously ! announced massive retaliation policy, that heUnited States considers "nib bling aggression" in the same jght, as armed aggression,' and vill not stand idly by while it . Lakes place. I. M Observers noted the Know 'and speech followed adminis- ration refusal to take a more - elligerent stand regarding the defense of the islands between 7ormosa and the Red?held Chi- "nese mainland. j China Warned Secretary Dulles moved quick- 'y to d?ny the Senator's lmplica .ion that there exists an emer "tency of some sort in interna ional affairs which makes a gen :ral reappraisal of policy appro mate. He also "moved to mollify he senator with the firmest . tatement yet that if the Reds ttempted an attack on Formosa hey would have to meet Amer lean resistance firsts '1-1 Observers were wondering:; 1. Is Kaowland's current mergency kin to the situation ast summer when he said he vould resign to fight the United Nations if it accepted Red China ato membership, ( an " event hich loomed highly . improb ble at the time and later turned ut to be just that. 2. Has he opened .the door to Olitical opposition to his own arty's administration in the one .:eld where it was believed to - J AFTER ALL, THE f J t . r. ...... . . have J the best chance of non partisan action by Congress? 3. Will it lead to a new and more : bitter conflict between those who are satisfied with the administration's efforts to main tain a balance between military and economic security and those who believe the "leveling off" of military preparedness has been carried beyond the safety zone? This was something which was bound to come up again anyway with the consideration of new military, appropriations.- The spectacle of the Republi can majority leader heading ,a movement even partially oppos ing the administration on broad general policy would be tough for the White House to take in the face of Democratic majori ties in Congress, despite its statement Tuesday that ! the President always thought indi vidual senators were entitled to their ' own views. . . ., Business Outlook Brighter Some 2,000 U.S. - businessmen met at New York's Waldorf Astoria Hotel ,this week for a three-day round of conferences, lectures and discussions on the outlook for foreign trade. They came away with the conviction that things should be getting better soon. i h U.S. exporters facing tough foreign competition saw a ray of hope in a new loan policy undertaken , by , the Export Import Bank. Hawthorne Arey, director of the big, government- backed lendmg agency. " x plained it to the . convention this way The bank, he said, has decided to make credit available to U.S. exporters to help . finance the sale of certain U.S. goods abroad. Aim of the new policy, he explained, is to meet "the recent shift in conditions of in ternational trade from a 'sellers' to a 'buyers market" Armed with this government credit, U.S. exporters can offer attractive easy-payment terms to their overseas customers something that foreign export ers have been doing for some time. , . j j i . " : I Sidelights j It ' was family day for the Tom Thames at the Giddings, Tex, hospital the other day. Thomas, was taken to the hos pital after an accident on a car pentry job. Mrs. Thames fell at their home and broke her right arm: Neither knew of the oth er's accident until they met go ing into the hospital. Young John Montacute, 10, showed the ladies how to do it in Chippenham, England. He won a weekend ; cake-baking contest over 17 women. His mother finished third. - Stuck was the word for the burelars who removed a steel safe from the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad Station at Luce dale, Miss. All it contained was a gallon of glue. ' ELECTION'S OVER .: ; . MOHAMED AU Pakistan In WatkinftM Oct. 14-31. tor H faHcring itwwwy f hh yang ana herd-prtMa ctvntry. Dates Thursday, Nor. 25 Thanksgiving Day. ! , Friday, Nor. 26 Execution of Wilbert Cof fin in Montreal, Canada, for slaying a Pennsylvania hunter. I Sunday, Not. 2t Opening of General As sembly, National Council of Churches of Christ, at Bos ton. National Prosperity Week starts.' - MEDICINE: A Bright Beacon A technique" which may be a great breakthrough in the fight against cancer was described by a medical team at the con vention of the American College of Surgeons at Atlantic City this week. . i It involves a way In which human cancers can be made to shine with a bright red light for easy detection. It could lead to i a pretty sure way of telling i whether a person has cancer, whether it has spread in his body, where all the cancer is lo cated.' It might also create a new way of carrying radioactive atoms to cancers to destroy them. As described by Drs. D. S. Rasmussen-Taxdal, Grant , E. Ward and Frank H. J. Figge, the technique works this way: The chemical porphyrin, ob tained from human blood, is in jected into a person's veins. It seeks - out cancer tissue and lodges there. Then when body tissues are examined under ul traviolet or invisible black light, the porphyrin shines with a red light as-bright as a woman s lip stick. U , ; There is hope that the por phyrin can be combined with ! Pacific Enter Torpedo Boats ! A new element appeared in the warfare between Nationalist Chinese and their Communist foes on the mainland this week when four Red torpedo boats swiftly attacked and sent to the bottom a Nationalist destroyer escort. News, of the sinking of the Taiping came as a jolt to Chiang Kai-shek s Nationalists. The first use of powerfully-armed naval craft by the Communists was re garded in Taipeh as introducing a new and dangerous element into the fight. Up to now it had been confined to artillery duels between Nationalist Quemoy and the Reds' island of Amoy, and sporadic air raids. The attack took place while the Taiping was convoying motorized junk from the Tachen Islands, an , outpost 215 miles north of Formosa and 30 miles off the coast, to nearby Tushan Island. Although the phospor escent wake of the first of four torpedos was the first signal of danger,1 Nationalist officials said they knew the Communists had such units In operation. The vessel sunk was the for mer U.S.S. Decker, transferred to the Nationalists in 1946. Twenty-eight of her 180-man crew Were lost. '? ', J 1 Nationalist reaction was strone. The official Central Dally News described the attack as "another Communist outrage instigated by the Russians. ... It is only a prelude to an offensive against Formosa. i Acting Foreign Minister Sen; Chang -huan said the sinking j served as a stark warning to those who persist in believing! that the Chinese Reds want ; peace and do not intend to in-' fade Formosa. 1 Eisenhower's Visitors and the Boxscore KONRAD ADENAUER Germany In WatkinatM Oct. S744v. 2. Rc)vW: AHriK th U.S. would back (toman ttvwvignty omI rtanna aiant. GOP Has Trouble Ahead Out of the angry speeches echoing across the floor of the Senate this week on the Mc Carthy censure case one fact became plain: Senate Repub lican leaders had a political bear by the tail with little chance of escaping a mauling after they let go. And the bear whose tail they tugged had quite a bit of fight left in him Here are the factors which committed the Republican lead- Discovery iodine so that it would show up under X-rays. That would mean a .person could have the injec tion, then be X-rayed or fluoro- scoped to see if he has cancer, ana wnere it is. The porphyrin-iodine nresum- ably would go any places where the cancer had spread in the body and reveal those areas for removal. The spreading action ox cancer is one reason -why many people, die of the disease. Surgeons remove the original cancer, but its seed already have spread, take root and grow again. Another possibility is that radioactive atoms could be at' tached to porphyrin and be car ried to the sites of cancer to root them out with lethal radia tion. ' Porphyrin is one chemical part of hemoglobin which contains iron and carries oxygen in the blood. It long has been, known the element has an affinity for cancer cells. But for 40 years it was thought that porphyrin by itself was poisonous. This idea was based upon the experience o' one scientist who took a fair ly heavy dose, then swelled up and turned red for months. According to Dr. Rasmussen- Taxdal who spoke for the team from Johns Hopkins University fand the University of Maryland headed by Dr. Figge the reason was simply that this scientist happened to be allergic to por phyrin. Apparently only about three persons, out of a hundred have the allergy. A skin test can detect sensitivity. AIR: Frontier A New Era r ; Some of the -ancient isolation of the lonely and . frigid arctic slipped away this week as com merce conquered a new frontier. Two passenger airliners, one from Los Angeles and the other from " Copenhagen. Denmark. completed the first scheduled commercial airline ; flight over the Arctic Circle the historic inaugural of regular twice week ly air. service direct between California and Northern Europe. Loaded with dignitaries and newsmen; the Scandinavian Air- NA 4$ . I f V " -1 SHIGERU yOSHIDA Japan In Washington Nov. 1-1 3. ' j Rxeivtd: Aywwiiit far Jaaanata pwrchata of 97 milljn dutlart in Mirplat food; aaymant far which will b mad in Japan. i s Censure ership to trouble: 1. Some GOP leaders see in the junior senator from Wiscon sin a vigorous exponent of say ing what he thinks about; any one who crosses up what he conceives to be his mission of ferreting Communists out of government This brashnesa has an appeal to many voters the strength of the current demon strations in favor of McCarthy prove this appeal is present 2. Other respected' members of the party display a quiet but unshakeable : conviction i that what they see as actions tending to bring discredit oh the Senate must result in chastisement 3. In the middle .between these two Republican poles were sena tors who said privately they think McCarthy went to; ex tremes at times but who appear to believe only rough and ready methods are effective in dealing with the Communis ts-in-govern- . , 1 ATOMIC: Some Headway Inslncerity Belied j V ' Delegates to the j United ' Na tions heard an unprecedented offer this week which could break the shroud of immobility which has draped, all oast U.N. efforts on atomic energy: Chief Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. of the United States dramat ically announced this country would make available ' 220 pounds of fissionable material for atomic reactors; around the world. ' Momentous The Lodge speech was the big- gest step forward in debate of the U.N.'s 60-nation Political Committee since President Ei senhower first copceivedj his atoms-for-peace plan. Delegates viewed the offer, Which would virtually double the number of reactors this side lot the Iron Curtain, as a momentous step toward placing atomic discover ies at the service of man. i Britain promptly followed the U.S. lead and announced it had earmarked 44 pounds of fission able material for the program, The concrete offer from the West gave new headway to the resolution sponsored by I the Conquered lines System's Royal Viking completed its eastward flight of 5,800 miles in just under 24 hours. Because of the prevailing westerly winds, the eastbound flight , took three hours longer, Stops are made only at Winni peg in Manitoba, ; 1,634 miles from the terminal point in the United States, and at Bluie West 8, an airfield on the Danish island of Greenland 1,984 miles from Winnipeg. Bluie West 8 is 2.162 miles from Copenhagen. The key to the new route is the airbase at Greenland, i also the station of a U.S. Air Force group. Without this field or another in the same locality, the flights would be impossible until commercial aircraft .attain greater ranges than they inow have From a commercial airline standpoint, the strange sounding Bluie West 8 may be as impor tant in opening the arctic as the Suez and Panama canals were from global shipping., ; j The polar connection estab lished the US. West Coast's first direct link with Europe (The route is 600 miles shorter than the usual flying path via New York and saves passengers the necessity of a plane change in New York, which SAS officials estimate requires a tninimum of seven hours. Each plane on the I" j i - " . , i L".jithe man they naa hailed as a 1 1 L !' 1 1 L Will .J At IblMri iris'.. a. . i nti n . I . . r"c " th"-" 1 . . , PIERRE MENDES-FRANCE r , France j In Washington Nov. 17-30, aftot visit to Canada. ' Ta Roiva:TTt i ment issue. Political prognosticators i pre dicted these camps would cause a split vote emphasizing a measure of the disunity which appeared in the Republican party during the election and which might well carry over into the 1956 presidential campaign.. Many of these experts also felt McCarthy was convinced j cen sure would give him additional political strength. j Barring a .successful recall movement, McCarthy will not face the voters of Wisconsin again until 1958. There are no reliable signs that his support has diminished materially. Possibly the greatest proof of the unavoidable harm staring the Republican party in the face was the action, of Democratic members of the Senate. They largely sat out the fight, figuring they had nothing to lose what ever the outcome. United States and six other na tions which would set up an in ternational atomic agency along the lines of ad autonomous spe cialized U.N. organization. The Russians have sarcastically chal lenged the good faith of the West and were dickering for amendments to the resolution which would retain for them a veto power and give Red China a voice in the negotiations. The West already has made it clear it will accept no such conditions! In a terse aside to Russia's tTrdubleis Andrei Vishinsky who j had jtrious actors and senior member charged the United States had of the famed triumvirate com "narrowed down? the scope of 'posed of himself, his sister Ethel Eisenhower's original plan Lodge expressed hepe that the U.S. offer would "once and for all remove from the mind of all any confusion as to how specific the United States atoms-for-peace proposition really is." Egypt i Noguib Descends A man Egyptians acclaimed as th(ir1 hero two short years agw while joyously dumping King Farouk' from the throne of Egypt found his end of the see saw back on ; the ground , this week. ! Maj. Gen. Mohamed Naguib was forced out as Egypt's PresiJ aeni oy me ruling military junta, which charged him with cooperating .' with Communists 'and the fanatic Moslem Brother hood to overthrow Premier G&mal Abdel Nasser. Nasser, riding high on a .wave of popu larity since eight' shots from an assassin's gun missed him last month, took over undisputed power by adding the title -of acting president to his duties as Premier. 1 l . . - - i ' , Second Try j Nasser generally is credited with masterminding the blood less coup against Farouk, but Naguib managed to make him sell the public symbol of the new regime. Nasser went to work i inside the Revolutionary Ccuncil and last February Na guib was forced out the first time. That one didn't stick, how ever, because of the tremendous strength of Naguib's public f ol lowing. He soon was restored as President But trouble started again in March and on April 15 Naguib once more stepped out of active control, becoming a mere figurehead. His position grew progressively weaker after that and his popular following also gradually shifted to Nasser, j (The Egyptians displayed no outward show of emotion when savior was escorted as a prison jer to a home eight miles outside Threats Show the Red s Desperation By WILLIAM I. RYAN I Associated Press Foreign A'cici .4mifYf REAL onenace lies behind the threats issued by the Soviet Union ( in its recent pronouncements. Ther may be a grea deal more than bluster behind Moscow , Radio's warning of measures to counter the rearmament : of Western Germany. More and more these days, the peaceful, soothing noises from Moscow are being counter-r ' balanced by belligerent threats perspective and to keep in mind which seem to be a mark of j the over-all peril which can lie desperation with regard to the 'behind the ; Soviet curtain ol,: situation in Western Europe. ! peaceful co-existence. & . The .prospective rearmament New Blast 1 jLfll ri Following up the latest Soviet dots. This is : not because Moscow fears attack from the - West so much as that it feafs the Russian posi tion in" all E a s i e r,n Europe will be threatened. As t r o n g We-tiGer- manyfTtnen- .1 ' Ai i La at a3i Ryan - ou,i"."u;u "f rc! armament, and all but openly f Eastern zone, and thus it also j r r . . , ,z T , j" .V 1 . " iannounced it would do its besl Europe. -I . German War? , Therefore, it is not too far fetched to imagine the time, possibly within a few years, when a Soviet-sponsored "liber ation war might be launched from East Germany against the West Germans. The Soviet Union, as usual, would remain in the background and the war using former Nazi general of would be pictured as a. sponta-; fleers in their zone while they i neous internal German affair. . shook an accusing finger at the 9 . That seems to be the essence j West as guilty of doing the same of the threats now being issued thing. Already Field Marshal by Moscow. It underscores; for example, the importance of Sen. Knowland's appeal to the United States to get world events; into J Qiiote j French Premier Mendes France: "The reform of France is not the work of a day, but of a generation. If necessary, the ax mustxbe used i every place that sources of waste,, unprofit able expense and abuse and tolerance contrary to the public interest exist" In-Short. Died: Lionel Barrymore, long !one of the country's most illus and brother John, at Valley Hos pital in-Hollywood. He was 76. ; Killed: 16 miners after fire and explosions at the No. 9 mine of the i Jamison Coal -Co. in Farmington, W. Va. , Recommended: An order "pro hibiting the continuance" of racial segregation on interstate passenger trains, by Interstate Commerce Commission Exam iner Howard Hosmer. Freed: Noel and Herta Field, imprisoned by Communist Hun gary on spy charges since 1949. Reported: Brig. Gen. Charles A. Lindbergh, for temporary ac tive duty in the Air Force. - Formed: An organization which aims at collecting 10 million sig natures in support of Sen. Mc Carthy f (R-Wis). Headquarters were set up in the Hotel Roose velt at New York. UNANIMOUS BELIEF THAT i ... :;! -:..-!-.- L??0."' lence a diolomatic blow which.; incidentally, was well tele graphed in. advance the Soviel Union issued a new blast via Moscow Radio. If the Western Powers try to carry out the Paris agreement on rearming Germans, the U.S.S.R. and it allies "will examine further necessary measures tc ensure their own defense and security," said Moscow Radio. 11 added that Moscow could not reconcile itself to West German l aL is axiu , uvuuuu kxcciucuu by Germany and France. What did Moscow mean by this? . Possibly, the Russian meant they r would consider themselves forced into openly arming the Eastern Germans to the teeth and perhaps f astei than the Western zones could be rearmed. The Russians have had no compunctions whatever about Von Paulus, defeated by the Russians at Stalingrad, occupiei the role of military viceroy in East Germany for the Kremlin. Perhaps the Russians also meant -they would step up the arms ment of all their European satel . lites. Danger of War They apparently wanted . to - bring it home clearly to the people of Western Europe that there is a real danger of war on the continent stemming from the rearming of the Germans. The Russians blocked a Ger man peace treaty because they ' didn't want to give up 'their foothold in Eastern Germany. Evidently they will not now set-' tie for anything less than the J complete neutralization, of Ger many and the creation ' of a power vacuum in Europe. That . means withdrawal of all occu pation troops with the United States withdrawing, 4,000 miles 1 while the - Russians remain on Germany's eastern borders. ; Germany's future is so impor- ' tant to the Russians that it can make politics inside the Soviet : Union. The Kremlin is 'not out of the woods by a long shot so far as the political impact of -Germany is concerned. Thus, the Kremlin rulers seem nore than a little nervous. ( Such nervousness can lead to ' another human catastrophe. It may not be In the immediate fu ture, but the seeds of a fright ful harvest are there. The Soviet threats implicit in f their note and in the blast by Moscow radio during the week can well give Westerners good cause to wonder about the pro- -fessed Soviet aim of "peaceful co-existence for a long time The question is: what kind of i 4peace and just how long? IT'LL BEAR WATCHING I (AU Riohu Rurcd,AJ Nrwfatvrt) of Cairo. : ! . 1 1 1 ' .7 - w
