THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 11. 1954
Russia Offers
50-Year Pact
To 32 Nations
BERLIN, Feb. 10 (JP) —Soviet Russia offered Europe tonight the
bait of a 50-year collective security pact in return for expelling
American forces from the continent and shattering the Western al
ly turned it down. .
leslav M, Molotov proposed to the
liance. Britain and France promp
Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacl
Berlin Big Four conference the
sponsoring of an all-Europe mili
tary loc of 32 nations with the
United States excluded.
French Foreign Minister Geor
ges Bidault condemned the Rus
sian scheme for “aiming not only'
to neutralize Germany but all
Western Europe.”
British Foreign Secretary An
thony Eden declared: “This pro
posal appears in essence designed
to break up NATO and keep the
United States and its forces out
of Europe," NATO is the founda
tion of British policy. We- main
tain that NATO threatens no one
and we cannot give it up.”
U.S.' Secretary of State John F.
Dulles attacked Russian good
faith and warned that the Krem
lin’s paper promises had not saved
free nations in recent history from
Soviet absorption.
“So far as the United States is
concerned, we are determined that
we will not be absorbed,” Dulles
said,
Molotov proposed a Europe
united under the Kremlin’s dom
ination with a 32-nation mutual
assistance and non-aggression
treaty as its foundation.
The pact would outlaw the 14-
nation North Atlantic Treaty Or
ganization headed by the United
States, kill the European army
project which would include West
German troops, and “neutralize”
Germany.
Unperturbed by the Western re
buff. Molotov insisted the confer
ence go on talking about his Eu
ropean security plan. It was a bit
ter-end try to split Allied unity
or at least hold the conference in
a morass of argument.
Senate Group
Calls for Letup
On Probes
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10(£>)
A Senate foreign relations sub
committee called today for a three
or four year letup in congressional
investigations and administrative
shakeups in the U.S, information
propaganda program.
Chairman Burt Hickenlooper
(R-Iowa) filed the report with the
Senate as the Senate investiga
tions subcommittee headed by
Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis)
was shaping plans for a new study
of the program.
Hickenlooper’s subcomm ill e e
turned back to the Senate $21,-
748 left oyer from the $75,000
originally provided for its study,
and declared an extension of its
own investigation of the program
“would not be warranted” now.
“What is needed most during
the next three or four years is a
period of stability and continuity
in the direction of the informa
tion program in which the policies
now being developed can be ap
plied and tested,” the subcommit
tee report said. “The experience
thus gained should lead to further
adjustments and improvements.”
The recommendation was in
line with advice given to Congress
Feb. 3 by a four-man advisory
commission which urged that the
information program “be spared
further special investigation by
congressional committees” at least
until it has “an opportunity to
prove itself.”.
State Seeks Bids
To Smother Fire
HARRISBURG, Feb. 10 (IP)—
The State Mines Department to
day sought bids on a project to
smother an underground fire
which has been burning for 14
years in an abandoned mine un
der Carbondale.
Acting on' a report made last
week by a committee appointed to
investigate the fire. Mine Secre
tary W. J, Clements said the fire
will be fought through a drilling
and flushing method.
Anti-Red Wins
Italian Faction
ROME, Feb. 10 (/P) —Mario Scel
ba. 52. a tough anti-Cornmunist
Sicilian, gave Italy her fourth
government in six uneasy months
tonight. But his chances of re
maining in office in crucial days
ahead with only a 16-vote major
ity at best were regarded as slim.
Scelba took into his mostly
Christian Democrat Cabinet four
Social Democrats, including the
peppery Giuseppe Saragat, and
three Liberals. The small Repub
lican party pledged its ive votes
but would not come into the Cab
inet, in which Scelba is both pre
mier and interior minister.
Scelba’s first hurdle will be on
a vote of confidence in the cham
ber. No date has ben set but it
may come late next week.
Many observers said that even
if Scelba survives the first test,
he would almost certainly fall on
any major issue such as ratifica
tion of the European defense pact
or action on Italy’s rising labor
and economic problems.
Even, as the premier and his
Cabinet were taking the oath of
office from President Luigi Ein
audi, Italy’s angered Communists
and fellow-traveling Socialists
were reported planning nation
wide demonstrations of orotest.
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Ike Warns
Of Extreme
Partisanship
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 ( JP)—
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
said today the times are too ser
ious for extreme partisanship and
he will counsel administration
officials to avoid it in talking
about the Democrats.
Eisenhower told a news confer
ence he would expect Leonard W.
Hall, chairman of the Republican
National Committee, to follow
such advice.
By adopting a more moderate,
conciliatory approach than some
of his fellow Republicans have
been taking, the President ap
peared to frown on recent political
oratory by GOP spokesmen on the
national committee, in Congress,
and on the White House staff
itself.
Eisenhower said he has doubts
that any great partisanship by
members of the executive'.depart
ment is really appropriate in this
day and time. And he said he
would consider it completely un
true, as well as very unwise even
£rom a -partisan political point of
view, to suggest that all Demo
crats are tinged with treason,
A number of Senate Democrats
promptly applauded the Eisen
hower stand. Democratic Leader
Lyndon B. Johnson, who protested
yesterday against “irresponsible
statements by high administration
officials,” commented:
“The President’s attitude is one
of a gentleman and an American,
Unfortunately some of his advis
ers’ remarks put him in a position
where he had to publicly rebuke
them.”
This apparently was a refer
ence to Presidential Assistant
Sherman' Adams and to Eisen
hower’s press secretary,"James C.
Hagerty.
Eisenhower also announced the
administration plans a $225 mil
lion increase in the highway con
struction fund, with the states
matching the money.
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IN THE TUB
Senate Votes
For Coffee Prices
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (/P) —Limited government control over
speculation and future trading in coffee was voted by the Senate
today in an effort to curb U.S. prices.
But even in Brazil, the world’s largest coffee producer, prices
have increased sharply and coffee drinkers are “suffering as much
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Report of Riots
In Soviet Zone
BERLIN, Feb. 10 (AP) — I The U.S.
High Commission denied today
some published reports of violence
in the Soviet zone, incited by the
German unity deadlopk in the
Big Four foreign ministers meet
ing.
Exaggerated accounts of unrest
were contradicted by an Ameri
can official, speaking for the
high commission. He talked to
reporters in the press headquar
ters adjacent to the Allied Con
trol Authority building where the
Big Four are meeting.
The official said:
1. There have been no riots.
2. There have been no Russian
army troop movements to quell
disturbances.
3. There are no reports of any
kind in security files of such inci
dents. •
The spokesman confirmed the
scope of the East German unrest
as originally reported last Friday
night. In this account. Allied and
German sources said Communist
agitators aroused resentment in
some industrial plants by staging
rallies for the Russian plan to
unify Germany under Communist
domination.
Workers shouted, whistled and
stamped disapproval and many
demanded free elections as the
Western foreign ministers had
proposed. It was estimated 500
were arrested over scattered areas
last week in a rapid secret police'
crackdown. *
Curb
as we are,” U. S. Ambassador
James S. Kemper reported. Kem
per returned from Brazil for State
Department consultations.
After conferring with President
Eisenhower, Kemper said that
Brazilians . are more upset over
the high price of coffee than are
American housewives, whose com
plaints about sl-a-pound coffee
led to the Senate action today.
Without debate, the Senate passed
by voice vote a bill to put coffee
trading under supervision of the
Agriculture Department’s Com
modity Exchange Authority. The
bill adds coffee to 20 other com
modities, including corn, wheat,
cotton, fats and oils, which now
are under CEA regulation.
The action, still subject to
House approval, would not - di
rectly limit changes in coffee pri
ces. It would, however, “provide
for regulation of coffee futures
trading to prevent such undesir
able practices as price manipula
tions and corners,” a Senate com
mittee reported.
The bill would require registra
tion of the exchange, commission
merchants and floor brokers who
handle the trading.
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