FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 26. 1954
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 25 (./P)- 7 President Dwight D. Eisenhower announced today the United States
will grant military aid to Pakistan, a move which Prime Minister Nehru of India has said his govern
ment would consider an unfriendly act.
Before making the decision public, the President sent Nehru a letter containing assurances that
"this step. does not in any way affect the friendship we feel for India."
Folish
Consulates
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 25 (EP)—
The' State Department today
slammed the door on the last re
maining Iron Curtain diplomatic
posts in this country outside of
Washington..
The action came in a note from
Secretary Dulles to Josef Winie
wicz, the Polish ambassador, in
structing him to see to it that
Polish consulates general in New
York, Chicago, and Detroit are
closed as soon as possible.
These offices, Dulles said, "serve
no useful purposes in the conduct
of relations • between the United
States and Poland at the present
time."
• Sen. Homer Ferguson (R-Mich.)
promptly applauded the move in
a Senate speech. He said he could
vouch for the fact that the Polish
consulate in Detroit has serve.d
"no useful purpose."
Rep. Robert R. Chirperfield (R-
Ill.), chairman of the House For
eign Affairs Committee, told the
House'he, too, approved the move.
"Apparently," Chirperfield said,
"these consulates have been used
as outlets for Communist propa
ganda and do not serve any use
ful purpose as far as our interest
is concerned."
Rep. Thaddeus Machrowicz (D-
Mich.) said he was "very happy
over the outcome" of what he de
scribed as his efforts to get the
consulates closed.
The three . Polish consulates,
which employ about 22 Polish na
tionals, have been in operation
for a generation. The New York
office, first to gain recognition,
was opened' in 1919.
Part of Bricker Bill
Rejected by- Senate
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25 (JP
The Senate voted 50-42 today to
reject the heart of the controver
sial Bricker amendment to curb
the president's t r e at y- making
powers.
It also defeated, 74-18, a motion
of Sen. Wayne Morse (Ind.-Ore.)
to send the whole burning issue
back to the Judiciary Committee
to further study.
The rejected section would have
changed the Constitution to pro
vide that no treaty or internation-
Manila President
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•
MANILA, Friday, Feb. 26 (/P)—
President Ramon Magsaysay's ap
pointment of Carlos P. Romulo as
his personal envoy to the United
States toda, plunged the Presi
dent into hot water within his
own Nacionalista party.
A behind-the-scenes tussle is
under way between men who
served in the. Philippines govern
ment during the Japanese occupa
tion and Romulo, former UN Gen
eral Assembly president. Romulo
went with other government men
into exile during the war.
The special post for Romulo,
also a former ambassador to Wash
ington, is opposed by powerful
influences with the Nacionalista
party. They are led by Sen. Clare
M. Recto who has strong connec
tions with the Foreign Office.
.The U,S. Bureau of Indian Af
fairs has contracts with 30 county
health departments to provide
public health service to Indians.
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Eisenhower said in a separate
statement he was complying with
Pakistan's request for military as
sistance because this country
wants to help strengthen the de
fenses of free nations in the Mid
dle East.
He added that the American
government "welcomed" the an
nouncement by Pakistan and Tur
key on Feb. 19 that they were
studying methods of closer collab
oration in the interests of peace
and security.
Turkish-Pakistani collaboration
is understood to be regarded in
official quarters here as a start
toward building a common de
fensive wall along Russia's south
ern flank. It is hoped that even
tually Iran. Saudi Arabia, Iraq
and perhaps even India will join
in the effort.
India, quarreling with Pakistan
over the Kashmir territory and
aspiring to leadership of a neu
tral bloc in Asia. looks askance
at any, plan to strengthen Pakis
tan's military potential.
Nehru has been mobilizing In
dian public opinion against any
American-Pakistan military tie
up on the ground it would upset
peace in Asia.
House Committee
Proposes Cuts
WASHINGTON - , Feb. 25 (p)—
The House • Appropriations Com
mittee today recommended a 12 1 / 2
per cent cut in the combined bud
gets of the State, Justice and
Commerce Departments and the
"Voice of America."
Moneywise, the committee said,
those agencies should get along on
$1,147,638,000 instead of the $l,-
313,920,960 recommended by Pres
ident Eisenhower for the 1955 fis
cal year which starts next July 1,
Most of the $166,232,960 cut
would.be borne by the Commerce
Department, Ng slashes being in
appropriations for the federal aid
highway, system and for payment
of air mail subsidies.
al agreement could become effec
tive as domestic law without con
gressional legislation.
Before the vote, Sen. John W.
Bricker (R-Ohio) declared that
action on this section "will justly
be interpreted as a vote for or
against the substance of my origi
nal amendment."
He said if anything else were
written into the Constitution the
whole question would remain an
issue in politics for many years
to come.
Actually the section was a mod
ification of Bricker's original
clause, which was knocked out
of the proposed amendment in a
complicated series of votes engi
neered by the GOP leadrship in
the Senate last week,
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Knowland
Hits Policy
On Seniority
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25 (2?)—
Sen. William F. Knowland (R-
Calif); taking an indirect swipe
at Sen. William Langer (R-ND),
called today for an end to the
practice of giving committee
chairmanships automatically to
senators with the greatest seni
ority.
Knowland, the Republican floor
leader of the Senate, told report
ers committee chairmen should
"give a little more general sym
pathy to the views of the majority
party" than some chairmen have
done in the past.
Langer, chairman of the Judici
ary Committee, often has voted
with the Democrats.
The GOP floor leader opened
up an Langer earlier in the week
after the North Dakotan had
spread on a hearing record ten
unverified charges against Chief
Justice Earl Warren.
That hearing, Knowland said,
was "the most shocking event"
he had witnessed during his eight
years in the Senate. •
Knowland brolight up the sen
iority question himself after he
had been asked about an entirely
different matter.
It is time, Knowland said, that
the Senate face tip to the problem
of freeing "itself fr o m being
shackled by the seniority system."
He suggested as one possible al
ternative that the Republiban Pol
icy Committee choose chairmen
from among the two or three com
mittee members with the most
seniority.
Under the present setup, the
majority party senator with the
greatest number of years on a
committee automatically becomes
the chairman of that committee.
Knowland said there was little
likelihood of any action on the
seniority issue at this session of
Congress, but that he already had,
held discussions with GOP sena
tors aimed .at some future action.
Pope Has 'Good Night':
is Barely Holding Own
VATICAN CITY, Feb. 25 (JP)—
Pope Pius XII was barely holding
his own today against an ailment
that has been steadily and danger
ously sapping his strength for a
month.
A Vatican press office spokes
man said that the head of the
Roman Catholic Church passed a
"fairly good night" and "rested
quite well." But the offices issued
no written comment upon the pen
tiff's health later in the day, as
it has usually done.
The U.S. Bureau of Indian Af
fairs operates 93 boarding. schools
and 233 day schools in 14 states
and Alaska.
Naguib
By New
CAIRO, Egypt, Feb. 25 (11 3 )=-Lt". Col. Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egypt's
new Premier, cut Mohamed Naguib off from any possible contact
with his countrymen -today. Army officers said it was a"precaution
ary" move to bar Naguib from starting a popular movement in his
behalf.
Cairo and the rest of this stra
tegic Middle East nation of 19 mil
lion remained calm.
Steel-helmeted military police
changed overnight from a guard
of honor to virtual jailers for the
53-year-old Naguib, who was top
man for 19 months in Egypt's mil
itary revolution. •
Nasser Premier
Young officer colleagues of Na
guib in - the all-powerful Revolu
tionary Council droT ed him as
president and premier, Nasser,
36, the real leader of the blood
leSs coup that pushed King Far
ouk off the throne in 1952, was
named Premier.
• Naguib was accused of trying
to seize dictatorial powers. Army
leaders insisted Naguib was not
under arrest and declarer' they
wanted to continue friendly rela
tions. But the military police
guard around Naguib's unpreten
tious five-room suburban house
cut the telephone wires, barred
visitors and forebade Naguib to
leaVe.
Naguib Resigned
The dramatic announcement
that Naguib's power had come to
a sudden end , was made known
at 3:30 a.m. today after 11 young
officers, who with Naguib make
up the Revolutionary Council, fin
ally decided to risk popular re
action against the move. Naguib
was not present. The council said
Naguib had submitted his resig
nation three days ago.
Syrian Head
R6signs Post
4 Nfter Revolt
DAMASCUS, Syria, Friday, Feb:
26 (W)—President Adib Shishekly,
Syria's bullet-dodging President,
resigned late last night because
an army revolt had threatened the
country with bloodshed.
The diminutive President w h o
headed a military coup in 1951
was reported to have left the
country.
The rebels began broadcasting
claims of having engineered a
successful revolution, early yester
day from Aleppo in the northern
part of the country. They gave
Shishekly 24 hours to get over
the border.
The leaders called for recogni
tion of former President Hachem
Bey Attassi, whose regime was
crumpled in 1951,. as the lawful
new president.
In Damascus, however, it was
understood the speaker of the As
sembly would assume the interim
presidency until a new president
is elected. Shishekly, elected pres
ident only last June, resigned in
a letter to the speaker of the As
sembly in which he said he was
quitting "to prevent bloodshed
among the people and army I so
much love, and I consider this
action a service to my country."
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Set by Italy
ROME, Feb. 25 (if" Italy
cracked down tonight on the free
dom of suspected Soviet spy ships
to rest unchallenged within bi
nocular view •of NATO's most
strategic Mediterranean ports and
shipyards.
Police ordered tightened con
trols to limit the number of men
Russia could keep aboard such
ships, watch their movement a
shore, and check messages they
might by to send.
Allied officials of NATO, whose
southern European headquarters
is at Naples, saw the pattern of
Russia's latest "observation" sys
tem become clearer today.
At daybreak the Soviet freight
er Andreev, which has been in
this strategic port under repair
for many months pulled out of
her ber t h to anchorage from
which she is expected to leave
Italy within 10 days.
By noon another Red f 1 a g
freighter, the Dezney, unloaded
a shipment of Glynia coal for
Italy, and pulled into the vacant
berth for "extensive repairs."
Drive Continued
By French Troops
HANOI, Indochina, Feb. 25 (IP)
French and Vietnamese troops
killed or captured 1141 Vietminh
fighters today in the persistent
drive to wipe out 60,000 rebels
imperiling communications in the
vital Red River Delta.
French losses were not given
in reports on two sharp clashes—
one at a point called "Sunday
Beach" 25 miles north - of Hanoi
and another near Haiphong, the
seaport 64 miles south of Hanoi.
Mobile units of French-Vietna
mese forces bumped up against
strong rebel outfits north of Han
oi. The French said 48 Vietminh
were killed and 36 captured.
" South of Haiphong the French
reported 12 rebels killed and 18
taken prisoner. Ambushes and
harassing attacks by the Vietminh
were reported from other delta
sectors with "s om e losses" on
both sides.
Prof Speaks on Panel
Nelson McGeary, professor of
political science, last we e k in
Philadelphia participated in the
U.S. Civil Service Commission's
panel discussion on how the com
mission and political science pro
fessors can cooperate in promot
ing Federal service as a career
for college graduates.
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