THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1954 'Defeatism' Hit By Eisenhower WASHINGTON, May 12 (M—President Dwight D. Eisenhower said today the free world should not write , off Indochina to the Com munists and he warned against long faces and defeatism in dealing with the conflict... At a news conference the President also declared that he most certainly hopes that three Indochinese states of Laos, Cambodia and Viet Nam will voluntarily join with the United States, and other interested nations in forming a Southeast Asian defense 'allihnce The State Department cabled to the American delegation at Geneva and the U.S. embassy in Paris the full text. of Secretary John Foster Dulles' news confer ence remarks yesterday about In dochina. The unusual action, was taken in an effort to reassure the French government that the Uni ted States has not written off Indochina to the Reds. President Eisenhower's 'asser tion today that it should not be written off obviously could fit in to this effort. Dulles had said at one point that Indochina was not essential to the defense of the rest of Southeast Asia but later em phasized that the United States regards it as nonetheless "ex termely important". and South east Asia would be "far more dif ficult" to save if Indochina were lost. French Ambassador Henri Bon net conferred with Dulles for 30 minutes, shortly after Eisenhow er's news conference. He said he thought the American attitude toward Indochina as explained by the President was-now very clear and that "any misunderstanding" had been ended. Dulles spent two hours with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in closed sessions. Subsequently Chairman Alexan der Wiley (R.-Wis.) said Dulles . reported that the United States does not have a request to send troops to Indochina. Wiley also reported that the Na varre,plan "has not measured up to expectations." This military plan for Indochina, named for French General Henri Navarre, was designed to enable French and native anti-Communist forces to bring the Communist forces under control in another year or so by greatly enlarging the na- tive Indochinese forces and re ducing the burden on French troops. Army Bucked McCarthy On Ike's dvice—Adams WASHINGTON, May 12 (W)—John G. Adams testified today the Army took the fateful first step toward its challenge to Senator McCarthy (R.-Wis.) at the suggestion of President Eisenhower's chief assistant. Adams, counsel to the Army, said Sherman Adams of the White House staff advised - him Jan. 21 to prepare a written record of the Army's troubles with McCar thy's office over draftee G. David Schine, As the Army lawyer described it, this record, proposed at a meeting of top-level administra tion officials in the office of At torney General Brownell, grew into a published report which triggered the flaming controversy now being aired before TV cam eras. Adams named McCarthy's Chief Counsel Roy M. Cohn as the vil lain of the piece—as a man so powerful he could and did spout abuse and "obscene language" at Adams, and even at McCarthy himself. Besides claiming White House backing at the start 'of this row with • McCarthy, Adams made these other main contentions: Cohn subjected him to more pressure and ,"abuse" to get fa vored treatment for Schine than all of Capitol Hill together ever put on him on all 'other matters in five years at the Pentagon. McCarthy aide Francis P. Carr told him time and again—speak ing for Cohn, not on his own be half, that the Army would bring two years of investigations and don't underestimate the versatility of a Spudnut Senators Split Over Defense WASHINGTON, May 12 VP) Two key senators expressed con flicting views today on whether the Eisenhower administration will ask Congress for more de fense funds in view of the critical situation in Southeast Asia. Chairman Ferguson (R.-Mich.) of a Senate Appropriations sub committee told the Senate the administration has no plan "at present" to ask for a hike in the 29-billion-dollar, defense budget. But Senator Maybank (D.-S.C.), a subcommittee member, said As sistant Defense Secretary John A. Hannah, told the subcommittee the administration will "probably" seek more money to cope with developments in the troubled Far East. Southern Senator Dies at His Desk WASHINGTON, May 12 (2P)— Senator Clyde R. Hoey (D.-N.C.) died today at his desk in his of fice. He was 76. Dr. George W. Calver, physician to Congress, said Hoey apparent ly suffered a :stroke while seated ip his chair. Hoey, whose gray frock coat, silver hair and daily fresh carna tion made him a conspicuous fig ure in the Senate, had been in Congress since 1945. He was a former governor of North Caro lina. He had also served as a state legislator and an assistant U. S. attorney. The Senate was informed of Hoey's death by Senator Lyndon Johnson of Texas, and the Senate promptly adjourned out of re spect: other trouble on .itself if 'it failed to knuckle — under to Cohn and give Schine a New York assign ment. Phil Silvers "TOP BANANA" with Rose Marie . 4 17 ( 7; . • ..ansastan; w p. William Shakespeare's "J5B LIDS CAESAR" Marlon Brando James Mason Humphrey. Bogart Kathryn Hepburn "AFRICAN QUEEN" rHt" DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA President Seeks Bipartisan Policy In Foreign Field WASHINGTON, May 12 (W)— President Dwight D. Eisenhower expressed firm belief in a bipar tisan foreign policy today and the Democratic leader of the Senate said his part was willing to go "more than half way" to achieve it. "As Americans interested in the preservation of our country, I think we should be able to work together in any area of foreign policy where we are in agree-- rzaent," Senator Lyndon Johnson (D.-Tex.) told the Senate. At the same time, Chairman Leonard W. Hall of the Republi can National Committee accused "a few disgruntled Democrats . . . men of little faith" of "attempt ing to talk us into an international panic." Eisenhower entered the heated debate over bipartisanship with an assertion at his news confer ence that he thinks the foreign affairs of the United States are handled on a bipartisan basis so far as possible and practical. He said he was a firm believer in the system, and that confer ences with bipartisan - groups go on all the• time at the White House and in other branches of the government. The President had been asked how much of the recent Demo cratic attacks on administration foreign policy he ascribed to elec tion year politics and how" much to genuine concern over world af fairs. He_ said he never attacked another's motives. DA Seeks investigation Of Employee , Mocing PITTSBURGH, May 12 (UP) District Attorney James F. Ma lone of Allegheny County said to day he will seek a grand jury investigation of what he calls macing of state employes by the Fine administration. Malone has charged that the Fine administration' has levied a flat 1 per cent assessment on each state employe's annual pay to fi nance primary campaigns of pro- Fine candidates. Gov. Fine has declined comment on Malone's charges. nith Victor MeLaeen-Donald Crisp -Brian Aherne -Barry Jones- 51ary PhUips-_and a CAST OF TIP Produced by ROBERT L JACKS • 'Directed by HENRY HATHAWAY • Saes Play by DUDLEY Swd oil Xi 4 Feehim Sr akdlel"Priver ralione y 11•••4111ran 7. .•::....,...,..; . :f.• ....:::::,... :..,:: .. ~..... c .. . ..,.. . , ~. ..,.. • •• : „, • ... .. ... .• _ •.' ~',..-. ... . ,obert WAG Debra PAGET Sterling HAYDEN French Bomb ln Red. River HANOI, Indochina, May 12 (W)—Big squadrons of French manned Privateers and 826 bombers today again blasted Vietminh troops in the Red River Delta, which a French general called "the route to all of Southeast Asia." The plane&, dropping 1000-pound, high explosive bombs, hit rebel bases in the southern and southeastern Delta. The French fear that McCarthy-Army Tactics Blasted By Eisenhower WASHINGTON, May ,12 (21P)— In emphatic terms bearing direct ly on the McCarthy-Army hear ings, President Eisenhower. said today it is reprehensible for an individual officer or civilian to give away secret information in volving national security. Eisenhower classed such action as insubordination and said not for one second would he think of condoning it. The President didn't mention Senator McCarthy (R.-Wis.) by name, but he was answering a news conference question that did name McCarthy as having "testi fied that an Army security offi cer gave him classified FBI se curity information which the at torney general later said was done without' authorization." I The question was the one deal ing with the senator's having said last week he had received classified information from an . Army intelligence officer. The President said he wouldn't talk about that part of the inquiry involving the senator, since he had said he was going to take a vacation on that subject. He said he assumed he was being asked about the propriety of an individual officer or civilian giving away classified information involving the security of our coun try—giving it away to anybody. An enlisted man, the former five-star general declared, -takes an oath to obey Army regulations and orders of superior officers. MUM THE LAN THE VIM the castles :h the Viking ILI fight at the of Camelot! • ng participan, beloved stor: dventuredom • Begins FRIDAY! Rebels Delta the area may be the Communist led Vietminh's new number-one target now that Dien Bien Phu has fallen. Rebel troops which took part in the long siege of Dien Bien Phu were reported moving toward the western edge of the Delta. The planes hammered rebel troops entrenched in villages not far from the railway and highway linking Hanoi and Haiphong on the coast. These routes are the main supply line for French Un ion forces in northern Indochina. Units of the estimated 70,000 rebels already roaming the Delta area kept up their hit-and-run tactics. They blew up two freight and passenger trains on the Han oi-Haiphong railway about eight miles east of Hanoi, causing some casualties, and also cut the high way. The breaches soon were re paired. French Union forces pressing their mop-up of the infiltrators reported killing 49 rebels and cap turing 26. . Evacuation of Wounded The French moved swiftly to ar range with the rebels for evacua tion of some of the wounded who were in Dien Bien Phu's under ground hospital when the fortress fell. About 700 of the estimated 1300 to 1400 wounded captives were expected to be evacuated by air if French talks with the Viet- Iminh commander, Vo Nguyen Gi ap, hit no snags. Giap has agreed to negotiate evacuating the "seriously wound ed.". The French estimate that half their casualties at Dien Bien Phu are in that category. • A Fr en c h high command spokesman said he had "abso lutely no information" on whe ther the heroic 29-year-old French nurse,, Genevieve de Galard Ter raube, is still with the Dien Bien Phu's wounded. Illa t ii., 1 ~~~~<~~ PAGE THREE
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