SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 26. 1966
Adenauer Fights
To Save Saar Pact
BONN, Germany, Feb. 25 (/P) —Chancellor Konrad Adenauer struggled tonight to save
his Saar agreement with France from death in the West German Parliament.
All. hope for French approval of German sovereignty and rearmament depehded
on the outcome.
Adenauer experienced his gravest hours as Chancellor in defending his temporary re
nunciation of 960,000 German-speaking Saarlanders in their coal-rich frontier valley.
Attacked by opposition Socialists for “treason to the Saar,” Adenauer was deserted
on the issue by two of the government’s four parties—the Free Democrats and the Refu
gees. They total 74 deputies, but not all may vote no.
In fact, after a four-hour con
ference of Free Democratic depu
ties, party chairman Thomas Deh-
Ur said 10 or 11 of them probably
Will vote for the pact. Denier had
led a fight against it. But he said
everyone in the party has a right
to vote according to his conscience.
Adenauer’s own Christian Dem
ocratic Union, which normally
has a one-vote majority of 244 in
the Bundestag, rallied behind him.
However, three CDU deputies, ex
pelled from their birthplace in the
French-occupied Saar in 1953 for
pro-German politics, refused their
support.
German Party Sticks
The German party, fourth and
smallest government party with
15 deputies, stuck with Adenauer.
The Saar agreement is one of
the five Paris treaties which
Prance insists must be ratified by
the Germans as a package if the
Bonn Republic is to be granted
independence and admitted to the
Atlantic Alliance.
A bitter debate was begun by
the Bundestag yesterday morning.
It will culminate tomorrow night
in a decisive vote. Communist
street, demonstrations agaipst Ad
enauer were staged in Bonn yes
terday. Heavily reinforced police
encountered no troublemakers to
day.
Makes Defense
The Chancellor doggedly made
tljis defense:
1. The Saar was taken away
from Germany in 1945 after a lost
war. In 1947, both the United
States and Britain promised to
support French economic claims
on the Saar in a German
treaty.
2. He refused at Paris last Oc
tober a French demand for/perm
anent detachment of the Saar. But
for the sake of French-German
understanding, he compromised
on transferring the Saar’s control
from France to a European com
mission.
3. The Saar’s Europeanization is
provisional until a German peace
treaty. But by reason of this Eu
ropeanization, the United States
and Britain no longer feel bound
by their 1947 pledge to France.
Treasury Probes
Illegal Bond Sales
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25 (JP)
The Treasury disclosed today it
has asked savings bond sellers to
help prevent bond sales that may
be "part of a chain letter scheme.’’
Previously Treasury officials an
nounced that the chain letter idea
was contrary to Treasury policy,
although it boomed sales in some
places.
Postmaster General Arthur
Summerfield said such schemes,
involving savings bonds, would be
“investigated fully and submitted
to the Department of Justice.”
Get - rich - quick chain letter
schemes have been popping up
around the country for years. The
general idea behind most of them
has been held to be a violation of
postal regulations.
The one involving savings bonds,
as a bonus or prize, came to light
weeks ago.
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'One World ' Policy
Denied by Harlan
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25 (A>)—John Marshall Harlan, President
Dwight D. Eisenhower’s nominee for the Supreme Court, dertied
today he favors any “one world" or internationalist movement that
would interfere with the sovereignty of the United States.
Harlan testified at an open hearing of the Senate Judiciary
Committee, which is considering
his nomination. Several previous
witnesses opposed his selection for
the high court on the ground he
has been associated with the At
lantic Union movement.
Officials of the Atlantic Union
say it opposes world government,
but favors exploring the idea of
closer ties, by federal union or
otherwise, among Atlantic democ
racies.
The committee ended its hear
ing with Harlan’s testimony.
.Chairman Harley M. Kilgore (D-
W.Va.) said a vote on confirming
the nomination cannot be taken
until the printed record of the
hearings is available, and that
will not be before the middle of
next week.
Harlan’s nomination has been
before the Senate since last No
vember and Eisenhower has ad
ministered several, prods in the
hope of getting it acted upon. He
is now a federal district judge in
New York.
The main witness against Har
lan today was George Racay Jor
dan, of New York, representing
an organization called the Ameri- 1
can Coalition. The organization
describes itself as a combination
of groups devoted to preserving
constitutional government. Jor
dan is also a supporter of Sen.
Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis.).
Jordan and the other witnesses,
with the exception of Harlan, tes
tified behind closed doors.
Britain Asks
Disarmament
LONDON, Feb. 25 (JFl —Britain
called on the world’s major atomic
powers today for every ounce of
effort to get an agreement on dis
arming.
Opening a secret conference of
the UN Disarmament Commission
subcommittee, British Minister of
State Anthony Nutting declared:
“All mankind will agree that
there is no hope of attaining real
and lasting peace without real
all-around disarmament. It is in'
this spirit that my government
and, I feel sure, all our govern
ments approach this renewed at
tempt to seek an agreement.
“In this modern scientific age,
none of us must spare one ounce
of effort in the fulfillment of this
trust.”
Delegates of the United States,
Russia, Britain, France and Cana
da convened in stately Lancaster
House as the nuclear weapons
race claimed attention on both
sides of the Iron Curtain.
Money wages received by the
average Russian collective farm
workers in a year are enough to
buy about six pairs of men’s shoes
says the U. S. Information Agency.
Tax Clause Defeated
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25 (JP)
—The Senate, with a wary
eye on tax-paying voters back
home, voted 62-7 today against
accepting a $1,250 tax-free al
lowance as part of a congres
sional pay increase bill.
Legislation raising the salaries
of senators and representatives
from $15,000 to $23,750 a year was
sent back to conference with the
House with instructions to knock
out the tax-free allowance fea
ture.
Critics of the allowance said it
would lead the man-in-the street
to “point the finger of suspicion"
at all Congress members. Sen. A.
S. Mike Monroney (D-Okla.) called
the allowance a “gimmick.”
• Sens. Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.)
and Everett M. Dirksen (D-Ill.)
defended it as a bona fide expense
allowance. Former Vice President
AlbenW. Barkley (R-Ky.) spoke
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out against it. It was Barkley’s
first major floor speech since he
returned to the Senate in Janu
ary. The opposition became an
avalanche.
The House passed the bill ear
lier in the day by voice vote. Many
members expected it would be on
its way to the White House to
night in plenty of time for Presi
dent Eisenhower’s signature be
fore the start of the next congres
sional pay period, March 1.
The bill also carries pay in
creases for the federal judiciary
ond Justice Department officials.
There was no objection to these,
only to what Monroney called the
gimmick, and to another new fea
ture: five more trips to home and
back every year for all Congress
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8 Manila Pact Nations
Agree on United Action
For Peace in Asia
BANGKOK, Saturday, Feb. 26 VP)—' The eight Manila Pact na
tions agreed yesterday on united action “to preserve and strengthen
the peace” of Southeast Asia and block “those subtle forms of ag
gression by which freedom and self-government are undermined
and men’s minds are subverted.”
The decisions wound up a three
day conference which set up per
manent headquarters in Bangkok
and created committees to deal
with military, subversive and eco
nomic problems.
Despite some sharp differences
of opinion, international commu
nism was mentioned in the final
communique of the Southeast
Asia Treaty Organization as a
menace against which members
Were united. It was the first time
the. word communism appeared
in an official SEATO document
since the pact was signed in Ma
nila last September.
“The way of the aggressor has
been made harder,” summed up
U.S. Secretary of State John Fos
ter Dulles.
Even before the conference end
ed yesterday, military advisers
began discussing plans “to have
all possible measures” for defense
of freedom in the Orient
The conference’s final commu
nique emphasized that these mili
tary arrangements, to be built
around an American force in the
Pacific of 650,000 men, “will never
be used for purposes of aggres
sion.”
Some Aslan nations had hoped
that a SEATO military force, com
parable to NATO, would be de
veloped. But the United States
opinion prevailed that mobile
striking forces, with the possible
use of nuclear weapons, would be
the most effective.
The threat of subversion, viewed
with particular concern, is to be
met by cooperative development
of the economic, social and cul
tural phases of the area.
AEC Schedules Blast
Today at Nevada Site
LAS VEGAS, Nev., Feb, 25 (jP)
—Weather improved enough to
day for the Atomic Energy Com
mission to reschedule tentatively
a major 500-foot tower blast to
morrow morning at Nevada test
site.
But clouds over Yucca Flat
made it only a 50-50 chance, the
AEC said.
About 600 Gls are ready to take
up trench 4OOO yards
from the tourer and engage in ma
neuvers opening Exercise Desert
Rock VI, pos Toned since Feb. 15.
members at government expense.
Both of these features were
written in by a Senate-House con
ference committee yesterday. The
conferees met to compromise dif
ferences between the House,
which had voted to raise congres
sional salaries to $25,000 a vear,
and the Senate, which held the
figure to $22,500.
Barkley told the Senate that if
Congress is going to raise its pay
it should do so directly, “Nbt un
der a guise.”
“I would rather vote' for a
straight $24,000 salary,” he said,
apparently taking a round figure
at random, “than vote for $22,500
with a $1,250 expense account on
it.”
Chinese Move
To Matsu Isles
Is Reported
TAIPEI, Formosa, Saturday,
Feb. 26 (fP) —Strong reports per
sisted today that the Nationalist
garrison which abandoned Nan
chishan in a secrecy-guarded 41-
hour operation was taken 60 miles
south to reinforce the Matsu Is
lands.
The Matsus, 100 miles west of
Formosa’s northern tip, guard the
approaches to the big Red port of
Foochow.
Although the United States has
made no public commitment, the
Nationalists have indicated bo : ef
they would get U.S. help in de
fending both the Matsus and Que
moy, guarding the approaches to
Amoy.
Inability to get such help for
defense of Nanchishan, 140 m.’es
northwest of Formosa, couo.'id
with Red landings on islands bith
north and south,
prompted the withdrawal at 7
p.m. Feb. 23 and completed at
noon Friday.
The Nationalists were silent on
the size of the garrison, estimated
unofficially at 5000 but said the
evacuation drew no interference
from the Reds as close as 12 miles
north.
U.S. to Return Seven
To Red China Homes
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25 MV-
The United States has arranged
to return seven castaway fisher
men to their Red China homes. At
the same time it is hinting broad
ly that Peiping should do likewise
by 15 imprisoned American fliers.
The Chinese fishermen, it was
learned today, were rescued list
May by U.S. Air Force planes.
They had been stranded on a r~ef
in the Paracel Islands, about 210
miles off Indochina in the South
China Sea.
The fishermen were taken to
the Air Force base at Manila. They
told officials they wanted to re
turn to their homes on Hainan
Island just off the Red China
mainland.
Lumbermen's Institute
Clifford A. Nelson, associate
professor of economics, served as
a conference leader for the A ' e
gheny County Lumbermen’s in
stitute. The topic of the co-' --
ence was “Selling Services to
Meet Competition.
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