FRIDAY. DECEMBER 9. T 655 1
Stevenson Cuts
GOP Politics
NEW YORK, Dec. 8 (A?) —Adlai Stevenson accused some
of President Eisenhower’s lieutenants today of “playing ugly
politics of group conflict and hatred.”
Those to whom he alluded included two Cabinet members
—Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson and Interior Sec-
Germans
Argue Over
Army Posts
BONN, Germany, Dec. 8 (ff) —
A conflict has erupted in West
Germany over selection of its new
army’s high command.
The powerful Citizens’ Commit
tee that screens the appointment
of senior officers has just reject
ed two of Defense Minister Theo
dor' Blank’s closest advisers for
top posts.
Officials Angered
Defense Ministry officials, an
gered by what they call a per
sonal affront to Blank, are fight
ing back. They have protested to
Parliament’s Security Committee
and are talking about a direct
appeal to Chancellor Konrad Ade
nauer.
The Security Committee—the
main legislative group on military
affairs—has summoned leaders of
the Citizens Committee and the
Defense Ministry to a closed-door
talk on the controversy.
Newspapers Predict
German newspapers are pre
dicting a crisis pitting the Defense
Ministry, an arm of the executive
branch, against the Citizens’ Com
mittee named by Parliament.
This 38-member group was es
tablished to screen the characters
and past behavior of all officers
named to the rank of colonel or
above. The idea was to keep for
mer Nazis, war criminals, mem
bers of Hitler’s SS Elite Corps
and others considered politically
unreliable out of the new army.
In a surprise decision, it re
jected the nomination of former
Cols. Kurt Fett and Hellmuth Ber
gengruen to military rank. Both
officers have played a leading
part in the ministry’s preparatory
work for establishing the armed
forces. '
Reds to Free
German War
Prisoners Soon
BONN, Germany, Dec. 8 (/P)—
West Germans received the cheer
ing news tonight that thousands
of their relatives will return home,
soon from Soviet Russia and Com
munist Poland.
Hussions Promise
The Foreign Office said the Rus
sians have promised to resume re
leasing German war prisoners. Dr.
Heinrich Weitz. president, of the
Red Cross, said Poland has agreed
to return 800 to 1000 Germans a
month starting, early next year.
But the Poles , have declined to
discuss the release of 715 German
war criminals until the Bonn-and
Warsaw governments establish
diplomatic relations, Weitz said.
600 Prisoners to Arrive
The Russians notified the Bonn
government 600. war prisoners
will arrive next Tuesday. They
will be the first to return home
since Oct 20 when Moscow sud
denly halted the program of .re
turning 9,626 prisoners. They
agreed to free all these during
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer’s
visit to Moscow in September.
They released 3863 war prisoners
and 1973 civil internees before
stopping the transports. The Rus
sian press complained German
"war criminals” they sent home
were welcomed like heroes.
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retary Douglas McKay.
“Is this, indeed, an attempt to
stir up class conflict?” the an
nounced candidate for the Demo
cratic presidential nomination
asked the AFL-CIO convention.
“No election, no office is worth
such a price.”
Stevenson told heartily cheer
ing delegates and visitors :
McCarlhyiam Old-Fashioned
“Today McCarthyism is out of
style. But I wonder if a similar
hate campaign is in the making
around distorted images of ‘goons’
and *power-hungry labor bosses,’
two ugly phrases we hear almost
daily.”
Stevenson, speaking in his us
ual polished manner with occa
sional quips that drew laughter,
won standing ovations at the be
ginning and end of his speech.
He was applauded 27 times,
somewhat more frequently than
Gov. Averell Harriman of New
York, a potential rival for the
nominatioii, who addressed the
convention Tuesday.
Receives Ovation
Another ovation was given Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, widow of
the New Deal President.
She told the delegates the most
important thing about the recent
merger of the AFL and CIO is
that,
“Since you have this new power
you will accept greater responsi
bility as citizens.”
The delegates also heard J. Ad :
dington Wagner; American Le
gion national commander, call for
“greater frankness” by the Eisen
hower administration “instead of
attempting to sweeten the bitter
failure that was Geneva.”
Communists Allow
Yule Broadcasts
NEW YORK, Dec. 8 (AP5 —The
Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod,
said today that Radio Prague and
Radio Warsaw have agreed to
broadcast American-p rod u c e d
Christmas programs.
. Dr. Oswald C. J. Hoffman, a
church spokesman, said this was
the first time' that Communist
governments had opened their
broadcasting facilities to Ameri
can-sponsored religious programs.
Government agencies of Poland
and Czechoslovakia agreed to the
broadcasts, he said, after being
assured they would be non poli
tical.
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AFL-CIO
To Expand
Political Role
NEW YORK, Dec. 8 (/P)—The
AFL-CIO today moved to wage
the “greatest organizing campaign
in the nation’s history” and to
expand its role in politics.
Both actions were approved
among a long series of resolutions
adopted at the founding conven
tion of the newly-merged 16 mil
lion member labor force.
Walter Reuther, former CIO
president, said former CIO unions
in the new organization had
pledged four million dollars
toward the organizing campaign.
Terming the forthcoming drive
the greatest ever, he called on the
AFL wing of. the new federation
to contribute proportionately.
Action Takes No Sides
The political action resolution
took no sides between parties.
It said there was a need for an
“expanding nonpartisan program
of political education designed to
protect and secure the legitimate
economic and political aspirations
of America’s working men and
women.”
It said political activity among
“wives, sisters, and daughters of
our membership as well as among
women workers should be intensi
fied.”
Russian Press
Praises Tour
MOSCOW, Dec. 8 (iP)—The So
viet press today jubilantly hailed
the Asian tour of Communist
party boss N. S. Khrushchev as a
great diplomatic success for the
U.S.S.R.
The newspapers castigated Bri
tain and the United States in
terms as tough as any seen here
in Joseph Statin’s day, and said
the' Soviet leaders’ trip to India
and Burma filled the Western
powers with “anger and con
fusion.”
The consensus of the Western
diplomatic corps in Moscow is that
the praise heaped on Bulganin
and Khrushchev for their tour re
jects a growing feeling of confi
dence among Soviet leaders that
will lead to a new era in world
relations.
These observers express this
view: The Soviet leaders feel the
Geneva conference removed the
threat of an atomic war.
Typhoid Epidemic
LANCASTER, Pa. - UH —An out
break of 54 reported cases of para
typhoid here was termed an
epidemic last night by the head of
the State Department of Communi
cable Diseases.
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Unions Pledge
Ike, Top Advisers
Discuss Budget Cut
THURMONT, Md., Dec. 8 (/PJ
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
held three sessions with his top
advisers at fog-covered Camp
David today in an effort to trim
the budget and perhaps offer a
1956 election year tax cut.
Two meetings of the National
Security Council were preceded
by an hour-long separate confer
ence with Secretary of Defense
Charles E. Wilson, Secretary of
the Treasury George M. Humph
rey, Budget Director Rowland
Hughes and Secretary of State
John Foster Dulles.
Humphrey reiterated his pre
dictions that the budget will be
brought into balance by next
July 1 but said Eisenhower him
self will say whether taxes can
be cut in his State of the Union
message to Congress in January.
Quizzed on Budget
Reporters asked Humphrey
whether his forecast of a balanced
budget by the end of this fiscal
year took into account “indica-
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“I don’t give a damn what the
indications are,” he said, smiling.
"I think we are going to balance
the budget.”
“What can you say about taxes
now?” newsmen pressed.
“Nothing right now. I imagine
the President will be saying some
thing about it in his State of the
Union message.”
Uses of Tax Policy
A representative of the National
Assn, of Manufacturers had some
thing to say about taxes in Wash
ington today, however. “T a x
policy should not ■be used as a
means for manipulating the econ
omy or for other nonfiscal pur
poses,” John C. Davidson, direc
tor of NAM’s government finance
department, told a Senate-House
subcommittee on the economic
report.
Davidson urged the committee
to give first priority in tax reduc
tion to “reducing discrimination
lin income tax rates.”
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