Sea JOHN FOSTER DULLES — ee | eVeee me MOM | U.S. desperate as Dulles’ policy fails 3 $300 million for ‘revolts’... WASHINGTON The Democratic whip in the U.S. House of Representatives proposed last week that President Eisenhower be given a $30 million “‘blank check’’ to expand the administration’s program of fomenting counter-revolution in Eastern Europe. Rep. John W. McCormack (Dem., Mass.) dressed his proposal for intensification of U.S. intervention in the affairs of other nations with the usual ‘‘freedom’’ trappings. ““We must,” he said, ‘‘stir the determination of people behind the Iron Curtain to be free. ’’He said the “‘opportunity’’ offered by recent disturbances in Eastern Europe ‘‘should not be allowed to die.” The charge has been made wide- ly that recent events in Germany are the: direct result of ‘Project X” — the definitely known USS. ylan to subvert the governments of Eastern Europe by sabotage, mur- der, political intrigue and terror. McCormack won immediate sup- port in Congress from the most vocal spokesman for Project X— Rep. Charles J. Kersten (Rep., Wis.). “Our policy,’ Kersten said, “should be ‘definitely geared at giving aid by every possible peace- ful means to assist the people to liberate themselves.” Kersten’s talk of “peaceful” means, however, did not jibe well with previous statements, notably his remarks on August 1 , 1951, when he proposed allocation of $100 million “for any sélected per- sons who are residing in the Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Albania or the Commun- ist-dominated areas of Germany and Austria, either to form such persons into national elements, of the military forces of the NATO or for other purposes.” “Kersten made it clear at that time that “. . . my amendment contemplates the possibility of aiding the underground organi- zations that now exist or may come into existence in the fu- ture.” ‘ee desp ’ ite ‘fiasco of Berlin adventure’ MOSCOW In a strongly-worded editorial last week, Pravda, Soviet Communist party paper, attacked the United States policy of organizing provocations rongly- , serie 3 : “ Sabotage in East European countries. ty ‘American diplomats are striving to conv ie and diversions, may prove more effective as regar €tlin adventure of foreigt hirelings has not brought its inspirers to reasone “They are now talking about the need to provoke new disturbances in the.German Democratic Republic, to ine tacies’ and to use these pro- Dregs ve attacks for intensifying a. 00 the USSR. Iyow little and how poorly they W the Ussp.” at €ditorial noted the “noisy aw of U.S. Congressmen {hd wie Humphries, Mansfield dm; iiley urging the Eisenhower ly ange tation “to use immediate- Dont: every means this ‘golden y obtaey the U.S. has alleged- Provocation.” ] “neg 0 hoted that the incite- ‘tnd thes hot limited to the press ui; © More aggressively-minded hose MEliterate corigressmen” “tom sPeeches differed but little n the utterances of U.S. gov- “nt leaders,” Py being? asked: “What, in fact, is M90 he provocative campaign tion . “Nd answered its own ques- ey €se words: a this conceals, first of all Cire Be ous alarm of U.S. ruling the; 88 regards the fiasco of Quy, reign Policy, the notori- Slicy of force.’ X gh ew. idely advertised ition Policy’ aiming at uncon- Mean . domination of West Euro- as °untries by U.S. direction, Migr; elation ‘of the USSR, has “da fiasco. . . . Mig ter words, instead of the “Outs of the West European terest S being subjected to the Men S of the U.S., friction be- hg, €m has grown stronger Sharper, helo, Splits in the camp of the hy a Merican bloc are increas- Toadening, « the 6 Ml greater significance is ty. CUS fact that: all attempts Ugop ’ diplomacy to isolate the | 4 Ye completely failed. Mig zo ttement made by the So- Meh ft nment in the middle of ; Those} © the effect that at present i © contentious or unsolved eet that cannot be solved by Means on the basis of Ned as a result of the Ber- ince their West European partners that the method of organizing adventures and provocations, sabo- ds the USSR than the method of peaceful negotiations,’ Pravda declared. ‘‘The fiasco of “extend them to the People’s mutual agreement of the interest- ed countries, is welcomed with ap- proval by the most varied circles of all countries. “Even in the ruling. circles of Britain, France and other coun- tries the Soviet initiative met with a:favorable response. “The movement for settling con- tentious international questions by negotiation has become so broad and widespread that the leaders of the U.S. government, fearing they might be isolated, deemed it neces- sary to make some response to it.” Pravda then reviewed the so- called preliminary conditions ad- vanced by Eisenhower, which it termed a demand for important concessions in return for “simple agreement to negotiate,” and the desire, most clearly axpressed by Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, for “starting negotia- tions between the great powers without preliminary conditions.” “It became clear that grave dif- ferences existed between the U.S. and its main partner in Europe on important international problems “to -straighten out these differ- ences and to lay down a line of general policy toward the USSR” that Eisenhower had proposed the Bermuda conference. But repeated postponement of the conference had “caused a sigh of relief in Washington,” despite U.S. initiative in calling the con- ference; «|. Because the differences be- tween the U.S., Britain and France have grown to such an extent that they cannot be eliminated by a routine meeting between the heads of governments.” Now, Pravda charged, U.S. ruling circles “are striving fin- ally to take into their hands the foreign policy of West Evurop- ean states without taking into account their vital national in- terests. “This endeavor has beer meet- ing and continues to meet with resistance from even the ruling circles of several West European countries.” Viewed against this background, Pravda said, U.S. provocations in Berlin and elsewhere could be seen as: @ Calculated “to exacerbate the international _ situation still further @ To show “that the so-called tough policy of Dulles had begun to bear fruit.” © “As regards the organizers of all = this campaign, so openly ignoring the striving of the peoples for peace, their policy is getting them into a blind alley from which it will be still more difficult for them to extricate themselves,” the paper concluded. ‘Tiger of the,Snows’ Tensing meets press Everest conquerors tell story By STEWART FARRAR LONDON The two men who stood on top of the world — Edmund Hil- lary and “Tiger of the Snows” Tensing — told a press confer- — ence here what the moment of victory had felt like. His now world-famous grin lighting up his face, “Tiger” Tensing (shown at right in Pic- ture) answered in his own language, with Colonel Hunt, leader of the expedition, trans- lating: “was, of course, delighted to have had the great good fortune to reach the top of this, my seventh expedition. From the top. 1 could pick out the camp sites of my former ex- peditions on the route up the north face. Was I tired? Yes, but not exhausted.” ..-Edmund Hillary (shown with flag in picture) spoke shyly but grinned almost as widely. “The last 400 feet were the most dangerous, with rather unsafe snow and a thin crust,” he said. “In normal Alpine con- ditions one would have stopped. But seeing it was Mount Ever- est, well, we decided to push on.” Colonel Hunt said that the crux of the climb was the re- markable. conquest of Lhotse glacier by two school masters, W. G. Lowe and Englishman C. W. F. Noyce, who stayed on the glacier for nine days cutting ~ steps to give the climbers their access to the summit. It was announced that a film of the expedition had been made and would be publicly re- leased in the fall for general exhibition. a PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JULY 17, 1953 — PAGE 3 “.