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102 d Year. No. 196. Phone ST. 3-5000 *★ S WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1954—SEVENTY-SIX PAGES.
Death Sentence
Upset in Slaying
Os D. C. Grocer
Insanity Test Hit
By Appeals Court in
Honikman Murder
In the second opinion this
month striking at long-accepted
tests for criminal insanity, the
U. S. Court of Appeals today re
versed the death sentence con
viction of the slayer of a Wash
ington grocer.
The court ruled that District
Judge Henry A. Schweinhaut had
erroneously instructed the jury
as to the mental defense of Wil
lie Lee Stewart, 30, colored,
charged with the fatal shooting
of Harry Honikman, 65, in his
grocery at 723 East Capitol street,
March 12, 1953. A retrial was
ordered for Stewart, sentenced to
die October 16.
The opinion was written by
Judge David L. Bazelon and
concuxred in by Judges George
Washington and Henry W.
Edgerton.
Similar Ruling July 1.
Judge Bazelon also wrote a
precedent-shattering opinion
handed down July 1 in which
new broad standards for assess
ing mental responsibility in
crimes were set up. Judges
Washington and Edgerton also
concurred in that case.
The July 1 opinion said
Judges and juries should con
sider any mental abnormality
present at the time of the crime
rather than adhere to the pre
viously established criteria that
(1) the defendant was able to
distinguish right from wrong at
the time of the crime and (2) he
was acting under an irresistible
impulse.
Yesterday United States Attor
ney Leo A. Rover asked the ap
pellate court’s entire nine-man
benchc to rehear the Monte W.
Durham case which led to the
July 1 opinion. Mr. Rover said
the request was made in the in
terest of the public. His opin
ion said:
“It is of no minimal conse
quence to the community at
large that a division of this court
has adopted a test of criminal
responsibility that appears to
alter materially our. settled rule
of moral responsibility.”
Reappraisal of Tests.
In today's opinion, Judge
Bazelon noted that the court
had undertaken a reappraisal
of the tests of criminal responsi
bility in both the Durham and
Stewart cases. For the purposes
of assisting in this work the
court appointed Attorney Abram
J. Chayes as “friend of the
court.”
“This reconsideration resulted
in a broadened test, announced
in Durham, which will, of course,
be applicable upon the retrial of
this (the Stewart) case,” Judge
Bazelon wrote.
The Durham case reversed a
conviction by Judge Alexander
Holtzoff on housebreaking
charges. The appeals court cited
advanced concepts of mental dis
order in ruling that the right
and wrong, and irresistible im
pulse theories do not cover the
entire field of conditions under
which a criminal might act
without moral responsibility.
“Diminished Responsibility.”
Judge Bazelon said that Mr.
Chayes, in advising the court,
had “urged adoption of a rule
of diminished responsibility to
be applied in capital cases.”
“Under such a rule, if the
jury found that (1) the accused
suffered from a mental disorder
not amounting to insanity suf
ficient to excuse him from crim
inal responsibility under appli
cable tests, and (2) such mental
disorder deprived him of the
requisite ‘sound memory and dis
cretion’ essential for conviction
of first degree murder, it could
convict him of the lesser crime
of second degree murder,” the
opinion read.
Judge Bazelon said such a
contention had been rejected by
the appeals court in a previous
murder case and supported by
the Supreme Court, which ob
served that “such a radical de
parture from common law con
cepts is more properly a subject
for the exercise of legislative
power or at least for the dis
cretion of the courts of the Dis
trict.”
Judge Bazelon said that de
spits “the force of the considera
tions presented so persuasively
by the amicus (Mr. Chayes),”
the court had concluded that it
should not consider the dimin
ished responsibility idea “until
we can appraise the results of
the broadened test of criminal
responsibility which we recently
announced in Durham.
“Only upon such an appraisal
will it be possible to determine
Vhether need for the rule re
mains,” the opinion reads.
In the opinion handed down
(See STEWART, Page A-3.)
Reds Lift Marriage Ban
BERLIN, July 15 OP).—Soviet
authorities have lifted a nine
year-old ban and are now allow
ing Russians to marry Germans,
the anti-Communist Information
Bureau West (IWE) reported
totay.
Thunderstorm Shatters Grip
Os Heat Wave Over Wide Area
Mercury Plunges as Winds Fell Trees
And Power Lines; Rain Elates Farmers
A crashing thunderstorm,
bringing almost an inch of
sorely needed rain, broke up a
100-degree heat wave and pulled
comfortable weather back to the
Washington area today.
By “comfortable,” the Weather
Bureau means temperatures in
Storms ond Cool Air Bring Relief os
, U. S. Deaths Reach 96. Page A-2
the 80s, a low of 64 tonight and
the low 80s with fair skies to
morrow and probably Saturday.
The overture to heat relief
was about the usual Washington
pattern—winds up to 53 miles
an hour which felled trees and
disrupted power, brilliant light
ning and a sharp temperature
drop. The mercury skidded from
100 degrees at 6 p.m., to 71
degrees after the storm passed.
At National Airport, the
Weather Bureau’s radarscope,
covering a 100-mile radius, was
filled with thunderstorms and
rain.
Relief for Farmers.
It was real relief to farmland.
Loudoun County Agricultural
Agent W. W. Turner described
it as a real good soaker and one
Brownell Law Firm
Brought Into Probe
Os Housing Scandals
Long Island Builder
Quizzed on Report He
Profited by $6 Million
By Francis P. Douglas
The name of Attorney Gen
eral Brownell was brought into
the Senate investigation of
housing scandals today with the
identification of a builder’s tax
attorney as a member of Mr.
Brownell’s former law firm in
New York.
The builder, Alfred Gross of
New York, testified about the
construction of Glen Oaks Vil
lage, an apartment project built
with Federal Housing Adminis
tration-guaranteed mortgages at
Jamaica, Long Island. Questions
sought to elicit admissions from
Mr. Gross that he and his family
had profited by $6 million.
As the hearing got underway
today, the FHA fired Burton C.
Bovard, its general counsel who
refused to resign after investi
gations were started into wind
fall profits from Government
backed housing construction.
Mr. Bovard has been on
leave since May 7. Norman P.
Mason, acting FHA commissioner,
charged then Mr. Bovard had
“failed to carry out the func
tions of his office satisfactory.”
Charges “Publicity.”
Also Senator Capehart, chair
man of the committee, said
today that Clyde L. Powell,
ousted assistant commissioner of
the Federal Housing Adminis
tration, was “100 per cent look
ing for publicity” when he chal
lenged the accuracy of an FBI
report on him.
The FBI statement purported
to be a record of Mr. Powell’s
arrests on larceny, check forg
ing and embezzlement. It had
been placed in the record of the
Banking Committee’s hearing
into housing scandals.
During questioning of Mr.
Cross about the alleged $6 mil
lion profit, it developed that the
construction contract has re
sulted in tax litigation because
taxes were figured on a long
term capital gain basis instead
of as income taxes. The result
would be less tax liability.
Consulted Tax Lawyer.
Mr. Gross testified that before
acting on the tax matter a tax
attorney named Harry Rudick
was consulted. Senator May
bank, Democrat, of South Caro
lina, asked if Mr. Rudick was not
a member of the law firm of
Lord, Day & Lord, “the firm Mr.
Brownell belonged to."
Mr. Gross said that was so,
but that Mr. Rudick has been
“advising for us for about 10
years,” and had not been asso
ciated with the law firm at the
beginning of that period.
William Simon, committee
counsel, told the committee that
, in the case of one of six cor
porations which erected the
Shirley - Duke Apartments in
Alexandria, the income was
treated as capital gains under a
Government opinion approving
that step, but the opinion did not
(See HOUSING, Page A-3.)
Storm Sets Off Sirens,
Rousing Entire Town
By Ih* Associated Press
TEANECK, N. J., July 15.
Air raid sirens on all eight
schools burst into action at 11:48
o’clock last night during the
height of a wind and rain storm,
rousing the entire township.
So many persons flooded police
headquarters with phope calls
that police were unable to make
an outgoing call, so:
All of the 200 auxiliary police
turned out for what they thought
was a civil defense emergency.
The sirens, set off by a short
circuit, were turned off at 12:11
today.
SRMT
that “should last us for a week.”
He said com had been at a crit
ical stage and pasture land has
suffered heavily from heat and
drought.
Yesterday’s 100-degree heat
broke the record for July 14 by
two degrees. The previous mark
was set in 1881.
It felled 18 or more area resi
dents and was unofficially
blamed at at least two deaths;
suspected in a third.
Hospital Worker Dies.
The fatalities:
Steve Athey, 52, of 3117 North
Twenty-second streets Arlingtqn,
a laundry room employe at Dis
trict General Hospital. He died
nine hours after he collapsed at
work.
Bernard Edwin Vint. 47, of
the Central Union Mission, 613
C street N.W., who was found
dead in an alley behind the Po
lice Traffic Division in the 500
block of C street N.W.
James Kennedy, 10, of 17
South street, Fairfax County,
who died while playing in a
churcn playground in the Del
Ray sectioi) of Alexandria. The
boy’s father, Alfred .Kennedy,
(See WEATHER, Page A-2.)
3 From D. C. Area
Refuse to Answer
Questions on Reds
House Group Tries
To Quiz Trio Named
By FBI Informant
Three Washington area wit
nesses, including two wartime
Navy Yard employes, today re
fused to tell the House Un-Amer
ican Activities Committee about
their reported membership in
the Communist Party.
All three had been named by
an FBI informant, Mrs. Mary
Stalcup Markward, as party
members during her seven years
of spying on the party up to the
spring of 1951.
The refusal of one of the wit
nesses prompted Representative
Clardy's Objection
To Cameras Draws
Snappier Reply
When Attorney Joseph
Forer asked for an end to
photographing his client at
today’s session of the House
U n-A meri ca n Activities
Committee, Representative
C1 ard y, Republican, of
Michigan, objected.
“If anybody has any ob
jection, it ought to be me,"
commented the Michigan
legislator. “Photographers
always take my picture with
my mouth hanging open.”
“How else can they get
your picture?” retorted Rep
resentative Walter, Demo
crat, of Pennsylvania.
Scherer, Republican, of Ohio to
suggest that the testimony be re
ferred to the Attorney General
for possible denaturalization
procedure. Chairman Velde, Re
publican, of Illinois said the com
mittee would take up the ques
tion in executive session.
List of Witnesses.
The witnesses were:
1. Victor Fleischer, an auto me
chanic who lives in the 1200
block of Mississippi avenue S.E.,
and who testified that he worked
as a machinist in the Naval Gun
Factory here from 1940 to 1945.
2. Ray I. Pinkson, an elec
trician living in the 4800 block
of Flanders avenue, Kensington,
Md., who said he worked in the
Norfolk Navy Yard from 1942 to
1945. He was the witness whose
denaturalization was suggested
at the hearing.
3. Alexander Sherman of the
1700 block of Seventeenth street
N.W., a public relations man who
said he is now “operating con
sultant" or promoter for a local
theater.
In questioning Mr. Fleischer
the committee counsel Frank S.
Tavenner, jr., read from Mrs.
Markward’s testimony about a
highly secret underground cell
of the Communist Party at the
Naval Gun Factory. Mrs. Mark
ward had seen Mr. Fleischer as
a member of this group which
she referred to as W-27.
Mr. Fleischer refused to say
(See UN-AMERICAN, Pg. A-5.)
Pentagon is Still Awaiting
McCarthy's 'l3l Names'
Defense Department officials
said today they have never re
ceived the list of 131 names of
alleged subversives in defense
plants which Senator McCarthy
testified at the recent Army-
McCarthy investigation he had
In his possession.
During the hearing, Senator
McCarthy said he would make
the list available to the Penta
gon.
Fred Seaton, Assistant De
fense Secretary, told the Senate
Armed Services Committee to
day he had requested the list
of Benator McCarthy’s office
sacral times In oral conversant
Sidetracking
Os Move to Oust
McCarthy OK'd
Policy Group Backs
Knowland Decision;
Probers Meet Today
The Senate Republican Policy
Committee today got behind the
move to sidetrack any attempt to
remove Senator McCarthy from
his committee chairmanships in
the closing days of this session.
Senate Republican Leader
Knowland had already indicated
he would move to table any mo
tion Senator Flanders, Republi
can, of Vermont makes to force
the issue of McCarthy chairman
ships out of the Rules Committee
for a showdown in the Senate.
Today’s development means
that the Policy Committee, pre
sided over by Senator Ferguson
of Michigan, has put its stamp of
approval on the Knowland de
cision.
Back Motion to Table.
The committee met today and
adopted a resolution authoriz
ing Senator Knowland to move
to table “any motion or resolu
tion made during the remainder
of the second session of the 83d
Congress to discharge the Com
mittee on Rules from considera
tion of any matters relating to
the organization and operation
of the Senate, or any other mo
tion or resolution relating to
Senate organization and opera
tion.” *
The significance of a motion
to table is that it must be voted
on when made without debate.
On another front, the Senate
Investigations subcommittee was
to meet in a closed session today
that could bring a showdown
with Chairman McCarthy on
demands of a majority of the
group for a shake-up of the in
vestigations staff.
The meeting, originally sched
uled for 10 a.m., was postponed
until this afternoon because
Senator Dirksen, Republican, of
Illinois was unable to attend due
to a conflict with other commit
tee business.
Another member, Senator Pot
ter, Republican, of Michigan,
had arranged an appointment
with President Eisenhower for
2:45 p.m. That appointment was
later changed to 4:30 pin. Sen
ator Potter talked with Gen.
Eisenhower shortly after the
close of the Army-McCarthy in
quiry. He refused to talk about
that meeting but it was under
stood the President approved his
position in regard to the Mc-
Carthy subcommittee staff.
Expected to Be Bitter.
The meeting, first of the Mc-
Carthy group in nearly three
months, was expected to be
bitter whether or not the staff
issues are brought to a head.
Last time the subcommittee met
was before the start of the 36-
day Army-McCarthy hearings.
Senator McCarthy called the
executive session to lay plans
for public hearings on the sub
committee’s next big investiga
tion—of alleged Communist in
filtration of defense plants.
But the three Democrats on
the seven-member group and
Senator Potter have said no
further hearings should be held
until matters pertaining to the
staff have been straightened out.
That point will be raised at the
meeting.
McCarthy to Defend Staff.
Senator McCarthy has said
little since the Army hearing
closed June 17. But what he
has said indicated that he will
stoutly defend his investigations
staff and battle hard against
any effort to discharge any
member. There are 25 staff
employes, headed by Roy M.
Cohn, general counsel, and Fran
cis P. Carr, staff director, key
figures in the dispute with the
Army.
Senator McClellan of Arkan
sas, ranking subcommittee
Democrat, was not expected to
be present today. That’s one
reason the staff matter may not
be settled immediately. He is
campaigning in Arkansas for a
July 27 primary.
Senator McClellan has sent a
proxy to Senator Symington,
Democrat, of Missouri. But
there was debate whether under
subcommittee rules a general
proxy could be voted to cover
specific staff issues which may
be raised.
Two members have said little
(See McCarthy, Page A-3.)
tion and once in a formal let
ter.”
Mr. Seaton and Defense Sec
retary Wilson both said the list
had never been received.
Mr. Wilson said “we don’t feel
we need the list.” But he con
ceded “there might be a few
names on the list that we don’t
know about,” and added that
he would “co-operate” with Sen
ator McCarthy if the list were
produced. ■
The question of the McCarthy
list of defense plant subversives
was raised by Senator Case.
Republican, of South Dakota
during a hearing on internal
security programs of the mili
tary establishment.
Pentagon Is Probing
392 Loyalty tiisks,
Senate Croup Told
Wilson Discloses Status
Os Program; 80 Fired
In Drive Since March 1
By John A. Giles
The armed services reported
to Congress today that they now
are investigating 392 security
cases involving questions of loy
alty and that 80 such persons
have been dismissed from the
ranks since March 1.
These statistics were given to
the Senate Armed Services Com
mittee in a hearing on the se
curity check program of the
Defense Department. The com
mittee called for an interim re
port on what is being done to
weed subversives out of the
armed forces.
“The Department of Defense
has the situation well in hand,”
Sefcretary of Defense Wilson de
clared.
He reported that during the
last four months the Pentagon
had reduced from 20 to 7, mostly
by discharges, the number of
cases of physicians and dentists
who refused to say whether they
are Communists after they had
been drafted.
Individual Reports.
His general statement was
followed by individual reports
by the Army. Navy and Air Force.
The Army reported 237 pend
ing investigations, the Air Force
93 and the Navy 62.
Os the dismissals in the last
four months, 48 were in the
Army, 23 in the Navy and 9 in
the Air Force.
Since last March the Army has
opened 214 new cases, the Navy
23 and the Air Force 26.
Heretofore the Pentagon has
kept such statistics in a secret
status.
But officials today gave a com
plete rundown on the loyalty
check program which has been
the subject of much criticism on
Capitol Hill. Mr. Wilson said
4,901 persons were engaged in
such investigative work and that
some 2.5 million cases had been
reviewed since 1950.
But he made it clear that the
military did not intend to con
duct any witch hunts nor did it
intend to be pushed into over
zealousness by publicity given
individual cases.
“Calm, prudent fairness must
go hand in hand with our as
siduous efforts to carry out this
program lest through over
anxiety concerning an over-pub
licized case or two we may ap
proach hysteria and endanger
the very foundations of our bul
wark against communism,” the
secretary declared. Senators
congratulated him on that state
ment.
48 Dropped by Army.
Testifying for the Army, As
sistant Secretary Hugh M. Mil
ton n said that between March
21 and June 30 48 men were dis
charged from the service for
security reasons. Os these, one
enlisted man not on active duty
was given a general discharge,
which is neither honorable nor
dishonorable; six officers, of
whom one was on active duty,
and five not on active duty were
given “other than honorable”
discharges and 41 enlisted men
were given undesirable dis
charges.
The Army official said that
the 20 cases of doctors serving
in an enlisted status who had
been denied commissions for
security reason, 18. were in the
Army. That number has now
been reduced to six, he said.
Two of the physicians. Mr.
Milton said, came in under the
regular draft and the Army de
cided to keep them in non-sensi
tive jobs.
The Army, he said also has one
(See WILSON, Page A-3.) 4j
Agreement on Peace Terms
At Paris Conference Reported
U. S. Would Guarantee Truce Line
By Southeast Asian Military Pact
By Crosby S. Noyes
Foreign Correspondent of The Star ‘
PARIS, July 15.—Surprise and (
joy are the universal first re- ]
actions here to the agreement i
reached between the Big Three i
foreign ministers. These emo- :
tions are only slightly tempered
by the embarrassment of those
dopesters who predicted, on what
they believed to be best au- 1
thority, that it would not hap- i
pen. i
The communique issued at the <
end of the talks tells part of i
the story and hints at the real i
drama of the encounter between i
Secretary of State Dulles, British 1
Foreign Secretary Eden and I
French Premier Mendes-France. i
One sentence sums up Mr. i
Dulles’ argument that the Unit
ed States should not become i
more closely involved in the i
Geneva conference or a settle- i
ment of the Indo-Chinese war. <
The next sentence presents the
counterarguments advanced by ]
Mr. Eden and Mr. Mendes- i
France: That in the interest
of peace and freedom the United
States should radically raise the
Eclipse of Moon
Will Be Visible
In District Tonight
Washington area residents will
see a celestial display tonight—
weather permitting.
Locally a partial eclipse of the
moon will be seen from moon
rise at 8:25 p.m. until 9:31 p.m..
if the sky is clear. The eclipse
will be half over five minutes
before the moon rises here.
Maximum blackout when the
earth comes between the sun
and the moon will be 40 per cent
of the moon’s diameter, the
Naval Observatory reported.
Bridel 19, Accuses
Co-Worker oi Attack
A 19-year-old bride of three i
weeks told police she was
criminally attacked last night by i
a fellow employe of a Wash
ington athletic goods store.
Medical examination confirmed
she had been assaulted, police
said.
The accused man, Kenneth
Jobes, 27, of Rockville, Md., was
arrested on a United States Com
missioner’s warrant charging
rape, and was due for an extra
dition hearing there this after
noon.
The girl, married to a soldier
now en route to Korea, told po
lice, she accompanied a number
of store employes to several res
taurants after work yesterday.
One couple, she said, left a
restaurant and when they failed
to return, she agreed to accom
pany Jobes to look for them. In
stead. she told police, he drove
to the grounds of the Soldiers
Home, where the attack. oc
curred.
Jobes took her back to the
restaurant, she said, where she
reported the assault. Police were
notified and Jobes was picked
up later.
Permanent Annuity Raise
Bill Advanced in House
The House Civil Service Com
mittee today approved the bill
to make permanent the tern- j
porary annuity increase given
retired Government workers sev- i
eral years ago.
The annuity increase is due to
expire next June 30 unless Con- j
gress makes it permanent.
There are now about 130,000 t
retired Federal workers receiv- j
I ing pensions, about 25,000 in the i
[ Washington area. 4 1
Peaches Comjng
This year’s peach crop will be fine in
quality but low in quantity, the growers
say. Violet Faulkner discusses this and
other food news in her “Report to the
Homemaker" on
Page B-l.
Homo Delivery. Monthly Rotes. Evenlnr end Sunday. $1.75: er PF\TTC
Evenings only. 51.30; Sunday only. 65c; Night Final. 10c Additional ® VJ'CJiV I D
level of its representation in
Geneva during the closing days.
And at the end comes the de
cision between these two ap
parently conflicting ideas— Un
dersecretary Walter Bedell Smith
will return to Geneva as quickly
as possible.
Diplomatic Phenomenon.
In short, what happened in
Paris was a rare phenomenon
in modern diplomacy. Three
men got together in friendly
argument and one of them
actually changed his mind. As a
result, Secretary Dulles has
agreed to give the British and
French the support they have
been pleading for in the final
negotiations with the Commu
nists.
As understood here the actual
agreement goes much further
than the sparse wording of the
communique. In addition to
sending Gen. Smith to Geneva,
the allies are said to have
reached a clear agreement on the
terms of an acceptable settle
ment in Indo-China. And if
(See NOYES, Page A-3.)
7U. S. Soldiers Freed
Al Czech Border After
12 Days in Captivity
By th» Associated Press
WAIDHAUS, Germany. July
15.—Seven American soldiers,
held in Communist Czechoslo
vakia since American Independ
ence Day, crossed the border to
freedom today at 12:08 p.m. (7:08
EDT) after 12 days in captivity.
The seven, six enlisted men
and a captain, were turned over
at this West German-Czech bor
der point where Associated Press
Correspondent William Oatis was
freed more than a year ago. They
appeared to be in good condition
and reported “the food was
good,” Army authorities laid.
They were met by a detach
j ment from the United States 2d
| Armored Cavalry, which is sta
tioned along the East-West
frontier.
An Army spokesman said
earlier that “after a routine
interrogation, a news conference
will be held,” probably Saturday.
The seven, members of the
816th Field Artillery Battalion,
are:
Capt. Jack M. Davis, the bat
talion surgeon, Raytown, Mo.;
Coriil. John F. Glasson, Oakdale,
Calif.; Pfc. Jerry W. Griffith.
Springfield, Ohio; Pfc. George
Switzer, Milbum, Nebr.; Pfc
Leonard D. Tennis, Alliance.
Ohio; Pvt. Richard J. Jumper.
Boonville, Miss., and Pvt. Ross F.
McGinnis, Greensburg, Pa.
The seven were brought to the
border in a dusty Czech bus, and
as they climbed out some of
them appeared red-eyed and
nervous but in good health.
Two of the men were carrying
the cameras they apparently
had taken with thqm on their
sight-seeing trip to the border.
The Americans had driven to
the Czech border in a weapons
carrier truck July 4. Later,
patrols found the abandoned
Army vehicle near the border
on the German side.
In a protest note delivered
several days later, the Czech
; authorities said the Americans
■ had penetrated deeply into
! Czechoslovak territory. They
; claimed the soldiers carried
cameras and took forbidden pic
; tures.
The United States State De-
I partment, in a sharp note, re
| plied that the men were “ab
j ducted” and demanded their
‘immediate release.
Li
New York Markets, Page A-33
Geneva Parley
Awaits Return
01 Bedell Smith
Chances for Accord,a
•Held Improved
Renewed U. S. Role
By the Associated Press
GENEVA. July 15.—Francs
and Britain, elated by new sup
port from the United Stages,
today opened the showdown
phase of negotiations with the
Communists aimed at ending
the Indo-China war.
Fi ench Premier Pierre Mendes-
Viet Minh Troops Capture Two Posts as
Monsoon Hits Delta. Page A-4
Reynaud Sees France Isolated on De
fense Problem. Page A-4
Paris Talks Improved Allied Unity on
Asio, Dulles Says on Arrival. Page A-3
France and British Foreign Sec
retary Anthony Eden reportedly
feel the Eisenhower administra
tion’s decision to resume a major
role in the Geneva talks has
boosted chances of getting an
Indo-China cease-fire before
July 20. Mr. Mendes-France has
promised to resign if he fails to
get a peace agreement by that
date.
The French and British lead
ers flew back here yesterday
after a quick meeting in Paris
with Secretary of State Dulles
which produced the United
States decision to send Under
secretary of State Walter Bedell
Smith back to the Geneva talks
on Friday.
Partition Likely.
France and Britain appeared
agreed on trying to negotiate a
truce by dividing Viet Nam,
largest of the three Indo-China
states and main war arena, be
tween the Communist-led Viet
Minh and French Union forces.
Mr. Dulles has frowned on
such a partition plan. He and
Gen. Smith had stayed away
from Geneva to avoid associating
the United States with a settle
ment giving the Communists
domination of important North
ern Indo-China areas, possibly
including the City of Hanoi.
There was no confirmation
that Mr. Dulles, as a result of
his Paris talks with Mr. Mendes-
France and Mr. Eden, liked the
idea of an Indo-China partition
any better.
But it was believed the three
Western allies now are much
nearer some kind of under
standing which will allow them
to display a more united front
when full negotiations resume
with Russia’s V. M. Molotov and
Red China’s Chou En-lai.
Would Hold Aloof.
Informants said under one
formula being studied by the
Western allies, the United States
would stand aside without giv
ing moral approval to the parti
tion scheme.
But America would join Brit
ain and France in providing
some kind of guarantees to sup
port and protect the southern
part of Viet Nam, which would
remain under French-sponsored
Chief of State Bao Dai. They
would provide similar guarantees
for the other two pro-French
Indo-Chinese states, Cambodia
and Laos.
Gen. Smith is expected to ar
rive here from Washington Sat
urday and a formal session of
the nine-party conference prev
sumably will be called soon after.
Mr. Dulles refused to return here
himself, flying back to Washing- .
ton. .
Confers With Molotov.
Mr. Eden conferred with Mr.
Molotov last night and got him
to agree to continue private
huddles between delegation heads
until Gen. Smith gets here.
Mr. Eden reportedly told Mr.
Molotov that the peace talks
could be picked up exactly where
they stood when the two West
ern statesmen flew off Tuesday
to meet Mr. Dulles.
Mr. Molotov took a dark view
of the Paris parley and Moscow
Radio charged Mr. Dulles staged
It with the aim of blocking
any Indo-China settlement.
Mr. Chou was openly resentful
about the Paris talk, too, but
went out of his way last night
to generate a feeling of optim
ism that an Indo-China ceasefire
is in the cards.
The Red Chinese leader called
at the headquarters of the Cam
bodian delegation and spent an
amiable hour talking over peace
prospects.
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