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Sa Inside India By Ed Sovola 4 EDWARD G. ROBINSON isn’t going to § frighten mie anymore when he snarls on the | screen. He's a sheep in wolf's clothifig, Little Caesar, as I femember Mr. Robinson § best, attended the Murat Temple party for. members of the press and radio last night at the Indianapolis Press Club. He's a quiet little guy with a fair-to-middlin’ handshake. cigarets, Now, plenty sof free loaders were smoking cigarets. Edward G. somehow dqgsn't look right with a cigaret in his mouth. Edward G. doesn’t look right with a pleasant smile on his puss and #4 waiting his turn with the rest*at the bar. You would, T would, expect him to sweep a half dozen comedians in the corner and occupy the bar g himself. , The cigaret bothered me. T asked Little Caesar where his cigar was, He glanced about the room and. in the gentlest voice imaginable said, “I still smoke cigars but I noticed several ladies

up here and I didn't want to offend them with § cigar smoke.”

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“THIS MAN bears watching,” 1 said to myself. Jt was a rather difficult thing to do. There were a couple of photographers about and Edward G. had to be shot often with different fez-topped Shriners. Mayor Clark came up on the act, too. » Edward G. even took part in a gag shot. with a hot seat the Shriners had arranged. Harry Ohge, official Shrine photographer, would trap the unsuspecting guest into having his picture taken for the “magazine.” The victim would be led to a chair, which was wired, and sit between a couple of Shriners. Harry would mess aroupd with his camera and flash ‘it. Besides being blinded, the ham in the chair would get an electric shock. Edward G. was spared although he played the part of a shill once. The Shriners will never work that gag on me again.

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MOST OF the men and women present talked

We chatted a bit abqut the movie “Little

Caesar” and Edward G. tried to recall the gangster that was bumped off in Chicago the day it opened. I didn’t remember.

“He was the guy who . , . you know ., ., .

hiked, . » gave information. , , .,” Edward G. was

uck.

It Happened Last Ni By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, Jan, 25—Congratulate me. Give

me a medal and a plaque. I've found the answer to drinking.

It took me a while, I admit. And I add

(modestly) that I only stumbled onto it. »

Many others have failed. Not Anti-Saloon Ed-

itor Wilson. At first this reformer thought he might have the answer in the new book, “Drink-

ing and What to Do About It,” by William A. DeWitt. ‘ :

Alas, no. In his last chapter he says: “The fundamental truth about drinking for

normal people is that it's fun. Therefore, approximately 90 per cent of the time the answer to the question what to do about it is—go ahead and enjoy it.”

Tsk, .tsk and my, my. He equivocates. He even

illustrates his book with a reproduction of Michelangelo’s painting, “The Drunkenness of Noah.” You may have forgotten about Noah's binge. Personally, I hadn’t even heard of it. "Twould be funny, wouldn't it," if Noah only had one of everything on the Ark, and thought he had two, because he was seeing double? Anyway, we must dismiss Mr. DeWitt as being of no use to us in the battle against John Barleycorn, for he closes his book with a famous Brooklyn bar verse that winds up: “All animals are strictly dry, They sinless live, and quickly die. But sinful, ginful, rum-soaked men Survive for three score years and ten.” Goodbye, Mr. DeWitt, we feaf you're again’ us.

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THE REAL answer was handed to me in a— well, {to be truthful—in a barroom by a guy who is against booze in all forms—except liquid, It is some good sound advice to the man who can't stop. Tt follows: “Since you cannot refrain from drinking, why not start a saloon in your own home. RBe- the

Adversity’s Challenge By Frank Eleazer

QUANTICO, Va, Jan. 25—Some of the Marines in basic officer's school here never had it so good. Their barracks-area looks like a’ college campus. Others live in a military slum, They don’t get out of the mud all week. So which group does’the best in school? Col. David M. Shoup, the school’s boss, said today it’s the mud-dwellers every time. He thinks there may be a lesson in this for the nation’s. colleges but isn’t sure just what it is. “All IT know is that the men working under handicap consisten{ly make a better scholastic record here than those who live under almost ideal conditions,” Col. Shoup said. “When you swap one group with the other, the low scorers become high and vice versa.” : > ' Col. Shoup is commanding officer of the biggest of the Marine Corps schools here. Through his basic school must .pass every new Marine officer, whether he comes up from the ranks or is commissioned from civil life.

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MOST of his scholars are college graduates. During the five-months course they attend class from 8 to 5 Monday through Friday and from 8 to 12 on Saturday. They study such un-collegiate courses as map reading, air support, and operation of the machine gun. Enrollment currently is 1266. School headquarters, and Col. Shoup’s office, is in the main samp area. J. Marine lingo, this is “Mainside.” 8 many of the students as possible 1 : study in this area. x Ne. Ive =u uch loving care has been lavished on this old Marine base. By foxhole standards, life here , is a dream. By any standards it is pretty nice, Unfortunately, the place is bulging at the Seams. Many of Col. Shoup’s students live, eat, sleep and study in a oil stoves, tractors and ditchdiggers, and 'just Plain mud—12 miles removed from the plush officers’ club, the bowling alley, and the moderately bright lights of Quantico. . Officially, this is Camp Barrett. Unofficially, it's the “Boondocks.” It is still under constructien. Officially, that accounts for the mud. Unofficially, some residents doubt that the mud will ever be licked. i In the Boondocks, the uniform is fatigues, even for Lt. Col. Andrews M. Wilkinson, who runs the place. Galoshes are standard equipment, Students wear them to class, to chow; every-

morass of Quorset huts,

where in fact but to bed.

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“WE FIRST discovered what was happening about 15 months ago,” Col. Shoup said. “We had a battalion of students living Mainside and right next door to the class and study rooms; also ‘ close to the mess hall, the post exchange and _ the recreation area. . - “ . “Another battalion was housed just as well but about 10 minutes walk removed from the - area .of activity, This group - invariably maintained the best scholastic average, : “Then we saw.that the same thing applied to the men in Camp Barrett. On one test the Main-

students had a failure rate of 15 per cent,

‘Little Cacsar’ Just ARegul ar G

He smoked

LITTLE CAESAR—Edward G. Robinson, " sheep in wolf's clothing,” chats with Shriner Harry Ohge about oil paintings, not mobs or and he got in , gats or rides.

“You mean he sang, squealed? 1 pigeon, a canary “That's right,” laughed the tough guy of the silver screen who doesn't smoke cigars because it might offend the ladies.

WELL, THEY pounded his ears and shook his hand and snapped his picture. When he came in he said he couldn't stay long. Before going to the Murat Theater to do the show, Edward G. wanted to take a nap. .He wasn't going to partake of food, either. Finally, seeing that he couldn't get away, Edward G. went over to the buffet table and picked up a slice of ham, some beans, three pieces of celery and sliced raw carrots. He chatted with one of the guests as he ate his simple fare. When he put on his hat and coat, as president of the Press Club, I went over to thank him for attending the party. We shook hands. we moved to the exit.

He was always surrounded by a group of admirers who banged his ears about the pictures they had seen him in. think the star of “Darkness at Noon,” would have preferred to sit in a corner or look at the original oil paintings that hang inthe lounge of the Press Club. He told me personally that he liked a modernistic oil a great deal. 30 per cent commission from the sale of these pictureg, I asked if he cared to buy. No. He didn’t like it that well.

Actually, I

Others came around to say goodbye. Edward G. shook hands with everyone in the circle and I got caught again. m@ and I had to grab it. at the door, Edward G. said to Cecil Byrne, Oriental Guide, who brought him originally and introdu¢&d us much earlier, “I'd like to thank the president of the club.” “Here he is,” said Cecil, shoving me forward. Little Caesar stuck his hand out cordially and I grabbed for the third time. “How do you .

Since the club gets 2 shoved his mitt at

Ten seconds later,

+» Ob, YOU'TE ., ...] He's human, he's a gentleman and he shakes hands well. I wish you could meet him.

Saloon Editor Finds Answer to Alcohol only customer and you will not have to buy a

“Give your wife $55 to buy a case of Whisky. There are 240 snorts to the case. your drinks from your wife at 60 cents a snort and in 12 days when the case is gone, your wife will have $89 to put in the bank and $55 to start up in business again. ? “If you live 10 years and continue to buy all your booze from your wife, and then die in your boots from the shakes, your widow will have $27,085.37 in deposit, pay off the mortgage on the house, marry a decent man, and forget she gver

We read this first with a smile. it we saw it was as thoughtful an indictment against boozing as has ever been written. don’t know who wrote it. might make some tipplér tipple a little less carelessly—and we can’t see any harm in that.

On rereading

But we suspect it

EARL’S PEARLS , . . Bachelors can marry anybody they please, notes Wendy Kaye, but

usually they don't please anybody.

FRANK COSTELLO denies the picture of him giving money to bums was a plant. Says some photogs were trying to frame a pix of him against a door with bars and he ran into the Boweryites while taking a side exit. President Truman’s double, who's Truman in “Call Me Madam,” will m. c. the Feb. 8 Eisenhower rally, tabulating donations at an adding machine. Tex McCrary’ll bring a crowd of yelling Texans here to dump money in. (Gen. Ike'll hear it in Paris by radio, but isn’t expected to accept the draft—yet.) . Lots of children become bad eggs, suggests Billy Eckstine, because they've been sat on too long , , , That's Earl, brother.

Mudders Ouiscore Pampered Marines

per cent failed at Barrett. examinations, the failure rate Mainside was 5.09 it was a little over 3 per

To test these findings, and to give all students an equal break, Col. Shoup routed out one group of Mainsiders and sent them to thegBoondocks. The Boondockers came over to Mainside. standings were promptlw réversed.

WHAT IS Col. Shoup’s theory about the magic of living in the mud? “It's a challenge to the men, as I see it,” he “They feel they are working under difficulties and it's up to them to surmount Prevailing opinion among the little less lofty. “Out on the Boondocks,” explained one student, “there's nothing to do but study.” Actually, it is not that simple. Barrett boasts a small movie house and a Quonset officers’ club. However, to get to either one means another bout with the mud. A man who really wants recreation can get Washington, about 40 miles north, if he wants to, “There is-something- about living and working out here in_the field that makes us feel better,” said 2d Lt. Arnold C. Eames, of Falmouth Foreside, Me., who had his turn Mainside and will wind up his course in the Boondocks

students is a

Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith

QI recently acquired an orchid plant but know nothing about how te raise it. Could you me some information? Do not use my name.

A—First let me suggest that you hustle down to the library and consult some of the reams of information on orchid culture before you lose your plant; In the meantime you won't go far wrong if you remember that the big-flowering jungle varieties (which the: unpublished part of the question indicates this one is) need the moist atmosphere of a tropical jungle plus moist air

uerite Smith's Garden Column in The Sunday Times

around the roots, too. To be sure of the first most orchid fanciers raise them in greenhouses. You can improvise .a greenhouse in a big fish tank (glass). if you have one. Or if you're lucky, do as certain clever orchid hobbyists do and keep them happy by daily showerings off. To get moist air around the roots; the plants are potted up in -spme substance like sphagnum moss or orchid peat. When you water them the water drains through instantly but ome clings to the fibrous material to keep air around the foots saturated ‘with ‘moisture. Remembering their jung give them Iftle sun. ;

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 25,'1952 ,

‘WE RUSSIANS CAN'T BE TRUSTED .. . No. 5—

Litvinov's Ss

By RICHARD C. HOTTELET

FORMER Russian Foreign Minister Maxim Litvinov was, politically speaking, the Soviet Klaus Fuchs. The information betraved by Fuchs advanced the development of the, Soviet atom bomb. Litvinov’s warning to me that the Soviet couldn't be trusted or appeased hastened and

strengthened the Western ree

solve to block Soviet aggression. This came at a time when delay ‘er doubt might have made future containment impossible,

It is difficult, and for an outs gider perhaps impossible, to tell. what decisions were made and what plans were dropped under the impact of Litvinov’s words. Yet this much can be said. His views have been top level reference in the State Department ever since he outlined them to me on June 18, 1946. They have been pored over time and again as different problems have arisen. Litvinov may have been ignored and carelessly tossed into the

Kremlin's ash. can. But he

must have had the satisfaction of knowing that the high-

est American officials consulted

him respectfully and often, ” ” \ .

+ FROM the -moment I told the story at the American Embassy, the Litvinov interview was treated as -a state secret of utmost urgency. Ambassador Walter Bedell Smith flashed it to Secretary of State James Byrnes, who was then in Paris discussing questions like Trieste, the Italian Colonies and the future of Germany with Soviet .Foreign Minister Molotov. Mr. Byrnes kept the document in his private safe. In Washington orders were given to keep this message out of the ordinary secret files and to make it available only to a handful of men at the.top. * Litvinov’s warning did not come as a staggering surprise, as far as its substance is concerned. Men like George Kennan and Charles Bohlen had for years been reporting their same basic estimate of Soviet intentions. But I am told that influential quarters in the State Department-—quite apart from

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LITVINOV'S MESSAGE—Flashed from Am-

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bassador Walter Bedell Smith , , . top secret.

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the last chapter of a series describing the astonishing interview given by Maxim Litvinov, former Soviet foreign minister, to Richard C. Hottelet, Columbia Broadeasting System correspondent. It occurred in Moscow in June, 1946. In the conversation Litvinov clearly warned the Western world that Russian policy could neither be trusted nor appeased. Today's installment tells of " the effect of the interview on the American State Department, which was informed of the conversation soon after it happened.

Alger Hiss—had honestly been discounting their reports as reflecting embittered ‘“Moscowitis.” It was impossible for any honest ‘man to discount Litvinov. What is more, here were ‘direct “answers to questions about some of the most. pressing international problems. ¥ u ~ LITVINOV had made it clear that Soviet behavior was not an odd series of cantankerous, unpredictable acts but a solid chain of policy. It was not

based on misunderstanding but on the .deliberate conclusion that the earth is not big enough to permit Communist and nonCommunist worlds to live side by side. Litvinov dispelled Soviet propaganda and encouraged American statesmen to follow their convictions. James Byrnes by that time had no illusions about the Russians. His own offer of a 25year treaty to disarm and demilitarize Germany, designed to

give Moscow its demanded se- .

curity, had been rejected by Molotov out of hand. Important problems such as atomic control were still open, however. Public opinion in the United States, as in Britain and elsewhere, insisted that its diplomats approach the Soviet Union with open minds and be always prepared to go more than half way.

5 ” ” IT IS worth noting the strict secrecy in which the Litvinov interview has been kept for five and a half years, by some eminent friends of mine in journalism and by many people in the State Department, One of the latter, John Davies, was for a brief time last year exposed to the fatuous or vicious accusation of insecurity

imes _

. . . to then Secretary of State James Byrnes as

and disloyalty in the course of a broadside attack. I consulted John Davies before I went to see Litvinov. One indiscreet word from Davies and the meeting would never have taken place. After the event we discussed the material at length before it went off to the Secretary of State. An indiscretion by Davies then would have sent Litvinov to the secret police execution cellar, Yet the old fan apparently died a natural death five and one-half years later. I saw Litvinov again about a week after our conversation. The occasion was a session of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR—the Russian Soviet Federal 8ocialist Republic, largest of the 16 republics, It met in the vast St. Andrew's Hall of the Great Kremlin Palace. It is a huge room, a good 600 feet long, 200 feet wide and 75 feet high. 2 ” ~ WHEN Litvinov - came into the hall he took no notice of the bustle but ambled down the rose colored carpet to his desk in the second row, middle, just in front of the speaker's stand. He carried a newspaper which he unfolded as he sat down. For the rest of the evening I

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never once saw him take his eves off that paper, When he several times prudently raised one hand to vote yes with the other deputies, Litvinov laid the newspaper on his desk and continued to read. To. appreciate the full flavor of this silent demonstration one must know how little the four-page Pravda or Izvestia has to say, and how incredibly dull that is. The following week I tele= phoned Litvinov’s office for another appointment, but was told he was on vacation, On Aug. 23 the announcement of his dis« missal as Deputy Foreign Mine ister appeared in Pravda. 4. nn =»

IN THE winter of 1946 Ame bassador Smith saw him trudge ing along a country road wears ing old grey Foreign Office over« coat. As far as I know Litvinov never again spoke with an American or an Englishman, probably not with any Western foreigner. In his public life Litvinov had deserved very well of the regime, and he had never figured in internal politics. It was said that he lived in Moscow quietly and in comfortable circums< stances. He did not figure in the news again until Jan, 2, 1952, when Pravda announced that he had died two days before,- He was given a second-class funeral with the customary Soviet false pathos. His body lay in state in the conference hall of the Foreign Office, surrounded by wreaths and flowers. A military band played funeral dirges. When the funeral procession was organized it was led by three young Foreign Office men carrying, on small scarlet pillows, Litvinov's Order of Lenin. Order of the Red Banner of Labor and Medal for the Valiant, a run of the mill wartime decoration. » » - NONE of Litvinov’s old colleagues, Maisky, Troyanovsikyor Alexandra Kollontay came to his funeral. The highest rankeing mourners were Deputy Fore eign Ministers Gromyko, Zorin and Gusev. The irony was complete. The robots of the Soviet system were burying a free spirit. They did not know that Litvinov had prepared himself an obituary which Pravda would never print, that he had left a heri. tage of scorn which Josef Sta. lin, now that he knows it, will never forget.

Fear Strikes At Many Korean Families

By GERALDINE FITCH Times Special Writer

PUSAN, Korea, Jan. 25 —The dinner party was almost all women—members of the Nap-Chi Society. In

Korean that means the Association of the Families of the Carried-Off Persons. It was an experience I won't soon forget. Most of those present were Koreans whose husbands were kidnaped by the Communists in Seoul. The missing (there are 86,000 in all, by actual record) include government leaders, educators, newspapermen, bankers, artists, policemen and doctors. : Their families are now greatly worried because they fear ne provisions will be made in

- the current truce talks for re-

turning them from the enemy. “Unless ‘a strong demand is made for the return of the car-ried-off civilians,” one woman told me, “they will certainly perish behind the iron curtain.” ss x = 3

ONE OF THE FEW men present, S. T. Hong, told me almost tearfully of the efforts he had made to locate a sister, the Mother Superior of a con-

.vent in Pyeng-Yang, who along

with her 22 Korean nuns was taken off by the Communists, “S8o far we can find out nothing,” Hong said. It is generally believed that some of those kidnaped have already - died in Communist hands. These include Dr, Kimm kiu-sic, former head of the Korean Legislature. And there is little hope that the Gandhi of Korea, Cho. Man-8ik, is still alive, : At least one of the carriedoff persons has returned after escaping by some clever footwork from imprisonment in Pyeng-Yang.

» » n SHE IS Mrs. Shin-Duk Whang, and seated on the flat square cushions on the floor of a room lighted only by oil lampsy she told of her harrowing experience. Sometimes there was laughter as she talked. More often tears. ; Mrs. Whang, prinicipal of a girls’ schoo¥ in Seoul, was or-

dered by fhe Communists one day to get into a crowded

truck. Also In the truck were

such people as Kim Dong-Won, . vice chairman of the National Assembly; Lee Chung-Ho, president of the Seoul YMCA; and

several ‘professors. from Seoul

University.

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“WHEN the truck got to Pyeng-Yang I was first put into

a prison cell with several other women and later fransferred to a school.

“Trials were held in: the

schoolhouse, Some were sentenced to 10 years or more in prison. Some were given lesser © sentences. My case was unde“cided, :

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Reds, is now believed dead.

EPITOR'S NOTE: Here's ‘the second woman’s-eye-view of Korea by a correspondent who is widely recognized as an expert on the Far East. Close friend of many Far East leaders, she is the wife of George Fitch, YMCA secretary and himself an authority on the area. During World War II, Mrs. Fitch wrote for The Times from China.

5» “The weather was turning ‘colder and I had on only sum-

mer. clothes. We women would stand, huddled together for warmth, . "on ” “THREE or four times a ‘day United Nations planes flew over Pyeng-Yang, dropping bombs. The guards always ordered us to fall flat in our cells during a bombing, but we would lift our eyes to the small- window, to

count the planes.

“One day some other women and I were undergoing an inspection in the courtyard when the planes came - over., The. guards ordered us info nearby bomb. shelters outside the enclosure.” # 2 = el THAT WAS Mrs, Whang's big chance. ‘ “I noticed tat the shelter had an exit at the far end. ‘When the all clear sounded I walked the opposite way from the others and ‘went through the far exit. In the confusion I was not missed until I got well” out into the city. I was liberated a short time later by

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CARRIED-OFF LEADER—D.

r. Kimm Kiu-sic,

United Nations forces who fought their way into the city.” Mrs. Whang said the prisonJers she saw were of three types.

Times Speciak Service

BOU SAADA, Algeria, Jan.

25-—Inflation has hit the Sahara

Desert, “in For the first time In 1200

years sheik and camel .driver ;

alike are hard put to.raise the price of a new wife,

Though the Koran of Mohats

former head of the Korean legislature, taken by the

First, were the patriots, es-

pecially the leaders of Korea's

independence movement. Second, were people of moderate

med provides that every Arab we

male is entitled to four spouses, . C ; the high cost of living is mak-_} ing such marital luxury almost’ -

prohibitive, -» ” FJ

TIME WAS when under the * local marriage contract system a man could have gotten him-

self a nice young wife for six

bags of semolina (a wheat de- ! : rivative and the staff of Arab

life), a bale or two of wool, and a moth-eaten camel. No more. In the last six months, the price of wives has risen nearly

30°per cent.- As a result, a, nice lass will now set your back eight .

of wool, and one young camel

or two old ones. PY

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: CAMOUFLAGE: Hidden under all ‘bags of semolina, ‘three bales veiled Arab woman walking toward Bou Saada, Arabia, a picture that's rarely seen. Along with other problems, her chances of being a wife are a lot less now, Ba ?

means who had devoted much time to cultural, scientific and other interests of their country, Third, were Christians, ~ » - BESIDES fear that the truce talks will not provide for returning the Carried-Off Persons to their homes, the people at the dinner were concerned lest the United Nations forces (they always say “the Amerie can Army”) .should become diss couraged, bored, or dismayed at the heavy casualties and decide to pull out. “If that should happen,” said a Mrs. Namkoong, a woman with an exceptionally strong intelligent mind “it would have been better if the United Nations had not come to rescue us, “Now we are known to ba United Nations sympathizers, If we are deserted, we shall all be ‘Carried-Off Persons,’ or we shall be driven from this peninsula into the sea. We have no other place to go.” . ~ 5 » BUT THE women who have lost their menfolk have too much to do to spend a lot of time worrying. There's a living to be made for themselves and their families. And that can be difficult in a country where men are virtually. the only breadwinners. Some women are working in private homes, others in offices, factories, or with the armed forces. They have even organized a center where homeless widows and their children can live—while they still have a place.

4 Can't Live Like 1 These Days

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