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Page Fo'jr THE DAILY REPUBLIC, Mitchell, S.D., Tuesday, July 14, 1953 Big Four Meeting 'Out The Window' To Prevent Build-Up Of Malenkov COMMENT By The Daily Republic Editorial Staff Berict Purge Can Be Useful As Propaganda Thr suddrn announcement. Mint Lnv- rrnty Brria. rhiff of thr Rovir! srrrnt pniicr hnrl fnilon fmm P.IMCP in Ilir- com- miim.st. hirrarcli.v has imlra.srcl flood of rout radio lory On nnr linnrl, r.xpcrUs on Russian politics olnim Rcria l.s the author of the rec- rnt. Russian pram offensive that, now hr is in a inil awniMnc, dial, wn ran rxprc'.

ninrr nfOn.sivp.s in thr mid possibly a. clmmr Ui a lint war. On t.ho other side of t.hc fence, exports claim Malenknv, Stalin's successor, really Is the dove of peace In a somewhat pudgy disguise, In between, another group of exports say that while Beria wa.s Mie founder of the peare movement, it really more dangerous than anything wliif.h might be developed by the Russians to bedevil us still further. Now, says the middle group, Russian moves won't be quite so and will be a little easier All of which Indicates only that the. Iron Curtain Is extremely effective.

No export, writing from New York, Washington or Paris, really knows jn.st what the score is in the Kremlin name of musical chairs. There has been no great evidence for that matter, that State Department experts have any clearer Idea of the situation than the correspondents who write the analytical stories. This lack of knowledge Is the United States' biggest single handicap in deal- Ing with Russia. Although the riots In East OeriiTtny started June 17, It was not until last, week that the administration offered food to the East Germans. For more than three weeks, the United States stood by open-mouthed while the r.iots went, on.

Similarly, Berla's purge has left the State Department In state of suspended animation wondering whether It's good or bad and whether propaganda capital can be made of it. At this stage In the game, the only clear Inference which can be drawn from the rloU In the satellite states and the dismissal of the secret police chief Js that the Moscow regime Is not as stable as we had thought. That in Itself could give us propagan- da strength In the struggle with Russia. If the man at the head of the secret police wasn't secure, we can argue now, the general of an army In Korea Isn't secure. Neither Is the company commander nor the platoon sergeant.

The clash of personalities In a totalitarian regime may not mean complete collapse now. But it Is significant and can be more significant If we make use of it. 'New' Order On Books Same As One Joe Hit Now that the smoke of the burning books has cleared away, It turns out that the new State Department directive on our overseas libraries Is substantially the same as the one Issued on Feb. 3, the one Sen. Joe McCarthy first objected to.

The new directive, which seems to stem from the use of a little common sense, goes back to the premise of the first directive: "It is conceivable that the special purpose and character of our libraries may require In special cases, the inclusion of books by Communists or communist sympathizers If such authors may have written something which affirmatively serves the end of democracy." When McCarthy first started his "Investigation" of the libraries aided by his nimble assistants, Mr. Colin and Mr. Schlne, the State Department on Feb. 19 banned books by "communists, fellow travelers, et cetera." Subsequently on March 17, a directive clarifying the directive was Issued In the best bureaucratic style, aided by a little McCarthy confusion, to ban the works of Communists, pro-Communists and "controversial persons." Then things began to get hot, and President Elsenhower made his "book- burning" speech at Dartmouth College, then hedged a little and then finally arrived at a position roughly the same as the State Department's on Feb. 3, B.

M. (Before McCarthy). Last Thursday's directive follows Eisenhower's stand pretty closely. Of course, McCarthy Is still simmer- Ing, not so much because of the directive, apparently, as that someone has challenged his authority as Chief Executive, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and Secretary of State. Dr.

Robert L. Johnson, retiring Director of the International Information Administration, has pointed out, reasonably, "In some cases the most effective way to refute the propaganda of the Communists may be' to turn the words of their own writers against them." McCarthy says a Communist would at all times advance the cause of communism and that further, the United States would be putting ILs stamp of approval on such books, apparently even If they were used as Dr. Johnson suggests. McCarthy calls the section of the new directive on red authors, "completely ridiculous," and South Dakota's Sen. Karl Mundt, who has turned Into McCarthy's Little Sir Echo, pipes up with, "utterly silly." It looks as If Mundt and McCarthy have fallen under the communist spell.

If they think communism doesn't refute Itself and Is so good it must be kept from the people or they'll swallow It, it may be time for an Investigation of the communist connections of the two senators. Thomas WkaL 'YbodLl 'Containment' Bringing Russ Peace Moves fore strive to raise the national standard of living; it must offer more butter and fewer guns. The history of this century is strewn with the wreckage of international conventions on'disarma- ment; and it is extremely difficult to believe in the efficacy of new conventions. Editor's note: Yesterday's Instalment described the great controversy over foreign affairs between the "ponrc" party, led by Malenkov and the group which believes war inevitable. Today's chapter gives the author's prediction of Malenkov's foreign policy.

By ISAAC DEUTSCIIliR Chapter II On 5 and 6 March, the "peace party," led by Malenkov, carried out its coup, placed Itself in power, and at once intimated its desire for an improvement in Russia's relations with the West. The first moves which Malen- kov's government made in this di-j This, however, is the extreme rection were relatively easy to to which it can go. Just as take. The Soviet diplomatic envoys jits predecessor, it will in no cir- were instructed to speak softly. Sojcnmistances accept the demand popular support.

It must to permit free elections in the Soviet zone, without attempting to save the communist government there. The restoration of a bourgeois regime in Eastern Germany is the highest price the Kremlin can possibly agree to pay for the withdrawal of all occupation armies. What must trouble the "appea- But it is possible that now, whonisers" in the Kremlin is whether Russia is moving away from the they can secure a withdrawal even Channel. Stalin era, some of the old obstac- at that price. les to agreement may vanish.

Mal- enkov's government may be more inclined to allow United Nations commissions to travel inside Russia and inspect military establishments. were the Soviet newspapers. The Chinese and North Koreans were promptly persuaded to prepare for the winding up of the Korean war. Overnight they dropped their previous objection to "voluntary rcpatrla-- tlon" of prisoners of war, the objection on which the armistice negotiations had foundered. These first moves made their I impression in the West.

But thej real test of the new policy and at the time of writing i.s, still to come. Has the conflict bet ween i East and West not been allowed toj drift so far as to make a realj easing of tension and conciliation for international ownership or management of the sources of In the long run Russia's proximity and growing industrial strength will most likely secure for her predominance In Europe. This being the case, there is little or nothing that any Russian government, even the most "peace loving," can do to reassure the West. At the most It can pledge itself not to use this position for military or direct political expansion. But will the Western powers Ike Musi Make Over GOP II He's To Slay At Top n.v THOMAS L.

STOKES Republicans of practical politclal experience arc beginning to take ft care ful look at the party situation on the basis of what happened In the last election and what has happen ed In the first session of Congress now nearlng its with a view to the relation of those to the problem the Stokes Party faces In Its first election since its return to power. That election, of course, occurs a year from next November. Going back to the last election, there is the Indisputable fact that It was an Eisenhower victory rather than a Republican Party victory. The President ran ahead of members of Cortgress. In fact, the party barely squeaked through to win control of Congress, which was almost unprecedented when you consider the scope of the Elsenhower landslide, Looking forward to the next election, party strategists come up against the hard fact that it will be members of branch that did not do too well last will be running and carrying the future fortune the party, and running on their own, without the President running at the head of the ticket.

Every member of the House and a third of the Senate will be up" for election. From all reports, President Eisenhower's popularity holds up. But experience has demonstrated thiil such Is hard to transfer In off-year elections the President is not, himself, a candidate. To retain control of Congress, the Republican Party will, In effect, have to reverse a trend that is so customary that It is nearly a rule in American politics by now. Almost Invariably the party in power loses scats in Congress In off-year elections.

If there were the normal off-year loss in the Congressional elections next year, Republicans would lose control of Congress because of the very thin majorities they enjoy margin of one in the Senate of 96 members and 11 in the House of 435 members. Only once in this century has the party in power gained In an off- year election. That was in 1934, two years after the first Franklin' D. Roosevelt landslide, when Democrats added a few to their already heavy majorities. Republicans, If they retain control, would have to do in next year's Congressional elections virtually what has been done only once in half a century.

Because of the times and the nature of Franklin D. Roosevelt's first election victory and, quently, the dynamic leadership he assumed in a crisis, he re-made the Democratic Party into a new party, at least as the public outside saw it, and It became the Roosevelt party. That identification with him may account for the continuous onward roll of the tide toward the Democrats in the 1934 i off-year elections which, it may be TOMORROW: Future Prospects i recalled, reached its zenith in 1936 Domestic Affairs. Three things i when Mr. Roosevelt carried all bu may happen in Russia: 1.

A re- two states, Maine and Vermont. This suggests that the answer for the Republicans, not only for next year's elections, but for any protracted tenure at power, is creation of an Eisenhower party, with his identity so impressed upon the War Criminals' Release Won't Win US Friends Backed by several organizations in the United Slates, a move Is afoot to release German war criminals. At present, the Western powers are holding 788 war criminals who have been tried and convicted of crimes which shocked the world during World War II. Reportedly, England is opposed to the move which has been backed by some as a good way to back West Germany's Chancellor Adenauer in the September elections. "The Germans are a cynical lot and would quickly see through a gesture like this," the English argument runs.

"Adenauer must, be able to appear before the Gorman electorate as a German first and last. The danger is of making him appear to be a stooge of the West," There's merit In the British opinion, and in addition, we can't afford to lose world prestige by releasing former Nazis. We don't have to rely on that kind of help to discourage communism. advent of a Soviet Bonaparte. But if the peace offers made by Stalin's civilian successors were to.fall, it may be with him that the West will havo to deal next.

The day on which a Russian Bon- apnrte rises in the Kremlin may see the end of all self-containment, for the Bonaparte would disperse the party secretaries and ride in blood and glory to the English Middle Border Characteristics Molded A Distinctive Culture Drew Pearson (Editor's note: This Is another in a series of articles on the history of the Middle BorAer area by the art curator of the Friends of the Middle Border museum on the campus of Dakota Wcslcyan University. lapse into a Stalinist form of dictatorship; 2. A' military dic- torship; and S. A gradual evolution toward a socialist democracy. Which will It be? atomic energy and of atomic plant, have confidence in such a commit- If the West insists on this, the'ment, even if it is backed up by deadlock over disarmament restoration of a bourgeois re- continue.

However, disarmament rarely if ever results from formal international conventions. 11 co Dies about spontaneously after a genuine detente lius rased relations between great powers. Since the chief obstacle to such detfiie lies in HIP problem of Germany and Austria, It is there that Malen- kov's government Is likely to seek a new solution. The scope for new solutions, how- glme in Eastern Germany? Malenkov has staked his reputation and perhaps his future on the cess of his peace overtures. For tiie moment the conciliators have the upper hand and the opportunity to put their policies to Middle age, we are told, is the; time of life that affects us in the middle, party that it, too, becomes a new party, That has not happened thus far End Of Boom In Farm Land Prices To Be Key Question In Elections By SYLVIA PORTER NEW greatest farm land boom in the history of the the test.

United States has ended. In the meantime the Soviet op- It may and ponents of "appeasement" stand Iniludging from pre- the background and watch the scene. Should Malenkov's policy fail, they may yet come dramatically to the fore and reverse the extremely difficult or even im-; ev er, is extremely limited. Russia possible. Soft words are certainly cnn probably do nothing more! trend, not enough.

jthan reformulate her proposals for Russia's new conciliatory atti- ia withdrawal of the occupation tude has been In the nature of a The domestic reforms and for unification of Ger-ideluyed reaction to the American vious major cycles in America farm land values during the past 100 years, it almost certainly at some time in the future, but, initialed in Russia strongly suggest of "containing" communism. of now, that the new government is anx-j The Western powers have so far the policy of which George Kennan boom is over. ious to call a halt to the armament 1 rejected these proposals for two race. A Soviet regime freer rea sons. because of the Stalin's needs for its survival firm tug of war in the Kremlin, the pro- THE DAILY REPUBLIC posals have been couched in terms that made them unacceptable from the start.

Published at Mitchell, South Datto-i Rl ssia suggested unification in ta Six Days a week Every Evening Except days Sundays and Holl- the form of a merger between the existing East and West German administrations. The Western powers naturally suspected that such AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER, schemes conceal a Russian design Published By lor Communist "infiltration" of the Vbe Mitchell Publishing Com- hole of Germany; and they de- 'pany, Ronald, President and Editor, Hale Raber. Secretary: Brady, Treasurer RATES IN vll'l- 'chell oy carrier are Una week, 35 cents, 3 weeks. $1000; weeks $150; weeks, tfO; 26 weeks, 12 months. Single sop- les 5 cents each In South Uako- outside Mitchell oy carrier 26 per week By mail in South 'Dakota outside Mitchell, month, 50; 13 weeks.

$3 00; 26 weeks, 12 months, $1000. Outside Dakota oy mail; I month, 9 months, 8 months. 1 year, 00, mandcd free elections in the Soviet zone as a preliminary to further agree If all German parties, including the banned Social Democrats, were allowed to electioneer, the com- unist government would collapse. Until now Russia was not prepared to face this consequence A withdrawal of the occupation MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS I rtie Associated Press la entitled exclusively to use tor re-publica- ol all the local news primed newspaper aa well all oewg dispatches Entered an second class matter the Postofllce, Mitchell, S. under the Act ol March 3, 1679.

armies was therefore out of the question. This, however, has not been the sole reason for the negative attl tude oi the Western powers on the unification of Germany. Equally important has been their fear that the withdrawal oi American forces would automatically result in Russian predominance on the European continent What can Malenkov's government do to break this deadlock? The possibility cannot be ruled out that in their desire to resolve this potentially dangerous situation Russia's new rulers may go BO far is widely regarded as the inspired. Indeed the overtures of Malenkov's government are a signal success of that policy. The new Soviet leaders have acknowledged that the mutual pressure which East and West have brought to bear up one another has resulted in an equilibrium which can form the basis for peace.

The indubibitable success of the American policy of containment, has however, coincided with a crisis of this policy. Its inspirer has left the State Department at the very moment when official Washington might have celebrated him as the victor of the day. A cry to abandon 'containment" in favor of "liberation," a cry overthrow communist regimes in Eastern Europe and China, has gone up. Large sections of American opinion are clamoring for a crusade; and official Washington at times behaves as if It were anxious to yield to the clamor. Should a warlike threat como from the West before the new regime has had the time to consolidate itself, another dramatic shift may occur on the Russian scene: the Maleukov government may be compelled to withdraw and to make room SOT Its opponents.

It may be succeeded by a military dictatorship, a Soviet version of For 12 years, from 1940 to 1953, farm land prices Sylvia Porter Doomed up, up, up to form the upswing on record. But since late last fall, prices of farms, on average, have dropped over two per cent. In such Western cattle state as Idaho, Montana, Utah, price declines have run to seven and eight per cent. It is now unmistakably clear that There are as yet no signs of the the peak of the farm land in 1910. was reached in 1952.

And reports from key cities in the Midwest and West are that buyers are becoming more bargain-conscious by the day; that sellers are pressing increasing numbers of farms on the market and are accepting discounts from their asking prices. To the alert businessman, fully aware of the overall agricultural problem, this hardly should farm real estate among their in vestments. (2) The intensifying pinch on the farmer himself has underminet faith In the profits to be made from ownership of a farm. Prices of the stuff farmers have to sell have been in a brutal slump Vast, embarrassing surpluses farm products have returned to plague farmers and Washington But the prices cf what farmers hav to buy have scarcely budged. In some the cost borrowing cast trem has been up.

Add a fading fear of inflation to a fading faith in profits and you get: the end of the boom. In this century, there have been four sensational cycles in the val ues of farm lands. First, there was the great boon of 1900-1910 which pushed up th values of all American farm rea and buildings a whopping 110 per cent to $34. Then came World War I anc another land boom which farm real estate values to $66.3 bil lion In 1920. Third, came the long, painfu crash which lasted a decade anc a half.

By 1040, farm land value were below even the levels of 1910 were back to $33.6 billion. And fourth, there has been th boom ol World War II and the pos war inflation years. The rise iron 1940 to 1953 was 180 per cent. Val come as a shock. But to most ues at the peak totaled $93.9 bil Americans, particularly those us who live in cities, it's news, You can figure out the reasons The farmer is a key force in ou prosperity.

One-third of our popu lation lives on farms; farmers a huge chunk of our industry's oul put of machinery, trucks, tractors for the end of the cycle without much trouble. To dispense with them quickly: (1) fading fears of runaway inflation in our nation have weakened one of the primary forces under prolonged boom. No longer are city folks avidly bidding for farms as a "hedge" against skyrocketing prices of food and other necessities. No longer are etc. The farmer is a key force ir politics.

Unquestionably, his positio will be a prime issue in the cam paigns of 1954 and 1656. Thus, the "soft spot" the farm situation now represents is of vita wealthy Investors so willing to pay concern to all of us. It'll be mor stiff prices in order to have some i so before it is less so. By WILLIAM F. HOLADAY The college movement was early In the Middle Border.

The year i860 saw Nebraska's Peru State Teachers' College start and a few years later In 1871 came the University of Nebraska. The eight years from 1858-1865 brought Highland, Baker, St. Benedict's, University of Kansas, Kansas State College and Emporia State Teachers' College to Kansas. The decade of the 1880's brought Yankton College, the University of South Dakota, South Dakota State College (A and M), Huron College. Eastern State Teachers' College, Black Hills Teachers, Dakota Wesleyan University, Sioux Falls College, Augustana and the School of the Mines to South Dakota.

North Dakota started its college program In 1883 with Jamestown College. Others were to follow soon afjter. Now there are many throughout the whole area. Some of the more important ones opened since the earlier days are North Dakota's University of. North Dakota, Wesley College, State School of Science, Bottlneau and Wahpeton Junior Colleges and some 20 denominational colleges; South Dakota's Southern State Teachers' College, Northern State Teachers' College, Gene a I Beadle, Wesslngton Springs and Fremont Junior Colleges; Nebraska's Chadron, Wayne, Kearney State Teachers' Colleges, Omaha University (municipal) and such Denominational colleges as ri- cordia, Creighton, Doane, Hastings, Luther, Midland, Nebraska Wesleyan, Nebraska en- tral College, Union, York; Kansas' Pittsburg State Teachers, Fort Hayes State College, Wichita Municipal University and some 18 denominational colleges.

Some of the distinctive things the states have done in education include their many special schools for the blind, deaf, feeble-minded, delinquent, their compulsory agricultural courses, vocational high schools, school guidance programs, schools for dependent children, state school aid for disabled children, hospital schools, school health and nutrition programs, mental health clinics and hospitals, child care centers; Nebraskals Boystown with its world-wide revolution hi the care of neglected children, Omaha University's pioneering in adult education; Kansas' early advances in co-educational education, her anti-alcohol courses, her county high schools, her early manual training course, her practical courses in vocations, home economics, agriculture, industrial arts, her sales tax for school aid, her 21 municipal junior colleges, her emphasis on adult education. Interestingly In some of the colleges such as the University oi North Dakota and Dakota Wesleyan University the regional approach to education is receiving some attention. At the University of North Dakota Indian tribal arts, customs and history are studied while at Wesleyan the approach is somewhat broader and encompasses all aspects of Middle Border culture. The psychology of the sod- house frontier is unique. Possibly due to the rugged physical nature of (he plains, drouths, long, colt) winters, hot suns, winds, dust; possibly due to the isolated nature of the ranch or the farm; possibly due to history's imprint, the long hard struggle for existence; perhaps due in part (o dust- bowl, depression and war, the region has produced a race of hard-bitten individualists with somewhat conservative t- look.

The pioneer spirit however is still present and one can feel the will to-progress all about him. The spirit of hospitality is always noticeable and the region is noted for its Irlen dllnees. There is possibly a more open democracy than Is noticeable in the eastern states. There seems to be less tendency lor a class and caste system to become crystallized. The very freedom and Individualism of the plains seems to foster a more dynamic culture.

With these important elements one notices a tendency towards greater mobility and opportunity than in many other parts of the nation. There also seems to be considerably less discrimination in matters of race (although some is observ' able), religion, economic status, sex, age, nationality. Again per haps this is history's stamp on a There is however one type of discrimination sometimes i cable. People from outside the "Border" are sometimes regarded as "foreigners" and are therefore sometimes embarrassed by suspicious remarks and actions emanating from the older settlers. Hamlin Garland, even though he wrote "A Son Of The Middle Border," had to live here for 50 years before he was accepted.

And all this has produced a certain As one shakes a roughened hand he can sense in the background, the cowpokes, the Indian fighters, the Indians, the pioneers, the homesteaders many races. It is very interesting. This racial amalgam, the tional system and the psychology of the region have perhaps had an effect on the art form. To a museum art curator this becomes immediately noticable. He notes the many Indian motives, By DREW PEARSON Three foreign ministers meeting in Washington have done more talking about probable results of Beria's exit from Kremlin than anything certain result 'A Big Four conference is out the" window." hill was its chief backer and now! Churchill may) shortly retire prime Entirely aside from this, the Big Three foreign ministers don't want to give the stamp of approval to Malenkov by meeting with him at this time.

Such a meeting would build him up In the Russian eyes, make him more powerful In the Our hope is for more division in the Kremlin, not obviously wanted the meeting with Ike and Churchill in the worst way. His ambassador to Sweden urged the Swedish Foreign Office to promote the meeMns this Malik In London also called on Churchill to urge a meeting this Other Moscow aftermaths: More trouble Is expected in the Kremlin. However, no real collapse of Russia Is big alternatives worry Allied 1. Will the Russians be so busy disagreeing that tension with the West will ease or 2. Will Malenkov be so jittery that he'll precipitate war? None of the experts knows the answer.

Russian Blood Over Stalin's blcr, Marshal Beria declared: "Our enemies think our loss will bring disorder in our ranks. They will be disappointed." Beria obviously knew better because he was almost liquidated before Stalin died. He and Premier Malenkov have had a running feud for years. So have some of the other Kremlin leaders Mal- enkov is half Russian, half Tartar. Beria Is a Georgian.

He comes from the same Soviet republic as Stalin. Nikolai Bul- ganin is the only pure Russian among the top leaders of the came to (he Kremlin in 1925 as Stalln'a private secretary. He was recommended to old Joe by Molotov and Kaganovlch, now deputy premier and only Jewish member of the top command. However, Malenkov didn't hesitate (o turn against his sponsors when they put their relatives on the Soviet payroll. On another occasion, Premier Mal- enkov almost came to blows with Marshal Zhukov (Elsen- hower's friend in Berlin).

The row took place in Stalin's villa at Sochi on the Black Sea. Stalin personally separated them. Rival Armies In Russia the secret police has long been almost as powerful as the army. This was true under the Czar and is even more true under the Communists. The secret police, until last week headed by Beria, has its own tank divisions, modern weapons.

The red the many pioneer motives, an emphasis on industrial arts design, a certain preference for functional ranch style architecture, the reemergence of certain classical European motives, a preference for peasant-style crafts, a liking for realistic painting of the romantic type, a preference for massive, rugged and heroic sculpture. All of which seems to be the inevitable result and visual expression of a definite and unique amalgam of ideas and peoples, a distinctive culture. No Favors Given Under New US Attorney General By JAMES F. DONOVAN WASHINGTON (UP) Attorney General Herbert Brownell, recently thanked House investigators for "exposing unsavory conditions which called for correction" when, he took over as boss of the Justice who controls the red army, Mar Army doesn't like the MVD, not merely because of competition but because the secret police has the power to arrest generals, officers, enlisted men, sometimes executes them without trial In the hot and bitter rivalry between Beria and Malenkov, it was obvious'that the man who controlled the red army would red army has now backed first, after Stalin died, it looked as if Beria might win out. For on March 21, two weeks after Stalin's death, Malenkov lost control of the Communist party Shortly thereafter Beria fired top Communist officials in the key countries of the Baltic, the Ukraine, and the Caucasus.

About a year before, he had been forced to purge some of his own friends in Georgia, men he had known in his youth and whom he had appointed to office. The purge was forced on him by Malenkov and Stalin But after Stalin's death he got revenge and kicked Malenkov's friends out of their jobs in these key areas It is now obvious that Malenkov waited, probably buttered up Marshal Bulganin, Department in January. In his first six months on the job Brownell has: shal Zhukov, with whom he once rowed, and using his long experience as a chess player, played them 1. Decreed that the dropping of ff against Beria, whom he hated. tax cases against defendants who claim they are too sick to stand East German Trigger No one trial must be decided in open court know definitely for a long time by the Justice Department.

2. Ordered that decisions on pardons, commutations and tax settlements be made public. 3. Directed department lawyers to devote full time to their government jobs. 4.

Stopped what he called a former practice of giving some cases "special handling basis." on a political 5. Charted an anti-trust policy, while emphasizing that the department will not wink at deliberate violations of the anti-trust laws, 6. Prepared for President Eiseq- hower the tough new security program for government employes. 7. Established a central system to keep tabs on all cases of government litigation.

8. the old Customs Division and transferred its functions to the Civil Division. Less than a month after he tobk office, it fell to Brownell to make the recommendation which resulted In President Elsenhower's first refusal to grant clemency to Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Then, last month when Justice William 0. Douglas granted the doomed couple a reprieve after the Supreme Court had quit for the summer, Brownell persuaded Chief Justice Fred M.

Vinson to convene an extraordinary special session of the tribunal. So far, Brownell has filled about a dozen of thu 15 top policy-making posts in the department. He has replaced 30 hold' over U. 8. attorneys with his own men and 14 more nominations are pending in the Senate.

what finally tipped the scales against Beria. But probably it was the East German riots plus the bog- down of Russian atomic energy. Beria was in charge of the A-bomb program, was responsible for polio- ing East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Malenkov also had the use of the top branch of the secret police, tlje Shmersh. This is the super-duper outfit which spies even on members of the politburo and supersedes Beria's own secret police For some weeks prior to Stalin's death, Malenkov was fabricating Shmersh evidence in order to liquidate Beria, while Beria was fabricating secret police evidence in order to liquidate Malenkov Prior to January, 1953, Stalin had protected his fellow Georgian, Beria, from Mal- enkov. But two months before he died, he switched over to Malen- kov's side.

This was during the did, bloody, much confused haggle over the Soviet doctors who were prosecuted for secretly poisoning high officials Unquestionably, their poisoning was done on orders. Dr. Levin, one of the most reputed Kremlin doctors, had been accused in 1937 of having murdered Maxim Gorky on order of Secret Police Chief Yagoda In January, 1963, nine Kremlin doctors were accused of the medical murder of Andrei Zhdanov and General Alexander Shcherbakov. Beria was blamed by Malenkov for the later Beria attempted to turn this against Malenkov, announced that the doctors had been falsely accused, and it became known that they were acting under.