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sr ir" i irv wmmv force" to study federal activities i ioif nt water resources 2C Nov. 12. 1953 ST.L0UIS POST-DISPATCH 2 ST. LOUISANS ON HOOVER GROUP'S POWER TASK FORCE ill IUB v. and power development and trie Upper Mississippi Valley Dl.

vision Army engineer! and a consulting engineer. The task force is headed by Adtn. Ben Moreell, a former St. Loulsan, and chairman of the board of Jones Laughlln Steel Corp. Included in the group's study will be development la navigation, control and reclamation.

Eisenhower's Press Transcript Snyder and Morgenthau Letters Praising White Are Made Public Sister of Deceased Ex-Official Gives Out Notes of Commendation by Former Treasury Secretaries. transmission. Those named were Wesley W. Horner, partner in Horner Shrlfln, consulting engineers, and a member of the engineering advisory committee of the Atomic Energy Commission, and Malcolm Elliott, retired head of Spxltl to th Poit-DUpateh. WASHINGTON, Nov.

12 Two St. Loulsans were named today by former President Herbert Hoover, chairman of a new Commission on Government Reorganization, to a 26-man "task regimentation and of virtual slavery as against the concept ot freedom on which our Government Is founded, then they are not looking this question squarely in the face. Now, the attack against freedom is on many fronts. It is conducted by force, by the use of force and the threat of force, by subversion and bribery and boring from within, it makes It necessary to practice more than ever that old saying, "the price of liberty is eternal vigilance." Now, he thoroughly agrees with those who say we must be very careful how we apply our own activities, our own powers, our own authority in defending a teyl iHi jllli ijik SSI yu feel about my association with Harry while he worked with me in the Treasury, but I want to try to put it into words in the hope that it may be of some comfort to you at this time. "Harry had a keen, original mind.

I threw many tough problems at him but sooner or later he always came up with the answers. "Starting with Sept. 1919, when England went to war with Germany, Harry was ceaselessly doing his part to see that the United States should have a preparedness program. He made many valuable suggestions as to how to deal with the Germans and Japanese. "After we got Into the war Harry was most helpful in seeing that everything was done to I II II I If I III llllt I II It If i.

lVIiUJ UlpHi US-3EUUUVJVi and you'll LOVE 'em! told newsmen and what he has read In the papers. No, he continued, It Is inconceivable. He said he doesn't believe that put it in this way a man in that position knowingly damaged the United States. He said he thinks it would be inconceivable. Q.

(By Raymond Brandt, Chief Washington correspondent of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch) were you consulted while plans were being laid to bring the White story out? You apparently offered The President He replied no, the report was made to him that there was certain information that the Attorney General considered it his duty to make it public, and he (Brownell) did mention the word "White," although as he said, he (the President) didn't know who White was. Q. (Brandt) "Did you know in advance of the plan to subpena Truman, and did you approve? Do you think Supreme Court Justices should be subpenaed by Congress?" The President He said he is not a constitutional lawyer, and would again say the reporter is asking there his personal opinionpersonal convictions. He probably in that position would not do it.

He would think there would be other means of handling it rather than issuing a subpena. Q. (Brandt) "Do you think the FBI report is justified in calling White a spy when a grand Jury refused to believe It on the basis of FBI evidence, that was the grand jury investigation in 1947?" The President He said he knows nothing about it; the reporter will have to go to the record and facts. (Brandt) "Do you think the Administration's action in virtually putting a label of traitor on a former President is likely to damage our foreign relations?" The President He said he rejects the premise, and would not answer the question. Q.

(Brandt) "What effect do you think such an action by the Administration will have on the Russians, good or bad?" The President He said let him say something: Anyone who doesn't recognize that the great struggle of our time is an ideological one, that is, a system of WASHINGTON, Nov. 12. (VP). FOLLOWING are excerpts from the unofficial transcript of that part of President Eisenhower's press conference yesterday dealing with the Harry Dexter White cose. Because the President may not be quoted directly except by special permission, his answer are given here in the third per-ion, Q.

(By Merrlman Smith, United Press) "I wonder If you could us your reaction, your opinion, of ex-President Truman having been subpenaed by the House Un-American Affairs Committee?" The President. Some days back Mr. Brownell, the Attorney General, reported to him that there were certain facts that had been coming to light in his (Brownell's) department that he felt should be made available to the public, and that he (Brownell) felt moreover it was his duty to do so, and he told the President that they involved a man named White, a man whom he (the President) had never met, didn't know anything about. He told him that he (Brownell) had, as a responsible head of government, to make the decision; if he felt it was his duty to make these things public to do it on a purely factual basis. The President said Brownell did tell him that the information had gotten to the White House, and that was all, and so that was his last connection with it until this incident occurred of which you speak.

Now, the President thought once before, before this group, he tried to make quite clear that he is not going to be in the position of criticizing the Congress of the United States for carrying out what it conceives to be its duty. It has the right, of course, to conduct such investigations as it finds necessary; but if you asked him, as he understood it, his personal reaction, he would not issue such a subpena. Q. (By Edward Milne, Providence Journal-Bulletin) "Mr. President, do you yourself feel that former President Truman knowingly appointed a Communist spy to high office?" The President He said the reporter was asking him for opinions, of course, based on nothing else except what he has wage war successfully against the enemy.

"He performed a particularly useful service through suggestions that he made on our relations with neutral countries as to how we could stop them from assisting Germany. "It was Harry and his associates who worked as a labor of love on my book 'Germany Is Our Problem' which in my opinion will grow in importance as a historic document. "To sum it up, Harry was a top flight public servant who served his country well. If I get around to writing the real story of my life In the Treasury, Harry will occupy an important place in the book. satisfy your craving for sweets.

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Now, this is. however, something that is subject to the judgment of humans, and they are fallible, and when they see all of the efforts we have made over these last years rejected he said he meant our measures to make some peaceful arrangement and all the way down the line we have seen secrets stolen, we have seen all kinds of spy-work go ahead, it is sometimes difficult to say there will never be an Injustice. But that, the President continued, must be the true path for every real American, to oppose these ideologies, these doctrines that we believe will destroy our form of government anoCat the same time, ta do it under methods where we don't destroy it. He said he can't define it any better than that. Q.

(By Robert Spivack, New York Post) "Mr. President, taking up your answer to one of the previous questions, since Mr. Brownell has impugned the' loyalty of a former President, and a gTand jury said that it couldn't find a basis for indicting White, don't you think there is a moral obligation to make these reports, FBI reports, pub-lie?" The President He said no, he doesn't believe that you can make FBI reports available, as such. He believes you can extract a great deal of material from them, but there are too many things In them that must NEWTON, Nov. 12 (AP) Mrs.

Bessie Bloom, a sister of the late Harry Dexter White, called a spy for Russia by Attorney General Brownell, has made public letters purportedly written by former Treasury Secretaries Henry Morgenthau and John Snyder praising White's goverament service. Snyder's letter was written April 8, 1947, more than 14 months after Feb. 4, 1946, the date on which Brownell said a second detailed report on While was delivered to Brig. Gen. Harry Vaughan, military aide to the President, for Truman.

The Snyder letter was occasioned by White's resignation as United States executive director of the International Monetary Fund. Morgenthau's letter, describing White as a "top flight public servant who served his country well," was written to Mrs. White on Aug. 18, 1948, two days after White died of a heart attack at his summer home at Fitzwilliam, N.H. He was 56.

Mrs. Bloom also made public a letter from former President Truman, dated April 7, 1947, accepting White's resignation as monetary fund director "with sincere regret and considerable reluctance." This letter had been disclosed before, however. Snyder's Letter. In his letter, Snyder wrote White: Dear Harry: "I want you to know that It is with the keenest feeling of regret that I learned of your intention to resign your position as United States executive director of the International Monetary Fund, although I realize the impelling nature of the considerations which have led you to take this step. "Y'ou have every reason to be proud of your career in Government service, and I am sure you will always look back on it with a great deal of personal satisfaction.

"It is hardly necessary to say that your efforts while with the Treasury were responsible in no small measure for the creation of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the International Monetary Fund. Nor is it necessary to do more than point out that the auspicious beginning made by International Monetary Fund is a tribute to your unstinting labors as this Government's executive director. "With you go my very best wishes for success and the assurance of my warm personal regard." Morgenthau's letter to Mrs. White was written two and one-half weeks after Elizabeth T. Bentley, a confessed courier for a Communist spy ring, testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee that White, as an assistant Secretary of the Treasury before his appointment as monetary fund director on an.

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I Q. (By Koscoe Drummond, New York Herald Tribune) "Without making any premise at all, could I ask you whether you I feel that a charge should be publicly made aeainst anybody, I an accusation, ithout the evl-i dence being publicly made so that the public can assess the basis of the accusation, regard-: less of the FBI?" The President He said he thinks the essentials of the evi-I dence probably have to be made I available; yes, he would agree with that. I He said he believes it Is reck-j less, to say nothing of un-Ameri fore his death. -flj 'jj Hfc (Mm Morgenthau Letter. The former secretary's letter said: "Dear Mrs.

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He formerly was a member of the national group's House of Delegates. He was president of the Bar Association of St. Louis in 1046-47. The new appointment was announced by William J. Jameson, president of the American Bar 1 Association.

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