European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 20, 1953, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes january 1953 Harriman says West embargo slows Russ buildup 19 Mutual Security administrator Averell h a or i in a n reported that the rate of soviet military buildup has been slowed by the wests embargo against exports of strategic materials behind the Iron reporting to Congress on effects of the Battle loopholes still in the Trade control he called for increased affirmative Meas ures to bolster free world traders against the lure of communist of fers for strategic the act must viewed in a broader context than that of slow ing the Pace of the military build up of nations threatening our be for the policy of the and the free world must be directed toward achieving and in creasing a position of strength on this Side of the Iron curtain rela Tive to that of potential or actual he sums up highlights Harriman report covered Steps undertaken to carry out the act during the last six months of the Law passed in directs the president to Cut off american Aid to any country which in shipping military of strategic goods behind the Iron Harriman summed up High lights of the last six months As these new items added to the Battle act embargo joined the group of nations participating in the Gen eral controls member ship now includes West the and most North Atlantic treaty Organiza Tion new informal committee of nations was established to lighten up the embargo against to communist China and North British Mission visited the in connection with the International Exchange of technical advice and assistance on Export Truman declined to invoke the Aid cutoff provisions of the act with ship ments of strategic items by the France and Italy behind the Iron was made Indevel Oping techniques for plugging some troublesome failed to Block a Trade agreement Between Ceylon and red China whereby the Pep ing regime is slated to get tons of natural rubber every soviet bloc made it increasingly Clear to the world that it is not interested in peaceful East West Trade and is trying to use no strategic Trade in order to get strategic Hartman said that the 16 new to go on the embargo list officially March Are nonmilitary War h policy paved Way for san 19 up Fleet Calm Chester Nimitz said the Allied policy of demanding unconditional sur Render for Germany and Japan in world War ii opened the Way for soviet russian expansion in he said Germany will to de fend itself was destroyed by the surrender terms and the result ing condition created a vacuum in Europe and Russia moved the Admiral said much the same thing happened in the far East with the elimination of Japan As a world he said the result was that we have had to rely on the principle of collective Security to build a he called it a less Satis factory method than the balance of Power theory whereby each nation was charged with looking out for now retired and living in spoke at a crusade for Freedom luncheon the White haired Admiral said that under the collective Security principle America has had to do it All alone because there is no balance of Power and no other nation to Supply the necessary Nimitz is California chairman of the crusade for Freedom which sponsors radio free Europe and radio free the crusade is currently trying to raise in a fund drive scheduled to end l in artillery rakes red patrol in korean Valley bandits get from Trenton Bank 19 three nonchalant two of whom carried sawed off held up the Hamilton Branch of the Broad Street National Bank Here and escaped with the bandits fled in a Black Sedan bearing new Jersey License Trenton police admitted it was the greatest Bank haul in this historic capital cites a dozen in the Bank at the time were ordered to hold up their hands and stand still four tellers and two clerks were told to sit on the floor while one of the scooped All i the Bills into a Large laundry United nations artillery blasts an enemy a korean Valley near in the background is Papasan which was taken by in troops Iii the Battle for Triangle press photo medic chief says wounded getting better care 19 wounded in Korea Are getting faster and better medical care than Ever the top army doctor maj Gen George army surgeon attributed the improvement to the Static condition at the front and teamwork of army com Bat soldiers and mean More work he said the medical picture should improve even More because of armoured vests worn by combat but he pointed out that the vests will mean More work to Doc tors they will get seriously wounded men who would have been killed without Armstrong said that on his korean visit a year ago he thought it next to impossible to Speed the handling of combat but i find the situation better in hand than if that is Navy orders 4 More Vikings 19 the Navy announced it has ordered four More Martin Viking rockets capable of climbing 200 Miles into the new improved rockets will be designed for speeds which would enable if they had sufficient fuel to make a weekend flight to the the Navy said the new rockets Are designed for a maximum Speed of the Navy news release said the Moon could be reached in hours at this the Glenn Martin already has built 10 Vikings for the All but one have been expended in an upper air research program which has been under Way for More than six Armstrong also told newsmen aside Battle the army in Korea is not faced with a single medical problem he soldiers had been troubled recently with an increased number of severe colds and respiratory but almost All cases cleared up in about three there was no indication of any outbreak of influenza in Al though some cases had been re ported in Okinawa and the 6 army prisoners captured in Georgia 19 six military prisoners jumped their guards on an army bus stole two pistols and escaped but authorities rounded them All up with in a few hours after the three were recaptured quickly near the scene of the the other three were picked up by a Paulding county Deputy sheriff and three policemen As they Rode into some 20 Miles from on a commercial the last three to be apprehended were identified As David Lee and Homer both of Knox and Franklin police had arrested Joshn Joe Vance and Wayne All of Pentagon protests segregated schools at military posts 19 the defense department has taken stand against segregated schools on military posts and has sent a specific complaint to commissioner of education Earl Hubert Humphrey d made Public a letter from assistant Secretary of defense Anna Rosenberg to the letter dealt with protests against r a c i Al segregation in schools at Sam Houston an d Bliss in Sill in Oklahoma and Belvoir in Vir Rosenberg said was against the policy of the defense department and president tru she put the matter up to whose office handles Federal education Grants in de sense in a separate called for a statement of policy from Mcgrath was not reached for family of 6 Dies in fire 19 destroyed a two Story farm Home near Here wiping out a family of burned to death were George 23 his 22 and 5 4 and 9 state police fire marshal Stanley Szymanowicz said he believes an old Oil used to heat a but strategically important the strategic item list is but Harriman said new listings fall in these commodity areas five in metalworking two in one in chemical five in electronics and precision instruments and three in general Industrial Harriman acted that american experts have also reexamined a list of items of secondary Strate Gic not specifically regu lation of certain secondary items controls slow buildup discussing achievements of t h e economic defense system to Harriman said it would be dangerously unrealistic to sup pose that the embargo could pre vent creation of a powerful so Viet military he evidence exists that the rate of soviet military buildup had been slowed by the operation of these Hartman reported that the termination Faid provisions of the Battle act have been trouble some because Many countries made commitments to ship Strate Gic goods to the East before the act became examining the relationship be tween strategic and no strategic Trade in relation to the free worlds efforts to impede the buildup of soviet Harriman said the United states policy in this Field May be summarized As lows United states does not object to no strategic Trade be tween the free world and the so Viet the United states Hopes that existing world tensions May diminish and that Trade Between West and East May be Trade must not become a Means by which the so Viet bloc can undermine controls Over Trade in strategic quotes Stalin Harriman quoted Stalin and other communist sources to demonstrate that the soviet Union is interested in Trade with the West for one purpose acquire vital items that it presently in the Long he the Kremlin intends to establish a single trading area within the soviet Empire and eliminate All dependence upon imports from free world he said a secondary soviet objective is to make certain free countries dependent upon Trade with the communist bloc and thus lie at the mercy of the Harriman recommended that americas offshore procurement and stockpiling programs be tailored to assist foreign firms troubled by the embargo and that technical assistance be Given to producers who might feasibly convert from strategic to no strategic production or shift to new Selling markets As Short term fashionable hotel loses bedsheets fiction suit los 19 Samuel Genis was upheld in her right to hang bedsheets tit the window of her suite in the fashionable Beverly Hills the hotel attempted to eject Genis and her husband because of the bedsheets a Superior court judge denied the hotels eviction awarded the couple and their attorneys a judgment and directed that and Genis be allowed to retain their suite until their lease to Aid plunges to death new 19 30 year old television production supervisor fell 10 floors to his death when a fire started his Swank East Side police said John iia Greaves fell out of the bathroom window of his apartment while summoning help to fight the