European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 3, 1953, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes Friday april 3,19s3 says Security leaks giving foes vital data /. V. Cd. / orders closer guarding of secrets. Washington april 2 up defense Secretary Charles e. Wil 7 son said last night that America s enemies Haye Learned vital military secrets through recent Security breaches and ordered a lightening up of Security instructed the three serv ice secretaries the joint chiefs of staff and. Other High officers to take immediate action to prevent unauthorized disclosure of Mili tary secrets. He said leaks have seriously affected the National Security.". He told them to warn All personnel under their supervision of the consequences of letting secret information become Public. Asks courts martial he called for disciplinary action including courts martial for Mili tary personnel and prosecution under Federal statutes of civilians who breach Security rules. Action against military men in cases of future violations should be taken regardless of rank or .position,11 he said. Two memorandums dated March 36 and covering the subject were made Public by the defense department. They did not specify what specific Security violations Wilson had in mind. Defense sources said however that the Secretary was particularly irked in recent published Dis closures by newspaper columnists dealing with the state of the nation s defences. Wilson said Security breaches had provided vital intelligence to countries hostile to. The United states. The expenditure of lives and of the wealth of our citizens in the present defense Effort makes it mandatory to insure that our military secrets Are not dissipated. Prince president meet in . Wilson tells Senate pm Stock All sold Washington april 2 a Secretary of defense Charles e. Wilson advised the Senate yester Day that he has disposed of All of his general motors Stock Worth about $2,500,000. He wrote chairman Leverett Sal Tonstall a mass of. The Senate armed services committee that he Iliad retained no beneficial interest of any kind whatsoever in., any of this Stock and had made.-, no agreements or understandings forts repurchase. Wilson is a former president of general motors. When he was nominated for Secretary of defense. Salton stats committee insisted he just dispose of his Stock to qualify for the office since general motors was a Large defense contract " to Italy n jew y o r a april 2 Gen Alfred m.,Gruenther declared yesterday the free world May be faced with a period that will make the hardships and sacrifices of the last two years look told this Senate foreign relations committee the Basic threat to Western Europe is unchanged but that Allied forces there Are to longer a the chief of staff to Gen mat thew b. Ridgway at shape he said that within a few years we shall have forces of such strength As will make aggression chairman v Alexander Wiley a. Wis said Gruenther told a closed door meeting the soviets still have 4,000,000 men under arms and the effectiveness of. Their land forces is increasing their air equip ment is improving and that their satellite forces have been increased materially. While satellite strength does not constitute a serious threat now the general asserted the soviets have been putting considerable emphasis on that aspect of their Power. A major element of soviet for eign policy now he said is. Apparently to separate the . From its allies. Combating that Effort Gruen ther declared Calls for All the Wisdom and understanding Jahaf can be brought to _ the Basic fear of Many euro peans is still to what extent the . Is going to stay with the nato rearmament project he testified. Liis fact emphasizes the . Position of leadership in the world which is almost unparalleled in history. The Success of nato and possibly the preservation of civilization As we know it depends on How Well the . Exercises that leadership. The question is no longer whether or not Germany should participate. The question is the Best Way to do advises caution Wiley reported Gruenther said current peace feelers from soviet Russia should be thoroughly looked into and carefully evaluated. He said Western Europe s forces could not meet a determined so Viet All out attack at this time. But if we Are Able to keep the Curvat of strength going upward and Bear sacrifices economic and otherwise we shall be Able to have such forces As will make aggression unprofitable in the foresee Able leaves tomorrow for shape. Gruenther said France is the key to ratification of the european defense Community treaty. He said expected France to ratify it but would not speculate on How Long it win before the French. Act. Ringling Bros. Opening stars soy Woider new York april 2 of americas biggest circus opened at Madison Square Garden last night Secretary of state John Dulles warned sen. Joseph r. Mccarthy a wis yesterday of the dangers of meddling in foreign affairs and Mccarthy promised cooperate in the but Mccarthy left open the question of whether he would off his controversial negotiations to get greek shipowners Here abroad to Stop Trade with red China. Dulles had lunch with Mccarthy at the senator s request. It came in the Wake of an explosive tear ing at which foreign Aid chief Harold e. Stassen accused Mccarthy of undermining broader administration efforts to halt Trade behind the Iron curtain. Afterwards Dulles issued a state ment approved by the senator which " indicated that Mccarthy would leave such activity in the hands of the state department. When he returned to the Capitol however Mccarthy told reporters has t called anything Oil i Haven t called anything in or off our investigation of greek Trade with red China is still he had said before the lunch that the main thing he wanted to find out was whether Dulles approved of his going ahead with the greek negotiations. The state ment issued by Dulles left Little doubt that he does not. But Mccarthy refused flatly to say if he had promised Dulles he would refrain from such private negotiations. " i would t say negotiations is the right word he said. If in the future any group of shippers agree to withdraw from the China Trade we will report it to the newsmen told to wait pressed on the Point the senator advised newsmen to wait until other groups voluntarily withdraw their ships you la be Mccarthy had announced last weekend that greek owners in this country of 242 vessels had prom ised his Senate investigating sub committee to take the ships out of Trade with communist ports. He said he was negotiating with the Thors and said Steps to those on the shelves Are in Way. Mrs. Utley British born sex con Monist said she examined Juv is formation service. Libraries in hate Burg and other German cities to .0 a. 01 us sit Outh be v Frei of in Sio Haj coi act the of Ito the act Nev Doe a Dat an the oct Gerb. November and found few bods opposing communism in the Tal j101 logs. The few listed were hard is a find she said. She said she found a Shockl example of books by in the Cata logs the tempering of Russia by soviet propagandist t Ehrenburg. She also found to by Agnes Smedley Howard and what she called pro nist propagandists Johannes and Corliss Lamont. No anti communists a tray mrs. Utley said there anti communist Section Library Cata logs she examined blamed this on a 1945 order Allied occupation Council u books unfriendly to Powers were to be made a to the germans. She said the was drafted by soviet Grigori k. Zhukov. Under this order she said her own books was Barret said what she called one Best anti communist books washing in red China Hunter was not on the Columbia University tuesday it is dropping or fish from its staff at the end current academic year. It i political activities had no do with the decision. Or. Weltfish refused to Senate internal Security Mittee last oct. 13 whet had Ever been a coi Amii refused yesterday to tons about past or Imprest film monism on grounds her might tend to 3 the Eft 10-Day House easter Washington april the House unanimously a 10-Day easter recess the Senate gave its a Aasby recess april 13 wot Sta tomorrow s routine session
