The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 30, 1954, Page 8

AEC DECLARES OPPENHEIMER UNFIT TO HANDLE NUCLEAR SECRETS By WARREN ROGERS Jr. WASHINGTON — The Atomic Energy Commission has nailed down the -ban against atomic pioneer J. Robert Oppenheimer with a 4-1 declaration that he is unfit to handle America’s nuclear secrets because of “defects of character . , , and dangerous as- sociations.” The commission thus closed out late yesterday its role in a long and wordy legal battle with the 50-year-old physicist who was once one of its most trusted advisers, What the next act would bring was unclear. Neither Oppenheimer nor his attorneys were saying what steps, if any, they contemplated. One unanswered question: Would he appeal to President LEisen- hower? The President has declined com- ment in the case since, on his or- ders, Oppenheimer’s security clearance . was suspended last December. Oppenheimer appealed then, and the AEC set up a special security panel to consider his case. It heard 38 witnesses, including Oppen- heimer, and on May 27 voted 2-1 against him. Oppenheimer, in New York last night after the commission re- leased its decision upholding the board’s ruling, had no direct com- ment on the majority report. But he voiced confidence in the will of America’s scientists to “work faithfully to preserve and strengthen this country.” And he praised Dr. Henry D. Smyth, the only commissioner to recommend reinstatement of his security clear- ance, as having rendered a “fair and considered statement.” The majority report was signed by AEC Chairman Lewis L. Strauss and Commissioners Eu- gene M. Zuckert and Joseph Camp- bell, both of whom appended state- ments of their own. Commissioner Thomas E. Dor agreeing with them that absimar'stocld be denied access to secrets, wrote a separate opinion which said; “Dr. Oppenheimer was disloyal” in the sense that he dis- Tegarded security regulations. But Mr. Smyth, a Princeton scientist whe worked with Oppen- heimer in wartime development of the atomic bomb, strenuously dis- agreed with his four colleagues. “He is completely loyal,” wrote Smyth, “and I do not believe he is a security risk.” i In Congress, Rep. W. Sterling Cole (R-NY), chairman of the Sen- ate-House Atomic Energy Com- mittee, said he sees no rant to challenge the commission’s deci- sion. He said there had been no Tequest for any move by the comi- mittee, which keeps tabs on com- mission activities. Oppenheimer, now director of a private research group called the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, N.J., winds up his ca- reer as an AEC consultant today, | with expiration of his contract. The security board which weighed his case last spring heard a half-million words of testimony and ruled Oppenheimer was loyal but a security risk. : As the commission majority saw it, the issue was whether it was in the interest of national security to let Oppenheimer see “some of the most vital secrets in the pos- session of he United States.” “Substantial defects of char- acter and imprudent and dan- gerous associations, particularly with known subversives who place the interests of foreign powers above those of the’ United States, are also reasons for disqualifica- tion,” said the report, and it added; “. . . We find Dr. Oppenheimer is not entitled to the continued confidence of the government and of this commission because of the proof of fundamental defects in his ‘character’... “We find that his associations with persons known to him to be Communists have extended far be- yond the tolerable limits of pru- dence and self-restraint which are to. be expected of one holding the high positions that the government has continuously entrusted to him since 1942.” To this, Dr. Smyth dissented: “I cannot accept this conclusion or the fear behind it.” He said Oppenheimer had been closely watched, by professionals as well as by “amateurs” with a grudge against him, for much of 11 years—as head of the Los Alamos, N. M., laboratory which | developed the A-bomb in World War II and, later, as head of the AEC advisory committee until 1952. Through it all, Smyth argued, there has been no evidence that Oppenheimer ever leaked atomic secrets. “I am confident,” he added, “that Dr. Oppenheimer will con- tinue to keep to himself all the! secrets with which he is en- trusted.” The majority said no importance was attached to allegations that Oppenheimer hurt the nuclear pro- gram by opposing all-out H-bomb development efforts and after for- mer President Truman ordered it | f in 1950, failing ‘to give it his en- thusiastic support. “Dr. Oppenheimer was, of course, entitled to his opinion,” said the majority. The majority said Oppenheimer’s past contributions to the A-bomb program were taken into account, but so, too, it said, were the de- mands of he jobs he was called upon to fill. “A government official having access to the most sensitive areas of restricted data and to the: in- nermost details of national war plans and weapons must measure up to exemplary standards of re- liability, self-disipline and trust- worthiness,” it said. “Dr. Oppenheimer has fallen far short of acceptable standards.” What he did: instead, the report said, was “consistently place him- self outside the rules which govern others.” It said he lied about se- curity matters and _ repeatedly. showed a disdain for “the normal and proper obligations of security.” To this, Smith responded that the security system “‘itself is noth- ing to worship—it is a necessary means to an end.” ST A. And’ Oppenheimer achiev: al end, he contended, by keeping to himself the many secrets with which he was entrusted. “In these times, failure to em- ploy a man of gréat talents may impair the strength and power of this country,” Smyth said. “Yet, I would accept this loss if I doubted the loyalty of Dr. Oppenheimer or his ability to hold his tongue. I have no such doubts.” On the question of Oppenhei- mer’s character and associations, the majority report singled out his relations with Haakon Chevalier. There was testimony that Chev- alier, a long-time friend, ap- proached Oppenheimer in 1942 or 1943 with a suggestion that one George Eltenton had means of get- ting information to the Russians. There was further testimony that Oppenheimer rejected any idea of slipping secrets to the Russians, but did not report the incident for months and ‘then gave a version he later called a ‘‘whole fabrication and tissue of lies.” Either Oppenheimer was lying in 1943 or he committed perjury be- fore the security board this year when he said he was lying then, the report commented. Smith, in his dissent, called the Chevalier incident “reprehensible” and “inexcusable.” But he said there was “‘no subsequent act even faintly similar” and he doubts Op- penheimer would make the same mistake twice. Smyth said the evidence sup- ‘ports Oppenheimer’s frequent de- nials that, while at one time a fellow traveler, he was ever a Communist. “Keys Of The Kingdom” Is Here Again From the living pages of one of the best-loved best-sellers, “The Keys of The Kingdom” by A. J. Cronin, Twentieth Century-Fox’s movie version, an encore triumph, is being brought back by popular demand to the Monroe Theatre starting Sunday. The role of Francis Chisholm, the young Scotsman, whose life story is the basis of the film is taken by Gregory Peck. Both psy- chologieally and from the stand- point of make-up, the role which Peck essays is one of the most am- bitious and difficult he has ever at- tempted. Peck’s characterization Tanges from a young student to 70 years of age. Few pictures have ever come to the screen with such a long and impressive list of character ac- tors as “The Keys of The King- dom.” Thomas Mitchell is seen as Willie Tulloch; Vincent Price plays Angus Mealy; Rosa Stradner plays the central feminine role of Maria- Veronica; Roddy McDowall as Francis as a boy; Edmund Gwenn is Bishop “Sandy” MacNabb; Sir Cedric Hardwicke is Monsignor Sleeth; Peggy Ann Garner is seen as Nora as a child, with Jane Ball carrying the role to womanhood. James Gleason and Anne Revere are also featured. The more than 70 sets seen ia “The Keys of The Kingdom” rep- resents the peak achievement of Art Director James Basevi and William Darling. The Pai Tan docks were the largest outdoor sets ever constructed on the Twentieth Century-Fox lot. Joseph L. Man- kiewiez produced and John M. Stahl direpted the drama. First script treatment was given by Nunnally Johnson; final screen Play was written by Mankiewicz. Long Way Round OWOSSO, Mich. (—The Corunna Milling Co., three miles away, sent a letter containing a $109 check to Dr. H. M. Allshouse, an Owosso dentist two months ago. day—after traveling 7,000 miles to Ttaly and back. A brief note in Italian accom- Panying the letter said it was found in a newspaper mailed to Dr. Vincempo Spatore by his par- ents in Owosso. Charles Kress, first baseman ac- quired by the Dodgers from the the off-season. | Tigers, sells automobiles rl SKATING PARTY—Members of the city-sponsored Friday night skating club are shown on the basket- ball court at Bayview Park. The club is under the auspices of Mrs. Dorothy Thompson, program director for Bayview Park. Membership in the ska‘ Friday nights.—Photo by Spillman. ting club is attained by wearing a pair of skates to the park on Belgrade Cab Drivers Fight To Stay Free By ALLEN JACKS BELGRADE, Yugoslavia 1 — Belgrade’s independent, non-nation- alized taxi drivers are fighting a tooth-and-nail battle to stay that way. Their strange weapon: keeping fared down. The drivers, who jockey ancient rattletraps of many makes, are battling for survival against shiny new streamlined American cabs operated by a state-owned “‘enter- prise.” And the independents seem to be winning—by forcing their na- tionalized competitor to operate at a loss. The capitalist-Communist feud, unusual but not unique in Commu- nist Yugoslavia, began six months ago when the enterprise launched a new, modernized taxi fleet. It sold all its old jalopies and im- ported 24 medium-priced Ameri- can cars. With import duties and a com- plicated government tax called a “factor,” each car cost about $20,000, or a total of $480,000 for the fleet. The enterprise had only $70,000 in cash from the sale of its old cabs. It obtained a $275,000 subsidy from the city of Belgrade, and borrowed the balance of $135,000. Now, reports Belgrade’s Evening News, the enterprise is in ‘‘serious financial trouble.” It can’t pay off its debt. It can’t get an additional subsidy. And it needs to double fares to meet current expenses alone, That’s where the independents come in. Higher fares, they say, would put everybody out of bus- iness, including the enterprise. Even the present fare (25 cents a mile), say the independents, is too high for the average passenger. They blame the situation on ex- cessive taxation. This leaves the enterprise on the brink of disaster, and the independ- ents know it. Veteran Will Be Buried In Slanting Tomb ONARGA, Ill. (—A war veter- an’s body will be buried tomorrow in a slanting tomb and packed with cement but no one in Onarga knows why. Frank Grove, 69, a soldier in the war with Spain, the Mexican border expedition and World Wor I, died ; yesterday in a soldiers home in Washingtou. A decade ago he built a tomb standing at a 45~degree angle. He often showed the tomb with pride to his friends but none of the elder- ly Onarga residents recalls why he built it on an angle Elmer Natterstad, Onarga mor- tician, said he has been instructed to remove the body from the cas- | ket, wrap it up in canvas and en- The letter was received yester- | A ‘ case the body in fresh cement. He said he will carry out the instruc- tions. The tomb has this inscription: “He was well born and is sealed in cement beneath.” OUTLAW IS LAW MAN YUMA, Ariz. #—Jack Outlaw has been appointed state cattle in- spector to check brands and stolen stock. Churchill To Lana Turner Tell Canadians |Has Unique Of Conference |Dramatic Role By RELMAN MORIN OTTAWA ® — Prime Minister Churchill meets today with Canadi- an government leaders to describe his Washington conferences and to explain disagreements over policy between Britain and the United States, Any policy differences between the two major Western allies are of supreme importance to Canada. For while this country is a mem- ber of the British Commonwealth and strongly tied to Britain in many ways, it also is powerfully influenced by the pull of Ameri- can policy. Hence Canadians hope at all costs to avoid a situation which might force them to choose between widely divergent British and American policies. Perhaps recognizing this, Churchill said yesterday, “Canada is the master link in Anglo-Ameri- can unity.” He made the statement as he landed at a military airport in Ot- tawa, coming from Washington. The capital gave him a 19-gun salute and full honors at the air- port and in front of the hotel where he spent the night. He looked tired, but smiled and flashed his V gesture. On the whole, Churchill will prob- ably find considerable Canadian support for the positions he took in Washington. Canadians say their government would not favor a Southeast Asian counterpart of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization — at least now — because they do not feel Canada can undertake any more military commitments. Canadian troops are serving both in Korea and in Germany. On the question of recognizing Red China, too, Canadian opinion, as described by officials in Ottawa, runs closer to the London line than j to Washington’s. Canadian officials, like the British, tend to take the view that the Communists are in fact in con- trol of China, governing it now, and likely to stay for the foresee- able future. Hence they generally believe the Red regime should be recognized officially. In the same way, they tend to favor further attempts at what Churchill called in Washington “a patient, cool, friendly examination of what the Russian intentions are.” Big Profit Made On 15c Coffee MIAMI, Fla. —Fifteen cents per 4 of cee gives restaurants more than per cent gross profit, says Dr. Roberto E. Canessa, min- ister of foreign affairs of El Sal- vador. Dr. Canessa told the Chamber of Commerce of the Americas here yesterday that the public shouldn't blame coffee producers for these prices and said govern- ment leaders “have leaped on the coffee price bandwagon.” He said 1 cent per pound increase in the price of coffee costs Ameri- can consumers 27 million dollars, but four fifths of this remains in the United States. Married graduates of U.S. col- lege classes of 1944 have a larger average number of children 10 years after graduation than do the 1921 graduates, says the Population Reference Bureau. The story of a girl who has had to struggle through Europe’s diffi- cult post-war years and who uses her striking beauty to get what she wants from men, offers Lana Tur- ner an outstanding dramatic role in “Flame and the Flesh,” new M-G-M picture opening Sunday at the Strand Theatre. Pier Angeli and the talented young screen newcomer Carlos Thompson co-star in this compel- ling tale of love and disillusion- ment, filmed in Technicolor by Di- rector Richard Brooks in Italy, against backgrounds of Naples and the picturesque resort towns of Positano and Amalfi. Miss Turner is cast as Madeline, who meets the gentle young musi- cian, Ciccio, in Naples, and tricks him into letting her live in the apartment he shares with his friend, Nino, a carefree cafe sing- er. An inevitable triangular situa- tion results, with Ciccio coming to adore the seductive Madeline, who is able to twist him around her little finger, but with Madeline in- tent on breaking down the reservé of the more worldly-wise Nino, who is engaged to Lisa, the daugh- ter of his employer. In scenes of vibrant emotional intensity Made- line succeeds in making the young cafe singer forget everything and everyone except herself and the pair run off to Positano on the eve of his wedding to Lisa. Their idyll is a brief one, for Madeline cannot resist the flattering atten- tions of other men and in the end, knowing she cannot make Carlos happy, she sends him back to a forgiving Lisa. Lana Turner offers an incisive and emotionally taut performance in the role of Madeline, a girl who lies, connives and cheats, but who, product of years of poverty and loneliness, reveals a unique strength and courage in her des- perate attempt at self preserva- tion. It is one of her finest charac- terizations. Pier Angeli contributes a per- formance of contrasting. shade as the girl of sheltered upbringing who offers an unswerving devotion to the man who has asked her to be his wife and then deserts her. Carlos Thompson plays this Lo- thario with an infectious charm which makes his easy conquests understandable. Also beguiling is his singing voice heard in a num- ber of lyrical Neapolitan songs throughout the picture. Bonar Colleano wins sympathy as the shy and trusting Ciccio, who falls head-over-heels in love with Madeline, and there are excellent supporting performances on the part of Rosalie Crutchley as a wo- man who has lost her hold on Nino, and Charles Goldner as Mondari, the Amalfi cafe owner whom Made- lime rejects in the story’s final epi- sodes. Watch TOMORROW'S CITIZEN For Announcement NAVARRO’S 38th Anniversary SALE Bombay State Head May Be Heir To Nehru NEW DELHI ® — If Bombay state’s chief minister starts pack- ing his bags for a shift to Delhi it’s a sure sign, say Indian politi- cians, that he has been tagged as heir apparent to Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Thus far Morarji Ranchodji Desai has not reached for a single suitcase. But it’s not, say his as- seciates, because he hasn’t been asked. “Morarji has two reasons for staying out of New Delhi,” says an associate who has discussed with the chief minister reports he will become Nehru’s deputy. “In Bombay he is the boss. But in Delhi he would be just a small frog in a big pond, just one of the team under Nehru. ru’s heir apparent pinned to his coat, he will be the subject of poli- tical sniping by every aspirant for that job in the Congress party. They may even gang up on him.” It is no secret that Desai would like to be prime minister when Nehru steps down. But he is hope- ful of making it in a single jump from the Bombay state. As a member of the Congress party’s Working Committee — and its treasurer — Morarji Desai is already a potent member of the Tuling party’s top command. A vigorous 58, he is young among the party’s leaders. There is about one pound of salt in every four gallons of sea water. “But there is a more compelling F reason. If Morarji joins the central } government With the label of: Neh-} chief ministership of. Page 8 Casinos See Big Year Of US. Patronage BADEN-BADEN, Germany (®— The croupiers at Baden-Baden’s |famous gambling casino are bon- jing up on their English. Once, French, German and perhaps Ital- ian sufficed. But these days the “|“Spielbank” sees more Americans than anyone else, be they officers and civilians stationed in Germany or part of the tourist crowd. As a result, this looks like this watering place’s best year since before the war. A tropical garden in the Black Forest, the town of Baden-Baden has attracted kings, nobles and shoe manufacturers, butchers, bakers and candlestick makers for many generations. The hotels are jammed. So are the places where maladies are treated with a series of “baths,” THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Wednesday, June 30, 1954 hot, saline waters that gush from the earth and apparently have some properties to alleviate arth- ritis, rheumatism, gall bladder troubles, and even nervous tics. The French still more or less “occupy” the area—it’s part of their zone—but these signs are fast disappearing. The visitor taking a “cure” is now king. Some doctors scoff at the baths. But old-timers who have been com- ing here for years are still ambling around at incredible ages, able to pack away three square meals a day without burping and they con- |tend there’s something to it. The bouncing American now holds sway in the gambling house, plus the newly rich German indus- | trialist. 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