Economic Aide Sees Uptrend
Sedate and scholarly Dr. Arthur Burns, the ex-Columbia professor, now chief of Presi dent EisenhowerÛªs Council of Economic A d -j visers, went to great pains in explaining to Senators why he had to testify about business recession in secret.</br></br>Dr- Burns, appearing before _ the Joint Committee on the = Economic Report, explained | = that he had been searching his E soul as to whether to testify at'Si all. The way he looked at it. he had a confidential relationship with the President. However, he had given the matter deep thought. Since Cabinet officers are expected to testify, Burns decided he, too. had an obliga tion to appear before Congress if requested. However, he had to insist that no transcript be taken of his remarks of native troops. Radford proposes sending a top United States military man, with experience in either Greece or Korea, to train Indo-Chinese natives.</br></br>This would save French lives, and, he believes, would result in some real resistance against the Chinese-equipped Communists who' since the end of the Korean war have received trainload after trainload of munitions, obviously diverted from the Korean front.</br></br>Sen. Paul Douglas (D-I1L), an ex-professor of economics at the University of Chicago, promptly challenged him. Burns then went into a lengthy explanation, pointing out that in speaking off-the-cuff, he was apt to oversimplify a complex situation or to state an idea more positively than it ought to be expressed. Therefore, he preferred to keep his remarkg informal. If a transcript were made, he said, it would make his testimony appear more formal than it actually would be.</br></br>There was also the possibility, he continued, that he might say something that would appear to be in contradiction of . the PresidentÛªs Economic Report. He hastened to assure that he didnÛªt mean he disagreed with the PresidentÛªs report in any detail. But in the course of speaking, he said, some statement of his might come out on the record that would appear to contradict the President. If that happened, lie added solemnly, and his remark were made permanent in transcript form, he would feel constrained to resign, within the hour.	,