But Pledges Other Methods to Have Men in China, Cuba and Europe Released

Seizures Stir Capital

Knowland and Bridges Call for Ultimatum to Castro on Return of Hostages

Transcript of the Dulles news conference is on Page 8.

By Jack Raymond
Special to The New York Times

WASHINGTON, July 1, Secretary of State Dulles said today the United States would never yield to blackmail to obtain the release of Americans held hostage abroad.

However, Mr. Dulles said, the United States would use any other "proper methods" to obtain the release of the detained Americans.

The Secretary of State discussed at his news conference the fate of four Americans held in Communist China, nine in East Germany, nine in the Soviet Union and forty-five in Cuba. [Question 28, Page 8]

The harassment of the United States through detentions and kidnappings all over the world aroused many in Washington.

At the White House, James C. Hagerty, press secretary, said that "the Government is doing everything it can to get the people returned."

At the Capitol, Senator William F. Knowland of California, Republican minority leader, proposed that the United States send arms to the Cuban Government unless Fidel Castro, the rebel leader, returned within forty-eight hours the Americans he had kidnapped.

Senator Styles Bridges, Republican of New Hampshire, also urged a "tougher" approach to the Cuban kidnappings.  Asked whether United States Marines should be used to rescue the kidnapped Americans, Mr. Bridges snapped:  "I'd get them out."

Representative Victor L. Anfuso, Democrat of Brooklyn, sent a telegram to Secretary Dulles urging him to demand the release of the Americans "within forty-eight hours."

Predicting that it would be "counter productive" for those who attempted to blackmail through kidnappings and detentions, Secretary Dulles summarized the latest developments as follows:

Communist China--The United States is preparing a note proposing to shift from Geneva to Warsaw the diplomatic talks pertaining to the release of the remaining four of seventy-six Americans once held in Red Chinese prisons [Question 14].

East Germany--The United States demanded in a second note today that the Soviet Union arrange to end the "prolonged and unjustifiable" detention of nine United States Army men who were seized when their helicopter landed in East Germany June 7.  Mr. Dulles said their detention was part of an effort to force the United States to recognize the East German Government [Question 23].

The Soviet Union--The Secretary assailed as "preposterous" the Soviet charge that a United States plane that was forced down by Soviet fighters last week had deliberately violated the Soviet border.  He noted that the plane, which carried nine men, was unarmed and flying in a heavily armed and militarily "sensitive" Soviet area [Question 31].

Cuba--The Secretary said the kidnappings appeared to be prompted by the rebels' desire for United States intervention in Cuba's internal affairs.  He emphatically denied rebel reports that Cuban Government forces fighting against them were refueling planes at the United States base at Guantanamo Bay [Questions 31, 32].

The Secretary said it was impossible to treat these cases as though they were all alike [Question 28].  There is no relationship, for example, between what is happening in East Germany, or in China, and what is happening in Cuba, he remarked.

"I believe that we have taken, and are taking, the strongest, most effective measures that we can to get Americans out," he said.

"The effort to get political advantage out of these things is, I think, a very improper course of action.  I believe that it is going to be counterproductive for those who try it.  I think that as soon as they realize that it is counterproductive that then they will act accordingly.

"I can't think of anything that would be worse than, in effect, to pay blackmail to get people out.  We are willing to use any proper methods to get them out short of paying blackmail.  If we started doing that, then that would only encourage further efforts to use Americans as hostages."