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TWO NEWS-REVIEW, ROSEBURG, OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 20. 1948 Russian Machinery Shows Flaws In Handling Berlin Situation By JAMES-THRASHER-An article In the Dally Worker, New York's Communist newt paper, has come up with an explanation of the Berlin "crisis" which Its author carefully keeps in quotation marks throughout. The crisis, says the article, is the result of the United States' efforts to implement the Marshall Flan. This is an Interesting state ment, particularly since the ar ticle makes no effort to perpet uate the fiction that the blockade of Berlin ta due to railroad re pairs, broken canal locks, and so on. Nor does it try to Rive the impression that the blockade Is something decided on by the local Soviet military authorities in Ber lin. The Worker, like every other Communist publication and Indi vidual, gets its cue on important policy from the propaganda feed box in Moscow. 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Phone 121 which Moscow had kcot silent about for so long. Uim-ss the Communist press has suddenly gone In for unauthorized think pieces, we may assume that the Worker's explanation was the first frank one to come out of Moscow. Clumsy Maneuver The article, not surprisingly, Is a little careless in matters of tact. For instance, it ImDlles that the proposed government for western (Jermany is a part of the Marshall Plan, which of course it is not. The writer also makes the illuminating disclos ure mat tne western powers instituted the blockade of water way Into Berlin. This state ment appeared on the same day that a news story carrlpd a Rus sian "explanation" that they were not permitting barges to enter uernn Because of repair work on a lock. Errors aside, however, if this Is a Soviet-sanctioned explanation of the Berlin blockade, then the maneuver is even more clumsy than it appears to be. If it was decided on as a reprisal for the European aid program, then It Is a childish and spiteful gesture unworthy of any government. If It is being used to force the : United States. Britain and France to abandon their plans for a i western German government, the i tactics are clearly wrong and doomed to failure. The three powers' notes to the Soviet government made It clear i that the blockade would have to end before any discussion of its underlying causes was com menced. Surely the Kremlin could not have thought that these pow. ers would agree to reopen Ger- i man peace talks on the Russian terrrm as the price of free access to Berlin. ruslng Wrong Tactics I If the Russian leaders really desire peace, It should be clear to them that an indispensable insurance of pi-ace is a self gov erned Germany with a measure of independence, but a Germany supervised long and carefully by the victorious powers. The west ern governments do desire Deace. therefore they will not submit to Kussias plan for a unified Ger many which would make that and Important satell... Surely the Soviet government knows that. And surely it must also know that it cannot gain its point by a flagrant breach of agreement that subjects the west ern governments to expense and inconvenience in Berlin. Nor can the Soviet government seriously hope to win German friends to the Uk'a of a Soviet-dominated Germany by trying to starve the population of Berlin. U. of Washington Teachers Linked With 'Red' Meets Much of Pisa, Italy, was de molished during World War II but the Leaning Tower was only slightly damaged. Rivers are estimated to carry tun And half hilllnn Inm tl J salt annually to the oceans. SEATTLE, July 19: W) A former army Intelligence officer and a University of Washington faculty member told the legisla ture's un-American Activities Committee today of attending Communist party meetings with several university faculty mem bers. In response to questions as to whether more than half dozen educators and their wives were party members, they replied "I so thought," and "I assumed o." The witnesses were Moro Jew ell of Seattle, ooerator of a detee. tive school and former army in telligence omeer, and ur. sopnus K. Winther, of the university's English department. Both witnesses said they had been former members of the party. Jewell said he belonged In 1945 as an army operative in con nection with possible war pro duction interference. Dr. Winther. prominent cam pus literary critic and author, said he belonged in 1935 and 1936. ur. Kaymond a. Allen, univer sity president, was in the room as an observer. Jewell testified that he belong ed to the "Rogers Club" which he said was the professional unit of the Communist political associa tion. He said ne Joined to observe its operations and that his rec ords were later stolen. He said the professional unit was "what I guess you would call tne elite oi tne organization. He said Its members were re sented" by workers and other Communist groups. Both Jewell and Winther said they never saw any of the others' memDersnip caras, but tney botn held a party identification of their own. Jewell qualified his identification by saving reijeated- ly in response to questions as to memoersnips, i so tnougnt. Winther. in his testimony, quali fied his identifications by saving he "assumed" that the others were also members. Group Named Jewell identified the following as having participated in meet ings of the professional group of which he was a member In 1945: Herbert J. Phillips, Edwin Har old Eby and wife, Melville Jacobs and wife, Joseph Butterworth, all of the university faculty, and Mrs. Burton E. James of the Repertory Playhouse in the University dis trict. Faculty members named by Dr. Winther as having attended meet ings included: Garland Ethel, Professor and Mrs. Eby, Prof, and Mrs. Phil Hps, Angelo Pellegrini, whom he described as "a reluctant, unco operative member," Prof, and Airs. Jacobs, Prof. Joseph Cohen, Prof. Butterworth, Miss Maule Beale. Dr. Winther also said that Jesse Epstein, Pacific Coast housing au thority executive, attended meet ings and "I assumed he was a member." Dr. Winther, replying to a ques tion on the cost of Communist party membership, responded "I'd say 5 per cent of our salaries." He safri "m, mAmkun. . concerned with discussion of books and national and interna- tinnal mattr f muM k A scribed as a typical professors' or- Baniauun- mere was iots ox talk. 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William (Wild Bill) Dono van, wartime chief of the Office of Strategic Services, says the Russian blockade of Berlin Is an attempt to smash the European recovery program and drive the U. S. out of Europe. Donovan, who is visiting Ger many in a private capacity, said at a news conference: "It is a matter of the Soviets doing what they said they are going to do that is, wreck the European recovery program: and what they have not said, but which they want to do: to drive us out of Europe." Donovan came to Berlin from Frankfurt with Gen. Lucius D. Clay, American military gover nor and attended Clay's weekly staff conference. The ormer OSS chief said if Russia wanted war it would be better to find out here and now than It would be a hundred miles or a thousand miles from here some time later. "If this, on the other hand. Is Just a Soviet maneuver we should show them that we are standing firm," he said. He advocated such a stand des pite military disadvantages, "be cause our more' right to be here Is clear and unmistakable." Donovan said he did not like the phrase "cold war." because this one Is "hot as hell." Elevator Traps Wife of Jailer; Prisoners do Best ' GALLATIN, fenn., July 19. JP) Obliging inmates of the Sumner County Jail did their best to get the Jailers wife out of a Jam but they received little help from an unobliging -itlzenry. Jailer Bud Graves gave li.is ac count of what happened during nis aDsence Irom tne jail last night: Mrs. Graves was between floors in the Jail's elevator when a pow er failure halted the elevator. The cage was almost airtight and in a short time she had trouble getting her breath. . She called to the prisoners and told them of her plight. The prisoners lighted comic books, detective magazines and other paper and threw the flam ing missiles into the street in an attempt to attract aitention. They yelled, screamed and pleaded for someone to rescue Mrs. Graves. Passers-by misunderstood the prisoners, however, and respond ed with Jeers and such state ments as "tell It to the marines." City firemen, however, arrived after about a half-hour. While they sought to unjam the eleva tor, the power was turned back on and Mrs. Graves was rescued. posted ball of 1 10 and was re leased, Hartfiel reported. Herbert J. Wirfs, arrested on a charge of being drunk in a pub lic place, pleaded guilty and paid a 25 fine. TRAFFIC FINES LEVIEO The following tines were as sessed for traffic offenses in Jus tice Court Monday, reported Jus tice of Peace Thomas C, Hartfiel: Carl A. Timm, reckless driving, $25; William C. Cartiran, over load, $20; James F. Studer, no vehicle license, $10; Edward H. Fery, overload, $25: William L. Hanna, overload, axle overload and unit overload, $10 on each count, and Benjamin R. Ham mond, four In driver's seat, $10. 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