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-Th Stall , Scilem. "No Favor Sways Us No Fear; Shall Awt" From First Statesman. March 2S, 1151 Statesman Publishing Company CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher V - t Published every mornlof Business office 2? North Church St. Salem. Ore- Telephone 2-2441 Entered at tbe poatofflce at Salrra. Ore. mm second 1 claaa matter under act of Congress March X 1879. Member Associated Press The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the oss for republication of all local aewa printed ta this- newpapor - Trade With Red China report of the McCarthy subcommittee on permanent investigations says that shipping by U. S. allies to rWd China was 12 times greater the first quarter of this year than in the same period of 1952. It criticizes our State Department for failing to stop this trade and denounces the British firms in Hong Kong who persist in trading with the Red aggres sor. Western Germany is also listed as having brought its trade with China this year to re card heights. JWhat the news reports hardly make clear is that not all trade with Red China is ban ned, only that in strategic materials. The committee report quotes Secretary Dulles as daying it is "not now feasible" to stop all al lied trade with China. What the State De partment has been doing is to put an end to shipments of materials which, would help China carry on the war in Korea. Britain says Its trade with China is in non-strategic goods. The press summaries of the report do not state to what extent the trade with China hies violated the embargo. As a matter of fact the representatives of Britain, France and the United States at their recent conference re affirmed their present policies toward Red China "in existing circumstances and pending further consultation." This means extension of the embargo and presumably no admission of Red China to U.N. If and when a truce is signed this policy would be subject to reex amination. Ijnyone familiar with the China coast and the proximity of Hong Kong and the Portu guese Macao knows the ease with which smuggling is carried on. Oriental traders are not those to spurn a dollar; and it is no doubt true thatthere is considerable shipping of strategic materials to China from countries org -this side of the Iron Curtain. By this time, however, it should be through irregular chan nels and not with any official countenance. What the United States must realize though Is that other countries must trade to live. We limit by tariffs the volume of trade with our own country. Europe naturally turns to areas where historically it has conducted much of iti trading. France and the Soviet Union re cently concluded a trade agreement. If Eu rope can build up its trade it will be less de pendent on the United States for special aid. Our policy will be to discourage trade in strategic materials with enemy states; but if rnhd when peace is. restored in Korea and the cold war moderates in Europe we must ex pert the expansion of trade, and that in itself wjtft be for the health of all nations. ; Chiang Kai-shek has been giving his troops on" Formosa and islands off the mainland some trial heats in the way of raids on Red held China. Last week they staged a big one ori;Tungshan island and report it was a great success. They say they killed a thousand Communists and captureo, several hundred more. And the inhabitants gave them a cor dial welcome. The fact that they withdrew throws doubt on the "success" of the venture saye as a needling raid on the Reds. Unsung Radio Man Panned by McCarthy As 'Reward' for Aiding Anti-Communists - By STEWART ALSOP ; BERLIN This is the story of how one man served the interests of the United States land how he was rewarded. The man in question is Gordon Ewing, state depart m e n t foreign service officer, class three. He is a youngish man, with a hesitant m a li ner and a small CT moustache. It does not often fall to class three foreign service officers to take independent decisions which might affect the course of his tory. But this was Gordon Swing's peculiar lot . At 2:30 in the afternoon of last June 16, Ewing was attend ing a routine administrative treeting at the headquarters of BZAS, American Radio station in. Berlin, of which he is politi cal program director. The meet ing was interrupted by the in credible news that the workers in the Soviet sector of Berlin were staging a march on the Simmunist government build gs. I" ''Front this moment on, for 36 hours, Gordon Ewing had U take in his own responsibility a whole series of hair-raising decisions. The RIAS station is the official arm of the Ameri can government. As everyone knows, the Soviets have the physical power ta take ever all Berlin in a matter of hoars. Overt officially inspired Ameri can provocation to rebellion by the Germans against the Soviet occupying power might give the Soviets precisely the pre text they need to move Ber lin r to make the worst pos sible trouble for the American venunent in some ether way. ;-As the afternoon of June 16 rore on, it became clear to Ewing that what was happening In East Berlin was do flash in the pan. A full-scale riot was in progress. Communist flags were I ! Alston Ore-sea Tuesday July 21. 1953 being torn down. Communist police cars burned and wrecked. At 4:30 in the after noon, a workers delegation from the Soviet sector ap peared at the RIAS station and requested permission to broad cast an appeal for a general strike, to begin the next morn ing. This was Ewing's first big decision. His superiors in Bonn and Washington did not know the situation, and there was 'no , time to consult -them anyway. A weakling might have ignored the worker's request, and con tinued the regularly scheduled broadcasts. A fool might have given the Soviets a valid pre text for any counter-action they wished to take. Ewing did neither. He simply included, on the regular hourly broadcast, a deadpan straight news ac count of the visit of the strike leaders, and of their plans for a strike. Then came a second big deci iion. Dr. Eberhard Schutx, star radio commentator for RIAS, a former Communist with a pas sionate hatred for Communism, submitted to Ewing tffe text of a brilliant commentary on events in East Berlin, ending on the note, "We hope we shall have more such victories to report" Again, a timid man would have killed the Schutz commentary. Ewing pondered for a few minutes, and told. Schutz to go ahead. Ewing "broke" the regular schedule to devote all , radio time to the uprisings. Towards midnight, an old friend among the American officials in Berlin telephoned Ewing and said: "Gordon, I hope you know what you're doing. You could start a war this way." Meanwhile, all over i East Germany. little groans of, angry mem were clustered artrand radios, listening as RIAS de scribed the events of the day and the strike leaders plans for the next day. Om Jim 17, the incredible happened. In city after . dry the workers rose, chased the terrified Comma mists functionaries et of their Expenditures in Disease Research A recent communication in our Safety Val ve criticizing oulr government for putting up money to finance fights against diseases of domestic animate while neglecting diseases of humans caught ithe eye of Rep. Walter Nor blad. From him!) we get the information that the federal government has spent this year on public healtlj alone $284 million. To that might well be aijlded the sums spent by state and county andjjeity departments of health. In research the government spent $18 mil lion last year on cancer research, $11 million on mental health research, $12 million on heart disease research, and additional sums on other humarl ailments. A few days ago Secretary Hobbr of the new Department of Health, Education and Welfare dedicated a new hospital at IjBethesda, Md., which will be devoted solely o research in diseases of the human body. I On top of thij are the large sums expend ed annually by private foundations and pub licly owned laboratories. In fact studies in the prevention and I cure of disease share quite generously in public appropriations and pri vate philanthropies. Oregon Republicans are planning a "cong ressional dinnetj" in Portland for Aug. 8th, with the plates $100 per, the excess over the meal cost going pto the party treasury. Pres ent will be all the Republican delegation in Congress, and tie speaker will be the party national chairman, Leonard W. Hall. Most of the party rallies are attended by political can didates, present! or prospective; and we won der how marry j of them will pungle up the $100 to hear a j party chairman. Douglas McKay is a descendant of the Mc Kays of very elrly Oregon history, but now he has been "adapted" as a member of a tribe which long preceded the whites in these parts. He is now "Mountain Chief" of the Blackfeet tribe in Montana, and his wife, Mabel, is "Wolverine Woran." We are glad the Black feet are giving names instead of lifting scalps nowadays. They) had an evil reputation in the days when Doug's forebears were buying the fur trade of th Northwest. Oliver Mansfjeld, the FBI's representative inj Salem for several years, listened closely, saw much, said nothing. As a capable agent of a capable organization, his unsung Wbrk is being rewardjed with promotion to Wash ington, D. C. Those who have worked with him in difficult times will wish him well, confident in hijj quiet judgment and certain of his future success. Eight states. aid over half of the income taxes collected n the last fiscal year by the federal government. California, Illinois, Mis souri, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsyl vania and Texas paid $40,165,535,000 out of the total of $69,595,916,000. Oregon paid $471,709,073 which is just about as much as the state spends for all purposes in a bien nium. I Vice President Richard Nixon told the Boy Scouts at the California Jamboree that he didn't get to join the Scouts as a boy because he had to work in his father's grocery. That was good training for him, however; and he's a regular Scout now because he tries to do a good turn for Eisenhower every day. Stalin hounded Trotsky wherever he sought refuge, ind finally he was polished off in Mexico. To bjje labeled a Trotskyite became the badge of hi if amy. Now Beria is undone, and presumably the convenient way of dis posing of enemies will be to call them Beria-ites. I offices and took over the cities. The incredible could not have happened without the RIAS broadcasts which Ewing boldly approved. By nightfall on June 17 Soviet troops and tanks had crushed the uprisings, but at a -terrible cost to the Soviet Union for which Lavrenti Beria was to pay dearly. By tbe morn ing of June 18, Gordon Ewing was tired, for he had not slept for two full days and the kind of lonely courage he had dis played is peculiarly exhausting. Before leaving his office for a rest, he glanced at the ; Ameri can wire service reports. Gordon Ewing, he read, was one of the "pro-Communists" whom Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy meant to "take by the scruff of the neck." So, McCarthy hinted darkly, was Ewing's wife. In a way, Ewing was not entirely surprised. McCarthy obviously meant to use the brilliant Schutz to prove his charge that BIAS was "run by Coramu nists." As for Ewing's pretty wife, her eccentric stepfather had taken her as a child on a trip to Russia and this was grist for the McCarthy milL Finally, Ewing knew that a German Joumalist-adven rarer, ' whom he had fired from RIAS for his inability to distinguish fact from fancy, had been pour lag poison into eagerly recep tive American ears. As this is written, Ewing exists in a -sort of limbo. Me Carthy had not yet made good his threat and the State De partment had not yet . offered Ewing up to McCarthy as a blood sacrifice, as in the case of Charles Thayer, Theodore Kaghan and other able men here in Germany. But the pat tern is very familiar. It is now generally accepted practice here, for example, to encourage any disgruntled foreigner to blacken tbe reputation of any American officials. Surely, these days, the United States has an odd way of rewarding courage and intelligence in those who serve tbe interests of the United States. ; (Copyright 1953.: New York Herald Tribune. IneJ GRIN AND BEAR "In a moment, our verdict ... but first a few words about the superior brand of justice obtainable in this courtroom . . When that new school in the Kefzer area is completed it will be only 200 feet north of Manbrin Gardens area. .You think this is a break for MG kids attending the school next 7 fall? Well, the crossing that i school and the River Road and in a roundabout feet away . . . So, while s f-'"' -J'5 I If U away their vacation days, unaware of what may be in store this fall, school officials and other interested parties are scratching their heads, trying to find a way out of the problem. A road across the intervening strip would do the trick, bat it's private property. The county court is sympathetic, but doesn't have money to go around buying new roads. One of the busiest places in Salem back in the days when horsepower was counted in horses will soon be torn down. It is the old wooden building at the northwest corner of S. Lib erty and Ferry Sts. Recently a car park it was originally a livery stable. The Salem directory of 1871 lists it as a stable owned by J. C. Booth and E. H. Plamondon . . . Later the Boedigheimer family operated it for many years. Old-timers remember that, what with the place housing the town's doc tors' horses and rigs, and brewery horses the Liberty Stables was a busy place indeed. Speaking of landmarks Mrs. B. O. (Agnes) Schucking, Eola florist, also is up to HER heirlooms in Salem property which made good. In this case it wasn't the land but her home which was involved. Her original girlhood home was first built on the southwest corner of Chemeketa and Liberty Sts. Same cor ner where couple months ago Lipman Wolfe Co. of Portland bought a new store site. Well, when Agnes was three the folks built a bigger house and moved the old house to Marion and High Sts. way out in the country, then. And recently the Marion-High property was bought for a Meier & Frank store development. The old house, long since gone, was on the corner now occupied by Trailway Depot. And of course nothing remains of the fine old Gilbert (Ag nes' folks) home at the Chemeketa corner, also the big wood boardwalk which lined the street there and was in itself something pretty classy ... Li l) 033 (Continued from page one) the counties of Oregon and to bring assessments up more near ly to prevailing values. Gallo way, Wharton, McClean and now Stewart are the commissioners who have pressed this program, with considerable success. But assessors run into' trouble with their reforms, as has been ob served in Lane, Clackamas and Multnomah counties. The prob lem is to bring up values in an orderly manner which will not bear unfairly on property own ers in one section or of one class. There is still a lot of work to be done. Giles French, member of sev eral former interim committees, has been gunning for abolish ment of the : personal property tax. The case against it is ex ceedingly strong. Like the ex cess profits tax it has few de fenders. The stumbling block is to provide a substitute source of revenue. Many counties de rive a considerable part of their income from personal property tax receipts. Without them of a substitute the load would roll off onto real property. Over the last quarter century these legislative interim com mittees have accomplished a great deal The Oregon system of taxation is largely a product of their efforts. The grist of income tax bills adopted in the 1953 session came from the 1951-52 interim committee. With such seasoned students of taxa tion in Oregon on this commit tee it is safe to say that its find- j ings will be quite sensible. In 1 defining true cash value' the f committee will be wise enough to temperj the ideal with the practical. There is no necessity for a tax revolution. What is needed is : steady progress to ward well! recognized goals of spreading equitably the burdens which rest on owners of prop By Lichty catch is there is not yet a road 200 foot-strip between the Gardens home area. So, unless IT J things are changed, kids will have to walk (or parent must haul 'em) out to the North then back to the new school way. This will mean a mile for some families to get to school, even though they'll be living only a few hundred the kiddies involved are playing Time Flies FROM STATESMAN FILES 10 Years Ago July 21, 1943 Albert L. Girod, owner of a large farm near Salem, has re signed as USDA war board f ieldman, to join the new Wash ington county flax growers' processing plant near Hillsboro. Two hundred persons in Astoria, were left homeless in a $100,000 fire which complicated Astoria's acute war housing shortage. 25 Years Ago July 21, 192S Yankees make record jaunt around world. John Henry Mears and B. D. Collyer com pleted the globe circle in 23 days. The new First Presbyterian Church has been completed and is in readiness for ceremonies. The new $125,000 edifice is Colonial in design. The Oregon magazine, pub lished by Murray Wade, has in the current issue illustra tions and discriptions of the operation of the Western Paper Converting Company. 40 Years Ago July 21, 1913 Miss Dorothy Steusloff re ceived a broken arm and her parents and sister, Mr. and Mrs. William Steusloff and May, suf fered severe bruises and cuts when their automobile turned over near Jefferson. . - Papers were filed in the cir cuit court to enjoin the secre tary of state from placing on the ballot the workmen's com pensation act Oregon, National guardsmen of tbe capital city are much interested in reports from Mexico. Local army men think they may go to war before October. (They did.) erty for the support of government Eddio Gilmoro St EDITOR'S NOTE Eddy Gil- more of The Associated Press has spent 11 years In the Soviet Union. He has had ample opportunity to observe the status of religion there specifically, to see how Commu nist cynicism works in dealing with the churches. Here is bis reveal ing report. - j By EDDY GILMORE PARIS "( Since Stalin's death there has been no noticeable change in the Soviet government's attitude toward the church, or in the church's attitude toward the gov ernmen. . There may be some chance of the former, but it'a highly unlikely that the Russian orthodox church ii. Russia is going' to rebel, or press its case for independence. Religion is deep in the hearts of millions of Soviet citizens and Stal in, during the war, discovered this. More important to him, he learned how to control it. : He set up a government agency, functioning under the Council of Ministers, of which he was Chair man, to supervise the church. (Some called it the Commissariat of God). Sent to Prison, Exile Large numbers of priests and prelates of the Russian orthodox church, as everyone knows, lost their lives during, and after the revolution. Thousands of others were sent to prison, or to exile in Siberian villages. Many others just faded into oblivion as quickly as they could. But all did not disap pear by far. And there were the churches, ev erywhere. There still are. Look ov er the horizon of Moscow or any Soviet city and you see more spires and church steeples than anything else. But this does not mean, they are operating today. Many Churches I When I got to! Russia 11 years ago, one of the most striking sights was all these churches. It looked as if the government had been un able to make up its mind what to do with them. i But this doesn't go for all of them. Large number had been pull ed down. Otherr had been con verted into living quarters for a greatly crowded people, some into movie houses, and in some villages into grain storage places, or build ings connected with machine trac tor stations. It's difficult to say what made Learned - I : CoBairoSiini 466 Acts of 53 Legislature Become Laws of State Today By PAUL W. HARVEST JR. Associate Press Writer Oregon has 468 new laws today, including important civil rights, education, highway, labor and forestry legislation. These laws, the bulk of the work of the 1953 Legislature, have gone into effect 90 days after the end of the session. There are 255 others that -already are law because they contained emergency clauses. t The most important of the bills becoming law will do these things: 1. Expand Oregon's teacher training program by adding training of high school teachers and liberal arts courses at the colleges of education, and provide four-year liberal arts courses and teacher training at Portland State College. 2. Simplify the state fax system by putting income tax into the state general fund. Civil Righto Bill 3. Make it illegal for public eating, lodging and amusement places to discriminate against minority groups. 4. Permit sale of 32 million dollars worth of highway bonds to finish the Highway Commis sion's five-year-emergency road building program. 5. Ban organizational picketing by labor unions. 6. Tighten the forestry laws, requiring logging operators to take stronger precautions against fire. The session laws, containing the 724 laws passed by the legis lature, go on sale Tuesday at $6.50 per copy. The bill providing straight $600 personal income tax exemptions for every person goes into effect benefitting parents of two or more children. Permits Bridge Tolls Another important new law will permit tolls on the Vancouver-Portland highway bridge. The toll money will be used to finance a second bridge. Other major bills becoming law Tuesday will: Let the governor appoint the Tax Commission. Provide a two-year study of the use of water resources. Require public hearings after power companies impose electric surcharges. Permit the governor to post pone hunting seasons during per iods of extreme forest fire hazard, j Ban sale of horse meat in places where other kinds of meat are sold.' j Mellorine Act Require that ice cream substi tutes be labeled mellorine. Increase farm and home loans for veterans from $8,000, to $9,000 for homes, and to $15,000 for farms. j Give the state its first oil and gas drilling code. Tighten the laws against abor tion and sex offenses. Provide out-patient service at the state hospitals and at Fair view Home. Let the j Department of Agri culture license rainmakers. Allow the Department of Agri Culture to order landowners to get rid of their ragweed, a prime cause of hay fever. ' Relieve radio stations of liabil ity for statements made by politi cal candidates. ; Reports: g Church Stalin decide to let the churches openly operate. It could have been uV. success whicb the Germans had in this field, particularly in the Ukraine and in Byelorussia. That's one thing the invaders seemed to do right fn Russia. Woman. Approaches I stood in front of a church in Poltova one day shortly after it wa retaken by the Red army. See ing we were foreigners, a courage ous old woman came up. "You see that church," she said. "It's open. Well, you know who opened it? The Germans. It took the Germans to get it opened, but they're letting it run now.vl mean our people.) They've even put in a bell." j i Such incidents may have been taken to Stalin by the Security Po lice o he may have felt that he could control the church quite sat isfactorily, as the czars immedi ately before him had done. Commissariat for God In anj case. Stalin set up the Commissariat for God. The church leaders J- such as could be scrap ed togetler and given the security test fvent into a meeting, and before Ipng we had a patriarch, metropolitans, deacons and priests. Churches lit up and operated. Lush ik4ns that had been stored away, heaven knows where, were produced and installed. Bells be gan ringing once more and - the faithful Hocked to their old places of worship, burning candles and saying prayers, many giving thanks to comrade Stalin for open ing the churches. Praised! Stalin The accord was pretty solid. The patriarch praised Stalin publicly, condemned Hitler, muttered the party Ifrie about the absence of a second front and pretty soon won the. "Order of Lenin." Real j mob scenes took place around i the churches the first Easter -they were opened under government smirks, if not smiles. Thousands got in, but many thou sands just couldn't find room. We wrote about all this through? the censor who cut our copy where he wanted to and people got the impression that the Russian government an- tn people were having some sort of holy re vival. Opium of the People I. and I'm sure other corres pondent! too, wrote that the shrine Weary Of Saving Russia's Face i ByJ. M. ROBERTS Jr. Associated Press News Analyst The Kjorean truce situation seems to be back about where It was a month, ago, when observers were expecting the truce to be signed any day, , Then lit was blown sky high by South jKorean. opposition. Now there is j every indication of an early signing. Not (inly were the Communists getting down to brass tacks . on the last technical details, but they resumed work on a building de signed to take care of more people indyding reporters than the makeshift in which negotiations have taken place. Czech; and Polish members of the proposed truce advisory com mission were reported to have ar rived in Peiping en route to the front. I This matched the presence in Tokyo pf the truly neutral mem bers f mm Sweden and Switzerland. Armistice commission members were rieeting for the first time. F The itew situation marked ac ceptance by the Reds of the fact that no matter how much the Al lies might regret the action of South Korea in liberating North Korean! prisoners last month, the Commupist demand that the U. N. accept responsibility for their re turn was absurd. The Reds managed, however, in their statement of willingness to go ahead with the truce, to hold on to jthe prisoner issue for re vival later at the conference on political settlements. :- By securing the right to enforce the truee against South Korea, they also maneuvered themselves into a position on the record which could Conceivably be used in tbe future fas tbe basis tar a new charge; of aggression such as the bald lii that was told when North Korea launched the war in the beginning. This seemed at most,' however, to be a far-fetched contingency. That the Communists, if not checked on a world basis, will one day attempt to return to Korea is almost a foregone conclusion. But hardly on a, basis of the im mediate events of today. j ; I "l : . The Allies, of course, are play ing today's situation deadpan. The Commtpusta nave arrived at tne troujhjtoo often without drinking. The South Koreans are still talk- ing . rolign, though not j nearly so roughly as before. But the.-Com munistii already have -demonstrated that even a rough statement China iii-Russia of the Iberian virgin at ' the en-- -trance to Red Square .was; stiU..-. down and that in its place thesi - -worq still stood: v ; "Religion . is opium 3 for -tbf'i people.'T - - .'I ' True, the godless society has X ceased to function, and young Sa vie, people were to be Jound ' lf ,' the churches. . ..' " , But " the bulk of the cohgrega tion was, and still is today, maoY- up of women, middle-aged and th :: old ones.' Oh, yes, you see plentj of men, and even young men and. young girls, but th Young Com.,., munist League frowns severely to- day on J religion. . . , , . - . Black Mark A black mark goes up aganst any member found having any thing to do with religion. . " The attitude of the Communist ;. Party tjoward the church changed, as has been pointed out above. but it never cnanged toward re . ligion. It's against it" There are heads of the Moslem - . Church,) the Baptists, the Jews, the Lutherans, and even some-sup-... posedly! Catholic prelates operating , in the Baltic states. - .. . , I saw one of them once and,,, heard him make a speech and I got the impression that he didn't havt any more to do with the Catholic church than I do with the Mikador . . , Denounce U.S. Yi,t All fk... .Haw. Mvt lm a religious conference that we at tended a couple of summers ago . and denounced, according to form " ula, the Western imperialists, the warmongers and the aggressive : policies of the American rulers, j I should report, and quickly, that " ! on of them whom I knew by " sight and who knew me by sight, came around later and said, "1 hope. I do hope you understand.;, why I jhad to make that speech.' , . The Russian people can adapt themselves to almost anything In -many a Russian home in the days 1 1 could, visit Russian homes ' i found an ikon in one corner, a candle, or a low powered electris bulb burning beneath it, and a ' colored portrait of Stalin hanging on the center wall. "Thefe's nothing wrong with this," said a friend of mine once. Then he added with a smile, "both are allowed." Law, Changes Status of Sdmex Farm Work v Under a 1953 legislative act operative Tuesday, any farmer -who employes workmen, other than those regularly employed as farm help, to do logging, saw-' milling or construction work on' the farm, will be regarded as en- , gaging in a hazardous occupation, the State Industrial Accident Commission reported Monday. Farmers who now have ae counts! with the accident commis sion or file for coverage after the effective date of the law will hav no protection as employers for .' such hazardous work until a 'no- . ; tice of engaging in such hazard- ous occupation is filed by the far-" mer employer. 1 - v. The; Legislature, according t' the commission, cancelled 'an or der which provided that construct -tion work when performed by ' other i than regular farm lsbor . would be considered as incidental '.. to farming. - "' The: commission 'said the new.. ' legislation will affect the opera- tions of many farmers who have ; elected to come under-tho -com mission's protection and others who contemplate doing so. can be seized as excuse for delay if they; see any profit in it. , The ; whole situation within, the ' Communist sphere, however, sug- gests that the Reds have now' reached tbe point where they want to get it over. They've squeezed all they can out of it. and taken some knocks they didn't expect We can't know what they 'are' thinking. A truce fits into the world-wide "peace offensive."' It fits into a situation in which Rus-' sia and her satellite governments are trying to assuage rebellious" j subjects with shorter work weeks, ' more food, and more consumer1 goods. ! By this token Russia is less able to contribute to the Chinese war effort right at a time when China has been ravaged by famine and flood, i - -1 But my hunch is that the more cooperative attitude at Panmun jom is also connected with a gen- eral weakening of Moscow control over the satellites due to the un stable ! situation in the Kremlin: that . China has grown weary of -attempting to rescue the Korean chestnuts which i Russia threw into , the fire in the first place, and ia taking ' advantage of Russia's pre occupation with other troubles. Termites ordinarily attack only dead jor dying wood. ,
