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Cyprus, Greece and the USA -
It is just hard for a nation! to keep on be
ing loved. Here are Greek students whose
country was saved from succumbing to Com- -munist
penetration and 'revolution only by
dollars and military counsel from the United
States, rioting in front of our embassy in
Athens protesting because the Ijnited States
didn't vote with Greece in' the U.N. Assembly ,
over the Cyprus issue.'1 And both Indonesia
and The Netherlands are vexed with the U.S.
because our delegation abstained (did not
vote) on the motion of Indonesia to bring up .
in U.N. the matter of Neir Guinea. It just
seems lmno.ssible to keen evervone haDDV. i
This Cyprus business impresses us as being
somewhat synthetic. In very recent years the
Cypriots have worked themselves into a lath
er over "enosis" union with Greece.! It can't
be called reunion for Cyprus, after being col
onized by Greek and Phoenician settlers in
ancient times, has always been under alien
control: Egypt, Persia, Rome. Richard I of
England seized it in 1191 and from 1192 to
1489 it was governed by the: kings of Jeru
salem. Venice then had it as one of the jewels
on its utrinw until thi Tiirka tnolr nnssessinn
of the island in 1571. Turkey ceded it to Bri-
tain in 1878 and it has been a crown colony 1
since 1914. .
The people for the most part are Greek
speaking and are adherents of the Greek Or
thodox church. In fact much of the present
agitation stems from the church; There is a
Moslem minority, however, which opposes
"enosis." 1 ;, 'i j
What lifts the Island's status into higher
importance now is the fact that Britain is
transferring its eastern Mediterranean mili
tary base from the Suez zone to Cyprus. The
"0 a m a a a
cypriots seize tne opportunity, to aemana mat
the British eet out and union with Greece be
accomplished. The Greek delegation sought
' United Nations support for self-determination
by the inhabitants of Cyprus, but Britain de
nied the competence of the. Assembly to act
because it was a matter within the domestic
States voted against the Greek resolution
and the disturbances in Athens followed.
The Portland Oregonian chides the United
ttatc fni'lsiin(f turA.faf(v4 an4 41 arita iKsi
' w . w vvmi& wmwvUf ejav wvuiita s,a a
U.S. "needs to come to a firm policy on,, col
onialism." It says: "We" cannot offer leader
ship to- the world to halt Communist aggres
sion if we cling to old alliances which defend
the practice of one people's holding by force
and ruling others that demand freedom.' !
Well, the USA is under serious strain in
demands for independence have been! welling
up: Indochina, Tunisia, Morocco, Togoland.
; The administering powers are among our
closest allies: Britain, France; in other areas
the Union of South Africa, Australia, Bel
gium. We thus are pulled in various direc
tions. In general the U.S. policy has been to
avoid showdowns in United "Nations and to
rely on direct negotiations between the de
pendency and the colonial or administering
power. In Egypt our ambassador, Jefferson
Caffrey, made a very important contribution
in settling the controversy between Britain
and Egypt. It is better to exercise a consider
able measure of patience than to join in every
clamor that is raised over colonialism.
The Greeks rioting in Athens and smashing
windows in buildings occupied by the Ameri
can mission deserved being wet down with
fife hoses. Britain through the years from the
time of Greek liberation over a century ago
has been a bulwark of support for Greece;
and the United States, in taking over the Brit
ish burden in 1947, kept Greece from sinking
into the role of Communist satellite. For the
Cypriots there is no basis for urgency in their
demands, such as claim of oppression; and
since they have been under non-Greek rule
for over 20 centuries they surely can bear up
a while longer under the beneficent rule of
Great Britain.
Neither the United Nations nor the USA
can make the world over, overnight
Fourth of a Serfer
Extra-Hazardous Occupation ( j
Football Coach Chuck Taylor fared better
than Kip Taylor at OCS. Though Stanford
had a poor year this year, Chuck Taylor was
giveh a five-year contract as coach, replacing
his old contract which had five years to run.
His principal assistants were given three
year contracts. OSC's Taylor was jettisoned
after a bad year though his previous record
of victories had been quite impressive.
. Colleges aren't the only one to use the vic
tory rule for hiring or retaining coaches. A
Regular game of musical chairs has been play
ed this fall among managers of big league,
baseball teams. And in professional football
the coach of the San Francisco '49ers got fir
ed, and the coach of the L.A. Rams resigned.
There just ought to be easier ways of earn
ing a living. i 1
The front-page story in Monday's States
man quoted H. De Wayne Kreager of Wash
ington as saying that within 20 years atomip
energy will provide about twice as much elec
tric power as that now generated by. falling
water. It is worthy of mention that Kreager
comes from the Northwest, having been born
and reared at Ritzville, Wash., where his
parents still reside. He graduated from WSC
or the U of W, then took post graduate work
in the East. He held very responsible positions
with the government in procurement during
the war and was the executive for C. E. Wil
son (of G, not GM) in the Office of Defense
Mobilization. Now he is associated with John
R. Steelman, 'a former assistant to President
Truman, as a metal and powerspecialist in
private consulting work. This editor knew
him as a youngster and has noted his progress
with interest.
S. T. Moore, who has been forest ranger at
Detroit for the past 12 years, will be trans
ferred next month to Medford for a new as
signment with the forest service. Moore has
been a good public servant, helpful and ac
commodating to those' with business dealings
with the forest service and to hikers and out
door lovers and mountain climbers who have
often visited his domain. He'll carry with him
the best wishep of many people. j
Secret Trip Behind Bamboo Curtain Shows L
Gains of Reds in Indochina to Joseph Alsop
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By JOSEPH ALSOP
SAIGON, Indochina , For an
American nowadays, the Bamboo
Curtain of Asia is far harder to
pass than the Iron Curtain of
Europe. But by a curious chap
ter of accidents, this reporter
has just spent three days in the
great Viet Minn guerrilla area
which still forms
a virtually inde
pendent state at
the southern tip
of Indochina.
The trip involv
ed every ap
paratus of con
vent i o n al ro
mance from two
gloriously moon
lit nights chug
ging through
Communist territory on a native
. canal boat to the inevitable false
papers, which were needed to get
back through, the Curtain again.
Yet these details were hardly no-
ticeable. Despite the extreme"
shortness of the permitted time,
the impressions produced by j this
experience were so ! vivid-s-one
might almost say so violent that
they alone absorbed one's entire
attention.
Perhaps it is tactless to say
so nowadays, but my dominant
emotion was a sort of horrified,
helpless admiration for the Com
munist achievement , not of
course for the thing itself, but
for the courage shown, the incred
ible difficulties overcome, the"
sheer brilliance of the political
military feat ! -
Here, after all. was a huge re
gion with a population of close to
3,000,000, with no local war re-,
sources except its rice produc
v tion, with no hope of serious out-
side aid, situated, at the southern
. extremity of Indochina,, as far as
possible from the main Commu
nist base in the north. j
Here, la this plain of Cams. '
The Committee af the South (the ,
rmBmt Viet Minh organ la Cecha 1
China) first raised tao standard
of revolt and fixed its capital nine
loag years ago. Such arms as
they had got from the Japanese
and a treasury of 75 piastres, or
boot five dollars la those, days,
were the sole tangible assets of
tnj oddly mixed committee, of
Vietnamese Communists and na
tionalists whom Ho Chi Minn had
chosen for the task, i
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But they .had a political asset
too. This delta of the Mekong had
been a vast swamp until the
French drained it, and divided it
into great landed estates. The
peasants in their palm huts had
always lived 'in bitter poverty
: and without hope until the Com
munists gave them the land, j
When the late Gea. Leclerc took
command, in Indochina with the
complacent boast that he would
destroy the Viet Minh in a few
months, French troops entered
' the plain of Caman and establish
ed thirteen fortified posts. Bat
although the Committee of the
South had barely raised its ban
ner, the guerrilla attack was so
severe and sustained that the
French; forces soon destroyed
their mad forts and departed.
i From that day to this, when the
local Viet Minh government is
moving north; under the terms
of the Geneva accord, the plain of
Camau has been what the Com
munists call "liberated territory."
Once every yar or so,' a French
"clean up" column would push
into the region, burning and de
stroying as it moved. Always
there were the. air attacks that
wrecked and wrecked again the
little palm hut villages along the
canal banks,! and confined all
road and canal movements to the
dark hours of the night r I i
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Bat there was never a moment .
when the Viet Minh did not ran
throughout the region. And as
i time went on, the Committee of
! the South, from its mobile palm
hat capital ia the Caman plain,
!' came j to rule other huge regions
approximating rather more than
a third af the whole area of
CochUO China, which Gen. Na .
varre told me last year the
French "effectively controlled."
An army of something like 30,
000 -regular and regional troops
was organized, trained and armed
with captured 1 French heavy
weapons and small arms painful
ly manufactured ia tiny, camou
flaged local shops. And I have
never seen I smarter, tougher
looking Asian troops than the
few soldiers the accidents of my
journey allowed me to inspect.
A permanent government was
formed, complete with financial,
economic, educational. . heulth,
propaganda and police services.
Currency was printed, taxes were
levied, and budgets were annually
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The Coining of Christ
- - David
Timo Flios
FROM STATESMAN FILES
2 New Homes Authorized
Selected by the Department of Worship and the Arts, Na
tional Council of Churches. , 1 1
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David Is Anointed by Samuel in the Presence of His Fa
ther and Brethren, from a French manuscript, : "Scenes from
the Old Testament," of the 13th Century. The Pierpont Morgan
Library, New York. I ,
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"And the Lord said, 'Arise, anoint him; for this is he. Then
Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him ia the midst of
his brothers? and the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon
David from that day forward." (I Samuel 1S:121.)
I - f, .!' - '
In David, God established the royal house of His chosen
people, commanding Samuel to anoint him as a symbol of his
kingship. David was considered to be a prefigure of the Messiah,
- who was to be his descendant and an earthly king in the line
of David. Bat the prophets began to see that the triumph of this
king was to be in bis humanity, and that he would find victory
even ia his rejection. Such a king was Christ, who was born ia
a stable rather than a palace", and made His triumphal entry into -Jerusalem
riding on an ass. "And the crowds that went before
Him and that followed Him shouted, 'Hosanaa to the Son of
David! Blessed be be who comes in the name of the Lord! Hos
anna In the highest!' " (Matthew 21:9)
Tomorrow: The Prophet
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(Continued from page 1.)
a papal encyclical and the coun
sel tagged them as Communist
or favorable to Communism or
Socialism. After that Reece ad
journed the hearings after only
one representative of a founda
tion had given testimony. The
other foundations were permitted
to file written briefs.
prepared, la short the whole
mechanism of state power and
regular administration was cre
ated out of nothing, in the nearly
neolithic little muddy villages
among the rice fields and In the
very teeth of French military
power. ! ;
.1 '
I though I even detected a first
symptom of the ills to which all
grown up governments are liable.
I stayed, for my short visit, at
the palm hut reception center pro-'
vided for the families who were
'coming from all over Cochin
China to say goodbye to their sol
diers going north. The cadre
in charge (cadre is the Viet Minh
name for any trained and indoc
trinated official or party work
er) was a pale, delicately dandi
fied young fellow. It seemed hard
to believe that; he did the daily
nour oi wortc in tne rice ueias
that is required of all cadres to
set an example, maintain contact
with the peasants and eke out the
Small wonder that the report
makes grave insinuations
against foundations, attributing
to them "some of the character
istics of an intellectual cartel",
and blaming the spread of "col
lectivism" and "socialism" on
foundation promoted empirical
methods of research. It even
says that "alertness" of some of
the foundations which helped fi
nance the Institute of Pacific Re
lations "might have saved China
from the Communists and pre
vented the war in Korea."
The report picks out for
sinister labelling Sen. Paul Doug
las of Illinois; Sen-elect Case of
New Jersey; Paul Hoffman, one
time head of Ford Foundation;
newscaster Edward R. Murrow.
Some have speculated that
Reece's antagonism springs from
the fact that Hoffman became
very active in the Eisenhower
campaign against Reece's favor
ite. Sen. Bob Taft, and so Ree?e
used this investigative vehicle to
get at Hoffman and the whole
litter of tax-free ,foundations.
The subject is discussed with
great clarity and balance of
judgment! in the recently pub
lished review of the work of the
Rockefeller Foundation by its
president. Dean Rusk. He has no
objection to congressional investi
gations but declares that "the
mittee operated was so palpably
saturated with bias that its re
port lacks , any standing among
intelligent people.
Foundations may be perverted
to bad ends; but the record of
the great foundations, such as
those set up by Rockefeller, Car
negie, Ford and others, have a
magnificent record of achieve
ment in advancing the arts and
sciences, promoting public health
ail round the world, helping fi
nance both basic research and
the application of scientific meth
ods in various areas of human
endeavor. ,
In a season when hate and
fear and prejudice abound it is
not surprising that politicians
become their victims or seek to
exploit such emotional reactions
for ! their own ends. Another,
House committee, the one on un
American activities, hn its recent
report paid, particular " attention
to the hate j groups which have a
fresh lease! of life these days.
Fortunatelyj their extreme irra
tionality is self-defeating. In
spite of all the propaganda
thrown at jthem the American
, people retain their balance pret
ty well. So long as these founda
tions devote! their efforts and
their means; to worthy social ends
they will survive: and if they
ever become anti-social or dis
loyal they can quickly be brought
to book. The report of the Reece
committee deserves to be filed,
in the ashcan; and the appropri
ation of $115,000 may be counted
.as wasted. J 1 !
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10 Years Ag
Dee. 21, 1944
" Xoyal Warner, vice-president
of the Salem Chamber of Com
merce and recently re-elected a
director, was chosen president
of the group for 1945, at a
meeting of the directors. He suc
ceeded Carl Hogg.
President Roosevelt signed a
bill authorizing a $1,673,250,000
federal contribution toward a
$3,173,250,000 three-year post
war highway program.
The North Summer street
home of Supreme Court Justice
and Mrs. James T. Brand was
the scene of a gala Christmas
for their son, Private Tom
Brand and 14 servicemen, in the
ASTP program at Oregon State
college.1
25 Years Ago
Dec. 21, 1929 "
Isaac Lee Patterson, governor
of Oregon, died suddenly at his
farm home in Eola, Polk county,
seven miles west from Salem.
Death resulted from a weaken
ed heart condition brought
about by pneumonia., The sud
den death of the governor was
a blow to the citizens of Ore
gon. One of the most interesting
social events of the month was
the J marriage in Portland of
John J. Elliott, son of Mr. and
Mrs. F. A. Elliott, and Vivian
Oatts, daughter of Mr. and Mrs,
Edward G. Merrifield of The
Dalles. Both attended the Uni
versity of Oregon, i
Consolidation of steam rail
roads into 19 competing units
that would radically reshape the
nation's transportation map was
outlined by the Interstate Com
merce commission in its long
awaited unification program
drawn at the direction of con
gress.
40 Years Ago
I Dec. 21, 1914
State Architect W. C. Knight
on moved his headquarters from
the house chamber at the State
House to j-ooms on the third
story of that building in order
that preparations could be made
for the coming session of the
legislature.
Three aeronlanes. one a Ger
man and two British, traveling
at 70 miles an hour, were pump
ing bullets at one another, the
spectacle was witnessed by
thousands and was one which
ten years ago would have been
considered one of the wildest
imaginings of fiction.
Secretary of State. Olcott's of-
fice sent out by mail a total of
' 4600 motor vehicle licenses for
i the year 1915. Each of the tags
weighs around a pound so the
r entire shipment weighed nearly
two tons and a half.
Building permits were issued
Monday in Salem authorizing the
construction of two new houses
and alteration of two others.
The city- engineer's office issu-4
ed permits to Jim Minty for, a
sizou house and a sarase at
2675 Bolton St, and to Abbie
Weigel for a $8,000 house and
garage at 825 Piedmont St..
Permits for alterations went to
Mary Drake, for $75 in alterations
to a nursing home at 805 Oak St
and to J. J. Hauck for $100 in
alterations to a house at 610 High-
ana Ave. ! .
Springfield Gains
,615, Census Shows
SPRPfGFtELD im Sni-inrffoM
has gained 1.615 in population since
1950, federal enumerators have
reported after -conducting an
unofficial census at the request of
city officials, who want a larger
share of state gasoline tax and
liquor receipts, i
The new total I for the city is
12.422.
SALMON RUN NOTED .
PORTLAND The first fall
run of chinook salmon in two
decades went up the Willamette
River this year, the State . Fish
commission said Monday. '
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Better English
By D. C WILLIAMS
;Bv Lirhlv
HONEST PARKERS
OAKLAND. Calif, j UP When
parking .meters were installed in
1950, real estate man Lawrence
validity of the investigative proc- Ustvedt put f $10 in change in a
ess is affected by the sense of bowl on his i counter. Four years
responsibility with which it is later it contained $10.17. "People,"
used." ;The way the Reece com- Ustvedt commented, "are honest"
tiny salary of rice that the Viet see3E3SSSBSS
iT.-TT PWa It GRIN AND BEAR IT
I was told he escaped the rice
fields because he was an unusual
ly expert fisherman with a. net,
but I atill suspected that he was
an early specimen of the great
genus of .bureaucratic careerist
I may have been unjust however,
for the dandified cadre was re
sponsible for the absence of an
official seal on my exit papers.
And this later gave me a rather
bad hour of worry about what I
would do If a sort of canal-side
soviet of soldiers and grim se
curity police looked, at the pass
port in my bedding roll and dis
covered I really was not Monsieur
Muller, a wandering French
journalist
I wish I could report that the .
Viet Minh organization which I
glimpsed in those three days
was feeble, evanescent and hated
by the people. But- the record
of its achievements in nine years
all too clearly confirms my own
short observations of the effi
ciency, power and popular sup-
port of this Communist built and
Communist - guided machine .of
guerrilla government If we are
not to lose the struggle for the
world, we had best make . a real
' istic estimate of the enemy's
strength. And the ' foregoing
merely summarizes the strength
that I saw. i
(Copyright 1954. New York
Herald Tnbuno lac)
: ', 1. What is wrong with this
sentence? "Smith's statement
was followed with a dead si
lence."
j 2. What is the correct pro
nunciation of "chateau"?
3. Which one of these words
is misspelled? Decolete, beret
demitasse, chapeau. ,
! 4. What does the word "hy
nerbole" mean? .
1 1 5. What is word beginning
with bl that means "brawling
clamorous"?
Answers
1. Say, "Smith's statemen
was followed by complete si
lence." 2. Pronounce sha-to,
as in shall, o as in toe, accent
second syllable. 3. Decollete, i.
A statement exaggerated fanci
fully, as for effect (Pronounce
hi-pur-bo-le, i as in high, o as in
for, o as in no, e as in me, ae
cent second syllable). 5. Blatant
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