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Troubles BoiJ around
Mediterranean '
At the moment affairs in Asia are Iqui-
onl witK' rmont itnr rrrAntinff thm
United States and Red China continuing,
without report of progress, their talks in
Geneva. India gives assurance that the re
maining U. - S. captives in China will be
"released within the week. If that is done the t
Geneva talks may go on to consider other
phases of the dispute in the Far East. ,
At the moment," too, affairs in Europe are
quiescent, in ! the afterglow of the summit
conference at 'Geneva. In New York the U.N.
subcommittee on disarmament! is pondering
proposals on reducing the armament burden;
and in the capitals of the Big Fpur, diplomats
are doing homework in anticipation of the
talks at foreign minister level now set for
some time in ucioDer.
"The present boiling and bubbling of the
global caldron is in the Mediterranean area.
Sharp clashes along the Gaza- line between
Israel and Egypt brought these two countries
to the point of renewing hostilities,, but the
. United. Nations supervisory team constrained
the two to accept its order for cease-fire.
(This would be merely a local supplement to .
the general truce agreement obtained by the
first U.N. commission hi 1949, which has
been breached many times in sporadic raids
and attacks.) Secretary Dulles offered a U. S.
guarantee to Israel and the Arab states, pro
tecting each ! against the aggression of, the
i 1 Al j : l A - .U 4 ..t
otner, n me aispuiams wuuiu tunic iu . set
tlement of their long and bitter controversy;
but neither side has indicated its readiness
to accept the terms. .
A very grave situation exists also in North
Africa where France is beleaguered by the
forces of nationalism in Morocco and now
also in Algeria. Premier Faure has obtained
cabinet approval of his plan to switch again
the- resident general of Morocco. Gilbert
Grandval, who was named to succeed M. La
Coste, just a few months asro. is bring ousted.
His successor will be Gen. Pierre Boyer de la
Tour Hu Moulin who as resident general in
Tunis helped to work out a program for the
-transfer of a great deal of power to the
aw T x . 'il
lunisians. oranavai goi into airiicuiiy wiin
thejfrench colons (colonists) in Morocco be
cause he tried to placate the nationalists and
bring peace to the troubled country. A vicious
tangle of strife has prevailed in Morocco
, between the nationalist-Arabs and the Freneh
colons arid the French government, also be
tween the Arabs 'and the Berbers. Next step
' in the French plan to bring a semblance of
peace to Morocco will be the shelving of the
sultan, who was shoved in at Berber insis
tence to replace the former sultan now in
exile in Madagascar. Such is the bitterness
that has been engendered there it is doubt
ful if these changes will satisfy the nation-
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frightful, and on such a scale! that it will be
hard to; get j the antagonists to forsake vio
lence. France has thousands of sofdiers dis
tributed nvw TJnrth Afrira trvinff in Vppn
the peace. They may be somewhat milder and
less ruthless than the French police serving
there who have been under J control of-the
colons, but it is only in degree. Naked force
is what the French are relying on chiefly to
preserve their grip on North Africa, though
nowthey are supplementing force with policy
measures which they hope will succeed so the
military may be reduced.
A sideshow to the Mediterranean troubles
has been the flareup in Sudan where the
natives want both -the British and the Egyp
tians to leave them alone. The upshot j there
probably will be some measure of control by
Egypt, but with the Sudanese managing their -own
affairs pretty much as they want .to.
As Father Divine used to say, "Peace, it's
wonderful." But people seem to be shooting
the doves of peace somewliere most of the
time. . . . - ' t .
High Bids for Portland State
The appropriation of $850,000 for a new
building at Portland State fell $89,000 short
of covering the cost according to the bids of
contractors received by th'e State Board of
Higher Education." The board is asking the
State Emergency Board "to supplement the
appropriation by the necessary sum. Other
wise it will be necessary to cut down the
building,. dropping it one floor to four.
It seems the part of wisdom to complete
the .building as planned. In view of the high
cost of the ground fpur stories is not enough
for an urban type college! Moreover, the
prospect of steady increase in Portland
; State's enrollment " makes the additional
space imperative. In fact the next legislature
probably will have to provide for another
building there. Now that Portland State is a
legitimate member of the family of higher
. institutions of learning it is entitled to equal
treatment with the older "children."
The first report from the big new flattop,
USS Forrestal launched Monday was that
the ship "handles beautifully." Wednesday
came the flash that the bearings on two of
the four propeller shafts had burned out and
the ship was limping back to Newport News.
, A bat flew aboard the first night out, and
the superstitious may blame the bat for the
mishap. The ship has been on a trial run to
test out its machinery,' and while the burn
ing out of bearings gave it a poor start, after
a repair job and further trials the Forrestal
will be ready to join the fleet, as the largest
aircraft carrier afloat - -
Piggyback is spreading to ocean shipping.
Fpr years barges have shifted railroad freight
cars across water.-Now American-Hawaiian
Steamship Co. is building ships for the inter
coastal trade which will be designed to move
truck trailers loaded with, freight, just as
railroad flat cars now are carrying them on
land. The old rule holds, if you can't lick
'em, join them. ' j1
After two blasts ori his horn, Harry. Tru
man has been advised by his doctor1 to quit
his stump speaking,, so he had cancelled two
speaking dates in California. That will be
hard on HST, who sniffs a political j battle
like an old fire-horse. His give 'em hell
brand of talking still claims a following, too.
He, won reelection with it single-handed in
1948. i
The Grants Pass Courier sees in the refer
ence of cases involving three former highway
department employes, to district attorneys an
opportunity for Attorney General Thornton
to call for a look-see on highway affairs. The
AG probably figures that one scrap at a time
is enough, especially when that one is going
badly. .
Smog got so thick in Los Angeles this
week that Gov. Goodwin Knight stood by,
ready to order a "state of disaster" for the
area. Fpr a city that grew byf advertising its
climate, one would think' the Los Angelans
could blow the smoke away.
coquine scnooi pupils are up some six
per cent," reports the C004 Bay Times.! That's
fine, fits right into the six per cent tax limi
tation.
"County GOP Hears Morse at Charnpoeg,'
said a Statesman headline Monday. That's a
blooper bad enough, to give the GOP a heart
attack and to make Morse blow a fuse. '
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By STEWART ALSOP
-ABATr Morocco What is the
f Moroccan' Nationalist movement
all about? What manner of men
are its leaders
and what do they
really want?
," - Such , questions
re hard to an
swer, b e c a u s e
there are several
Moroccan Nation
alist movements
- and each move-
, ment has several
1 1 n..i
jcauei 5. nui mis .
renorter at Ut wwart
had a chance to catch something
of the flavor of Moroccan nation
alism at. a luncheon meeting with
the leaders of the illegal "Istiq- -lal,"
much Ithe most powerful; of
the Moroccan independence part-
ies. 1 .
In the Moslem fashion, we sat
on divans around a low table,
mutton from a big plate in the.
center. Of the six men present,
the three most impressive were -Bouabid,
"Ben-Barka and Majoub
Seddik. j I
Bouabid, a lawyer, is generally
,regarded as the No 1 man I in
the Nationalist movement here.
He is very thin, with, an intense
face, mocking eyes and on air
of authority. Ben-Barka is the
party's theoretician, or idea man.
He is a mathematics professor,,
intelligent and likeable he looks
a little like a smaller edition of
Vice-President Nixon. i
Seddik looks, by contrast, like
a " professional rerolatioaary,
which is what he is. Unlike Bono
bid aad Ben-Barka, who are pro
ducts of the small Moroccan
middle class, Majoab Seddik was
a illiterate railway worker who
climbed ta the too of the illegal
Moroeeaa 'labor movement by
Sheer fore aad assie. He has
a Tioleat snaaaer aad strange,
angry eyes the whites shew all
aroaad the papIL As they talked,
th contrast between Bonnbld and
Ben-Barka oa the ono hand, and
MajMk Seddik the ataer. be.
eaasa mora aad mere atrUdng.
They bad, of course, much In
common. All three were ready
to risk everything for the move
ment. All three ' had already
spent months and years in jail.
And the experience had left its
mark on all three men, but es
pecially on Majoub Seddik.
He showed scars on the 4ops
of his hands, administered, he
said, by 'the beatings 4he "me
thode baignoire," bathtub me
thod. The bathtub method, as Majoub
Seddik described it, is very sim
ple. The police tied him on a
plank, - with his head hanging
down over one end, and then
put the plank on a sawhorse.
There was a bathtub filled with
dirty water under his head. When
ever he gave the wrong answer
to a question, or no answer at
all,' the plank was tipped so that
his bead immersed in the bath
tub. A policeman with a stop
watch gave the signM to tip him
back again just short of the
drowning point.
When Majonb Seddik had fin
ished his description of the bath
tub method, there was a short
silence around the table. Then
Bouabid and Ben-Barka began
talking about the attitude of the
Moroccan Nationalists to the
French.
The Nationalist leaders knew,
they said, that Morocco had to
have French technical help,
French capital, French political
support There was no question
at all of pushing the French out
of Morocco, or destroying French
interests. Moroccans wanted only
the 'right to run the affairs of
their own country.
When Bouabid and Ben-Barka
said these things, they sounded
sincere. Majoub Seddik said
aotalag. Then coiTersatloa shift
ed again to the economic exploi
UUoa af the country by the
French, aad Majenb Seddik be
came passionately eJoqieat, aad
the whites af his eyes showed.
Kmx ANU BEAR ,T Ud"? Time Flies:
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Pram Tha
Statesman
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"It's dumb out-of -State, drivers like him that cause these
accidents . . ..they obey all traffic signs . , "."
Most pampered characters at the State Fair this year,
including humans, are those Aberdeen-Angus cattle, which
are on the grounds now. These 150 cattle represent the tops
in their breed from the' 10 Western states.
Daily they are sprayed, brushed, petted and
air-cooled with fans. Owners even ask visi-
tors to walk behind, instead of in front of
the A-A's so they (the cattle, that is) won't
get up from theirdeep beds of straw ...
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30Di
11" Yf I Word is that a eonpla representatives of
ffi.V f Walt Disney will be at the Fair Best week
u " 1 Ho scout the Bailey Bros.-Cristiani circus.
I ? I I - Seems that Walt has his eye oa the circus,
and may install it as a permanent fixture
in his Disneyland park ia Los Angeles. He says he's looked
ever all the others and this is the one he wants The Fair's
most recent blooming innovation, the flower show, will be
expanded again this year. A backdrop wall of rocks, complete
with a waterfall ,(300 gals, of water a minute) has been
constructed . . '-
'
Even the new East Salem By-Pass Highway figures into
Fair plans this year. In former years nearly all Fair-bound
traffic from. the north came down Portland Road and reached
the fairgroundsvia Lana Ave. Which caused some dandy
traffic jams. Now, however, if that approach becomes bottle
necked traffic can be turned onto the By-Pass north of Salem
and can reach. the fairgrounds via Market street and South
17th or 18th streets. A new gate has been placed at S. 17th
St., to provide additional parking space for nearly 1,000 cars.
Fairground parking space now holds 18.0Q0 cars, and on
peak days is none too much room. Which brings up another
future headache, which Sentrol won't solve for Fair officials
namely what" to do with cars as Fairs get bigger and,
parking space doesn't ...
.
A paragraph ia oar favorite paper the other day went
like this: "The 51 prisoners was the largest Jail (Salem city)
population since the time when the city eastile was tempo
rarily used for county prisoners, officers said." . . i' Big ques- ,
tion is: Did police and prisoners work themselves into a lather
over this one? Or did they soft-soap the reporter? ...
Homer Plunkett, . State Industrial Accident Commission
employe, caught a scorpion on his dad's farm near Corvallis
and hauled it in to his office in a bottle the other day. No
sooner had he labeled it Mr. Scorpion than the bottle was
swarming with a couple of dozen little multi-legged mon
sters. So now Plunkett knows that, although scorpions will
bite almost anything, they are pretty close-mouthed about
some things ...
10 Yean ' Ago
, Sept. 1, 14S ;
The army cancelled orders ban
ning individuals of Japanese des
cent from tha west coast. About
50,000 of Japanese ancestry in
eight relocation centers are free
to return to California Arizona,
Washington and Oregon. r "
Iva Toguri, who as "Tokyo
Ro6e" of the Japanese radio at
tempted to woo American troops
into giving up the fight, was grad
uated from the University of Cali
fornia at Los Angeles in 1939 aft
er majoring in zoology. :
v 25 Years Ago '
' V Sept.l, 193
Death rode with the dawn at
, Turner and snuffed out the lives
of five Turner residents who were
riding in a touring car struck by
Southern Pacific passenger train.
Tbe group' was bound for Salem
for a day's work at a cannery.
The Oregon' association of the
deaf concluded its fifth biennial
convention at Portland with the
election of J. O. Reichle of Port
land, as president for' the ' next
two years. The next convention
to be held in Salem.
40 Years Ago
Sept. 1, mi
The Misses Dorothy' and Helen
Pearce, daughters of Mrs. George
Pearce; left for Boston, Mass.,
via California, where Dorothy will
enter the Boston Conservatory of
Music and Helen Pearce will take
post graduate work at Radcliffe
college.
Editorially Automobiles are to
be admitted free to tbe Oregon
State Fair. They will come from
. everywhere, and fill all the avail
able space.
'Ambassador Penfield at Vienna
has been instructed by cable to
inform tbe Austro-Hungariaa gov
ernment that Dr. Constantin Dum-
ba so longer is acceptable as an
envoy to the United States and
. to ask for his recall.
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three years ago. At that time ha
sold tbe rifle to a neighbor. The
latter'a son .was bunting wkh tbe
gun recently when a bullet (rem
it ricocheted and hit Denis. .
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Moroccan Nationalist Leader Tells 'Bathtub
Method' of Torture Used by French Police
The workers were lucky to get ,
,tt cents a day, he said. They
could not strike. They could not
even join a union he j himself
was not a Communist, he said,
but he had first joined a Commu
nist union because only t)ie Com
munists were then doing anything
for the workers. And I always,
there were the police, searching
workers as they left their work,
beating them for nothing, jailing
mem xor a wora.
There was or so It seemed to
this reportera bitterness and a
haired in Majonb Seddik, not
only toward the French bat
toward the whole economic and
political system, that was aot 'la
Bonabid and Ben-Barka. Aad this
suggests the asters of the real
choice that confronts the French.
. At present, the vast j majority
of the Nationalist leaders are of
the same stripe as Bouabid and
Ben-Barka products of the mid
dle class, moderate men, revol
utionaries -only by force of cir
cumstance. If such men are giv
en positions of real authority,
and a sense of pride and parti
cipation, the essential French
interests in this tortured country
may well be preserved.
The alternative is the bathtub
method applied country-wide a
campaign of the mast ruthless
suppression. Ia the end, this is
sure to produce a whole erop of
Majoab Seddiks. Ia the end. it
could only meaa a terrible fight
to tbe finish, which the French
could aever really win. i
' .' i
If the French were the cyni
cal and logical people they were
supposed to be, instead of the
sentimental and illogical people
they actually are. there is no
doubt which way they would
choose. Meanwhile, they have
been incapable of choosing at all,
and it is already very late.
i
(Copyrif ht 1955. New York
(Herald Tribune. Inc.)
of combating communism while
upholding the traditions of
western society.
Columnist David Lawrence
also has teed off against the
Fund report, asserting that Ford
money is being used to weaken
the defenders of America. Dr.
Hutchins will feel that his la
bors are ill-appreciated by the
pundits of the press.
The report itself is indeed
pale. The Fund directors seem
content with objective studies
rather than formulating con
structive programs to protect,
civil liberties both from sub
versives and from fearful pa
triots. However, one . report
made possible by a grant of the
Fund to the Bar of the City of
New York for a study of the
security program as applied to
government employes, recently
made public, has served to open
the eyes -of the public to the
shortcomings of this program.
Research was done by Adam
Yarominsky of the 'District of
Columbia bar. He made a case
study of some 300 employes
who had been under scrutiny by -loyalty
'boards or personnel,
which showed how lacking the
program has been in protecting
the ordinary rights and privi
leges of American citizens.
Whether the Fund for the Re
public will remain satisfied with
doing spadework' to uncover
facts, I do not know. Dr. Hutch
widened, and- the "treatment
accorded suspected persons in
congressional investigations has
not always been that content-
plated by the Sixth amend
ment. Then the report adds:
"The Fund for the Republic
.takes no position on these mat
ters beyond affirming' its faith
in the principles upon which
our government was founded."
The Fund, according to Dr.
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Hutchins believes the American
people must take a position on
them, and the '"object of the
Fund is to help supply the re
quisite information. ' .
Columnist Dorothy Thomp
son is - quick to criticise the
Hutchins report. The Fund, she
says has brought forth "a timid,
rather pinkish mouse." She
says: "The squeamish document
exhibits a lack both of intel
lectual clarity and civil cour
age." Admitting her own doubts
as to the effectiveness of con
gressional investigating com
mittees as means to combat
communism, she confesses her
disappointment that the Fund
for the Republic has not sug
gested a more effective means
Council. Subjects to be studied
have been Communists in Amer
ica, the loyalty-security pro-.
gram, freedom of expression in
educational institutions, racial
discrimination, etc.
On the general subject of civil
liberties Dr. Hutchins says it
has been thrown into "unusual
disorder' by the Cold War. "A
political party has been identi
fied with the 'enemy, and those
associated with it have "come
under suspicion as an imminent
danger to the state." Through
use of guilt by association the
range of suspects has been
ins, as guest speaker for tbe
American Society of Newspaper
Editors last spring certainly
pulled no punches in telling edi
tors how crummy a job they are
doing. Perhaps Miss Thompson's
criticism will stir him and the
Fund directors into more posi
tive and aggressive action in de
fense of civil liberties wherever
and however they are assailed.
With independence and $14 mil
lion they should be able to ac
complish, something.
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