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Register-Guard, Eugene, Ore.Thur., Sept. 2, 1954 9B IrA SONGS ON A CANAL Admiral Robert Carney, chief of Naval Operations, irnras guitar dining a horse-drawn barge outing on old C & O from Washington l,in Hear Adm. Walter Boone. Ladies are Mrs. George Alkcson, Mrs. John Pratt inn0n"S anil Mrs Rnnniv f ' l" - rJTAL &s joviet Plan Boosted BERLIN IR The president of j,j Germany's Communisi-con-,llcd parliament said Wedncs- Soviet proposals for an all- Lopean system of collective so- mly now stand "in tne center European policy" after the -ration of the European army raly by France. Water Sales Pacts Made Israel Is Near East's 'Russia', Student Says The great issue in the Near East is "The Israel question." Over there "Israel is to them like Russia is to us," in the words of a Eugene man who has just returned from a year in Syria. Gordon Torrey, son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Torrey, 342 E. 12th Ave., left Eugene Wednes day morning after a brief visit with his parents. He arrived in Eugene last week after a year as a Ford Foundation scholar in the Near East. Contracts providing for the first Bureau of Reclamation sales of irrigation water from Fern Ridge Reservoir have been signe'd with four property owners, Ivan Oakcs, secretary of the Willam ette River Basin Commission, re ported Wednesday from Salem. Oakes informed the Eugene Chamber of Commerce's water resources committee, that the contracts will cover use of 107 acre feet of water by Chester Cook, 26 acre feet by Ben For ney, 96 acre feet by Lcnnie Hal dorson, and 10 acre feet by A. C. Fornay. All are owners of farms near the reservoir formed behind Fern Ridge Dam on the l ong Tom River west of Eugene Presidency Papers' Topic Two papers on the United States' presidency will be pre sented at national meetings dur ing September by Dr. Lester G. Scligman, assistant professor of political science at the University of Oregon. On Sept. 8 Seligman will read a paper on "Conflicting Roles in Presidential Leadership" be. fore a panel on the sociology of politics at the American Socio logical Society conference in Ur- bana, 111. He will present "Infor. mal Organization and the Institu tionalization of the Presidency" before a panel on new research m American politics at the Amer ican Political Science Assn. con vention in Chicago on Sept. 9. Both of the papers are part of a larger work on "Political Lead ership of the President" in which IScligman is engaged. Syrians and others in the Near East, he reported, view the Unit ed States with mixed emotions. They are hospitable to individual Americans, but fear "imperial ism. The "imperialism" they fear, however, is not the old- fashioned kind in which great powers establish bases in smaller nations. Their fear, he said, is of the "economic" imperialism of the European powers and Amer ica. INCREASED DISTRUST America's stock dropped many points, he added, when this coun try recognized Israel, the infant nation that all the Arab countries regard as their most dangerous foe. Their suspicion of America in creased, he pointed out, when Gordon Clapp, an American, made a lengthy report on Israel for the United Nations. Clapp reported that Israel needed more land, Torrey recalled, "and the Arabs know where this land will come from." Torrey who speaks French and Arabic, got around fine in the Middle East, he said, although he used an interpreter sometimes when discussing fine points of .political science with the Syrian icaaers. He was one nf fivp ftmHnaio students from the University of Aiicnigan wno spent the year in Syria under Ford Foundation aus pices. WIFE TAUGHT With him in the Middle Fast was his wife, Ann, who had work ed in tugene as a public health nurse for the Lane County Health Department. In Syria she taught a course at the Mission Girls' School in Aleppo. Also teaching there, Torrey reported, is Tom Young, who formerly lived in the Riverview District here. Self eovernment. which Svria jhas had since it broke with the irench early in 1946, is made difficult, Torrey said, because "after five centuries nf fnrpmn domination, there is no tradition oi sen determination.' The gov ernment, he said, has always been regarded as the enemy, as something to evade. It is hard now to break old ways of living. To Negotiate With U.S PANAMA W) President Jose Ramon will take a week's leave from office to devote his full time to (1) negotiating for an increase in U. S. rental for the Panama Canal and (2) trying to wind up contract talks with the United Fruit Co. Pledges Economy JOHN DAY UP! Sen. Guy Cor don, campaigning for re-election said here Tuesday night that he will not vote for a dollar of fed eral appropriation "which is not absolutely necessary to the gov ernment for its own defense or for a service to the American people which they can't perform for themselves. He said he had followed that rule as a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee and would continue to follow it. On the way home the Torreys took the old route of the Berlin-to-Bagdad railroad, then the fam ous Orient Express through Is- tambul, Greece, Yugoslavia, Trieste, Geneva and Paris. Later they visited Mrs. Torrey's rela tives in Norway. "Were really losing the propa-1 ganda battle over there," Torrey said of Western Europe. "Those people just don't regard the Rus sians as the menace we do." He said he didn't feel there was great sympathy for Russia in Eu rope, either, but declared that European opinion seems to be drifting toward the "neutral" point of view. The idea, he said, is that the Russians and Ameri cans can fight it out if they want to, but that neither side should count on the European countries. PLENTY OF TOE Much of the news Europeans receive from America, he said, has to do with Sen. Joseph Mc Carthy. "You can read about Mc Carthy three times a day," he said, "and of course they picture Dulles as a tough old bird. Also, there is this fear of Wall Street We never talk about Wall Street over here, but they sure do over there." Torrey is going back to Michi gan to work toward his Ph. D. degree. He has a master's degree in history from the University of Oregon. Atter he gets the doctor ate he hopes to teach Near East ern studies. He has no plans for returning to that area, although, he says, "I could live there very comfort ably. We got American coffee, canned fruit with the lion on the label, Monarch I guess it Is, and American cigarettes if we could afford them they were 60 cents a pack. 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