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EUGENE, OREGON, WEDNESDAY JULY ,13, 195fe.
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Disarmament Plans Expected
To Occupy Summit Sessions .'
By JAMES MARLON
Of The Astficlated PrtVs
WASHINGTON un Some of
the best, informed men in the
government believe the Russians
ivhfr. they meet President Ei
senhower in Geneva'-next Mon
day will make their iost spec
tacultr move on the issue of dts
armamsnt. The Russians, they think, will
either -offer new concessions or!
try to force the United States to
do so. They have yielded mom
in the past few months than in
the past 10 years.
And Eisenhower, judging from
his remarks at a recent news con
ference, may be considering con
cessions. What he said sounded
in a way like an echo of what
the Russians said last May about
inspection procedures.
This is a quick history of the
world disarmament problem in
the past 10 years, telescoping the
views of the Russians on one side
and the Western Allies the
United States, Britain, and France
on the other.
The Russians' position until
last May:
'There must be an immedi
ate end to making atomic weap
ons; those now stored up must
be destroyed. This was all to the
advantage of the Russians when
they had no atomic bombs and
the United States had plenty.
The nations should reduce
yheir armed forces on a percent-
the largest armed force, a per
centage reduction would benefit
them.
There could be no interna
tional inspection teams such as
the West proposed allowed in
any country tq see that it was not
cheating on making atomic
weapons. . ,
Tnis has been the Allied po
sition: No sudden disarmament, but
a gradual one step-by-step, until
finally atomic weapons were
scrapped. The reason: To test
the disarmament machinery and
the sincerity of every country in
living up to the agreement.
Armed forces reduced
through a fixed limit on their
size, not on a percentage basis as
the Russians wanted.
International inspec
tion teams stationed in every big
country with fullfreedom to
theck everywhere to see there
was no cheating. 1
The two sidos stuck to those
positions for years. Suddenly on
May 11 the Russians made a pub
lic announcement which startled
the West. They were willing to
agree to some of the West's de
mands, in part anyway:
Thev agreed to the idea of
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By tlLUAM L. RYAN .it loses in the Soet Union, it.surfact rctsonablmess an ami-jtion of costs and economies in ad-1 Still another sign the burg-
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Thesummit conference of fhe!. Communist boss Nikita - S.
Big Foui'will find world commfl-KIshchev and the party have
nism at. a crossroad
not surrendered their pretensions ple. Year by year the number of
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hower saw it at the end of World
War II. Undoubtedly Ambassador
Charles E. Bnhlcn has.bccn bring
ing the President up to. date on
those changes, which "loom im
portantly at Geneva
nists, ostensibly devoted to Len
in's principles and giving Tit least
Jip service to Stalin's.
On the other hand, tire new col
lective bluntly and outspokenly
publicizes the shortcomings of the
The Geneva conference is ajeconomy. They have emerged
SITE OF SUMMIT CONFERENCE Map shows loca
tions of meeting place and where chiefs of. states will
live during Big Four Geneva conference. The conference
will hci held at the Palace of Nations. Soviet Premier
Nikolai Bulganin will stay in a villa within a few hun
dred yards of the conference site. British Prime Minister
Eden's residence will be at Pregny while President
Eisrthower will stay five miles north of Geneva. French
Premier Faure will live at a villa near Versoix.
teams to go where they wanted
and look at anything they wished
in a country where they were sta
tioned. Jn explaining May 11 why they
were against unlimited freedom
for these teams, the Russians
said: "In the existing situation,
when many states display legiti
mate concern for their security,
it is difficult to expect that these
states would trustfully give other
states access to their industrial
and-other resources which are of
vital importance for their se
curity," On Wednesday two months
after the Russians opposed com
plete inspection and the United
Stales demanded it Eisenhower
said the more one thought over
disarmament the more he finds
himself in a sort of squirrel cage.
He wondered out loud just how
much inspection the United States
would permit in this country.
He said: Are we going to open
up every one of our factories,
every place where
Transit Strike
Not a Disaster
In Los Angeles
fateful gamble for high stakus,
The Soviet leadership hat, in a
sense, anted up the future of
worfd communism. The West may
be gambling on its faith in, hu
man nature and a belief the Com
munist experiment to produce a
machine called "the new Soviet
man" has failed.
Tw world wa'rs and modern
technological progress have pro
duccd a new Russian common
man. He seems gradually to be
realizing his own strength. Ho is
looking around his vast, rich and
beautiful country, a land he loves
passionately, and sees promise of
a peaceful and prosperous life.
But he is afraid loo. I have
spoken to him in many places and
found him deathly afraid of a new
war. He accepts mosl, if not all,
of his government's peace prop
aganda because he dreads war.
The ordinary Russian is not a
Communist party member there
are only six 'million party mem
bers in a country of 210 millions
but he is an important factor
at Geneva.
TUGOFWAR
A constant tug-of-war goes on
inside the U.S.S.R., mirrored by
its press and propaganda. It is
on all levels economic, social,
political, cultural between old
and new. Bolshevism, a product
of the. late 19th and early 20th
centuries, is dead. Now the type
of dictatorship going by the un
warranted name of communism is
fighting a back-to-the-wall battle
for the purity of its doctrine. If
from behind tae forbidding Krem
lin walls and made .friendly ges
tures to .reptesentatives ot otner
systems. They riave pushed aside
the bluster .of Stalinism in fai'or
of a more fetching approach of
able words. Wh??
The problem of Khrushchev and
the collective go track to the pco
AT SOVIET SUMMIT
Soviet Premier , Nikolai
Bulganin will represent
Russia at the conference
table in the. Big Four sum
mit meeting opening July
18 in Geneva. This close
up study of Premier Bul
ganin was made June 1
during his visit in Yugoslavia.
educated and agcr cttizi
growing
At the end of .the school year
this summer, 250,000 yoig spe
cialists with higher .education
poured into the stream of the na
tion's economy. They re not the
servile robots pictured in the
Stalinisf description o '.'the new
Soviet man."
Pravda said recently l!cse
young specialists must go "where
the greatest need for qualified
cadres is felt." But many are get
ting stubborn about it. These
young people, said pravda, arc
wrong. They want to choose their
own futures and places of work
NORM SYSTEM
The trouble does not end there.
It extends down into the state
operated trade unions. ' In the
name of patriotism,, the worker
is exhorted to make himself a
willing part of a system of as
cending norms. That means when
a worker reaches a new output
record, his mark becomes the
new quota for (he rest.
On top of all this, the re-emphasis
of heavy industry has compli
cated Soviet problems. The Soviet
press denounces anyone who sug
gests it, but there are definite in
flationary pressures in competi
tion for scarce consumer goods.
In a recent speech Premier Ni
kolai Bulganin told what was
wrong with the Soviet economy, a
long litany of criticism. He
summed up: "Taking industry as
a whole, the questions of speciali
zation and cooperation in produc
tion at present have become par
ticularly acute."
REMEDIES
His remedies went back to doc
trine: more "socialist competi
tion," which means extension of
the speedup system, "tightening
of state discipline," rigid reduc-
ministration
But the only sure jvay to solve
the problem of Soviet inflationary
pressure would beto cut down the
huge investment in armaments,
the cost of a tremendous nfilitary
establishment anl the occupation
of satellite areas and the all-out
conceetratir.n on heavy industry.
eoning bloodless revolution is the
attitude of Soviet youth. Authori
ties constantly are concerned with
a tendency of young people t re
bel against the attempt to strait
jacket all of them into a single
Communist pattern.
These manifestations of social
This cannot b8 done, however, change must be in the back of So.
without executing a tactical re- vict minds as Moscow approaches
treat in foreign policy. 'the conference table at Geneva.
HONORS G.A.R. SURVIVOR This statue portrays 108-year-old
Albert Woolson of Duluth, Minn., only survivor
of the Grand, Army of the Republic. Sponsored by the
Auxiliary of the Sons .of Union Veterans of the Civil
War, the statue will stand in Gettysburg National Ceme-.
tcry. It was sculptured by Dr. Avard Fairbanks, con-,
sultant in fine arts the University of Utah.
gradual disarmament, which the i rhighl be going on that could be
West wanted. linimical to the interests of some-
They accepted the West's: body else?
idea of a fixed limit on armed
forces, They agreed, almost un-ix-j r T '
changed, to the very figures pro- KeiUgeeS UOCK
posed by the West: A limit of 1V4 ! i ' 'i r i
million men each for the United
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States, Russia and Red China:
and 650 000 men each for Britain
and France.
They agreed, for the htirtved Tuesday aboard the trans-
time, to let an international in-port Gen. W. C. Langfitt,
spcction team be stationed in Edward Zimmer, 4fi. Romanian
Russia, but in a limited way. For j born blacksmith who fled his na
example: The team would be re-tive Bessarabia when the Rus
stricted to airports, docks and rail ; sians annexed it, was the 30,000th
T centers. person admitted under the act.
He was
LOS, ANGELES Wv- It would
be a cilywide disaster if the
downtown public transportation
system in any other American
metropolis were strikebound.
But not in this Detroit of the
West where the automobile is
king.
The Los Angeles Transit Lines,
which normally carries nearly a
million -passengers daily, has
been idle since June 20 by a
strike of 2,300 bus and trolley
operators seeking 20 cents more
an hour.
Only a few dozen of the nearly
a million riders have written the
mayor or the Public Utilities Com
mission demanding that some-
something i thing be done to end the tiotip.
The Stale Public Utilities Com
mission, which usually gets many
calls during a utility strike, got
none the past week,
NO PHONE CALLS
And Federal Conciliator Harry
Malcom, who got so many calls
during the 1050 transit strike that
with; vnnt' is Thj. in nnnm
immigrant to this country under:"" " ' """,
the Refugee Relief Act of 1953 ar.;had received none during the cur-
tempting to bring the two sides
together.
Why the apparent apathy?
Los Angeles County's 2,150,000
autos the greatest concentration
on earth have helped solve the
The
Thev demanded the United H omnno 1 711 tucoilnc uanspoi lauon proniem
States give up its overseas air aboard the Langfitt, which com-icar. po1' p?p,'lar, du1r'nR ,he as
bases which, because they ringleted its first sailing under the ira,lonm'! World War II, has
Russia, are in a position to plas- 26-member nation Intergovern-,';0",1c, ., k, ln style' And ,nc
ter her if she gets aggressive, mental Committee for European hitchhikcr has reappeared.
This is something this countrv Migration. Nine other refugee! 0ne '?rT , " SayS
could hardly agree to until world ship trips are planned this ycar.fnJ0-vs hitchhiking now because
disarmament was near its last ! The vouneest unescorted nass-: l" , Ftwrlv
stages. cnger on
Two days later, May 13, Ihc.Smcreka
the
13,
ship, Vladimir
said migration
The area's intcrurban line, Met
ropolitan Coach Lines, also is
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United States, Britain and France! meant "a chance to work in the;""'1 "K lc"eve ln iransponaiion
said they were still for unlimited: Ford plant," where his uncle, ! sl?,nl;u'f ' Some of i s lines par
right of international inspectonj Thomas Smereka, of Dearborn,!8 lc' lse nt, ,,h? ,str"ck LA1L;
lMich is cmp0VC(,.y Metro has added 40 buses, and
. - 1 its business is up 10 per cent, a
spokesman said. And Yellow Cab
Co. reports its business has
jumped 30 per cent.
The commuter is getting to his
job, all right. How about the
downtown shopper? '
SAI) PART OF STORY
That is the sad part of the
story. Downtown stores report
declines in business, devpite, a
publicity campaign showing that
auto traffic is no heavier than
normal and that parking lots are
not increasing prices. At least two,
downtown thvatres have served
notice on their employe",' they
may' have to shut lown if the
strike is prolonged.-
Many perspns who normally
sfcop downtown are shopping in
the suburbs instead.
The strikers rejected the com
pany's offer of 12 ofnts njirc an
hour, despite the recommenda
tions iff their ow negotiation
committee that the offer he ac
cepted, Toy are meirers of
division 1277 of the AFL ,fmal
gamated .fc sn. 'd Street, Fctric
R..$ay and Motor Coach em
ployee of megca. They mad?
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SITE OF MfrFOl K S I ' M M 1 1" CO N F F R K k C Ii '1
vtew of the cei$il secSietf the Paciof NatWns it
Geneva, Switzerland, where theBig Four sti'gjfJit con
o ccrr&. ngi July 18. Once trie soil of the Leagu 'e,
of Katice, the PalacDis nn the FiRopcamheadquar-
tog for the L-ftlarl Nations. , ,
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ty ; munis in h.miiiiuv uw
fid i!l
race a:
the Chinese Nationalists' Qur'lk
hland Wedniday. T!Nati(,-
Defense Ministrj""! the
caused no damage or
1 if i
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