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(To A V v en uvu uuu Eisenhower's Political Breed On Foreign Policy: 'We Cannot Be By KEVIN M'CANN President, Defiance College (These articles are based en the book. "The Man From From Abilene." by Kevin Mc Cann, to be published by Doubleday Ic Company.) Publicly and privately, Gen eral of the Army Dwight D. Ei senhower has set forward his conception of a foreign policy for the United States. It may be summarized as enlightened self interest. Only a week after he arrived in Paris on his SHAPE assign ment a year ago he ould no 'longer resist the urge to sum up his position because of persist ent talk that he had moved in-' to the "administration camp" and that President Truman would suggest him as the Demo cratic candidate for president in 1952. To a friend in Chicago he wrote in part: "... you are quite well aware of the extreme degree in which I differ with some of our gov ernmental foreign - and domes tic policies of the past year . . . Problem Not Simple "The nation's security prob lem is not as simple a black-and-white matter as the 'great debaters' would like to make it appear. "There is only one angle from which to approach any interna tional problems; from that of 'America first.' I realize that ar gument cannot be presented in terms of slogane and catch words, but, because we have al ways attempted to classify peo ple into conveniently labelled groups, I want to make clear that I am not one of the 'Inter nationalists' in the sense that I am willing to trust America's welfare to an international con gress of just any kind." In response to a lifelong as sociate who had written in No vember, 1950, the hope that "you won't be talked into that At lantic pact job," Gen. Eisenhow er made it clear that in the ab sence of an effective. United Nations as a vehicle for our for eign policy he was pinning his hopes on the success of NATO. "I rather look upon this ef fort," he said, "as about the last remaining chance for the sur vival of Western civilization. Efforts Defeated by Veto "Our efforts in the United Nations have been defeated by vetoes of hostile groups but in the Atlantic pact we are not plagued by the hostile groups and are simply trying to work out a way that free countries may band together to protect themselves ... I believe, in my present job, -I am supporting an effort that will be of un usual significance to the wel fare of our people." He had already in his final report as army chief of staff in 1948 offered this firm state ment on the need for aiding Europe: "From the security standpoint . . ..help to other nations must aim always at restoring their ability to support themselves. To make them permanently de pendent upon outside help is to weaken and destroy moral fiber, without which rehabili tation is impossible. A sturdy, self-reliant ally is a godsend in any crisis; but a flabby depend ent is no help in a fight!" He wrapped the basis of for eign policy into these four sen tences, taken from a message he sent last December to a friend at home: One Consideration "From my viewpoint, foreign policy is, or should be, based primarily upon one considera tion. That consideration is the need for the United States to obtain certain raw materials to sustain its economy, and, when possible, to preserve profitable foreign markets' for our sur pluses. Out of this grows the ne cessity for making certain that those areas of the world in which Palace Silent Elizabeth Expecting Child London (U.R) Buckingham palace offered only a noncommit tal "no comment" Monday to re ports sweeping Britain that Queen Elizabeth II is expecting her third child. Even court circles were di vided over the authenticity of the rumors, which began with last week's postponement of the queen's coronation until the spring or summer of 1953. Visited by. Gynecologist Some professed to believe the reports and said Elizabeth's gynecologist. Sir William Gil lian, had visited her at Clarence House only the day after her hur ried return from Africa to be proclaimed queen. The mass circulation tabloid essential raw materials are pro duced are not only accessible to us, but their populations and governments are willing to trade with us on a friendly basis. To my mind, this simple need, with all the short and long-term ar rangements necessary to assure its fulfillment, are the things that should concern us in the in ternational field." Back in November, 1950, in another letter, he dwelt at length o GEN. DWIGHT EISENHOWER on the threat of Communism. "ruthless in pnrpose and insidi ous in method. He stated clearly the strate gic basis of foreign policy:. To prevent the Eurasion land mass from being overrun by Commu nist-dominated people and indus try; otherwise, he said, the Bel gian Congo, the Mid-East and the Suez Canal "would be gone." "Where," he asked, "would we get the materials needed for our existence? For making steeL for. making atomic bombs?" '- Can 1 Be Modern Rome In the same letter Gen. Eisen hower saw limits in time and geography to the maintenance of American troops abroad in con nection with foreign policy. He said this: We cannot be a modern Rome guarding the far frontiers with our legions if for no other reason than because these are not, politically, our frontiers What we must do is to assist these people to regain their con fidence and get on their own military feet. "The American material ef fort, I think, could and should be limited as to length pf time; I consider it an error to try to predict and fix its limits, as of this moment, in terms of exact degree of effort. While I do not know the length of time that some occupational troops may be m Germany! would say this: "If in 10 years, all American troops stationed in Europe for Property Tax Returns Still May Be Changed County .Assessor C. A. Myers said today that there is still time for those who have filed personal property tax returns to amend the returns. Deadline for filing was Saturday. Myers said that his staff will soon begin checking the books of any merchants whose returns ap pear questionable. The state tax commission has warned in recent months that a number of returns on the property tax, particularly for merchandise inventories. have not listed the true value of the property. A state tax officer was here last month spot checking returns, but Myers own staff will exam ine each return, he said. on Reports Sunday Pictorial openly coupled Gilliatt's call with Elizabeth's reported desire to have two more children to join Crown Prince Charles, now three, and Princess Anne, lib. Reports Said 'Absurd' However, another authorita tive source said he believed the reports of the queen's pregnancy were "absurd." He pointed to the fact that as Princess Elizabeth, she had embarked on a strenu ous five-month tour of Australia and New Zealand just before her father's 'death last month. : ' .. . The queen hardly would have attempted such a tour if she in tended to have a child in the near future,; he, said. ;- : . a Modern Rome' national defense purposes have not been returned to the United States, then this whole project will have failed. c No Need To Remake World In the first of the Gabriel Sil ver lectures at Columbia univer sity two years ago Gen. Eisen hower developed another theme in foreign relations, one which might be described as "live and let live." It came in this passage in his lecture: "There is no need to remake the world outside the Soviet system, in the likeness of the United States or any other coun try. But I suggest that we recog nize that every culture, devel oped in the world, has been worked out by its possessors to meet the circumstances of their own environment. "Each race and each nation can learn from every other There is none so close to self- sufficiency that it can do with cut the help and cooperation of others; none so primitive that it has not amassed a wisdom that can possibly enlighten even the most advanced."- (Copyright, 1952, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) American Dancer Among 37 Killed In Airplane Crash Nice, France U.R) A beauti ful American ballerina and 36 other persons aboard a French air liner were killed Monday when the. plane hit a block of birds on its take-off and crashed in flames. The 38th person aboard, a woman, was desper ately injured. Harriett Toby, 22, a native of New York Oity whose name in private life was Harriet Katz man, had danced her way into European fame in her brief career. Motors Cut Off The four-engined Air France liner, carrying 34 passengers and a crew of four had just taken off from Nice airport when it ran into a flock of migratory birds. Two of the plane's motors cut off. Its pilot tried desperately to make it back to the airport A wingtip brushed the ground The plane crashed in La Valen tine valley, only half a mile from the airport, and burned. Returning From Holiday - The passengers included, be sides miss tiatzmann, 11 Britons, two Belgians and an Italian. The rest were French. Most were re turning to Paris from a winter holiday on the Riviera. The one person who came out alive from the plane wreckage was ivime. Marguerite Delpy, a French woman. Both legs man gled and suffering from burns, she managed to drag herself out of the plane. Stassen To Seek Oregon Nomination Salem (U.R) Harold E. Stassen filed his , candidacy ' in Oregon Monday for the Republi can nomination for President in the state's May 16 primary. - The former Minnesota gover nor's personally-signed filing pa pers were brought here by Walt er Kosenberry. Waniti. Wvo.. lumberman and Pat Blair, Port land, Ore., who was a member of Stassen's cabinet when Stassen was governor of Minnesota. Rosenberry will be Stassen's campaign manager in the west. He said Stassen planned an in tensive campaign in Oregon. Oregon Accidents Claim Lives of Three By UNITED PRESS Three, persons died as the re sult of accidents in Oregon over the week-end and an Empire man was m critical condition Monday at a Hillsboro hospital with in juries suffered when the plane he was flying in crashed, at West Union. The plane accident claimed the life of John William Lalison, 21, illsboro. His companion, Ken neth E. Osborne, 25, was in criti cal condition with head and leg injuries. Portland recorded its 12th traf fic fatality of the year Sunday with the death of Mrs. Elizabeth Schleuning, 68, Portland. She was injured x Thursday -.when struck by a car. - Cecil M. Green, 49-year-old Portland ship repairman, died Saturday from injuries sufsred in a fall into a ship's shaft alley on the Portland waterfront Tues Medford United Press full Leased Wlro 46th Year 12 Pages TT relict As IB (Las Southern Pacific Resumes Schedules On Route to South Service Will End When Strike Settled Southern Pacific train serv ice between Grants Pass and Dunsmuir was restored tempor arily yesterday because of the Pacific Greyhound work stop page which became effective at midnight Saturday, according to Robert H. Holmes, district pas senger agent for Southern Pa cific. Crews for the trains from Roseburg were "deadheaded" to Grants Pass early Sunday Southern Pacific officers "work ed" extra cars down to Grants Pass from the nortnern district Saturday afternoon as a "safety valve" in event of the work stop page, the passenger agent said On Former Schedules Trains 327 and 328 will oper ate on former schedules, leaving Medford for the south at 10:50 a. m. and arriving in jvieoiora from the south at 7:50 p. m. making connections at Duns muir, in both directions with the Shasta Daylight streamliner, Holmes said. With restoration of .the Grey hound bus service, the train operation will be stopped, Holmes said. . - -- -- ...?;.-, San Francisco (uEJ Nearly 100,000 regular daily passengers of Pacific Greyhound ; . lines sought other transportation Mon day as buses stood idle in seven western states as the result of a strike of 3,500 employees. Some 2,200 drivers and 700 station employees, members of the AFL Motor Coach Employes Union, walked off their jobs at midnight Saturday when last minute negotiations between the union and PGL ended in dead lock. Wages Boost Sought The employees are seeking a wage boost and a five-day, 40 hour work week. Federal Conciliator Omar Hos kins called a new meeting for 2 m. here Monday and both union and management said they would attend. A. A. Baker, business agent for the local here, said the union has been seeking a five-day week for a long time and 92 per cent of the membership voted last week to make it a strike issue. Bus drivers are not cov ered by federal laws providing overtime pay for work above 40 hours a week. The drivers are seeking a pay boost from $7.26 per 100 miles to $8.50 for long haul drivers and an hourly increase from $1.63 to $2.04 for short-run drivers. Sabrejefs Claim 200th MIG Downed 8th Army Headquarters, Korea (U.R) United Nations F-86 Sabre- jets shot down the 200th MIG-15 of the Korean war Monday, knocking out two of the Russian swept-wing fighters during two air battles south of the Yalu river. The Sabres damaged five other MIGs during two morning ac tions to bring the day's total to two MIGs destroyed and five damaged. The 5th Air Force MIG score board now reads: 200 destroyed, 36 probably destroyed and 388 damaged. BULLETIN Washington (U.R) Senate advocates of Hawaiian state hood lost their fight Monday to force immediate considera tion of a bill to make that Pa cific territory the 49th' state. The Senate instead voted to take up legislation governing the administration of oil-rich .Tidelands. Hawaiian statehood supporter! won a short-lived strategic victory a 39 to 37 vote-to sidetrack the Tidelands bill only to see it taken away in a swift reversal as absen tees were rounded up and ohm votes were switched. - MEDFORD, OREGON, eirvDce oweirs 1 """ mmm """""""""J"" CARRIER OF DESTRUCTION The Air Force is preparing to deliver tactical atomic bombs by jet bombers, like the F-84 Thunder jet shown above, agiinst enemy targets almost anywhere in the world on short notice, it was disclosed in an announcement from Washington. The tactical A-bombs, al though smaller in size, have about the same destructive power as those that razed Japan. Eisenhower May Lose Nominations, Douglas Believes Washingt6ri(U.R) - Seru s 'Paul H. Douglas, who once proposed that both parties nominate Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower for Presi dent, said Monday he now fears Eisenhower may wind up with out either party's nomination. Great Difficulty Seen Gen Eisenhower doesn t want the Democratic nomination he can get, and he apparently is go ing to have great difficulty get ting the Republican nomination he wants," Douglas told a re porter. "He may be in the process of falling between two stools, to the great loss of the nation."" Douglas, an Illinois Democrat, who has long been on the outs with President Truman, suggest ed in a speech last year that both parties back Eisenhower as a unanimous choice for the presi dency. His idea was received coldly by Democratic supporters of Mr. Truman, as well as by Republi can supporters of Sen. Robert A. Taft. Douglas indicated that he has no hope of reviving the pro posal. . "Why should I waste my ener gies on something that didn t take hold?" he asked. Douglas made his comments as political attention was turning to New Hampshire and the final week of the campaign there for the nation s leadoff presidential primaries on March 11. The Taft Eisenhower battle held the spot light. Committee Attacks On Filmville 'Unfair' Washington (U.R) Two mem bers of the House Un-American Activities committee said Mon day the group's recent attack on the motion picture industry was "ill-advised and very unfair." Reps. Francis E. Walter, D-Pa., and Morgan M. Moulder, D-Mo., said they favor issuance of a sup plemental committee report or statement to remove some of the sting. - . The committee asserted in its annual report two weeks ago that the movie industry has fail- to take positive and term J steps" since the 1947 Holly- wooi earing, to co:-oat tne in filtration of Communists and party efforts to infli nee the con tent of motion pictures. Cab Driver Acquitted On Liquor Sale Charge Elmer William Abbott, a driv er for the Red Top Cab company, was acquitted in a district court jury trial Saturday on a charge of selling liquor illegally. The trial lasted for three days, and the verdict was brought in late Saturday. Edward C. Kelly represented Abbott, and Deputy District Attorney Bob Dickey j was prosecuting attorney. MONDAY, MARCH 3, festered Walk" wt Reds Admit UN Right To Turn Down Russia; Enemy Hurls Insults Pahmurijom (U.R) Commu nist truce negotiators, admitted Monday that the United Nations has the right to veto Red nomi nations of Russia as a neutral truce inspector but hurled blis tering insults at the Allies in prisoner exchange discussions. Maj. Gen. Lee Sang Cho, North Korean truce talker, ac cused the Allies of blackmail, lying stalling, massacre of pris oners and "complete lack of sin cerity." Must Give Valid Reasons However, the Reds told the Allies in armistice terms discus sions that the UN could reject Russia if the UN gave valid rea sons for the Soviet Union's un fitness to sit on a neutral com mission. The Allies . stood on reasons the Reds already have rejected: Russia's record of "past partici pation in Kora" and her geo graphic "proximity" Russia borders Korea's northeast cor ner.. It represented the Reds first retreat on this major deadlocked issue. Only last Saturday, the Reds had said that Russia must serve on the six-nation neutral armitice inspection commission, with or without the Allies' con- Pilot's Wile Dreams Of Crash Location Klamath Falls, Ore. (U.R) The wife of a missing air force pilot hoped Monday a dream will lead her to the spot where her husband may have crash-landed a C-47 plane on a flight from Washington to California last December. Mrs. Vernon Moe, 28, of Vaca- ville, Calif., came here Friday to join in the search for the missing plane. She flew over the rugged country on the California-Oregon border Saturday and Sunday. "In a dream two nights before I came here," she said, "Vernon told me that he flew to a town with two syllables I forget the name and then turned back and landed at Day." "I didn't think a thing about it, until I arrived here and found a town on the map called 'Day.' " Pendleton (U.R) A two state search was under way Monday for Pvt. Owen L. Wren, 23, an army private who mysteriously disappeared on a trip from Ft. Lawton, Wash., to his home at Weston, Ore. Weather FORECAST Occasions! light rain in valley, snow in moun- ' tains, tonight and Tuesday. Low tonifbt 31. High Tuesday . 42-45. Temp. Highest yesterday 47 . Lowest us morning 3 Tribune United Press Full Leased Wlr 1952 No. 299 sent. - Even this back-tracking by the Reds, however, did not revive fading Aliled hopes for a Korean armistice. The Communists al ready have rejectee the Allied reasons for the veto Russia's close geographical proximity to Korea and her record of past par ticipation in the country. - "I'm sure any reason we give would not be sound to them," Col. Don O. Darrow, UN staff officer, said after the 50-minute meeting. He said he had told North Korean CoL Chang Chun San that nothing the Communists would say would "change the fact that the Soviet Union was unacceptable to our side that I already had told him our stand was irrevocable and firm." Mill Strike Situation Reported Unchanged Harry Dowson, president of the Southern Oregon Planing Mill company, said today that the strike situation, which has closed down the Central Point mill for two weeks, remains un changed, from the company's standpoint. The 61 workers, who walked out February 18 in a dispute over the status of a former fore man, are members of Local 3030, Lumber and Sawmill Workers' union, AFL. Dowson said that "if and when" the employees return to work, negotiations over the set tlement of the dispute will be re sumed, x Gene Tedrick, business agent for the union, was unavailable for comment today. Police Try To Link Clues With 5 Held in Safe Theft Reno (U.R) Authorities Mon day sought to link a heel print. a palm print, a button and a miniature soap wrapper with a frightened blonde and her four companions held in Butte, Mont., for questioning in a $2,500,000 robbery of a millionaire's man sion here. The clues were all that police had to work with in solving the Friday night burglary of the home of La Vere -V. Redfield. One of Biggest Hauls The theft, in which cash, se curities and jewelry were taken while a "vicious" watchdog gnawed on a hambone thrown him by the thieves, was one of the biggest hauls in modern times, police said. ",'''" The five persons in custody were stopped at a roadblock near Butte Sunday night in a two-tone Cadillac in which they were carrying 16 pieces of lug Will Lef Contracts April 15, Letter From Senator Says Estimated Costs Total $6,000,000 Work to place Camp White on a "stand-by" status will begin May 1, Sen. Guy Cordon said today. Contracts for the building of a utilities system, road system, railroad spur and telephone and telegraph building will be award ed about April 15, Senator Cor don said in a letter to The Mail Tribune. He had been informed of- the dates by T. A. Young, deputy chief for personnel and administration in the .Depart ment of the Army. In a letter from Young, bud geted costs of the installation were listed as follows: Costs Estimated Utility system, $4,298,000; roads system, $190,000; railroad spur, $629,000, and telephone and telegraph building, $27,300. The letter continued, "The remainder of the approximate ly $6 million budgeted for this facility is for the acquisition of land and rehabilitation of the existing structures." According to previous Army announcements, there are no im mediate plans to reactivate Camp White on completion of the pro posed construction. Young told Senator Cordon the facility will be retained on a stand-by sta tus for use in the event of mobilization. An Army announcement last week indicated that the size of the camp has been cut to 1,300 acres. This was confirmed by Young's letter, which said that the exact acreage has not been definitely determined, but in any event will not exceed 2,200 acres. "It is not contemplated at this time to acquire maneu ver area at this facility," the let ter said. The area which the rehabili tated and smaller camp will oc cupy is southeast of the Crater Lake highway and opposite the industrial area and the veter ans' domiciliary. The engineer ing firm of Harvey and Watkins, in association with Howard R. Perrin, Klamath Falls, has been working on plans for the camp since last September. Trained Two Divisions The original Camp White, con structed in 1942 as a training camp for two infantry divisions, took in nearly 100,000 acres in the northern part cf the valley, on both sides of the Rogue river. It included extensive barracks, warehouses, mess halls, admin istrative offices and training areas. The present veterans home was originally the hos pital constructed for the camp, at which some 35,000 men were trained early in the war. The camp is one of seven in the nation which will be made into railhead facilities. These will have basic utility systems, which in case of an emergency could be expanded into a full- scale training camp in a short time. In Young's letter, the contract award date was set as March 1 and it said that construction was to start April, 1. However, Sen ator Cordon said that subse quent checks with Young indi cated the dates had been post poned to April 15 and May 1. There was no indication in the letter as to how many men would be stationed At the rail head facility. One Army an nouncement last week indicated that "not more than 1,000' would be stationed there, but as far as could be determined from conflicting Army statements, there is no assurance that the housekeeping personnel" which would be required would be this extensive. gage, most of it crammed with dirty clothes. Police said their names were the same as those issued in a Ne vada police bulletin. Nevada au thorities said the suspects were: - Geraldine Harris alias Geral dine Unger, 27, Tulsa, Okla Floyd Dwight Dugger, 26, Mis soula, Mont.; Rodney C. Unger, alias Robert Clinton or Arm. strong, 31, of Tulsa; Walter E. Moore, 23, Las Vegas, Nev., and Bendel Lee Moore, 30, Mon roe, La. Four Have Records. Four of the suspects have "rec ords as long as your arm," said Butte Assistant Police Chief Em mett Sullivan. The loot was taken in a safe which the thieves carted away. The robbery victim said the safe contained $300,000 in cash, $100,000 in jewelry and more than $2 million in negotiable. bonds.
