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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
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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,
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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
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No. 299
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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.