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TWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday. May II, 195 Debate Over Prisoner Issue in Truce Talks Tops Week's Bad News By PHIL NEWSOM United Presi Foreign Analyst The week's balance sheet be tween the good and bad news in the hot and cold wars,: THE BAD 1. It was so near to peace but so far away In the Korean truce negotiations. More than 300 days after their start, the talks finally had boiled down to the question of voluntary repatri ation of prisoners. The Reds wanted all United Nations' pris oners returned. The U.N. said, no. For the U.N. it was a fun damental issue. Many Reds sur rendered on the promise of pro tection. To give them back now, probably would mean the firing squad. Germany Causing Concern 2. On the other side of the world, Germany also was caus ing concern. The British were fed up and refusing to make more concesslyns to the West Germans in return for German participation in a European army. On the other hand, there were increasing possibilities the Bonn Parliament, led by the So cialists, might refuse to approve the plan as it now stands. Mean while, the Communists busily stirred the muddy waters. They threatened a German civil war. 3. So far, It still was a friend ly argument, but the United States and Britain were at log gerheads over who finally should have command of Medi terranean forces under NATO America's Admiral Carney com mands now, but the British want one of their own to have the command ultimately probably Lord Louis Mountbatten. British newspapers accused the United States of hogging NATO com mands. THE GOOD 1. Probably the United States' best Informed man on Russia arrived in Moscow to take up his duties as U. S. ambassador to the Kremlin. He is George Frost Kennan, the "Mr. X" who authored the State Depart ment's policy of firm contain ment of. Communism which is in turn the keystone 'of U.S diplomacy. Milwaukee - b o r n Russian-speaking Kennan re gards his job as two-fold: ' to prevent the Russians from under-estimating U, S. reaction to so-called "local" aggressions and to prevent any mistaken idea that the U.S., is preparing war against the Soviet. NATO Shaking Down 2. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization gradually was shaking down. Secretary-General Lord Ismay announced a streamlining program which would break the organization down into three main sub-divisions: economic, to help mesh the free world's finances and trade; political, to handle rela tions between member nations on a day-to-day working level; and production, to coordinate defense production and prevent duplication of effort. 3. There were plenty of ma jor differences among the West ern Allies, but they continued to present a united front against Russia. France, despite reser vations was initialling the Euro pean army pact. The U. S., Britain and France were united in the stand that no phony Rus sian peace offer should delay the contract with a free West Germany, and were in equally firm agreement that the last concession had been made to the Communists in Korea. Malaria mosquitoes scourged the beautiful Mediterranean is land of Cyprus from the dawn of history but modern insecti cides in the years since World War II have eliminated the disease. The Federal Food and Drug Administration's seizures of un fit foods averaged more than 23 tons for each working day dur ing the last six months of 1051. The first technicolor motion pictures ever taken of the inside of the living heart have con tributed new knowledge about the functioning of that vital organ. VOTE FOR Dr. G. A. Dierdorff REPUBLICAN STATE Representative Integrity In Government Social Improvement without Socialism Pd. Adv. Dierdorff for State Repr. Comm Matter of Fact By Jottph ind Stewart Alsoe BUYING AN AIR DEFENSE Washington One of the sinis ter symptoms of our times is the way that the greatest issues of national policy either get lost in the political shuffle or are hidden under the fustian cloak of official secrecy. Take, for example, the matter of the air defense of the United States which is virtually non-existent at present. On the one hand, one of the two or three dominant facts in the world's strategic picture is the atomic bomb, which may before long become the hydro gen bomb, in Soviet hands. Both the Soviet atomic stockpile and the Soviet power to deliver atomic weapons to distant tar gets are constantly growing. The danger to this continent is not yet really imminent but it is likely to be very great indeed in two or three years' time. On the other hand, the entire air defense picture has been dramatically altered by success ful tests of new guided missiles and improved radar warning equipment. Where it was nearly impossible, until this year, to defend the United States against atomic air attack, it is theoreti cally possible to do so today. But we are not doing it. It will take at least two or three years. And if the effort is not begun immediately, the theoretically possible air defense will not be ready when the Soviet atomic danger reaches the stage of be ing a day-and-night threat to every American. Here is a great issue of national policy which has not even been publicly hint ed at. TMIE simplest way to express the new possibilities of air defense is in terms of estimated percentages of destruction of enemy aircraft attacking the United States. The Air Force Chief of Staff, Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg, for merly maintained that we could never destroy more than 30 per cent of the attackers. The terri fying feeble existing air de fense system cannot achieve anything like this level of kills, except perhaps in daylight and good weather. By night and in bad weather, Soviet bombers could today fly over this country with relative Impunity, although it Is doubtful whether they would find their assigned tar gets, and they could not get home again. With new weaonns and new tnchniaues, however, this do fonsolessnnss can be overcome In time, by heavy investment and by great national effort. In one and a half to two years, we can bp reasonably sure of destroying at least three out of ten hostile aircraft, in what ever weather and at any time of (he day or night. In two to three years," 40 or perhans even 50 per cent destruction may.be feasible. And In three to four years, we can theoretically achieve a full air defense. This is a defense so strong that even suicide air missions to the most vital American targets will look like a waste of men, machines and atomic raw stuff. This theoretical possibility of a near-total air defense squarely rests on two things, however. First, it rests on the newly de veloped weapons now tested or about to be tested, like the Nike guided missile. Nike is only use ful for "point defense" but It has achieved 100 per cent de struction of B-17s flying at maxi mum speed at 35,000 feet. Nike, and the other guided missiles,, and the many other complex de vices needed for an effective air defense system, must be ordered and produced before they can be used. SECOND, near-total air defense rests on having all the parts of the air defense system radar warning equipment of several kinds, guided missiles of several types and all-weather fighter in terceptors In considerable num bers. All these different ele ments of the system must be available, fitted together in a working machine, and ready to be used at any hour of, the day or night for 365 days a year. A considerable training period must therefore be added to the period of production to get a realistic time schedule for build ing an air defense. It Is urgent to build our air defense in pace with the increas ing danger that hangs over us. If near-total air defense is pos sible, we should have it as soon as possible. But to achieve these ends, several highly disagree able and difficult measures have got to be taken. As of now, the Joint Chiefs of Staff have got to make their first really serious and national minded attack on the production priorities problem. Only careful re-allocation of priorities for machine tools and other scarce items will guarantee adequate production of all-weather fight ers, electronic equipment, and the other air defense essentials. If present priorities are held to, all these items will continue to be produced in miserable drib lets, as at present. As of now, also, some room has got to be made in the de fense budget for Immediate or ders of all the promising new weapons and air defense devices that have been properly tested. PENALLY, as of next year ' most probably, a most heavy addition to the general defense budget will have to be made for air defense purposes. The capi tal cost of continent-wide de fense with just one of the guided missiles now being readied Is estimated at $7,000,000. This is the most important and costly of the new weapons now on the way, but many others are also needed. For a near-total air de fense, therefore, the over-all in crease in the defense budget may run as high as $4,000,000, 000 annually for several years. A single new plant for the Atomic Energy Commission nowadays can cost close to $2,000,000,000. There can be no argument about the wisdom of Investing $4,000,000,000 a year, or twice $4,000,000,000 a year, in an air defense that will ef fectively protect the people and the industry of the United States. And if this great issue 13 SUNDAY OrlEY SAVERS AT THE (E IK AD (C IE T IE IE H A 40 pen 9:00 a. m. to 9:00 p. m. 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Classes will start June 9 and July 11. All sessions will be held In the senior high school band room. The program is open to all who are interested and who have sufficient talent from the 4th, to 12th grades, and gradu ates. Grade school students may register with their school principals, and junior and senior high students may register at their band offices. A small deposit is required for registration, and will be refunded at the end of the sum mer if the student has attended 90 per cent of the classes. In the Philippines, people fight mice with mice. It is done by raising guinea pigs in the house. The presence of the guinea pigs drives rats and house mice away. The Alaskan fur seal, spending much of its life in the water, does not swim at birth and must learn as a pup. NO TALENT Fort Worth, Tex. (U.R) The Truman Sign Co.; here has a panel truck with the words under the firm's name: "My Margaret can't sing." U. S. 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You'll find that SHARING your faith does something for you, and for your friends as well ... it grows when it's shared . . . and your friendships grow, too. 1 Take someone to church this week ... you'll both be richer for it A - AM Contributed in behalf .of the Religion in American Life Program by Medford Mail Tribune i . -
