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
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."til
) Classes will Include Junior
high band, senior high band,
grade school band (for those
with one or more years of ex
perience), grade school begin
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tra, junior high orchestra, -and
junior and senior high beginners
groups. Schedules will be an
nounced later.
SEIZED by Communist prisoners
of war at Koje Island off Korea
coast, Brig. General Frank Dodd,
camp commandant, Is held as
hostage. (International)
Summer Music Class
Program Announced
I. A. Mirick, supervisor of
Instrumental music in Medford
schools, Saturday announced
plans for the schools' annual
summer band and orchestra
school. 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. Steel at its Clairton, Pa.,
plant handles more than 3,600
tons of coal a day.
is not faced, those who have re
fused to face it will carry an un
bearable burden of blame, when
the time of danger is suddenly
upon us and we find that we
are not defended in the air.
(Copyright, 1952,
New York Herald Tribune, Inc.)
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