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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
10 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
May 22, 1945
(It was Tuesday)
Eagle Point Grange plans me
morial for World War II service
men at Eagle Point.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Geologists
report the Pacific Ocean is wear
ing away parts of the Oregon
coast at the rate of a city block
a year. It is thought everybody
will be able to get to the top of
a mountain in time.
20 YEARS AGO
Mey 22. 1935
(It was Wednesday)
Rogue Valley musicians form
Southern Oregon band for pur
pose of giving concerts at public
events.
County court continues year
old policy of oiling roads in front
of rural residences if resident
furnishes oil.
30 YEARS AGO
May 22, 1925
(It was Friday)
Medford water commission
employes Engineer F. C. Dillard
to survey city's present and fu
ture water supply.
Inspection of Jackson county
automobile camps for sanitary
purposes being conducted to
comply with recently passed
state law.
40 YEARS AGO
May 22, 1915
(It was Saturday)
Hot lava from Lassen peak
near Redding, Calif., melts snow
jfter eruption.
Hundreds . of tourists visit
Jtogue valley returning from San
Francisco exposition.
What's the Answer?
(Can You Get 4 of the 7?)
Cepr. 1955. Editorial Research Rcpert
1. The now sovereign republic
of Germany is larger or smaller
than East Germany under Red
rule, or about the same size?
2. Most epilepsy can now be
controlled by drugs and chemi
cals; right or wrong?
3. Tuition fees at state univer
sities average, over the whole
U.S., less than $150 a year, about
$200, $250 or $300, or over
$300?
4. Sen. Bricker (R.-Ohio) was
once or never was Republican
nominee for Vice-President?
5. Notre Dame university is in
Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio
or Wisconsin?
6. New York does or doesn't
allow absolute divorce on more
grounds than most other states
do?
7. A cretin is a material for
draperies, congenital idiot, top
of a volcano, or native of Crete?
The Answers: 1. Much larger.
2. Right. 3. About $250. 4. Was
(in 1944). 5. Indiana. 6. Doesn't
(only for adultery). 7. Congeni
tal idiot.
Former Business Agent
Of Union Sentenced
Bend (U.PJ Jack E. Cham
bers, former secretary-treasurer
and business agent of the Inter
national Woodworkers of Amer
ica local in Bend, has been sen
tenced to a term of not more
than two years in the Oregon
state penitentiary.
Chambers pleaded guilty to a
charge of embezzling $7288 in
union funds.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Getting Wise to Secretary McKay
When the Portland Oregonian becomes skeptical
of Secretary of the Interior McKay and his power
policies, that is NEWS.
For our worthy metropolitan daily has always
been strong for "Mac," but now is not only confused
by the conflict of policies in his department, but is
waxing critical when it declares "the public can not
be blamed if it gets the impression that the interior
department, under former Governor McKays direc
tion, uses one set of policies for one project, and an
other set for others."
TTHE Mail Tribune has been critical of the McKay
" policies on public power and particularly Hells
Canyon for some time, but this is the first time we
have noted any serious dissatisfaction from the Ore
gonian, which is such a staunch and unswerving sup
porter of nearly everything with a Republican label.
The confusion and criticism however are war
ranted. And as time goes on it will become clearer and
clearer, we believe, that Secretary McKay's adminis
tration of the U. S. Interior Department, not only re
garding power development but conservation, has
been the most reactionary, and hostile to the princi
ples of promoting the general welfare, since the days
of Boise Penrose and Boss Hanna.
"FHE Oregonian, however, Is not the only metropoli-
tannewspaper strongly supporting President Ei
senhower, which has at long last awakened to the fact
that all may not be well in the Department of the In
terior under the McKay administration.
"The Christian Science Monitor" in its issue of
May 13th announces that photostatic copies of a hith
erto unpublished letter from the files of the Interior
Department, "indicate" that officials of the depart
ment solicited and then followed the recommenda
tions of the big private utilities as to changes in its
own power policies.
In another letter marked "confidential" a certain
private utility made 13 recommendations to the de
partment regarding what should be done regarding
the public versus private power issue, and 10 of them,
says the "Monitor," were "followed verbatim."
These changes, continues the "Monitor" and
one of the best and most objective NEWS papers in
the country incidentally were made "with the mini
mum of publicity and without consulting other inte
rested parties in the federal power system, such as
farm cooperatives and individual localities buying and
distributing government produced power."
")NE of the most controversial of the changes was
recommended by the Pacific Gas and Electric
company of Portland, according to the "Monitor."
This action reversed both a court ruling and the Inter
ior Department's established policy of what is known
as "wheeling" which means in brief to allow a joint
use of power lines, public and private, to avoid du
plication reduce expenses thus reducing costs to the
consumer.
The Pacific Gas & Electric company did not like
this arrangement so on its recommendations the prac
tice was discontinued and as the "Monitor" con
cludes : quote, "This received no publicity at the time
other than publication in the little-read Federal Reg
ister!" If this move wTas proper and above board why all
the secrecy?
The paper thereupon quotes C. Girard Davidson
former assistant Secy, of the Interior as charging Sec
retary McKay as follows quote:
"His policies relinquish valuable rights of the govern
ment, make the sale of government power more difficult
and costly, tend to permit the monopolization of govern
ment power by limited groups, and it is definitely contrary
to the public interest." ,
rURING the last congressional campaign the at-
tacks on Secretary of the Interior McKay and his
extreme pro-private power policies, were generally
discounted by many voters as purely political with no
true basis in fact.
When newspapers, however, like the Christian
Science Monitor and the Oregonian both strongly Re
publican, agree , that "something is wrong"
one thing is certain, Secretary McKay may or
may not be as bad as he is painted by the political op
position, but criticisms of him and his administration
of the Interior Department can no longer be dismissed
as merely "playing politics."
The charges are clear, definite and from Republi
can sources, the sooner they are met and answered
satisfactorily the better for him, his department, and
his party. R.W.R.
Tyranny of 'They9
We wishlo quote on a pertinent subject a United
States senator, a letter from a reader, and ourselves.
Says Senator Richard L., Neuberger, writing in
the magazine Railway Progress:
I happen to be a nondrinker. I just don't like it. I'm not
a prohibitionist but I am a teetotaler. If I mention this at
a party when tendered a highball I'm invariably amazed
by the number of others around me who seem to take
courage and add, "I'd like tomato juice, too. I'm likewise
a nondrinker." But if I had not mentioned the matter first
I am sure they would have kept silent and toyed bravely
with Bourbon and soda.
In a letter reprinted on this page a few days ago
one of our readers in Chicago writes :
Six of us . . . were sitting near the outdoor dance floor
of one of the hotels. When the native bar attendant ap
proached our. table all but one ordered beer or martinis.
But when they learned, through my order, that the bar
could, and with some reluctance would, serve limeade,
all but one changed his order.
And as long as five years ago we observed editorially:
Sunday. May 22, 1955
Matter of Fact
REPORT TO A PARTNER
(NOTE: Joseph Alsop has
just returned from six months
in the Far East. What follows
is excerpted from an informal
memorandum by his partner,
Stewart Alsop, bringing him
up to dale on the Washing
ton scene.
Washington Since you left,
domestic politics has been sound
ing more and more like a
cracked phonograph record.
Over and over
again, the
oracles ask the
same three
questions: Will
Ike run? Will
Adlal run?
Will Ike beat
Adlai? And
over and over
again, the
oracles answer
t h e m s elves:
Yes. Yes. Yes.
Stewart Alsop
This performance tends to a cer
tain monotony.
So does the performance on
Capitol Hill. Majority Leader
Lyndon Johnson is no doubt the
most thoroughly professional
Congressional leader of our times.
But that's just the trouble. He
slips- legislation through so
quickly and quietly that nobody
notices, or even cares very much.
There has not been a single
good loud roar since this session
began. Sometimes one can't help
feeling a certain nostalgia for the
late Joseph R. McCarthy. Mc
Carthy, incidentally, is so sunk
without trace that its hard to
believe that he Was dominating
the headlines when you left for
abroad.
BUT the dizzying chopping and
churnings on the foreign front
have more than made up for
the dullness at home, that is if
you prefer vertigo to tedium. If
you had come straight back from
Formosa about five or six weeks
ago, you would have found the
country in the grips of a tre
mendous war scare. It was only
about that long ago that Admiral
Carney was talking about "war
by April 15" and he was mere
ly voicing the most widely held
official view, and had the bad
luck to be unfairly used by our
profession.
Now the Far Eastern crisis,
which you covered so ably, has
suddenly disappeared from view,
rather the way McCarthy has.
Presumably it is still there, "as
presumably McCarthy is. But
as in his case, it is considered
tactless to mention its existence.
When Chou En-lai rather con
descendingly remarked that he
was willing to talk to us, and
the President and Secretary
Dulles (after some pretty confus
ion) replied that we were will
ing to talk too, everybody sighed
with relief and said, "Well, that's
over."
It isn't really over at all, of
course, as I suspect you may
point out, in your tactless way.
But all concerned seemed to have
agreed that the best policy for
dealing with the Asia crisis is
simply to pretend that it isn't
there any more. If there is any
other policy, I have been unable
to find out what it is.
MOW the talk is all of peace
in our time. The almost in
stantaneous transition from war
scare to peace talk has been a
really amazing phenomenon. At
first, after the Russians signed
the Austrian treaty and agreed
to the meetingvat the summit, alj
concerned were very cautious.
From the President and Mr.
Dulles on down, there were
many warnings against expecting
miracles. But now small, irre
pressible, hopeful noises have
begun emerging from the Warn
ers themselves, as from children
at Christmas time who pretend
to be too grown up to believe
in Santa Claus, but really do all
the same.
Of course there may actually
be a Santa Claus, or a reasonable
facsimile thereof. You will find
men whose opinions you respect
speculating seriously that the
Soviets may be genuinely anx
ious to make a European settle
ment which the Western powers
could accept.
The Russians have certainly
been acting in a surprising way.
The surprises range from the big
surprise of the Austrian treaty
to the very small surprise of a
Russian visa for myself, only a
few weeks after we had been
denounced as warmongers in
Pravda."
BUT the Russians also sprang
another surprise, with the
overflying of Moscow before and
after May Day. This could well
be the most significant single
event that has occurred since
you left. As usual these days, the
Pentagon tried hard to muffle
and play down the meaning of
the event (remember Operation
Candor?). But the essential facts
have come out, and their mean
ing is plain. The Soviets have
a fully mature and remarkably
well equipped all-weather air de
fense system. And they have a
"They all do" . . . Perhaps the greatest single obstacle
in the way of getting the evils of liquor under control
is custom a vast inertia made up of tacit acceptance that -"that's"
the way it is." . . . Customs are both cause and -effect.
They are self-perpetuating only so long as the ma
jority bend the knee to the tyranny of "they."
The junior senator from Oregon and our sub
scriber in Chicago apparently have discovered this
truth for themselves. Christian Science Monitor.
By Stewart Alsop
rapidly maturing strategic jet air
force, with tankers for air re
fuelling, so that Soviet jets can
now unquestionably bomb tar
gets in this country, and return
to base.
The Moscow overflights
knocked into a cocked hat all
our defense plans Secretary
of Defense Wilson himself, you
remember, was saying only a
year ago that Soviet war pre
parations were wholly defen
sive. But again, it is considered
somehow unsporting to mention
such things.
I WAS in the Senate gallery
the other day when Syming
ton of Missouri made a short but
cogent speech pointing out that
we "may have lost control of
the air," and calling for a re
port by the President on the
meaning of the Moscow over
flights. He might just as well
have been baying at the moon, or
extolling the virtues of North
Dakota, like old Sen. Langer,
who got the floor after him amid
a babble of general indifference.
It is much more popular, these
days, to believe-in Santa Claus.
Cheaper too, of course. Anyway,
welcome home.
(Copyright. 1955.
New York Herald Tribune Inc.)
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Approves Church Plan
To the Editor: As pastor of the
Temple Baptist church, 794 Lo
zier lane, which is cooperating
with the Southern Baptist Con
vention, I wish to give my word
of approval to the Presbyterians
for the work they are about to
do in the establishing of a new
church in Medford. I believe the
establishing of more churches
and Sunday schools puts more
people to work for the Lord and
thus will reach more people for
Christ. Two individuals can do
more than one individual. In the
same way, two churches can do
more than one church in a
locality.
Reaching people for Christ is
the thing people should be in
terested in, rather than building
a name for themselves, and their
own congregations. I am sure
that the establishment of a new
Presbyterian church in Medford
will not draw from nor diminish
in size nor prevent the growth of
any other congregation in town,
even though it be across the
street or across town. But it
would be the means of reaching
many others for Christ that
would not otherwise be reached.
This is a proven fact. One has
only to examine records of simi
lar occurrences to know this
truth.
I do not believe that the Pres
byterians preach Christ in a
"Contentious" (Competitive) nor
"Pretentious" way. But even if
I felt they did, I should say
along with the Apostle Paul in
Phillipians 1:15-18: "Some
preach Christ even of envy and
strife ... of contention . . .But
the other of love . . . What then?
Notwithstanding, every way,
whether In pretense or in Truth,
Christ is preached, I therein do
rejoice, yea, and will rejoice!"
To in any way prevent the
Presbyterians from establishing
another church would not only
keep people from being reached
for Christ that might not other
wise be reached, but would be
suppressing the "Freedom of
Evangelism" which is the. "Free
dom of Speech". It would also
be hindering the "freedom of
worship" to people who worship
the Presbyterian way.
Floyd H. Yeats
794 Lozier Lane
"Down the Centuries"
To the Editor: How well we
remember before turn of the
century in a small mid-western
hamlet while yet a youngster,
we took our first train ride, a
distance of 25 miles on a North
ern Pacific branch line road.
(Like the friendly Southern Pa
cific here), they only ran one
passenger round trip each day.
Our greatest delight to see
was an electric lighted "small
city," a water-power grist mill
and also a small coal mine in
operation. After a full day sight
seeing and bustle and activity of
being temporarily "in another
world," we probably slept
through our trip back to the old
familiar community of the wide
open spaces, for we still remem
ber when we had to change rail
tracks about 12 miles away from
the main line on a turn table. It
was then the age of the iron
horse, today the air age seems
to hold first place instead. In a
scientific sense, a God from a
clod emerged down the cen
turies in a changing world.
Bert Kissinger,
520 Boardraan,
Medford.
In the Day's Hews
By FRANK JENKINS
If you read your newspaper
and listen to your radio, you are
aware of the fact that the world
is full of trouble. The list of
the world's troubles is too long
to be gone into in detail here,
but let's cite a FUNDAMENTAL
trouble:
Everybody in the world wants
peace, but we can't have peace
because the free countries and
the Communist countries CAN'T
FIND A WAY TO GET ALONG
WITH EACH OTHER.
When you come right down
to it, most of our troubles in
this world arise out of the fact
that people can't find a way to
get along with each other.
THE immediate trouble of the
moment is a strike against
three big long-distance trucking
firms in the Far West Con
solidated Freightways, Pacific
Motor Trucking and Pacific In
termountain Express.
The dispatches tell us that if
the shutdown spreads through
out the industry it will affect
some 100,000 teamsters in 11
western states and will curtail
trucking as far east as Chicago
and Kansas City. They add that
the effect of the tie-up is not
expected to be felt in the larger
cities for several days because
of stockpiles of goods in the big
ger centers, but that smaller com
munities will be hit almost im
mediately. NEWSPAPERS will be among
the first to be affected.
In the Far West, newsprint
production and consumption are
so nearly balanced that the news
papers have been taking the
paper from the mills as rapidly
as it comes off the paper ma
chines. Under these circum
stances, it has been impossible
to build up an adequate backlog.
Over recent years, as a result
of competitive conditions in the
transportation industry, much of
the newsprint hauling has been
shifted from the railroads to
the trucks. Now all newspapers
that have been" receiving their
paper by truck are rushing to get
shipment by rail. As a result,
there aren't enough railroad cars
to go around.
So. the size of newspapers
especially in the smaller com
munities, may have to be limited
sharply.
nPHE newspaper, of course, is
-- only one of many industries
Its situation is no worse than
anybody else's. In these days,
ALL business depends upon
transportation. When transpor
tation is interrupted, everybody
suffers.
WHO is at fault?
What shall we do about it?
Frankly, I don't know the an
swer to either question. I doubt
if anybody does.
T ET'S put it this way:
We are all citizens of this
great country. According to the
immortal principle laid down in
our Declaration of Independence,
"all men are created equal. They
are endowed by their creator
with certain inalienable rights,
and among these rights are life,
liberty and the pursuit of happi
ness."
That statement, which is one
of the fundamentals of the Amer
ican way of life, doesn't apply
just to employers. It doesn't ap
ply just to employees. It ap
plies to ALL of us.
SOMEHOW we're going to have
to find a way to get along
with each other.
Or
We are going to be in for a
lot of trouble "for a long time.
Armed Bandits Take
$90,000 From Bank
Jacksonville, Ala. (U.R) Two
armed bandits robbed the First
National bank of $90,000 Friday,
forcing the vice-president to
open the bank while two con
federates held the officer's wife
and two small children hostage
at their home.
The FBI said the carefully
planned robbery was staged aft
er the gunmen went to the home
of Jesse N. .Wood, assistant vice
president and cashier of the
bank, and forced him to accom
pany two of them to the bank
before it opened this morning.
Two other gunmen were left
at Wood's home where they held
Mrs. Wood and the couple's two
small children at gunpoint as
hostages, pending success of the
holdup.
Bigger Air Force May
Be Needed, Twining Says
Los Angeles (U.R) Gen.
Nathan F. Twining has strong
ly hinted that new Soviet air
power gains may force the Uni
ted States to build a bigger Air
Force to maintain its lead over
Russia.
The air chief of staff also
scorned the idea of a nuclear
"stalemate" with Russia. And he
asserted that there is not yet any
"reliable way" to bring about
disarmament.
Salem (U.R) Gov. Paul L.
Patterson has signed into law
House bill 727 appropriating
$415,000 for completion of cell
block "A" at the state penitentiary.
POT LUCK
(By M-T Staff and Contributors)
The guy that writes headlines
on local stories in The Mail
Tribune owes an apology to the
Medford Hoi ice Department.
Why? Well, a Page 1 headline
in Friday's paper said:
Threat of Bombing
Here Thought To Be
Hoax by City Police
This is to go on record with
the full belief that the incident
was NOT a "hoax by city po
lice," but by somebody else. The
police, as a matter of fact, were
johnny-on-the-spot in inspecting
the building after the call came
in.
'Scuse us, -fellers.
A small french poodle came
to visit the newsroom Satur
day, and cavorted around on
the floor, in the captivating
way of immature canines.
The puppy, unlike some pups
we've seen, left no puddles.
Staff member, after the dog
had left, complained that she
didn't really believe that it
was a FRENCH poodle. Why?
she was asked.
Her reply: "No Oui. oui."
Those of us in this screwy
newspaper business ase acutely
aware of the possibility of mis
representation in presenting the
news. The siUy error mentioned
at the head of this column is
just an example of what can
happen, all too easily.
That is why we often take
criticism seriously, and often,
long after a critic has forgotten
what he was griping about, keep
thinking about some item which
was criticized.
One such occurred last week
when a telephone caller accused
the M-T of misrepresentation in
a Page 1 headline, the one that
said "President Vetoes Pay Hike
for Postal Workers."
It was overplayed, he said, and
didn't give Ike due credit for
having supported a lesser in
crease for postal employees. He
was pretty burned up about it,
actually, and indicated he
thought the headline was written
the way it was with political
motivation. To make it still more
aggrevating, he refused to tell
his name.
We thought at the time the
headline was OK. But because
of the call we took the trouble
to find out how the same story
had been handled in other pa
pers. The "play" given the story
varied from paper to paper, but
as far as we could determine
this was because of how the in
dividual headline writer felt
about the importance of the
story not because of political
inclinations.
The Mail Tribune gave the
story a head with inch-high let
ters, eight columns across the
top of the page.
The Grants Pass Daily Courier
(nominally Independent but
mostly conservative Republican)
used a similar size of type, "Pres
ident Vetoes Postal Pay Boost,"
in six columns. '
Today and
By Walter
TUESDAY'S SHOW
Watching the performance
which was put on at the White
House on Tuesday evening it was
painfully evi
dent that tele
vision plus
p rof essional
stage manage
ment is not
n e c e s s arily
what it pro
fesses to be a
new and bet
ter way of in
forming peo
Walter Lippmann
ple, of letting them see and hear
directly and at first hand what
their officials are really like and
what their officials are really
thinking. These stage-managed
shows with props made out of
the House furniture, with live
officials reciting or reading the
script, are not a new and ad
vanced form of journalism and
true reporting. They are fiction
and theater meant to give the
illusion that they are true re
porting. This is by way of saying that
the picture painted by Secretary
Dulles of the great movement of
things in the world today was
true only as far as it went, which
was not very far. He painted a
picture of the Soviet Union re
ceding because of the unity and
strength of the Western Nations.
This dramatic and attractive pic
ture leaves out one of the great
and determining developments
of our time namely, the in
creasing tendency of the smaller,
most vulnerable nations- to pull
away from the- military orbits
of both of the two great atomic
powers.
llfHAT Mr. Dulles talked about
was at best only half the
truth. The other half of the
truth is that with their new pol
icy the Soviets are riding a wave
of the future with good pros
pects, if we do not look out, of
attracting wide popular support
in Europe and in Asia.
There was not even a hint of
these developments in the Tues
day show and that was, it seems
to me, disturbing. For if in the
coming encounter with Moscow
The Portland Oregonian (con
servative Independent - Republi
can) used type almost as large,
seven columns wide, "President
Vetoes Postal Pay Increase
Bill."
The Oregon Journal (generally
conservative Independent) used
a one-column head -at the top of
the page, "Ike Vetoes Postal Pay
Hike Bill." (In earlier editions,
the Journal used a banner on
the story.)
The Roseburg News-Review
(con servative Independent-Re
publican) also used an eight col
umn banner, in inch-high type,
"Eisenhower Vetoes Postal Pay
Bill."
The Ashland Tidings (Repub
lican) used a one-column head,
top of page, "Ike Vetoes Postal
Pay Hike Bill."
The Daily News-Register, Mc
Minnville (Independent-Republican),
used a two-column head
near the top of the page.
The Coos Bay Times (Inde
pendent, with strong liberal
leanings) used a three column
head, moderate sized type,
"Postman's Pay Increase is
Vetoed by President for the Sec
ond Time."
We found no newspaper whera
it did not merit important, page
one play.
The point to be made, if any,
would seem to be that the story
was felt to be a relatively im
portant one, although some pa
pers (not following any political
pattern) felt it to be more im
portant than others.
And such are the things we
worry about!!
Noticed through an open
door last week: A man Indus
triously sweeping a long flight
of stairs while a black cat
walked back and forth across
his shoulders and draped , It
self around his neck.
Teamsters Lose in
Bargaining Attempt
Ontario, Ore. (U.R) AFL
Teamsters' local 900 of Pendle
ton has been defeated in its
attempt to secure bargaining
rights, for employees of Oregon
Frozen Foods .Company here.
A National Labor Relations
Board spokesman Saturday said
the union's bid was defeated by
a vote of 158-75, with 39 votes
contested by the NLRB.
Ballots had been impounded
by the NLRB following the elec
tion several weeks ago.
Still to be decided in the year
old dispute between union and
management groups was a union
protest against the election. The
union charged the company with
"flagrant violation" of election
procedure.
If the NLRB overrides the pro
test, the union would be pro
hibited from attempts to organ
ize employees at the plant for
another year.
Tomorrow
Lippmann
and Peiping our own public
opinion is crystallized on the
half truth which was Mr. Dulles'
theme, the Administration will
not have the kind of informed
support in Congress and among
the people which it will need to
have.
VHE shall be under-estimating
" the force of the new Soviet
policy if we assume that it is
merely a retreat made necessary
by economic trouble at home
and by failure of the old policy.
The essentially new thing about
the new policy is that it rests on
a new appraisal of a worldwide
tide of popular feeling, and that
it is shrewdly designed to make
the Soviet Union stand forth as
the champion of what the peo
ples want.
We can, I think, understand
better the inwardness of the new
policy if we remind ourselves
how in Asia the Soviet Union
managed to identify its own in
terests with the popular demand
for national independence and
for the liquidation of foreign and ;
native ruling oligarchies. If the
new policy of neutrality and dis- '
engagement is given a free run,
if it is merely denounced with ;
stereotyped phrases, the Soviet i
Union will be in a position to
monopolize and to exploit an
enormous wave of popular feel- ;
ing. This is the desire for es- I
cape from nuclear warfare, a
longing comparable with the
longing in the Asian peoples for ;
freedom from the white man's '.
rule.
' !
TT IS wishful and indeed high-
ly conceited thinking for us !
to tell ourselves that we are
leading from strength and that J
our adversaries are leading from ;
weakness. For when everv al- I
lowance has been made for the I
economic troubles in Russia and
in China, the fact remains that
in reaching out for the support ',
oi tne masses of mankind who !
want to diseneaee themcoi
from nuclear warfare.
ets are by way of acquiring new
aim very popular strength.
Copyrieht. lfiss
New York Herald Tribune, Inc.