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rOTJRTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Monday, June 8, 19SS tV3c!35tary Stalemate On Europe Moeved Behind Red Strategy (Editors Nole: United Press Correspondent Henry Shapiro is a recognized authority on Russia and United Slates-Russian relations. He has served as news correspondent in Mos cow for more than 20 years and at present is on leave from his job as United Press man ager in Moscow. In the follow ing dispatch he analyzes the Kremlin's new appearance of "sweet reasonableness.") By HENRY SHAPIRO United Press Staff Writer Russia's new global strategy provides evidence that the Krem lin believes a military stalemate has been reached in the east west "cold war" and that a per iod of stabilization has set in in Europe, if not in Asia. Soviet Communist party lead er Nikita Khrushchev's and Premier Nikolai Bulganin's dra matic pilgrimage to Belgrade fits into the new pattern. Sees Sweeping Proposals Further to break the. log jam in international affairs, the Rus sians may be expected to come forward at the forthcoming Big Four conference "at the summit" with sweeping proposals to end the cold war. These proposals will have a strong appeal in West Germany, France, in neutral and in uncommitted countries of the world. The Soviet Union's grandiose peace offensive will assume un precedented proportions. One of the most significant items in the Soviet-Yugoslavia agreement of particular interest to China and Moscow's satel lites is the recognition that "dif ferent forms of socialist devel opment are solely the concern of individual countries." Radical Deviation This is a radical deviation from former Premier Joseph Stalin's insistence that Moscow is the exclusive and unchalleng able source of Communist wis dom and power. Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito was the first of the foreign Commun ist leaders who defied Moscow, and survived and triumphed. During my last sojourn in Moscow from 1948 to 1953 Tito was portrayed as a traitor and fascist of Hitlerian proportions. Now, Moscw eats bitter crow and hails him as "dear com rade" although he rejected Khrushchev's crude invitation to rejoin the Cominform. At the same time, Tito admit ted a vague community of in terest of socialist countries. Tito's success is bound to have significant repercussions among the Communist satellites, some thing which Khrushchev, with all his apparent naivety; must have anticipated. Encourages Dissidents Actual and potential dissident communist elements in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Rom ania and Bulgaria will be en couraged by Moscow's new line, East Europeans and East Ger mans will now expect a certain degree of autonomy in their in ternal affairs and in relations with non-Communist powers. Because of Tito's success, to avert the possible emergence of of a Tito's China, and to antici pate Western arguments, it may well be that the Kremlin is con templating a new formula for internal and foreign policy con cessions to satellite countries, This may take the form of a new type of "Communist Federal ism." Increases Distrust In the meantime, the Kremlin nas been successful in raising Tito's bargaining power with the West and in causing a certain degree of disquiet in Italy, Greece and Turkey, where dis trust of Tito may be increased as a result of his agreement with Mospow. Stalin's policies after World War II led Russia into a position of dangerous isolation from which his collective successors now want to retreat. In Yugoslavia, the Russians have given another demonstra tion of flexibility of maneuver, a willingness to make humiliat ing but uncostly accommoda tions which will make them more formidable adversaries in negotiations with the West than Stalin could have been. 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Lumbermen's Hospital At Bend To Be Closed Bend (U.R) The Lumber man's hospital, which operated here for nearly four decades, has been closed down, according to an announcement by Brooks- Tornadoes Strike Midwestern Area; Small Girl Killed By UNITED PRESS Tornadoes struck from the Texas border country to North Dakota last night and a vast storm system whipped the na tion with rain and thunder storms from the Mississippi riv er to the Rockies early today. The twisters touched down at Encinal, Tex., 40 miles north of the Mexican border; at Florence, Tex.: near Spillville, Iowa; and near Valley City, N.D No lives were lost and the damage did not compare with the havoc wrought by twisters in the Southwest earlier this season. But tne storms were a continuation of violent weather which has battered the area this year. Lightning Kills Girl Meanwhile, heavy rams soak ed a wide area, a lightning bolt killed a little girl and knocked down two playmates in Chica go, and summery heat baked large portions of the East. The most destructive of last night's tornado funnels struck at Encinal. Power was knocked out, a filling station and a res taurant were severely damaged, and three barns and two or three houses were whisked away. At Florence, a house was un roofed, power was knocked out, and streets were littered with tree limbs and downed electric wires. Farms Damaged The Iowa twister roared through two miles of heavily wooded country, cutting a 50 foot wide swath of destruction. Two farms were in its path and suffered property damage. The tornado missed one of the farm homes, but the suction was so great that small objects went flying out the windows. Bradford, 111., meanwhile, got the nation's heaviest dousing as 1.40 inches of rain fell in six hours and three inches came down in 12 hours Other drench- ings included 1.67 inches of rain at Shreveport, La., 1.36 at Col lege Station, Tex., and 1.36 at Greenwood, Miss. Hail stones the size of golf balls clattered down at Gaines ville, Tex. Two Young Koreans Sought:??" After Escaping from Ship San Francisco (U.R) Im migration officials were search ing today for two young Korean stowaways who broke their shackles and disappeared from the freighter Sea Serpant short ly before she docked Sunday. The boys were identified as Fun Nat Gon, 17, and Kim Fang Chull, 16, both of Pusan, Korea. Escape by Porthole Ships officers discovered the youths missing from a makeshift brig when the ship docked at 6:30 a.m. (PDT) yesterday. The door of the converted stateroom was locked and authorities said the boys apparently escaped through an open porthole lead ing to the deck Handcuffs with which the boys had been shackled to their bunks also were missing. The youths stowed aboard the Pacific Far East Lines freighter before she sailed from Pusan April 19. They remained hidden undetected in a lifeboat during a 24-day layover in Yokohama, Japan, and the 14-day voyage across the Pacific. They apparently slipped ashore unseen when the ship docked at Ocean Falls, British Columbia, , believing they were in the United States. Returned to Ship The minister of a church where they hid discovered them and Canadian police placed them aboard the Sea Serpent again May 27 for return to the Far East. The youths were placed in a custodial stateroom for the trip to Long Beach, Calif., and when the ship left Long Beach for San Francisco Saturday they were handcuffed to their bunks. Canadian immigration offic ials said the boys had a list of Hawaiians in their possession and apparently planned to go to island territory. the Man Dies in Mishap Ndrth of Vancouver Vancouver, Wash. U.R) A man identified as John J. Gruhn, about 68, was killed on U.S highway 99 north of here Satur day night after being hit twice by a truck and car. County coroner Paul Mylan said Gruhn was apparently struck by a truck which had swerved to avoid him. The truck stopped, but another car ran over the body. State Grange Opens Convention at KF j Vancouver marner Vancouver, Wash. U.R) Valley Farms market and cream ery was robbed of an estimated $5000 to $6000 Saturday night by a two-gun bandit. The bandit herded three creamery employees into a cool er and then escaped in a light green pickup truck belonging to one of the employees. He took with him receipts fattened by heavy milk sales to milk-shy Portlanders. Employees Robert O. Hunter, Philip Murphy and Moses R. Wilson took 20 minutes to free themselves and by that time the bandit had made good his es- man Schulze. J. D. Donovan, who managed the hospital for 36 years, will re tire as of July 1. The hospital was used by both the Shevlin Hixon and Brooks-Scanlon lum- Scanlon General Manager Free- ber mills. Wife of Turncoat POW Says He Wants To Return to -US Olympia, Wash. U.R) The wife of former Cpl. Otho G. Bel, one of 21 American prison ers of war who refused repatria tion after the Korean truce, said today her husband wants to come home. Mrs. Jewell Bell said she had received two letters from her husband through the Red Cross. In both letters, dated April 5 and 15, he expressed the desire to come home, she said. Passport Difficulties Bell told his wife in the let ters that he was having difficul ties obtaining a passport- and that it would take him a few months to get out of Red China. Mrs. Bell said her husband wrote there were a lot of things about his case that are "unex plainable." She said Mrs. Francis Knight, director of the passport office here, told her that the United States has no representatives in Red China. However, Mrs. Knight added that if Bell could get to Hong Kong or any other place where United States rep resentatives maintained an of fice, something might be accom plished. Mrs. Bell said her husband apparently was not with any of the other 20 Americans who chose to remain behind the Iron Curtain after the Korean war.. She did not know her husband's present whereabouts in Red China, but he told her he would send her a new address to which she could write him in the near future. Sound Like Him "The two letters that came by way of the Red Cross sound like him," Mrs. Bell said. "While some of the others I have re ceived didn't sound like him at all." Bell, 24, is the son of Elbert A. Bell of Rt. 1, Hillsboro, Miss. He and Mrs. Bell were married while he was stationed at Ft. Lewis, near here, before the Korean war. 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