TEW MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Tuesday, August 9, 1955
To Whom Did Russians Turn for Decision at Big Four Meeting?
Full Support of
Presidium Needed
For Major Steps
F.ditor'n Not: Th lollowine dis
patch mi written bv L'.P'i veteran
Moscow correspondent, who attended
the bit lour "summitt' conference in
Geneva.
By HENRY SHAPIRO
United Press Correspondent
London (U.R) A storm in a
samovar was created in Geneva
toward the end of the Big Four
conference when the Soviet dele
gation failed to react immedi
ately to President Eisenhower's
revolutionary proposal for East
West exchange of military blue-
Drints.
Rumors circulated widely that
the embarrassed Russians were
compelled to telephone Moscow
and ask for authority and in
struction on how to deal with a
question which had not been
anticipated by the Kremlins
collective leadership of which
the Geneva delegation was only
a fraction.
Questions Asked
Eyebrows were lifted and
questions asked: Did Comrades
Jjulganin, Khrushchev, Molotov
and Zhukov represent the Soviet
summit? Did Molotov actually
telephone Moscow? If so, who
picked up the telephone at the
other end to give the foreign
ministers the "green or red light?
In the absence of a Stalin, who
could make final decisions on
the spot? How does committee
rule function anyhow?
If Molotov had really tele
phoned, the man to have talked
to was Lazar Kaganovich, first
deputy premier. He is Russia's
elder stateesman on internal
affairs and acting head of the
Presidium of the Central Com
mittee in the absence of the big
three chiefs Khrushchev, Bul-
ganin and Molotov.
Full Support Needed
The truth probable is that
Molotov did not have to and did
not actually telephone. Although
he and his two senior colleagues
almost but not quite equal Sta
lin in authority, they would have
needed the full support of the
eleven-man Presidium to act on
anything as radical as the Eisen
howercplan. For under the existing set-up
supreme Soviet power lies in the
hands of a board of directors
roughly similar to the board of a
large American industrial cor
poration. Nikita S. Khrushchev,
as Communits party boss, is
chairman of the board. He and
other senior members constitute
a kind of steering committee or
J inner cabinet."
The Presidium or board of di
rectors meets regularly in the
Kremlin to discuss and vote on
questions of broad, basic policy
Should there be a division of
opinion, chairman Khrushchev
probably casts the final vote. The
decision is then made unanimous
in accordance with time-honored
Communist practice.
Zhukov Not On Board
Marshal Georgi K. Zhukof, de
fense minister, does not sit on the
supreme board of directors a!
though he may be called in fre
quently to be consulted on mil
itary matters. But Zhukof is a
member of the 125-man Central
Committee, the major "stock
holders" of the corporation, who
meet several times a year to
pass on the decisions, of the
Presidium.
Final approval of Presidium
policies and action is the prerog
ative of the majority "stockhold
ers," the rank and file 7,000,000
membership of the Communist
party who, through their dele
gates and proxies, meet as the
All-Union Congress of the Com
munist party. Under Stalin the
Congress was convoked infre
quently. The 19th party Congress
in 1953 was the first one in 13
years. Now it looks as if it would
be summoned regularly, once
every two or three years, as re
quired by party constitution
The 20th Congress is scheduled
to meet early next winter.
Power Shared
Power is shared and labor dl
vided along specialized lines
among the eleven-man ruling di-
rectorate. -Every member of the
Presidium heads a sub-commit
tee which supervises the work
of a group of ministries. On mat
ters of established policy and
subject only to the ultimate ap
proval of the Presidium, as a rule
the chairmen of these sub-committees
run their own sub-empires,
apparently unchallenged.
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Disneyland Forest
Herb and Lois Crisler are peo
ple who have done work of en
during value. They used years of
effort, while making the Olympic
Peninsula their home, to produce
a motion picture in color and
sound on the Olympic elk. The
completed picture was so fine
that Walt Disney distributed it
over his own name, and trade
mark. The picture won acclaim
from pantheists and everyday
outdoor lovers alike.
Now the trouble with the cult
of pantheism, as with that of any
other ism, is that it tends to sep
arate its votaries from the every
day, bread-and-butter interests of
common humanity. Thus all who
are not of the cult are looked
on as creatures of evil by the
cultists.
But the nature worship of the
Crislers, alas, stops with elk,
browse, and ancient, mossy
Douglas firs and hemlock seed
lings. Man is only evil in their
sight. Most of all is the lumber
man to be condemned. Loggers
are but "looters" in the Crisler
creed. Lumbering is wasteful,
devastating, altogether damna
ble. Judge Not
The editor of Christian Cen
tury decided to play the judge
in this case, and published the
Crisler accusations in his July 27
issue, under the title "Loggers
Loot in the Olympics," as a true
bill of judgment.
However, I have counted 11
items of flagrant false witness in
the article and have failed to
find a solitary example of Chris
tian faith, hope and love in any
thing it says on lumbermen. We
are all judged, in strongest
terms, to be possessed by de
mons. To understand ;this extrava
gant condemnation one needs to
know how pantheism grows into
an obsessive force that converts
good people into fanatical wil
derness worshipers, of assorted
sects, from Hermits to Nudists.
What's Wrong With Facts?
Now behold the work of the
wilderness worshipers.
Hundreds of thousands of
acres of timber, classified as
"commercial" for a half-century,
have been reserved from human
use, even to an extent that no
eye may be allowed to see more
than its mere fringe and high,
far peaks. On the other hand,
plain citizens who are everyday
enjoyers of forest scenery and
recreation, ask only that a land
use-potential survey be made of
all present reserved areas of
"wildeness" forest, by neutral
authorities.
That's all. We just want the
facts, ma am. The plain facts.
Now I surely do admire wil
derness country, and I like rec
reation areas and parks of all
varieties from New York City's
Central to Washington's Olympic
and Oregon's Crater Lake Na
tional. The U.S. Forest Service
Full responsibility for their de
partments rests entirely on the
cnairman.
The major sub-committees and
their chairmen are believed to
be as follows:
1. Party affairs and agricul
ture Nikita 5. Khrushchev.
2. State administration and de
fense Nikolai A. Bulganin.
3. Foreign affairs VyacheS'
lav M. Molotov.
4. Heavy industry and trans'
port Lazar Kaganovich.
5.. Internal and foreign trade
and light industry Anatas I.
Mikoyan.
6. Electric and atomic indus
tries Georgi M. Malenkov.
7. Culture Klimenti Voro
shilov.
8. Press and propaganda Mik
hail buslov.
Economic planning and fi
nance Mikhail Saburov.
10. Industrial construction and
chemical industries M. G. Per-
vukhin.
11. Nationalities A. I.-Kiri
chenko.
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has one whole solid area of 800,
000 acres reserved as wilderness
country. It has many more reser
vations for recreation and scen
ery, including 190 built-up and
equipped camps. Out state and
city parks are numbered by the
hundreds.
Lumbermen are working with
sportsmen's organizations to pro
vide hunting and fishing on mil
lions of acres of Douglas fir reg
ion tree farms in many places
with camp grounds, shelters and
facilities. There is, in fact, no
end to their good works of to
day, in cooperation with the
forest-using public.
Maybe the editor of Christian
Century can be persuaded to
publish some of these fact. He
is a kind husband and indulgent
father, and at heart a Christian
gentleman. I
'Puck's Library'
Readings Scheduled
Ashland James Sandoe, di
rector and actor of the Oregon
Shakespearean festival, will
appear in a program of readings
entitled "Puck's Library"
Wednesday, August 10, at 4 p.m
in the lecture hall of the Ash
land public library. This is the
third of the literary events on
the calendar of special activities
planned for this year's festival
season.
According to Dr. Margery
Bailey, education director of the
festival, the readings will pre
sent the charming nonsense
which delighted Elizabethans.
It's said Sandoe has a crisp, wit
ty reading style which exactly
suits these adult parodies of
fairy-tale adventures. His career
as a public reader began many
years ago, and he headed a
group of concert readers which
appeared before packed houses
at Stanford university some
years ago.
Anyone interested is invited
to attend the program.
Fort Worth, Tex. OJ.R) Some
fisherman apparently made sure
that the angling in the west fork
of the Trinity river will be good
for a long time. He blasted a hole
in a dam at a government hatch
ery pond and sent 26,000 large
mouth bass into the small stream.
SPORTS
Olson Fight
May Be Picketed
Portland (U.R) A motion
picture operations union last
night asked the Portland Central
Labor council to declare unfair
operations of theater owner
Tommy Moyer, raising the pos
sibility that the Saturday night
fight between Middleweight
Champ Bobo Olson and Jimmy
Martinez, promoted by Moyer,
would be picketed.
The council's executive board
was scheduled to consider the
question at a special meeting
Thursday morning.
The unfair charges were lev
eled by the AFL Motion Picture
Operators local, which said it
was' unable to reach a wage
agreement with Moyer covering
employees at the promoter's
three theaters.
Mover, who will stage the
fight in Portland's Multnomah
stadium, said he would appear
before the special union coun
cil meeting to present his views.
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PREDICTING "we will see space flight in our time" despite
multitude of problems still to be solved, Dr. Wernher von
Braun, German-born director of Army's guided missile and
rocket program, tells world audience America's long range
plans for study and travel of outer space. (International)
Newberg Prepares
To Welcome Hoover
Newberg, Ore. U.R) This
valley city prepared today to
welcome home former President
Herbert Hoover who returns to
morrow to the scene of his boy
hood to observe his 81st birth
day. The home where Hoover lived
with his uncle, the late Dr.
Henry J. Minthorn, has been
restored to its 1884 condition
when Hoover lived here as a
boy of 10.
Hoover's talk here will be car
ried, over a nationwide radio
broadcast (CBS) at 6:30 p.m.
(PST). He will be introduced by
Secretary of Interior Douglas
McKay.
The Republican ex -president
will motor here from Salem
where his plane lands in the
morning.
Dead line Sunday Classified is at
noon Saturday; 10 a.m. Monday for
Monday: other days 5:30 previous day.
Three Men Ordered
To Leave Medford
Three California men received
suspended fines and suspended
jail sentences this morning and
were ordered to leave Medford
after they pleaded guilty to
charges of disorderly conduct,
according to city police.
The men. Richard Lee Flani
ken, 1024 North Divisadro st.,
Walter Merle Callahan, Travel
ers Hotel, and Melvin Joe Queen.
1104 North Turner st., all of
Visalia, Calif., were arrested at
3:30 a.m. yesterday a.m. after
police received reports of a fight
on Hawthorne st. between Main
and Jackson sts.
Municipal Judge James M.
Main gave suspended 50-day
jail sentences to each of the
men. and a suspended $100 fine
to Flaniken, besides the order to
leave Medford by noon today.
Portland (U.R) Bids for
Portland's $3,000,000 air term
inal will be called for by Jan. 1
and construction will start early
in the year, the port of Portland
said today.
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Vancouver, Wash. (U.R)
Donna Vogel, an 18-year-old
brown-eyed beauty, last night
was crowned as Miss Stockader,
Queen of Vancouver Stockader
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