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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30 and
tO years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
March 2, If? 6 0
(It was Saturday)
A. S. Rosenbaum, recently re
tired Southern Pacific freight
and passenger agent here, hon
ored at Elks dinner.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: It is now
rumored common sense is ap
pearing in Washingtog, D-C. af
fairs, but not to any alarming
extent.
20 YEAIS AGO
March 2, 1936
It was Monday)
0, Robert "W. Ruhl, publisher of
l!i)Medford Mail Tribune, nam
ed to the ste board of higher
education succeeding Leif Finset
of The Dalles.
Eugene Thorndike becomes
manager of the Medford branch
of the First National Bank of
Portland.
(gj YEARS AGO
(gjarch 1926
(It was Tuesday)
New air mail service starting
April 6 will give direct routes
between New York and San
Francisco and northwestern
cities. v
O. A. Kicklein, salesman with
the Mason (Motor company here
drives Starfour-cylinder stock
model to Siskiyou summit with
car sealed in high gear.
40 YEARS AGO '
March 2. 1916
(It was Thursday)
(gRairrrall since Sept. 1, 1915,
measures only 9.47 inches,
about half the norrfiaamount.
Utah Sugar compa indicates
that sugar beet plantowill be
built in area within a year.
WhaS's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 7?
Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report
: 1. More than half of all U.S
families are repay&g in instal
ments some obligation tney
haSafe incurred: right or wrong?
' 2. Pone Pius XII was born in
Borne, Venice, Florence, a small
town in northern Italy, or rural
south Italy?
3. Texas on eve of .entering
Tio TTninn wa nart of Mexico.
Spafn, or France, or an inde
pendent nation?
4. Jewish population is larg
est in the Bronx (N.Y.), (Brook
lyn (N.Y.), Philadelphia, Chicago
or Los Angeles?
5. Most-favored-nation clause
in a treatv between two na
tions restricts the treaty advant
ages to those nations or opens
thpm to all. reciprocally
6. Hawaii is closer to Califor
nia or Japan, or about the same
distance from each.'
: 7. Eng and Chang were better
lmnwn as ?
The Answers: 1. Wrong (1955
shows somewhat less
Wf.) 2. Rome. 3. Independ
eni nation. 4. Brooklyn. 5. Opens
Jhem to all reciprocally. 6.
mor to California. 7. The
Siamese Twins.
TTt-PV RAISIN FROSTING
nreriaring raisins to add
to frosting made with instant
fluffy frosting mix, cover them
water iu i sauucyou
v a boil. Remove from
W c6ver, let stand five min-
be soft anapiump.
tW ereatest annual precipita-
u n.in record
was j5 inches at Miinor m j.a
MAIL TRIBUNE
05 West State Park
The Highway Commission, bless its collective
heart, has granted a request to name a state park after
former Gov. Oswald West, the doughty 82-year-old
whose efforts preserved the beaches of Oregon for
the people forever.
Now, if Governor West will just stand still long
enough to accept the honor, we'll be happy. We hope,
because of a sense of over-modesty, he doesn't kick
over the traces. He should permit us to have the pleas
ure of seeing the state honor the man who did so
much on its behalf. E.A.
G
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Quite a Year
It looks like quite ayear ahead for southern Ore
gon. We refer specifically to the large number of build
ing and construction projects which are being started
or are well under way in this area, and , which will
serve both as a "shot in the arm" to our economy, and
as long-range stimulants to activity by large seg
ments of the population.
riRST, and probably the most notable of the lot, is
the Talent project a construction job which will
totaf something-more than $19,000,000 in outlay be
fore it is completed in the next four or five years.
The future importance of this project, which will
gre&tly increase the amount of irrigated agricultural
land irPthe county, is greater than the short range
importance although the infusion of four to five
TYiillirms.inn t.hp prnrmrriv pach vear for four or five
ears is nothing to be sneezed at in terms of payrolls,
pupuiciLiuii arm geiicidi uuouicoo activity.
ANOTHER major construction job which will soon
o-of nnHrsf wav is t.hp Rnone Vallp.v Memorial
& wv ' ' "J - " O iJ "
hospital, which when completed will have cost in the
i -i t -i f srr : aaa tt 1 J?.J -.
neignoornooa oi $z,uuu,uuu. xiere again uie xuluic
benefits outweigh the immediate impact of the big
building job.
Fdr Medford, located as the' trade center of a
huge area of northern California and southern Ore
gon, will increasingly also become the medical center
of fhp area Tf 'ls tmp nlrpndv that, manv nermle come
here for their mescal needs, and this habit will be
come expanded as tne greater and more moaern
facilities of the new hospital become known.
THE Rogue Valley. Manor, a'$2,000,009 retirement
V r-m r io nnnfnr m o irV Tin A orf .oVlTI T WrllfOl Will
come to a head this year.
retired people of means, will come here from all over
the country and will serve
element in the economy of
The rehabilitation work
of the irrigation districts in
ficant, both in teEms of what the actual construction
means, and m terms of what it will mean, m added
irrigation water in the future.
w w w
T'HERE are other governmental and pnvate build-rv-i
i vni'nifo wliinli era cf o vfir rr nr riVOonmuVillT will
start soon.
There is the $348,000
station in Medford, a new
home which will be built
located. 0
At least one and very likely two major new motel
apartment unite are being planned in the immediate
neighborhood of Medford. i .
One of the major lumber companies is in the
beginning stages of a big expansion program. Other
industrial and business building is in the works.
And, if congress succeeds in passing a federal
highway bill, we have every reason to expect addition
al highway construction activity in Jackson county,
which as Oregon's fifth most populous, would be en
titled to a high priority in highway building.
Always in the offing are the rumors of 'major
companies establishing light manufacturing or dis
tributing facilities in this area, which because of its
location has many advantages for this type of op
eration. THERE are a few dim spots in the picture.
A stone w;all faces a number of proposed sub
divisiofis because of the problem of sanitation, which
includes the high cost of sewers and the fact that
soils hereabouts do not lend themselves to the indef
inite expansion of septic tank0 and cess pool facilities.
For this reason there are limits to the nuiriber of
homes which can be constructed to "accommodate the
influx of people which this increased activity will
inevitably attract.
And always, with growth of population and eco
nomic activity, there are questions of school construc
tion, fire and police protection, equitable taxation,
and a mytiad of attendant questions.
A third major probJem is transportation, which
includes high freight rates and highway inadequacies.
THESE facts lead us to two conclusions.
" The firstois that we can be generally optimistic
about the future of southern Oregon. We have the
potentialities, of growth in agriculture, and of a stable
light manufacturing, processing and distribution in
dustry, based on our forests, our farms, and our stra
tegic business location. .
The second is that to work for the' solution of
these problems we will need the ablest, most intelli
gent, hardest-working and most cooperative public
servants we can elect. Ineffectualness and. bumbling
in public office could be disastrous to an orderly and
progressive future.
A11 in all, it promises to be quite a. year. E.A.
Friday, March 2, 1886
The occupants, largely
as a staple and well-neeied
Jackson county.
now under way on two
the county also are signi
o
o
Medford armory, a new fire
$65,000 juvenile detention
when an adequate site is
UN Secretary Sees Danger of
Middle Eastern War Lessening
By CHARLES M. McCANST
United Press Correspondent
The week's good and bad news
on the international balance
sheet:
The Good
1. United Nations Secretary
General Dag Hammarskjold, re
turning from a visit to the Mid
dle East, expressed belief that
the danger of war between the
Arab countries and Israel had
lessened. Hammarskjold said he
saw no easy way to a complete
settlement of the Palestine dis
pute. "But I do believe in the
possibility of an orderly pro
gress toward solutions" he said.
Communications
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view to clarification and condensation.
not exceed 400 words.
Questions and Answers
To the Editor: Your paper
has been commended for its
stand on fluoridation, which is
all very fine, but I do think you
owe it to the public to give us
more of your factual information
concerning this matter. I have
put together certain questions I
would like answered. I am in
terested primarily as a parent
whose chief concern is for my
family's welfare. These are the
questions:
(1) Has it been proved, beyond
reasonable doubt, that fluorida
tion is safe' to everyone. (It is
stated that fluoride is an accumu
lative poison.)
(2) Isn't it true in a great many
of , the cities which have adopted
fluoridation, that the decision
was made by the City Council
and not put before the people?
Why?
(3) Is fluoridation of public
water supplies constitutionally
and morally right? (Our Consti
tution emphasizes that an indi
vidual has certain rights so
fong as they do not interfere
with another's. Wouldn't fluori
dation deny this basic freedom?)
(4) Why is chlerinalion com
pared to artificial fluoridation
when chlorine ean easily be re
moved by boiling' and fluoride
can not? '
(5) According- to Dr. Exner of
Seattle, Wash. "Fluoride must
be absorbed by the bloodstream
and carried to the toothbuds
where it acts on the: enamel
forming cells and these cells de
pend on the concentration of
fluoride in the blood." There
fore explain how anyone can 4e
termine a right dosage when one
child will drink more or less
than another?
(6) Doesn't the" Public Health
Service fully expect 15 to 20 per
cent will develop mottling of
teeth or fluorosis? Shouldn't the
individual be allowed to decide
if he wants to take the chance
on being in " thet percentage?
(Even a majority -yes vote would
deny tlys individual . voluntary
action.)
(7) Aren't both sides of this
issue equally trained and in
formed to back their statements
and findings? Why then is one
authority more right than an
other? .
Thank you for answering these
questions. I think every parent
owes it to himself and his fam
ily to weigh both sides of this
issue with equal enthusiasm
especially to consider if it i
Constitutionally and morally
right, if nothing more.
(Name on file)
Medford, Ore.
(Editor's note: Each of the
above questions could be an
swered at great length. In an at
tempt to provide brief, accurate
answers, a doctor, a dentist, an
attorney and a public health of
ficial were consulted. The num
bered answers correspond to the
numbered questions:
(1. Fluoridation has been
proven, beyond a reasonable
doubt, to be harmless to every
one, according to the vast ma
jority of doctors, dentists and
public health officer after mora
then 10 years of intensive test
ing and researeh.
(2. A number of city councils
have approved fluoridation of
water. Presumably the reasons
varied somewhat, but it would
be a safe generalization to state
that they were acting, in their
capacities as elected representa
tives, for the welfare of their
cities, and felt no more need to
refer it to a vote than they would
any other routine action. In
cities where it has become a
controversial issue (and it 1 has
not been such everywhere) it
frequently has been referred for
a vote.
(3. The Oregon Supreme Court
recently specifically ruled unan
imously that fluoridaiioQ is con
stitutional, and is an appropriate
exlrcise of the authority of a
city on behalf of the health and
welfare of the people. The same
finding has .been made by more
than 30 other courts, and no rul
ing to the contrary stands today.
As to moral rights, does a min
ority have the right to prevent
a majority from enjoying a bene
fit, even though the minority
would be in no way harmed?
- (4. Both pro and anti-fluorida-tionists
have compared chlorina
tion to fluoridation because both
are instances where chemicals
He emphasized that he saw no
reason for "panicky reactions"
to the present situation.
2S The finance ministers of 17
Western European countries,
meeting "in Paris, approved a
plan for the collective develop
ment of atomic energy for peace.
A special committee was appoint
ed to draft within three months
a detailed program of coopera
tion. This plan would fit in with
one under which six of the coun
tries France, West Germany,
Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands
and Luxembourg would pool
all of their nuclear resources.
President Eisenhower's offer of
$500 million worth of uranium
Letters submitted for publication must
are added to water, though for
different purposes. They have
made the comparisons, of course,
for opposite reasons.
(5. The optimum dosage of one
part per million has been de
signed to be of benefit to all
children, regardless of the fact
that some drink more water than
others. The amount ingested
varies between .5 and 1 me
daily. The recommended amounts
are based on experience in areas
where water is naturally fluori
dated, and where it has be6n
found beneficial and harmless
in these amounts. Yet in these
communities people drink vary
ing amounts, and have suffered
no ill effects and have derived
dental benefits. One of the most
significant ways in which fluo
rides are absorbed is by the
use of water in cooking, when
it is ingested with foods.
(6. There is evidence of a very
mild degree of dental fluorosis
in less than 10 per cent of chil
dren drinking treated water, but
this does not cause staining. The
fluorosis (tiny whitish spots on
the back teeth) cannot be seen
in' normal inspection. Onty
trained observers making a care
ful examiration can detect it.
(7. Everyone is free to believe
who and what he wants. It ap
pears, however, that the over
whelming preponderance of in
formed and expert opinion should
carry some weight. Opponents
among the healing arts are in a
tiny ("microscopic," one phy
sician said) minority. Among
the organizations endorsing flu
oridation are the American Den
tal association, the American
Medical association, the Ameri
can Pharmaceutical association,
the U. S. Public Health service,
the National Institute of Dental
Research, the American Associa
tion for the Advancement of
Science, the American Society
of Dentistry for Children, the
American Public Health asso
ciation, the State and Territorial
Dental Directors association, the
Conference of State Sanitary En
gineers, the American Water
Works association, the National
Congress of Parents and Teach
ers, the National Institute of
Municipal Law Officers, most
state departments of health, in
cluding Oregon's, the Southern
Oregon Medical society, the
Southern Oregon DentaJ associa
tion, and others.)
Proud of Phoenix Team
To the Editor: The recent Crater-Phoenix
basketball game
left many of the spectators with
mixed emotions. It is felt that
much bitterness and ill-wiU
could be avoided by hiring ref
erees who are not local people.
We at Phoenix are proud of
our boys for their fine display
of - team work and sportsman
ship throughout the season. We
feel that they have done a good
job and that they should be rec
ognized as one of the outstand
ing high school teams in the
state of Oregon with their rec
ord of20 wine and 4 losses.
Though disappointed that our
own team will not represent the
southern part of District 6 A-2,
we wisk Crater high school the
best of luck as they enter the
games against Coquille.
Signed by 22 residents of
Phoenix.
On Prejudice o 0
To the Editor: We live in a
wonderful country. Liberty and
justice forDall.
. WeU, I wonder what the rest
of the world thinks of us and
our racial hatred and prejudices?
All this mess about the Au
therine Lucy case. Also the two
big white men thaj took that
Negro boy (14 years olcf5 out and
shot him "to put him in his
place."
Some of the American people
had better take a good look at
themselves and their consciences
if they have any.
The Gestapo, Jap and Russian
methods and tactics, have noth
ing on some of our people here
in the United States.
Also how is it in these days
of prosperity and surplus those
kids in Louisiana are starving
and dying from eating from gar
bage cans?
We had better send some of
our Care packages to the hungry
people here in the United States
as wells over seas.
(Name on File
Gold Hill, Ore.
to aid freg countries in develop
ing nuclear energy for peaceful
purposes will play a big par in
both plans.
3. The United States, Great
Britain and France opened nego
tiations with West Germany for
payment of the cost of maintain
ing armies in Germany under
the- North Atlantic Treaty. The
present agreement for payment
expires on May 5. West German
Finance Minister Fritz Schaeffer
insists that he cannot continue
payment. But, he said in a United
Press interview that an agree
ment can be reached if negotia
tions are conducted in the spirit
of the Western alliance.
The Bad
1. Despite U. N. Secretary Gen
eral Hammarskj old's optimism
over the Palestine situation, Is
raelis were bitterly angry over
the failure of the United States
to comply with their demand
for arms. The Israeli government
demands that the United States
give a yes or no answer now. A
United Press dispatch said the
reaction of the Israeli man-in-the-street
to President Eisen
hower's second term announce
ment was unfavorable. The feel
ing was expressed that under
Mr. Eisenhower, the Republican
administration has "curried
favor with the Arabs" and that
four more years of Repubcan
rule is more likely if the Presi
dent runs.
2. French, Premier Guy Mollet
embarked on an almost desper
ate attempt to settle the chronic
crisis in North Africa. Mollet
demanded unprecedented special
powers to crush terrorism in Al
geria if the rebels reject his
offer of political and economic
concessions. Gen. Augustine
Guillaume resigned as chief of
the2 general staff because he dis
agreed with Mollet's policy. Ter
rorism in Algeria intensified.
There was no indication that
the rebels would accept any con
cessions Mollet might make.
3. Negotiations between Brit
ain and nationalists over the fu
ture of the Eastern Mediterran
ean island of Cyprus apparently
reached a new deadlock. Colon
ial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd,
who went to Cyprus to negotiate
with -Greek Orthodox Arch
bishop Makarios, failed to nar
row the area of disagreement,
The nationalists want Britain to
give "them "self-determination,"
which would mean union with
Greece.
By FRANK JENKINS
In these rambling sketches
the other day, I offered the opin
ion that one needs no Spanish
to get around in western Mexico
It's a good general rule. But it
has its exceptions. I ran into one
of them the other day in Los
Mochis. ,
Los Mochis, a town of some
20,000, lies in the far nrthern
edge of the state of Sinaloa. It
is half a dozen kilometers off to
one side of Mexico's Highway
15. That's just enough to remove
it from the beaten tourist path.
As . a result, it is practically
pure Mexican. ,
I
CAME down in the morning,
full of vim and vigor and
ready for the road. I unlocked
the door (one is cautioned to
keep . cars lScked up tightly),
turned the ignition- key and
Stepped on the starter. Nothing
happened. It just gruifted that
awful, ' sickening grunt that be
tokens a dead battery,
That's bad enough when it
occurs in your own garage when
you're hustling down to work
in the morning. It's rugged in
a foreign town where there Js
no dealer to cafl up with' a re
quest to sgnd up a service car
to get the darned thing going
again. -
It's ruggeder still when you
realize there's nobody around
who can understand a word you
say and that you can't under
stand what anybody else says.
VITORSE yet, it was on Sunday
" .morning (el- domingo in
Spanish) and on el domingo
nothing much is open in Mexico
but the eating places and., the
gasoline stations. The gas sta
tion boys, in addition to know
ing no English, don't know how
to do anything but pour in the
gas.
"nVENTUALLY, to make a long
story shorter, I found a place
that on week days would have
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In the Day's News
Reducing Educational
Costs Is Discussed
By ROGER W. BABSON
Babson Park, Mass. I now
see no way to cut costs of oper
ating primary or grade schools.
I believe, how
ever, that high
schools and
colleges will
become jnore
efficiently and
e c o nomically
operated. The
self- service
super - market
will show the
the way.
Roger W. Babson
Some educational experts are
urging cities and towns to spend
less on buildings, libraries, and
equipment and devote more of
the total allotment to teachers'
salaries. This may be good poli
tics, but it is not in the students'
interest. I favor building better
schools with better libraries and
equipment, but having fewer
teachers. Then pay better sal
aries to these fewer teachers. '
The most vital field for a "Do-
It-Yourself" campaign is that of
education. A parent can buy a
set of encyclopedias for $100
which contain more information
been a one-man repair shop for
much minor incidents as fixing
tires. A pleasant Mexican was
painting the front end of a truck
with a lacquer spray outfit. He
looked up and said "un momen-
tito," and when he reached a
place where he could stop he
laid down his spray nozzle and
the hassle began.
There wereno places in Los
Mochis where a battery could
be recharged. There were no
places where a new battery
could be purchased and install
ed. So the problem was to get
Jhis gentleman to take his truck
up to tne motel where my crip
pled car was parked and give
me a shove to start the car so
that its engine could recharge
the battery.
TT DEVELOPED that in the
- city of Los Mochis in the state
of Sinaloa in the Republic of
Mexico the technique of start
ing a car with a push from an
other car was not understood.
So it was up to me to instruct
my new-found friend in the proc
esses invoivea in such an op
eration.
I went to work in bad Span
ish, buttressed here and there
with little French to make
it sound more impressive, and
the Indian sign language. I must
add here that it was the Indian
sign language that turned the
trick. ' " - - '
T WENT around behind his
- truck, pointed to it and said:
"Su automovil, entiende?" He
nodded. Then I pointed to an
imaginary car further back and
said: "Mi automovil, entiende?"
He nodded again.
It was then that I put on the
sign language act. I stepped back
and with such histrionic talent
as I could command I drama'
tized myself as his truck. I put
my hands before me as if Qish-
ing something with much effort,
grunting meanwhile to convey
the idea of power. Then I made
a short run, to depict gather
ing speed, .stopped, said "Who-o-o-s-s-s-h-h-h-h!"
to simulate the
sound of a starting engine and
waved my hands forward to in
dicate my car skimming down
the road, .like a startled rabbit.
TIE GOT the idea, grinned hap
pily, opened the door of his
truck and said" "Entra, Usted,"
and we got in and headed for
my stalled car. Arriving there,
he got in behind it, I got in and
took the wheel and he pushed
me out onto the crowded pave
ment, souped it up to about 40
kilometros per hora and by the
favor of the saints the engine
took hold.,
T STOPPED the car, leaving the
-'Engine running, ' and went
pack to his truck, reaching for
my wallet oh the way. "Cuantos
pesos?" I asked. "Nada," he re
sponded. "Americanos nuestros
amigos."
I managed, however, to crowd
15 pesos on him, and we parted
in high mutual esteem.
I'd like to add at this point
that practically without excep
tion . the - Mexican people are
friendly,' helpful and courteous.
One can't help liking them.
OH, YES. What happened ' to
the car?
The battery went dry. The hot
weather down here uses up bat
tery water fast. .
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than is contained in the heads
of all the teachers in your com
munity. Moreover, the training
and discipline of self-education
is even more valuable than all
the facts that can be learned.
Hence, I forecast that the next
great movement in education for
those above 13 years of age will
be teaching students to learn
without teachers. , I wish that
some city would put the mana
gers of its self-service super
markets on their school boards.
Who's On Your School Board? 5
To begin with, you probably
don't know who are on your lo
cal 'school board. If not, send
to your superintendent of
schools and ask for a list of the
members and the business in
which each is engaged and the
number of children which each
has in the schools. You may be
surprised to find how poorly
chosen these men and women
are for this work.
In too many cities, school
board members are interested
in getting income for themselves
or friends as doctors, builders,
insurance agents, bank officials,
storekeepers, etc. These school
committee members naturally
take the advice of the superin
tendent of schools who is an
honest man but is guided by the
colleges which determines what
shall be taught and how. The
superintendent and school prin
cipals are too often judged by
the number of students they
pass along to the colleges, and
promoted accordingly. They are
fine men and women; they de
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Siave very little freedom. '
What Is Education?
I have just been reading re
ports of the recent Conference
on Education held in Washing
ton. The great demand there
was for federal aid without fed
eral interference. Very little
discussion was devoted to what
should be taught our children
and how. No time was given to
discussing lowering the cost or
raising the efficiency of schools.
The great need today is to
tackle the educational problem
as we have T.B. and polio and
cancer. ,
I have in mind a family of
four grown-up brothers aU of
wnom attended the same
schools and had the same teach
ers. Yet three of the men are to
day useful in their communities
and hold good positions. One of
the boys was a "delinquent" and
is now a ne'er-do-well supported
by the fir three. The question
the mother asks is: Did the
schools have any effect on the
character or "life" of these
boys?
Traveling to the Moon
The books most popular with
the youth of today are books on
"space travel" that is, going to
other planets. It is said that
Washington is havgg more in
quiries about the earth "satel
lites" which are to be released
than about any other subject.
Why is it that young people are
so much more 'interested in
other worlds than in learning
about their own world and how
to live in it? Something is wrong
somewhere. Education should
teach how to live. It should help
parents mold character. '
Teachers should be spiritual
ly minded in order to be effi
cient." " Although they should be
paid better salaries, yet this sal
ary 'should not be based upon
the degrees which they have re
ceived. Looking back over my
school life, it was the teachers
with the biggest hearts who won
my interest and awakened a de
sire for knowledge and service.
To get back my main ap
peal: One sure way to increase
Cjhe efficiency and reduce the
cost of our schools and truly
help1 our children is to teach
children where.; to find ' their
own answers to questions and
awaken in them a desire for
more knowledge. We need teach
ers born with a love for chil
dren and trained as helpful li
brarians. , .
Adenauer Urges Counter
To Russian Cold War
Bonn, Germany (U.R)--Chan-
cellor Konrad Adenauer Thurs
day night urged the West to beef
up the political side of the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization to
counter the new Soviet "cold
war" offensive.
"NATO was set up for a pos
sible hot war," he told reporters.
"It should now be expanded
into a political instrument of the
free world in the cold war."
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