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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and
to years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
June 7. 1348
(It was Friday)
The Rev. and Mrs. W. A.
Dawes returned to Medford aft
er attending the North Baptist
convention in Grand Rapids,
Mich.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The small
fry has been out of school for
a week and is showing signs ei
needing frying.
JO YEARS AGO
June 7. 1936
(It was Sunday)
John Sprague, graduate of
Medford High school, named val
edictorian of his graduating class
at Oakland Polytechnic college.
Medford Federal Savings and
Loan association Friday receiv
ed from Washington a $50,000
check for subscription to its
shares.
30 YEARS AGO
June 7. 1926
(It was Monday)
Majors T. E. RUea and J. V.
Schur, inspect the preparation
at Camp Jackson to receive the
troops on Tuesday, June IS.
The weather in Medford was
an official maximum 108.7 de
grees, which broke all heat rec
ords in the history of the local
weather bureau.
40 YEARS AGO
June 7. 1916
(It was Wednesday)
City council arranges for a
special meeting to consider Bui
lis' contract for the road to the
Blue Ledge mine.
From Local and Personal col
umn: Dr. R. W. Stearns will
leave in a few days for Boston,
Mass., to take a course in the
Harvard post graduate school.
What's the Answer?
1. The U.S. government will
have exhibits next year at inter
national trade fairs in countries
behind the Iron Curtain; right or
wrong?
2. The number of regular
movie theatres (excluding drive
ins) has fallen (a) 10, (b) 12,
(c) 17, or (d) 20 ?
3. The city of Mecca, holy to
Moslems, is in Egypt, Jordan,
Saudi Arabia, Syria, or Yemen?
4. The peak of polio infections
in most U.S. areas in the past
has been in early summer, late
summer, around Christmas or
around Easter?
5. Plans for financing the
country's huge new road-build
ing program include an increase
in the federal gasoline tax from
(a) lc to 2c a gallon, (b) from
2c to 3c, or (c) from 3c to 4c ?
6. The Soviet government
plans to abolish all its intern
ment camps; right or wrong?
7. U.S. ah carriers expect to
star jet transcontinental service
in 1957, 1958, or 1959?
The Answers: 1. Right (unless
Congress withholds funds). 2.
17 (from 17,689 in 1948 to
14.761 in 1954, according to
Census Bureau). 3. Saudi Arabia.
4. Lata summer in most areas.
5. From 2c to 3c. 6. Right, accord
ing to Moscow news reports.
7. 1959.
The Washington monument is
said to be the tallest masonry
structure in the world, rising to
a height of 555 feet plus an addi
tional five and one-eight inches.
MAIL TRIBUNE
'Field and Stream 'Scores McKay
The race between Senator Morse and former Sec
retary of the Interior Douglas McKay will not be de
cided by the Republicans much as they would like it
to be.
Nor will it be decided by the Democrats.
It will be decided by the independent voters in
between who hold the balance of power, who discount
the slanted propaganda on both sides, and after de
termining the facts vote for the candidate they believe
best qualified for the job.
In this search for the facts they won't go to the
campaign "handiouts" of either party, but to the
records of the two men and especially to facts from
informed and impartial sources.
IT WILL be remembered by those who listened to
1 Secretary McKay in his
he was m practically a perpetual state ot extreme in
dignation. The chief cause was the charge of "give
away." Most emphatically Mr. McKay denied such
charges in toto, and declared, instead of following
any "give away" course he served the best interests
of the people of his state and nation.
r a e e e e
NO single charge aroused Mr. McKay's ire more
strongly than the charge that he permitted oil
drilling in wild life refuges under his control, to the
detriment of wildlife extension and protection.
This charge, he claimed, was not only untrue but
the exact reverse of the truth. Under his administra
tion, he maintained, wildlife refuges had been in
creased, and he suspended certain regulations pro
mulgated by his predecessors (Democratic) because
they failed to properly safeguard wildlife and time
conservation values.
a
1ITELL what are the facts?
V Wo snoro-pst. that those who have no nartisan
bias or axe to grind, read an article in the June "Field
and Stream" entitled "Conservation." It is written
by Harold Titus the editor, and it is hard to believe
ho is mntivntpH hv anv sinister nartisan considera-
Hrn- nr is Healine- with
record in the realm of wild life conservation, as it
stands.
Here is Editor Titus' judgment of McKay, quote:
"Of the thousand-odd working conservationists attend
ing the North American Wild Life conference in New
Orleans many returned to their office, confused, bewil
dered and apprehensive. Oil was the disturbing influence
oil beneath the surface of the wild-life refuges. And oil
leases by the hundreds safe in the vaults of petroleum
producing companies which had been issued during a period
when, as far as the public was aware, all leasing had been
suspended. What appears to be the full story of incredibly
loose and highly hazardous procedures in the Interior De
partment was told at the conference.' There was a gen
eral feeling that wildlife conservation had been dealt a
blow that might come to be rated as one of the worst on
record.
"A certain amount of reassurance, however, was just
around the corner. 'The House Merchant Marine and Fish
eries committee issued a report that not only strongly re- -buked
Secretary McKay for the goings-on in his depart
ment but called on him to give Congress a 60-day notice
before issuing more private oil leases. The report de
scribed the management of refuges as a "picture of extreme
administrative confusion,' declared the recent leasing could
only result in serious damage to the wild life refuge sys
tem and expressed the opinion that McKay regulations -governing
leasing fall far short of adequate protection
for public lands.
"To be sure Secretary McKay had already announced
his intention of retiring from the cabinet to seek a Senate
seat and evidently over 500 oil leases had been granted. But
that forceful and completely bi-partisan stand by the com
mittee promised to put mineral-development on the refuges
under wraps for the closing weeks of the McKay administra
tion. Furthermore it should stand as a warning to any suc
cessor of Mr. McKay's who might feel that the welfare of
wild life is not the direct objective in the maintenance of the
national refuge system."
"Well the conservationist who doesn't feel uneasy about
the future of resources under management like that is a rare
bird indeed."
There is the opinion of the editor of "Field and
Stream" regarding former Secretary McKay's regime
and certainly furnishes justification of the "give
away" charge as far as wildlife conservation is con
cerned. It is unlikely that Mr. Titus fails to reflect the
views of true conservationists throughout the country,
a verdict based not on PARTY, but on PRINCIPLE.
MOREOVER this view fits in perfectly with the en
tire McKay picture. Like the Al Serena case it
does not involve any criminal action or intent, and
Mr. McKay and his defenders will undoubtedly use
the same alibi in both cases namely: that oil leases
in wild life refuges were granted in previous admin
istrations, just as forest reserves were "mined" for
timber, this attitude based on the old fallacy that two
wrongs make a right.
DUT as Editor Titus indicates in this article, while
there are those who maintain drilling for oil does
not necessarily impair wild-life protection, just as
mining forest reserves for timber, does not necessar
ily doom forest conservation, both practices on the
scale countenanced by the Interior Department under
Secretary McKay should stop, and it is hoped
will be under his successor, for the sake of the country
and perpetuation of the conservation principle.
Editor Titus concludes, quote :
"Finally everybody appeared to have the involved story
straight and went home with the understanding that over
550 oil leases (in the wild life refuges) were outstanding ,
and that if these were exercised the staff of the refuge
branch would probably be the busiest young men in public
service just reviewing operating plans. For even to the com
placent minority the recital of goings-on in the Interior De
partment was depressing. Just what the effect will be of the
demand of House committee that congress be consulted on
lease-applications in the future remains to be seen. It is cer-
tain, however, that the procedures will be watched from all
directions."
CO HERE we have as a result of the McKay "give
away" policies to the oil companies "one of the
worst blows to conservation on record.'.'
That is not the judgment of the political enemies
of ex-Govemor McKay or the Democratic press but
the editor of Field and Stream who chooses that dec
laration as the title for his article. R.W.R.
Thursday. June 7. 19S8
primary campaign, that
anvthine; but the McKay
Matter of Fact By jot, ai$oP
THE LIVING DEAD
Jericho, Jordan Imagine a
landscape of the moon, the land
dust-brown, bone-dry, hideously
eroded, with
hardly a grow
i n g thing in
sight, and the
air searing hot
with the heavy
heat of air far
below sea
level.
In this land
scape, imagine
"w Aiaop a seemm g 1 y
aimless and endless straggle of
jerry-built mudhuts, with here
and there a ragged tent, and
nothing to suggest a town except
a single short and squalid main
street where emaciated children
play in the dust and little groups
of men sit listlessly in three fly
blown coffeehouses.
This is Karamaneh, one of the
three camps for Palestinian refu
gees that the United Nations
maintains in the neighborhood of
old Jericho. Karamaneh alone
holds some 20,000 of these tragic
people who fled from their lands
that Israel now holds. In and
out of camps, in Egypt, Leban
on, Syria and Jordan, there are
about a million refugees all told.
After eight years of exile, their
rage is a dark poison affecting
the political life of all the Arab
lands; and here in little Jordan,
where they number nearly half
a million, they all but dominate
the course of events.
THE visitors to Karamaneh are
received in the whitewashed
office of the U. N. Refugee Wel
fare Agency by one of the camp
leaders, Khaled Muhammad, a
vigorous, genial and intelligent
man in his late thirties. Until he
fled before the advancing Israel
is. Khaled Muhammad cultivated
rich orange groves near Jaffa.
Now he draws about $40 a month
as a teacher in one of the camp's
U. N. supported schools; and he
says He is "lucky" to have this
much to provide for himself, his
wife and their three little chil
dren.
In a flat voice, almost with re
luctance, Khaled Muhammad
answers the visitors' questions
about the condition of the people
of Karamaneh.
Yes, the U. N. gives the refu
gees a daily ration of 1,500 cal
ories of flour and rice, sugar
and cooking oil. Yes, that is all
the refugees get from the U. N.,
except for special food supple
ments for undernourished chil
dren and pregnant mothers, free
roofbeams for those who want
to build new mudhuts, and the
services of the camp schools
and clinic. All the same the U. N.
relief officials do their best with
what they have.
Yes, about two thirds of the
Karamaneh families have at
least one member with a full or
part-time job; so there is a little
money to spend for vegetables,
coffee and the like, f Yes, some
people in the camp have even
managed to start their own little
businesses. Why there are even
five Karamaneh potters, makers
of the great jars one can see on
the heads of the women down
the road, where the group
around the camp watertaps
forms a scene like the old bible
picture of "Ruth at the Well."
Yes, they have all been here
seven years, keeping body and
soul together somehow.
a e
"TUT Khaled Muhammad," one
visitor asks, "would not
the people of Karamaneh accept
generous payments,' maybe $4,
000 per family, to help them re
settle somewhere, instead of
continuing indefinitely with this
strange death-in-life?"
Khaled Muhammad has been
first a smiling host, full of little
attentions for his guests' com
fort, and then a polite though
somewhat uninterested inform
ant, but at this last question he
suddenly takes fire in an almost
frightening manner. Never, nev
er, never he all but shouts, will
the people of Karamaneh agree
to go anywhere except back to
the homes in Palestine that have
been stolen from them. Why
should they go elsewhere? Why
had Britain and America helped
Israel to drive them from the
lands that were always theirs?
What wrong had the people of
Karamaneh done to be thus dis
possessed? Where was justice
under heaven?
These questions are not easy
to reply to; and as soon as polite
ness permitted, an inspection of
the camp is suggested. Khaled
Muhammed at once becomes a
friendly host again. The little
party goes . by narrow ways
among the mudhuts, past the
vegetable market which is
sparsely furnished with every
thing but flies, and past the
blackened stumps of the police
station which was burned down
in the Baghdad Pact riots, when
five of the Karamaneh people
were killed before order was re
stored. '
e e e
rFHE first stop, and as it proves
-- the last, is the largest of the
coffeehouses in the main street.
Here are the camp elders, lead
ers of their people now as they
were in their home villages,
gnarled, solid men who look like
the farmers they once were.
They gather in a semi circle
around the visitors. And around
the semi circle of elders on their
low stools, a crowd of younger j
men and boys quickly accumu
lates to hear the talk.
This time, there is no oppor
tunity to ask about conditions
in the camp. The elders inter
rupt one another, they shout
one another down, to make the
same speech that Khaled Mu
hammad made; and always the
speech is studded with the same
grim questions. "Justice, justice,
justice, all we ask is justice,"
is the refrain, repeated again
and again with mounting bitter
ness. The aged, bearded Imam who
leads the prayers of Karamaneh
has the final word. Raising his
bony hand, as though in warn
ing and impreciation, he all but
intones the sentences "every
thing in human life has a limit.
Every pot must . overflow at
some point. We have stood this
for eight years, but we cannot
stand it forever!"
a e
pOR some time, the expressions
. of the surrounding . crowd
have grown more and more low
ering. As the Imam finishes a
murmur runs among them. At
this the camp policeman some
what hastily suggests that for
eigners need government au
thorization to visit the refugee
camps, and that, really, this un
authorized visit has gone on long
enough. The walk back to the
car, with the crowd still follow
ing and still murmuring, is very
far from pleasant.
The next stop is in a green
grove, among the fields and or
chards that the brilliant Pales
tinian leader, Musa Bey Alami,
has created by digging wells in
the bleak, salty land along the
banks of the Jordan river. But
even here, wretchedness, bitter
ness and anger follow after. For
Musa Bey's brilliant project was
designed to provide work for
refugees. It was regarded as the
thin end of the wedge of reset
tlement. And in the time of the
Baghdad Pact riots a mob of
30,000 from Karamaneh and the
other Jericho camps attacked
Musa Bey's plantations and farm
buildings and three quarters de
stroyed them.
Such is the refugee story. It
may be said that the refugees
are encouraged to hug their
grievance by Egyptian agitators,
baudi bribegivers. Communist
organizers and other interested
and evilly motivated politicians.
And this is certainly true. It
may also be said that the refu
gees are not rational in hugging
their grievance so bitterly that
tney have even rioted against
transfers from tents to more
comfortable and permanent set
tlements. And this is certainly
true too.
But it cannot be said that the
grievance of the living dead is
not real and justifiable and a
matter of black shame.
Copyright 1956.
New York Herald Tribune, Inc.)
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
As this is written, the Far
West is holding its political
breath while it waits to see what
California Democrats will do (as
between Stevenson and Kefau
ver) at Tuesday's Golden State
primary.
The Middle West is all a'twit
ter over what Iowa Republicans
DID Monday in Iowa's primary
election.
TTere's what they did:
" By an overwhelming maj
ority (more than two to one at
the hour this is written) they
renominated Sen. Bourke Hick
enlooper, who has supported the
Eisenhower policy of flexible
farm price supports, over Dayton
Countryman, who pledged him
self to HIGH, RIGID farm price
supports.
Countryman, who is Iowa's
attorney general, had counted
especially on heavy backing
from the drought area in the
southwest part of the state. There
are 27 counties in this section.
He carried only TWO of them.
IN A congratulatory telegram
to his successful opponent, Mr.
Countryman said: "The farmers
have shown that they are
HAPPY by renominating you."
That, of course, isn't true. The
farmers aren't happy in Iowa
or elsewhere in the United
States. : Nobody is happy when
his business is bad. But the
farmers in Iowa, at least
are much too sensible to be kid
ded into believing that rigid,
high price supports, .which have
built up huge surpluses that hang
over the markets of the future
like a dark thundercloud, will
MAKE THEIR BUSINESS
BETTER.
They know that quack rem
edies of that sort are apt to KILL
the patient.
It TOOK courage to oppose
rieid. hieh subsidies for farm
prices in a critical election year
when it was the general con
census among professional polit
icians that loss of the big farm
states could (and quite possibly
would) mean loss of the election.
But President Eisenhower has
courage. Secretary of Agricul
ture Benson has courage. Sen
ator Hickenlooper has courage.
Otherwise he wouldn't have sup
ported what looked several
months ago like a losing cause.
Republican voters in Iowa, in
cluding decisive numbers of
farmers, proved Monday that
Khrushchev Infuriates
Leader by Unification
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
Nikita S. Khrushchev has
talked himself into another big
This time,
he has en
raged West
German
Chanc e 1 1 o r
Konrad Aden
auer by saying
that Russia
does not want
Germany uni
fied in any cir-
Chariea McCanii cumstances.
That is hardly news. Russia
has made it plain, by its actions,
that it prefers to keep Germany
divided.
But at least, the Soviet gov
ernment has kept up the pre
tense, in international negotia
tions, that it really looks for
ward to unification.
Khrushchev made his no-unification
statement to French
Foreign Minister Christian Pin
eau while Pineau and Premier
Guy Mollet were in Moscow last
month.
"You keep your 50 million
Germans and we will keep our
17 million," Khrushchev said in
effect, referring to the eastern
and western parts of Germany.
Khrushchev said Russia didn't
even want Germany unified if
it were neutralized.
Returns In Rage
Mollet disclosed this to Aden
auer when they met in Luxem
bourg Monday to conclude their
agreement on the future of the
Saar.
Adenauer returned to Bonn;
his capital, in a boiling rage.
He said that Khrushchev's
statement was impudent and
boorish, and showed incredible
brutality.
Adenauer said he would take
up the unification question, in
the light of Khrushchev's state
ment, when he talks to Presi
dent Eisenhower and Secretary
of State John Foster Dulles in
Washington next week.
He also intends, when he gets
back to Bonn, to instruct Wil
helm Hass, West German am
bassador in Moscow, to take up
the issue with new Soviet For
eign Minister Dmitri T. Shepilov.
Why Mollet decided to tell
Adenauer about Khrushchev's
statement is something of a mys
tery. France Itself Is not keen on
seeing Germany unified without
the strictest guarantees against
a resurgence of German mili
tarism. .
In fact, Mollet himself had dis
turbed Adenauer by saying in
an interview published in the
American magazine "United
States News and World .Report'
on April 2 that disarmament
should be given precedence
over German unification.
Approves Of It
Khrushchev, commenting on
Moilets statement, said at a
Kremlin reception next day that
ne approved of it. But he added
that once world peace had been
assured, German unification
would be easy.
But making policy statements,
in the name of the Kremlin, has
become a habit with Khrush
chev, despite the fact that his
chief role is that of secretary f
the Russian Communist Party.
In India and Burma, Khrush
chev angered Prime Ministers
Jawaharlal Nehru and U Nu by
his unbridled denunciations of
western governments.
On his recent visit of "friend
ship" to Britain, Khrushchev
boasted that Russia will make a
hydrogen missile with a hydro
gen warhead that would be able
to hit any city in the world.
He also got involved in an
angry argument with members
of the Labor Party.
It is likely that some of
Khrushchev's fellow leaders
wish he would keep his lips but
toned a great deal more.
Eisenhower To Spend
Week End at Gettysburg
Washington U.R) The White
House said today that President
Eisenhower expects to spend the
week end at his Gettysburg, Pa.,
farm.
The chief executive, weather
permitting, will fly to the farm
Friday.
they ADMIRE courage that is
based on sound principle and
sound economics. They went to
the polls and voted decisively
in favor of the HARD way that
means ultimate salvation in
stead of the easy way that means
ultimate RUIN.
Maybe that will be a lesson to
the demagogue politicians whose
motto is "ANYTHING to win
the election."
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Editorial Comment
WHY SIT ON SEAT BELTS?
How safe are safety belts?
Some manufacturers who have
battered up fleets of cars find
ing out say that belts reduce
angle collision injuries by as
much as 80 per cent.
How safe are they when you
sit on them?
1 No safer than a parachute in a
submarine. And besides, they
corrugate the bottomside of the
rider.
The buyer of a new car pays
extra for the seat belts. He prob
ably buys them because the sales
man has convinced him, at least
Today and
By Walter
TITO IN MOSCOW
Tito's visit to Moscow does
not fit very well into the stand
ardized assumption that nothing
really changes
m the Soviet
Union, and
that the pass
ing of Stalin
has made no
difference. If
that assump-
tion were
true, we
should have
Walter Uppmann . to read the
reconciliation which is now be
ing celebrated in Moscow as
meaning that Tito is returning
his country to its former position
of a satellite. That is just what
is not happening.
There is little doubt that dur
ing the past year the Kremlin
has worked for this reconcilia
tion, taking the line that it was
Stalin, not Tito, who was the
heretic who caused the conflict.
The issue of Stalin's quarrel
with Tito was Stalin s insistence
that all Communist states must
ba satellites and economic col
onies of the Soviet Union. Tito-
ism was a national rebellion not
against Communism but against
the satellite colonialism of Stal
in. We know from what Khru
shchev told the Poles at Bie
rut's funeral in March that Stal
in's attempt to make a satellite
of China nearly caused Mao Tse-
Tung to break with Moscow.
Tito's present visit to Moscow
announces a victory for Titoism
in the field of Communist doc
trine and, it would appear, in
that of Soviet imperial policy.
Until after Stalin's death, Tito
ism was the greatest of all Com
munist heresies, indeed a hang
ing oaense in Eastern Europe.
It is now the new orthodoxy of
the Kremlin and it is being ex
pounded to the faithful as the
old orthodoxy of Lenin. Tito is
not being received in Moscow as
a repentant rebel. He is being
naiiea as tne true believer.
fpHIS is a substantial change, and
we cannot suppose t that it is
some kind of propaganda stunt
engineered bv the nnMi rela
tions exDerte in MrKiviw Wa
deceive only ourselves when we.
taiK tnat way. For how can .the
Kremlin be acceDtine. inripprf
glorifying, the rebel Tito unless
it nas taKen into account how
this will resound in Poland,
Czechoslovakia. H u n e a r v anrl
elsewhere where so recently
leading Communists have been
degraded and hanged for the
crime of Titoism? Can anvnne
imagine how Titoism can be ap
proved for Belgrade while Stal
inism continues for Warsaw and
Prague and Budapest?
There is evidence, which is
not yet conclusive but well at
tested, that the Kremlin is pro
moting verv substantial rhanppe
in thp Soviet catpllitp pmnirp rtf
Eastern Europe. Tljese changes
are in me airecuon ot increased
national independence, the dis
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DAY OR NIGHT
German
Views
for the moment, that they save
lives. Then the owner uses them
for awhile. Maybe his own fam
ily does also.
But do people who ride with
him? The answer is that they do
if the driver does.
We've ridden with a number
of owners of seat-belted cars. We
have yet to see one use the seat
belt
In tome cases it's probably
just too much trouble. But we'll
guess that in more cases it's con
sidered "chicken."
It doesn't make sense, but
most auto accidents don't either.
Albany Democrat Herald.
Tomorrow
Lippmann
mantling of the old economic
colonial devices such as the joint
stock companies, and a substan
tial increase in the freedom of
the press. The changes in Poland
are, I have been told by reli
able observers, so impressive
that they are beginning to look
like a change of the political
regime. Perhaps we are witness
ing a movemnt within the Com
munist orbit from satellite colo
nialism to Titoist national au
tonomy. It may be that anti-colonialism
has spread to the Soviet
orbit.
e a e
IF, AS now seems highly prob
able, the Stalinist satellite
policy is being liquidated, than
is is plain why the Kremlin is
going to such lengths to appease
and to woo Tito. In working out
the new policy, the existence of
a reconciliation between Bel
grade and Moscow would be the
ace of trumps. Tito would be the
symbol and the living proof of
how it is possible to have na
tional independence within the
Communist orbit. In Stalin's
time, Tito was the symbol of re
bellion, the proof that national
independence and freedom from
economic colonial exploitation
requires a break with Moscow.
Now that the Kremlin is accept
ing Titoism and Tito is accept
ing the Kremlin, he symbolizes
the, change without leaving the
Soviet orbit. He is the argument
for not breaking with Moscow,
and for collaborating with Mos
cow. ' But this does not exhaust the
role-that Tito is expected to play.
Besides being an -example to the
satellites, he will be a formid
able missionary to the neutra
lists. For many countries it is
extremely difficult to follow the
Nehru principle of non-alignment
with either military coali
tions. These countries are already
aligned and they do not want
to take the risks and make the
sacrifices which breaking their
alliances would mean. ' ' "
Tito is the living example of
how to be alligned with both
coalitions, how to be neutralist
and yet aligned. No one who
knows Western Europe today
will, I think, doubt the attrac
tiveness of the Tito example. In
Greece, to some degree in Italy,
perhaps also in France, there are
strong tendencies towards what
might be described as re-orientation
of policy-within the frame
work of the existing alliance.
It is no wonder that Moscow
is doing so much to build up the
prestige of Tito. We may well ask
ourselves whether, given the
change from Stalinism inside the
Soviet Union, Tito is not on his
way to becoming the most impor
tant of all the missionaries of
Communism. .
1956. The New York
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