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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Sept. 23. 1346 (Monday)
The matter of meat inspection
In the state was the main topic
of discussion at a meeting of
the Jackson county board of
health Friday.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: There is no
shortage of ammunition this
year. There is plenty for humans
to shoot each other, and the so
called wild life.
20 YEARS AGO
Sept. 23. 193S (Wednesday)
The taxable valuation of Jack
son county property for the year
193S is S24.063.620 as fixed by
the county assessor.
Ira C. Moss withdraws today
as a candidate for mayor of Med
lord. 30 YEARS AGO
Sept. 23. 1326 (Thursday)
The opening luncheon of the
Greater Medford club for the
year will be held at St. Mark's
Guild hall at 1 p.m. Monday.
The southbound plane of the
air mail service was late today,
but the northbound plane was on
time.
40 YEARS AGO
Sept 23. 1316 (Saturday)
At the annual convention of
the Drama League of America
recently held at St. Louis, plans
were discussed to widen the in
fluence of that organization.
Jackson county WCTU will
hold their convention in Med
ford at the Baptist church Sept.
29 and 30.
80 YEARS AGO
Sept. 23. 1308 (Sunday)
A piano recital will be given
by Miss Irene Brown at the Davis
Opera house Tuesday.
The second annual gun tour
nament closed this afternoon at
the shooting grounds.
What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 7?
Copt. 193S Editorial Researcb
Report
1. If Richard M. Nixon ever
becomes President, he will be
the 1st, 2nd. 3rd, 4th or 5th Qua
ker President?
2. Most public school teachers
are members of the Teachers
Union, AFL-CIO; right or
wrong?
3. Which of the authors of the
four New Testament Gospels
was of non-Jewish origin?
4. Less than one-fourth, about
one-half or two-thirds, or more
than three-fourths of U.S. adults
use eyeglasses?
5. The island of Madeira in
the east Atlantic belongs to Den
mark. Great Britain, France,
Spain. Portugal or Morocco?
6. Which President of this cen
tury married a girl whose mai
den name was Roosevelt.
7. An Ampersand is a unit of
electricity, kind of gravel, print
ing character, type of raincoat or
Scotch fabric.
The answers: I. Second
(Hoover was first). 2. Wrong. 3.
Luke. 4. About two-thirds. S.
Portugal. 6. F.D. Roosevelt. 7.
Printing character (St).
ICEBERG NEARS AFRICA
Capetown, South Africa (U.R)
A 370-foot high iceberg from
the Antarctic is drifting toward
Capetown at a rate of more than
100 miles a day. it was reported
today. Crewmen of the Ameri
can tanker Ivy sighted the ice
berg 1.200 miles southwest of
Capetown.
MAIL TRIBUNE
How Dumb Are We?
Just how dumb are the people of Oregon? That
the Republican-chief-of-staff, one Leonard Hall,
thinks the voter "I. Q." in this state is far below sea
level, has been amply demonstrated the past few
months by the upper-bracket strategy regarding this
state.
It all dates from the pressure put on by chairman
Hall which in 24 hours, completely reversed the then
Secretary of the Interior McKay's mind, as to resign
ing his place in the cabinet and flying home to run
against Senator Wayne Morse.
One day Secretary McKay publicly declared for
the steenth time he would NOT resign and would not
make the race against Oregon's senior Senator. He
was through with politics. The next day, after a
lengthy conference with Messrs. Hall and Adams, he
said he would and the next evening he was no longer
a member of the Eisenhower cabinet but back in
Salem and full of fight for a six year term in the Up
per House.
How come?
When asked if this sudden switch was due to
White House pressure Mr. McKay said "no," he had
made up his own mind, aided somewhat, however,
by overcoming the opposition of Mrs. McKay to six
more years of politics and the insufferable Washing
ton, D.C. climate.
It is hard to believe that White House pressure
had NOTHING to do with this sudden change of
front, but there is no doubt that the Republican
G.H.Q. believed the voters of Oregon, as a whole,
would never seriously question it.
How dumb can we get?
MR- Leonard Hall also had no question apparently
that more people of this state would vote for
ex-Govemor McKay and against public power, if the
eloquent and persuasive Vice President Nixon should
tell them to do so. At least he would hardly have
dispatched Nixon out to Oregon so promptly and
with such a clear cut command, had he any suspicion
that such action would lose votes for ex-Secretary
McKay instead of making them.
But that, undoubtedly, is what happened.
Such a judgment certainly could only be based
upon a very low opinion of the intelligence and dis
crimination of the Oregon electorate.
Mr. Nixon not only declared he and his party
were against all public-power development but that
the federal government by itself can not do the job
of a full development of our resources at all, but
only the "triple-barreled" Eisenhower program can
do it whatever that is.
We suppose it means, the job should be handed
over to the private power industry, with financial aid
from the government, and either local contributions
of advice or cash or both.
If this is correct then it also means not only the
end of all further public-power development in this
state and the northwest, but a repudiation of such
federal power projects as contemplated or now ex
ist, such as Bonneville, Grand Coulee and Hells
Canyon.
Can the people of Oregon be so dumb and so
blind to their own self-interest as to swallow a bait
like that?
Apparently the G.O.P. High command thinks so
or neither Mr. Nixon nor anyone else with such a fan
tastic proposal would ever have been sent to Eugene
to tell the people of this state, HOW to vote ! R.W.R.
Unconscious Irony
As a postscript to the above the Portland Oregon
ian should reprimand its Page 1 make-up man.
' In its issue of September 20 the lead article on
"column left" featured the reduction of power from
Bonneville and the probable closing of several Ore
gon industries as a result.
Alcoa, one of the largest of them, might be forced
to use steam power as a stop gap, the article declared,
but could not afford to continue it long because of
the increased expense. In other words while more
hydroelectric power at lower rates is the crying need
in the Portland area and throughout the state Mr.
Nixon says "Nix!"
QN COLUMN right Page 1, Vice President NLxon's
attack on all federal power projects was featured
under a three-column head and his claim that the
only solution available is private power with pre
sumably government aid and local controls, included.
What an ironical juxtaposition !
For the only way cheap hydroelectric power in
volume sufficient to keep step with Oregon's de
velopment, CAN be secured is to rush work on the
federal projects that have been started and approved,
and secure a congress and administration that will
promote and defend public power, not do everything
it can to prevent and destroy it.
The assumption of the GOP G.H.Q. must be the
voters in wild and untailored Oregon are too dumb
to see it R.W.R.
Why?
We are merely asking for information to-wit:
Why is it that calling Senator Richard Neuberger
"Slick Dick" is an occasion for issuing a "medal of
merit" while applying the same term to Richard
Nixon calls for Republican censure and issuance of
a badge of shame?
Ah partisan politics, what follies are committed
in thy name ! R.W.R.
Sunday. September 23. 1958
Today and
By Walter
NEW FACES
It is being said that we are
seeing two new men, a new
Stevenson and a new Nixon, and
that somehow
by an act of
will the starry
eyed intellec
tual of 1952
has made him
self over into a
tough politi
cian, the ruth
less partisan of
1954 has made
himself into a
Una
H alter l.ippnmnn
statesman moving at the higher
levels. These two pictures make
things simpler, it seems to me,
than they really are.
No doubt men change with ex
perience and as they grow older.
But it would be a mistake to sup
pose that when the Governor of
Illinois was nominated in 1952,
he was not already a practical
politician who knew his way
around in politics. It is simply
not so that he was an unworldly
man, his head in the clouds or
perhaps in books of philosophy,
unused to the precincts and the
grassroots, and so innocent, so
intellectual, and so high-minded
that he did not know or would
not look at the facts of life.
As for the transformation of
the Vice President, it is difficult
to tell in these days when most
candidates read speeches written
for them by someone else.
TI IS true, however, that this
- year not only Stevenson and
Nixon but Eisenhower too are
showing a different face to the
electorate. Stevenson and Eisen
hower are both high-minded
men, and at the same time each
in his way, Stevenson by exper
ience and tradition, Eisenhower
by intuition, is a practical poli
tician. In 1952, Stevenson was run
ning as Democratic candidate at
the end of an unpopular Demo
cratic administration. He had to
separate himself in the voters'
minds from the Truman adminis
tration and he had to persuade
the voters who wanted a change
that with Stevenson they would
get a change. The party organiz
ation was Truman's, and Steven
son had to appeal to the country
over the head of Truman. In
1956, his position is radically
altered. He has become not
merely the titular but actual
head of the Democratic Party,
and now his need is to identify
himself with the party, not to
separate himself from it.
Stevenson, in my view, has un
usual political insight, and an
unusual gift for seeing things
as they are. His political judg
ment in 1952 was quite accurate,
and the kind of campaign he
conducted reflected correcUy
the difficult facts of his political
situation: That the country
In The Day's
Nobody's shooting yet in the
Suez area and the politicians are
forking over the same old pile
of straw.
So let's turn to run-of-the-mill
news:
TWO San Francisco women
died in the crash of their
automobile into an embankment
18 miles south of Ukiah on High
way 101. The California high
way patrol says the car went out
of control on a turn, hit the bank
and rolled over.
(Evidently the driver went
into the turn too fast, which is
an easy way to get into trouble.)
'V'EAR S a y r e, Oklahoma, a
Lakewood Village (Califor
nia) woman was killed on big
Highway 66 when the car, driv
en by her husband, collided
head-on with another vehicle.
(Responsibility in that case
is hard to pin down. Not enough
details. But SOMEBODY got out
of his proper lane. When any car
gets out so its own lane on a big
modern highway bad trouble is
apt to ensue.)
THERE is heartbreak in this
one:
In Palm Springs a mother
stood speechless and paralyzed
with fear for half a dozen tragic
seconds as her 18-month-old baby
crawled in front of a car that
was just starting from the curb.
The baby died under the car's
wheels. The driver, until he
heard the mother's screams, was
unaware of what had happened.
(I suppose the bitter, heart
rending moral of that one is
that an 18-month-old baby must
never be left out of sight for
even half a dozen seconds.)
SO MUCH for modern trans
portation dangers.
- Let's turn now to one that
harks back to earlier days.
PROMINENT 76-year-old
rl Hood (Sacramento county)
rancher was killed in a RUN
AWAY. He was breaking
young1 horse to harness in the
time-honored wav pairine it
with an older well-broken horse.
The team was hitched to a cart.
His son was helping. The father
drove around the barn. When
he came in sight again the team
was running away. The son tried
to stop them, but the cart hit a
bump and the driver was thrown
out. He fell on his head and died.
THERE was a day when run
's- aways were as much a part
of everyday life as car accidents
are now. There was hardly a
Tomorrow
Lippmann
wanted a change from Truman
ism, that Eisenhower was virtu
ally certain to win the election,
and that the Democratic Party
would survive to fight another
day if he could give it a new
lead. In 1956, he has seen, again
I think quite accurately, that the
Democratic Party is the major
ity party, that there is a power
ful undertow drawing the Eisen
hower Democrats back to their
part-, and that he has a chance
to win if he can rally the Dem
ocrats. fpHE business of rallying a par---
ty which extends across a
continent usually means, in the
absence of fierce Issues, that the
national leader must involve
himself in local politics in the
various states. He must exploit
the grievances which are im
portant locally, he must support
iocal hopes, and above all he
must work with the local poli
ticians. What is called practical
politics is for the most part local
politics, and it is bound to in
volve the national candidate in
contradictions and embarrass
ment. What this can lead to was dem
onstrated in 1952 when Gen.
Eisenhower, against his better
nature, sacrificed Gen. Marshall
to appease McCarthy in Wiscon
sin, and allowed himself to be
embraced by Jenner in Indiana.
Stevenson himself, though he
has nothing like that on his
conscience, has been doing more
denouncing and more promising
than he would do if he were not
bent on rallying his highly di
versified party.
rpHE situation of the Republi--
cans calls for a campaign to
hold on to the Eisenhower Dem
ocrats. They have to take for
granted the regular Republicans,
the Eisenhower Republicans be
cause they like Ike, the Old
Guard Republicans because they
feel confident with Nixon. The
task of the President is to con
vince the Eisenhower Democrats
that his health and his energy
are so good that he can be and
will be the effective head of a
second Eisenhower administra
tion. The task of Vice President
Nixon is to reassure the Eisen
hower Democrats that if he be
comes President, he will not
abandon Eisenhower Republican
ism.
As compared with 1952 and
1954, the Republican situation
in 1956 calls for a campaign at
a high level. Since Stevenson
when he stoops to conquer, does
not stoop very low, the prospect
is that at least at the top the
campaign on both sides will be
decent, and that the dirty play
ers, such as they are, will work
in the shadows.
(C) 1956 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
News bv
Frank Jenkins
country town anywhere that
hadn't seen nerve-tingling run
aways right down its Main
street. The standard pattern for
a hero in those times was the
brave young man who at peril of
his life stood in the pathway of
the runaways and seized a rein
as they dashed past and brought
them to a spectacular but safe
stop.
(Too often, of course, the
young mn failed in his do-or-die
attempt and injury or death to
one or more of the occupants of
the vehicle ensued.)
THE death that stalks our high
ways is a grim phase of our
modern life. But I can't help
wondering sometimes if every
thing considered, including the
vastly greater density of our
modern population the hazards
of our modern life are any
greater than those that con
fronted our forebears.
Ever since life began, danger
to life has been present.
Matter of Fact By Jos and Stewart Alscp
ODDS ON NASSER
Washington The odds against
a shooting war in the Middle
East are now quoted rather high
in official cir
cles. But while
the odds on
shooting have
been going
down, the odds
that Egyptian
dictator Ga
in a 1 A b de 1
Nasser will get
away with his
Stewart Alsop
c o n t e m ptu-
ous challenge to the Western
powers have been going sharply
up.
The British, according to the
official word, have all but prom
ised not to fire the first shot.
And if the British don't fire the
first shot, so the reasoning runs.
no one else
will, least of
all Colonel
Nasser.
Actually,
British Prime
Minister Sir
Anthony Eden
has not given
Secretary o f
State John
Joseph Aisop rosier uuues
any flat and formal commitment
not to use force against Egypt.
But all their conversations, dur
ing the current London meeting,
Communications
Letters ro the Editor must bear the name and address ot the writer, although
under certain circumstances the use ot a pen name or initial for publication
is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a
view to clarification and condensation.
not exceed 400 words.
Reply lo Reilly
To the Editor: I am writing
this as an answer to Mr. Reilly's
communication printed Sept. 19.
Let us take it sentence by
sentence.
1st. If the Al Sarena case is
so much Democratic hogwash
why don't McKay discuss it?
2nd. As Mr. Reilly stated they
did have a patent on the mine
and the right to sell the timber.
No one. Democrat, Republican,
Independent or Communist, ever
said they didn't.
3rd. Mr. Reilly states, quote:
"So what. That's the law." This
must be corrected to read, that
was the law, before Harris Ells
worth was forced to change it
to stop his colleague's under
handed "give away" program in
Oregon.
4th. About twisting the law.
What is he trying to do, put sev
eral thousand lawyers out of
business?
5th. Mr. Reilly stated that Mc
Kay believes the people can de
velop their own states. Then
why did he allow this person
from Alabama do our job here
in Oregon?
6th. In his last statement he
spoke of pinkos throwing rocks.
What does he call that statement
if it is not throwing rock or mud
on his part?
He signed his communication
with All America Constitu
tional Party." I know nothing of
this party, but if they all stand
back and throw mud at every
one who brings facts to the front,
I am not interested in knowing
about it.
George E. Smith
636 Palm St.
Medford, Ore.
"The South Will Lose Again"
To the Editor: Southerners
who oppose racial integration
are showing their bad side, and
unwittingly the bad side of this
country. Russia and Red China
are probably right when they
accuse us of being fourflushing
windbags when we speak of
America as the free world. True,
the Civil War stopped the sale
of the Negro on the auction
block, but that was about the ex
tent of his co-called emancipa
tion. I was born and brought up In
the south where they said Ne
groes were beasts. I refused to
believe it. I defy any surgeon,
scientist, or anyone else to find
any difference between the heart
of a black man and that of a
white man if they were laid out
side by side for microscopic ex
amination. The same goes for the
brain and other vital organs.
White or black, either can act
like a beast and sometimes do.
I've seen Negroes lynched
without trial and their ears cut
off for souvenirs, a beastly crime
if ever there was one. The pres
ent shameful behavior of our
southern friends can be blamed
on tradition, stupidity and false
pride. They claim to "like the
Negro in his place," which is
generally as a poorly paid ser
vant. If it were possible to re
move all Negroes out of the
south for 12 months so the whites
would have to do their own
work, I believe they would be
welcomed back with open arms
and given a better deal from
there on out.
Southern people are fighting
the Civil War all over again and
are destined for defeat once
more because their inhumane
treatment of other human be
ings cannot be justified in the
eyes of God nor man.
Frank Strickland
Cave Junction, Ore.
Will Vote for Ike
To the Editor: It seems to me
that your communication section
has been pretty one-sided in
favor of the Democrats and I
am sure there has been a lot of
people who feel as I do but failed
to get their article printed when
writing to you.
Now I have been hearing so
have been based on the assump
tion that shooting must be avoid
ed, which almost amounts to the
same thing.
By contrast, on his first trip
to London after the Suez crisis
started, Dulles found the British
willing and even eager to use
force against Nasser. The British
reasoned that Nasser must at all
costs be taught a lesson. Other
wise his open defiance of the
Western powers would be fol
lowed by more of the same all
over the Middle East, disastrous
ly jeopardizing vital Western in
terests throughout the area.
TiULLES' main accomplish
" in all his comings and goings
since Nasser seized the Suez Ca
nal company, has been to per
suade the reiuctant and skeptical
British that Nasser could be
taught his lesson without a shot
being fired. The Dulles' version
of how this might be done may
be authoritatively outlined about
as follows:
First, the shipping of the ma
jor maritime nations is to be di
verted round the Cape, thus re
ducing the Suez Canal to a "dry
ditch" and weakening Nasser's
bargaining power. This was, of
course, the real purpose of the
Dulles-Eden proposal of a "us
ers' association" to control canal
operations no one seriously ex-
Letters submitted for publication must
much about how wonderful the
Democrats are and how much
better off we would be if we
vote them in, but there's one
question no one else has seemed
to think about. If they are so
wonderful why is the South so
poor and backward in progress?
As a native of the South I can
say they are about the poorest
and backward there than any
where in the U. S., and yet they
have voted Democrat for years
in their local as well as govern
ment elections. I myself came
out West and to the state of Ore
gon because of this as the em
ployment is higher and much
better wages under a Republican
controlled state, and I'm sure
most folk who are from the
South will have to admit that.
I'm for Eisenhower and his ad
ministration because it is a gov
ernment for the people and has
been run with honesty and sin
cerity. We have gone from war
to peace and from unemploy
ment and better wages for all
and I'm sure most of the people
have the good judgment to see
this in spite of what a few might
think or say and will again vote
for Ike this election and also for
a Republican state government.
Mrs. C. Poole,
Prospect, Ore.
Just A Matter of Arithmetic!
To the Editor: In a TV appear
ance in Medford on Sept. 18,
Candidate Morse, who is solicit
ing our vote as a Senate candi
date, attacked the present Social
Security program and proposed
that the social security retire
ment age be reduced to 60 and
the present "shameful" scale of
benefits be increased. May we
apply a little arithmetic to this
suggestion?
The present scale of benefits
provides a monthly payment of
$100.50 for a man aged 65 who
has had average monthly earn
ings of $310. If his wife is also
aged 65, she Is entitled to $50.30
additional even though she may
never have contributed any taxes
to the fund.
What would be the result if
this scale were to be applied to
age 60 instead of age 65?
One leading life insurance
company will undertake to pay
an income of $5.34 per month
for life to a man aged 60 for a
single consideration of $1,000.
Therefore, $100.50 per month
would require a single payment
of $18,820.
The same company requires a
payment of $1,000 to provide a
monthly life income of $4.62 to
a woman aged 60. It would
therefore cost $10,880 to provide
the present income of $a0.30.
These two figures total $29
700. That is arithmetic; it is
fact, not opinion.
It is true that the employer
would have to pay a share of
this, but regardless of who pays,
the payment must come from
the worker s production, that is,
the employer's share is money
that could be paid to the em
ployee if it was not used up by
taxes.
Candidate Morse knows these
facts. If he doesn't he isn't smart
enough to be a Senator. Since
he does, his advocacy of a low
ered retirement age and higher
benefits deserves to be branded
what it is. It is a bald faced at
tempt to buy votes by a prom
ise that he can't redeem.
Dick House,
"The House of Insurance"
Medford, Ore.
pected Nasser to accept the pro
posal. Second, economic pressures
are to be brought to bear on
Egypt, and these measures will
in turn increase both the inter
nal and external pressure on
Nasser to make a reasonable set
tlement of the canal dispute.
When they begin to feel the
pinch, it was argued, the small
but internally powerful class of
Egyptian merchants and busi
nessmen will be eager for a set
tlement. So will Nasser's oil producing
Arab allies, whose oil revenues
will be sharply cut. So will other
countries on whose support Nas
ser counts. Eighty per cent of
India's trade, for example, is
normally routed through the ca
nal, carried largely in British
bottoms, and a settlement will
then be very much in India's in
terest. TTNDER such internal and ex--'
ternal pressures, Nasser is to
be brought to a reasonable frame
of mind, and he or conceivably
a successor will ultimately ac
cept the minimum Western
terms. These terms boil down to
some form of international par
ticipation in the operation of the
canal. Thus Nasser, according to
the Dulles, version, is to be
taught his lesson without the di
rect application of force.
Maybe things will actually
work out that way. The slow ero
sion of economic pressure, it is
true, eventually brought old Mo
hammed Mossadegh down, and
forced an acceptable settlement
of the Iranian oil dispute. But
there are certain important dif
ferences between the Iranian oil
crisis and the Suez Canal crisis.
Egypt is by no means as eco
nomically dependent on canal
revenues as Iran was on its oil
revenues. Unlike Mossadegh,
moreover, Nasser can turn to the
POTLUCK
(By M-T Staff and
Contributors)
Reporters are trained to write
stories which are as unbiased and
objective as possible. They don't
always feel that way, though.
Once in a while they write a
story the way they'd like too
but not for publicaUon.
One such follows. The names
have been changed to protect the
innocent:
"John Q. Doe spoke at great
length to the Blank club at the
regular meeting last night.
"Doe's talk featured nothing
spectacular, and consisted of a
series of repititious platitudes,
while a bored audience roared
with apathy. As he sat down at
the end of his talk, the crowd
cheered in gratitude."
And how many meetings
THAT could have been written
about!
The tame reporter likes to
cover those dinners where he
doesn't have to pay for the
meal. Assigned to one such
meeting last week, he had a
lapse of memory and had a big
supper before leaving. It
wasn't until ha saw the linen,
the silver and great, heaping
platters of fried chicken he
remembered it was m dinner
meeting. He choked down
three big pieces, too.
From time to time we feel
called upon to report in this col
umn on a typographical error
we have spotted in this or an
other paper.
What we want to know is why
it's so darn easy to get typo
graphical errors when you
DON'T want them, and why it
is so darn hard to get them into
type when you DO want them.
A spirited discussion derog
atory to jaywalkers was going
on in the news room last week
when the sports editor sud
denly pointed out we might
be slandering a member of tho
Medford High school foolbaU
squad Jay Walker, who plays
right half.
There are two people on the
news staff among whose chief
duties are the writing of head
lines those things that tell you
what to expect when you read
the story.
One of them writes heads for
"wire" stories that is those
which come to the paper via the
United Press teletype; the other
writes heads for stories which
are gathered or processed lo
cally. Sometimes a story which ar
rives by mail will also arrive,
in slightly different form, by
wire. And once in a while it will
happen that each of our two
head writers will pick similar
stories for use, without either
knowing the other has done so.
That happened last week. The
reason it caught our fancy, how
ever, is not because of the ob
vious oversight in printing two
stories on the same subject, but
because both headline writers
wrote heads which were identi
cal in wording.
A five-month-old parmeter
chicken, owned by Mr. and
Mrs. Charles P. Sieck. route
2. box 674. Central Point, last
Thursday laid an egg. It had
three (not one, not two) yolks.
Mrs. Sieck put the egg in the
freeser. she said presumably
to keep it to prove her story
when friends doubted it.
Did you ever see someone
downtown whose face Is vague
ly familiar but whose name or
connection you can't, for the life
of you, possibly remember?
That happened to a friend of
ours a week or so ago. Both said
"Hi" to each other, chatted in
idle fashion about the weather,
and fell into step. As they walk
ed, their conservation got vaguer
and vaguer, they walked faster
and faster, and soon parted at
a corner, both somewhat con
fused, embarrassed, and out of
breath. Neither is yet sure who
the "other guy" is.
Soviet bloc for help he is al
ready stepping up trade negotia
tions with the Communist coun
tries, including China. Finally,
the economic pressure is by no
means all one way.
THE oil revenues the British
lost in Iran were made up
surprisingly quickly elsewhere.
But even with the half-promised
loans from this country, the
economies of Britain and West
ern Europe will be badly hurt by
a canal boycott. Thus economic
bargaining power is certainly
not a Western monoply in the
dispute with Egypt.
The hard fact is that the threat
to use force was the central ele
ment in the West's bargaining
power. No sensible man would
argue that the prospect of an
ugly little war in the Middle
East was ever a pleasant pros
pect. But with the prospect fad
ing, and the threat of force vir
tually ruled out by the Dulles'
policy, the chance that Nasser
will get away with his slap in
the face for the West is immeas
urably increased. If he does, the
Western powers might as well
resign themselves to more slaps
in the face, in the Middle East
and elsewhere.
(Copyright 1956 New York
Herald Tribune, Inc)