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and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Oct. 26, 1946 (Saturday)
Inauguration of the five-cent
United States flag rate Oct. 1
brings Increase in air mail vol
ume, Postmaster Frank DeSouza
says.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: There was
a brief ground fog Fri. a.m. On
residential streets it caused con
siderable blind speeding.
20 YEARS AGO
Oct. 26. 1936 (Monday)
The October term of circuit
opens with new grand Jury of
seven persons.
Jackson County Chamber of
Commerce requests that flags be
displayed tomorrow to mark
Navy day.
30 YEARS AGO
Oct. 26. 1926 (Tueiday)
Assessed valuation of Medford
for 1926 taxes is increased by
$943,920, and assessed valuation
of Jackson county by $1,223,320,
acording to J. B. Coleman, coun
ty assessor.
Grand jury meets . yesterday;
Is discharged after returning
ceveral true bills.
40 YEARS AGO
Oct. 26, 1916 (Thursday)
Straw votes in Medford show
a two to one vote for President
Wilson.
Henry Clay Hansbrough, for
18 years U. S." Senator from
North Dakota, supports Presi
dent Wilson.
50 YEARS AGO
Oct. 26. 1906 (Friday)
Reames chapter, OES, holds
social night yesterday.
S. L. Bennett brings to ex
hibit building branch broken
from an apple tree about three
feet long bearing 20 large ap
ple. What's the Answer?
Can Ton Get 4 of the 7?
Copr. 1953 Edltorl&J Researeb
Report
1. The U.N. Charter was
drawn up in a 1945 conference
at Yalta. Sari Francisco, Bret
ton Woods. Potsdam, Dumbarton
Oaks or Geneva?
2. The Suez Canal was built
by a British, French, Egyptian
or U.S. company?
3. About (a) 5, (b) 20, (c) 35 or
(d) 50 per cent of all U.S. fam
ilies change their residence dur
ing any one year?
4. Drinking on plane flights
within the U.S. is or isn't regu
lated by a government agency?
5. A general four-day week
soon was recently predicted by
President Eisenhower, Adlai E.
Stevenson, Senator Kefauver,
Vice President Nixon, or former
Vice President Wallace?
6. Most insurance on damage
to homes or household goods
does or doesn't cover damage
from flood?
7. Smallest state is Rhode Is
land. Second smallest is Connec
ticut, Delaware, Maryland, South
Carolina or Idaho?
The answers: 1. San Francisco.
2. French company. 3. About 20
per cent. 4. Isn't. 5. Nixon.
6. Most doesn't. 7. Delaware.
BRAKE BLAZES
Manchester, Conn. (U.R) The
emergency brake of a truck
showered' sparks along a mile
stretch, touching off 20 grass
fires. Fire Chief John Merz, who
followed the hot trail, said, "We
got Quite a workout."
MAIL TRIBUNE
Magazine Crew
Don McNeil, the efficient though often-harried
manager of the Jackson County Chamber of Com
merce, called us the other day.
"Well," he said wearily, "we've got another maga
zine crew in town."
He went on to explain that an' out-of-town group
of magazine salesmen had arrived (as they do six
or eight or ten times a year), that there was nothing
illegal about the way in which they operate but that
the Better Business Bureau in Portland takes strong
exception to the "pitch" used by the salesmen.
TN THE PAST, as readers of this newspaper know,
V itinerant crews, with no stake in the community,
have passed through selling magazine subscriptions
(which is all right, if you don't want to patronize local
people who can give you just as good a price), and
have pretended to be local high school students, or
veterans, or college youngsters, or "contestants" of
one sort or another (which is NOT all right, particu
larly when it doesn't happen to be true).
In the present case, they are offering four maga
zines "for the price of postage only."
THE MAGAZINES, and their newsstand prices, are
Good Housekeeping (monthly) 35 cents; Argosy
(monthly), 25 cents; Saturday Evening Post (week
ly) 15 cents, and Look (weekly) 15 cents. Add those
prices up for a month and they come out to $1.80.
The "postage only" price? It's $1.24. That's pretty
expensive postage. Most of the Medford magazine
dealers can match or better that price and they won't
tell you a phoney stoiy about "postage," either. E.A.
Cranes Returning
What is the latest word on the whooping crane?
Perhaps the middle of a complicated and emotion
al election campaign is no time to consider the plight
of this almost-vanished species or perhaps it is, just
as a matter of relief.
(There are moments, we must confess, when the
candidates of all varieties, the measures, the argu
ments, the name-calling and emotionality, get us
down, juet a bit.)
THE LATEST word on the whooping crane, then, is
that six of them, including a young one, have ar
rived at their winter quarters at the Aransas national
wildlife refuge in Texas.
They were obviously tired from the 2,000-mile
flight from the summer nesting-grounds in northern
Canada. If all goes well, and the rest of them arrive
safely, it will mean that a total of 28 of the big, white
birds the world's total known population will be
safe again. The migration is the worst time of the year
because of natural hazards, and the chance that an .un
informed hunter might take a shot at one.
,
THE TOUCH-AND-GO survival race of the whoop-
ing crane has a special fascination. Over the past
17 years, an average of four birds are added to the
tiny flock, but an average of 3.35 birds are lost, mean
ing that, statistically, the species has increased by .65
of a bird each year, an increment just barely big en
ough to prevent annihilation.
Some years the flock increases, some years it loses.
But slowly, oh, so slowly, it is gaining.
Despite the "lack of cooperation" of the cranes
themselves (they breed slowly, and have a disconcert
ing habit of staking out new, unknown, and possibly
dangerous nesting places in the northern wilderness,
as well as being pretty independent characters), the
day may come when the flock will be strong enough
to prevent any danger of extinction. E.A.
The
The United Medford Crusade, which stands at
about 62 per cent of its $117,000-plus goal this week,
is doing pretty well but it won't be good enough un
til the goal is achieved.
For those who have forgotten, the UMC furnishes
all or a goodly portion of the support of a couple of
dozen worth-while organizations, including the Boy
and Girl Scouts, Campfire Girls, YMCA, Salvation
Army, Red Cross, the Child Guidance Clinic, and a
number of statewide and national organizations
which perform a wide range of important and neces
sary services.
VXE ARE particularly fortunate, in Medford, in the
efficient way in which the UMC is set up. Ad
ministrative costs amount to only about 5 per cent,
compared with an average of 8 to 11 per cent through
out the nation.
The United Fund plan is too well known to need
explanation. It works, and works well. It deserves
our support. E.A.
"Unequivocal"?
, . What will happen in the case of towns located on
the present Interstate System (under the new Federal High
way program?)
"The answer Is unequivocal: the new highways will go
around them. Access roads, generally built with Federal-aid-to-primary
roads money 50 per cent from Uncle Sam
and 50 per cent from the state will angle out from either
side of the town to the new highway. Economic studies have
shown that such a bypass for through traffic invariably
benefits a small town by easing congestion in its shopping
and business centers ..." Quoted from "Coast to Coast
Without a Stoplight" by Richard Thruelsen in the Oct. 20
issue of Saturday Evening Post.
Friday. October 28. 1958
UMC
Today and
By Walter
POLAND AND EUROPE
It can be said of what is hap
pening in Poland that it was sure
to happen once external condi
tions permit
ted. I have
been to Poland
only once
since the war,
sj-tl an that is
I C':'?"4? I some years
I Vt :tJ back wh e n
Gomulka had
Waiter Lissmami
purged and
WOO Ctill i f
fice. It was perfectly evident
then, even before the worst of
the Stalinist tyranny began, that
with rare exceptions th Com
munist Poles were like almost
all other Poles, very anti-Russian
and proudly Polish. Among the
Westerners who have been to
Poland since then I cannot re
member meeting anyone who
thought the Russians had ha,
any success in winning over the
auegiance ol the Foles.
In fact, if sentiment alone
had counted, what we call Tito
ism, the longing for national in
dependence, has had all along
even strnnppr rnnt. ; rji i
than in Yugoslavia. The Yugo
slavs, never naving been under
Russian rule, have felt their
kinship with the Russian nunnla
and have had a great deal of
natural affection. The Poles have
a history of beinp
and subjugated which for all
practical purposes makes impos
sible any trust or affection in
their relations with Russia.
Why then did the Yugoslavs
assert their national independ
ence of-Moscow eight years earl
ier than have the Poles? In the
last analysis, 'because Poland is
occupied and surrounded on all
Sides bv thp Rpn Armv i.rV,aMn
. .....j, nueinu
Yugoslavia was not occupied
aim 15 noi surrounded but "has
an open frontier with the West.
THIS leads us to ask why now
the Poles have been able to
assert in independence which
they could not assert a few years
earlier. The answer to that is
that the great militarv stalpmato
which now prevails in the world
nas relaxed tne tension and has
gone far toward neutralizing
military force.
Because the tension is sn mn.h
relaxed, because there is such
a general feeling that a world
war is improbable, the totalitar
ian system inside of Russia and
in the satellite orbit is harder
and harrier tn maintain TTor g
totalitarian system needs the
mreat ot an external enemy to
sustain its suppression of lib
erty. And because militarv nnw.
er in its nuclear development is
now so hideously dangerous, all
the powers are afraid to use any
military force, fearing that it
nnyui ieaa to a nuclear war.
This underlying condition in
world affaire evicts nn hnth ciifo.
of the iron curtain. What is hap
pening among the Soviet satel
lites in Eastern Enrnnp is th
counterpart of what is happen
ing irom iworocco to Indonesia.
ine nussians are .aeierred in
dealing with Onmnllra Vw iha
same ultimate considerations
which deter the Western powers
Danger of Inflation
Discussed by Babson
By ROGER BABSON
Babson Park, Mass., Accord
ing to an apocryphal story, a
legislator in Mexico moved
that Gresham's
Law (that bad
money drives
out good mon
ey) be annul-
YVip ' I led. When told
I , I that it was a
I natural law
$tJ I and could not
De annu 1 1 e a,
he t hen sug
gested that it
Roger
be suspended for a time.
The question of value has been
a problem ever since money was
invented and, in fact, even be
fore that time, no matter what
commodity was used as the med
ium of exchange tobacco or
wives. Money has always had
a tendency to depreciate in
value, and it has at some time
or other met with disaster in
practically every nation as in
Germany when the mark went
to zero in 1923, spelling the end
of inflation for Germanv.
What Is Inflation?
"One cause of inflation is a
much greater increase in' the
quantity of money in circula
tion relative to the increase in
the volume of goods and services.
This forces the price level up
wards. Price indexes for a per
iod of years show that there
have been great fluctuations in
the value of money in practical
ly every country. When the pur
chasing power of the dollar has
decreased too much, injury has
been done to the investors and
creditors as a group.
Credit inflation can be gen
erated by confidence; and mone
tary inflation can be caused by
lack of confidence. Inflation re
sults from a combination of two
things: Oversupply of money
and or under supply of the na
tion's good and services. Nation
al debt figures in that it creates
bank deposits. It is not how far
Tomorrow
Lippmann
in their dealings with Nasser.
The stalemate in nuclear wea
pons has been spreading to all
other weapons. For there is a
growing conviction that were
shooting to start in which the
great powers were involved,
even at second hand, they would
probably be drawn into using
nuclear weapons in the end.
V
TF, as the latest news indicates,
the Soviet Union will not try
to crush the new Polish govern
ment, it is, of course, probable
that the whole satellite empire
will become Titoist. We must
begin to think of what this is
going to mean in world politics.
We must begin, I think, by tak
ing fully into account the cru
cial importance of Poland in the
relations between Russia and
the Western world. We can never
afford to forget that Poland lies
between Germany and Russia.
We must not forget that she has
annexed much German territory.
We must not forget that for
Russia, be it Communist Russia
or Czarist Russia, Poland is of
vital military interest. No Rus
sian government will tolerate,
if it can prevent it, the existence
of an unfriendly Poland which
has become part of the military
system of the West.
We may expect that because
of all this, Polish-Russian rela
tions will come to a fork of the
road. One way will lead to a
reaffirmation of the military al
liance, of which the core is a
Russian guarantee as against
Germany of Poland's newly ac
quired territory. The other way,
which supposes Polish-Russian
enmity, is the classic gambit of
a Russian-German alliance based
on the unification of Germany
and the partition and domina
tion of Poland. The second way
will not be possible while Aden
auer is in power. But it must
not be ruled out of our calcula
tions. IT is to this fork in the road
that- we should address our
minds, examining the possibili
ties of a statesmanlike solution
that would safeguard the inde
pendence of Poland. The key
to such a solution would ap
pear to be, on the one hand, to
provide the Soviet Union with
convincing guarantees that an
independent Poland would not
be a hostile military base, and,
on the other hand, a settlement
of the Polish-German frontier
which both countries accept and
ratify.
The most promising idea is
still, it seems to me, that of a
neutral belt, neutral in respect
to military alliances, in Central
and Eastern Europe which might
extend from Scandinavia to the
Balkans. This would make a re
spectable place for the former
satellites, also for Austria, Yugo
slavia and Greece, and not in
conceivably, for a united Ger
many. There are risks and com
plexities in such a multilateral
project. But they may be small
er risks than the most likely
alternative, which is a series of
bilateral deals, especially as be
tween Germany and Russia.
Copyright 1956 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
the debt goes that makes people
lese confidence; it is how low
production goes. If production
keeps up with debt, there is no
harm psychologically. Lack of
pioduction means that the value
of money is under suspision. In
flation is always an attempt to
escape heavy burdens; debt is
often the core of the problem.
The principal force making for
price inflation is a huge expand
ed stream of income purchas
ing power which beats against
a diminished supply of civilian
goods and services.
Effect of Inflation
The tragedy of inflation is
the loss of purchasing power on
the part of those who have been
the most thrifty in saving money
and building up assets and in
come for a rainy day. These are
the holders of bonds and pre
ferred stocks, the holders of in
surance annuities, and those who
have amassed large cash assets.
It is characteristic of inflation
tnat the time required for it
tc take hold is much longer
than most people imagine. The
most dangerous period is usually
when the general public has
been lulled into a false sense
of security. It must be remem
bered that today we have a 52
cent dollar and that the cost of
living is still going up. It is
quite possible that within the
next ten years prices may be
much higher than they are to
day. Ever since the inception of
our national government, money
ar.d its value has been a concern
of various administrations. It is
one of our major problems at
the present time. There are num
erous opinions as regards the
value of money. The late Sen
ator Long's campaign slogan,
"Every Man A Millionaire," did
not take into account the fact
that if all men were million
aires no one would be willing
tc work. The problem today is
the effect of inflation on busi-
Polish, Hungarian Revolts Top
Foreign News Events Of Week
By CHARLES M. McCANN
By United Press Correspondent
The week s good and bad
news on the international
balance sheet:
Soviet Russia's grip on eastern
Europe was threatened this week
by revolts in two of its seven
satellite countries.
First in'Pol-
and, then in
Hungary, the
people rose to
demand free
dom from Mos
cow domina
tion.
In both
countries,
street dem-
Chtrlei M. McCaod
o n s t r a t ions
against Red leaders who had
supported the "Stalin" policy
of dictatorship turned into re
volts against Russia itself and
Communism in general.
Waldislaw Gomulka, who had
been imprisoned as a "Titoist"
for opposing Russian domina
tion, was restored to .the leader
ship of the Polish Communist
Party.
Then Hungarian university
students started demonstrating
in Budapest. They were joined
by surging throngs of Hungar
ians of all sorts even including
soldiers.
Securtiy troops and poiice
opened fire on the demonstra
tors. The demonstrations explod
ed into bloody battles and spread
to other cities.
Imre Nagy, who like Gomulka
in Poland had been purged as a
Titoist, was hurriedly made pre
mier. But the fighting continued.
The 'government called in Rus
sian troops to aid in suppres
sing the uprising. Russian tanks
and even jet planes fired on the
crowds. Budapest was cut off
from all communication with
the outside world for 36 hours.
Reports seeped out that hun
dreds of people had been killed.
Gomulka told Poles in a speech
that Russian troops, bitterly
bated, would remain in Poland.
But in Hungary Nagy promised
that he would ask for the with
drawal of all Russian troops.
France was faced by a serious
new outbreak in Africa.
Five leaders of the anti-French
rebellion in Algeria flew from
their headquarters in Egypt to
confer with the governments of
newly independent Morocco and
Tunisia. They were welcomed
as heroes in Morocco. France
regarded this as an affront.
The five Algerians took a
French plane to fly to Tunisia.
The pilot was directed secretly
to land his plane in Algiers,
capital of Algeria. French police
took the Algerians off the plane
at gun point.
As a result, savage anti-French
riots broke out in Morocco.
About 60 Europeans were murd
ered. The governments of both
Editorial Comment
DEMOCRATIC TREND
It cannot be denied that the
registration figures reveal a deep
flow of sentiment toward the
Democratic party. Whether this
will -be reflected at the ballot
box a week from Tuesday can
not be known. California has
had a Democratic registration
majority of nearly 1,000,000 but
has consistently elected Repub
licans to major office. Perhaps
the new registrants, many of
them young, first-time voters,
have been attracted by the
youth of the state Democratic
leadership. Perhaps recent Dem
ocratic successes at the state's
polls, after so many lean years,
have encouraged a larger follow
ing. Perhaps the political resur
gence of organized labor and its
special emphasis on registration
and getting out the vote have
been factors in Democratic gains.
Perhaps some combination of
political issues has had a more
striking effect than the cam
paign would indicate.
Whatever its causes and they
are certainly complex the new
Democratic complexion of the
state's poll books cannot be
wiped out by superficial expla
nations or excuses. There is rea
son for the Republican party to
reflect on its lack of success in
selling the Republican philoso
phy and program to the people
cf Oregon. The Oregonian.
Portland.
ness. Politically, one party wants
business to remain good until
after election; while the other
party is not so anxious to see
good business before election.
GOOD MONEY
The Mexican legislator was
not far off in wanting to annul
Gresham's Law. We would like
to accomplish it in the U. S.,
but no political party can suc
ceed in doing so. Practically
all of our paper money has on
it face a promise to pay, ' but
the government will not give
us anything for it, except the
same kind of money Printed
promises by any government
mean little. The great financial
need today is a national educa
tional campaign by both parties
combined, to teach the American
Voter the honest truth about
inflation.
Tunisia and Morocco threaten
ed to break openly with France.
President Eisenhower angrily
rebuked Soviet Premier Nikolai
A. Bulganin for a note he sent
to Washington on ending tests
of nuclear weapons.
Bulganin referred to the
American election campaign
in which Adlai E. Stevenson'de
mands that the tests be stopped.
He also criticized Secretary of
State John Foster Dulles. Then
Moscow published the test of
the communication before an
Matter of Fact By Jo and Stewart Alsep
WARSAW'S NEW DAWN
Washington There is a fair
measure of confidence in Wash
ington that the Soviet govern
ment will not
send troops to
bring Poland's
govern m e n t
to heel. The
conf i d e n c e
may perhaps
V . prove to oe
I Vk.id'-i m'sPlaced De
I i?f 1 fre these
LSjjJ words are
loieim Aiaop printed, dui
the reasoning on which it is
founded appears convincing.
In brief, if the Soviet leaders
had been willing to use naked
force in Poland, the decision
ought logically to have been
taken before the fanastic War
saw journey of Khrushchev,
Molotov and their companions.
The desperate Russian effort to
halt the march of events would
have had real point, if Khrush
chev and Molotov had been
ready to back up their angry
ultimatums with Russia's over
whelming armed might.
But they were not ready to do
this. Hence the ultimatums to
the Polish Central Committee
were reduced
PS
to the level of
mere angry
hectoring. And
1
the Soviet
leaders' hur
ried flight to
Warsaw was
trans formed
into an open
demonstration
o2 their own
defeat.
Ff .jam f
Stewart Alsop
'M'ONE the less, a future Soviet
resort to the use of force
against Poland cannot be ab
solutely ruled out, for the simple
reason that the consequences of
a fully successful Polish bid
for independence will be so en
ormous and so uncontainable.
There is a shadow of doubt
about it. Nothing less than
Soviet control of Eastern Europe
is now at stake in Warsaw. If
the Poles get away with it, so
will the Hungarians, and in
the end the Czechs and East
Germans and even the Ruman
ians and Bulgarians will follow
the same path.
Throughout the satellite area,
to be sure, conditions vary
greatly from country to coun
try. In Eastern Germany, for
instance, a huge Soviet occupy
ing force is already in position.
In Czechsolovakia, again, the
government of Antonin Zapo
tocky has been far less independence-minded
than the gov
ernments in Hungary and Pol
and. But the proof that othe satel
lites can gain their effective in
dependence if they struggle for
it will surely weigh more heav
ily, in the end, than any other
factor in the situation. If Zapo
tocky chooses to ignore this
proof, other Czech leaders will
not ignore it. The same rule
can be expected to apply in all
the other satellites too.
riUTHERMORE, the Soviet
rulers have no worthwhile
guarantee that newly "equal and
independent" satellite regimes
on the Polish pattern will still
remain close Soviet allies; as
the Poles are now promising to
do. As the Western nations have
good reason to know, newly in
dependent peoples seldom waste
much affection on their former
imperial masters. In Hungary,
for instance, the students who
the advance guard of the inde
pendence movement are already
using slogans which are not just
"independent Communist", but
even overtly anti-Communist.
For the Soviets, therefore, the
choice that must now be made
is truly horrible. A resort to
force will not only be extremely
risky from a simple military
Sewing Contest Will
Be Held Saturday
The Medford-Grants Pass area
"Make It Yourself with Wool"
sewing contest will be held Sat
urday at the home of the district
director, Mrs.' Perry Strom, 1464
Dixie lane, Medford.
Judging of entries wiU begin
at 1 p.m. followed by a style
show at 2:30 p.m. Entries have
been received from Medford,
Eagle Point, Ashland, Applegate
and Grants Pass, officials re
ported. Judges will be Miss N. Jean
Brooks, Mrs. Genevieve Neill
and Miss Marjorie Hattan. Dis
trict winners will participate in
the state contest Nov. 9-11 in
PorUand.
official translation had been re
layed to the President, some
what belatedly.
Mr. Eisenhower lost no time
in replying. He said that Bul
ganin's note constituted an in
terference in the election. He
complained because the note was
published prematurely. He said
that Bulganin's criticism of Dul
les was "not only unwarranted
but is personally offensive to
me." Finally, the President said
that some of Bulganin's state
ments "seem to impugn my own
sincerity."
viewpoint. It will also do cruel
and perhaps fatal damage to the
promising Communist positions
ir the Middle East, the Far East
and Africa. But if these risks
are avoided and force is not used
in Eastern Europe, then the Sov
iets must prepare to lose the
great protective belt Insulating
them from the West, which was
their grandiose gain from the
second world war.
No wonder then that there
is no real certainty in Washing
ton about the final outcome;
the upheavals in the Soviet
Presidium, including the fall
from power of Khrushchev and
Bulganin, are being widely dis
cussed; and that the result of
the forthcoming Polish mission
Moscow is being awaited with
breathless, almost agonized, in
terest. 1956 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
What goes in Poland and Hun
gary? In this (maybe) showdown
with their colonial satellites, the
Russian communists have had
two choices. They could pull in
their horns, or they could shoot.
In Hungary they're SHOOT
ING. As this is written, Russian
tanks and warplanes are pouring
hot lead into the rebelling Hun
garian populace. In Budapest,
dispatches relate, these Hungar
ians are tackling Russian tanks
with their bare hands.
The list of dead is reported
to be in the many hundreds.
WHAT is the REAL cause of
this bloody revolt?
This is it:
Moscow attempted to FORCE
Russian communist ways on
people who didn't like Russian
communist ways and wanted
their OWN ways.
That's the long and the short
of it.
WHAT will come of it?
I wouldn't know. But the
light of the past helps us to peer
into the future. Let's take a
look at the Sepoy Rebellion in
India just 100 years ago. Here's
what started it:
The British (seeking to force
their ways of life on the In
dian ways of life) compelled the
sepoys (native troops conscript
ed into the British army of India)
to use greased cartridges. To
use them the sepoys had to bite
the end patches from the cart
ridges. The religion of the
Hindus forbade them to taste
anything prepared from the meat
of a cow. The religion of the
Moslems forbade them to taste
pork.
The bloody and terrible Sepoy
Rebellion followed as a result.
(I think everyone of mature age
must remember the shocking pic
ture of Indian sepoys being shot
from the mouths of British can
non.) IVHAT came of it?
" Well, the British put down
the Sepoy Rebellion. For more
than a century they continued
to force their ways of life on the
unwilling people of India, who
preferred THEIR ways of life.
But
India is now free.
And
In India there still lingers the
hatred of the British who per
sisted so long in their effort to
force their ways of life on the
people of India. And Britain is
no longer a top world power.
yHAT of communist Russia?
" Again I wouldn't know.
Let's quote the words of a pres
ently popular song:
"What is to be will be;
"The future's not ours to see."
But I believe strongly that
Russian communism is so foul
that in time it must fall of the
weight of its own foulness. It
may be tottering now. It may
recover its balance. These great
sweeps in human history take
time. But I can't believe that
Russia's foul communist imper
ial empire can endure perman
enUy any more than Britain's
far less foul colonial imperial
empire endured.
AUR job is to stay strong and
" clean and pure of heart, re
membering Sir Galahad's motto:
"Our strength is as the strength
of ten because our hearts are
pure."
And
Never forgetting that we were
the first people in the world to
throw off the yoke of colonial
imperialism and insist,. no mat
ter what the cost, on RUNNING
OUR OWN AFFAIRS.