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O o o o O o TEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE " Thursday. November 1, 1958 Russ Troop Withdrawal Offer Looks Like Titoist Concession By CHARLES M. McCANN United Presi Correspondent Russia's offer to consider the withdrawal of its troops from Poland Hungary and Hqmania looks iSe .'an enormous con cession to "Ti toism." Those three coun tries K the oni satellites. e r n m ent, in which Russiafi troops are sta- , j I rSf J according An f A the Soviet goV- frpatv has hppn eiznprl hetween Russia and Germany. o It may be assumed, in exam ining the Soviet offer, "that the I Moscftw government never 1 make any big-hearted gesture irugood faith. - '-2 1fc Russia is ready to pull its troops out of the three countries specified, and it may be, its olfcr empU&izcs the historic impor tance of the Polish and Hungari an revolts against Moscow dom ination. There is one cbvious "gim mick,"" however, in the offer which the Soviet government Cbarles Mccana tioned. ThatfMay or may not foeimade Taesday.nieht. true. It was reported, in the early ! Satellite Are Mejnbe days of the Hungarian revolt I "The Soviet c government that Russia was movirig in troops" from Czechoslovakia. There,c?r tainly are a number of Soviet troops in Albania, thoiigh they most probably arg) 'wivisetjf' and not me(Br)ers of organizoU units. There are advisr also in Bulgaria. O O Some sops Ngt Covered Co There are about 42W)OjO Ru sians troops in East Germany. But they were not covered ifcy the Soviet offer. The troopsCin East GermHj' are classed as oc cupation troops because no peace In thJDayNews f By FRANK JEHKmS" There (Gi)'t much time today for threshing (rrt-r the,Ticw near ly worn out political 'straw-' of this 195frlecUon year. 0 Too iuany BIG things are happening in ti vmrla. They hold for us such "IMMENSE promise if (jyfy should turn out to be t.jj thathe tiresome yackety-yacking of the- profes sional polJutians leaves us- cold and unrespiljvivC1 Our ss are faced on more significant hflfizons. 3 rp A MERICAN correspondents are arriving in Hungary and we're benig to get (.news. One of them tellsjtij this morning that the (ghting irj Budapest has beaa far bloodier then had hithert" appeared. Soma' 3,000 persons, he saysjhaveejready been killed in the capital Lcity alone and up to 50.000 wounded. That's V2R-JaD just mere ready to examine with the other Socialist countries which a are participants in the Warsaw Treaty the question of the Soviet troops stationed on the territory of-, the above-mentioned coun tries" (Poland, Hungary and Ro mania) the statement says. ? It adds that "the stationing of troops of one member state of the Warsaw Treaty, on the territory of another member state:- of the" Warsaw Treaty takes place on the basis of .an agreement between all Its par ticipants and not only with the agreement of that state on the territory of which, at its re quest, c these troops are sta tioned . : ." ' " C Ail of Russia's seven satellites, including East Germany, - are members of the " Warsaw Alli ance framed as a retort to the Allied North Atlantic Treaty Organization. There is- no doubt that Po land and Hungary want Russian troops to get out. The East Ger man puppet government does not, of course. Soviet Offer Gees Tar Suppose Russia summoned a meeting of the Warsaw Alliance countries and some of-them de manded that Russia keep .its troops where they are? Would Russia earnestly try to talk them out of that stand, or would it reluctantly agree that the time for evacuation has not come? However, the Soviet offer goes farther than the military sphere. It provides for a re examination of Russia's econom ic relations with the .satellites. In this connection, the Soviet government mentioned the-20th congress of the Russian Commu nist Party last February, at which Nikita S. Khrushchev made his astonishing denuncia tion of Josef Stalin and paved the way for the purge of Tito ism the demand for independ ent Communism- which has swept over Eastern Europe. Thus, it may be repeated, whatever the exact motive the Soviet government has in mak ing its offer atthisttime, it cer tainly fs making a iurther re treat from its dictatorship oyer the satellites. c u Today and Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann rpHRE is a stronhfct in the -- news cf, (tjjpicsj cTimmunist treacheryC-1 o o Early today, (the communist newspaper in Budapest con ceded FULL VICTOR) to-"th HungarianrjebeisIfc said Eus tian troops wQte being with drawn from Budapeffc-and the correspondents on . the ground actually saw (Iiissiai) trucks loaded withRussian dead anl wounded mining oujryf thejeity. Then O r( The cor&unist radio an nounced thai Russia (roops wouldn't leave until 24 hours after the rebels hJJ; tutjud in their anrr.s. At the same-, time there vre reports (yf TUORE Russian troops being rushed into Hungary.rA rebel radio station announced defiantlyO that the rebels won't stop fighting until the Russians are Qlear out of Hungary, because "no one can' believe commudst promises." About that timeM:ommunica tions were cut off anyi and as this is written there is no fur ther news. o THE END OF THE POST-WAR WORLD c ; The latest news available as this is written .is that the Nagy government 5 has offered the rebels immedi ate withdraw al " of Soviet forces from Budapest, this to7 be follow- o ed by negotia tions for their w i t h d I awal from all of Hungary. This would mean t- i mat lire indgy guverniueiii wuuiu USA Waller Lul TVIEANWHILE from Qj ovef the world expresions of sym-; pathy with the Hungarian reb els are pouring forth. In Rome, thousands Cf students march through the streets cheesing them. In Paris, the Socialist Transportation Workt&s union calls for mass demonstrations in front of the Russian embassy supporting the Hungarian up risine. O O sia is being definitely identified as a bloody tyrant. remain for the time being at least, presumably until the free elections which have Deen prom ised. . c - - This is a measure of how far things have gone. In substance it amounts to an offer.to the Hun garian nation to set'le tempo rarily on an advance form of Titoisfn no Russian troops but not an anti-Russian foreign poli cy, free elections at home but with a... popular front govern ment led by national Commu nlts? Things have gone so far in Eastern Europe that the So viec; government will now be lucky if. itjcan settle "for oTito-isrn-in the satellite-empire. Tlie Soviet chances of doing this lookobetterin Poland than in Hungary.c,Fo? nPolaod the national Communists led by Gomulka took the initiative :ln the national movernerittocthrow of .the Russian domination. They seemed to be leading Hhe movej ment and controlling it. In Hun gary, on the0ot'ner fcandtoNagy did not lead the rebellion, and rifn.'rtedaof being, like Gomulka, tne man wno uiueieu m nua sians to retire to their barracks, hit becamethe man who invited tUem to intervene. An internal peace under agy'sCgovernmwfl vflll therefore, be precarious. For it was at Nagy's retniesx that fhe Russian troops have been shootins down tiongarians O " rUR true inte'rest, itfeems, to me. Js that in the sawuite orbit Titoisra should prevail without externa3 cpolitical or military interference and that t!w national governments ba as- mFVSTnM ric in the Miriiflo -1 East, where Israel calls for economically to develop partial mobilization of her mil itary forces. In Cairo. Arab League officials say: "If 'ferejrt attacks, we are ready. ' Evacu ation of American families on both sides of the Israel-Arab frontier is reported (W be undej way. -3 In Washington. State Secret r Dulles calls in members of the senate foreign relations commit tee to discuss with them .IhPi Middle Eastern situation.Qvmch is described as so grave that ' shooting might start atjny moment ll'ITH the world in a new up " roar, the NewOYork stock market iP behaving strangely. It RALLIED strongly the other morning. At noon, the Associated Press 60-stock average was UP 1.2 points. That is unusual. In the modern world, threats of shooting war tend to send the stock exchanges into a tailspin. How come? It must be that among inves tors generally there is an up surge of hope this morning that the inherent foulness of Russian communism is becoming so clear ly apparent that the time is being brought nearer when the com munist system must fall of the weight of its own foulness. That could change the whole outlook of the world. in their own way. This is our true interest because owith Tito isn loj Poland and, let us hope, in Czech oslo vakfa also. Eastern Europe cannot e usedasoa base for miRtary agfiwsion Sgainst Western Europe." The security5 of the West will cbe radically im proved, o It is our0trse interesf, aiso to, hsiye Titoism amon? the sat ellites, recause either of thetwo possifile alternatives is incal culably dangerous. One alterna tive would be a Soilet decision to reimpose0 Stalinism. This would mean fearfal bloodshed, and enormous dangr of Euro pean war intorjwhich we'might. well be sucked. The other alter native would be a spreading re bellion which went beyond Tito ism and engulfed it. If such a rebellion were to spreacfto East ern Germany, as it might -well do, it would almost certainly mean that in some way or other Western Cermany would be sucked into the conflict. . . . o TF OUR true interest is that Eastern Europe, and particu larly the' key country of Poland, should become independent, re gain national liberty, but should not actually break irreparably with the Soviet Union, then there are two main lines of poli cy which we should take. The one line is by diplomatic meas ures to convince, the Russians that the security will not" be threatened by an independent Poland. 'It may be -that m this connection the discussion of a general European security pact ought" to be renewed. The other line o, policy is to make available to Poland, not only from this country but from Western Europe as well, enough economic" assistance to see Po land through the crisis of read justment which lies ahead. Po land will be emerging from its status as:a Soviet colony, and this will involve a difficult read justment. We ought to give much thought net only to what eco nomic aid rwi!1 be needed but also to the question of how it will be given, whether by us directly or by some kind of-inter-national agency. o C o "o -YTE ARE living: in great days " For we are witnessing the dissolution of the international structure of the post-war world The armistices of World War II, which have never become a peace settlement, left the world with two great-centers of power theone ino Moscow and"' the other in Washington. The armi stice lines of o 1945, excepting only in China, became the poli tical and. ideological frontiers of ihe two worlds, arid behind'them two grest coalitions were or ganised, o o o This pout-war structure has rheerp" breaking' down on both sides of the dividing line, and m the past two years at a rapid ly rising tempo? We have become increasingly aware that the pow er oand influence of the Western nationscis declining. Now we'ared seeing3the same essential process inside the Soviet orbit. . . , o o o fPHE break up of, any, order, even so0 obviously provisional ant Order asihat of the post-war era, is bound to mean wide spread disorder as witness theu ftisorders in Hungary, In Al geria, in Cyprus and in Palestine and, in Singapore. What, we must do is to keep in mind. good part of the time Lno doubt, in the back of our Blinds, the central idea0that an order of things is dissolving and that a new rder to follow it, is now awaiting to be conceived, and then brought into being. Copyright 1856, Ssw Yerk Herald Tribune Inc. sObeDii Matter of Fact By Jee and Stewart Alsop FAILURE OF A POLICY Washington As this is writ ten, it is not yet clear whether Israel's invasion of Egypt will lead to a full scale war in the Middle East, which could become a much bigger war. What is crystal clear is that American policy in the Eastern crisis .-Uioj has been a dis mal and desperate failure. It has been a failure because it has been based on a simple miscalculation. Secretary of State John. Foster Dulles obvi ously concluded, after Egypt;s Colonel Carnal Abdel Nasser seized the Suez Canal Company, that anything, including a major triumph for the violently anti- Western Colonel Nasser, would be better than a shooting war in the Middle East. . He further reasoned that war could be prevented if only the British and French could be held back from? rwyrTP using force 1 A . s V against Egypt. He therefore bent all his ef forts to ' that end. But in so doing, he over looked another and vital ele m e n t in the equation. S3 i i THE ELECTION . . . . And You (The following space is made available on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays during the election campaign to the two major political parties so that they may publish, without charge, material concerning the presidential elec tion race. Offerings are limited to 400 words, must have the approval of the county chairman of the party, and must b submitted not later than 2 p.m. the day before publication on week days, at 11 a.m. Saturdays for Sunday publication.) c o 6 t-ii"i "V. Stewart Aloe . ror JNasser is, of course, even more violently anti-Israel than he is anti-Western. He has never made any bones -about the fact that his ambition is, first, to be come the leader of a re-armed Arab bloc, and then, at the pror pitious moment, to ; destroy Israel. , o ' T71VEN" before the Suez Canal crisis, and after the Soviet FFA Group Offering First Aid Kits "Eagle Point Kat Etzel, vo cational agricultural .instructor at Eagle Point High "school, pointed" out toda thatthere is a sharp increase i th number of e?cident0 suffered by week ead carpenters and handymen in th,e current do-it-yourself trend. He noted that each home should have a first aid kit to prevent infection by cut or bruise1 which may at first seem minor. 0 TheEagle Point Futura Far mers of America is conducting a house-to-house campaign of fering for sale a variety of first aid kits. Proceeds from the sale will be used for organization ac tivities. Etzel said. He said that surveys show that in at least one home out of every three first aid kits are inade quate. He expressed hope that the campaign by the FFA would increase the number of kits in homes. arms deal with Egypt, the - acti vist"'; group in Israel most seri ously considered "preventive ac tion" against the Nasser regime. Israel's Prime Minister David Ben Gurion's government was only dissuaded from taking such action by strong pressure from the American 'Government, the promise of an American loan, and the persuasions-of then For eign .Minister Moshe Sharrett and Israel's Ambassador to Washington Abba Eban. But Nasser's seizure of - the canal again basically altered the situation in Israeli eyes.o For Nasser's action was a direct and open challenge to the great pow ers of the West. If Nasser were permitted to get away with his challenge, the Israeli reasoned, then nothing could "stop him from achieving his stated ambi tion to destroy Israel nothing, that is, except prior action by Israel, o -, This is not :hindsight on the part of these reporters. Immedi ately after "Nasser's seizure of the canal, we wrote that "The Israeli count Nasser their most formidable enemy. If Nasser now triumphantly c defies the. power of Britain -and America, they will conclude that Israel is next on the list. The Israeli may then take 'preventive action' which could spark a Middle Eastern or even a general war." o - o ? . YET this Clear danger was generally disregarded 0in the Dulles, State Department. In stead, Secretary, Dulles devoted all his very considerable powers of persuasion and maneuver to preventing, the1' British and French from taking forceful ac tion against 'Nasser. S o 0 It was a brilliant "operation in its way. The British and French, especially the British, desper ately wanted A,merican support in any move to cut Nasser down ta size. Nor were3 they eager for bloodshed. In this situation. Dulles adopted a series of de laying actions, seeming to prom ise effective American support for strong o attion, and then drawing back. Thus, the British and French were repeatedly" pulled back, when they had almost reached the decision to use force or the-- threat of force against Nasser. Frorrtthe beginning, force or the threat of force constituted the onlyj effective sanction in oegoti- atingowith the Egyptian dictator. So by last week it was already clear to all, including the Israi, that Nasser wouldi succeed in defying the power of the West. rWAS in this situation that Ben Gurion, no doubt with arf eye on the American elec tions, ' and quite possibly with some secret encouragement from the French and the'British, de cided to struke. Late last week, hard intelligence of Ben Gur ion's decision was obtained by the intelligence services, ad conveyed to Dulle nd the State Department, where it caused REPUBLICAN STATEMENT "It s never 'time for a change' unless what you've got is pretty bad and what you're likely tu get from a change promises to be a lot better." So states the Sat urday Evening Post in an edi torial in its Nov. 3 issue. Because the Eisenhower record shows a period of unprecedented sound ness of government it obviously would be 'foolhardy to change at this time. Make no mistake about it, the story of the accomplishments of the Republican administration under President Eisenhower is one of the finest ever recorded for a four-year period. His rec ord is one of peace, progress and prosperity, o On the other hand, Mr. Steven-, son's candidacy is c difficult to clothe with more significance than it enjoyed in 1952. What is there new about , him? Once again he is running on the Fair Deal platform. He is malting straight-out political appeals to minority groups. He is using the big stick against business. He is promising more and more money out of the Federal till with no suggestion as to where it is com ing from. In fact, there is hard ly a plank of the old Fair Deal program that Mr. Stevenson has omitted. One would suppose that he is too intelligent a man to believe that he can spend as prodigally as he promisesJo spend and still avoid both lies r taxes or more inflation, which he also promises to avoid. And surely Mr. Steven son himself can see the illogic of criticizing the Administration for letting our military strength deteriorate while at the same time proposing that the U. S. halt both H-bomb tests and the draft. o Mr. Stevenson represents .his proposal to discontinue H-bomb tests as a foolproof step toward controlled disarmament, but it seems clear, from the detailed analysis published by the Presi dent that there are several weak nesses in his assumptions. In view of the swift advance of theoretical and practical knowledge in the nuclear field, fit is clear that the United States, by foregoing these tests, would lose ground alarmingly fast un less there could be absolute as surance that" all other countries, especially the Soviet Union, were observing -a similar stand still agreement. But this absolute assurance is just what could not be obtained. The list of Soviet broken promises is a long one; the Soviet government has de nounced or violated more inter national agreements than it has kept. " This again only proves Presi dent Eisenhower to be the wiser man. He rests his argument against, the Stevenson proposal on his statement: "There is noth ing in postwar history to justify the belief that we should or that'we could even dare' ac cept anything less0 than sound safeguards and controls for any disarmament arrangements." 00 We now have peace, although it uQ an uneasy one. And we agree with the Saturday Even ing Post. This is not the time for a change. " - 0 Drysdalfr-Elected To OMEA Office O Pasadena Drivers Found Not Courteous Pasadena, Calif. (U.R) The Pasadena Sertoma Club called John ,Drysdale, Orchestra dirjiff its month-long search Wed- exploded in Poland and in Hun gary. Were we, as citizens, told about it? Did our government tell us that Central Europe was on the threshold of revolt and war? Were we kept advised? G We were not. We were told by our government, by 0 Presi dent Eisenhower and by Richard Nixon, what Neville Chamber lain told the British Empire and the world upon his return from Munich that all is well with the world and that peace, under their leadership, Is assured. Have we been told that the army of Israel was poised on its borders, ready to plunge into Egypt and bring about the possi bility of setting the entire middle east on fire? No! We have not' been. - . Q We have been told by our state department and by Vice President Nixon that all is sweet ness and light in the middle east, and that under; Republican : guidance the world is safe from war and assured of peace, J Were we told by" our. govern- ' ment that Great Britain and j France were ready to act inde-d pendently of the United States in ! the Suez crisis, and to end troops to Suez without consult- j ing the United States? We were not. And if our government has not so told us,, why not? Have we no right to know? - The fact is that the present ad ministration, in its frantic de- 1 sire to win reelection on a plat- ; lorm of peace and prosperi ty, has withheld from the people of the United States the truth about what has been going 06 in Europe and the Middle East. There could have hsen no othe er reason for our" government not frankly 1 discussing the criti cal situations in public, and Jet ting the people of Ihe United States know what is going on. There is only one texcuse for the Republican "administration not taking the people of the United States ftnto its confidence in the matteropf foreign aff airsj That is that cthe administra tion didn't know what was going on. a n o u And in either case, whether it be excuse, or reason, they can not further be trusted to proper ly conduct the foreign affairs of the United States ino tirneso as critical as these. 0 o 0 rector at -Medford High school and Hedrck Junior High scho, was eiectetj chairman qf) orch estra affairs for phe state at a re cent meeting of the O$on Mu sic educatorsiicSaJem. The main job ofhe office is to organize the bierinial all-stal orchestra" in the sgring nJJJ 958.0 Drysdale, who also is "nistrici chairman of the Southern Oregon- Music educators, alsowill write reviews of (new music for the OMEA njEazine servintb as a membeynr the Jward or control offte OMEA. 0 I Two original marches by Al-j Hunterrann,' McLoughlin Junior High school bandod'rector, were played' by he Willamte uni versity band. Music wriften by contemporary conposers is a feature - of ffe conference. HuntemannJ pieces "Men of OregorO and "Jut8ee March." 0 Others Jrom Mecflordryho at tended the conference were Ren Bartlett and LSmn Sjolun. 5 GAS TATIONrd LOOMS0 Londfiti (II P) Britain set upomachinerj; ay forg9soO une rationing on oS 'war'gne basisB 00 0 oo oO nesday for the most courteous driver here. The club admitted its annual contest endedQn failure when a staff of 428 men aided by 150 police queers couian t una a a mm DEMOCRATIC STATEMENT How many citizens, during this historic week of Oct 29. listening in stunned disbelief at what is going on in Central Europe and in the Mediterranean area? have wondered how such could -be building tip without us knowing about it? 0 o Full - blown revolutions smouldered, were . fanned, and consternation. A summary of the report has hastily conveyed to President Eisenhower at Walter Reed hospital, and he issued his statement "warning the Israeli against aggression. Strong pres sure was also brought on Ben Guxiqn 00 the spot, but te no avail. o Thus the shooting in the Mid dle East which Dulles cmaneu vered so harofto avoid has start ed. It has started; moreover, under the worst conceivable con ditions. Thanks to the Dulles de laving tactics, there has never been a time since thewar when this country's relationsawith its tfro major allies, Britain and Frallce. were nearer th break ing point. Altogether, the fail! ure of our Jhddle Eastern pol ipy isoaboifts complete as it is possible to imagine. , Copyrighf f9S6, New Y01 o Herald "Tribune Inc. O DRIVE-IN CLEANERS O 702 West Main St. Finest Quality Cleaning - Quick 2 Hour Service Latest Type Equipment Convenient Drive-Up Windows Free Ford Tickets 844 South Riverside oJselribune Want Ads Q Just Call 2-6IQ4I MORSE GRAllP PRIZE o n O WINNER! o ooo . r- tng Machines 9 :X!QHn,iX Hviom t p o o h k . & ! o -V Yk. !nyiifL . - . vwes'. - ! O w ifli i- ruiiirw II Mil II ZEtfo,? TEWART, 8?5 Beekman,1 Medford, the lucky Gran Prize wiigier in th recent MEDFORD MORSE SEWING CENT)l "CoiKit the Freckles" Contest . . . The other 80 prize wirers W?ll bolS!ed Jy mailPG . - O wifWiers tt btJ)fto n o O E B ora uentnai Laoor on o 2 fsi ousicil Endorses & il o O O0 Read This" Resolution . O o C-3 CDO o o o O V 5 o o Marchd23, 056 oc To the Honorable' Mayor and Citf Council ' kAft i r o o n0 0 ivicuiuiu,icuuiio 0 -o Q 0 ,At a recent meel-inq of the MedfSrcPCercstfol Labor oo o Council which isocompsed oTalFA. F&of L. Lahor Unions qf-tine Medford Ire, thefbody voted ugaoimously to go on orecorcf as endorsing thecproposed fluoridation program. o 0 oo0(Sign4d) George P)tucek, Ps. , 0 o FOR SAFE, SURE, IIIEXPENSIVE PROTECTION . for YOUR Family Teeth c o .. O NOVEMBER 6 - VOTE . . . o Water Fluoridation for Dental Health Paid 4tiv. Better Health Committee, Mrs. E. W. Sickels; Chairman; Dewey Wilson, Vice-Chairman
