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Fortune Says Foreign
Affairs Are Beyond
Capacity of Agencies
New York. N.Y. American
foreign affairs have become so
complex and numerous that they
are "beyond the managerial ca
pacity of the men and agencies
responsible for conducting
them.'e Fortune magazine says in
a special report on. the state
department and foreign service
to9 published tomorrow.
"The world business of the
U.S.," asserts writer John Os
borne, ""in its sheer volume and
variety defies the efforts of good
(nen to keep it under executive
control." The fact that it is kept
under "minimum control", ac
cording to the report, "is some
thing of a continuing miracle."
Running Qountry
Fortune also says that U.S.
ambassadors "are today" 'run
ning' more countries than the
records will ever show." The
magazine states that the U.S.
has had a hand in "making and
unmaking several governments
since World War II" and that
"officially and unofficially"
Americans "instruct and indirct
ly command foreign armies.
They manage and sustain nation
al economics."
The magazine reports that
morale is higher today than it
was while both the state depart
ment and foreign service were
under "constant Republican at
tack" four years ago, but that
the average calibre of the dip
lomatic personnel of both de-
parments "is lower than it was
in 1953." The latter situation is
the consequence, the magazine
says, of "a merger, healthy in
itself, of the operational staffs
of the department in Washing
ton d the foreign service
abroad."
Secretary of Stat
Fortune states that Secretary
of State John Foster Dulles has
been called by some a "terrible
operator," "no administrator,"
"a lone virtuoso who has let
the machinery of State go to
pot."
It is true. Fortune continues,
"that Dulles has neither the
liking nor talent for adminis
tration. But it does not follow
that the organization and man
agement of the state department
have been neglected." The re
port says that under Dulles' di
rection the state department and
the foreign service have "under
gone the biggest organizational
revolution in their history," and
that the organization of the de
partment is "unquestionably in
better shape today than it was
when Dulles took over."
Bad Check Artist Writes Way Into Job
As Editor of Weekly Paper in Michigan
Nance Named OLCC
Administrator
Portland UP) A former
assistant director of the Feder
al Housing administration in
Oregon, Joseph A. Nance, has
been named administrator of the
State Liquor Control commis
sion. Nance, 51, succeeds WiUiam
H. Baillie, whose resignation
was effective Thursday m i d
night. Commissioner Earney Lu
cas was named acting adminis
trator and will serve until about
March 15 when Nance assumes
his new duties.
Nance came to Portland in
1H35 from Washington, D.C., to
open the local FHA office as as
sistant state director. Later he
was public relations director for
11 Western states.
In 1942 Nance joined the staff
of the Portland Housing Author
ity and in -1944 became a con
tract hauler and fuel transport
er. He became managerj of the
Oswego Country club in 1951
and for a time also managed a
restaurant on Lake Oswego.
Drummond Deplores
Enmity Between Ike,
Truman; Asks Truce
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By HOSCOE DRUMMOND
Washington One of the most
regrettable3 and hurtful aspects
of American public life today
ist jhe strained relationship J
to put it mgdly between Pres-1
ident Eisenhower and former
President Truman.
n Trie blmit fact is that Mr. Eis
4nhowercsnd Mfe. Truman are
not onpeaking terms.
The have not seen each oth
er, spoken to each other or al
lowed themselves to be in the
s;tie"room ittteach other since
the Inauguration on Jan. 20,
1953. Their meeting then was
compulsory.
Tpy have been in the same
city more than once and have
never arranged to see one anoth
er. Most (Correspondents believe
they arranged not to see one
another.
Each is deeply offanded in the
other.
JDach i profoundly and sin
cerely convinced that the other
is (, fault
O ALL OF this wouldn't matter
much if only Mr. Eisenhower
and Mr. Truman were concern
ed. Probably many of us do
Qiot speak to somebody. But
when the President of the Unit
ed States does not speak to a
former President of the United
States, this cannot fail in some
measure to hurt the Presidency,
to take something of quality
from American political life and,
at times, to handicap the gov
ernment. It seems to be that this strain
ed relationship between Presi
dent and ex-President is ser
iously disserving the nation
righ at this moment. On March
10 the6reek and Turkish gov
Gernmeflts are commemorating
the tenth anniversary of the
" "Truman Doctrine'' which
brought economic and military
aid to ese Iwo countries in
time to save them from Com
munist domination. These gov
ernments very much wanted to
hav the former President of
the United States as their honor
guest to celebrate the occasion.
Secretary Dulles passed on the
Oinvitation and Mr. Truman
fouMi himself previously engag
ed a o
flfcider all the circustances I
canned escape the feeling that
fc) if the invitation had been han
dled differently Mr. Truman
would fitt have ound that it
had arrived too late; that is, if
President Eisenhower had per
sonally conveyed the invitation
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Jackson, Mich. U.PJ Don
Lowry became editor of "The
Spectator," a weekly newspa
per, by writing bad checks.
He never made much money
writing checks. But under Low
ry, The Spectator is expected to
show a profit in 1957 for the
first time in 31 years.
In 1948, Lowry, an employee
of a medical research labora
tory, traveled from his home in
Canada to Detroit "to have a
few." He went on a check-
bouncing spree which extended
his stay.
He has been at Jackson prison
ever since. .
Lowry had never written any
thing but "rubber checks' be
fore his work on The Specta
tor. Last year, with Lowry at
the helm, The Spectator trebled
its size and circulation. It be
came the first prison newspaper
to deal with advertising agen
cies in New York and Chicago.
Colorful Writers
Robbers, ' thieves, arsonists
and murderers write for The
Spectator. Interspersed are ads
for sandwich spread available
at the inmate store, typewriters,
jewelry - making materials and
best selling books.
Besides providing inmates
with a rundown of news from
prisons around the world, The
Spectator takes readers) as far
Monday. February 25. 1S57
MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE
away as South Africa and
Japan.
Gov. G. Mennen Williams
gets a copy regularly, as does
mystery writer Earle Stanley
Gardner.
The paper leans heavily on
irony. In the question and an
swer column, a question goes,
"When is the greeting 'Happy
returns of the day' considered
appropriate?" The reply: "Only
your parole officer can answer
that question."
To Belter Things ,
Staffers have graduated from
the "confined" quarters of The
Spectator to work on outside
newspapers. One is an associate
editor of a Michigan weekly,
I
Pennsylvania has about 13,327
church buildings, more than are
to be found in any of the other
states.
another works for a daily in Il
linois. Lowry is prison correspond
ent for the Jackson Citizen Pa
triot and the Lansing State
Journal. He free lances for oth
er newspapers and sells articles
to trade magazines and house
organs to support his 10-year-old
daughter.
When he is paroled or releas
ed at the end of his sentence in
1962, he has two jobs already
waiting.
"It's rewarding," he says, "to
see your work in print instead
of on a warrant for your ar
I rest."
TIT FOR TAT .
Milford, Conn. (U.R) De
tective Hugo Blanderi, a private
investigator checking violators
of Connecticut's Sunday blue
laws, himself was accused of the
same violation for working on
the Sabbath.
TURNABOUT FAIR PLAY
Grenoble, France (U.R
Twelve mountain rescue dogs
were rescued Sunday when a
party of Alpinists reached a
snow-bound station with ruck
sack loads of meat for th
starving canines.
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and had anDointed the former
President as an official repre
sentative of the United States.
As it is, a valuable opportunty
to further American good will
is dissipated.
WHAT has brought this all
about a situation truly un
worthy of these two very grand
human beings?
Only the participants can real
ly say why they feel as they
do but I can cite the overt in
cidents which produced the
breach.
In the 1952 campaign Mr.
Eisenhower was stunned by the
vitriolic political attacks which
President Truman launched
against him, implying at one
point even that he was pro-
Nazi in his sentiments. Such
"campaign oratory" was abso
lutely incomprehensible to Mr.
Eisenhower and at the time he
remarked: "Why, he twice in
vited me to run for the Presi
dency, and this is what he says!"
Then there was Mr. Truman's
sarcastic telegram to Mr. Eisen
hower offering him the Presi
dent's plane for the campaign
promised trip to Korea "if you
still want, to go."
On the other side: when Presi
dent Eisenhower was in Kansas
City early in his first term, Mr.
Truman phoned to the tempor
ary "White House" at the
Muehlebach Hotel to say that
he would like to call to pay his
respects. Perhaps the message
never got to Mr. Eisenhower,
but the call was not returned
and no appointment was given
to the former President. Mr.
Truman has also never been
invited to the White House when
he has been in Washington. He
has remarked to friends: "I am
the most snubbed former Presi
dent in American history."
T KNOW only one American
of equal stature who is a close
and cordial friend of both Mr.
Eisenhower and Mr. Truman. He
is former ' President Herbert
Hoover whom Mr. Truman
brought back into active govern
ment service after Franklin
Roosevelt had snubbed him for
twelve years.
Mr. Hoover, why don't you
invite your two friends to din
ner so they can wash away their
differences and start fresh?
Copyright 1957 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
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