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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
April 30, 1947 (Wednesday)
Neighbor of Woodcraft's dis
trict 12 convention closes at an
open meeting in Medford attend
ed by about 300 people.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Many of
the Older Girls report "the true
madness of spring has hit them."
' Outside of their hats nothing
looks it.
20 YEARS AGO
April 30. 1937 (Friday)
W. A. Gates estimates 400
acres of tomatoes will be planted
in the Rogue river valley this
season.
Jackson county planning com
mission votes to seek the sup
port of the state planning board
in procuring a Rogue river val
ley water utilization study.
30 YEARS AGO
April 30, 1927 (Saturday)
Medford High school retains
100 per cent banking record.
William Fisher, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Lyle Fisher of Sams
Valley, senior at Santa Clara
university, is selected by large
corporation for training this
summer.
40 YEARS AGO
April 30, 1917 (Monday)
Residents asked to repair
leaky faucets in order to con
serve water for irrigation.
Southern Pacific company
places order for 11 additional
locomotives for delivery this
summer to assist in the heavy
crop movement.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct Is superior; sev
en cr eight Is excellent; five or
six is good.
1. In 1789 Knoxville, Tenn.,
was settled. Which city in Ohio
was settled that same year?
2. Which is hardest: anthra
cite, bituminous or lignite coal?
3. Bible: Name the cave in
which David stayed when the
"host of the Philistines encamp
ed in the valley Rephaim '?
4. Hands on the conventional
watch may be turned backwards
without harm to its mechanism;
true or false?
5. Is Baltimore, Md., Atlanta,
Ga., or Washington, D.C., the
largest city south of the Mason
Dixon line?
6. Does the government re
deem counterfeit money?
7. Name the author of the
book, "Mission to Moscow."
8. A mill is what part of a
cent?
9. Is the primary accent of
the word "cerebral" on the 1st,
2nd, or 3rd syllable?
10. "He passeth by on the oth
er side." Luke 10:31. Is this a
Biblical reference to hypocrisy
or to good manners?
Answers: 1. Cincinnati. 2. An
thracite. 3. Adullam. 4. True.
5. Baltimore, Md. 6. No. 7. Jo
seph E. Davies. 8. One-tenth of
a cent. 9. 1st. 10. Hypocrisy.
Pilot Gets Minor Cuts
In Crash of Light Plane
Corvallis (U.R) Dale Buchan
an, 24. escaped with only minor
cuts Monday when a light plane
crashed four miles southwest of
Philomath. The plane, believed
to have hit a downdrait, landed
bottom side up.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Wrong Man Sent to Ireland
Strange are the ways of politics and one of the
strangest events of recent date is the nomination of
R. W. Scott McLeod as ambassador to Ireland,
McLeod gained fame, or perhaps notoriety is the
better word, as a protege of Sen. Joe McCarthy and
as security chief for the state department. .
Although an appointee of the Eisenhower admin
istration, he was, for all practical purposes, right-hand
man to Senator McCarthy when the latter was making
life miserable for the adminitsration back in the days
of 1953.
It will be recalled that one of the early fights the
Eisenhower administration ran into developed over
nomination of Charles Bohlen as ambassador to
Russia. McLeod at first refused to clear him and Mc
Carthy carried the fight against confirmation.
In August of 1953, Eisenhower signed a bill au
thorizing admission of some 214,000 emergency refu
gees who had escaped from behind the Iron Curtain
and some time later appointed Edward J. Corsi,
immigration specialist, to speed the program.
He immediately ran into trouble with McLeod, Mc
Carthy and Rep. Walter, co-author of the McCarran
Walter immigration act. Some 17 months after the
act became effective, only about 1,100 refugees had
been admitted. Although it was Corsi who had been
trying to carry out the administration program, it was
Corsi who was fired.
Recently the New York Times editorialized that
"no one man has represented in the public mind more
than Scott McLeod all the evils of McCarthyism as
applied to diplomacy."
Now the conservative Irish Times, one of Ireland's
leading papers, editorially calls McLeod "The Hang
man" and said the Irish government should reject him.
There is now very little
it was his unwholesome deportment," said the Irish
paper, . . . Mat led trie American senate s internal
security committee to republish the disproved charges
which impelled Mr. Norman (Canadian ambassador
to Egypt) ... to jump to his death.
We do not welcome
and it is not customary to
ambassadorship."
On the basis of the administration s experience
with McLeod, we can understand a desire to get him
out of the country. But there
making him ambassador to
"Hit or
The above, as noted, is
We take pleasure and enjoy as a refreshing novelty,
in agreeing with our Portland contemporary lUlro
As the Journal states "strange are the ways of
politics," and the appointments of the Eisenhower
administration m the field
been particularly puzzling.
If the administration had tried to pull consistent
"boners" in this department it could hardly have done
a better job.
This McLeod selection
it is far from being an exception. The chief excuse
has been in the past that only rich men could afford
to be ambassador so the
limited, consequently the
cial consideration could
selection of one of Joe McCarthy's chief lieutenants
to represent American democracy m our good mend
"auld Ireland."
MOR could money or lack of it have been an ex
cuse for the transfer
Bohlen from the most important post in the field of
foreign affairs today, namely Moscow, to the medi
ocre and undemanding post in the Philippines.
A CCORDING to press reports, Bohlen did not wish
to leave Moscow and no one' in the foreign diplo
matic corps wished him to leave. In fact, he was ab
solutely "tops" as far as representatives of the demo
cratic world m the Russian capital are concerned.
And according to the same source the western powers
and their representatives m
out him."
MORE than that.
Bohlen did what no
since relations with Russia
able to do, namely:
He voiced American principles with unswerving
and clear-cut fidelity" and yet maintained throughout
not only friendly, but from a personal standpoint
cordial relations with the Soviet bosses in the Krem
linwhich could be classed as a diplomatic miracle.
One reason, of course, was his masteiy of the Rus
sian language, he talked with Messrs. Bulganin and
Kruschev in their own tongue and never failed to
understand their point-of-view, if he did seldom agree
witn it.
According to the always interesting and reliable
"Christian Science Monitor," Ambassador Bohlen
will be given "a grand farewell," but m the hearts
of the ENTIRE diplomatic
mourning.
Ambassador Bohlen will be replaced by a Mr.
Lewellyn Thompson who
has had no experience there nor in American dipto
macy elsewhere, and this
Russian-American relations
fN THE other hand, Mr.
Philippine ambassadorship, has never had any
experience in Far Eastern relations, can't speak a
word of Spanish, and except for his knowledge of
communism as it functions in RUSSIA, his excep-
Tuesday, April 30. 1957
cause to disbelieve that
the hangman in our midst
reward Ins services with an
must be ways other than
our good friend Ireland.
Oregon Journal
Miss
from the Oregon Journal
of ambassadorships have
; .
is the worst in many, but
area of selection was very
poor product. But no finan
have been involved m this
of Ambassador Charles E
Russia will be lost with
American representative
were resumed had been
colony, it will be "a day of
can talk a little Russian, but
at the most critical time in
in histoiy. .
Bohlen did not want the
'Lisretf . Mp. Mitchell, tm& united states supreme
court coaiwrr make mb cut yajR kids hair
tional talents in the field
pletely wasted.
What is the answer?
1X7ELL, as we see it, there are two main ones:
No. 1: Unlike so many of his predecessors
President Eisenhower leaves the personnel in our
foreign service entirely up
and his subordinates, including the chairman of the
Republican national committee.
We can t believe that
any attention to the appointment of R. W. Scott Me
Leod to Ireland, or the transfer of Charles E. Bohlen
from Moscow to Manila, he would have sanctioned
either.
But he was not interested.
.
MO. 2 : Under the present
no standing in the ambassadorial field of per
sonnel, it is all a matter of
vacancies that are made and have to be filled in this
sought-after department,
be paid, and the more generous the cash contributions
for the next campaign.
There is the meat m this coconut.
Fitness for the job, either due to native abilities
or years of experience
as far as the final decision
And because of this attitude, there is such a rapid
turn over in the field of diplomacy, that as a general
rale, before the average
justed to his role, and be in
real service to his country,
Even as strongly conservative and pro-Eisenhower
a newspaper as the "Monitor" quotes a senior, of ficer
in the diplomatic service
"There is no national
policy aimed at securing
best qualified man for a
part it is all simply hit or
"OIT or miss is right." What they "hit" is what will
pay out from a purely political standpoint;
what they "miss" is a foreign service based upon
character and ability, of
gardless of party, could
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In the Dark
To the Editor: Recent state
ments by a senaior referring to
"wino veterans" makes me
wonder if we don't have, a few
in the veterans administration.
They take a veteran before
their medical clinics to be ex
amined for benefits. After the
examination and they find him
permanently disabled, they
grant him $66.15 a month. They
tell him he can make $2,700 a
year and still draw his allowance
because he is married. Sounds
good, doesn't it?
But it is not so good. He can't
live on that and give his wife
one cheese sandwich a day. He
has some timber he can sell if
he can get it ready for market.
He has no mony to hire help so
he tries to cut some short logs
and wood, but he couldn't do
much work. His friends, real
izing his position and knowing
he can't get by on $66.15 per
month, came in to help him,
donating their time and labor.
He realized about $1,100 over
the year's work. When asked to
fill out a statement as to what
he made the year before, he
told them and the people who
had helped him sign a sworn
statement before a notary, stat
ing they had helped him. They
discontinued his pension. Where
are we headed?
No wonder the vet is in the
slums. They, drive him there.
No man can live on the starva
ation pension they give the vet
erans and live anywhere else.
Sixty-six dollars and 15 cents
won't pay house rent on an aver
age modern home. If they don't
want the veteran to work, why
don't they give him enough for
him and his wife to live on and
have a decent house to live in?
Then maybe he could walk down
the street with his head up like
he did in the uniform and not
be afraid somebody will point
the finger of scorn at him and
yell, "wino!" That is bad, but
not too bad. Let's hope and pray
of diplomacy will be com
.
to the Secretary of State
if the President had paid
administration merit has
practical politics. The more
the more political debts can
or both have no standing
is concerned.
incumbent can become ad
the position of rendering
he is yanked out.
as follows-:
and' consistent personnel
the most competent and
given job but for the most
miss."
which all Americans, re
be proud. R.W.R.
to God they never call him
"comrade."
Please somebody light the
candle. I am in the dark.
S. R. Hale,
P. O. Box 135,
Jacksonville, Ore.
Detroit Newspapers
Suspended by Dispute
Detroit U.R) Publication of
the News and the Times was
suspended for six hours Monday
in a labor dispute.
Paper handlers at The News
walked out in protest over a re
duction in the work force. A
sympathy walkout halted pub
lication of the Times. Afternoon
editions of both papers were on
the street following agreement
to handle the dispute through
normal channels.
Cat Caught; Power
System Damaged
Lakeland, Fla. U.R) The
city's power system was back to
normal today. It suffered $2,000
damage because a yellow Per
sian cat got caught In a 12,000
volt transformer.
'The cat lost most of its hair
and one leg but escaped with its
life. The resulting short circuit
made the lights dim throughout
the city.
THEN WALKED LIKE ANY MAN
GEO. N., TAYLOR
"Take up your bed and walk," said
Christ. So the paralytic did Luke 5:18-25
BIBLE. And who was Christ. He was the
2nd Person of the God-head God the Son
living here on earth at the time and by
many a miracle, proving Himself to be the
living and true God. Finally, He died for
our sins and the third day, He arose from
the grave. Receive Him as clearing your
page of all sin and count eternal life to be
yours. And by daily Bible reading and
prayer, grow up.
Harold Macmillan Increasingly
Strong in British Premiership
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
It looks as if British Prime
Minister Harold Macmillan is
going to be around for quite
a while. Mac
millan took of
fice on Jan.
10, in succes
sion to Sir An
thony Eden, at
a critical time.
Britain was
still feeling the
effects of the
breach in rela
tions with the
Charles McCann
which resulted
United States
Matter of Fact
GUARANTEE AGAINST
ISRAEL
Amman, Jordan, April 27.
(Uncensored) (Relayed via Bei
rut) The great movement of
the United
States 6th
Fleet and all
the other puz
z 1 i n g recent
events can be
very simply
exp 1 a i n e d,
even though
the State De
partment has
. Joseph Aisop hesitated to of
fer the true explanation.
In brief, these crisis move
ments in the Middle East are by
products of an American guar
anty to Jordan against Israeli
intervention. They are not di
rected' primarily against the Sy
rians or the Egyptians or even
the Russians, as a State Depart
ment spokesman has suggested,
They are in fact primarily di
rected against the Israelis.
The object has been to liber
ate Jordan's young beleaguered
King Hussein from the threat of
Israeli intervention in his small
tormented kingdom. This safe
guarding of Hussein from such a
threat has in fact been the main
American contribution to the
Jordanian crisis.
The idea of this American
contribution to the Jordanian
crisis was apparently first moot
ed in Washington about ten
days ago. A double new depar
ture was involved to com
mit the United States to posi
tive action in the Middle East,
and to be firm in curbing the
rather natural Israeli impulse
to stir up trouble among Israel's
hostile neighbors.
THE sheer grim necessities of
the Middle Eastern situation
forced the Administration into
action. It seems most probable
that Hussein was informed of
the informal American guaranty
of Jordan against Israeli attack
towards the beginning of . this
week, when the King received
American Ambassador Lester
Mallory for a long afternoon ex
change of views.
It can further be stated that
at the same time a stern warn
ing was addressed to the Israeli
government, in effect indicating
that any Jordanian adventure
would be much worse than self
defeating. Everything that has happened
since then is to be interpreted,
at least primarily, as a series of
underlinings of this promise to
Hussein and the warning to
Jerusalem.
To be sure, this American in
tervention in the Jordanian
crisis differs enormously from
the elaborate internal plots and
machinations pictured by the
Cairo and Moscow radios. But it
has been a critically important
intervention none the less.
The movement of the 6th
Fleet; President Eisenhower's
statement on the' Jordanian situ
ation; the especially significant
recall of American official per
sonnel from the Israeli sector of
Jerusalem these all form parts
of the same pattern.
IN ORDER to see the very
great importance of this pat
tern one must first if all under
stand a little of the tangled local
geography and politics.
In brief, Jordan's richest,
most populous and most dis
affected province is the region
on the west bank of the Jordan
River, which formerly belonged
to Palestine. All Israelis would
like to extend their frontier to
the Jordan River line, absorbing I
this province in the process.
Every Jordanian, from the King j
down, is firmly convinced that j
the Israelis are actively plan-!
ning an eventual grab for the
west bank.
This universal Jordanian con
viction is probably ill-founded.
The moral obloquy that would
be incurred; the appalling new
weight of guilt for Arab refu
gees that would have to be
shouldered; the likelihood that
the newly grabbed territory
4 i
from the Anglo-French invasion
of the Suez Canal Zone.
On Feb. 14, his Conservative
Party lost a seat in the House
of Commons to the Labor Party
in a by-election. It was the first
such loss in 12 years.
In succeeding by - elections,
conservatives held their seats
only by drastically reduced ma
jorities. The Laborites clamored with
increasing insiftance for a gen
eral parliamentary election, cer
tain that they would win it.
Resignation Threatens Split
On March 28 the Marquess of
Salisbury, one of the most in-
By Joseph Alsop
would have to be disgorged later
on all these considerations
taken together are strong enough
to dissuade any sane Israeli gov
ernment from trying to seize the
west bank in normal circum
stances. But there is one abnormal
circumstance in which the Is
raeli leaders have always sworn
to take action at all costs. Israel
has a particular fear of the kind
of large Arab state with a po
tentially strong future that
might result from a stronger
link between Jordan and Iraq.
Hence the Israeli leaders have
always warned, with grim mean-
ingfulness, that their Army
would enter Jordan whenever
Iraqi troops entered Jordan.
rriHESE Israeli threats in turn
assumed cardinal signifi
cance in the present Jordanian
crisis for a very simple and ob
vious reason. The support of the
Iraqi government of his cousin
King Faisal has been, is today
and will remain the great hole
card held by young King Hus
sein. In order to emphasize the
reality of this Iraqi support,
Iraq's tough old Premier Nuri
Pasha has concentrated the flow
er of his Army at H3, a pumping
station on the pipeline near the
Jordanian frontier.
The Iraqi hole card was even
more important to King Hus
sein in the earlier period than
it is today. Even five days ago,
when he was taking his decisions
and making his plans, no one
could be absolutely sure how
the Arab Legion would perform
in the final test. It had succes
sively lost two commanders-in-
chief; it has been riddled with
disloyalty; it had been subjected
to a nasty purge.
As matters have turned out
thi? far, the Legion has perform
ed in these last days of .crisis
with great efficiency and un
blemished loyalty. But King
Hussein could not know this
would be tne case when he sent
for Mr. Mallory at the begin
ning of this hectic week.
THE King intended then, as he
still intends, to call the Iraqi
troops into Jordan if he could
not control the situation with
his own resources. Besides the
Israeli threat, the King also had
to think of the foreign troops al
ready in Jordan. And while the
Saudi Arabians in the south
had baen placed by King Saud
under King Hussein's personal
command, the Syrian troops in
the north were another serious
danger.
The threat from the Syrians
was as nothing, however, to the
potential threat from the Israe
lis. The mere placing of the
Iraqis on the border, plus the
strong warning addressed by
Nuri Pasha to Syrian President
Shukri al-Kuwatly, could be
considered sufficient to keep the
Syrians fairly quiet. But noth
ing but strong American meas
ures could keep the Israelis out
once the Iraqis crossed the Jor
danian border.
Such was the position, such
were the complex' risks that
King Hussein had to weigh and
calculate, when the young King
sent for Ambassador Mallory.
After the long interview be-
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fluential men in the Conserva
tive Party, sbruptly resigned
against Macmillan's release from
internment of Archbishop Ma
karios, leader of the Greek-
Cypriote fight for union with
Greece. A party split seemed
to be threatened.
At that time, independent and
some Conservative elements
shared the Labor view that the
Laborites would win a general
election.
Now, a little less than one
month later, Macmillan is in an
increasingly strong position.
Lord Salisbury's resignation
proved to be but a brief sensa
tion. Macmillan has held the
party together. And today he
is being hailed a an outstand
ing success in his job.
The Laborites have stopped
demanding an election- for the
very good reason that the ex
perts now predict Macmillan
would win.
This surprising turn has come
about partly because of the
restoration of relations with the
United States, partly because
Macmillan has started boldly to
put Britain on a new course.
Notably, in recognition of
Britain's reduced position in
world affairs, he has radically
altered defense policy by slash
ing spending, reducing military
commitments all over the world,
and putting reliance in nuclear
weapons strategy.
Influential Personality
But above all, Macmillan has
consolidated his position because
of his own personality. British,.
politicians emphasize his self-re
liance. They also emphasize his
gift for running the government
smoothly and for reducing his
worries by delegating broad au
thority to his colleagues.
In Commons, Macmillan has
maneuvered the Laborites into
positions which threaten to cause
a new split between its right
and left-wings.
At the moment, Macmillan has
a majority of 62 seats over La
bor in Commons. He can count
on seven additional votes on
most issues."
He is recognized as a much
stronger figure politically than
Eden for years Sir Winston
Churchill's political heir, ever
was.
It is somewhat surprising that
Macmillan, now 63, is half Amer
ican, as was Winston Churchill.
His mother was the former Helen
Belles of Spencer, Ind. But also
like Churchill, his outlook is
completely British.
tween the King and the Am
bassador there was a pause, or
at least an apparent pause. For
it seems likely that a stern
warning against Israeli inter
vention in Jordan under any
circumstances whatever was
rather quickly sent off by Sec
retary of State John Foster
Dulles to his old Friend, Israeli
Foreign Minister Golda Meir.
rpHEN, as the Jordan crisis en
tered its present acute phase,
public action naturally followed.
The recall of the American offi
cials from Jerusalem was very
plainly intended to say "we
mean business." The movement
of the 6th Fleet said the same
thing, and so did Mr. Eisenhow
er's statement.
These last two moves also had
the virtue of saying "we mean
business" not to the Israelis only
but also to the Kremlin, the
Syrian fomenters of Jordanian
discontents, and the Egyptian
organizers of the Jordanian fac
tion hostile to King Hussein.
Whether King Hussein would
have taken the decision he did
take, if he had not been liber
ated from the Israeli threat, is
a question no one can answer.
But at least the odds were great
ly improved by this American
contribution; and who does not
feel more free to take a gamble
when the odds improve?
(C) 1957. New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
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