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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 28, 1957)
TWrLTE MZDrOBD (OREGON) MAIL TKrBUrTi: Monday. October 28, 193T Magnuson Backs Red China Trade, Newsmen Entry Honolulu IP Sen. 'Warren Magnuson (D-Wash.) arrived here Friday night with a re newed plea for American trade with Communist China and a de mand that American newsmen be allowed into the country. Magnuson, en route home after a Far East tour which in cluded Formosa, Hong Kong and Japan, urged America to enter into immediate trade agreements of non-strategic ma terials with Red China. He pointed out that last year the United States did 30 million dollars worth of business with Russia and presented Poland with 100 million dollars worth of aid. "I can't see why we can't trade in non-strategic materials with China," Magnuson said. Algerian Rebellion Three Years Old This Week; No End of Conflict Said in Sight CRAMPED FOR ROOM? There's more leg room & bead room . . . more spacious com fort ... in '58 Stadebakera. See them today. (D Studebaker- Packaxd 'DE' LEIGH MOTORS 134 South Riverside Ave. Medford, Oregon Algiers V Three years ago this week, a government com munique announced that "in the course of the night, 30 acts of violence were committed in dif ferent parts of Algerian terri tory." The date was All Saints Day, Nov. 1, 1954. It was the start of the Algerian revolution. Today, this is the only war in progress anywhere in the world. It is a cancer which has drained manpower and money from France and is sapping the foundations of the fourth repub lic. On Nov. 1, 1954, a band of 3.000 Algerian Nationalists dug themselves in hideouts located in the Aures mountains of West ern Algeria. They coordinated terrorist attacks throughout the territory. The French rushed troops into the area for what they thought would be a relatively quick "re pression" of the revolt. Today, they have 400,000 troops in Al geria and the revolt still is in progress. Nationalists Claim 150,000 Men Algerian Nationalists claim they have a 150,000-man guer rilla "army of liberation" organ ized. They say they have the se cret support of nearly all of Algeria's 9,000,000 Moslems. The French, however, say there are now only about 23,000 armed rebels. The French have nearly end ed Nationalist bomb-throwings in the city of Algiers itself by arresting the grenade gang ring leaders. Outside the city, daily battles continue to be fought throughout Algeria's northern zone, the main theater of the struggle. The northern zone consists of two belts of land. The first is a narrow coastal ribbon of farm country and ports lying along Algeria's 605 - mile Mediterra- JiFrom what I saw in Hong Kong, everyone else is." He said trading with the Com munists would no necessarily mean that the United States should recognize the country. Commenting on the U.S. for eign aid administration, Magnu son said, there's a lot of waste of American aid, and the Adminis tration should reconsider send ing aid to neutral countries. "There car- be no neutrals in this world situation," he said. Magnuson, who was accompan ied by Seattle industrialist Nick Benz and their respective secre taries, plans to leave Saturday for the United States. nean shore. Filling in the space behind this strip lies a broad region of mountainous up-country, reaching widely inland, about 350 miles. Rebel activity along the coast al strip is 'confined to street gunnings, knifings, grenade throwing and minor sabotage. In the wild hill country rebel bands spring murderous am bushes on French patrols or swoop down in flying raids on cutlying farms ?nd settlements. Rebels in Sahara Their southern boundaries stretch deep into the continent to touch French West Africa. They enclose a huge stretch of the Sahara desert, where rebel agents are trying to stir up trouble. Faced with a continuing fight in the north and a threat in the south, France has still another problem: The aid and comfort given the Algerian rebels by North African Nationalists in Morocco to the west, Tunisia and Libya on the east. French authorities also claim a steady flow of arms and re cruits is being fed from these countries to the "army of liber ation" inside Algeria. It is under such conditions the Algerian war has dragged on. Recent estimates are that it now costs France about $4,761, 904 a day to fight this war. But the majority of French men apparently are convinced this gigantic effort is necessary because, for most Frenchmen, "Algeria is France" and so it must remain. They see Algeria as the keynote of French Africa, the single biggest proof that France is a great power. Algeria became French in .1830 when Charles X, the last of the Bourbons, sent an expe dition there. Settlers Follow Soldiers The soldiers were followed by swarms of settlers who streamed across the Mediterranean sea straight from the overcrowded French cities. The settlers brought with them modern techniques and the Napoleonic code. At first they took over the rich coastal farming strip and elbowed the Algerians back into the hills. Then they ran highways and railroads across the land, built schools, irrigation systems, pow er plants and hospitals. They transformed the wild, barbaric kingdom into what they called a "French province." French became the official lan guage and Frenchmen ran the show. After World War II. the first faint rumblings of Algerian na tionalism were heard. Gen. Charles de Gaulle, who had used Algeria as his Free French headquarters, made some concessions and in 1947 the French parliament voted through a new Algerian statute with many liberalizing provi sions. But even the French agree today that the basic promises of the new statutes were not kept. Despite the guarantee of equal ity writen into its preamble, the French in Algeria they now number one million continued to run almost everything. The Goal: Independence Gradually, as the Moslems re acted to this situation, Algerian leaders who were bluntly na tionalistic gained wider audi ences. These political spokes men now form the central com mittee of the National Libera they who have laid down the one condition for peace, which France refuses to accept: inde pendence for Algeria. In the United Nations, last February the political commit tee cited France for her han dling of the Algerian situation and foreign minister Christian Pineau, a Socialist, repeated France's contention that the Al gerian problem is an essentially internal one that the U.N. had no right to handle. He went on to inform the committee France had every intention of instituting progres sive reforms in Algeria. The committee then passed a reso lution expressing its hope that a peaceful solution will be found. The .long conflict grinds on, and though many plans have been put forward for ending the rebellion peacefully, the end is tion Front or FLNM, and it is I nowhere in sight. SPIRITED FIGHT is staged in Brighton, Mich., 40 miles from Detroit, by two farmers in dispute over conduct of milk strike being waged for higher prices. (International) Most Versatile Radio Plant To Broadcast for Catholics Santa Maria De Galeria, Italy (IP) One of the world's most powerful and versatile broad casting plants started beaming the voice of the Roman Catho- HOME APPLIANCE CO. PORTABLE TO SET: PERFECT FOR YOUR PATIO, DEN, KITCHEN OR CABIN floue pkabi I Pticed b&iek (wet mil Everyone can a eond TV t, tod these G-B portable . . . th moet wanted m Oregon . . . rt perfect for ttht purpose. Light and easy to carry like a Klitcaw. Givt powerful reception for maximum riewing pleasur. ONE FULL YEAR WARRANTY OH ALL PARTS TUBES PICTURE TUBE O Mr HEP; T I A Light weight onlr 3 J lbi. 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Pope Pius XII, 81-year-old spiritual leader of 450 million Roman Catholics, launched the station with a 15 - minute peace message in Latin at 10:30 a.m. Sunday (5:30 a.m. EDT). . He touched on key issues of the East-West struggle. The Pope drove here from his summer residence of Castel Gandolfo to inaugurate the ra dio center, biggest in Italy and with some technical features unique in the world. Has Around-The-World Range The 24 shortwave and one me dium wave antennae will allow the Pope for the first time to make his voice heard directly at every point of the globe. Technical progress has made the old station obsolete and the 108.7-acre Vatican State is too small to contain the sprawling new installations. The Santa Mari Di Galeria site, 11 miles north of Rome, measures 1,038 acres. Italy has granted the Vatican extra-territorial rights over the area making it the 13th Papal enclave in Italian territory. The other 12 include the Papal Villa in Castelgrandolfo and church office buildings in Rome. The new center, planned for a decade and under construc tion since 1955, took more than 70,000 man-hours of work. Dutch Giv Transmitter Most of the money was con tributed voluntarily by Catholics the world over. The most signifi cant single contribution was a $255,000 100-kilowatt transmit ter donated by Dutch Catholics during the 1950 holy year. The center's unique character istic is its ability to broadcast to any given point of the globe in line with the atmospheric con dition prevailing at the time. This is done by changing the angle at which the short waves are beamed to the ionized strata ' of the ionosphere up to a height i of 280 miles half the initial altitude of the Sputnik for re I flection back to the earth. Soviets Past Peak, Ex-Secretary Says Anderson, Ind. (IP) Former Defense Secretary Charles E. 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