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Today and Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann AMERICAN LEADERSHIP IN PARIS -s As the NATO meeting ends, it is harder than ever to under standi what we expected to ac-(k-;complish by inflating its impor tance. Our purpose, apparently, was to rally the Europeans to two ideas. One was that we should arm them with interme diate range missiles. The other was that they should steadfastly reject the notion of negotiating with the Russians. As the missiles do not now exist, and will not be ready for at least a year, we were asking the Europeans to be highly pro vocative though they remained undefended. They were to pro voke the Russians by agreeing to set up missile sites long be fore the missiles could be sta tioned at the sites. And they were to provoke the Russians further by refusing to talk seri ously with them. This program was such a crude miscalculation of European in terests and of European feelings that it is no wonder the confer ence.has shown such spectacular lack of confidence in American leadership. THE Norwegians and the Danes have rejected the American military proposal. The British, the Dutch and the Turks have accepted it, though it is far from certain that the British govern ment has the support of the coun try and is able to make an en during commitment. The Con tinentals, most particularly the Germans, have not accepted and have not rejected the Dulles mil itary proposals. They have taken an option on these proposals. They are treating" these options as a bargaining asset in the dip lomatic negotiations which, fol lowing the Bulganin note, they intend to have with the Russians. Not the least significant de velopment in these last days is that the forthcoming negotia tions with Russia are to be un dertaken separately bv various countries particularly, it must be said again, by West Germany. What Mr. Dulles has accomp lished by his loud and public protests against negotiation has been to disqualify himself as the negotiator in the negotiations which will nevertheless be car ried on. The United States will no doubt be informed and con sulted during these negotiations. But the principal negotiator for the Western alliance will be Dr. Adenauer. rpHE decline of Aerican leader-C-J- ship in NATO is due primari ly, of course, to the strategic con sequences of the presumed change in the balance of power. The balance, which has turned against us because the Russians are ahead of us in the big mis siles, cannot be righted effective ly by the medium range missiles which Mr. Dulles has offered the Europeans. Unless in Europe and Africa there were hundreds of missile sites, too many to be knocked out by the Russians, it is a great question whether a O few missile sites have any seri ous deterrent Dower. Our military leadership ofj NATO is bound to be very weaK unless and until we have in ac tive operation on our own terri tory batteries of inter-continental missiles. This cannot be done soon, and the world will not stand still while we are work ing to arm ourselves. What we shall find, what in fact we have already found in Paris this week, is that if we renounce di plomacy in the manner of Mr. Dulles, our allies cannot and will not follow our lead. "JITR. DULLES will find himself from now on in a very awkward position. He is the For eign Minister of the strongest power of the NATO alliance. On the crucial question of negotiat ing with our great adversary, he is dogmatically at odds with the interests and the purposes of most, if not all, of our European allies. He has dug himself in, first, by an interview broadcast in Europe by the B.B.C. just be fore the Paris meeting and sec ond, by his funereal statement in the current issue of Life maga zine. The immediate effect, as we know, is that he is to sit on the sidelines while the Germans talk with Moscow. But what will be the effect in the future if, as might happen, the negotiations arrive at something which is at tractive in Europe but requires the participation of the United States government? If, then, there is a failure, will it ever be possible for Mr. Dulles to per suade the people of the world that he has not meant the nego tiations to fail? This is a heavy burden which he has chosen no doubt most conscientiously to carry on his shoulders, (c) 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Welfare Vill Dip Into Reserve Fund Portland IP The Oregon Welfare commission has voted to draw about S692.000 from its reserve funds to pay for higher costs of state assistance. Administrator Jeanne Jewett said the commission's financial situation is considered "serious" but not yet critical. She said the withdrawal from reserves comes some months earlier than planned. A hopeful sign was seen in Miss Jewett's report that re ceipts are growing steadily, most of them from collections under the relative support act and claims against the estates of deceased welfare recipients. Re venue from those sources, she said, was about S65.000 monthly compared to a former monthly average of $25,000. Higher Pay Urged For Research Men Washington (IP) One of America's top aeronautical scientists has warned any delay in boosting the pay of govern ment research scientists will hasten this nation's "present rate of relative deteoriation in scientific progess." Dr. John F. Victory, executive secretary of the National Advis ory committee on Aeronautics, made the warning in answer to questions submitted by the Un ited Press. Victory said the NACA "feels confident" the administration and Congress will raise the sal aries of federal research scien tists "at least" enough so that NACA and similar agencies will be able to recruit their "fair share" of young scientists and keep their present "irreplace-leaders." Cold War Headlines May Shift Back to Mid-East in Future By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Cold war headlines are likely to shift back to the Middle East again before long. Dispatches from Europe report that Soviet Russia intends to intensify its campaign o f i n f i 1 1 r ation and propa ganda. The infiltra tion would be centered o n Egypt and Charles McCano Syria. The pro paganda would be directed against the United States, Tur key and Jordan, whose young King Hussein Syria especially still hopes to overthrow. Russia has recently offered to lend Egypt about 175 million dollars for the purchase of goods from the Soviet bloc of coun tries. Syria signed a new trade agreement, of unspecified amount, in Moscow Thursday. Some concern is being expres sed in Western European capitals because more attention was not paid to the Middle Eastern situ- WANTED One Christopher Cringle, alias Santa Claus, for deliberate and premeditated entry, via chimney, into thousands of American homes. Age ... about 2,000 years. Weight . . . a good load for eight reindeers. Height . . . tall enough to be a short policeman, but he's never caught flat-footed. J Habits ... decided tendency to break out (or in) around December 25th. Disposition . . . genial, but watch your pocket-book. Features . . . red nose, handlebar moustaches, heavy growth of white fuzz on chin. Known to be killer ... of blues, troubles, cares and worries. REWARD A generous reward will be paid to anyone who locates the old gentleman on or before December 25th. The reward will be doubled if he can be persuaded to visit each one of our good friends and patrons to express our hearty good wishes for a Merry Christmas. The reward will be tripled if he leaves each of our old friends a giant stocking filled with happiness, peace and prosperity for 1958. HEATH'S Medical Center 33 North Central, PHARMACY ation in last week's North Atlan tic Treaty Organization meet ing in Paris. The long communique issued at the end of the meeting dis missed the Middle East with a few generalities. Other Problems More Pressing However, it is necessary to re member that the NATO meeting lasted only four days and that problems of more immediate concern took precedence. There are signs that the posi tion of the .United States and its allies may improve within the next few months despite Russia's determined campaign. It is reported in Washington that President Eisenhower will soon name Charles W. Yost, a veteran career diplomat as am bassador to Syria. The United States and Syria have not maintained ambassadors in each others' capitals since August. At that time, Syria alleged that the United States was plot ting to overthrow its president. Three members of the American embassy staff in Damascus were expelled. Syria Ambassador Expelled The United States retaliated by expelling Syrian Ambassador Farid Zeineddine and another Syrian embassy official in Wash ington. James S. Moose Jr., the pres ent American Ambassador to Syria, was home on leave at the time. He has not returned to his post. Yost's appointment as new en voy almost undoubtedly would lead to restoration of normal re lations. It is persistently reported that President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt is increasingly worried over the dangerous tie-up of his country's economy with Russia. One report is that Nasser has started to ask for guarantees re garding prices and quality of goods sent to Egypt by Russia and its satellites, and that the Russians are annoyed. The United States recently granted Egypt $600,000 in eco nomic aid the first since Nas ser's seizure of the Suez Canal in 1956. Britain and France are nego tiating with Egypt for restora tion of trade relations, suspended since the Suez crisis, and nego tiations on Egypt's payment of compensation to canal stockhold ers are to start soon. Sputniks Will Circle Under Yule Trees By DONALD R. SHANOR United Press Correspondent Munich, Germany (IP) Twenty-five thousand little sput niks will circle under Christmas trees in Communist East Ger many this year. East German factories have been just as busy turning out nativity scenes and wooden figures of Santa Claus. But they are for export to the West only. Throughout the Communist world, the propaganda machines are working hard to obscure the Christian origin of the holiday and turn it into a day of pagan praise to communism. Christmas toys are an important part of this campaign. The earth satellite, current trump card in Communist prop aganda, is being produced by East German toy factories on a rush basis. More sputniks doubtless would be on the market in the other Soviet bloc nations but for bureaucratic production tangles in the state toy shops. A United Press correspondent in Moscow overheard a Russian mother standing at the toy coun ter of GUM, Moscow's largest department store, tell her son why he could not have a sputnik. Sputniks Before Toys "I'm sure there'll be many more sputniks in the skies before our factories make such toys," she said. In Czechoslovakia, toy produc tion is subject to strict govern ment controls and is planned a year in advance. The October launching of the Sputnik I ap parently caught the planners by surprise and there was no time to shift gears and have sputniks ready for Christmas. All toys must be approved by a commission in the ministry of education in Red countries be fore making their ways to the store shelves and children's toy boxes. This year's selection in clude a battery-powered car, a wireless telephone, and a steam shovel with remote controls. Plastic toys, cheap and un breakable stocking-fillers in most countries, are rare in Czecho slovakia because of the chronic plastic shortage. Polish children will also be sputnik-less. The t r a d i t i o nal teddy bears and dolls are the most popular toys there. Me chandical toys are also much in demand but are hard to get. Yugoslav Toys Militaristic Communist Yugoslavia, well armed neighbor of the Soviet bloc, reflects its defense-mind-edness in its selection of toys. There are toy rifles, tanks, arm ored cars, fighter planes, and drums. There are more toys than ever in Belgrade shop windows this season, and more will be sold. The government has prom ised an extra month's salary as ' a Christmas bonus to all state i employes. j East Germany also has its ; share of lead soldiers and their j weapons after banning "mili- j taristic" toys for more than a j decade after World War II. i The sudden switch was caused j by formation of the "Peoples j Army" and the need to make it j popular with the people, from the children on up. Hungarian and Romanian toys are simple carvings that care fully avoid the Christmas theme. East Germany, Romania and Bulgaria place great emphasis on children's books as Christmas presents, but the fairy tales must follow the party line. The sleeping beauty in the East Ger man version, for example, is rescued by a handsome young party activist rather than a prince. Monday, December 23, 1957 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE Holdup Men Beat, Cut Portland Victims Portland Wi A grocer was beaten and a service station attendant was cut with a knife in two holdups which netted robbers about $167 here Sunday night. Police said two youths took more than SI 00 from a grocery store on Southeast Hawthorne blvd. and that one of them beat the proprietor, Pete Caruso, about the face. A third man was outside in a car. Loren Foster, service station attendant, was held up by a man who held a knife to his face. Foster said the man forced him to open the till. He suffered a three-inch shallow cut on his face. The robber got S67. Interview Planned For GOP Candidates Santa Rosa, Calif. (IP! Can didates for the seat to be vacat ed by U.S. Rep. Hubert B. Scud der (R.-Calif.) will be inter viewed in Ukiah Jan. 12, the first congressional district Re publican committee has an nounced. Four political hopefuls seek ing the nomination were inter viewed Friday night by commit tee members who met as private citizens. The committee decided to stage another interviewing session in Ukiah where three more candidates will outline their views on issues. Interviewed were Fred Du Pai, Tiburon, John Synon, Mill Valley, George Warner, Napa, and Oscar Larsen, Boyes Hot Springs. A fifth man, James E. Busch, Mendocino, announced his withdrawal. ARMY ICE PATROL Buenos Aires (IP) An Ar gentine dogsled patrol has crossed the bleak Palmer Pen insula on Antarctica's northern coast as part of this country's observance of the International Geophysical Year. An announce ment said the route the army patrol followed over the Great Uspallata Glacier and the Ant arctic Mountains took it as much as 6,000 feet above sea level. Irish potatoes are grown in every state of the Union. Can't Shoot Santa, But Somebody Did! Alameda, Calif. ttPt For years, people have been saying you don't shoot Santa Claus, but somebody finally tried. Santa, played by Alonzo Jack son in traditional costume, was putting a star atop a tree at the Bethel Missionary Baptist church when a shot rang out and a bullet grazed his neck. He was treated for a flesh wound while police started a search. HIGH COURT JUDGE DIES Manchester, England OPI High Court Judge Sir George Lynskey, 69, who conducted a major post war investigation into allegations of bribery against British ministers and top civil servants, died here Saturday night in a hospital. Traffic Checks Get Credit For Record Los Angeles (IP) An unusual ly low accident rate and the ab sene of a single fatality from a traffic accident in 48 hours were credited during the week end to stepped-up holiday enforce ment policies of southern Cali fornia law officers. Floating roadblocks were es tablished Thursday to catch sus pected drunk drivers and other law violators. There were 64 arrests made in one 24-hour pe riod alone. Inspector Russel E. Fuson, commander of the California highway patrol's southern zone, said the roadblocks were estab lished as a warning to drinking drivers. "We don't want to ar rest them," he said. We would prefer that they take a taxi home than to drive home themselves." Cape Canaveral, Fla. Two government employes lost their jobs and four others were pen alized in a stringent crackdown on security - regulations at the Air Force ' missile testing center. OPEN TONIGHT TILL 9 Up To 50 Off GIFTWARES FOSTORIA - HOUSEWARES - TOYS Thrifty Shoppers! Stretch Christmas Dollars in Our Huge Close-out Sale! Buy and Save! QUALITY At Lowest Prices tutu 7ftcuut&& SPECIALISTS Free Parking IN HOMEWARES ! ... Free Delivery Brownlee Worker Killed as Car Falls Brownlee, Ore. IP! A young construction worker was killed Saturday about 2:40 p.m. when a car he had jacked up to work on fell and crushed him. 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