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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Jan. 6. 1948 (Monday)
. Small donations in the
: Medford drive to supply the
."Pacific Northwest relief ship
-for central Europe now total
-$1,400, according to local
- sponsors.
: From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "Con
"gressman Harris Ellsworth of
Roseburg, headed for Wash
;ington, D.C., went through
yesterday beset by rain, snow
rand wind. His auto bore Ore
'gon 1948 license plate: 444-
444."
.20 YEARS AGO
"Jan. 6, 1938 (Thursday)
Annual meeting of Fruit
Growers League scheduled
soon in Jackson county court
house auditorium, President
Chester Fitch announced.
An essay contest in which
grade and high school stu
dents of Jackson and Jo
sephine counties will write
on national defense an
nounced by Rogue valley
chapter of the Reserve Of
ficers association.
30 YEARS AGO .
Jan. 6, 1923 (Friday)
Sheriff's office investigates
a report that a suspect, an
swering the description of a
safe-burglar and murderer,
was near Jacksonville.
. S. D. Taylor appointed
-councilman to succeed J. E.
Thornton who was elected
jnayor.
40 YEARS AGO
:Jan. 6. 1918 (Monday)
2 The organization of the
.Jtogue River Oil company,
3vhich was incorporated late
:ln 1917, has been completed
'C From local and personal
-column: "A long special
military train passed through
Hhe city yesterday afternoon
vith soldiers en route from
Xamp Lewis to Buena Vista,
.Calif."
Whal's Your I.Q.7
Nine or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
six is good.
1. Is the vanilla-bean the
fruit of a species of orchid?
2. Bible: Is the "Song of
Solomon" a collection of
wedding lyrics?
3. The name of the London
residence of the British Royal
family is Buckingham, St.
rjame's or Hyde Park?
t 4. Is Lincoln's birthday a
public holiday in Pa., Ken.,
.'or 111.
5. At 12 o'clock noon East
ern Standard Time in the
;U.S. what time is it in Mos
cow, Soviet Russia?
'. 6. The modern Coast
Tluard was created by a mer
ger of which two other serv
ices? - 7. Was Adoniram Judson
a famous Missionary, explor
er, or boxer?
T 8. Fanafuti is an island in
the E e Islands?
9. Graduates of the U.S.
Naval Academy are proba-
:tionally commissi oned in
what rank?
10. Who invented the pen
dulum?
. Answers: I. Yes. 2. Yes. 3.
Buckingham. 4. Pa. 5. 8 p.m.
6 Revenue-Cutter Service and
Live-Saving Service. 7. Mis
sionary. 8. Ellice. 9. Ensign
in the Navy or 2nd Lieuien-
anl in the Marine Corps. 10.
'Galileo, "
Editorial Correspondence . . .
By ERIC ALLEN, Managing Editor
Rose Bowl, Pasadena, Calif. "I was proud of Oregon,"
said the lady.
Now she's no football fan, nor has she often been in the
state of Oregon, and she's never even seen the Webfoot cam
pus. But her sentiments were right. "We were proud, too. And,
surprisingly, even the blase sportswriters of California have
fallen all over themselves to give credit to the high-spirited
Oregon team, the "Cinderella" eleven from little old Oregon
who held mighty Ohio State to a squeak-by win.
There was glamor and well glory in the game. It was
a show of a lifetime.
The Rose Bowl game is a spectacle as much as it is a
football game. The sight of nearly 100,000 people, all gath
ered in one place at one time for a common purpose, is some
how a moving thing. One hundred thousand people is a lot of
people, and the. roar they can emit is spine-tingling.
Oregon, 19-point underdogs in pre-game expertise, not
only did remarkably well on the field. They won the unstint
ed admiration of the southern Cal sportswriters, probably
the most biased, hard-bitten crew of typewriter pounders in
the business.
Vincent X. Flaherty, of the Los Angeles Examiner, said:
"It was an inspiring spectacle because Oregon, embattled
and outmanned, made it so . . . The Oregonians put on an
outstanding display and, surprisingly enough, even seemed
to be the superior team a great part of the way ..."
In the Sa:n Francisco Chronicle, Bill Leiser said: ". . .
What impressed everyone from everywhere was the fact
the Oregons took on the Buckeyes man for man, face to face,
the hard way, all the way, and came up even . . . Ohio is
America's No. 1 team, or was, and despised Oregon was just
as good ..."
Berkeley, Calif. Oregon's performance at the Bowl
game made as big an impression on the "man in the street"
as it did on the "experts." In Bakersfield, the service sta
tion man, noticing our Oregon license, said, "Say, we really
showed 'em, didn't we?" (Notice the "WE." Oregon was "The
West" on New Year's Day.)
But aside from the thrill of a clean, hard-fought, brilliant
game of football, the "bowl" provided other thrills. The Ohio
State band is probably one of the best in the nation, and in
both pregame and halftime shows, put on a well-thought-out,
humorous and expert routine that classified as top enter
tainment. And, as mentioned, the impact of 98,202 people assembled
is in itself terrific. The day was gorgeous (as has been the
weather on most of this California jaunt); the grass was
green with lemon-yellow markings (Oregon's colors); the fans
were ardent and partisan and
buses and fumes and crowds
success.
New Year's Eve in Los Angeles was something else again.
Where the happy crowd at the Bowl game was friendly,
gregarious, and noisy, the crowd on the streets of downtown
L.A. shared only the noise. There was an aura of suspicion,
of unfriendliness, of hectic gaiety as though only on this one
night of the year could they release all the pent-up emotions
of drab and colorless lives throughout the year.
Confetti and noisemakers and auto horns and liquor
blended to produce a sort of mass semi-hysteria worthy of
a forum crowd in the Rome of Caligula.
In the hotel the alcohol-tinged celebration was less fran
tic, but equally noisy and equally irresponsible. Cannon
crackers were shot off in the halls for hours; empty whisky
bottles went plunging to their destruction in the air-well, as
shouts and threats and boasts were screamed from window
to window.
Our party (two young girls, the family secretary of
Health, Education and Welfare, and the writer) retired after
a moving picture at about 10 p.m., and finally the younger
generation got to sleep, mercifully, about 11. The elders, con
cerned over various improbabilities of the night and more
sensitive to noise, finally drifted into fitful sleep about 2
a.m., as the noise from Broadway two blocks away began
to die down.
Small World Dept.: After
in the Rose bowl, we sat down next to our neighbors from
across the street in Medford, the Richard Fangers. On the
other side was Rick Schuchard, also of Medford, and a row
behind were friends from Hillsboro.
The Hollywood freeway, mentioned with some disparage
ment in this space earlier, is not a heck of a lot better at 6
o'clock in the morning than it is at 7 at night. We wonder if
that horrid stretch of pavement ever is clear of cars, trucks
and buses, two or three or four or five abreast, and in an
unbroken line for miles.
We admit that one does, surprisingly, become accustomed
to it. Leaving Los Angeles in the early morning for the long
pull to the Bay area, we scooted and darted in and out of
60-mph traffic almost with the best or worst of them. But
we still claim that driving on that freeway does not make
for peace of mind nor longevity.
From L.A. to Oakland, the
cent. There are a few stretches of sub-standard highways,
where two- and three-lane roads compress and compact traf
fic which needs four lanes to flow properly.
But mostly, it is four-lane
of traffic is not too great, it is a delight to drive particu
larly early in the morning with the sun shining bright and
warm, and the sky blue above.
"Freeway," we have discovered, is a relative term, and
is frequently applied inexactly.
The word, m its pure sense,
with opposing traffic lanes separated, and access to the main
thoroughfare limited to "flow-on" lanes.
But in common parlance, it
with limited (but not controlled)
roadside businesses and cross-streets complicate the onward
flow; and even to three-lane highways where it is as much as
one's life is worth to pass the car in front.
These ways are far from
when "freeway" will mean just
a highway limited to motor
only limited to certain places, but controlled so that incom
ing traffic will flow in to the stream in unobstructed and
unobstructing fashion.
Final thought on the Los
This is not for us. There are too many, too many, too many
people; more than 5 million (our earlier estimate of more
than 1 million was far short of the reality) and we can hardly
wait to get back to a place where, warm shunshine in Decem
ber and January or not, one can look at the hills, savor the
flavor of pure water, and know that the people are friends
and neighbors; not the frustrated and harried denizens of a
fantastic, complicated and crowded coastal plain, plagued by
smog, taxes and housing projects, burgeoning in all direc
tions. E.A.
Hearings Slated On
Washington (IP) Senate
investigators moving into
secret hearings on the na
tion's defenses vowed Satur
day to get "all the facts" in
the Gaither report suppres
sed by the White House.
Senate Democratic Major
ity Leader Lyndon Johnson
said his preparedness sub
committee would start ques
tioning key witnesses Monday
to determine the contents of
the secret report said to
Monday, January 6. I9S8
friendly, and the entire day-
notwithstanding was a' huge
climbing some 40 rows of seats
highway is, mostly, magnifi
"freeway," and where the flow
denotes a divided highway,
is also applied to four lanes
access; to four lanes where
"free." And the day is coming
what it was coined to mean
vehicles, and with access not
Angeles - and - suburbs complex:
Gaither Report
recommend an enormous de
fense increase to stave off
"catastrophe" from Russia's
missile might.
The White House refused to
hand over the report on the
ground that it was prepared
for President Eisenhower and
the National Security Coun
cil. But Johnson said he
would still try to obtain a
copy, although he knew of no
way to compel the President
to divulge a confidential communication.
-
Mf fOLKS JUSTVflfcB YMEH
Matter of Fact
WHY NO "IMPACT?"
Washington Among the
other decisions crowding in
on President Eisenhower is
one which is
a great deal
more import
ant than it
a p p e a rs on
the surface.
He must ap-
41 prove or dis-
ZM -r
JJUSdl, Will (J II
is before the
Natinnal Qo.
curity Council, for a new
mechanism for measuring at
all times just where this
country and the Communist
bloc stand m the cold war
and the arms race.
The best way to under
stand the importance of this
proposal is to recall the most
dramatic and significant mo
ment in the hearings before
the Johnson Preparedness
Subcommittee, when intelli
gence chief Allen Dulles was
briefing the committee mem
bers.
The Senators listened
glumly while Dulles recited
the facts that the Soviets
had been testing ballistic
missiles since 1952-53; that
they had stockpiled hundreds
of operational medium range
missiles; that the forward
bases of the Strategic Air
Force, except perhaps for the
Spanish and Moroccan bases,
were already subject to at
tack from operational Soviet
IRBM sites; that the coastal
areas of the United States
were also subject to submarine-based
missile attack;
that the Soviets should have
operational ICBMs and ICBM
bases in the near future; and
so on.
rpHEN Sen. Stuart Syming-
-- ton, with an assist from
other Senators, began asking
the obvious questions. How
long had the Central Intel
ligence Agency had such in
telligence? The CIA began
getting "hard" intelligence on
Soviet missile progress as
long ago as 1952, Dulles re
plied. Had the intelligence
been made available to the
National Security Council?
Certainly. Why, then, had
our own" missile effort actual
ly been cut back?
Dulles replied frankly that
the CIA had "not been able
to impress the NSC with the
impact of the intelligence"
which the CIA had had "for
some time." Why not? At this
point, Dulles cited the basic
law under which the CIA
was created. It was not the
function of the CIA, he point
ed out, to compare United
States capabilities and the
capabilities of the Soviet
Union. On the contrary, the
CIA was specifically enjoin
ed from concerning itself
with the American defense
situation. The CIA was strict
ly confined to foreign intelli
gence. This is not, of course, the
whole reason why the NSC
was not "impressed with the
impact" of the CIA's intelli
gence. The basic reason was
that the men who dominated
the NSC, like Secretary of
the Treasury George Hump
hrey and Secretary of De
fense Charles Wilson, did not
want to be impressed.
TF THEY had been impress
ed, as honest men and
patriots (which both men are)
they could not possibly have
defended, to themselves or
others, the policy of defense
cutbacks which was central
to the whole Administration
program. And yet it is also
true that the fact that the
CIA is strictly limited to
foreign intelligence made it
far easier for men like Hump
hrey and Wilson to avoid be
ing "impressed by the im
pact" of that intelligence.
For, in the fantastically
complex structure of the
American government, there
is no single body whose con
tinuing, day-to-day function
it is to examine objectively
where we really stand in the
cold war and the arm race.
Thus the CIA's' intelligence
t i
THSYfeg AWDATgACH OTHER !'
By Stewart Alsop
tends to be considered in a
vacuum.
In the pre-Sputnik era, for
example, leading Administra
tion spokesmen repeated over
and over, like an incantation,
that "we have never been
stronger." In a literal sense,
in the sense of total firepower
available to the American
armed forces, this was no
doubt true. But in the only
sense in which it had real
meaning in terms of the
comparative power of this
country and the Soviet Union
it was absolutely untrue.
BUT IT was easy for the
highest officials to believe
their own complacent reas
surances, because no one had
had the job of constantly
comparing Soviet and Ameri
can power in meaningful
terms. Theoretically, this ,is
the job of the NSC itself. But
the members of the NSC are
also the chief government
policy-makers, and it is fool
ish in the nature of things
to expect the policy-makers
to sit in judgment over their
own policies.
Under the present system,
there are only occasional and
sporadic efforts to arrive at a
balanced judgment of where
we really stand. One such
effort was represented by the
now-famous report - of the
Gaither Committee.
There was no intelligence
made available to the Gaither
Committee which was not
also available to the NSC.
But because the Gaither Com
mittee had no special interest
in defending established
policies, its members were
profoundly "impressed by the
impact" of the CIA's intelli
gence. The proposal before
the President amounts to a
sort of continuing Gaither
Committee. The new body
would have no policy-making
functions. Its function, in
stead, would be to keep a
running box score on the cold
war and the arms race, so
that intelligence would no
longer be considered in a
vacuum, its function, indeed,
would be to keep rubbing the
noses of the members of the
NSC including the Presi
dent himself in the real
meaning of the facts collect
ed by the CIA.
(c) 1958 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
Tanker Not Given,
Air Force Insists
Washington (IPI The Air
Force Saturday denied it has
assigned one of its new KC-
135 jet transport tankers to
Vice President Richard M.
Nixon for his personal use.
It said reports that it had
done so are "entirely without
fact."
The denial was issued after
Sen. A. S. Mike Monroney
wired Defense Secretary Neil
H. McElroy asking by what
authoritv the Air Force could
furnish the Vice President
with the latest, most expen
sive and most urgently-needed
jet transport."
The Oklahoma Democrat
said in a statement that allow
ing Nixon to use the KC-135
as a "cross - country taxi"
would be "extravagant and
dangerous." He said he doubt
ed the Strategic Air Com
mand had a "sufficient sup
ply" of tankers to afford mak
ing one available to the vice
President.
The Air Force said all it
had done was to offer Nixon
an "orientation flight" on one
of the new planes which has
been stationed in Washington
for several weeks. It is the
same KC-135 in which Gen.
Curtis E. Lemay, Air Force
Vice Chief of Staff, recently
marlo a rprnrrl - settinff flieht
o Argentina.
The Air Force did not say
whether Nixon had accepted
the offer or whether a trip
out of the country on an offi
cial mission would constitute
an "orientation flight."
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
More about science.
You'd better read it.
This science stuff is getting
rugged.
rpHIS time it's "subliminal
A perception." Subliminal
perception is a method where
by split second commercials
are flashed across the tele
vision screen at high speed.
They are said to make an im
pression on the viewer's SUB
CONSCIOUS but are not seen
by the viewer's EYE. The
viewer isn't conscious of what
is being done to him.
That is to say:
You are sold down the
river, but DON'T KNOW IT.
You just go out and buy what
you've been told to buy, but
you don't know you've been
told. You don't know why you
do what you're doing.
You just go and DO it.
WOW!!!!
VSHEN first appraised of this
federal communications com
mission being skeptical hu
man beings, like the rest of
us was inclined to look on
it as probably a lot of malar-
key. But the subliminal per
ception folks kept on beating
their drum. So the F.C.C. is
going to make a test.
Come January 13. it will
try it out on members of the
congress.
The trial demonstration
will be conducted over the
closed-circuit facilities of Sta
tion WTOP-TV, a Washington
affiliate of the Columbia
Broadcasting system. A sepa
rate demonstration will be
conducted for members of the
Washington press corps.
TJMMMMM.
This subliminal percep
tion stuff has unlimited hori
zons. For example:
TT LOOKS now like the
'Democrats have a walk
away coming up in 1958 and
another one on tap for 1960.
What with recessions and
Sputniks and Christmas bills
and one thing and another,
everybody is upset and dis
gruntled. When we're upset
and disgruntled our historic
reaction is to throw the ins
out and put the outs in. It
looks like a cinch.
But
Suppose the wicked and
crafty GOPs should unbe
knownst to anybody BUY
UP THE S U B L I M INAL
RIGHTS on all the TVs and
begin to bombard the voters
with subliminal commands to
go to the polls and VOTE RE
PUBLICAN!!! THIS stuff is getting serious.
Tt will Vw interesting to
see how the members of the
congress react to these sub
liminal perception tests on
January 13.
U.P. Correspondents
Eye 1958
United Press correspond
ents around the world look
ahead at the probable
course of world events in
1958.
War
No war unless the Kremlin
goes insane or makes a fatal
blunder. Soviet Russian lead
ers are fully aware of allied
retaliatory power. The Middle
East is the big danger area.
Anything could happen there.
A small shooting war could
spread into a big one.
Cold War
No let-up in sight. On the
contrary, Washington expects
Russia to put on more heat
as the day approaches for in
stalling missile bases in Eu
rope. European officials are
more hopeful that tension may
be eased.
"Summit" Conference
Pressure on the Eisenhower
administration for a meeting,
which might lead to lessening
of tension, is growing and will
continue to grow. Allied gov
ernments and some American
political leaders are exerting
the pressure. Belief in Wash
ington is that a meeting some
time in 1958 would not be sur
prising provided advance
soundings gave any hope for
success. European officials are
more optimistic. Eight out of
nine experts predict a meet
ing. Missiles
American military men look
for substantial progress this
year in the race with Russia.
But Russia will make pro
gress, too, and the relative
standing at the end of 1958
is problematical. United States
missilemen hope the Thor and
Jupiter intermediate range
ballistic missiles may be oper
ational by the end of 1958.
Optimists hope the Atlas and
Titan intercontinental ballistic
missiles may be put into op
eration in 1959. The Navy's
Polaris IRBM program will
be pressed. It could show sen
sational progress.
Domestic Politics
Differences between the
Democratic majority in Con
Return to
Seen Cold
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
The big powers may resort
to old-fashioned secret diplo-
macy to open the way for
new cold war
negotiations.
Pressure for
a "Summit"
m e e t i ng in
which Presi
dent Eisen
hower and
other Allied
heads of gov-
P T ri m o n f c
Charier " " x
McCann would face
Nikita S. Khrushchev and
Nikolai A. Bulganin is mount
ing all over the world.
Leaders of some Allied
countries in Western Europe,
and some high-ranking Am
erican political leaders want
such a meeting.
They seem to feel that
statesmen ought to grasp at
any straw that offers hope of
removing the threat of a ca
tastrophic war.
President Eisenhower and
Secretary of State John Fos
ter Dulles are among those
who oppose a meeting until
Russia gives solid evidence
that it is willing to negotiate
in good faith.
They feel that a "Summit"
conference at this time might
make things worse instead of
better because there is no ap
parent starting point for use
ful negotiations.
That certainly makes sense.
Nevertheless, pressure for a
conference is likely to keep
growing. It looks as if there
probably will be a Summit
conference during 1958, per
haps after a meeting of for
eign ministers of the Big Four
powers the United States,
Britain, France and Russia.
Secret Diplomacy Best Hope
In any event, the best hope
for the success of any con
ference seems to lie in secret
diplomacy-secret negotiations
conducted by the foreign min
istries and embassies of the
countries concerned.
A suggestion that secret
diplomacy be used to break
the present East-West dead
lock was made last month by
George F. Kennan, former
United States Ambassador to
Russia who is now professor
of history at the Institute of
Advanced Study at Princeton,
N. J.
Kennan is lecturing for a
year at Oxford University,
These lectures are being
broadcast in England. They
have attracted interest all
over the world. In one of
them Kennan said that issues
between Russia and the West
must be broken down and
negotiated individually.
"For this, it is not the hectic
encounters of senior states
men under the spotlight which
we need." Kennan said. "It
is the patient, quiet, orderly
Headlines
gress ana tne administration
over conduct of foreign pol
icy will continue to harass the
United States, despite efforts
to minimize partisanship in
this field. Furthermore, all
indications point toward a
substantial further Demo
cratic gain in the November
congressional elections. So
this situation is expected to
prevail until the 1960 presi
dential election at least.
Red China
Washington does not expect
the United States to recognize
Communist China this year or
to agree to its admittance to
the United Nations. If the
Peiping government freed the
six Americans known to be
imprisoned in Red China, it
would be a smart move. But
there would have to be a com
plete change in climate before
recognition was granted. Fur
thermore, the administration
is not willing to run the risk
of undercutting such staunch
allies as the Philippines, Thai
land and South Viet Nam
as well as Nationalist China.
H-Bomb Power
London expects an official
announcement any day that
Britain has completed the first
step in taming and harnessing
the power of the Hydrogen
bomb for peaceful purposes.
Kzs. of The Year
v7est German Chancellor
Konrad Adenauer, who was
82 Sunday, is likely to be Eu
rope's man of the year. He is
preparing now to sound out
Russia on the possibility of
East-West talks to reduce ten,
sion. He may be the man to
break the ice.
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Secret Diplomacy
War Possibility
fuse of the regular channels
of private communication be
tween governments, as they
have grown up and proved
their worth over the course
of the centuries."
Kennan Supported By Heuss
President Theodor Heuss
of West Germany strongly
supported Kennan in a broad
cast new year message to the
German people.
Heuss pointed out that se
cret negotiations led to the
solution of the bitter Trieste
dispute between Italy and
Yugoslavia. He pointed out
also that the Russian block
ade of Berlin, which could
have exploded into war, was
ended after confidential Russian-American
negotiations.
Secret diplomacy became a
horrid phrase after World
War I because of the pre-war
secret agreements among
Pressure for Summit
Conference Mounts
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Correspondent
Washington (IF) That
oldie about history repeating
itself is making good again
g'-'iCT'i in tne wnoop-
it-up pressure
campaign for
a n o ther Big
Four meeting
at the sum
mit. The pattern
is i d e n t ical
with that of
early months
Lyle C. Wilson Of 1955 when
a reluctant President Eisen
hower was pressured into
joining the French and Brit
ish in inviting the head men
of the Soviet Union to meet
with them in Geneva.
Then, as now, there was
popular clamor in Great Brit
ain, France and other Euro
pean nations for such a meet
ing. Then, as now, the clamor
was on a steadily ascending
scale which in 1955 became
so great as to persuade the
President to take the chance
The last straw in the bal
ance which weighted Eisen
hower's judgm'ent in favor of
the 1955 Summit conference
was the political necessity of
the Conservative British gov
ernment then in power. A
British election was coming
up and the Socialist opposi
tion was making political hay
with demands for a summit
conference.
Conference Aided Tories
Eisenhower agreed to the
conference in mid-May and
the British Conservatives eas
ily won their election contest
before the conference took
place.
The President's hopes and
enthusiasm for the confer
ence increased rapidly once
he was committed to it, and
he took off for Geneva in
July, 1955, expecting to ac
complish something substan
tial for world peace. The
meeting among the British,
French, Soviet Union and the
United States leaders was
friendly. They agreed, rough
ly, that things were bad all
over and that something
should be done.
Doing something was a task
assigned to a later November
meeting of the foreign minis
ters of the conferring nations.
The Big Four in July assigned
a three-point program of
problems for solution by the
foreign ministers, as follows:
German unification and
a European security system.
Disarmament.
Development of E a s i-
West contacts.
The Geneva Summit con
ference briefly created a rosy
glow of phony optimism
which came to be called the
Geneva atmosphere.
Returning to the United i
States, Eisenhower thought
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powers on which many
blamed its outbreak. The new
technique was to be, as Wood
row Wilson put it in the first
of his historical fourteen
points:
"Open covenants openly
arrived at, after which there
shall be no private interna
tional understandings of any
kind, but diplomacy shall pro
ceed always frankly and in
the public view."
The ban against secret
agreements was fine. In fact,
the United Nations Charter
specifies that no treaty which
has not been registered with
it may be invoked in the U.N.
Negotiations, however, is
something else. The present
method of conducting diplo
macy in the public view - in a
goldfish bowl with every fish
putting on an act - some times
doesn't woork.
things had turned for the bet
ter. He reported that "each
side assured the other ear
nestly and often that it in
tended to pursue a new spirit
of conciliation and coopera
tion." He added, however, that
the November Foreign Min
isters conference would be
what he called the acid test
of those expressions of good.
intentions. On that the Pres
ident was dead right. The
Foreign Ministers conference
met on schedule, failed and
adjourned.
There is no German unifi
cation, no disarmament and
no satisfactory European se
curity system. Perhaps the
most meaningful comment of
all was by the Soviet's Nikita
S. Khrushchev that the West
ern policy of wringing con
cessions from the Soviet
Union by negotiating from a
position of strength had fail
ed at Geneva.
It may be a hopeful factor
that in any Summit confer
ence this year the position of
strength will have shifted to
Moscow.
Atlas Test Fired
On Ground Saturday
Cape Canaveral, Fla. HPI
A mighty Atlas, biggest of
this country's missile weap
ons, was test fired on the
ground Saturday in prepara
tion to launching soon.
The i big intercontinental
missile was held to its launch
ing pad by mechanical de
vices while its engines were
run up for about 15 seconds.
Apparently, the test was
successful. When trouble de
velops during a static firing,
the engines are usually cut
after a few seconds.
Crews worked long hours
in stiff, chill winds that still
lashed the cape in the wako
of the northeaster that bat
tered the Florida coast Fri
day. The missile's service tower
was rolled back, at mid-afternoon
and the test took place
at about 6:15 p.m. (EST) af
ter the missile had been fill
ed with liquid oxygen on
which its engines operate.
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