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MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. 4 Sur.day, September 14, 1958 "Everyone In Southern Oregon Beads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY, Advertising Manager ir.riAiLM laiham, ciuuness aigr. ERIC W. ALLEN JR.. Managing Editor EARL H. ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN, Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER, Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent NewsoaDer Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Cony 10c. Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 8 mos. 8.00 - Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $4 20 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point, Eagle v o l n t, Jacksonville, cold Hill, Phoenix, Shady Cove, Rogue Riv er. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers c o p y 10c aii "i erms casn in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford Official paper of Jackson County United Press International Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY CO.. INC, Of fices in New York, Chicago, De troit. San rrancisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland. St. Louis, At lanta. Vancouver. B.C. NEWSPAPER k PUBLISHERS "ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCI-ATfCtN J U Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Sept. 14, 1948 (Tuesday) The Oregon State Medical society convention opens here tomorrow. The Jackson county fair opened this morning . with swine showmanship the first event. 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 14, 1938 (Wednesday) Central Point citizens will vote Saturday on whether the city should issue bonds to fi nance repair of water mains. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The well-named flannel cake has made its appearance on a number of local menus." 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 14, 1928 (Friday) An estimated 4,000 people visited the Jackson county fair yesterday for "Medford Day." Chamber of Commerce members visited the new Montgomery Ward store on South Central ave. at Eighth st. today. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 14, 1918 (Saturday) The Salvation Army is opening a fund drive here next week. .. The Radcliffe Chautauqua opened its war - preparation program here today. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct is superior; seven er eight is excellent; five or sis is good. 1. If described as a mono dent, how many teeth would a creature have? 2. The U. S. Constitution forbids the election of a wom an as president; true or false? 3. A dermatologist special izes in the treatment of dis eases of the feet, skin, or heart? 4. In direct sunlight, black and white clothing is equally cool; true or false? 5. What is the plural of the word fungus?1 6. Asuncion is the capital of which South American country? 7. Which automobile manu facturer is now located at South Bend, Indiana? 8. Did the late Babe Ruth throw baseballs with his right, or left, hand? 9. Who was the Republican presidential candidate in the 1936 Presidential election? 10. Normally, how many U. S. Senators are elected bi ennially? Answers: 1. One tooth. 2. False. 3. Diseases of the skin. 4. False. 5. Fungi or funguses. 6. Paraguay. 7. Studebaker. 8. Left hand. 9. Alf Landon. 10. 32. $52 Million Contract To Soeng Aircraft Dayton, Ohio-TCPD-The Air Material Command at Wright Patterson Air Force Base yes terday announced that an esti mated 52 million dollar con tract has been awarded to Boeing Aircraft Co., Seattle. Th Boeing contract, part of the AMC's 178 million doUar government defense contract, lie fnr the construction of tCUM - aircraft, parts and ground sup OSES! I port equipment. Eye-Opener The reporter who covered "Business Educa tion Day" told us, "Everyone I've talked to seem ed to think it was a tremendous success.' We got the same impression. This project where teachers visit half a hundred Jackson county business establishments in. small groups, tour the premises, have lunch with the executives, and then confer on problems of the business involved undoubtedly 'did a great deal to give the teachers a wider under standing of the problems, the, solutions (and the motives) of the business community. THERE are two sides to the coin. " We also have a hunch that the business men and women were impressed at what may have been their first face-to-face meeting with a group of teachers. y What they saw was a group of highly intelli gent, vocal, presentable people, who know their profession, and are willing and eager to learn more about the community in which they live and work in such an important field. (At the luncheon, it may not have been over looked by the business people, sort of incidentally, that the teaching profession in the county repre sents several million dollars in payroll. They do, indeed,' constitute one of the best groups of cus tomers that the business people have.) S FRANK J. Van Dyke, the luncheon speaker (who is a man who teaching and the profession through his service on state boards and commissions and the legisla ture), declared, teachers constitute a vital group in any community, and if they are satisfied, re spected, and accorded the dignity to which they are entitled, they exert a stabilizing and a crea tive force in any community. One of the difficulties in today's fragmented civilization is a lack of communication between groups between parents as a group, say,- and the school community. Or between the "town" and the "country." Or between the "professions" and the "businessmen." This lack of communication between the school community and the business community has never been a serious one in Medford, due largely to a progressive and articulate administra tion. But whatever lack there may have been was in some degree satisfied during "B-E" day. , IT WAS a successful ycnnicixv viic mat annually. We hope the return will be invited to visit the schools sometime in November, is just as successful. We think that those businessmen who had their eyes opened by the high caliber of the teachers during the visits around town last week, will have their eyes opened even further when they see them in action on their home grounds, the schools. Both groups, basically, have the same aim a better city, a better county, a better chance for the younger generation. I his experiment is serving to show each fac tion that the other is going about working toward that goal, only in difierent ways. h.A. Out in the One of the, solid satisfactions in living in Jack son county is the fact that, no matter where one's home, it is. only a few minutes away from the peace, the quiet, the isolation of tall trees and hills; from fresh-water panses of forested ridges Many people (we are freshment in this magnificent outdoors of ours. The chief regret is that it is so infrequently pos sible to find the time to go there. We are neither hunter nor fisherman, so lack that excuse to get into the forests (and we suspect that hunting and fishing is, in a way, just such an excuse for some of the outdoor fraternity). , AN EXCUSE .in the AlAd-i, (All. AllOVVUUU 11 S Vlli VUgM AVl V11V111 Josephine and Jackson counties with Curt Nesh eim, southwest district warden for the state de partment of forestry, came our way last week. The trip, despite rain and low clouds, was an immense success from our standpoint. The northwest part of the county was the one corner we hadn't yet visited, the tour was inter esting as well as beautiful, the company was good, and the scenery, while of a different variety than that seen at Crater lake or the Wallowas, was spectacular. FROM Sexton mountain, with its weather bu raon anA 1riLrinf anrl ite -Pnrosf rvP TV and radio antennas (including repeater and relay sta tions for a half-dozen different organizations), we went to King mountain near the Jackson-Josephine-Douglas county border junction, where the construction of an Air Force "gap filler" (radar) station is nearing completion. Then we went down into the Grave creek area, up over Battle mountain, down into the val ley of the West Fork of Evans creek, then up Rock creek to the Umpqua-Rogue divide, and along the crest of the divide to the Tiller-Trail highway, and home. This journey should not be taken lightly or without guidance, or in a standard car, for por tions are rough and obscure. But the mountains, in any direction from Medford, offer great re wards to those who take the trouble to do a bit of exploring on the back roads. E.A. himself knows a lot about and forward-looking ex- ucocivca tu uc icpcatcu visit," when businessmen Boondocks streams, from great ex and canyons. among them) find re form of an invitation to "THgCOOWg J4fZ IS EMPTY" Today & Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann THE DULLES FORMULA At his press conference, Mr. Dulles sent up a trial balloon. He hinted at a formula which was to extri cate this coun try from its tanglement in Quemoy. But because he is so deeply en tangled, he could not say clearly that Walter what he would 'like to do is Lippmann to trade a withdrawal from the offshore islands for a pledge that the Red Chinese will not use force to take over Formosa. This would indeed be a convenient arrangement in that it would validate our Formosa policy while it got us out of our foolish and un popular commitment in the onshore islands. But there is no eood reason to hope that the Dulles formu la can be agreed upon. ADart from the Communist opposi tion to it. there is the Drior fact that Chiang will almost certainly oppose it. It is most improbable that Mr. Dulles can get authority from Chiang to make such a deal, or even to make a serious proposal. ' UOR at the barest minimum, and taking the rosiest pos sible view of Red China's atti tude, the Dulles formula would require Chiang to make two very painful concessions. One would be to withdraw his troops and to abandon the islands, which are the symbol of his intention to return to the mainland. The other con cession would be to renounce publicly the use of force in order to return to the main land, to renounce-that is to say the fiction that the real China is in Formosa and that it will recover the rest of China. Were it proposed seriously by us in a serious negotiation with Red China, the Dulles formula would almost certain ly mean the downfall of Chi ang's government. For under the formula the Chiang gov ernment would lose the reason for its existence, and the main land Chinese who are In For mosa would find themselves exiles from China and pris oners on the island. There would be no good reason left why they should not make their peace with Peiping, ac cepting some one of the tempt ing offers which reach them publicly and through private channels. . FOR these reasons alone, the Dulles formula is not real ly a negotiating proposal. It is. a debating position, good for a few public speeches, in that it suggests the attractive idea that the Chinese civil war and the Chinese-American conflict can be resolved without shoot ing. This is what ought to be made to happen. But it cannot come to pass because of our entanglement, which has en gaged our honor, with Chiang. If we were free of that en tanglement, Ve could have a Formosa policy which, though unacceptable to Peiping, would command wide support in this country and in the world. The principle of our policy would be that the island of Formosa is not under the law of the Japanese ' peace treaty as yet a part of China, and that in fact Formosa has for many generations not been governed from the mainland. The American national in terest in Formosa is not that it should masquerade as China but that the Formosa people should have autonomy and that in a military sense the island should be strategically neutralized. If we were free, we would, in short, go to the United Na tions and purpose that For mosa be constituted an auton omous territory, neutralized and demilitarized under inter national supervision. It would be a corollary of such a pro posal that the bulk of the mainland Chinese in Formosa should be repatriated to the mainland and that Chiang and his lieutenants should be giv en asylum in some safe place. ALTHOUGH such a policy would truly serve our na tional interests in this area, and would be respectable in the opinion of mankind, there is no hope now that it can be adopted. Both Chiang and Mao will oppose it, and we are not free to propose what Chiang opposes. There will remain the ques tion of whether we are com pelled to do what Chiang de mands. Quemoy is in fact be sieged and blockaded, and it can be only a question of time when it wiU surrender or it will have to be evacuated. For the siege and blockade if this island cannot be lifted ,xcept by an attack on the Chinese mainland, an attack which would precipitate, at the least, a local war. The alternative is for the President to break off this action, thus disengaging this country from the offshore is lands, and to use the power of the 7th Fleet to evacuate Chiang's troops. That this will be a defeat and a retreat is only too obvious. But, as com pared with letting Quemoy be starved out, or with starting a general war over Quemoy, it is the least of the evils. For we must not deceive our selves. There is no good way out of this dead end into which the President and Mr. Dulles have led us. TN THIS connection we can do well to read and to pon der Winston Churchill's final conclusions in the chapter called "The Tragedy of Mu nich" in his book "The Gath ering Storm." His central point is that the tragedy of Munich lay in the fact that France and Great Britain sacrificed Czechoslo vakia at a moment when "hon or pointed the path of duty, and when also the right judg ment of the facts at the time would have reinforced its dic tates." But what is "often over looked is a passage which pre cedes this judgment: "Those who are prone by tempera ment and character to seek sharp and clear-cut solutions of difficult and obscure prob lems, who are ready to fight whenever some challenge comes from a foreign power, have not always been right. On tHe other hand, those whose inclination is to bow their heads, to seek patiently and faithfully for peaceful compromise, are not always wrong. On the .contrary, in the majority of instances they may be right, not only mor ally but from a practical standpoint. How many wars have been averted by patience and persisting good will! Re ligion and virtue alike lend their sanctions to meekness and humility, not only be tween men but between na tions. How many wars have been precipitated by fire brands! How many misunder standings which led to wars could have been removed by temporizing! How often have countries fought cruel wars and then after a few years of peace found themselves not only friends but allies!" (c) 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Truck-Driver Presley Heading for Germany Fort-Hood,-Tex. -(IIPD- Pvt. Elvis Presley, now a truck driver in a tank company, will leave this Army post Fri day for assignment in Germany. POTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) A colleague of ours re marked the other day, "When I was a youngster, I used to think that 46 was old. Now that I'm 46, I know it is." We were entranced by K-DOVs "roll - with - the punch" advertisement in the Mail Tribune the other day, the one which started out "Notice to Cropdusters," and advised them that Pear Trees are Green. Which reminded us of the story, undoubtedly apocry- pnai, wrucn was going the rounds just after the plane clipped the guy-wire and sent the tower to the ground. It goes like this: You seen the banner Billy Rosenbalm's plane ' is towing around these days? No? It says, "K-BOY sent me." American science has tri umphed. It has come up with a toothpaste which is STRIPED! Russia, you bet ter watch out! Most of the .confusion which attended the opening of the one-way couplet of Main and Eighth streets has now subsided. But not quite aU of it. On the southwest corner of Eighth and Bartlett streets is a sign directing visitors to the ' chamber of commerce headquarters where they may obtain travel information. An arrow on the sign points west. On the southeast cor ner of the same intersection is a street sign which says "One Way," with an arrow pointing east. Maybe the chamber needs some travel information it self? With the end of bus serv ice between Jacksonville and Medford, we are told that residents of that at tractive little town are. hop ing that plans to revive a daily stage run between the two towns, for the Cen tennial year, are followed through. "It would not only be a picturesque sight." one of them sighed to us, "but would be a revived convenience for marooned shoppers and workers." Members of a Medford family were awakened at about 6 a.m. one recent morn ing by thunderous crashing, then were further jolted by incessant pounding on the roof. They scrambled out of bed to investigate. No, it wasn't a lightning strike from a thunderstorm. It was just a roofing crew which had been ordered for the house, and which had arrived early and gone right to work. Overheard: "If you., aren't confused nowadays, you just aren't well-informed." One of our reporters cov ered a meeting of the plan ning commission last week, at which a proposed draft of a new subdivision ordinance was being considered. He looked it over, and came across the final section, which he says is a real stop per. Being of a statistical turn of mind, he faithfully re ported to us that it consisted of one sentence, which in turn contained 144 words, 20 commas, and one period. A father recently repri manded his young son for leaving pieces of candy cigarettes lying on the floor of the patio. The son turned back an injured look. "Those are just the filter tips," he said. ... Also overheard: , Mother: "Son, don't do that." Son: "I already did." Apropos of which, it has been said that a pat on the back develops character IF administered young enough, often enough, and low enough. . The young man took the clerk aside and said confiden tially: "I am looking for a gift for a girl. I want something that will make her face light up; something that will make her eyes sparkle; something that will rekindle the fire of love." "WeU," the clerk said thoughtfully, "If you're trying to burn her up don't give her anyuiing." Block's Condition Is 'Satisfactory Portland (DPD Composer Ernest Bloch, Agate Beach, Orer, was reported in satis factory condition at a hospital here after undergoing surgery for a malignant condition. The 78-year-old Swiss-born musician has resided in Ore gon since 1940. ' Washington Report By William S. Whit COURT SCENE Washington It was a scene long to be remembered, one of the great dramas of our na tional history. And perhaps it was so sig nificant, it was a drama quiet ly and dryly u n der played. This was the Supreme Court of the United States assembled to wtuiiSrs vFhuf hear the peti tion of the Little Rock school board for a 30-months' delay in integration, and a breath ing spell to that city of pas sion and crisis. What was it like in this, one of the gravest special sittings in generations, as the court was hearing the arguments and moving toward its deci sion? First, the setting: By early morning long lines of people -white and dark-were stand ing in single file on the high line of marble steps that leads to the vast bronze doors of the Supreme Court. Some had been standing there all night. THE court was to meet at noonBy 11:30 every pos sible seat including a few movable chairs discreetly tucked away here and there is occupied. Many "persons stand decorously in the back of the room. It is a huge, perfectly square room with a vaulted ceiling. Along each of four walls there rise four giant marble pillars. The rather few seats available to the public not more than 400 are straight, stiff and covered with red cloth, much like pews in an old-fashioned but elegant church. The whole effect is somber; the impression is of an im mense, cool power. By 11:59 a.m. this room is almost painfully hushed; a few faint whispers are heard occasionally. At noon the nine black leather chairs on the high bench are still empty. A small boy, a page, creeps among them, arranging them just so. At 12:03 the court crier calls out his traditional warn ing that the justices are about to come in. He ends his ritual with the old phrase: "... God save the United States and s Matter of Fact THE BIND WE'RE IN ' Taipeh,' Formosa - At first smell, the atmosphere here is not eye-of -war like. The hope is that the Chinese Com munists will finally con tent them selves with seizing one or more of the islets, such as Tungti n g, which are not At TT 1 Jospb Alsop on me wasn ington "must defend" list of offshore islands. If this is the outcome, the crisis in the Formosa Strait will finally simmer down into a relatively harmless fire of propaganda claims and counter claims. But even if we get off this cheaply, no one should forget for an in stant that the American armed services intended to use nu clear weapons lo defend Que moy and the Matsus. That is the present inten tion. That is what is going to happen if we are drawn into serious fighting here, unless Secretary of State John Fos ter Dulles persuades or forces the Pentagon leaders to change their' plans. Dulles is convinced that a firm sand must be made. But Dulles is also .convinced that every thing possible should be done to avoid fighting a nuclear war for Quemoy. YET Dulles will have his work cut out for him to prevent the . use of nuclear weapons, if his firm stand brings American forces into the fight. For one thing, as pointed out in a previous re port, the armed services have strong arguments on their side. They have been gravely weakened for budgetary rea sons. And this weakness has been theoretically compen sated for by Presidential di rectives authorizing the use of nuclear weapons in almost any sort of fighting. For another thing, the de fense planning based on these directives has deeply influ enced service thinking. One is told that tactical nuclear weapons "would really have to be used" for the simple task of interdicting the Com munist airfields on the main land which most directly threaten the offshore islands. Yet the much more numerous North Korean airfields were perfectly successfully, inter dicted with the conventional weapons, despite the rule against attacks beyond the Yalu. - r this honorable court." The nine justices file in. neither stiffly nor easily but in a manner in between. Their black robes rustle a bit. The arguments over Little Rock are at last reached. BRENNAN of New Jersey sits eagerly upright, . with the light shining on hair that cannot yet be described as gray. Next to him is Clark of Texas, a tall, rangy man, in finitely relaxed, slumped back in his chair. . Douglas of Washington State half turns his head away, holding a hand to his cheek. Black of Alabama, his face an almost alabaster paleness, seems lost in faraway thought. Then there is Chief Justice Warren of California, like the head of a large family, up right and alert, a powerful man who looks as if he could nearly lift up the whole bench in his hands. Of the slight figure of Frankfurter of Massachusetts only the head can be seen above the bench. Burton of Ohio, the sternest-looking member, sits in absolute still ness. Harlan of New York is on the very edge of his chair. Whittaker of Kansas, the jun ior member of the bench, looks remote down at its far end. AS THE lawyers' arguments nnpn trip iiistirpa rtpffin to interrupt, calmly, easily, be ing neither friendly nor un friendly but only casual much as cultivated strangers might speak to each other in a club car. Here is a national issue of a severity we have not known since the -Civil War, but everything being said in this great room is hardly above the conversational tone, A whole era is passing be fore the eyes of the people here. . Outside, too, the old is pass ing and the new is coming in. The air of summer is going; already there is a faint nip in it. Autumn is arriving and the old green of the leaves is giving way to new traces of brown. This is a turn in time, in tradition, in ancient prac tices, a fork in the road of a kind that the Supreme Court has not often approached in more than a century and a half. A GAIN, one is told, with better logic, that it is "un thinkable" for American ground forces to confront the formidable Chinese Commu nist ground forces without using nuclear weapons. Yet the area of interest is Fukien Province, a natural land is land, largely cut off from the rest of China by surrounding mountains and easy to defend once it is taken. For just these reasons, an American landing in Fukien was by no means unthinkable in the last war. In fact, it was actually plan ned, although the Japanese armies in Asia were also fair ly formidable. In other words, the pactice has grown up of saying "we can't do this, we can't do that," when the speakers real ly mean that it will be too ex pensive or too painful to do these things. But surely it is an extraordinary delusion to think that there will be any thing inexpensive or painless about a nuclear war with the chief ally of the Soviet Union, when the Kremlin already possesses a plentiful stock of nuclear weapons of all types. ON THIS head there are im portant technical argu ments to consider. One of these arguments concerns the gain or loss to us of using nu clear weapons, if the continent-based Chinese forces are given similar weapons to use against us. Another argument concerns the effect on the Western Alliance of a nucleaf war starting on Quemoy. Still another argument con cerns the effect on our own nuclear striking power, if our allies deny us the use of our overseas airbases for such a war, and thus cripple the 80 per cent of Strategic Air Com mand squadrons that are equipped with medium range bombers. But it is clear that these technical arguments are being lightly weighed. It is clear, in fact, that all the .Pentagon thinking about the use of nu clear weapons in this wretch ed conflict is dominated by the conviction that the nu clear striking power of the United States is still superior to the nuclear striking power of the Soviet Union. This is true, of course. We are now near the end, but we have not reached the 'end of the period of the American lead. We are now close to the period, but we have not yet entered the period when our defense plans will flaccidly permit the Soviets to acquire Communications Letter to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under cer tain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publica tion Is permissible. The Mfiil Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eve to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words (Editor's note: If Hip respondent who mailed the Mail iribune a copy of her letter to Governor concerning the National Guard will also supply her correct mailing address, her letter win oe printed.) Spiritual Side To the Editor: Recently. I've been reading the letters in communications on "Ju venile Delinquency," several points have been discussed and I too agree we need more recreational areas and work for teenagers, but I believe there is another point that has been left out. That is the spiri tual side. I beiieve that the main rea son for delinquency of teen agers is lack of spiritual- and moral training in the home. A lot of parents are doing pret ty much as the delinquent, (marriage vows and such things as virtue are laughed at as old fashioned) then they are shocked to find their chil dren doing the same things. TV programs, movies and magazines pour filth into our children's minds, drinking and promiscuity are made to look attractive, as modern and sophisticated. I believe as parents we should do some thing about these things. As a Christian I would like to give, my own personal tes timony every teenager needs Christ to help them through the snares of this modern age. I am a young mother and it hasn't been many years since I was a teen ager. My only regret is that I didn't know Christ as my Savior then. How much Am erica needs real Christian homes and family altars. As J. Edgard Hoover has said, "A child brought up in Sun day School and church is sel dom brought up in court." Eleanor C. Anderson 1287 Woodrow Lane Medford Our Present World To the Editor: Since read ing your excellent editorial of Sept. 9, "Neanderthals and Others," I have been thinking how wonderful it would be if we could follow it up here in Medford with a study of "Our Present World." I think it is time for us to re-examine some of our un realistic treaties and commit ments. , Esther Robinson, 29 Ross Court, Medford. Other End of the Needle To the Editor; The follow ing reply has been sent to Mr. James Redden, chairman of the Democratic party in Jack son county, in response to his to me, published in the Mail Tribune recently: : Dear Mr. Redden: Thank you for your kind letter in re gards to registration. Your in terest in this important civic activity is to be commended. There is another related im portant civic affair you could take interest in. That is to help defeat High Tax Bun gling Bob Holmes and elect a governor both Democrats and Republicans can be proud of. Mark Hatfield. , Donald L. Stathos, Chairman, Jackson . : County Republican Central Committee. an enormous superiority in nuclear striking power. ' THERE are strong indica tions that certain key figures in the armed services have just these grim facts very much on their minds. Hence they are not averse to having a nuclear showdown now. If such a showdown is tragically inevitable, it is certainly better to have it now than later. To this extent, this view is logical. ' ' But it is altogether illogi cal to suppose we are going to get round the next corner or the corner after that, if we get safely round this corner of the offshore islands. The leaders . of the government and the leaders of the serv ices may tell themselves they are going to be very bold and firm in the future. But they are lying to themselves. They will not be bold and firm about such issues as the off shore islands, and they will not risk nuclear war for much more important issues either, when the Soviets have been allowed to gain commanding superiority in nuclear strik ing power. Any fool can foresee that much. At a minimum there-' fore, this offshore islands crisis is as a glaring revela tion of the bind we are in. It should also be taken as final proof of the need to make the, greatest and most urgent efforts to escape' from this' bind, by radically altered and boldly expanded defense plans. -
