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4 Timday, November 11.1931 MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. ORE. "Everyone in Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL, Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mir. ERIC W ALLEN JH, Managing Editor EARL rl ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHEE. Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Meoford Oregon under Act of March 3. 18&7 SUBSCRIPTION PATES B Mail In Advance. Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday I year $15.00 Daily and Sunday S mos. S.OQ Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.23 Sunday Only One year $4.20. By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland, Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. PnoMiix. 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 All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Medforl Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International FuU Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY CO.. INC, Of fices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, ' Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver. B.C. NEWSFAPEt i ruiiiSHi t "ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION U J 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 Nov. 11. 1948 (Thursday) Bugles and bagpipes, drums and drum majorettes plus rep resentatives of over two dozen civic and patriotic or ganizations march through town to celebrate Armistice day. E. H. Hedrick, superintend ent of schools, rep6rts to the Medford school board on building needs arising from present congestion. 20 YEARS AGO Nov. 11, 1938 (Friday) One of the largest parades in recent years marks the start of the American Legion's Armistice day. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Vet erans celebrate and quite a few look nice in the uniforms that were too big for them in 1918." 30 YEARS AGO Nov. 11. 1928. (Sunday) ' Several rural Rovers have been trained to meet Mail Tribune paper carriers and carry the evening paper to their owners. All veterans of the Civil war, Spanish-American war and World war are urged to march here today. 40 YEARS AGO Nov. 11, 1918 (Monday) GERMANS SIGN ARMI STICE - Mail Tribune head line. Medford's celebration starts with the blowing of the fire whistle, then ringing of the fire bell, then "firing of many guns of all calibres" - and crowds began swarming through the streets. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or fan correct it saperior; Sevan or eight is axcallent; five of sis is good. 1. The Gulf of Bothnia lies between what two countries of northern Europe? 2. In the romances about King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, who were the parents of Sir Galahad? 3. Which ship will sail the shorter distance one that leaves from Seattle or one that leaves from San Francis co, both with destinations at Yokohama, Japan? 4. The play "You Can't Take It With You" was writ ten by two authors; George S. Kaufman and who else? . 5. Who was George Fox? 6. Name the cartoonist who draws "Li'l Abner." 7. Name the mountain range that separates European from Asiatic Soviet Russia. 8. What does Shakespeare call "the green-eyed mon ster"? 9. Name the limestone cone that forms below a stalactite. 10. Under what document did the American States oper ate prior to the adoption of the Constitution? Answers: 1. Finland and Sweden. 2. Launcelot and Elaine. 3. The one thai leaves from Seattle. 4. Moss Hart. 5 Founder of the Society of Friends. 6. Al Capp. 7.- Urals. 8. Jealousy. 9. Stalagmite. 10. Articles of Confederation. Veterans Day This day November 11 originally was set aside to mark the armistice which ended the first World War on that date in 1918. It is a day wnth special meaning to veterans of that war, which for many years was simply known as "The World War." That was the war to end wars, and the war to make the world safe for democracy. There has been a lot of revision in our think ing since those days, a revision which was forced by a resurgent and militaristic Germany, its fel low dictatorship in Italy, by the coming to power of a new imperialistic Russia, and a newly Com munistic China. CLNCE World War I, we have seen a greater and more terrible World War II, a "police action" in Korea which was worse than most full-fledged wars before that, and a dozen incidents around the world which proved that peace is an uneasy thing. i The words "Armistice Day" thus lost their meaning, except by furnishing wry proof that the hopes of that day for everlasting peace were doomed to failure. The day was renamed. It is now Veterans Day, and it is in honor of Americans who have served their country during times of peril in th armed forces. TTHAT is why the day is observed as a holiday. . To the younger men who are classed as veter ans the date itself lacks the significance that it does to the doughboys of '17 and '18. But the day, now in honor of all veterans, still carries with it the pride of service to country, and the poignant but still strong hope that, in truth, the day may come when ware will end and democ racy will be safe. E.A. Centennial Thoughts Nolan Skiff, a member of the staff of the Pendleton East Oregonian, recently sat down at his typewriter and started putting down on paper some of his thoughts about the state of Oregon, and about the 100th anniversary of its statehood, which we celebrate next Feb. 14, and for the rest of 1959. . After some general description of the Centen nial itself, how it is to be celebrated, and so bn, Skiff got started talking about Oregon. His thinking is so persuasive, and so similar to that of a lot of other thinking Oregonians, who have paused to consider just what Oregon is, that we would like to let Mail Tribune readers share it. H ERE is what he said : It is said with truth that one can find nearly every type of climate and soil and agricultural opportunity in Oregon; and, fortunately, to go with this, one also may expect schools, churches and general living condi tions of the highest standards. Oregon people as a rule are not satisfied to have something "fair to middlin" good they want the best, and perhaps this is the key note of the state's character. And they like to let the world know Oregon has the best. Oregon is a state with character, and its citizens have no greater asset to show to the visiting world next year during its Centennial. No Oregonian need apolo , gize for his state, its economy, its political past, pres ent or future, its industrial growth, its agricultural might, its people and their cities, and its achievements in general. . " This is the state which became the Nation's Valen tine back on Feb. 14, 1859, and which has its official bird the gentle meadow lark; but which has ever prid ed itself upon the high percentage of volunteers for de fense of the Union during wartimes. This is the state which in the opening sentences in the Bill of Rights in its Constitution, declares "that all power is inherent in the people," and which adopted both the initiative and referendum laws and the pri- ' mary election laws in the first two decades of the Twentieth Century. This is a state which provides nearly a fifth of the nation's green peas, about three per cent of its wheat, apples and pears known the world over for their de- licious flavor, a superb brand of cheese, and livestock that command premium prices in national markets. This is a state known for its great timber resources, and whose sawmills and allied plants provide lumber, plywood and furniture used throughout much of the world. It also is a state where reforestation is largely practiced so that it always will be an asset to the na tion because of its timber products. This is a state with a fine system of highways and one which is being constantly improved with more modern express and freeways added each year. This is a state which boasts of no sales tax and which outlaws slot machines and other gambling devices. This is a state of many, many accomplishments, of many, many superlatives too numerous to mention in this comment. The point to remember, however, is that Oregon is a state in which we citizens have deep and inherent pride, and we should reflect this pride in our homeland to our visitors. " Our Centennial year should not be regarded as a period during which we seek to enrich ourselves at our visitors' expense. Rather, we should look upon it as a year in which we should make every effort to sell the fine things of our state to our guests. We have so many assets it would be a crime to keep them hidden under a blanket of modesty. And perhaps if we do a good job of presenting them to our guests, many of them will elect in time to be come Oregonians and what greater boon could we confer upon the visitors within our gates? THAT'S mighty persuasive talking. " And it keeps the thing in perspective, too. The. Centennial year isn't (or certainly shouldn't be) a time for cheap carnivals or hip-hip-hooraw doings which have no bearing on the essential worth of the state of its fields and mountains and forests, and its people. The way we see it, it should be a time when Oregonians can get better acquainted with the lovely state in which they live, and share it with others. E. A. - - Dennis the Menace ' &oy, iFTfWr wasn't Ate. ioiAlGf! Washington Report By William COLLISION IN '60? Washington The national political community is full of forecasts of a coming Nixon- iT"! R o c k e feller collision for the 1960 Pres idential nom ination just like the late Senator Rob ert A. Taft of Ohio had in 1952 with Dwight Eisen- William S White nower. These predicitions are that history will repeat itself with Vice - President Richard M. Nixon as the young pro grap pling with a popular amateur, Gov -elect Nelson Rockefeller of New York, as old-pro Taft grappled with a similarly pop ular amateur, Mf. Eisenhower. Some, see the script for this drama as already written. It is complete with parts not only for the stars, Nixon and Rockefeller, but also for all the supporting players. The "Wall Street" Eastern Repub licans are seen marshalling on one side of the stage ready to feed the socko lines to Rocke feller. The Midwestern reg ular Republicans are moving up on the other side of the stage tc do their dramatic bits for Nixon. THERE is plausibility in this picture. It is indeed prob able that there will be anoth er great- contest within the Republican party between the Rockefeller "moderns' 'and all the rest of the Republicans put together. It is unlikely, however, that any really axact reproduction of 1952- can oc cur. True, Nixon and his party wing may corresponded roughly to Taft and his party wing, and Rockefeller and his wing may correspond to Eis enhower and his wing. But there will be significant dif ferences in the plot of 1960 from that of 1952. The Vice-President is both more and less than was Taft. His leadership of the regullar Republican organization is more sure than was Taft's at the comparable pre - conven tion period of eight years ago. He is an immensely more cap able practical "operator" than Taft ever was. Heavy-handed mistakes by lieutenants at state conventions compromis ed Taft's candidacy for him before the national conven tion even opened. And it was characteristic of the Senator's awkward but moving gran deur as a man that these mis takes .remained unrebuked. VTIXON lieutenants will ' make no such mistakes. At the first sign of even potential ineptitude they would be ex lieutenants. Nixon, in a word, now has a harder grip on the regular party mechanism than Taft ever had. Moreover, though no one knows what the case may be two years hence, Nixon as of now cer tainly is not so vulnerable as was Taft to the old cry: "He can't win." . This is so mainly because he is immeasurabley less vul nerable on another count. Ter ribly damaging to Taft was a wide feeling that he was hopeless on foreign policy; that he was some sort of isola tionist Nobody could ration ally make that accusattion against Nixoni First, his rec ord simply would refute it. Second, he is much more gift ed explaining himself to the people. He can handle the simplici ties and sometimes even the over-simplicities. But Taft al ways assumed that "intelli gent people" would grasp what he meant; if not, then so much the worse for them. For the views of the "unin telligent," he couldn't have cared less. ' THERE is, however, an im portant other side. of .the S. White medal. This is a human fact. It is that while he Vice-President's practical skill is far higher than was Taft's, he does not command the almost incredible loyalty of the reg ular rank-and-filers that was automatically Taft's. When they thought Taft was wrong on an issue these rank-and-filers would only shake their heads and say, "That's old Bob for you." It never cost him an ounce of their support. Taft was a-dynasitc figure so much so that they did not flinch even from their own awareness that the public never understood him and quite probably would reject him if ever he were nominated for President. Whatever "Bob" did was all right with them including those times when he would caU them by the wrong names and clearly suggest that they would do well to go somewhere else and stop annoying him. Nixon simply cannot count on anything of this sort. The Old Guard might fight briskly for him. But the Old Guard would not stand in its tracks and die hopelessly for him as it would, any day, for Taft. (Copyright, 1958. by United Feature Syndicate, - Inc.) Communications Another Road Complaint To the Editor: We are new comers to this neighborhood and like it fine but the road conditions for a town growing as fast as Medford - makes quite a hardship and worry for all of us. . There are spots that would be impossible for two cars to pass safely let alone a car and bus. We trust our bus drivers with our children but with such narrow roads must be a great hardship on them. I know I wouldn't want the job. With five children this is important to us to try and get Dark Hollow and Pioneer roads widened for more safe ty for our children now on bicycles and when they're teen-agers driving cars. Twice I have met cars in spots where one of us had to back up tp a wider spot. The soft shoulders on the down hill side are very dangerous, and on the bank side there are ruts. I have almost ruined our front axle in order to get out of the way. Most of the people are con siderate of each other when passing but with Some it's "get out of the way orelse." Don't take our word for it, drive out and see for yourself what . a hazard it is for any one that drive on these roads. Mrs. Johnson, 3467 Dark Hollow rd., Medford. At the Top To the Editor: In regard to the Griffin Creek school bus accident of Oct. 31, 1 noted in the Mail Tribune for Monday, Nov. 3, a letter from W. H. Frohreich of Medford," stating that he had called the atten tion of County Judge Keating and Commissioner Wendt, al so County Engineer Rynning to the conditions which con tributed most to the wreck of the school bus. My personal idea is that Mr. Keating wouldn't know a good road from a poor one and have been told that Mr. Wendt usu ally follows Mr. Keating's ideas. As to the latter, I per sonally couldn't say. As for Mr. Rynning, I have nothing against him as an in dividual but I do believe his ideas on road building and conditions are somewhat old fashioned, perhaps perfectly suitable for the horse and buggy of yesteryear but defi nitely not suitable today. I hope Mr. Rynning will con sider carefully that I have nothing against him as an in dividual, but I do think he should step down and give the job to a younger man whose Today & Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann A TALK WITH MR. K (PART 1) ' I During the last two weeks of October, my wife and I were in the Soviet Union, al though we had discussed our visit with the Soviet Em bassy in Wash ington and it k n J .m. I agreed in ad 4f 4J vance that my be to under stand Soviet Walter Lippmann foreign policy in relation to the United Staps. Fvr-pnt for a bit of sightseeing in Len ingrad, we did not go anv- where else in the vast expans es of the Soviet Union, and I know nothing at firsthand about the internal condition of the Soviet Union. But from a long interview with Mr. Knrushchev himself, supple mented by talks with Soviet officials and Soviet editors. I think I came to understand better than I had before what are the mainsprings and the controlling ideas of Soviet foreign policy. I shall begin this series of articles with an account in two parts of the interview with Mr. K. I have to divide it because the account is long. For the interview covered much ground and lasted for two hours. I must set down the circumstances. For the first week of our visit in Mos cow there was no definite ap pointment. Mr. K had been away in the south and when he came to Moscow he was in volved in the negotiations with Field Marshal Amer who, representing- President Nadser, negotiated the agree ment which deals with the As wan Dam and no doubt with many other things. Between the departure of the Field Marshal and the scheduled ar rival of Mr. Gomulka and the Polish delegation, Mr. K. had, it appears, a free day. An ap pointment was fixed for that day at 11 in the morning in hiii office in .the Kremlin. VyE were told to be ready at our hotel 20 mnutes in advance and that an official from the State Committee for Cultural Relations for For eign Countries would come for us in a car. Tourists cannot drive into the Kremlin pre cincts but after our car had been identified, we were led by a police car to the door of a building in one of the inner courts of the Kremlin palace. There we were met by an of ficer who escorted -us to an anteroom next to Mr. K.'s of fice. There was no one else in saght. Unlike the offices of any other chief of government that I have ever visited, there were no guards, there were no other people waiting, there were no secretaries carrying papers around, there were of course no newspaper men. and there was none of the hustle and bustle which usually prevail in the outer rooms of busy and Important officials. Somewhere and somehow Mr. K. must do a great deal of work and must see a great many people. But there was no outward sign of it. When we were shown into his of fice, which was on the dot of 11 a.m., he was quite relaxed, had none of the symptoms of a busy and preoccupied man, and indeed he acted as if he had all the time in the world. In the course of the interview it was evident that he wanted to talk about Soviet-American relations and atout noth ing else. But on this subject he seemed ready to talk as long as I wanted, provided I kept ideas could conceivably be more suitable to this day and age. - - I am not acquainted with the Dark Hollow road. How ever, I can show Mr. Rynning or anyone else who is inter ested a few places where the Butte Falls highway from Crater Lake highway to Butte Falls and from Butte Falls to Willow Creek bridge and be yond could be surveyed for much better results with the naked eye or possibly a piece of chalk line. I would be ashamed to admit I couldn't do a better job myself. Several persons have told me that "we will never have decent roads in this county until Mr. Rynning leaves the office." There was a consider able bit of work done on the Butte Falls highway this sum mer, but it is very little, if any, wider than it was before. It would have cost very little more to have added two more feet to either side. Mr. Keating stated last spring in an interview with me that "this road (the Butte Falls-Fish Lake road) is very good." He probably didn't no tice, or, didn't want to, the boulders protruding above the surface of same. The whole trouble with our" road depart ment is at the top. : . Floyd R. McCabe, Mt. Pitt Star Route, Butte Falls, Ore- l 1 asking him about the broad is sues and did not try to get into the details of any particu lar negotiation. TTIS office in the Kremlin is "a long rectangular room with a long rectagular table for conferences, and at the end what seemed to be a very small desk for the ruler of a vast empire. The desk, more over, was cluttered with gadg ets, rather like President Franklin Roosevelt's desk in the White House, and with a large model of what I sup pose was a jet airplane. At the interview, which took place at one end of the long table, there were besides Mr. K. himself, his interpreter, Mr Troyanowski, the son of the former Soviet Ambassador to Washington, Mr. Yuri Zhu kov (no relation of the Mar shal s) who is the head of the State Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Coun tries my wife and myself. There was no stenographer present nor was there any visible recording machine. Eut Mr. Khukov took notes, my vif e took notes, Mr. Troy anowski made memoranda for his translations, and I, when I remembered to put my mind on it, took some notes also. There is, therefore, no offi cial record, and at the end of the interview, while we were drinking the mineral water which his doctor had ordered him to drink, I asked Mr. K. to tell me under what condi tions I could use what he had said. H? waved aside the ques tion, saying I could do what I liked with what he had said, but that he hoped I would not do any damage to Soviet American relations! As this left me with my conscience as my guide, I feel that the right thing to do is to report the story of the interview with explanations but without editorial argu ment. Because there is no written record, I shall refrain from attempting to quote Mr. K. directly, except for certain phrases which I wrote down at the time in my notes. On the other hand, I must set down as true an account as I can of what I understood him to say and of what I believe he meant. II AFTER the preliminary courtesies Mr. K waved his hand at me and said he was ready to answer my ques tions. 1 began by saying that relations between our . two countries had deteriorated since the summit meeting at Geneva in 1955, and would the Chairman comment on this. Relations, he said, have not beccme wrse. They were bad in 1955. They are bad now, and they have not become any better. The question, he added, is whether our rela tions are to be frozen where they are now or are to be come better or worse. I reminded him that at the time of the Geneva meeting there had been hopes of much better relations. Yes, he said, but in the Went these hopes were based on a false premise. Dulles and Churchill or as he put it "that old wolf Churchill" had hoped that after Stalin's death there would be a change in the internal policy of the U.S.S.R., and that the coun try would turn away from the strengthening of its "so cialist achievements." When they saw that the successors of Stalin were not going to liquidate the Communist sys tem but that these successors did want to relax the tension on the basis of the status quo, the West reverted to the tac tics of the Cold War." They had hoped to win us over but we shall never . belldiverted from the path of socialism. Never! AT f THE next interval I seized the chance to ask Mr. K. to tell me what he understood by the "status quo." The answer to this cru cial question; it soon appear ed, is in his mind a complex one, and the bulk of the in terview which followed was a gradual unfolding of what the phrase means in his mind. It will, I think, help the read er if at this point I interrupt the narrative and summar ize what, as I reflected on the whole interview afterwards, seemed to me to be the main elements in his conception of the "status quo." The simpler part of his conception is that there should r,1en0ld5(L60! Recharge body's batteries -Feel Younger Fast! 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I shall .come back to the German question later on. But first, I must set down what is the more important part of his conception of the "status quo." In his mind, the social and economic revolution now in progress in Russia, China, and elsewhere in Asia and Africa is the status quo, and he wants us to recognize it as much. In his mind, oppo sition to this revolution is an attempt to change the status quo. Whereas we think of the status quo as the situation as it exists at the moment, he thinks of it as the process of revolutionary change which is in progress. He wants us to recognize the revolution not only as it is but as it is going to be. THERE is another very im portant component in his conception of the status quo. This has to do with the bal ance of military power. j Judging by what he said, and by what was implied in in what he said, I would de scribe his view of the existing military balance of power as follows. It rests, I feel rea sonably certain, on his con fidence that the Soviet Un ion has mastered the inter mediate and short range mis siles to a point -where it can. dominate with them Germany and Western Europe, Turkey and Iran. I do not know, of course, whether his confidence in these missiles is justified. But there is no doubt that he assumes their existence in his thinking, and that they have now become, as the say ing, goes, a principal instru ment of Soviet foreign policy. On the other hand, nothing that he said implied that he thinks the U.S.S.R. has long range missiles which have broken, or are about to break, the existing military stale mate with the United States. His conception of his military position in relation to the United States is that neither country can defeat the other in a direct conflict, but that the American forward posi tions, particularly in Ger many and Turkey, can, be cause of the development of the rocket, no longer be de fended. He feels,' therefore, that American policy rests on an obsolete estimate of the existing balance of power. HI T AM now resuming the A story of the interview it self. After he had talked about the status quo, and about no changes of frontiers by force,- and about the need of mutual consent in the Ger man question, I asked him whether he would agree to free negotiations between the two Germanys and whether, as one of the four occupying powers, he would accept an agreement negotiated by the two Germanys themselves. To this he replied quickly-too quickly as it developed-that he would agree to this, and that it would, be best if the troops of the occupying pow ers were withdrawn before negotiations were concluded. This would bring about "a more normal condition." I was not convinced that he had meant what he had said, perhaps because he had not fully understood what a West erner would mean when he talks about free negotiations between the two Germanys. So I asked him whether he really meant that the occupy ing powers would accept un conditionally the result of ne gotiations between - the two Counsel With . . . Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan ? I "TW fy' $ 'V'; Fred Brennan Or Call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone SP 3-7343 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY ' 27 NORTH HOLLY ST. German governments. To this he replied that the occupying powers would, "of course," abide by the Potsdam Agree ment which states, he said, that Germany should never again be in a position to dis turb the peace. He left me with the reasonable certainty that if the Western powers proposed a free negotiation by the two Germanys, the Soviet government would not be will ing to accept it. TJIS mention of the Potsdam XA Agreement brought him quickly to his complaint that the United States is violating the Agreement by contribut ing to the remilitarization of Germany. This carried with it the implication that there could be no reunification of the two Germanys as long as West Germany was to be once again a military power. This led deeper into the German question. He discuss ed it at length and with more passion than he showed on any other subject. Out of it came what was for me a very interesting disclosure of how his mind works on the Ger man question. Describing what he said, we must read it in the contest of his mili tary assumption that the So viet Union has now mastered the intermediate range missiles. Americans, he began, seem ed not to realize the danger which their present policy of rearming Germany may well bring down upon them. What is this danger, I asked? It is, he said, that if a new war is unleashed-we shall come later to his conception of how a new war might be unleashed -Germany might once again turn to the East against the West. Why? Because if West ern Germany engaged in a war against the East, the U.S.S.R. could quickly destroy Western Germany - with its missiles. But if the Soviet Union encouraged Germany to turn against the West, the Germans alone will be much stronger than England, France and Spain combined. THIS led him on to say that the situation was much like that on the eve of World War II. How? Much is said in the West about Munich. But the Western peoples do not understand Munich. They think that Czechoslovakia was sacrificed at Munich in order to appease Hitler and keep him from going to war. But in fact, said Mr. K. with pas sionate conviction, Munich was arranged by British and French conservatives who wanted Hitler to attack Rus-. sia. To induce him to do that, they gave him Czechoslovakia, which is "an arrow aimed at the heart of Russia." The So viet Union, he said, had been ready in 1938 to join in the defense of Czechoslovakia against Hitler, and had actu ally alerted its army. ' After Munich, said Mr. K., Stalin realized the danger in the U.S.S.R. as a result of the Western action. Hitler, too, saw what this action meant to the Russians and, believing that he could fin ish off Britain and France if the Soviet Union were in duced to remain neutral, Hit ler offered to make a deal with Stalin. He intended, of course, to attack Russia when he had finished with the West. But Stalin, for his part, saw a chance to weaken Hit ler before the coming attack on Russia by encouraging him to make war in the West. The point of Mr. K.'s his torical explanation, which he volunteered without being asked any questions about it, was that another German-So viet pact was at least as pos sible today as in 1939-indeed more probable since a Ger man attack on the Soviet Un ion had now become "sui cidal." (To Be Continued) Copyright 1958, New York Herald Tribune Inc. HATS OFF TO THE VETERANS . We'ra proud to join the rest of. the nation in a VETERANS' DAY SALUTE. Far too many , have forgotten much too soon the sacrifices made by the VETERANS in protecting our country and our homes. Bill Fish I f
