4 Tuesday, February 24, 193t I
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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Feb. 24. 1949 (Thursday)
Tumbling and boxing exhi
bitions are slated for the op
ening of the new YMCA
building.
Society for the Preserva
tion and Encouragement of
Barber Shop Quartet Singing
i n America organizational
meeting will be held here.
20 YEARS AGO
Feb. 24. 1939 (Friday)
Angus Bowmer of Ash
land's Shakespeare troupe
agrees to stage a performance
of Kaufman and Hart's "You
Can't Take It With -You" at
the Holly after its successful
showing in Ashland.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "A
number of citizens, who were
foot-loose last winter, and
went to California, have re
turned with regrets they got
their foot loose."
30 YEARS AGO
Feb. 24, 1929 (Sunday)
The Legislature's final
week is expected to produce
"much that does not matter,"
The Pacific coast gasoline
war continues.
40 YEARS AGO
Feb. 24. 1919 (Monday)
Income experts arrive to
assist citizens in preparing
their returns.
A group of timber owners
are reported to be consider
ing purchase of the P. and E.
railroad.
50 YEARS AGO
Feb. 24, 1909 (Wednesday)
. Gov. Chamberlain approves
the Crater Lake road bill.
Condor Water and Power
company plans to start a new
steel bridge over the Rogue
River at Gold Ray.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
lix is good.
" 1. With what country do
you associate the food known
as tamale?
. 2. Complete the following
TV commercial, "Look, Mom,
no ."
I 3. In the nursery rhyme,
bow many bags of wool did
baa-baa black sheep have?
- 4. Where is the Carlsbad
Cavern?
: " 5. Is Korea a flat, or moun
tainous country?
6. In Colonial days, who
was a cordwainer?
' 7. What did the following
have in common (two things);
George Washington, Andrew
Jackson, William Henry Har
rison. Zacharv Taylor. U. S.
Grant, James A. Garfield,
Dwight D. Eisenhower?
R. Are the Commissioners
(administrative heads) of the
District of Columbia appoint
ed by the Congress or the
President?
. 9. What is the latitude of
the North Pole?
10. Who said, "I believe
this eovernment cannot en
dure permanently, half slave
and half free r
Answers: 1. Mexico. 2. "
cavities." 3. Three bags full.
4. New Mexico. 5. Mountain
ous. 6. Shoemaker. 7. All
cresidenls and generals. 8
President. 9. 90 degrees
north. 10. Abraham Lincoln.
Crane Count Climbs
One of the metropolitan daily papers which
reach this office the other day had a tiny wire
service story tucked down near the bottom of an
inside page which contained the inf ormation that
nine baby whooping cranes have been hatched in
northern Canada.
As is customary on this page, we are glad to
convey this intelligence to the readers of the Mail
Tribune. .
For no readily definable reason, we find the
battle of the whooping crane for survival one of
the more poignant little epics of modern conserva
tion. "THE increase in the whooping crane population
revealed by this Canadian wildlife service re
port equals almost 25 per cent, bringing the world
population up to 38: In 1942 it was down to 15.
Since the annual whooping crane census start
ed in 1938, the total count has, slowly and not
very steadily, climbed to its present figure.
It may be, if hunters continue to distinguish
the big birds on their hazardous annual flight
from Canada to Texas, that the cranes will once
again be of sufficient numbers to guarantee
against their extinction. E. A.
Macmillan To Moscow
The British Prime Minister's visit to Soviet
Russia must be viewed as strictly exploratory
and hence unlikely to produce anything in the
way of a new East-West agreement or even a
veiy startling communique. Macmillan was at
great pains in the discussion in the House of
Commons, Feb. 5, on announcing plans for the
trip, to make it clear that he was not conducting
a negotiation "but something perhaps of the
nature of a reconnaissance."
In advance of the announcement Britain's al
lies were notified of the coming trip, but the
record shows no specific consultations on it.
Even so, there is no indication that Macmillan
is planning to "go it alone," any more than there
was any real fear in Europe that the Eisenhower
administration would engage in bilateral talks
during the recent visit here of Soviet First Dep
uty Premier 'Anastas L Mikoyan.
Even before the serious illness of Secretary
of State Dulles was fully disclosed, the London
Daily Mail pointed out that Macmillan was an
obvious choice as a sort of "first scout." "It
would be inexpedient or impossible," the Con
servative journal explained, "for President Ei
senhower, Mr. Dulles, Dr. Adenauer, or General
de Gaulle to go."
jVIACMILLAN is accompanied by Foreign Sec
retary Selwyn Lloyd, but the Prime Minister
has clearly been acting as his own foreign minis
ter, much in the manner of Winston Churchill in
World War II and subsequently Sir Anthony
Eden. The same was not
War II Labor government, in which Foreign Sec
retary Ernest Bevm loomed quite as large m dip
lomatic affairs as did
Attlee.
The reverse has been
Rosevelt and Harry S. Truman (perhaps less so)
were to a large extent their own foreign minis
ters. Dwight D. Eisenhower increasingly has giv
en a tree hand to becretary Dulles. JMow Dulles
illness lends all the more significance to the Mac
millan mission, particularly so since the man who
makes it shares an Ike -
with the President.
IJPON HIS return, Macmillan will "consult
either in Bonn or in Paris or in Washington"
and there is a good chance that he will get
around to all three. Prior to the Dulles operation,
a meeting of allied foreign ministers was sched
uled for mid-March in Europe. Also slated is a
North Atlantic Treaty Organization Council meet
ing, down for Washington April 2.
Meantime, the clock lmns out. The deadline
in Soviet Premier Nikita
to hand over Russian authority in East Berlin to
the East German government is May 27. If a
Big Four conference is desired by the Russians
to ward off an international crisis when the or
iginal six months is up, Khrushchev presumably
will find a way of telling Macmillan. In any event,
Macmillan's speculations as to the real Soviet
intent should be as valuable to the West as those
of Mikoyan are supposed
chev.
Then comes the real work. Secretary Dulles,
on returning from conferences with Macmillan,
Chancellor Adenauer, and President de Gaulle,
on Feb. 9 announced
stay in West Berlin by
foui stand at a proposed East-West foreign
ministers' conference on Germany need working
out. ti. K. K.
No. 3 Criminal
In Cuba Executed
Havana -UP&- Lt. Col. Luis
H. Grao, Cuba's "war crimin
al No. 3," fell before the guns
of a firing squad in the dry
moat of the Cabana Fortress
prison here just before mid
night Monday, it was an
nounced today.
Grao was the last of the
three army officers described
as Cuba's principal war crim
inals to face the rifles of "rev
olutionary justice." Maj. Jesus
S6sa Blanco and Capt. Pedro
Morejon Valdes were execut
ed earlier this year.
time of the post-World
Prime Minister Clement
time here. Franklin D.
Mac kind of friendship
S. Khrushchev's threat
to have been to Khrush
Allied determination to
force in necessary. The
Pack Members Visit
Mail Tribune Plant
Members of Den 4, Pack
100, Hoover school, visited
the Mail Tribune publishing
plant yesterday afternoon.
Those making the tour in
cluded Eddie Gressett, Kevin
Casey, Lee Ramsby, James
Knight, Bill McNair and
Daid Dutton. They were ac-
companeia Dy mrs.
Knight.
R. B.
Michigan is so surrounded
by its three Great lakes-Huron,
Erie and Michigan-that no
point in the state is said to
be more than 85 miles distant
from any one of them.
Dennis the
6oy, arb Yoiiceyf You mean nobov never
reus you ya gotta getclzahev up?
Washington Report
By WILLIAM
WELL DONE!
Washington-General of the
Army George C. Marshall is
sick with a great sickness and
with his life
a gallant and
lost era is
coming to its
close. This
was the era of
the second
World War, in
which Mar
shall, without
pvei having a
Wwhite ' field command
at all, served so nobly and so
well.
He was the Secretary of
State who gave his name to
the Marshall Plan for the post
war recovery of Europe. He
served also as Secretary of
Defense. But before this he
had been Chief of Staff of the
United .States Army.. ; And,
though this post in Washing
ton's hierarchy was far below
the others he had held, it was
this post which most of all he
honored in his private
thoughts. ".' ;
This was the man this
rather thin and grey and cold
ly kind military man who
more than any other on this
side of the ocean brought to
an end to-Hitler and to Tojo
and to all the evil power that
they had represented.
,
IT WAS this man also, with
Will Clayton of Texas, and
others now lost from public
sight who made the plan for
which a Europe, then spent
and broken, has now come
upon a new life of strength
and hope.
And it was this .man who
went to China toward the
close of the late great war and
made proposals for ending in
that ancient land a civil war
that has had no end, and per
haps will never have any end.
Marshall went as a repre
sentative of the President of
the United States and as a
soldier going into a place he
did not know. His purpose was
to put a stop by agreement to
civil strife between National
ists and Communists in China.
His fear was that this strife
and the resulting chaos, if
long continued, would eventu
ally benefit only the Russians
as land-hungry neighbors of
lost China.
They said later the bitter
politicians of the Republican
right wing said it that Mar
shall had gone to promote
communism and to push into
an abyss the last hope and the
last power of our last ally in
the far Pacific, Nationalist
China.
THEY caRed him, MarshaU,
many terrible things; I re
member that the then Sen.
William Jenner of Indiana
called Marshall "a front man
for traitors ... a living lie."
This was perhaps the most
brutal thing ever said in our
long history of passionate par
tisanship about a man who
was as great a patriot and as
great a gentleman as we
have ever known.
Marshall had given up, to
a man named Dwight D.
Eisenhower, the glory of the
top command in Europe .vhen
we were all fighting Hitler.
Marshall, - with a quiet and
heartbreaking loyalty to the
great common cause, had
stayed in Washington to be
only Chief of Staff of the
United States Army. Through
these years he had stuck here
at his post, a soldier quietly
doing the best he could while
other and lesser men put their
names and their marks upon
history.
He stayed here and he
stayed with his duty. And the
men who were full of rancor
had their way with him in
Congress. They taunted him,
they screamed at him, they
did everything of hate that
could be done against any
man anywhere anytime.
Menace
S. WHITE
MARSHALL, the s o 1 d i e r,
stayed quiet, and as al
ways did the very best he
could.
. Not in all our history has
one man done, in a military
way, so much for all of us
And surely never in all our
history has one man been so
ill rewarded for all that he
had done.
Now, in the Army hospital
at Ft Bragg, N.C., General of
the Army George Catlett Mar
shall is fighting, with the
gentility and uncomplaining
courage that is part of him,
against the final antagonist of
all men who live, the antag
onist which is death.
There are no Valhallas in
our life any "more. But if a
single Valhalla a single gal
lery of great fighting men
should survive, somewhere,
one could hear from this gal
lery a great shout: "Marshall,
well done."
.(Copyright, 1959, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
Editorial
Comment
LOOKING BETTER.
Oregon made news of a
sort, and law of a very im
portant sort, 30 years ago at
the peak of the local Ku Klux
Klan's attack on the Catholic
Church. The controversy cul
minated in a Supreme Court
recision which guaranteed the
right of the Catholics, or any
similar group, t o maintain
their own schools. The case
got into the courts after Ore
gon, at Klan urging, had pass
ed a law against parochial
schools.
Now it appears that Oregon
again will be a test state in
a related matter. In what is
apparently a friendlly suit to
test the validity of an estab
lished practice, proceedings
are being started in Clacka
mas county to test the furn
ishing of textbooks to Cath
olic schools at state expense.
Presumably, by mutual agree
ment the suit will go the
whole way clear to the
Supreme court.
It should go all the way.
And that's where it should be
decided, rather than in the
legislative halls or in the hate
filled minds of latter day Ku
Kluxers.
From time to time, anti
Catholic factions have made
disturbing noises, suggesting
that another wave of hysteria
and bigotry might be on the
way. But the seeds have not
fallen upon fertile ground.
Maybe , we're too sophisticat
ed, too educated to fall for
the sort of demogoguery that
once appealed to s6 many Ore
gon residents.
This suit is brought in the
names of three citizens by
the Oregon chapter of the
American Civil Liberties Un
ion, a group with a -splendid,!
Try and Stop Me
2- By 8INNETT CERF
MIKE CONNOLLY wires that a songwriter was just awarded
twenty thousand bucks because some ingrate popped him
one on the jaw and, clutching the check in his hot and heavy
hand, promptly wrote a new
song to celebrate his victory.
The name of the song, of
course, is "Every Clout Has
a Silver Lining." '
In the fur department of a
fashionable shop a stout lady
lady tried on an expensive
mink coat, and admired her
self ungrudgingly in the mir
ror. She was then overheard
Imploring the saleslady, "When
my husband hates it, will you
give me your sacred word of
honor the store will refuse to
take it back for credit?"
Cold weather inspired Ida Pardue to compose this couplet:
Winter brings the usual run of
Mittens mothers find just one of.
0 1353, by Burnett Cert Pjstrftmtea by Sins features Sradisate
Communications
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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 Mail
Tribune reserves the right to
edit all letters with an eye to
clarification and condensation.
Letters submitted for publica
tion must not exceed 400 words.
Wake Up. America
To the Editor: Just a few
words in defense of Dan
Smoot. I don't know the par
ticular program that the writ
er had in mind but I do know
what Dan Smoot is fighting
for. I do know what he is
fighting against. He and a
few others like him are wag
ing a battle that, when the
truth breaks upon the world,
will go down in history as
fighting for freedom and win
not have the stigma as. the
Yalta agreement has.
If anyone who is interested
in the freedom of this coun
try I would recommend that
they buy the March issue of
the Reader's Digest. The state
ment by Ezra Taft Benson on
page 138 is alone worth the
price of the magazine. This
man's plight we first read in
The American Mercury. This
article is a perfect example
of what Dan Smoot is fight
ing. Give particular attention
to the second paragraph on
page 140 which shows that
without trial or formal hear
ing this man was penalized
and part of bank account was
seized. This happened in free
America and not the first
case.
Wake up America.
Ella Powell,
Box 621, -Central
Point
Sees Pollution Threat
To the Editor: I am opposed
to Senate Bill 183 because it
would make possible location
of a pulp mill on Rogue river.
Present law withdraws
from appropriation waters of
the main channel of Rogue
except for domestic, stock,
irrigation and municipal pur
poses. It permits, however,
appropriation, diversion and
use of waters of any tributary
of Rogue for any purpose.
Any industry that might
want to locate in the Rogue
basin, with exception of
"Kraft" process type pulp
mill, could do so under exist
ing statutes since the other
industries can secure ample
water from municipal water
systems and tributaries.
Mqst efficiently operated of
pulp mills known today re
move only 95 per cent of pol
lutants. The other 5 per cent
results from final washings
of pulp and because of large
quantity of liquid it must go
into the river. In case of a
small pulp mill this liquid
amounts to about 60 acre feet
per day. To hold such quan
tities of water for nine months
would require ponds with two
times the capacity of Emi
grant reservoir or Fish lake.
Impounding of pollutants
and releasing at flood stage
only applies to the concen
trated liquors which are espe
cially deadly to all fish.
. Today there is no known
way to do away with the pol
lution of the air by pulp mill
which is so noticeable be
cause of the foul odors. Any
westerly wind will result in
odors from a pulp mill in
vicinity of Grants Pass being
noticed in the Medford valley.
In summer the prevailing
wind is from the ocean up
the Rogue river valley to
ward Medford.
The majority of the present
State Water Resources Board
of 7 men would permit wa
ters of Rogue to be withdrawn
until flow reached 5.25 cubic
feet per second at Grants
Pass. Fish of Rogue below
that point show signs of suf
fering when flow falls to 800.
Most chinook salmon spawn
in the main stem of river in
September. This is. when the
flow is already low. Further
at this same time most of the
young steelhead and salmon
are in the river below Grants
record of fightng bigotry.
We're far better off to have
the question settled in the
calm atmosphere of the
courts. Eugene Register-Guard.
Morse Disagrees on Porter's
Report About Cuban Slayings
To the Editor: Your edi
torial in the Jan. 25 issue of
the Mail Tribune has just
reached my attention. I have
also read the news stories in
the same issue of your paper
Matter of Fact
One-man Genro
Washington - When the
man. in full charge of this
country s foreign affairs falls
d e s p erately
ill at a mo
ment of acute
danger, it is
no mere pri
vate tragedy.
Great public
interests con
verge upon
the sick-room
of the Secre-
Jns-ph Alsop tary oi iaie.
Because great public inter
ests are involved, it is unwise
to be mealy-mouthed. -The
President has indicated that
he means to retain John Fos
ter Dulles as Secretary of
State, until Dulles himself
positively insists upon resign
ing. The Secretary, in turn,
has offered his resignation,
but he is highly unlikely to
insist upon it, in view of his
intense sense of mission and
his confidence, born of past
acts of courage, in his own
power to bend an ailing body
to an unyielding will.
Hence the questions really
have to be asked, how long
this situation is going to con
tinue, and what kind of a sit
uation it really is. The con
sensus of leading specialists
in the Secretary's disease
does not suggest reasuring an
swers to these vital questions.
IN brief, although Dulles is
fortunately reported to
have tolerated the first treat
ment rather well, the radia
tion therapy that is being
used is almost always cruelly
disabling, at least for a while,
and particularly in abdominal
cases. Furthermore, as one
great specialist put it, "it's
the kind of therapy I would
never use in a normal case -although
I might try it in the
case of a very important man
who positively demanded
seme sort of treatment."
The best hope really lies in
the unpredictability of the
Secretary's disease. There is
always a chance that it will
simply subside for a while, al
lcwing him to lead an almost
normal life for a further per
iod of a few or many months.
But the specialists quote
cruelly bad odds against this
kind of remission. They say
that the known symptoms -for
example, the severe pain
the Secretary is known to
have felt before his last brave
journey overseas - give only
about one chance in ten, and
perhaps only one chance in
twenty, that Dulles can ever
again resume anything like
his normal public burden.
SUCH apparently, is the real
istic prognosis. It is a ter
rible thing to put such words
in cold print. But in present
circumstances, the sad facts
have to be publicly faced, for
a whole series of public reas
ons. One such reason is now ur
gent. The firm Dulles policy
at Berlin has always been
coupled with a calculation of
the risks based upon the ex
perience of the Quemoy cris
is. Because of Quemoy, Sec
retary Dulles has always con
fidently predicted that the
Soviets would not risk a big
war for Berlin, if the West
would just stand firm. Nikita
Khrushchev's last grim, bel
ligerent speech .about Berlin
has sent a shock of doubt
about this calculation of risks
through the whole group of
American and Western offi
cials who have much experi
ence with the Soviets. In
short, the risks need to be re
calculated. If the risks are indeed re
calculated, certain new meas
ures will obviously be requir
Pass on way to the ocean.
We should all contemplate
what might happen to the
Rogue fishery and the $12 mil
lion industry that is depend
ent thereon if Senate Bill 183
is passed.
Paul H. Weiland,
2431 East Main st.,
Medford .
WHAT'S IN A NAME
Chicago-flJPD-The Iola Cheer
club is celebrating its eight
year remembering the for
gotten in hospitals and insti
tutions, but it doesn't have
to worry about remembering
what its name stands for. Mrs.
Malva Andre, rounder of the
club, says the name Iola
"doesn't stand for anything."
It's just a pretty name we
thought of," she said.
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in which you quote Congress
man Porter as follows; "Por
ter, a frequent critic of Latin
American dictators, said the
storm of protest in this coun
try against the killings was
Joseph Alsop
ed. These may include a par
tial mobilization and an air
alert of the Strategic Air
Command, SAC is now nak
edly exposed to a Pearl Harbor-type
surprise, if the De
fense department has made
a rather trifling error in esti
mating Soviet missile capabil
ities). But how are the risks
to be effectively re-calcula
ted, when final authority still
resides in Dulles sick-room?
And how is the President to
be persuaded to order these
highly repugnant and costly
measures, on the advice of
lesser men in the State De
partment, and if his Secretary
of State cannot see the need
for such measures through
the dark fog of pain and ill
ness? fFHIS single illustration is
- enough to indicate the na
ture of the present situation.
It is ' as though the United
States were an automobile
with the steering-wheel ; pre
locked, going down a theoret
ically straight road which
may yet reveal sharp and un
forseen curves. Even those
who regard the Dulles illness
as a major national tragedy,
as this reporter does, must
nonetheless admit that such a
situation is really not accept
able. The , obvious solution is
suggested by the "Genro," the
group of men who founded
modern Japan, and continued
to be consulted at all times,
and to influence policy very
deeply, long after their retire
ment from active official re
sponsibility. The President
has a. duty to name a new Sec
retary of State, with full re
sponsibility, without much
further delay. At the same
time, the President could
make John Foster Dulles a
one-man "Genro." If the Pres
ident and the new Secretary
then treated . Dulles as the
"Genro" were treated, the
great value of the Secretary
would not be lost. And mean
while the hand on the . steer
ing-wheel would also have the
final authority to negotiate
the curves that may be ahead.
Copyright 1959. New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
TODAY
In Oregon History
(A Centennial Feature)
FEBRUARY 24. 1846
A Washington's Birthday
ball was given this evening
by Capt. H. M. Knighton
and lady at Oregon City,
and was well attended by
the citizens of Oregon and
by three officers of H.M.S.
Modeste now lying at Fort
Vancouver. Since the 22nd
was a Sabbath the ball was
delayed to this date. By all
reporis everything went
smoothly and agreeably and
evidence of inioxicaiion was
happily absent.
FEBRUARY 24, 1912
More than 200,000 acres
of productive farm land
now being held by William
Hanley, of Burns, will be
thrown open to settlement
within the next few years
at prices to attract the
homesteader from other
parts of the country, which,
with the 800.000 acres ac
quired Thursday by Louis
W. Hill, president of the
Great Northern R.R.. is des
tined to make Oregon the
mecca for ambitious farmers.
Counsel With . . .
Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan
Fred Brennan
Or Call
Mr. Friendly
Bill Fish
Phone SP 3-7343
MEDFORD
INSURANCE
AGENCY
27 NORTH HOllY ST.
'half-cocked even though
well-intentioned.' "
"All evidence was that the
trials were just and had been
done properly," Porter said.
He said that those executed
were convicted of "torturing
and murdering defenseless
people"
In the interest of tell'iig
your readers the facts about,
my position on the Cuban
situation, I wish to make the
following observations.
Your editorial is an inter
esting attempt to support Con
gressman Porter's grievous
mistakes in connection with
the Cuban situation. On Jan.
27, in a speech in the Senate
of the United States, I answer
ed Porter'; report on Cuba. I
am enclosing a copy of my
speech. t
When Porter attempts to
excuse Castro's bloodbath by
saying, "All evidence was that
the trials were just and had
been done properly," he made
himself, as a lawyer, look ri
diculous. The fact is that the
executions ordered by the
Castro, regime which were
protested by many of us on
the Foreign Relations Com
mittee of the Senate, were in
violation of the basic princi
ples of fair procedure laid
down by the Geneva Conven
tion. That treaty is the code of
fair trial procedures recog
nized by civilized nations as
fundamental to the doing of
justice.
The fact is that, when mem
bers of the Foreign Relations
Committee of the United
States Senate, such as Sena
tors Aiken, Mansfield, Cape
hart, Hickenlooper, Fulbright,
Humphrey, and others, joined
me in expressing disapproval
of the mass executions in
Cuba without fair trial, they
performed a great public serv
ice. I say that because, as
Chairman of the Subcommit
tee of the Senate on Latin
American Affairs, I have, rea-
son to know that our protests "
slowed up, even though they
did not bring to an end, the
policy of "man's inhumanity
to man", which the Castro re
gime has been following.
Also, may I point out to you
that those of us on the Foreign
Relations Committee of the
Senate who declined Castro's
invitation to go to Cuba re
fused to do so because we
knew that we would have no
official standing in Cuba and
we had no desire to let Castro
use us as a political stage
prop. It was clear to us that, if
Castro was acting in good
faith and really wanted to sub
ject his rifle-squad justice
procedure to official observa
tion, all he needed to do was
to call upon the United Na
tions to send an official ob
servation committee to Cuba.
When Congressman Porter
states, as you quote him in
your paper, "The storm of
protest in this country against
the killings was half-cocked,
even though well-intentioned,"
he speaks without
knowing the facts. The mem
bers of the Senate Subcom
mittee on Latin American Af
fairs were fully informed
concerning the lack of fair
procedures involved in the
Cuban executions, through
briefings that were not avail
able to Mr. Porter. If he had
asked me, as Chairman of this
Subcommittee, for the infor
mation on which we based our
protests before he made his
uninformed pronouncements,
I would have been very glad,
as his colleague and constitu
ent, to have given him the
benefit of the facts which had
been made available to my
committee.
Needless to say, I regret to
find myself in such complete
disagreement with my con
gressman. However, the truth
and the public interest are
much more important to me.
Wayne Morse,
U.S. Senator.
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