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Newspaper Page TextMAIL TRIBUNE, MedferJ, Or. Friday, June 26, 1959 1!ekordS&Tribuns "Zreryone tn Southern Oregon Reads The hail Tribune" Published Dnily except Saturday by 33 North fit St. Ph. SP 2-6141 DHQl OT U7 HITn. Vji.lnr KERB GREY Advertising Manager CEiVUI ljioam. BuanrM ti ERIC W ALLEN JR, Managing F.ditor ZARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Teleg Editor Tn A on mu L"IF CtuHi FHItn OLXVE STARCHER Women-! Editor DALE ERICKSON, Circulation save w . n .nri lac matter at Medloro Oregon onaer ao n March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Br Mall In Advance. Copy 10c Dail- and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Ttailu inH QunHav J( mem. 8.01 rsilv nrf Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $4.20 tr rsrrinwTn Advance Medford Ashland, Central Point, Eagle T3in t.V.nnnlTla Clnttt Hill. Phoenix Shady Cove, Rogue Riv- TalMt An mntnr mutts. Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 uaiiv ana aunuav i mu. Carrier and Dealers copy 10C All xerma i.asn in jwvancg Official Paper of City ! Medford . omctai paper ci jacKion wmn? United Press Internationa Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Ai'vm-tisine Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY CO, INC. Of fices in Ne York, Chicago. De troit, San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle, Portland. St. Louis, At lanta. Vancouver B.C. rjaf NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS "ASSOCIATION RATIONAL EDITORIAl 30 fy Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO June 26. 1949 (Sunday) Gold Hill, Table Rock and Willow Springs voters go to the polls tomorrow to decide the controversial school con solidation issue. A rodeo and horse races are planned for Ashland's July 4 festivities. 20 YEARS AGO June 26, 1939 (Monday) More than 100 Medfordites enjoy "Medford Day" at Ore gon Caves national monument. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Two or three citizens have facial con tusions due to falling off, or on a log. Flippant friends argue the log jumped around over the wounded area like a mad French heel." SO YEARS A89: Jun 28. 1929 Wednesday) "Pop" Gates is appointed a member of the state park board. The new Medford airport is to be dedicated Labor Day, ac cording to present plans. 40 YEARS AGO June 26, 1919 (Thursday) High school commencement exercises are to be held at the Page theater tonight. An Ashland groom presents his bride with a $5,000 dia mond ring. SO YEARS AGO June 26, 1909 (Saturday) Fred H. Hopkins' Snowy Butte orchard is sold to Mon tana interests for $150,000. Medford hopes to have its new mountain water system in operation by July 10. Vhal's Your I.Q.? Nine er ten correct it sueerier; even or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. Which of the planets is noted for its rings? ' 2. Is a child born to Chi nese parents in this country a citizen of the United States? 3. A colonel is to a briga dier general as an archbishop is to a vicar, deacon, cardinal, or Pope? . , 4. Canberra is the capital of which country? 5. Does sound travel faster In hot, or in cold air? '6. Which is the lighter of these two elements-helium or hydrogen? 7; From what language are most legal terms derived? 8. Who emerged unscathed from the lion's den? ... . 9. Can fleas fly? 10. What is the hour when the time past noon is equal to two-thirds of the time to mid night? Answers: 1. Saturn. 2. Yes. 3. Cardinal. 4. Australia. 5. Hot air. 6. Hydrogen. 7. Lat in. 8. Daniel. 8. No. 10. 12 mis. lo 5 p.m. Increased Quota for June Is Announced 0 Anjncreased quota for June has created openings for 30 more applicants for enlistment in the U.S. Navy, Navy Recrui ter Warren I. Boe of the re cruiting station said today. Chief Boe said that in the gurnmer, the number of appli cants normally exceeds the quota but that when a quota increase is received, as now, there are openings for imme diate enlistment. Queen of Canada When Queen Elizabeth II welcomes Presi dent Eisenhower aboard the royal yacht Britannia at the St Lambert Lock of the St. Lawrence Sea way, she will act as Queen of Canada. For all that she is Elizabeth IT, by the grace of God,, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, and Northern Ireland, and of her other realms and territories Queen; Head of the Commonwealth and Defend er of the Faith in the style recommended by Debrett's she is also the constitutional monarch of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. ' An understandable confusion arose when Elizabeth visited the United States in the autumn of 1957. She attended a celebration at Williams burg, Va., as the monarch of Great Britain, but in Washington, where Prime Minister John Dief enbaker acted as her principal adviser, she was Queen of Canada. ,...,. T'HE United States will see little of Her Majesty on this visit. With Prince Philip she will "attend an international exposition in Chicago on July 6. Otherwise her 45-day tour will be devoted entirely to Canada, of which she will traverse just about the length and breadth, visiting such re mote' areas as the Yukon Territory, which no reigning monarch has ever penetrated. Indeed, although the attitude over here seems to be that the Queen is making the trip primarily to dedicate the St, Lawrence Seaway, in Britain this ceremony is looked upon as incidental to the "Canadian visit." The London Times, makes the point that the people of Canada, numbering 16 . millions and spread over a vast area, stand in need of a symbol which the Queen supplies -to confirm their integral nationhood. Canadians are being shown their monarch both as a national ruler and as a human being. And, as The Times asserts: "In the evergrowing complexity of modern society, the truth we all need most to comprehend is that the august symbol and the simple person are one ; and behind all the elaboration of government, the center and inspiration of it all is a human being like ourselves." On a more practical level, the boom in Canada is making that nation the most rapidly growing and probably the most prosperous member of the British Commonwealth. So it is well to have the ties to the motherland held up to public view. pOR us of the United States it is significant that the two glimpses we shall have of the Queen will be at international ceremonies, both marking a historic step forward in cooperation across the border. The past few years have been filled with more than their share of rows with our neighbors to the North, principally over wheat and dollars. But accommodations are being made, arid in any event, the squabbles, bitter as they occasionally became, were never serious enough to give. rise to the slightest doubt of hemispheric solidarity on defense or of cooperation in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Indeed, a sort of historical footnote shows the U.S.-Canadian friendship Gunboats are cruising the peaceful waters of the Great Lakes for the St. Lawrence celebration only because diplomats were able to work out a tem porary suspension of the Rush-Bagot Convention of 1817, which provided for the perpetual dis armament of-the lakes. E.R.R. - Guatemalan Anniversary Five years ago on June 29, Col. Carlos Castillo Armas took over in Guatemala after a 12-day revolt which sent left-wing Pres. Jacobo Arbenz Guzman scurrying into exile and frustrated a Communist bid fpr a foothold in the Western Hemisphere. Now, with Armas gone, victim of an assassin's bullet in July, 1957, some of the old faces are turning up again and new rumbling on the left is begining to be heard. .. .'Although he lived in exile behind the -Iron Curtain for more than a year, Arbenz himself was almost certainly not a Communist. A former Army colonel, he was one of the original trium- Lvirate which overthrew the "October Revolution" of 1944. He appears to have .shared a genuine, if soft-headed, idealism with Juan Jose Arevalo whom he succeeded as president in 1951. Arevalo had treated the Communists ambiva lently, cooperating with and even courting them, yet refusing the party legal recognition and even attempting periodically to impede its organiza tional drive. Arbenz, however, Jet the party out into the open. , V I DY THE end of 1953, it was possible for the always-meticulous National Planning Associa tion 'to report: "The Guatemalan Communists have been able to entrench, themselves in the key organs.of state power . . . through a well-managed conspiracy unwittingly helped by the non-Communists and ineffectually opposed by the anti Communists." , - That -the situation in Guatemala was intoler able .to. the State Department in Washington is obvious, both on arid off the record. But here the picture turns murky. Did the U.S. help pull Arbenz down? - r, The late Secretary of State Dulles, in an ad dress on June 30, 1954, said the revolution was sparked by .the "just wrath of the Guatemalan people." But then what else could he have said? The principle of "non-intervention" was at stake. Historian J. Fred Rippy, writing in the Univer sity of Michigan's History of the Modern World series, asserts flatly that the Armas coup was accomplished "with encouragement and assist ance from the United States." E.R.R..-. - " in its clearest image. Dictator Jorge Ubico in Dennis the I " pi ! " '1 Lawmakers Propose Cutting $3,000 from Their Own Spending By FRANK ELEAZER United Press International Washington- (DPD -Our law makers have been seized with a desire to save money. They 1 went so far this week as to propose cutting their own spending by $3,000, though of course it is too early to be sure this will stick. Frank Eleazer As a result of the economy fervor, it is possible our top diplomats when they move into the state department's new. $54,000,000 building will have to make spartan adjustments, like treading on floors rather than carpets. Passengers at Washington's 90 million dollar new airport, currently' building, could have to walk to their planes, rather than ride in the air conditioned mobile lounges for which we had planned to pay $2,700,000. r Some Senators, getting into the spirit of things, even ex pressed interest in the num ber of maids (8) and gardhers (12) currently needed by Pres ident Eisenhower, though nothing concrete came out of that. Golf Cart Questioned Sen. Paul H. Douglas CD HI.) did succeed, however, in wringing from the Appropria tions Committee a pledge to inquiry of Ike whether the taxpayers paid for his $1,000 mechanized golf cart.- It will be just as well if news of the proposed $3,000 cut in Congress' own budget doesn't reach Ottawa. Several score of our lawmakers cur rently are in Canada for the Seaway festivities, and there is no use spoiling the fun. Our representatives there include 24 official delegates to the first session of a new U.S.-Canadian interparliamen tary group, and $30,000 had been budgeted for their ex penses, to cover maybe two meetings a year. The House Appropriations Committee said sternly though that $27,000 looked like enough for this purpose, considering it's not far and the plane ride, this year any way, was for free. Well, not really free. It's provided , by the Navy. The committee said we taxpayers still pick up the tab, totalling $2,500. In compliance with earlier committee entreaties to save, the State Department had an nouncesd proudly it had cut the cost of - its new office Try and -By BENNETT CERF- TP7HEN HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW'S daughter -. ' was three years old, she contracted a slight illness. Long fellow, concerned about her, swept her up in his arms and took . Tai inft 47ia fritn"rtM Alibi UlC tai-UCU XSJi. A breath, of air: - The child smiled up at him, and Longfellow, hop ing to lull her into a rest ful sleep, tried to think of some jingle to recite for her. Into his head came the lines: "There was a little girl Who had a little curl Right in the middle of her forehead; And when she was good . She was very, very, good, But when she was bad she' was horrid." Nobody was more astonished than Longfellow when this verse became more popular than all his serious writings put together! Couple of kids were in the kitchen banging lustily on the pote and pans, looking apprehensively at the doorway. "Wish mom would hurry up and make us stop," confided one of them. "This noise is killing. me." " 0135 ty.Beaaett Ctrf. DiiUibuted byKsTture Synui?4tet " - Menace building from $57,400,000 to $54,220,000. Diplomats Get News But the committee had news for the diplomats; the cost has been further reduced by $2,500,000. It directed the department to save where you can. Well, it's probably too late to save on those two outside statues, costing $275,000 And the interior decorator already has been promised his $170, 000, so that can't be cut. But we haven't yet bought all the rugs, drapes and fur niture which the decorator recommended, so I guess that's where the saving will come. Possibly something less than $12,000, as planned, can go into the furnishing of suites for the secretary of state and his first undersec retary. And there'U be a little less than the $357,000 planned for furnishings for the second undersecretary, the assistant secretaries, and the deputy secretaries of state. But the $263,525 budgeted for outfitting the formal din ing room, to seat 129, appar ently is rock bottom. The dip lomats seemed to think they couldn't do it for less. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Economy (?) ,note in the news: Senator- William E. Prox mire .of Wisconsin, who rates as one of our reasonably liberal liberals, proposes in the U. S. senate that what he calls President Eisenhower's "congressional lobbyists" be reduced in number from sev en to two. He urged that the salaries of .five of the liaison men who operate between the White House and Capitol Hill be eliminated from the ap propriation that the congress makes . annually to finance the White House hired help. He thinks a couple of these liaison functionaries ought to be enough. HMMMMMMMMM. I'm inclined to agree with him IF. IF the congress of the United States would take as sharp a look at the hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people who work for the federal govern ment as Senator Proxmire proposes in the case of the seven liaison men whose job is to keep things fixed up between the White House and Stop Me ,.tAt- , WaS A TtLB Wilson Says Not Much Said About Agent Who Pushed States Rights Bill By LYLE C. WILSON United Press International Washington -(DPI)- In all that talk in the House of Repre sentatives - about the states rights bill which passed this week not much was said about the Communist es piona g e and revolutionary agent who was the cause of it all. This anti- Lyle C. Wilson American operator generally is known as Steve Nelson. His real name in Steve J. Mesa- rosh. He was born Jan. 1, 1903 in Chaglich, Yugoslavia. For the documented story of this subversive U.S. resi dent see the just-nublished "Appendix to Part 1, the Case of Steve Nelson from the Rec ords." This document, obtain able for a few cents from the Government Printing Office, was put together by the Sen ate Internal Security subcom mittee. Persuader It was printed in an effort to persuade senators that they should vote ,for the states rights bill which the House passed. This bill would pre vent the Supreme Court from holding a state law inopera- Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although "rider 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 Jusf Governments To the Editor: Just govern ment-Anglo-Saxon chronicle, year 1137-all just govern ments in time are destroyed by greed and fanatics and serfs that let suppressors rule them. The Norman rulers took ad vantage of the apathy of the serfs, their cowardice of the nobles' laws to suppress them, and built great castles and oppressed the wretched cow ardly serfs that paid their food and lodging. wnen these castles were finished, says the chronicler, they filled them with devils and evil men; then they took those whom they suspected to have any goods, by night and by day, seizing both men and women, and they put them in prison for their gold and sil ver, and tortured them with pains unspeakable, for never were any martyrs tormented as these were. The year, you say? -1137 All news by the chronicle courier was blotted out through the land. The serfs were kept in darkness in the lands while terror reigned. Couriers were smitten by the castles' guardsmen; news must not travel. The year it says in the old musty books is 1157. Now by doing very little pondering as to another year, 1959-? Me thinks said castles of devils and evil men doth repeat it self and censure the news to the people in the lands, and twist their, own cloaks to re place the cloaks of the people and again terror will reign but soon in the lands of the people. The year, you say, it repeats itself. Not 1137 but now, 1959. G. S. Reilly, 338 North Laurel st, Ashland. 'Follow Up' Headlines To the Editor: To prove that it pays to "follow-up" the headlines of your favorite newspaper, let us take the minor news items that appear in your paper. (A) A 2-inch column, lower page 1. Captioned, "Ike Asks Foreign Aid on Long Term Basis" its elemental purpose is that Congress should give the President the opportunity to shape the policy in this field beyond the period of his the Capitol And IF the congress came to the conclusion that these hundreds and hundreds- of thousands of employees con stitute a considerable burden upon the taxpayer and OUGHT TO BE REDUCED in number perhaps even as sharply as the good senator from Wisconsin proposes in the case of the seven White House liaison men And IF the congress actual ly went ahead and did the reducing . WELL In that event I think the taxpayer would be warranted in patting him self on the back and an nouncing to all and sundry that he'd HAD A BREAK! BUT I fear The senator from Wiscon sin won't go that far. w ) tive merely because Congress had enacted federal legisla tion in the same field. The court on such gi-ounds in 1956 vacated Nelson's conviction on, charges under the Pennsyl vania Sedition Act. He had been sentenced to 20 vears imprisonment, a $10,000 fine and, further, had been assessed $13,000 court costs. "This far-reaching Suureme Court decision," the subcom mittee said in its story of the Nelson case, "not only effec tively blocks prosecutive measures against Communists by all states of the union, but it also set at liberty a man whose record is one long chain of conspiratorial ma chinations against the United States. "For the first time in its history, the United States is vulnerable to armed attack by Argentina Man of Week, Newsom Says By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor Man-of-the-week: President Arturo Frondizi of Argentina. The place: Buenos Aires. The quote: "I just wanted to say hello to you and tell you I am fulfilling '1 my const i t u- tional duties." It was a typi cal low-keyed statement from the thin, studious man Pail Newsom who, by the age of 22,. had earned a reputation as a sort of South American Don Quix ote who tilted against the windmills of dictatorship and went to prison for his pains. , Now, at the age of 50, he was telling assembled Argen tine and foreign newsmen that he had just weathered the worst crisis of his 13-month-old government. Whether he would be in office next week, or the week after that, remained a ques tion. But for the moment, Fron dizi represented a triumph of constitutional government in a nation, not long emerged from ruinous dictatorship. For the moment also he was free to continue the austerity cam paign by which he hoped to rescue Argentina from the heritage of bankruptcy left by the dictatorship of Juan D. Peron. Bankruptcy Trouble Argentine bankruptcy was at the root of Frondizi's trou bles, but exploiting it were the former Peronistas, encour aged and reportedly at least present tenancy in The White House. Also, evidence of a further seeking of Executive Power, already under crit icism in many quarters. (B) A 2-inch column, lower page 1. Captioned, "Publish ing Senate Payroll Approved" this reports a resolution by the Senate Rules committee for requiring a quarterly ac counting of the Senate pay roll, as titled. The resolution goes to the Senate floor for action. Watch the outcome It may be interesting. It will be. (C) Another 2-inch column, lower page 1.. Captioned. "States-Rights Bill Approved by House" this item reports passage by the House for the second time a bill aimed at keeping federal statutes from overriding state laws in the same field. The vote was 225 to 192, a very reasonable mar gin. Will the Senate endorse it? If so, will the President veto it? These are exceedingly important questions. We need not expect much. Three examples in one day from the front page serves our purpose. Remember, read your paper through. Fee Clifford Esteb, 133 North Oakdale ave. Medford. Burning Ashes To the Editor: We are bit terly complaining about the burning ashes which fall from the burning at the garbage dump. This has been reported time and again. Mr. Boitano has called personally on the people on whose property these particles fall. We admit that Mr. Boitano has put fire trails around his property, but this does not stop the ashes from dropping on the surrounding properties. We live in fear that one morning the whole country side will be afire. Surely there must be some way these condi tions can be stopped. Thurl W. Moore, Ellnora Moore, Post Office box 332; E. S. Sloan, 1 A. M. Sloan,. Mr. and Mrs. N. Hollis, Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Hazen, C. S. Sloan, L. O. Sloan, Original Sterling Mine road area, Jacksonville. N r4 mj ah enemy beyond its borders. Essential to the designs of So viet conquest are its American agents, militarily and- politi cally trained to do its bidding in the event of . . an emer gency. Steve Nelson is well prepared and experienced for such a role." For example: Nelson was a graduate of Moscow's Lenin school which taught much more than political philoso phy. Leonard Patterson, a for mer Communist and . Lenin school student, told the sub committee what he, . Nelson and other Lenin school stu dents learned. Patterson said: Army Training Inferior "I got better military train ing in Russia than I got in my own (U.S.) Army from the time I was in the Lenin school . . . we just learned . . . how to erect street barricades, President partly financed by Peron, and the Communists who kept the country in unceasing indus trial strife. There was, in addition, the plight of , the wage earners who were being asked to pay in months for the excesses of years-who saw their wages frozen while prices spiralled steadily upward. Frondizi had promised from the first that the way "would be hard and he stood firm in the face of mounting op position. In the present crisis, he owed part of his strength to the fact his opposition .was divided. One group demanded that he resign and be replaced by a provisional government of armed force officers. They were the Golpistas, literally translated, those desiring a military coup. A second group demanded that Frondizi stay in office but submit himself to close con trol by the armed forces A third group wanted his resignation, to be followed by an interim government head ed by the president of the Supreme Court until elections could be held. Military Brings Pressure As in the ouster of Peron, Today & Tomorrow By Walter DEBATE ON DEFENSE Last week the Democratic Advisory Council issued long pamphlet dealing with national de fense. The worst thing that can be said about it is .that it is sponsored by a politic al party, or rather by a faction of a political party, and that it will, therefore, be heavily discounted. This is a pity. For, disregarding a few unnecessary and extraneous partisan phrases, the pamphlet deserves a very careful read ing. There is a large literature already existing which is criti cal of our defense policy. Hav ing read a good deal of it, I would venture to say that this pamphlet is much the best in its field, evidently quite ex pertly informed, reasonable and civilian in its temper, and lucidly written. It ought not to be brushed aside as a partisan document. For, in fact, the argument it makes has the support of large numbers of Republicans, espe cially of those who have paid close attention' to the prob lem of defense, and of many of the military men who by common consent are leaders in military thought.1 More over, the pamphlet is not a Democratic party document since there is no reason to think that the present Demo cratic leadership in Congress agrees with it'. rpHE two main points of the - pamphlet are familiar enough. The first one deals with the "missile gap" which, on the admission of Secretary McElroy, is likely to bring it about that in the next three years the USSR will have in intercontinental ballistic mis siles a supremacy of three to one. This could mean that dur ing these years the USSR would be theoretically capable of knocking out the bulk of our Strategic Air Force. The pamphlet does not say that me USSR would, or is. likely to, try for such a Pearl Har bor. But it is right in saying that the existence of this the oretical power would have an important effect on the po litical relations between the West and the Communist pow ers. The other point, which is, ivtii Walter Lippmann Through what to use as barricades, such' as turning over automobiles, street cars, sandbags, 45 de-' gree angle posts, etc. We learned how to handle weap ons of various countries, Unit ed States, Russia, France, Ger many, England." . The subcommittee docu ment relates Nelson's career as a consistent law breaker, his activity in disrupting basic American industries, his role in subverting the foreign born, his participation in the Communst atomic espionage ring in California. It is a shocking record. The subcommittee observes that: "This same Nelson is free today, waiting his hour to strike, when he can continue these activities at the Krem lin's behest against these Unit ed States." Frondizi heaviest pressure came from the armed services, notably the army and the navy. Paradoxically, while the public outcry had been agalrist Frondizi's austerity campaign, the move for his removal seemed to center on demands that he be evennore severe. The demands included: ad ditional changes among gov ernment ministers to elimi nate Peronista and leftist sympathizers; stricter applica tion of economic policies de signed to enforce Frondizi's austerity program and the fir ing of some 12,000 Peronistas and Communists from public payrolls. . Politically, Frondizi's trou bles spring from the election support he received from the Peronistas and Communists, which aroused armed services suspicions, and from his own intransigent radical party, which has protested abandon? ment of the more nationalis tic policies in favor of gigan tic financial help from abroad. Whatever Frondizi's trou bles, his policies hav been paying off. From an annual deficit of 300 million dollars a year, Argentina's trade bal ance for the first four months of 1959 showed a credit of 102 million dollars. Lippmann also familiar, is that defense cannot be allowed to depend solely on nuclear weapons the big ones which gre sui cidal or the siftall ones which would be devastating to our allies and to the uncommitted countries. The pamphlet contain a carefully reasoned and per suasive argument why ex penditures should be increased to close the missile gap and to increase our conventional forces. WHAT intertsteg me most in the pamphlet, given the fact that it was written under the auspices of Mr. Dean Acheson, was the illum inating candor with which it explains how things have changedsince the Truman ad ministration. The critical change is this: our original strategy in NATO was based on our possession at tht time of a monopoly of nuclear weapons. Under those condi tions, a small ground force backed by the irresistible power of the Strategic Air Force was quite sufficient to hold in check the enormously superior masses of the Red Army. Our monopoly was broken by the Soviets in 1949 and this has brought with it, as the USSR developed its bombs and its missiles, a radical change in the balance of pow er, we are far from being defenseless against this new might of the Soviet Union. But there is no doubt that our allies in Western Europe and our client states in Asia are far more vulnerable than they were 10 years ago. This could have serious political consequences, if "the missile gap" is allowed to become so wide that this country, which is the ultimate protect or of the non-Communist world, becomes itself highly vulnerable. No matter what it costs, this must not be allowed to happen. IT WOULD be a very useful thing if the Administration issued a thoroughgoing, fully considered reply. This would not be easy to do because within the Pentagon and with in the Administration itself there are so many who agree with the pamphlet. But it would be a true public service if the President, who does not agree, would see to it that there is a reply. (Copyright 1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc.)