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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-
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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.
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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.)