Medford mail tribune., July 31, 1959, Image 5

Truman Feels That Cubans Are
Disturbed About U.S. Policies
(Continued from Pag 1)
I hav an impression that
our friends and neighbors in
Cuba and South America are
disturbed about our policies
towards them today. And I
hope we do something about
that situation so that we do
not blunder into the hands of
the Communist fifth column
now active in this hemisphere.
For instance, in Cuba, I
think that Fidel Castro is a
good young man, who has
made mistakes but who seems
to want to do the right thing
for the Cuban people, and we
ought to extend our sympathy
and help him to do what is
right, for them.
During Franklin D. Roose
velt's administration and my
own, we sought to do what
we thought was in the in
terest of the nations of South
America, to do what was best
for their people, without re
gard to special interests. And
the people of South America
knew we were not out to ex
ploit them.
Hay On Choic
However, in our relations
with the Kremlin, we have
but one choice, and that is to
meet force with force and to
confront bluff and bluster
with cool and determined
resoluteness. If the Commun
ists should , blockade West
Berlin, we ought to break
through it, and that should be
the end of the blockade.
If we permit the Commun
ists to cut us out of Berlin,
we will provide them with
the means to take over the
rest of Germany, and go on
from there.
If Khrushchev is not stop
ped at Berlin, there will be
no stopping him anywhere in
Europe. Unless we keep this
in mind in our dealings with
the Communist dictatorship,
we shall run the risk of hesi
tating and faltering and thus
encourage the Soviet dictators
in their mad adventure.
Strong Leadership
Strong leadership by the
United States is the one pos
sible way of arresting the
trend towards war through a
miscalculation.. The only one
who dares to engage, in war
like behavior is Khrushchev,
aided and abetted by his comrades-in-arms
in Red China.
We certainly never did and
do not now want war, but it
would be the grossest folly of
miscalculation if the Kremlin
and Red China believed we
would stand for peace at any
price.
I am disturbed by the con
tinuing spectacle of so many
well - intentioned, distinguish
ed Americans traveling to
Moscow on their own and in
truding into the conduct of
our foreign policy. .
Badly Srvd
It is difficult and trying
enough for this country to
confront Russian propaganda,
which has been seeking to
divide and confuse us, but
seldom have we been so i&dly
served as we are now by a
procession of visitors who
come back and rush into print
to tell us what Khrushchev
intends to do. I wonder if
these visitors realize that they
are being used by Khrushchev
to serve his purposes, which
are to confuse, intimidate and
frighten the free nations into
surrendering to the Commun
ists on their terms.
A fellow Missourian, Mark
Twain, once talked of "Inno
cents Abroad," but he was re
ferring to Americans who
went abroad for amusement
and not to meddle into for
eign affairs. The Kremlin has
seized upon the willingness of
recent visitors to propagandize
this country oFer the heads of
our government.
It makes it more difficult
for the President and the Sec
retary of State to carry out
the established policy of the
government.
Meddle in Business-
All Americans should, of
course, be free to travel and
meet and converse with any
one they choose, but it is quite
another matter when these
visits and meetings are used
by the Russians to meddle in
the business of our constitu
tional policy makers.
If any of these travelers
wish to undertake personal
missions, they ought to make
sure that they have the ap
proval of the government of
the United States. They should
bear in mind that the Logan
Quotes From the News
By UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
New York-American fashion designer Norman Norell,
commenting on the House of Dior's fashion decree for knee
high skirts:
"I don't think knees are that pretty. My bet is that women
will wear them (hems) where they damn well want to anyway."
Menomonie, Wis.-Roman Mroz, 20, of Chicago, describing
the derailment of seven cars of the Northwestern railroad's
crack Twin Cities "400" in which at least 100 persons were
injured:
"There was a rumbling noise and it felt like the ear was
going to roll completely over. We opened the door which was
right above our heads and it felt about 300 pounds heavy. It
was a miracle we weren't all killed."
Washington-National Labor Relations Board Examiner
John F. Funke, ordering a publishing firm to rehire eight
printers for allegedly being fresh to female employees:
"Continguous employment of male and female in offices
and plants has inevitably led to a relaxation of formal bar
riers and to a tolerance of casual badinage and conduct not
free from overtones of sex."
Washington-Chairman Oren Harris (D-Ark.) of the House
commerce subcommittee, announcing that his group will in
vestigate charges that some now-defunct TV quiz shows were
rigged:
"If this is true, then the American people have been de
frauded on a large scale."
Access Road Work
Completed by BPR
Completion of work on the
Imnaha access road in Pros
pect and Butte Falls districts
of Rogue River National for
est has been announced by
the bureau of public roads.
The project is 5V4 miles in
length and extends from Bes
sie creek to the vicinity of
Imnaha guard station on Park
er Meadows rd. It includes a
reinforced concrete bridge
160 feet long across the mid
dle fork of Rogue river.
Oiling of two miles of road
along the east side of Lake
of the Woods was reported by
the forest service. The road
leads into Aspen and Rainbow
camp and the lake resort and
cuts down dust considerably.
Neuberger Suggests
McKay Successor
Washington-dJPB-Sen. Rich
ard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.)
Thursday recommended to
President Eisenhower two
Oregonians as possible succes
sors to the late Douglas Mc
Kay on the International Joint
Commission.
In a letter to the chief ex
ecutive, Neuberger recom
mended Milton C. Mapes of
The Dalles, a Democratic at
torney presently on the staff
of the Senate Interior Com
mittee, and E. B. MacNaugh
ton, a Republican who is re
tired chairman of the First
National Bank of Portland,
Ore.
Forest Service Man
Leaves for New Post
Portland - (UPD - Monte K.
Pierce, U. S. forest service
regional air operations offic
er has been transferred to the
chief foresters office in Wash
ington, D. C. He left today for
the new post.
Pierce has beea fighting
fires in Oregon and Washing
ton from the air for the past
six years.
He joined the forest service
in 1953 after operating an
aviation and flight school in
Seattle.
MAIL BOMBER JAILED
San Diego, Calif.-(DPD-A 42-year-old
pharmacist was sen
tenced to 20 years in prison
Thursday for mailing a bomb
wrapped as a Christmas pres
ent to a former girl friend.
Jack Silver was convicted of
attempted murder July 14 for
mailing the camouflaged
bomb to Mrs. Kathryn Mor
ris, 33, last Christmas. Postal
authorities discovered the
bomb before .it was delivered.
Act prohibits unauthorized ne
gotiations, formal or informal,
by Americans with any for
eign powers at any time.
With the present explosive
situation between the free and
the communist - slave worlds,
the dangers of misunderstand
ing caused by public state
ments of prominent Ameri
cans, in my judgment, calls
for someone to put a stop to
these activities.
Widest Publicity
I am not talking about curb
ing the fullest reporting by
competent and professional re
porters, just as I am in favor
of giving the widest publicity
to all matters pertaining to
the conduct of our foreign af
fairs so that we may have a'
fully informed public; but
what I am opposing is the use
of visits to Moscow by prom
inent people in or out of
public life, with no official
responsibility for conducting
our foreign negotiations -
making statements and pur
porting to speak with some
authority to the American
people when they who speak,
themselves, are not fully in
formed of all the circum
stances involved.
If the President is to con
duct our foreign affairs with
a strong and firm hand, he
cannot tolerate intrusions by
unauthorized persons or
groups of persons, no matter
what their aims. The Presi
dent is in the best position to
know all the facts and con
ditions in the exercise of his
leadership. This is no place
for amateurs who get them
selves exposed to only one
facet of a complicated situ
ation.
Private Interviews
Ony one of these private in
terviews with Khrushchev -whether
for fifteen minutes or
eight hours - is a privileged
sanctuary for him, from which
he can shake his fist, threaten
with missiles and make ir
responsible statements with
diplomatic immunity.
I have the highest regard
for Averell Harriman as a
keen observer. He has served
his country with distinction.
As a matter of fact, he was
among the first to sense the
trend in Russia's course of
hostilities towards the West.
I wish that he had reported
what transpired between him
and Khrushchev to the Presi
dent or the Secretary of State
and stopped there. ,
Mr. Harriman understood
Stalin with rare insight and
communicated it, as he should
have done as Ambassador, to
Washington. But I think
Khrushchev may have over
impressed him.
Avail Itself
I am glad that, at long last,
the Administration is about to
avail itself of the special
talents and experience of Chip
Bohlen in recalling N him to
the high councils of the State
D e p a r t m ent. Ambassador
Bohlen not only possesses the
knowledge of the Russian
language he knows the Rus
sians. He should be of great help
and strengthen the hand of
the Secretary of State. Bohlen
acted as my Russian interpre
ter at the Potsdam Confer
ence. I was impressed with
his alertness to shadings and
evasion in the translation of
Stalin's remarks to me by
Stalin's own interpreter, Pav
lov. Frequently, Bohlen would
correct the interpretation
made by Pavlov and clarify
obscure meanings. Stalin, too,
appreciated Bohlen's perform
ance, for he would smile each
time Bohlen corrected Pavlov.
When you caught up with
Stalin, he was always easy to
deal with, perhaps because he
had in the back of his mind
that he did not intend to keep
his word and his commitments.
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Farmers Receive
Most Credit From
State's Banks
Oregon banks were serving
farmers with more credit than
was any other institutional
group of lenders on Jan. 1,
according to Allan F. Perry,
manager of the Medford
branch of the U. S. National
bank.
Perry represents the Ore
gon Bankers association as
Jackson-Josephine county key
banker.
He reported that during
1958 the state's banks main
tained their leadership in
agricultural credit services
and held a slightly higher pro
portion of the total farm pro
duction credit than the pre
vious year.
Based on the 18th annual
farm lending summary by the
agricultural commission of
the American Bankers asso
ciation, Perry's report stated
that on Jan. 1 "Oregon bank
ers were helping farmers with
$63,558,000 in loans - 16 per
cent more than a year ago."
The total included $45,
862,000 in production loans
and ,$17,696,000 in agricul
tural mortgages. On the same
date $40,642,000 in agricul
tural loans were held by in
surance companies; $33,403,
000 by federal land banks;
$28,174,000 by prod u c t i o n
credit associations; and $4,
885,000 in nonreal estate
loans plus $8,089,000 in real
estate loans by Farmers Home
administration.
SHOT IN ARM
Degytarsk, U.S.S.R. (UPD
Touring Vice President Rich
ard M. Nixon Thursday hail
ed the Republican victory in
Hawaii as "the best shot in
the arm the party has had in
the last two years." "It is
especially gratifying that we
shall have in the Congress
for the first time a senator
of Asian - American back
ground. This should be par
ticularly helpful in United
States foreign policy in the
Far East," Nixon said.
Nixon Cannot Escape Questions
About U.S. Policy, Writer Says
Editor's Note: Ernest Bar-
cella of UPI. only Western
reporter to have accom
panied Vice President Rich
ard M. Nixon on all phases
of his Russian tour, includ
ing the visit to Premier Nik
it a KhrshcheVs country es
tate, followed Nixon into a
mine Thursday near Sverd
lovsk, notebook in hand.
By ERNEST BARCELLA
United Press International
Sverdlovsk, U.S.S.R. -flJPD-Wherever
Vice President
Richard M. Nixon goes on his
Soviet tour he cannot escape
questioning about U.S. policy
-even when he goes 700 feet
down into the innards of the
earth.
The pattern of Communist
inquiry is always the same.
Either while he is visiting
some factory or mill or copper
mine, or even the U.S. Exhi
bition in Moscow, he gets the
same questions thrown at him
sooner or later starting with:
"Mr. Vice President, could
I ask you just one question?"
The technique started at the
top last Friday 'when 'Soviet
Premier Nikita Khrushchev
engaged Nixon in a spirited
toe-to-toe public debate which
since has become known as
the "kitchen conference."
It wound up Thursday in a
700-foot deep and very dead
end of a copper mine tunnel
in the Urals.
Questioning Gets Deep
Nixon, who earlier had re
ferred to his recent Siberian
encounter with Communist
questioners as "foothill con
ferences," a reference to the
foothills of the Ural Moun
tains, didn't realize how deep
this thing could go.
Not, that is, until he donned
miner's garb and went deep
into this copper mine, prob
ably never seen before by
American eyes.
I went down into the mine
with the vice president. It was
an experience to remember.
' We walked through the
camp corridor. One heard
some occasional rumbling and
was told this was fresh air
being blown into the tunnels.
Accident Prone Mine
Down here one found a
first-aid room manned by a
blonde Russian nurse, whose
husband was a member of the
mine's rescue squad. She said
there had been six accidents
this month, all minor.
You said to yourself as you
walked along that it takes a
special kind of brave man to
carve out a living beneath
the earth.
Nixon was moved to com
ment: "I'm telling you, this is
hard work - this mining. I
want to point out that Mr.
Khrushchev grew up working
in a French-owned coal mine.
Working conditions were very
hard. I don't mean to say that
this had anything to do with
Mr. Khrushchev's becoming a
Communist, but this is some
thing you have to take into
consideration in the formation
of a man's character."
Down here we seemed safe
from the type of worker who,
in the past two days, had
given Nixon debate on Ameri
can policy. .
We didn't need our head
lamps to pick out two young
workmen manning the drills
straight ahead.
Then the mine manager
suggested that maybe Nixon
would like to talk to the drill
ers a ruggedly handsome,
ruddy - complexioned man
named Roman N. Mirzaen
and a smiling colleague, Daro-
ELEVATOR KILLS WOMAN
Memphis, Tenn.-UPD-A 33-year-bld
woman prisoner was
killed Thursday when her
head got caught between a
jail elevator and a wall. As
sistant Police Chief Lee Qui
anthy said the -woman, Tem
ple Wanda Bell Lee, was
drunk and struggling with of
ficers when the accident occurred.
isha D. Abudakirov,
Abudakirov paused, gave
the vice president a broad
grin, which revealed a gold
front tooth, and said:
'Mr. Vice President, could
I ask you just one question?"
Tallahassee, Fla. -(UTD- A
Negro inmate slugged jailed
race agitator John Kasper, a
fellow inmate at the federal
correctional institute here, it
was disclosed Thursday. War
den Eugene Goodwyn said
Kasper was treated for a
bruise on the face after the
attack last Saturday. Kasper
began serving a six-month con
tempt of court conviction
July 23.
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one week for the Bureau of
Sanitary" Sewers. His boss
wrote on his brief employ
ment record: "Tried, but just
coulun't work with sewage."
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