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Thursday, Aug. 20, 1959
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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Aug. 20, 1949 (Saturday)
Palm st. between Summit
and Columbus aves. is graded
in preparation for paving.
A single picket from Team
sters local 962 has been pa
rading in front of the Crane
company warehouse at Fourth
and Grape sts. this week.
20 YEARS AGO
Aug. 20. 1939 (Sunday)
' Medford Police Chief Cla
tous :McCredit closes down
all pool hall poker games in
the city.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
country, is now confronted
with two Thanksgiving Day
dates, when there is hardly
cause enough for one."
30 YEARS AGO
Aug. 20, 1929 (Tuesday)
Plans are completed for the
first annual Community Chest
drive here this fall.
John Boyle is named gen
eral manager of California
Oregon Power company, ef
fective Sept. 1.
40 YEARS AGO
Aug. 20. 1919 (Wednesday)
Fishing in the Rogue river
Is reported poor, and fisher
men complain.
The new garbage system
disposal plant is put into op
eration. ;
SO YEARS AGO
Aug. 20. 1909 (Friday) .
Acting Medford Mayor W.
W. Eifert thwarts attempts by
city councilmen to entangle
him iii the brambles of parlia
mentary procedure.
John Harrington sues for
false imprisonment " in circuit
court here, alleging., among
other things that he suffered
from lice and offensive odors
during his incarceration.
Yhat's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior;
even or eight is excellent; five or
six is good.
1. Who was the best known
contemporary associate o f
Karl Marx?
2. In which- State of the U.S
are political subdivisions
known as narishes?
3. The names of five states
end in the letter "s": name
them. ' .
. 4. For what was Steve
Brodie famous?
. A stereotyped phrase is
known as a c e?
6. What sport uses the term
T formation?
7. Is it easier to swim in
deeD or shallow water?
8. Complete this saying,
"The pen is mightier than
. 9. What is the largest living
bird?
10. Recently a court de
cision overruled the refusal
of the Post Office to transport
a certain book in tne mails;
Jiame the book.
; Answers: 1. Friedrich En
gels. 2. Louisiana. 3. Arkan
sas, Illinois, . Kansas. Massa
chusetts, Texas. 4. Jumping
off Brooklyn bridge. 5. CUcne
. Football. 7. Both the same.
-8. "the sword." 9. Ostrich. 10.
Lady Chatterly's Lover.
pENY SUB-MUGGLERS
Luino, Italy-flJPD-Italian cus
toms police Wednesday offici
ally denied a report that
Smugglers were crossing 35
mile Lake Maggiore from
Switzerland in a submarine.
Who Starts Fires?
It was ironic that the -first meeting of the
Jackson County Keep Oregon Green committee
held in many months came the week after-the
big fire which for a time threatened the city of
Ashland. .
The irony had a bite to it, too, for that -fire
was man-caused, and, what is almost unbeliev
able, was apparently set deliberately.
It is the objective of the Keep Oregon Green
organization to remind alL citizens that it is the
responsibility of all to protect the forests from
fires. Its message obviously never got through to
a couple of criminal minds or if it did it didn't
mean anything.
.
rjELIBERATELY setting a fire on forest lands
. is a felony, punishable by imprisonment in
the state penitentiary.
Setting a fire by accident is not a "felony," as
such. But it is criminal negligence, nevertheless,
A thoughtlessly flipped match or cigarette; an
untended campfire, a carelessly operated power
saw any of these things can set off a confla
gration, particularly in seasons such as this when
the forests and brushlands are tinder dry.
"INLY a warped mind could on purpose set
a blaze such as the one which did hundreds
of thousands of dollars 'worth "of damage, and
cost the state and federal governments hundreds
of thousands more in fire fighting expenses not
to mention the narrowly-averted threat to lives
and property in a populous area.
But setting a fire such as that through care
lessness or neglect, while perhaps not the action
of a warped mind, certainly doesn't speak well
for its owner's sense of responsibility and citi
zenship. Neither action, really, is excusable. E. A.
Mercy Flights ' Job
In the wake of the disastrous earthquake in
Montana this week, the cry went up for airplanes
planes to transport the injured, planes to fly
in emergency supplies, planes to spot marooned
survivors, planes to bring in. news reporters .to
tell the world about the event.
The same was true,
the Roseburg disaster, when-the airport at the
stricken town was humming with activity.
mi i il i H-- T 1 1
i nis serves to point out mat meaiora is iuckv
to be the "home base" of the only privately op
erated non-profit air ambulance organization in
the U. S., and, so far as is known, in the world.
lyiERCY FLIGHTS, INC., is now more than 9y2
years old. Just 10 years ago this month the
idea for such a service
the late summer and fall
of 1949, the plans were
ited, the first plane and its rudimentary equip
ment purchased. ; .
In January, 1950, the.
phrase we're now used to
Since that time the number of patients earned
by the planes, has grown
each year nearly three each week and the total
number of patients has gone over the 1,000-mark.
MERCY FLIGHTS, INC.V primary job is the
' transportation of the sick and injured, quick
ly and safely, to medical treatment either from
elsewhere to Medf ord, or from this area to the big
hospitals of Portland, Seattle or San Francisco.
But the nob is not
alone. For instance, a Mercy Flights plane was
the first emergency vehicle other than fire, en
gines, to -arrive at Roseburp; before dawn on the
morning of Aug. 7, carrying two doctors, three
gas company repairmen,
On other occasions, the planes have been
pressed into moving supplies for the forest serv
ice during fire emergencies.
; But none of these other activities, worthwhile
as they are, have been allowed to hamper the
service's readiness to serve emergency patients.
JUfERCY FLIGHTS' support from this commu
"1 nity (meaning not only Medford, but all of
Jackson and the surrounding counties of north
ern Oregon and northern California) has been
remarkable.
. From the very first, when school youngsters
gave their dimes and nickels to make the organ
ization a reality, Mercy Flights has received the
cooperation and support, not only of off icials and
organizations, but of people everywhere. .
-It has responded by standing by,' around the
clock, ready to perf orm its errands of mercy.
-
THE organization's chief 'means of financial
support comes from
tions," which, for $5 per year per family unit, or
$3 for individuals, entitles one to free -transport
tation in medical emergencies within r a 400-mile
radius, and low rates for other forms of ambu
lance service., , .
, (Charges to non-subscribers are lower than
"commercial -air ambulance service for those
living in Mercy Flights' sendee area, but it is the
firm's policy not to compete with such commer
cial services.)
v inis service is operated witnout remunera
tion (other than expenses
by local people. The best way to insure that it
will. continue is to take out a subscription to its
service, or, u aireaay
promptly when the subscription exmres.
The address: Post
to a lesser extent, after
was conceived. During
and early winter months
developed, money solic
first "mercy flight a
hereabouts was made.
to an average of 150
limited to that function
and a supply of blood.
the "pre-paid subscrip
- - . v
for the volunteer pilots)
a suDscnoer, to renew
Office Box 522, Medford.
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Matter of Fact
LABOR BILL POLITICS
Washington - The next act
in the great labor bill drama
is going to be dominated by
two f o r c e s,
one obvious,
the other as
yet unseen.
The force that
has emerged
already is the
conviction of
the Congress
that the voters
want a strong
labor reform
Jns.ph Alsop "J1"-
- The other force will emerge
soon. It is the determination
of Sen. John F. Kennedy of
Massachusetts to fight to the
end against the specially se
vere prohibitions of organiza
tional picketing and second
ary boycotts that the House
of Representatives included in
the labor bill.
As the author of the orig
inal labor-reform bill, and as
chairman of the Senate con
ferees, Kennedy has "the pow
er to deadlock the Senate
House conference. He does not
want to do so. He is riot op
posed to regulation of organi
zational picketing and second
ary boycotts. He wants a com
promise. But Kennedy is con
vinced that in their present
form, the picketing and boy
cott clauses in the House bill
go decidedly too far and are
even, in patches at least,
doubtfully constitutional.
"What everybody ought to
understand," he says, "is that
these clauses in the House bill
won't make a dime's worth of
difference to big labor, in
cluding Jimmy Hoffa and his
Teamsters. What they will do
is bring the union movement
in the South to a dead, screech
ing halt. And I'm not going to
vote for that, much as I want
labor reform.
.. -.-
P? HE can get ho compromise
of the sort he wants, Ken
nedy - can deadlock the con
ference, because he " can be
sure of the support of . the Sen
ate's other Democratic con
ferees. By the same token, a
majority of the House con
ferees will surely support their
leader, Rep. Graham A. Bar-
den of North Carolina. Barden
wants the labor reform bill
to be as severe as possible,
and is far from averse to im
peding the unionization of the
South.
As Kennedy will deadlock
the conference if he cannot
get a compromise, the question
really is whether Barden &
Co. will offer a compromise.
The answer quite largely de
pends, in turn, on the esti
mates of the legislative tem
per of the -House and Senate
reached by Barden's Republi
can allies, such as Sen. Barry
Goldwater of Arizona.
The most natural result of
a deadlock in conference will
be to. present the Senate with
a choice between no labor re
form bill at all, or acceptance,
&&&& I
Try and Stop Me
- By BENNETT CERF
TWO BROADWAY characters, on a . sightseeing trip through
the Everglades, were separated from their guide. Suddenly
one cried, "Help! An alligator just bit my leg off." .'.'That's
terrible," groaned the other.
"Which one?" "How should IV7V wJ
"All alligators look alike to
me." '
Banker Arthur Goodman
is satisfied with the progress
his wife is making in auto
driving. "Six more lessons,"
promises Goodman, "and
I'm going to put the door
back on our garage."
David Niven, quite a master
inf the colorful vhrase. re
turned empty-handed from a fishing trip off Montauk Point re-
cenOy. "All I did," he admitted ruefully, was to flog, the water
4s troth." - v .
,
When a couple of automobiles are double parked, observes Buddy
j Hackett, you never have to think twice to know -which one was
parked by your wife. It's the one on top.
1959, by Bennett Cert. .Distributed by Kins Futures. Syndicate. -
Menace
MBfiD. I'M USTENIN'
By Joseph AIsop
en bloc, of the labor bill passed
by the House. If Goldwater
thinks the Senate will take
the unchanged House bill, he
is likely to want a conference
deadlock. It is not at all im
possible that just this conclu
sion will be reached by Gold
water and his fellow Republi
can conferee, Senate Minority
Leader Everett Dirksen .of
Illinois.
BESIDES all the sectional
and .labor- management
strains, the labor reform issue
is also super-charged with
Presidential politics. ; On the
Republican side, the House's
affirmative response to Presi
dent . Eisenhower's plea for a
strong bill was very fine oint
ment, but there was a civil
rights fly in it all the same.
- House Republican Leader
Charles Halleck almost tear
fully, and quite unconvincing
ly, denied any deal to obtain
Southern support by helping
to block action on civil rights.
Almost within minutes, the
Republican - Southern . Demo
cratic coalition , - downright
pridefully exhibited its' unity
apd power. This, kind of thing
is not a source of unalloyed
delight to Republicans like
Vice President Richard M.
Nixon, who think civil rights
ought to be a vote-getting Re
publican issue.
On the Democratic side,
Sen. - Kennedy's position is
painful, but it is slightly less
painful than the positions of
his rivals. He and his brother,
Robert, have worked hard and
successfully to make labor re
forms their family issue. If
Kennedy votes against the
House bill on afmatter of prin
ciple, he can still hope to re
tain much of the support he
has gained by his own and
his brother's work. For the
Senate's other Democratic
Presidential aspirants, how
ever, the. choice can lie be
tween being against labor re
form, which the country
wants, or being against labor,
which will have much power
at the Democratic convention.
THE choice is especially pain
ful for the leading, un
avowed and inactive candi
date, Senate Majority Leader
Lyndon Johnson of Texas. His
state is so desirous of a strong
bill that most of the Texas
Congressmen, including the
member from Johnson's own
district, refused to support
their revered chief, Speaker
of the House Sam Rayburn.
Yet labor opposition, if added
to Johnson's Southern handi
caps, would be a severe blow
to Johnson's Presid ential
hopes.
As Johnson is in the middle,
however, and as .he has a
genius for. finding ways out
of dilemmas . of this sort, a
compromise both he and Ken
nedy can-vote ior may per
haps be agreed on somehow.
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Call To The Ladies.
To the Editor: Attention la
dies! To all of you who were "up
in arms' during last Spring's
smudge, let's DO something
about it!.
Attend the public meeting
on air pollution abatement
Let them know we don't want
the same disheartening ex
perience of cleaning our hom
es f the almost impossible-to-clean
oily smudge again.
Don't let it-be "out of sight
-out of mind." Another Spring
is coming-we want it to be
fresh and clean. We need all
bf you to help make it so. -
Please attend, Friday, Aug.
21, 7:30 p.m. at the courthouse.
Mrs. Leonard Matheus
1124 West 10th st.
Medford.
Ike Said Gullible
To the Editor: Whatever
has happened to the thinking
of our 'new Ike' as recent
news releases have been pic
turing President Eisenhower
in his - new and ' surprising
dominating leadership role?
He has mads it so that the
Soviet top-hatchet man, Khru
shchev, does not have to go to
the trouble of building a Tro
jan horse to gain entrance to
our sanctuary.
President Eisenhower may
not be budging one inch from
his defiance-shouting position
on wall-top archer and stone
thrower embrasure, but he
has ordered the lowering of
the draw-bridge for the avow
ed enemy to gallop across to
a bon homme red-carpet wel
coming, more gullible to my
way of reasoning than any
recorded in history.
. The guide - posts are plain,"
splashed as they are with the
blood of millions of captive
people, aye, splashed with the
blood of our own brave boys,
six: of their bodies shipped
back by the Soviet, the other
11 so evidently shot up they
did not dare to return them,
denying it all even though we
have the recorded voices of
enemy pilots gloating over
the cowardly attack on a
peaceful mission plane near
the Rumanian border.
. And there is the so recent
example of stout - hearted
people of Sweden, Norway
and Denmark creating such a
ground-swell of indignant op
position to "goodwill," tour of
Khrushchev and henchmen
through their loved home
lands, arranged to the last de
tail, hour, minute and place,
that the Russian premier an
grily cancelled it. Are we, the.
people of our loved America,
we, the court of last resort,
so weak-kneed, so lacking in
the Spirit of 1776, to allow
such a shameful disaster to be
visited on our loved land?
Are we?
One thing is certain sure in
the minds of serious thinkers:
that had Hitler and his hand
ful of storm troopers been
stopped at the Rhine line, the
following ghastly war would
not have occurred. So must
this modern Attila of Russia
be stopped in his land-grabbing
enslavement of free
people before it is disaster
ously too late. It is disturb
ing to see our general press
going along with this long
cherished idea of Eisenhower,
stubbornly opposed by John
F. Dulles, so lion-hearted that
only death could stop him.
Life is indeed a continuing
fight for survival.
F. J. Clifford
Route 2, Box 200F
Central Point
Hits Dam Re-Naming
To the Editor: I can sin
cerely agree with the Oregon
Young Democrats in their
blast at Senator Neuberger
and Congressman Porter for
their proposal to re-name
Green Peter Dam for Ex-Governor
Douglas McKay.
The so called "Eisenhower
Partnership Policy" was very
largely the brain child of
Douglas McKay when he was
Secretary of the Interior, and
not only did it delay every
government dam in the entire
northwest, but McKay, more
than any other one man, was
responsible for the fact that
East Oregon lost the high dam
at Hell's Canyon, a dis-service
on his part that will hamper
the development of the Snake
River valley for generations
yet to come.
I am not averse to naming
public structures for states
men who have helped to
achieve them but I cannot re
call another occasion when
otherwise seemingly intelli
gent statesmen have proposed
to name such a structure for
the man who, during his life
time, did everything in his
SQUARE PEA URGED
Chicago -fllPD- The National
Canned Pea Council said Wed
nesday it would like to see
the development of a square
pea which won't slip off the
blade of a knife."
Time Said Ripe for Eisenhower
Visit to Asia To Aid Relations
-By ARNOLD DIBBLE
; Tokyo-dJPD-If ever the time
was ripe for a visit to Asia
by President Eisenhower, that
time is now.
Since the President decided
that he has good-health, good
will, and will travel, there
have been all kinds of sugges
tions, feelers and trial bal
loons' concerning. ' a tour of
Asia. Asians realize that the
focal point of the cold war
still is in Europe, but they
also caution the United States
to keep its eye on Asia.
As UPI's Asian affairs ex
pert in Washington, Ruther
ford Poats, pointed out in a
dispatch last week, U.S.. rela
tions with uncommitted na
tions of Asia have improved
dramatically with the past
year-mainly, it must be said,
through the blundering of Red
China m Quemoy, Tibet and
with her communes; and the
bullying threats of Russia in
the Berlin crisis.
Ike is just the man to put
the frosting on the cake - in
this happier state of affairs,
to consolidate and strengthen
the better relations building.
Resent European Policy
Those . are the immediate
reasons why a visit now by
the American President would
heighten American prestige.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
As this is written, the wires
are humming with BIG news
Earthquakes. Flash floods.
Heat waves SOMEWHERE
ELSE. The kind of news that
makes headlines.
It makes for avid reading
But
How is a' commentator go
ing to comment on that kind
of news?
EARTHQUAKES just hap-
pen.
Flash floods just happen.
Heat waves just happen.
There isn't much we can do
about it. We can't even shake
our heads wisely and say
THERE OUGHTA BE A
LAW. We could pass laws, of
course, FORBIDDING earth
quakes. We could pass laws
forbidding flash floods. We
could pass rlaws forbidding
heat waves. &
But it would do no good. It
is so obvious that it would do
no good that no one even pro
poses it.
TfcERHAPS it is iust as. well
There are already so many
laws on the books that we
can't find time enough, or
officials enough to enforce
them all. There are times
when it appears to a moder
ate cynic that we can't even
REMEMBER them all. .
If we can't remember them,
how can we enforce them?
A CASE in point:
In our sister city of Rose
burg, a tyuck loaded with ex
plosives blew up with shat
tering force.- A dozen lives
were claimed. A considerable
part of the city's business dis
trict Was destroyed.
Almost the first thought
that occurred to us was that
there should have been a law
to PREVENT such things. Or
a rule. Or a regulation.
AS IT turned out, it appears
that there was a rule-an
interstate commerce commis
sion rule requiring trucks car
rying dangerous explosives to
be manned by two persons,
one of whom must remain
constantly with the explosives-laden
vehicle.
In this particular case, that
rule if it had been strictly ob
served would in all prob
ability have prevented the ca
tastrophe. The truck was
parked in front of a building
that caught fire. . It is pre
sumed that the fire caused
the contents of the truck to
explode.
It must be assumed that if
one attendant had remained
with the truck in accordance
with the rule that has been
cited, he would have driven
the truck away in time to
avoid the explosion.
A THOUGHT:
Might it not
we .reduced the
laws and rules
tions to the point
remaining on the
be better if
number of
and regula
where those
books could
be ENFORCED?
It seems to me
we would be
better off in the
we did just that.
long run if
power to prevent such
achievement. If it is deemed
necessary to rename Green
Peter dam I would suggest it
be given the name of Wayne
Morse, who has, without
doubt, done more to bring
about the final achievement
than any other one man.
D. Ivan Fritts
794 Fortner Lane
Ontario, Ore.
We Give d&l
GREEN STAMPS
CENTRAL REXALL DRUG
Main and Central
But there are other and deep
er reasons that perhaps would
add 'up. to more in the long
run. .:'
Asians always have resent
ed the United States' "Europe
first" policy. - This ' feeling,
when set against the oriental
exclusion laws, has given
many Asians an attitude of
being treated like "second
class" citizens.
Asian nations also are just
beginning to dig out from cen
turies of Western colonialism.
There still is much evidence
of national inferiority com
plexes and there still is a
reservoir of bitterness toward
former rulers. - "
Thus, a visit by an' Ameri
can president-especially one
so revered as President Eisen-
Today Xr Tomorrow
By Walter
FROM CUBA TO LAOS
At the Conference of Ameri
can States in Santiago, Chile,
the central problem has been
how to make
an old prin
ciple fit a new
situation. How
can we apply
the doctrine of
non - interven
tion, to which
we are deeply
committed, to
the irreconcil
able, conflict
between Castro and Trujillo,
between the Cuban revolution
and the Dominican dictator
ship?
The doctrine of non-intervention
was adopted, by the
American States in 1936. It is
sweeping and absolute. It for
bids "intervention . . . direct
ly or indirectly, and for what
ever reason, in the internal or
external affairs of the parties'
Taken literally, this would
forbid intervention even to
check an intervention for ex
ample, to check an interven
tion by Castro's forces against
the Dominican Republic or by
Trujillo forces against Cuba,
The sweeping" and absolute
nature of the doctrine is ex
plained by its history. Until
the adoption in, the 1930 by
the Roosevelt administration
of the Good Neighbor policy,
this country had been in the
habit of intervening freely in
Central America. We had in
tervened in Cuba, in Haiti, in
what is now the Dominican
Republic, in Nicaragua, Pana
ma, and .Mexico. The Latin
American' .states '. demanded
and the Roosevelt administra
tion agreed that these inter
ventions must stop, and the
language of the doctrine is
designe dto remove" all doubt
and to close every possibility
of evasion. -
.
AS the doctrine was ad
dressed to this country, it
was easily enforceable when
in 1936 non-intervention had
become our own national pol
icy. But the conflict between
Castro . and Trujillo presents
a auite. different problem of
enforcement. For Castro and
Trujillo are mortal enemies,
each convinced that he must
destrov the other or be de
stroyed himself. Neither be
lieves in non-intervention as
a governing principle in this
feud, and neither can be
counted upon to observe the
principle by suppressing
clandestine forces on his own
territory.
Moreover, even if either of
them wanted to. it would be
hard to suppress these forces.
Aaoa from
kit
Walter
Llppmann
FRANK MORGAN . HARCH.D SNODGRASS, FUNERAl D RECTORS
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bower:-could do much to alle
viate and palliate these feel
ings. . ,
No President Visited .;'
To understand Asians feel
ings, it must be realized that
no American president ever
has visited Asia while ' in
office. , -
There is scarcely a country
in. Asia-those behind the iron
curtain except-in which Mr.
Eisenhower's presence alone
could not quiet, if not actually
lead to peaceful solution of,
some extremely important
problems.
Eisenhower has said ...he
would like to travel the world
once he has left the White
House. It is to be hoped, that
so far as. Asia is concerned,
he can do.it before.
Lippniann
We ourselves could hardly say
that we are able to police and
prevent revolutionary and
counter-revolutionary activi
ties based on United States
soil. If the American republics
wanted seriously to suppress
the mutual interventions . in
the Caribbean, they would
have to ask the United States
to. institute a sea-and-air pa
trol of Cuba and the Domini
can Republic. "But this would
violate in. principle and in
spirit the 1936 doctrine of non
intervention in the "external
affairs" of Cuba and the Do
minican Republic. In practice
it would .mean the interven
tion of U. S. forces in an area
where their intervention has
been outlawed for nearly a
quarter of a century. :
It is, then, not easy to ap
ply and , enforce the estab
lished principle of non-intervention.
The best, it , would
appear, that can be done with
it is to. dampen down by dip
lomatic conciliation the more
overt and embarrassing hos
tile acts of Castro's and Tru
jillo's partisans, hangers on,
clients, and mercenaries. -
".'.
I1THEN . the President sees
Mr. K, he means, so he
has told us, to talk about the
fighting in Laos. If Mr. K. is
in a candid and confiding
mood, this might well prove
to be a most useful way to
open up an enlightening dis
cussion. For the interesting
question about Laos is wheth
er Mr. K is the driver or mere
ly a passenger. If he is only a
passenger, . which is almost
certainly the case,, if the drive
is ' from . Hanoi and Peipjng
and not from Mbscow, . the
President and Mr. K. will
have something very interest
ing, to talk about. .- ,
... One of the interesting
things would be the fact that
though the U.S.S Jt. and the
U.S-A.. are much the strong
est powers within their re
spective spheres of influence,
they are very far from being
supreme. The Soviet Union
must deal with Red China, as
ah equal power, and we, of
course, have no pretensions to
supremacy "in Western Europe
or in the Western hemisphere.
Only in respect to the capa
city to , annihilate with . nu
clear, weapons is this a two-
power world. If, as the result
of the .conversations which
are to be held, the illusion
could be dispelled .that what
ever happens in the world de
rives from Moscow or from
Washington, a new sanity
would have begun to dawn in
world affairs.
(c) 1959 New York Herald
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