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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of Th
Wail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Not. 30, 1949 (Wednesday)
Congressman Harris ' Ells
worth speaks at Gold Hill
Grange tomorrow night.
Winston Churchill dedi
cates remaining years to driv
ing socialist government out
. of power and restoring priv
ate enterprise to Britain.
,20 YEARS AGO
.Not. 30, 1939 (Thursday)
Man steals Hertz Drive-
: Yourself car in Seattle; ar
Irested in Medford.
; From Arthur Perry's "Ye
'Smudge Pot" column: "Rus-
. ', 9 Jll J.
sia nas severea cupiomavjc
; relations " with : Finland, to
safeguard her own security,
This will teach Finns in
; future, not to ferociously beg
.for, peace.
t, asssipssssssssss
30 YEARS AGO
Not. 30. 1929 (Saturday)
, Twenty-six cents per pound
offered local growers for
Christmas turkeys.
s Six Jackson county dis-
; tricts vote extra road tax
levy.
- 40 YEARS AGO
Not. 30, 1919 (Sunday)
' Bill in Congress provides
aid for Ashland water sys
! tem, and protection of wa
iter shed.
Butte Falls residents com
plain of bad roads in that
district.
1 50 YEARS AGO
Not. 30, 1909 (Tuesday)
November post office re-
' ceipts in Medford will go
I over $2,000 breaking all prev
ious records there.
Predicted Medford tax
rate for 1910 will be 17 mills,
; lower than this year.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superiors
5 seven or eight is excellent; five ot
sia is good.
1. Does the word "Corona"
.suggest to you cigars, cig
arettes, or pipe tobacco?
2. Did Henry of Navarre
"rule France before or after
the French Revolution?
- 3. Is a hyacinth a gem
-stone, or a flower?
4. Of which African coun
try is Cairo the capital?
5. Complete the proverb:
"Beauty is but . . .'
6. In playing poker, what
cards must one hold in order
to have a royal flush?
7. Are cows milked by
hand usually from the right
side or the left side?
8. During what President's
administration was the Re
construction Finance corpora
tion created?
9. Which President of the
U.S. had a group of friends
and advisers who were called
the "Tennis Cabinet"?
10. Correct the following:
"What are her politics?"
1. Cigars. 2. Before, 3.
Both, 4. Egypt. 3. " . . . skin
deep." 6. Ace. King, Queen,
Jack, ten of one suit, 7. Right
side. 8. Herbert Hoover's. 9.
Theodore Roosevelt, 10.
"What is her politics?"
TO SIGN PACT
London -flJPD- Britain and
Russia have negotiated a new
one-year cultural exchange
' pact and will sign the formal
agreement Tuesday, reliable
diplomatic sources said to
day. - - - V1
It Would Not
In its back pocket,
ultimate weapon primed
struggle for world supremacy and survival. Ye
we refuse to pull the trigger.
Our nation's miracle weapon would not kii
maim or destroy. Instead it would give millions
of our fellow men new
This great weapon
It is not proven by desert tests. Rather, it is
abounding in our fertile fields, it is overflowing
m our mammoth storage
POOD is our not-so-secret weapon. Food is the
cooling salve we have to offer a battered
world's innumerable wounds.
Yet the fields keep
the bins keep bulging at
"A few tons of powdered milk in Africa
would do us more good
says Sen. Hubert Humphrey (D-Minn.).
. Senator Humphrey
that the U.S. initiate a
He contends that with our great stores of food we
i i tT 1 l 1 l 1
coma neip ieea nungry nations, Duua scnoois ana
hospitals in new countries, put idle people to
work, upgrade our own agricultural income, build
lasting reservoirs of goodwill and open new for
eign outlets for U.S. industries. .
HUMPHREY'S Food
expand upon Public
Who would the Food
aimed at? Humphrey is
tions. Those just coming,
need capital for development. Countries that do
not have American dollars. Therefore, the great
opportunity m this program is that we can sel
to these countries for their own money.
Under Humphrey s
we need of the foreign
We would then loan the
their economic development to build roads,
schools, factories or whatever they might need
OUMPHREY explains
program were developed on a big enough
scale, it woud siphon off
iand put them to work in
are short of food. It
economy and that of deficit countries.
"We could make Food for Peace the greatest
instrument we have ever
perous agriculture at home and create good will
abroad, says Humhprey.
Senator Humphrey's
sensible. Perhaps here is
what ails U. S. agriculture but also to what ails
a good part of the world
We, can spend millions in arming backward
nations. However, military aid can backfire, as it
did in Iraq. When other nations look to us for
part oi ineir iooa neeas tney win tninK twice De
fore joining any bloc antagonistic to us.
Aii r i i. i
FOOD as well as missiles means security. Food
will win more friends than weaponsImagine
what Nikita Khrushchev
lion-bushel wheat surplus. He'd turn into the
world's biggest wheat salesman. He'd be spread
ing Soviet influence with
"A -stockpile of food
stockpile of atom bombs," declares the Senator.
The Humphrey plan offers us a way to help
ourselves and give new life to millions of less
fortunate souls. rendleton hast Oregonian.
Not in Our Image
A mature view of foreign aid, but one that
unfortunately is not yet
where in the United States, was presented to the
Colombo Plan nations
Indonesia.
Speaking for the aid
the world, Sukarno sounded a warning that the
aid-giving countries of the world cannot afford
to ignore. "Do not think," he said, "that assist
ance will produce a nation in your own image.
The belief that there is something morally wrong
with foreign aid unless it
recipients is one of the
decade of experience ought to have dispelled.
AMERICAN aid to the under - developed na
f lrtTiC ivF A ciQ on rl A tVio nnf f Yvmnf inn
Eastern Europe and the
arm of American foreign
self-defeating if used to try to create in countries
of totally different background and circum
stances little mirrors politically or economical
ly ot the united states.
President Sukarno put
ber that in dealing with countries such as Indo
nesia you are dealing with a people whose inter
ests and values and requirements are prod
ucts of our history and environment Make
no mistake about it, please, or all your invaluable
efforts can go for nothing. This would be a
tragedy the world could ill afford."
.
HAVE to get accustomed to the idea, and
so do other advanced and prosperous na
tions, that it is an inherent obligation, and also
a matter of long-term economic and political in
terest, to help the under-developed masses of the
Asiatic and African world help themselves.
While we are hardly obligated to assist our
enemies', nevertheless imposition of prior political
conditions on our friends makes no sense either,
and can only earn for the
and resentment ot the recipients. New York
Times. " . .
Kill or Maim
the United States has the
for use in the titantic
vigor, even life itself.
is not born in a factory.
plants.
producing for naught and
the seams.
than a ton of uranium,"
is proposing in Congress
rood for .Peace program,
for Peace program would
Law 480.
for Peace program be
thinking of the new na
out of colonialism that
plan we would use wha
currency to pay our bills
money back to them for
that if a Food for Peace
our depressmg surpluses
parts of the world that
would upgrade our own
had to maintain a pros-
plan is both bold and
the answer to not only
. . . hunger.
ii iiji..ij i
would do with our ml
eveiy kernel.
is as important as
fully accepted every
bv President Sukarno of
- receiving countries of
has such an effect on its
great fallacies that a
Middle East is a vital
policy. But it will be
it this way: "Remem
donors the ingratitude
Dennis the Menace
' fol'U. 5IVSflSjj7A FAT
Washington Report
By WILLIAM
SECOND SPOT
Washington-Vice President
Richard Nixon is determined
that the vice presidential
nomination is to be treated
as a really serious prize in
next year's
R e p u b lican
c o n v e ntion,
He him self,
of course, ex
pects the Pres
idential desig
nation. S t r o n g ly
aided by
c ircumstance,
Nixon in sev
en years has
built up the secondary office
to a presige it never had be
fore in our history. The will
ingness of his chief, President
Eisenhower, to turn over
such unusual power to the
vice presidency has been the
first factor. But Nixon's eager
readiness to use that power
has been equally important.
Now, Mr. Nixon is already
planning so that the office he
has elevated will not return,
after 1960, to its old status as
a kind of sour political joke.
Traditionally, the vice pres--idency
has been seen by poli
ticians as a job for a faceless
stand-in whose only import
ance lay in his being around
to take over in case of the
death of his president.
A VICE Presidential candi
date is usually selected by
the presidential n cm i n e e
himself, after some consulta
tion with advisors. But if
Nixon gets the top nomina
tion next year, two things
may be put down as certain:
1. Richard M. Nixon alone
will decide who is to run on
the ticket with him. Whatev
er "caucus" is held on this
subject will be held, really,
in Nixon's hat.
2. Whoever is chosen will
be chosen on new standards.
To begin with, Nixon is not
impressed by the old idea of
"geographical balance"-if the
presidential nominee is from
the East, for example, the
vice presidential nominee
must be from the West, and
SO OTii
His set of Qualifications for
second place on the ticket
may be authoritatively de
scribed as follows: The sec-
and man must first of all be
in total sympathy with the
policies of the top man. Next,
he must have genuine politic
al appeal in his own right.
He must be able actually to
assist the top nominee in
stead of just going along for
the ride.
rpHEN, HE must be young
and vigorous enough to
take on much foreign travel
ing. (Nixon himself has done
just such far wandering for
Mr. Eisenhower. But if he
were president today he
would not be setting off on
the kind of 11-nation journey
Mr. Eisenhower is taking.
Nix . would send his VP, in
stead.) Finally, Mr. Nixon is Tar
from committed to another
kind of ticket "balancing,"
though his mind cannot whol
ly be made up until next
year. It appears that the
Democrats are likely to put a
Catholic on their ticket, in
one place or the other. Nixon,
for his part, may well simply
ignore the so-called religious
aspect.
Many believe that if one
party offers a 'candidate from
among a religious minority
the other party is bound to
do likewise. Nixon is by no
means so convinced. Indeed,
his people reckon, on' the
contrary, that in some even
tualities the political advan
tage might lie in . the other
direction altogether.
William S.
White
IIP?
S. WHITE
rTHEY.think, for illustration,
- that if the Democrats be
come deeply caught up in
"the religious question" they
may weU offend all groups
-no matter what they finally
do about candidates.
In such a case, the present
odds are that the Nixon camp
would bypass the whole con
troversy by naming an all
Protestant ticket. By doing
so they could present the
GOP as nobly unwilling to
bring into a political cam
paign what ought to be ir
revalent, the factor of a man's
religion.
Very well. Now that Nix
on's criteria for selecting a
vice presidential nominee
are thus disclosed, who
should that nominee be?
Here, all is a great haze. The
Nixon people solemnly offer
a list of "possibles" as long as
your arm. Why are they so
vague? ' Because you surely
don't do yourself any harm
by identifying many stout
fellows as fine vice presiden
tial material and waiting un
til the very last moment be
fore rejecting aU of them but
one.
(Copyright, 1959, by United
. Features Syndicate, Inc.)
Communications
Tumbleweeds Et Al
To the Editor: It's easy to
raise tumbleweeds and jack-
rabbits. All you needed was
some saad and a lot of wind to
blow them around. We lived
in the heart of the tumble
weed bowl for several years.
There were tumbleweeds from
Texas, Oklahoma, Wyoming,
Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and
Missouri piled to the top of
our windmill. For three days
the tumbleweeds from Texas.
Wyoming, Oklahoma and
Arizona would blow past our
house on the way to Missouri.
The wind would change and
they would all come back
again with tumbleweeds from
Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa and
Missouri. The jackrabbits did
the same thing. They must
have had roller bearings.
When 1 was seven years
old, I belonged to a team call
ed "The Tumbleweed Tor
nadoes." We played football,
basketball and marbles with
tumbleweeds. We also played
tumbleweeds, tie 25 tumble
weeds together with baling
wire, launch them in the wind
or tie them to our bicycles.
That was a great deal of fun,
until we ran into a cactus
plant.
Tumbleweeds weren't worth
much. The cows wouldn't eat
'"m and the goats couldn't
catch 'em. The Union Pacific
was the only ones who could
catch 'em. They didn't catch
cows on the cowcatchers,
just tumbleweeds and jack
rabbits. . It was some time after I
arrived in Oregon before I
learned much about jack-
rabbits, four - wheeled tin
jackrabbits with pneumatic
tires. There were 35 jackrab
bits under the hood of that
car made by the Apperson
Jackrabbit Company. This car
had a cone clutch, it didn't
drive, it jumped. The farthest
I ever jumped without killing
the motor was 79 feet. It took
four hours to jump from Ash
land to Medford. I became an
expert with tin jackrabbits.
Everett Acklin
Ashland, .Ore.
More on Music
To the Editor: I noted your
editorial in regard to my let
ter in the communications col
umn, concerning the "music"
available on the Rogue valley
radio stations.
I'll take each item in the
editorial as I come to it.
1-True, I like good old
time fiddle tunes,. but I'm def
initely not of a' one track
mind. I'll enjoy some Scottish
or -Irish Bagpipe music," or-
Communists' Use of Semantics, Wilson
Says, Confusing to Soft-Headed in U.S.
By LYLE C. WILSON
Washington-flJPD-It is well
known, of course, that the
Russians invented baseball,
that they beat
Edison to elec
tric lighting,
and, finally,
that whatever
the United
States can do,
the Commies
can do better.
There are
some special
(:.u. e n
Vvi r Wilton iiciua tu. com
munist excellence, however,
which are little known. They
are little known because the
Communists do not brag about
them. On the contrary, they
would prefer that some of
their skills remain unremark
ed and unknown.
So it is with the Communist
Foreign Notebook: Hungarian
Troops; Welfare of
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
From the foreign editor's
notebook:
Hungary:
It may have nothing to do
with United Nations debate
on Hungary and a probable
new indictment of Russia for
its ruthless suppression of the
1956 Hungarian revolt, but
Communist East Berlin hears
that a. reduction of Soviet
troops in Hungary once more
is being discussed. Soviet De
fense Minister Rodion Mali-
novsky is supposed to have
taken it up with Soviet com
manders in Hungary.
Blank Check
Bonn reports that Chancel
lor Konrad Adenauer will
rely on French President
Charles de Gaulle to look out
for West German interests in
the coming western summit
meeting. Adenauer is said to
feel that among the Western
Big Three, de Gaulle has the
greatest personal and nation
al stake in the critical Ger
man and Berlin issues. At the
same time, he feels that
President Eisenhower and
British Prime Minister Har
old Macmillan are too preoc
cupied by the atom and arms
race to be able to give full
consideration to German in
terests.
Squeeze
Britain continues fearful
gan music, accordion music
and so on, ad infinitum. My
complaint has been, consist
ently, that we get no variety
at all on our local stations
I'll repeat, it has been several
years since I heard a fiddle
on a Rogue valley station. I'll
allow that I just didn't turn
the darned radio on at the
right time of day but, after
all, when should I turn it on?
Why can't we have a half
hour of old time fiddle tunes
and an equal amount of time
each to accordion, bagpipe,
organ, military and marching
music, etc.? Then when the
program we enjoy is over we
can turn the darned thing
off.
2-1 noted the statement in
which I'm referred to as a
"more irascible" correspond
ent. Now it has been my im
pression that most of those
acquainted with me consider
me as easy to get along with,
definitely not (as my diction
ary says) "easily excited to
anger."
3-1 hardly expected any of
my letters to change the sta
tus quo. I'm always interest
ed in the opinions of others
and I always read the com
munications column and the
editorial column. I do not
think the aforesaid music pro
grams, which are available on
Roeue valley stations are
truly popular with a very
large segment of our Jackson
county residents.. So-I ve sug
gested the radio stations con
duct a poll as to the listeners'
preferences.
4-1 definitely have not
tried to dictate the musical
taste. Anyone who desires to
listen to rock 'n' roll, light
opera, or what have you, has
my permission. I'd have no
complaints, if. as 1 1 stated
above, the stations would give
a definite period to certain
types of music, (and not mix
it up) so we do not have to
listen to that type we dislike.
Floyd R. McCabe
Mt. Pitt Star rt.
Butte Falls, Ore.
Sugar the Villain
To the Editor: The follow
ing quotations are from the
How To Held
FALSE TEETH
More Firmly in Place
Do your alts teetfc annoy and era
barrass by supping, dropping or wob
bling when you eat. laugh or talk?
Just sprinkle a little FASTEETH on
your plates. This alkaline (non-acid)
powder holds false teeth more firmly
and more comlortably. No gummy,
gooey, pasty taste or feeling. Does not
sour. Checks "plate odor" (denture
breath). Get FASTEETH today as
any drug counter. - - -
skills in the field of seman
tics.
The science of semantics
has enabled the Communists
over the years to bamboozle
Americans and other citizens
and - subjects " of the Free
World. The science of seman
tics is a word game. Ameri
can citizens seem to be the
most susceptible to the game
of words which the Commun
ist party of the United States
constantly is playing with
them.
Soft-headed persons are
especially susceptible to this
Communist gimmick. Seman
tics is the science of the mean
ing of words. The way the
Communists play it, their
words do not mean what they
seem to mean, but only what
the Communists intend them
to mean. That is confusing to
that France and West Ger
many between them will
squeeze Britain out of its for
mer position of prestige in
European affairs. The ques
tion of a bigger' British say
so, in Europe will be taken
up in London during the
visit of Premier Antonio Seg
ni of Italy. The British hope
to dust off the almost-forgotten
West European Union
(WEU) in which they are
members along with France,
West Germany, Italy and the
three "Benelux" countries.
The WEU first was set up to
permit the staged rearming
of West Germany.
book, "Housewives Beware!"
by Doris Grant, a nutritionist
in England.
"If you have a 'sweet tooth'
dear Reader, this chapter
will shock you. But it is true
the . stuff you spoon into
your food is the thief of health
and beauty and the greatest
criminal of all our unnatural
'civilized food stuffs."
"Chemically - processed white
sugar steals both calcium and
vitamin B from the body and
works in such unexpected and
unseen ways that its crimes
are seldom traced and brought
home to it. Unfortunately this
thief is such an attarctive and
charming fellow that most of
his victims are completely
under his spell." "The more
sugar you eat the more you
will want to eat."
"Dr. Sandler, a famous
American doctor has discov
ered that low blood sugar is a
factor of susceptibility to po
lio (and to other infections)
and that people who succumb
to polio are always those
whose consumption of sugar
(and of white flour products)
is high, and whose blood su
gar is correspondingly low."
"Dr. Sandler, brought a se
vere epidemic of poljo in
large boys' school to an abrupt
and dramatic end, merely by
stopping the consumption of
ice cream and halving the con
sumption of sugar and white
flour products."
"When Dr. Sandler pub
lished his diet for preventing
polio it greatly reduced the in-
cidence of this disease in
North Carolina and neighbor
ing states, but it also consid
erably reduced the sale of ice
creams, sweets, and colas;
these fell by a million gallons
in one week alone. Big busi
ness got wise, however, and
soon no editor was allowed to
publish his articles and no ra
dio network to broadcast his
talks. ... Dr. Sandler's diet
withheld ice cream, jams, jel
lies, cakes, sweets, sugar, soft
drinks and over-processed
starches like white bread and
white flour products. It in
creased the intake of protein
foods milk, eggs, meat, and
included whole wheat bread
and wheat germ."
When I read this indictment
of white sugar, I was shocked.
I have sent this as a letter to
the editor in the hope that
many conscientious motners
might see it and make neces
sary changes in their families'
diets. It would reduce the in
cidence of illnesses, beginning
with colds, and all down the
line of degenerative diseases.
Anna M. Streed
36 North Peach st.
Medford.
PERL
Funeral Home
FRIENDLY HOMELIKE
a soft head.' This confusion
causes the softies to fall for
all sorts of Communist none-
sense of which there will be
a good example next month
in New York City.
In mid-December there will
convene a two-day conference
of the American Committee
for Protection of the Foreign
Born (ACPEB). Now, who
could be against that? Your
correspondent for one.
This essay, in fact, is a
warning: Don't be a soft head
when some plausible char
acter invites you to attend or
to contribute to next month's
ACPEB conference. Don't be
a sucker even if you are an
grily opposed to' the Walter
McCarran Immigration Act
and are told that the major
conference purpose will be to
revise or to get rid of it .
Germany
Things are looking up in
the long-drawn ' negotiations
to establish relations between
Japan and the Republic of
Korea, as result of effective
behind-the-scenes work by
U.S. officials. Incidentally,
Tokyo hears that North Ko
rean Foreign Minister Nam
II, long a Communist mouth
piece, lost his job because of
the failure of the scheme to
repatriate thousands of Ko
reans now in Japan to Com
munist North Korea. Only a
small percentage of the T10,
000 North Koreans in Japan
wanted it.
Drummond Reports
(Waller Lippman is again traveling abroad. Roscoe Dromond
reports from Washington in his absence.)
NEW ROLE FOR NATO
Washineton Paul Henri
Spaak, Secretary General of
JMAiO and one of the ablest
statesmen in EurODe. is mak
ing a strong case for enlarg
ing the role of the North At
lantic Alliance to counter the
Soviet challenge to bury the
western nations economical
ly.
Mr. Spaak received a re
sponsive hearing from the
NATO parliamentarians-150
of the political leaders of the
15 NATO countries meeting
in Washington - and my in
formation is that he won sub
stantial endorsement from
President Eisenhower this
past week.
What Mr. Spaak is saying
and, it seems to me, at the
ngnt iime-is tnis:
That the Soviet Union,
with the satellite economies
regimented to help, is at the
point of launching a major
economic offensive to aid sel
ected underdeveloped nations
ana mus to maKe Commun
ism more alluring.
That the United States can
not and. should not be ex.
pected to meet this challenge
by itself, that the economic
contest is not between the So
viet Union and the U.S. but
between the Soviet Union
and all the industrialized
powers of the free world.
That the only way to win
this contest is for the strone-
er Western nations to do
more to help the underdevel
oped countries while the U.S.
does not do less, and that the
best means of doing it to
gether is a "revised and ex
panded NATO."
THE VIEWS which Mr.
Spaak is advancing paral
lel closely the views which
have been developed within
the Administration. The fu
ture contest with the Soviets,
as Mr. Khrushchev candidly
remarked only a few days
ago, is going to be "rugged."
Mr. Eisenhower urgently be
lieves that Western aid to the
underdeveloped peoples must
be increased and that our
now prospering allies should
take up their part of the
burden. That is generally ac
cepted. What remains to be deter
mined is whether the Western
nations will set up separate
aid programs or whether the
Western governments will act
together to concert their ec-1
onomic programs to accomp
Hear your favorite hymns
on KMED every Sunday,
10:30 a.m., sung by
"Tennessee Ernie" Ford
ATMOSPHERE
The very name of the Amer
ican " Committee for the Pro
tection of the Foreign Born
is a phoney, an exercise in
Communist double talk or
semantics. The ACPEB was
not set up to protect the for
eign born. It was set up as
a Communist front to furth
er the objectives of the Com
munist party. The House com
mittee on un-American activi
ties came up years ago with
the answers on the ACPEB.
Hear this:
"The ACPEB was founded
by the Communist party the
House . committee reported.
"in order to exploit racial di
visions in the United States
for its own revolutionary pur
poses, v .
"It (the ACPEB) has been
linked, closely to the Interna
tional Labor Defense, the
legal arm of the Communist
party, in defense of foreign
born Communists and sympa
thizers. The ACPEB, by pro
tecting foreign Communists
who come to this country, has
aided in enabling them to op
erate here."
Next month will be the
27th annual ACPEB confer
ence, each devoted to the wel
fare of the Soviet Union and,
wherever needful, against
the welfare of the United
States. The House committee
reported long ago that the
ACPEB record "shows a strict
adherence to the line of the
Communist party on both
foreign and domestic policy."
Hail, comrades, and fare
well! lish the greatest good where
it is most needed. .
It is Mr. Spaak's conviction
that the West can come out
oa top ia this "rugged" con
test with the Soviets only if
we act unitedly.
While Mr. Spaak sees the
military danger as remaining
until there are agreements
in substance, not just on pro
cedures, with the Soviets,. he
sees the looming contest with
Moscow primarily as econom
ic, political, and ideological.
He argues that just as NATO
came into being to meet the
military danger, it now
should adapt itself to meet
the economic and political
danger.
It is for this reason that
Mr. Spaak proposes a wider
role geographically, political
ly, and economically for the
alliance.
He suggests that NATO
cannot meet the new chal
lenge if it confines itself only
to Western Europe since the
new challenge is world-wide.
TllR. SPAAK proposes two
lines of action to enable
NATO to adapt itself to the
new situation:
He would ask the members
of NATO to do more to con
cert their broader foreign
policies within the NATO in
an effort to get a common for
eign policy for the West as a
whole. This is Mr. Spaak's
alternative to President de
Gaulle's plea for an Anglo
American - French "director
ate" of NATO.
He would use NATO to
enlarge and, in part, direct a
more coherent Western aid
program for the underdevel
oped countries.
There is nothing in the
Spaak proposals which would
increase the NATO military
commitments. There is much
in the Spaak proposals which
corresponds to what the Eis
enhower administration has
been saying it wants to
achieve in the field of enlarg
ing the aid program and dis
tributing the burden.
If the concerted Soviet ec
onomic offensive brings only
a disunited response from the
West, Moscow is going to
have that kind of contest
half-won at the beginning. It
seems to me there is great
merit in the direction which
Mr. Spaak is proposing that
NATO should take.
(c) 1959 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
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