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Monday, Jan. 25, 1960
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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
Jan. 25. 1950 (Wednesday)
Dr. Edwin R. Durno testi
fies in Portland in govern
ment's anti-trust suit against
several Oregon medical
groups.
Defense says it will call
Sen. Wayne Morse to testify
as character witness on behalf
of union leader Harry Bridges
who is on trial for perjury and
conspiracy in San Francisco.
20 YEARS AGO
Jan. 25. 1940 (Thursday)
John L. Lewis said today
that if President Roosevelt is
nominated for a third term
his candidacy would result
"in ignominious defeat."
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
favorite Oregon propoganda
for a third term is: 'If McNary
can run over and over, why
can't Roosevelt.' This is stem
winding logic upon which no
wind need be wasted."
30 YEARS AGO
Jan. 25. 1930 (Saturday)
Frank Van Dyke of Med
ford is a member of the Wil
lamette university debating
team.
Closer cooperation between
city and country urged at
Pomona Grange meeting.
40 YEARS AGO
Jan. 25. 1920 (Monday)
Pacific highway is now
open between Medford and
Redding. Calif.
Poland asks for Allied help
in thwarting Russia on the
eastern front.
50 YEARS AGO
Jan. 25. 1910 (Tuesday)
Polk's directory just issued,
gives Medford big boost as
claim to largest city in valley.
Estimates. Medford popula
tion, 7.965, Ashland, 6,768,
Grants Pass, 5,859..
A Jarge comet was seen
west of the city last night.
Officials say is not "Halley's"
comet.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior;
(even or eight is excellent; five or
six is good.
1. Which is heavier, copper
or steel?
2. With what scholastic in
stitution was Knute Rockney
professionally connected?
3. Where is Churchill
Downs?
4. What color tie would a
gentleman wear with "tails"?
5. Milk is heavier than
cream; true or false?
6. Is Crown Prince Akihito
the heir apparent, or the heir
presumptive, to the throne in
Japan?
7. Icebergs are approxi-
mately 59ths, 79ths, or
89ths under water?
8. In miles, what is the ap
proximate diameter of the
earth?
9. After which war did the
observance of Memorial Day
originate?
10. Who is the author of
"Pavilion of Women"?
Answers: 1. Copper. 2. No
lr Dame University. 3. Louis
ville. Ky. (Kentucky Derby
ite.) 4. White tie. 5. True. 6.
Heir apparent. 7. 891hs. 8.
8.000 miles. 9. War Between
Ihe States. 10. Pearl S. Buck.
-N E W S P A P E R
SySSS PUBLISHERS
J-'ASSOCIATION
Winter at the Coast
The Oregon Coast saves some of its choicest
secrets to reveal to those who visit the shore in the
winter.
Those who saw the new year in at "our section
of the beach" in Lincoln County were treated to
pounding waves which left long lines of foam
for children to kick their way through at the
high water mark.
The spouting horns at Depoe Bay and Boiler
Bay were gathering points for hundreds of brightly-clad
"beachcombers," willing to take a duck
ing in chilly spray for the privilege of getting
close to the source.
WINTER'S high tides alter the landscape and
seascape so that summertime visitors hardly
recognize some of the coast. They fill eveiy cor
ner of Siletz Bay with water, crowding in on the
low-lying houses at Cutler City.
The waves at Taft cross the bar and pound
against the seawall of rocks next to the streets
of the city. The long line of logs which normally
divide that beach into hundreds of little picnic
spots bob resignedly in Siletz Bay waiting to be
thrown into different abstract patterns along the
sand for next summer's visitors.
I7URTHER down the coast, the waves surge
through the mouth of the Devil's Punch Bowl
at Otter Rock. The summer tourist who has look
ed into that yawning hole on a dozen different
occasions finally sees the swirling waters about
which he heard others talk.
.,- With a steady wind blowing from the West,
the glass ball hunters are out in full force. As
early as one gets to the beach in the morning,
there is always one or two sets of footprints ahead
on the sand. Back they come, early birds, stick in
hand, poking into each pile of drifting sand, eyes
on the lookout for that glint of green which be
trays the hidden glass float.
70R those who were willing to risk a climb on
ice-coated rocks, the waves put on a splendid
show of violence over the New Year's holiday.
The sun was warm enough in mid-day to permit
sitting on the beach or rocks to watch the display.
Schools of whales frolicked offshore, although
the usual clusters of fishing boats were absent.
The winter-time recreational uses of the Coast
will increase as people come to recognize that
sunshine isn't much harder to find there in the
winter than in the summer, and in many ways it
is even more enjoyable in the "off season."
Oregon Statesman, Salem.
Oregon Honored-Again
Governor Mark Hatfield said yesterday he
felt Oregon was honored to have the University
of Minnesota hire Dr. O. Meredith Wilson, presi
dent of the University of Oregon, as president of
the midwestern school.
That's one wTay of looking at it.
We realize that the $27,000 offered Dr. Wil
son by Minnesota can't be matched by the uni
versity at Eugene, and we are happy for Dr. Wil
son that he can step up to a better job almost
the veiy essence of realization of ambition in
America.
But he follows Dr. Harold M. Erickson, form
er state health officer, from the state too closely
to promote a feeling of comfort.
rR. WILSON is leaving the state, he says, with
regrets. Dr. Erickson didn't express too many,
despite his many years of service. It was apparent
he felt frustrated in his inability to promote good
health conditions under current conditions.
We hope Dr. Wilson is not covering a similiar
situation with bland words.
Despite the honor of losing Dr. Wilson to
Minnesota and Dr. Erickson to California where
he was willing to become assistant in order to find
a more favorable climate for performance, we
are concerned over this migration of top men to
other states.
Oregon needs every able and talented man
and woman it can get if the state is to progress
to the position the state's resources portend.
DUT, as someone remarked, we still have Len
Casanova, head coach at the university, who
turned dowrn a chance to go to the University of
California.
A good football coach is far more valuable
than a university president or a health officer,
someone said during a discussion of Wilson's
departure.
And that must be so, because in many places
the coach is paid more than the school president.
And money is the American standard of
worth.
So we get what we pay for, not wThat we need
most, perhaps, but what we want most. Coos
Bay World.
. The Constant Survivor
It is not surprising that crab, grass near a nu
clear reactor at Dawsonville, Ga., is surviving
heavy doses of radiation. Crab grass will survive
anything. Strange indeed that science is equipped
to destroy the world but cannot lick crab grass.
Oh. yes, you can dig it up or kill it off, but
w-atch it come back hardy and smirking wrhen the
first hot sun hits the lawn ! There is only one wray
to deal with crab grass, and that is to admit de
feat early in life. A. counsel of. despair, perhaps,
but sound. St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Dennis the
WANNA 6UY AAy" THOUGHTS FOR A y ?'
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"BB" Film Hit
To the Editor: I think the
management of the Holly The
atre is to be severely criti
cized for offering the film
that is slated for the coming
week end; namely "A Woman
Like Satan."
Having seen the previews
of this lustful picture, having
witnessed the part of Bardot
that you haven't seen yet, and
having blushed with the wom
en in our group, I remarked
that this would surely be an
"adults only" movie. How
ever it seems that the man
agement considers this such
a worthwhile picture that
even students and children
are to be admitted at bargain
prices.
No wonder the number of
juvenile delinquents and sex
perverts multiply, when such
rubbish is served to our
youth, and in such a matter-of-fact
manner.
(Name on file)
Medford.
Safety Hazard
To the Editor: I had always
thought Medford a very
"safety conscious" city. Par
ticularly in the schools.
That is why I was surprised
and slightly shocked to see
the obvious violations at Hed
rick Junior High school last
Thursday night.
The Globetrotters were
wonderful, but I am sure
many people felt uneasy to
see the aisles, stairs and exits
blocked by people unable to
find seats.
, Surely there is some answer
to this problem before Med
ford adds its name to the list
of cities that waited too long.
Mrs. Paul Norris
1481 Ridgeway dr.
Medford
Error Corrected
To the Editor: In reading
through the article in Friday's
issue of the Tribune covering
the report which I made to
the County Council of P.T.A.
on the work of the Interim
Committee on Education, I
note an error which I would
like to correct.
The survey being conduct
ed to determine quality of ed
ucation and administrative
practices will include 50 first
class districts, 50 second class
districts, and 50 third class dis
tricts. Apparently one line of
type was inadvertently omit
ted, since the article mentions
only the 50 first class dis
tricts. To persons who are fa
miliar with the educational
problems'of Oregon, this
would make a good deal of
difference in their opinion of
the validity of the survey.
Evelyn Nye
State Representative
Medford
Thanks. Good People
To the Editor: We thought
the time of old fashioned
neighborliness and generosity
were a thing of the past until
recently when our home
burned to the ground.
Christmas Day, when we
were called by telephone at
a relatives home and told our
home was completely destroy
ed by fire, it seemed that
nothins could be worse. Now,
just three weeks later, we are
at home again in a brand new
house, built entirely by the
donated labor of our many
relatives, friends and neigh
bors. All the materials were
either donated or bought with
gifts of money.
The aDDeal of the Medford
Mail Tribune, the local Naz-
arene churches, the Southern
Pacific employees, and
friends, relatives and neigh
bors have more than ade-
auatelv suDDlied us with
household goods, furniture
and clothing.
It has been a wondrful and
gratifying feeling .V know
Menace
"X I IP
I"1
that people really still have
an interest in their fellow
man. Our mere "thank you"
seems so small after all that
has been done for us, but we
do wish to thank each and
every one of you who has
helped us so generously and
may God extend to each of
you a special blessing.
Mr. and Mrs. Eustace
Arthur and family,
Route 1, Box 660,
Eagle Point, Ore.
A Paradox
To the Editor: It is not only
sad reading, but well high im
possible to understand, in a
news story in Wednesday's
Mail Tribune that tells of
President Eisenhower's plea
to Congress and the Ameri
can people to lock the stable
door, after the horse has been
stolen, when he asks us all
to gird up to fight inflation.
The ink is scarce dry on
the contract that Vice Presi
dent Nixon, using all the
power of his high office, verg
ing as it does into the Presi
dency, to wring from the pro
testing Steel companies a bil
lion dollar wage and fringe
benefit , wage raise spread
over three years for the vote
rich steel labor union leaders.
Why should the steel in
dustry be in the national dog
house? They were but 'grimly
following Ike's plea of less
than a year ago for industry
at large to hold down wage
demands and prices of their
products. Does he regard us
a bunch of gullible morons
to be swayed this way and
that way, as FBR once loved
to do in his chatty fireside
double talking - like, "our
boys will nevah, nevah fight
on foreign soil"? That was a
mighty guide-post we should
have remembered and heed
ed. To show my stand on this
is not a lonely one, here is
the last paragraph by that
dedicatedly courageous edi
tor of the U.S. News and
World Report, David Lawr
ence, writing on the steel
strike 'settlement':
"The new decade opens
with a new defeat of the pub
lic interest by those politi
cians in labor and govern
ment who prefer a temporary
prosperity in 1960 to the
sound measures that could
have spared America a de
pression in 1961."
F. J. Clifford
Route 2, Box 200F
Central Point, Ore.
On Tax Equity
To the Editor: It was nice to
have. you take off your-coat
and administer a good' editor
ial beating to that 23rd Con
stitutional . amendment idea
that has been circulating
around here lately.
It proposes several drastic
changes in government prac
tices, all of them radically
wrong. To liquidate several
hundred indispensible gov
erments functions in three
years time would demoralize
the country. Most of these
things private industry
couldn't or wouldn't do.
Who in private industry
would buy the government
held surplus grains and then
dispose of them at a loss? Or
what could be done about
bringing agricultural produc
tion and consumption into bal
ance without breaking the
farmer and throwing the econ
omy of the country into a
tailspin? There are 1,160,000,
000 acres of farm land in the
country, every acre of which
has an owner with an invest
ment in it and paying taxes
on it. There is a tremendous
potential there to over-pro
duce the American market.
What is private 'industry go-
lng to do about so huge an un
dertaking? Three years is a wholly in
adequate time for the government-
to dispose of its big
property holdings.. Such
forced and hasty sales would
be mostly -at ' bargain -prices
and leave the government
without its property or its
cash equivalent. Big society
means big government and
big spending, and these who
don't like it will have to flee
society and live' like hermits
in caves in the deserts or
mountains somewhere.
It would repeal the Income
Tax amendment. Talk about
biting ihe hand that feeds
you. That amendment brought
order out of chaos and sense
out of nonsense in federal tax
matters.
With: the cost of war taking
60 per cent of the national j
budget (548,000,000,000)1
where is the money to" come
from if not from an income
tax? With" the federal gov
ernment taking S-125 ' annu
ally ircm every man, woman
and child, it must come 'from
the wealth of the country ana
not from the people, for many
people just don't have' it.
With tax" dodging as prevalent
as it is, the income t tax law
needs tightening up, not
loosening up..
It's high taxes, not income
taxes, that should make us
mad. Without income taxis,
tax shirking would be easier.
It would be generai. 'Ine
higher taxes go, the greater
the need of honest people for
the shelter of the loth Amend
ment with its provision for
fair and equal distribution ci
these taxes.
W;.E. Eavies
Route. 1', Sox 110
' ' Eagle Point,. Cre.
Asks "Resl Cass"
To the Editor: Thus far,
through generalization and in
nuendo, you have sought to
discredit both the idea of," and
the people behind, the propos
ed 23rd Amendment; but if
you have a real case to pre
sent in favor of defeating this
amendment, now would seem
a good time to present it. In
deed, you would perpetrate a
grave injustice to your read
ers if -you do not soon offer
soma argumentative proof for
your conclusions.
During any -- research you
might choose to do Into this
question, investigate if you
will," the history and philoso
phy of Mr. "Lippmann. You
may find it difficult, if not
impossible, to recognize any
differences between I.Ir..Lipp
mann's views and the most es
sential tenets of Socialism.
Again, you seem to have
missed the point concerning
Mr. Lee's and Mr. Stone's re-marks7-
about foreign aid.' TKe
present plant to be sure, would
be terminated; but no one has
the intention of side-stepping
this wealthy -nation's respon
sibility of ' Christian Charity
tothe destitute peoples of the
world. Under the present for
eign aid of Government to
Government, the money has
been dissipated with little or
no improvement of the condi
tion of the people. And fur
ther, in this thought, such aid
would be immeasurably more
productive, and more rightly
belongs, not to private enter
prise as we use the term, but
to private charitable- organi
zations, because they work in
the spirit of true Christian
Love and benevolence. The
condition of the world should
be proof enough for now that
governments have not worked
in any such spirit of benevo
lence, or love.
Leave -us remember now,
taxes can be cruel ' and "un-'
just. And in times of provid
ing for national defense, a tax
of 100 per cent might offer no
guarantee of an adequate de
fense mechanism. This would
especially hold true when ap
plied to our present problem
of basic military disagreement
on preparation and strategy,
coupled with waste, duplica
tion of research and develop
ment, and other inefficiencies.
All questions of taxation
have proven to be difficult,
and fraught with stifling dan
gers (least of all, .are "these
questions self answerable,"
Mail Tribune 1-21-60), for
these questions are concerned
with main's right to private
property. Now vast accumula
tion of private fortunes should
be discouraged.and in this the
Government must .consult the.
common good in-ownership
regulations; but under no con
ditions may a government leg
islate it out of .existence. -- ;
Thank you for your time.
Robert J. Howard
. 828B West 14th st.
Medford
Editor's note: We were un
der the -impression, apparent
ly erroneous, that we had
been fairly specific in criti
cizing the proposed 23rd
amendment. .A bout all we
hate "to 'add at the moment is
that Mr. Howard's optimism
about, the . ability of private
charitable organizations to re
lieve worid suffering is far
greater than ours; and that
the 23rd amendment would
nertheri nsu re justice and
equity- in taxation, nor would
it prevent the "vast accumu
lation of private' fortunes?'
which he thinks should be dis-
gn Note
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ti A 3 vjji. lJ J
Ey PHIL NEWSOM
U?I Fcrcign Editor
'From the foreign editor's
notebook:
lialian Zeds Soost?
Italy's big Communist par
ty will give a loud sendoff to
president cl the . Republic
Q jovan n J
Gronchi when
he leaves for
;s Moscow next
:;j week. The
Italian C o m-
j munist Party
I C o ngress
1
siaiis on jau.
0 and winds
1
I up the da y
"t'ii'i ' '.T.ivbnm Gronchi
leaves for Russia on an offic
ial visit, Feb. 5. Claiming al
most two million card car
riers, the Italian Communist
party is the largest outside
the Iron and Bamboo cur
tains, and second only to the
ruling Christian Democrats as
a political force in Italy. It
has been losing membership
and prestige, however, and
party boss Palmiro Togliatti
is. expected to use Gronchi's
I Icseow visit as a springboard
lor an attempt to restore
pcrty fortunes. He will stress
that Gronchi is going not as .a
partisan head of government,
but as a representative .of all
Italians - including the Reds.
Ircn Fisi
When Gen. Charles de
Gaulle fired Maj Gen. Jac
ques Massu, darling of the re
bellious French settlers in Al
geria, lie served stern notice
that there would be no change
in his "liberal policy" toward
Algeria and his promise of
eventual self - determination.
Last week, Be Gaulle re
marked to a visitor, "you can
even send paratroops to the
couraged. As for socialism, it
is a scare-word. Public schools
are pure socialism. Shall we
do away with them for that
reason?
Frss Enterprise
To the Editor: The 23rd
Amendment is a tear- sheet
from the U.S. Chamber, of
Commerce files.' It. and some
cf "its members are probably
the worst violators of that
part of America's Free Enter
prise system, "so long as it
does not abrogate or deny -the
right's Of others."
For ; years the capitalistic
U.S. C. of C. has fought for
control . of all of America's
natural resources, Indian
lands, oil, timber, grazing.
Special interests, "legalized"
by paid, politicians, have re
duced free enterprise to free
plunder by the most powerful
It"" has created Rockefeller,
Y'eyerhaeuser, et al, gods of
wealth and power (the gods
now in a dilemma - fear); all
the world in the worst con
fusion ever known. So by one
great swoop while the world
is in this confusion, the des
troyers hope to make a kill
ing. To hell with the public.
In the past 50 to 100 years
private special' interests have
hi-graded and stripped Ameri
ca of nearly all its forests, left
millions of acres of scorched
earth; mills were closed, men
idled; grazing lands over
grazed and ruined; other na
tural resources "were ruinous
ly wasted by hi-grading for
big profits; land eroded by
floods to droughts and deserts;
streams polluted, dried up;
watertables dropping, wells
dry. Not the fault of free en
terprise, but abuse of it by
that powerful gang.
' Jan. 15, 1779, George Wash
ington appealed . to Patrick
Henry to come ' forth and
help save, the Colonies from
the pertinacious, persistant,
selfish, special interests." In
1260s Ignatious Donnelly,
member of. Congress (one of
America's forgotten great
men) warned the Congress -"the
unbridled greed of big
business and its corruptive in
fluence on. politicians is caus
ing the people to not even
vote, and seek relief in com
munism." May 13, 1908, T.R.
warned: "We are over the
verge of a timber famine. It
should be prohibitive for the
nation or the states to cut any
more timber except it be
under a provision where the
next generation shall see the
timber increased instead of
diminished." Dec. 12 and 13,
1D39 the manager of the West
Coast Lumber Co. was called
before a Congressional com
mittee and asked why such
destruction of the forests. He
said, "because the owners of
that timber have no faith that
it .will be worth anything 20
years from now, (December,
1959). And being businessmen,
feel they have no other course
than to cut it before it de
teriorates any more."
John E. Gribble
139 Kenwood ave.
Medford
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t FWIpi teniae p
Elysee (his official Paris resi
dence), that will change no
thing." De Gaulle has a radio
TV address scheduled for Jan.
29, and in it is expected to
reiterate his '"self-determination"
policy and his assurance
to French settlers that they
will not be "sold out." But he
is expected to have little suc
cess persuading the colonists
who once more are saying it
is only a choice between '"the
suitcase and the coffin" -meaning
get out or die.
Dispute Among Friends
The Western Allies still
have not reached agreement
on the stand they will take
when they meet with Soviet
Premier Nikita Khrushchev
yashfiiqtora Report
fey
By WILLIAM
PRICKLY' DeGAULLE
Washington Now that a
few voices in France are dar
ing to question the lofty and
r- -"-v'' heretofore un-
it challenged au-
; , t h o r i t y of
I Charles D e-
-k .) uauue, it
xV" might be sup
s -'I posed that this
.s-' tail ana lrost
' ' bitten old pa-
Y l triot would
become a bit
less demand-
William S
White
ing with his allies.
But there is reason to be -
lieve that General DeGaulle
is coming here to meet Presi
dent Eisenhower on April 22
more convinced than ever
that his is the one correct
opinion among the Allied
leaders.
Information of a confiden
tial but completely responsi
ble nature suggests, indeed,
that once again we shall see
proof of an old French say
ing: the more things change
the more they ' remain the
same. President DeGaulle's
power.base in France has cer
tainly been changed. He has
suffered rebellions in the cab
inet and new threats of dis
obedience from among some
of the military men.
: -
A LL the same, his view is
unchanged except strong-er-that
the other Western al
lies must take their cue from
his thinking in dealing with
the cold war. Some of the
reasons for all this rest on
purely" impersonal facts of
world politics.
DeGaulle is deeply annoyed
and distressed that-the United
States has not given the sup
port which he thought Presi
dent Eisenhower had prom
ised to give to France's policy
for ending the Algerian rev
olution. This irritation has
grown, not eased, since Mr.
Eisenhower's goodwill call on
DeGaulle in Paris a few
weeks ago.
Lrenerai ueLrautle, more
over, is increasingly upset at
the continued American re
fusal to give genuine atomic
help to this undoubtedly vital
ally in the heart of Europe.
Finally, he is more and
more sensitive to suggestions
that his main purpose in life
is simply to restore France's
grandeur." This view which
is widely held both here and
in London, is not merely an
noying to DeGaulle; it is deep
ly resented. There is every
probability that this resent
ment' will be frankly express
ed in private when the French
President meets the Ameri
can President.
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" feel that the accusation of
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on the subject of Berlin. Last
spring the West proposed an
interim agreement in which
an Allied troop reduction in
Berlin and a curb on anti-"
Communist propaganda
broadcasts would be consider
ed in return for Soviet agree
ment to preserve the status
quo between West Berlin and '
Communist East Berlin. West
German Chancellor Konrad
Adenauer now has vetoed
that plan and the United
States, Britain and France
have failed to come up with
a substitute. The task of per
suading Adenauer to yield on
the issue may fall to President
Eisenhower when he meets
the Chancellor early in
March.
S. WHITE
more grandeur-seeking is not
only nonsense. Worse yet,
they feel it is a kind of fab-.
ricated retort, because critics
have no better one, to the
fact that DeGaulle is alone
among top Western statesmen
in looking at cold war reali
ties straight in the face.
But beneath these imper
sonal explanations for a hard
ening in DeGaulle's position
toward his allies there are
more subtle reasons. One is
that DeGaulle actually feels
that in dealing with Eisen-
jhower he is dealing with a
rather junior officer. He has
no great confidence in Eisen
hower's high strategic ideas
probably because Charles De-
Uraune naa me status of a
high commander while
Dvvight Eisenhower was still
a lieutenant colonel.
The human factors in world
politics are hardly less hu
man than in school-board pol
itics. DeGaulle is distinctly
not enchanted with that fav
orite line of the White House
publicity men about "the old
comrade-in-arms" himself
and Eisenhower.
A GAIN, the French soldiers-President
is impatient with
what he considers the mere
details of foreign policy. He
wants to think only of the
grand sweep. He has, for ex
ample, taken up the notion
that the West should concert
with the Soviet Union on
some pilot-model scheme of
joint aid to neutral underde
veloped lands. The United
States and Britain, for their
part, would be delighted if
some far less grand but real
concert should be actually
obtained just within the West
itself.
And again, DeGaulle is
wholly convinced that what
he calls "the Anglo-Saxon
bloc" meaning the United
States and Britain-have some
sort of a private club to which
he is not admitted. Washing
ton and London would be
most pleased if they got along
one-fifth so well and so auto
matically as he thinks they
do.
So in all this situation only
one forecast is clear: this is
that General Dwight Eisen
hower, is going to be in for
a vigorous time of it when he
sits down here in April with
General Charles Andre Joseph
DeGaulle.
(Copyright. 1960. by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
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