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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mall Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
June 21, 1950 (Wednesday)
Medford Mayor Diamond
Flynn has been authorized by
the city council to continue
negotiations for acquisition by
the city of the Jackson coun
ty housing project In north
west Medford.
A total of 541 acres of the
former Camp White military
installation has been sold to
the White City Lumber com
pany for industrial purposes.
20 YEARS AGO
June 21, 1940 (Friday)
' The Medford Ministerial as
sociation announced it will
hold park services this sum
mer for the fifth consecutive
year.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "One
Oregon congressman voted
for the bill providing for the
deportation of Harry Bridges
. . . another voted 'No,' and
the other fearlessly faced the
issue, by not voting at all."
30 YEARS AGO
June 21, 1930 (Saturday)
State Republican committee
will select a gubernatorial
caused by death of George
W. Joseph.
by death of George W. Joseph.
Hex Lampman of press
fame, pays visit to valley.
40 YEARS AGO
June 21, 1920 (Monday)
Tlie Chamber of Commerce
is offering a $10 prize to the
person who can write the best
song about Medford.
The second hay cutting has
started in the valley.
50 YEARS AGO
June 21, 1910 (Tuesday)
The House of Representa
tives yesterday approved
public buildings bill which In
eludes $110,000 for a federal
building in Medford.
Medford's baseball team
will meet the San Francisco
Bav area amateur champions,
the Columbia Park boys, here
tomorrow.
What's Your I.Q.7
Nine or ten correct Is superior:
even or eight Is excellent; five er
sin is good.
1. Which Is nearer to Yoko.
hnma: Seattle or San Francis
co? 2. With what subject did the
Volstead Act deal?
3. Was Charles Evans
Hughes Secretary of State or
Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court?
4. What was the former
name of Thailand?
5. Is the stalactite or stalag
mite a limestone formation?
6. Who was the first U. S
President to have a "kitchen
cabinet"?
7. What weapon did David
use against Goliath?
8. To what rank docs a U. S
Navy Captain correspond in
the Army?
9. How many edges does a
cube have?
10. What is another name
for the card game "Black
Jack"?
Answer: Seattle, 2. En
forcement of prohibition. 3.
He was both. 4. Siam. 5. Both.
6. Andrew Jackson. 7. Sling
and pebbles. 8. Colonel. 9.
Twelve. 10. Twenty-one.
TO PROCLAIM FREEDOM
Nicosia, Cyprus-iUPll British
political sources said today
plans are now being made to
proclaim the indcpendcixjt' of
this strategic Mediterranean
island on Aug. 1.
Science and
Last week it was our privilege to attend a
conference devoted to the problems of presenting
the complexities of scientific investigation to the
public in understandable and interesting form.
There was, of course, much "shop talk" among
the newspaper writers, many of whom were full
time science writers, and others who were men
who occasionally have a chance to write about
science.
But the most interesting even exciting
aspect of the three-day meeting were the glimpses
into just what the scientific community is doing,
how it is doing it, and why.
SPEAKERS included a top-flight nuclear physi
cist, a biologist, a chemist, an astronomer, a
zoologist (now a director of a science museum),
a geologist, and a bio-chemist.
In addition, the writers were conducted on
tours to three scientific research projects under
way at the University of Oregon. They included
one in physics, dealing with the interaction of
atomic and molecular forces at high temperatures
and pressures; one in molecular biology, dealing
with hereditary characteristics of living things,
and whether or not thev can be artificially
changed ; and one in the biology of the nervous
system, dealing with the devices through which
animals receive the signals from their sensory
organs.
Thus was (riven an overview of some of the
fields of science, from the unimaginably huge
the universe to the unimaginably small the
worlds of the cell, the molecule, the atom, and the
sub-atomic particles.
""THERE were three constants.
One was the purely practical one how can
all these fields, with their own concepts, their
own jargons, their own approaches, first be un
derstood in sufficiently simple terms by the news
papermen, and secondly be made lucid and un
derstandable for the "average" individual?
The second constant
in all these fields, there is an underlying unity
and order in the universe and a similarity of at
titude among the scientists seeking to pry out
its secrets.
The third constant was the impression
that each science is, with each new discovery,
coming closer to all the others that, in fact, the
arbitrary divisions of science into physics, chem
istry, botany, and so on,
convenience, that each
that what once were arbitrary dividing lines be
tween them are last vanishing.
IT BECAME ever more clear during the three
days that the principal motivation of the sci
entists doing research on the outer fringes of
knowledge is that of human curiosity an almost
passionate desire to increase mankind's under
standing of the universe
It practical applications ot new discoveries
can be made, well and
search scientist the "pure" scientist applica
tion ot his discoveries are
coveries themselves.
And this is as it should be. A scientist is a
better researcher if he works because he is curi
ous than if his research is directed by someone
else who hopes for a particular result.
rF WHAT use is this "impractical" research?
Well, it is a fact that virtually every basic
discovery on which our present scientific and
technological civilization is based was the result
of pure human curiosity and thought.
The practical application comes after the dis
covery, not before. And some of our great sci
entific leaps forward have been made as a result
of unexpected side-discoveries of scientists who
actually were investigating something else.
Each scientist, seeking to fulfill his own curi
osity, is adding to the sum total of human knowl
edge. If his discoveries are immediately "prac
tical" fine. If they aren't fine too, although
they may be just the thing that rounds out another
aspect of important research some other time.
TTHE total impact of science and technology on
our present culture and civilization is dif
ficult to measure.
But it is a fact that more progress in the ac
quisition of knowledge about man's environment,
internal and external, has been made in the last
century than in all recorded time before.
And, with the development of new tools dur
ing this period, the acquisition of knowledge will
proceed at an ever-increasing rate.
Computers and electronic "brains," radio
telescopes, radioactive isotopes, electron micro
scopes, the techniques of using pressure and
temperature in investigations these and others
will stimulate the rate of discovery.
IT IS a fact deplorable but still true that the
"average" American has only a hazy and
peripheral knowledge about all these develop
ments. It is a scientist's obligation to make his new
knowledge available, both to other scientists and
to the public.
And it is the job of the newspapers, maga
zines, and other media of public information to
relav it as 'understandably as possible. With a
few exceptions, this has
as it should be.
Conferences such A
will stimukCe this particular phase of the vast
and complicated job of
ciety already plagued with a'fnillion (jther prob
lems. E.A.
the Public
was the impression that,
are merely divisions 01
overlaps the other, and
in which he lives.
good. But with the re
secondary to trie dis
not been done0 as well
this, it is to be hoped,
communicatnrri in a so
Dennis the
HE I GOT AN IDEA! WHY
dtrWCX DfcttJKS LUNCH j
Communications
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paper; in fact the contrary is often the case.
A REAL Nurse
To the Editor: May I use
your column to speak the
praises of one of the finest
nurses I have ever known,
and one who is sadly missed
in our fair city? The dear
soul about whom I am speak
ing is still very much alive,
and to those of us who loved
to work under her, she was a
"Good" nurse.
Tears come to my eyes as
I think of her somewhat bent
shoulders from years of wait
ing on the sick and teaching
and training young girls to
be good nurses or nurses'
aides. But she was still very
alert in her mind, and-God
bless her - strong enough in
her body, too, so that she
could grab a bed and push it
down the corridor to another
room where it was needed
She didn't waste time waiting
for a janitor to come and do
all tile heavy work, nor did
she always call an orderly
away from his task to do it
for her: she just pitched in
and helped at any and all of
the many hard tasks which
sudden emergencies make nec
essary in hoospitnls.
She is, of course, Mrs. Ber
nice Nims, who has recently
faded quietly away from
Medford and left a very
empty vacuum in the hearts
of many nurses, nurses' aides
and a great many folks who
were once her patients.
I speak of the many folks
who were patients in the
two hospitals where Mrs.
Nims was superintendent of
nurses, as being "her" pa
tients, because she had a sin
cere personal Interest. She
was a REAL nurse at heart,
and if any lack of care was
discovered, woe unto the
nurses' aides who might be
responsible.
Mrs. Nims was also kind
and considerate of those who
were in her employ, and I
can speak from personal ex
perience on that score. When
illness hit her nurses, or fam
ily troubles, or any other
needs arose, she was kind and
patient, filling their place
with a temporary nurse, and
inquiring carefully whether
or not they were sufficiently
recovered to come back to
work.
I know there are many
other nurses' aides here in
Medford and vicinity who feel
the same way about Mrs.
Nims as I do. God bless her!
A Nurses' Aide
(Name on file)
Medford.
"Skinny" Revived
To the Editor: A friend just
told me that she once knew
short articles that she liked to
cut out for her scrap book.
They were printed in the old
Comfort magazine of Augus
ta, Maine, and were sent in
by Pearl Vesey. When Editor
Ganctt passed away, dear old
Comfort magazine also went,
I know because I was Pearl
Vesey.
Addresses of the thousands
of pen friends who wrote me
were destroyed when my
home burned, but the lady,
mentioned above, remember
ed me and my string of horses.
I wonder whether others do?
People no longer address
me as "Hi Skinny," and all
my pictures - mountain climb
ing, skiing, skating, fishing
and hunting a went up in that
black smoke.
A while back I srw two
youthful equestrians jogging
along just east of Jackson
ville. Km rvv hnnnv mutts
par'ded a'ong at the horses'l'tinucd freedom, of expression
heels.
The
buckskin in advance
was a perfect picture of one j
Menace
0ONT WE HAVE A LITTLE
of my Palaminos - even to his
silver tail and mane.
Springer, one of my grey
hounds, would dig out carrots
and take them to Buck. Are
n't dogs funny? Some people
are, too.
One day I had a fine time
sitting in the car and judging
the crowd that milled past. I
got several quiet laughs until
a wisp of hair tickled my face
causing me to glance in the
mirror. I quit judging and
headed for home! Seeing one
self as others see you isn't so
very funny.
Thanks, all you unseen
friends, for the kind messages.
No, I am not ill, not on vaca
tion, not "outta" writing ma
terial. Just lazy. To write,
one must wait until the spirit
moves. My spirit urges me to
go fishing about now, but I
don't believe they'd bite well
in this weather.
I liked that article by Maud
Arnold, didn't you? She just
made me hear bird song and
sec those flowers. Bye now.
Some weeds need pulling.
Mrs. John Spackman
Jacksonville, Ore.
Time To Wake Up
To the Editor: Mr. Walter
Recce's letter of June 19 cre
ated considerable concern to
this reader, not by reason of
the agreement of Mr. Reece
with the previously published
statement of Nelson Rocke
feller: rather with his disa
greement and reasons there
fore, in effect stating that the
the United States by reason
of their social and economic
system cannot expect to "haul
abreast" of the Soviet Union
because we do not have the
same unity of plan and pur
pose in our economic and so
cial system as to the Soviets,
and that we, in fact, do not
put first things first
Thomas Payne, an early
American political philoso
pher, engendered a philoso
phy of purpose into our sys
tem, after which the freedoms
so long enjoyed in this coun.
try have been patterned and
exercised by the successful
generations. This philosophy
does not allow for weakness
of National pride and purpose
as evidenced by Mr. Reece's
statement that "there is not
much that we can do about
it." To say this at a time when
two great world powers are
competing for the minds of
men everywhere is, on our
part, indicative of defeatism
and consequently an extreme
ly dangerous negative atti
tude. I, for one, have been guilty
of apathy in recent years to
ward the mounting crisis in
our country endangering that
very essence of freedom
which secures our inalienable
rights, excusing myself on the
grounds that I was too busy
building a future for myself,
only now to awaken to the
reality that to have the privi
lege of enjoying an inalien
able right one must exercise
the obligation to protect
against its surrender.
Now, not later, is the time
to awaken the conscience of
the American populace to the
very real threat to our demo
cratic processes brought about
by the outright expressions of
undermining philosophies as
they appear daily in our news
papers, T V. and radios.
We may build automobiles
and T V. sets, but there is no
0thero country in this world
in which people's minds are
so nutured by freedom as to
allow them the right of ex
pression of their Independent
trelings. to Insure the con-
for all succeeding generations
let us pick up the rnn of
responsibility ot citizenshlpllke to make a few comi.ients
International Complications Follow On
Eichmann Case; Council Study Scheduled
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
A strange case nobody wants
to discuss goes before the
United Nations Security Coun
cil Wednesday
when it takes
up Israel's ab
d u c t i o n of
Nazi Col.
Adolf Eich
mann from
Argentina.
The legal
aspects ap-
ix ? Va p e a r Pen
fniL. nwson ana-snui. Ar
gentina claims its national
sovereignty was violated by
Israeli agents who spirited the
SS overlord from the country.
Overriding the legal aspect,
however, is an aura of emo
tionalism strange even for the
Security Council, the scene of
countless cold war battles and
bitter disputes over the years
in the sanguinary relations be
tween Israel and its Arab
neigbhors.
Lurking in the background
is the fear that the case of
Eichmann, who is accused of
ordering the murder of six
million Jews during World
II, will raise anew the specter
of Nazism, a sore point which
most of Europe would like to
forget.
Many countries have a stake
and act now to thwart the ac
tivities of subversives within
our midst, and consequently
to win out in any race by
reason of the moral truth of
our existence.
William G. Johnston
10 Goldy Bldg.,
Medford.
Disaster Drive Endorsed
To the Editor: Our local
Red Cross chapter is in the
process of campaigning for
disaster aid to Chile, as a re
sult of earthquakes and tidal
waves which devastated so
many communities there. The
American Red Cross was ask
ed to help in this emergency
by President Eisenhower.
The United Medford Cru
sade represents a movement
to include as many agencies as
possible in one campaign, and
the local Red Cross chapter is
included in our campaign. By
agreement with the Red Cross
made in 1953, when this
agency became affiliated with
our united fund, it was stipu
lated that the Red Cross chap
ter would be free to conduct a
campaign for emergency dis
aster relief at any time re
quested by the American Na
tional Red Cross, and that
such a campaign would have
the moral support of the Unit
ed Medford Crusade.
At a recent meeting of our
board of directors, it was de
cided that the United Medford
Crusade should publicly en
dorse the campaign for Chil
ean relief, urging that aid be
given for the people of Chile
who are in such urgent need
of help.
Medford has been rightly
known as a generous commu
nity, and it is hoped that it
will again so prove itself in
the campaign for disaster re
lief.
Richard H. Travis
President
United Medford Crusade
Board of Directors
Never Too Late
To the Editor: Time is grow
ing late; reprieve, rapidly ex
piring. On the other hand, it
is NEVER too late to do good.
Instead of endeavoring to
justify indefensible patrolling
in another s sovereign auton
omous territory - an act of
military aggression - let
apologize to the world's peo
ples for the antagonizing poli
cies we have been following
and hasten to make concilia
tory restitutions to the extent
possible. Thence, let us con
vert our laboratories and our
factories, our material re
sources and our personnel, our
goals and our Implementing
policies, toward pacific ends
to displace our erstwhile
belligerencies.
In resolving tensions either
between men or between na
tions, goodwill makes a far
more potent constraint of
transformation than all terri
fying intimidations combined.
Tactics of cooperative friend
ship (relief and rehabilitation,
commercial trade and cultur
al exchanges) energetically
pursued toward Russia, China,
Japan, Germany. Egypt, all
the world, discarding our re
cently current diplomacy of
domineering, could (and
would if granted opportunity).
in a few months, recover our
badly-damaged prestige, put
a stop to this Insane 'cold
war' and fundamentally re
construct earth's internation
al atmosphere.
Charles A. McCalmon
616 Siskiyou blvd.
Ashland. Ore.
Comments on Immigration
To the Editor: Referring to
your article in the Sunday's
paper concerning the views of
an "Indonesian immlffrant" of
Dutch nationality, we w'ould
rip
in the pot of the Eichmann
game.
Israel is the self-proclaimed
champion of the world's
Jewry. It intends to try Eich
mann, for war crimes commit
ted before the country itself
even existed. It will gain the
emotional support of most of
the world for so doing.
Propaganda Value
But more than that, it is
evident that Eichmann is gold
to Israel in more ways than
one. Premier David Ben-Gur-ion
can use the case to offset
recurrent whispers that he has
been too cozy with the Ger
mans. And the propaganda
value of the Eichmann case
can be worth millions to Is
rael's continuing worldwide
finanical drive.
Argentina stands first of all
on indignant protestation that
its sovereignty was violated.
In addition, there is the prin
ciple of political asylum, more
widely respected in South
American than anywhere else,
which must be considered.
But Argentina has been
charged frequently with har
boring Nazi political crimin
als. It has said Israel may ap
ply for Eichmann's extradi
tion, once it returns him, but
it has failed to extradite Nazi
diplomat Karl Klingenfuss or
Dr. Joseph Mengele, both
wanted by West German for
as Dutch immigrants in these
United States ourself.
We agree with Max van
Aagten that Holland, being
approximately one-sixth the
size of Oregon, is overpopu
lated by its more than 11,000,
000 people. We do further
more agree with him that the
United States, with consider
ably more elbowroom and its
vast resources, provides means
and possibilities probably not
existing elsewhere. These
points however are the only
two points at which we agree
with him.
Max's remarks are definite
ly fallacious and obviously
made with the intention to
please the national pride of
the citizens of this country by
running down, in comparison
with U.S. the country of which
he is still a citizen. Not one
decent and honest American
citizen appreciates such an
attitude. He forgot to mention
that it was the country for
which he has no kind words
that has paid his trip by plane
from Amsterdam to Medford,
that gave him money in U.S.
currency to enable him to get
by during the first few weeks
after his arrival in Medford.
and that has paid a three
months premium on hospital,
accident and sickness insur
ance, in order to protect him
from these inconveniences
during the first months here.
These are some of the
things that his country, be
cause of "government con
trol," did for him and for
every Dutch immigrant that
has made his choice of immi
gration to another country.
Max's views on the lack of
"personal freedom" in Hol
land seem to be somewhat
confused and apparently bas
ed on his inability to under
stand the necessary measures
and regulations, expressed by
laws, to insure a satisfactory
course of things in a country
recovering admirably from the
injuries of war. Max, having
spent a number of years in
Japanese and Indonesian con
centration camps, should have
a better understanding and
knowledge of "lack of free
dom," and should not give
the people of this country
through "the power of the
press" the impression of Hol
land being a government and
or police controlled country.
These are the points, to
gether with Max's view on
discrimination differences, we
do not agree on, and are happy
to explain them more exten
sively to anyone being inter
ested. Thank you for printing
this letter.
Mr. and Mrs. H. Leljenaar,
4005 Livingston rd.
Medford.
Navy Recruiters
Compete for Trip
Plans for a three-day all ex.
pense paid tour at Reno, Nev.,
to be awarded to the outstand
ing Navy recruiter of the
eighth Navy recruiting area
for the month of June have
been announced by Murray J.
Emmerich, Medford Navy re
cruiting officer.
As a public service, the
manager of the Granada the
ater in Reno has arranged
with the Navy to select the
outstanding recruiter on the
basis of productivity and com
munity service. The Reno trip
is in connection with the pre
miere of the motion picture
"Gallant Hours," also playing
locally.
Emmerich announced thattl
to date 21 men from this area
have been or will be enlisted
or reenlisted in the TOvy dur.
ing the month of June, thus
I making Jackson county .
strong contender for the prize,
war crimes trials.
West Germany would like
to try Eichmann. It would add
to its de-Nazifled prestige and
increase the stature of the
justice of its courts.
West Germany has a case
at least to the extent that
Eichmann's crimes were com
mitted in its territory.
U.S. On Spot
The United States Is on
somewhat of a spot. Having
only three weeks ago derided
Russia's contention that U-2
spy flights violated the sov
ereignty of the Soviet Union,
it is now called upon to stand
by its Hemispheric ally's
charge that Eichmann's seiz
ure was a violation of Argen
tine sovereignty.
Russia, on that ground,
would appear to have a prop
aganda cinch In the Eichman
case. But if the Soviet Union
supports Israel's claims, It will
go against its current cam
Matter of Fact bv
COURTESY OF
KHRUSHCHEV
Washington - More than a
fortnight before the final ca
tastrophe in Tokyo, U.S. Am
bassador
Douglas Mac
Arthur was
sent to Prime
Minister K i s
hi, to suggest
that the Jap
anese govern
ment dis - in
vite President
Eisenhower.
Kishi replied
with consternation that if he
responded to this American
initiative by requesting the
President not to visit Japan
after all, his govern ment
would fall as a result. He
added that the new U.S. Jap
anese security treaty would
fall with the government. He
further pointed out that
another probable casualty
would be the parliamentary
system in Japan. On this
basis, the President adhered
to his plan to visit Tokyo.
In the end, however, as
everyone alas knows, the dis
orders in Tokyo got too far
out of hand. Ambassador Mac
Arthur was again instructed
to invite the President's dis
invitation. This time, Klshi
yielded.
.
T1HESE background facts
-have several important
implications, none of them
agreeable. They show, for in
stance, that the American gov
ernment had at least as big a
role in the dis-invitation as
the Japanese govern ment.
Everyone must be glad, of
course, that the President did
not run the kind of risk he
would certainly have run by
refusing to change his plan.
Yet there Is something con
trived, something overly fla
vored with the arts of Madi
son Avenue, in the Hagerty
style presentation of the
change of plan as wholly Jap
anese in origin.
Above all, moreover, the
background facts of the Jap
anese dis-invitation show the
underlying fraudulence of the
Hagerty-style presentation of
all these foreign journeys for
which President Eisenhower
had acquired such a taste, be
fore the Japanese defeat. The
same scene has been repeated
in Europe, in India, and in
South America. The cheering
millions, the smiling Presi
dent, the trumpeted assur
ances of the White House pub
lic relations staff that "Ike
has won new friends for us"
the features are all familiar.
The President himself, ap
parently, believed these fea
tures of his foreign journeys
had real meaning. But quite
another reality has now been
revealed by the ugly events
in Tokyo. The truth is that in
too many of the countries the
President has visited, he got
his glittering welcome by
courtesy of Nikita Servgey
vich Khrushchev.
IT IS now clear, for Instance,
that the happy contrast be
JOSEPH ALSOP
Vfec?U.S. MARINE
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paign to woo the Arabs, arch
enemies of the Israelis. Yet it
must demand quick punish,
ment for any leader of Naz
ism, the number one target
of the Kremlin since June 22,
1941, the day Hitler invaded
Russia.
Even more Nazi-hating by
tradition than Russia is Po
land, the first country over
run by Hitler in World War
II. If the Kremlin's line is too
soft in the Eichmann case,
Poland might face the unlike
ly proposition of a minor
split with Russia in the Coun
cil. Almost forgotten is the
U.N.-sponsored genocide trea
ty, a life work of Rafael
Lemiin, a Polish law profes
sor at Vale. The treaty calls
for trials of such as Eichmann
by an international tribunal
But nobody has asked for such
a trial.
Diplomacy is a funny bird
Joseph Alsop
tween President Eisenhower's
South American progress and
the comparable trip of Vice
President Nixon was almost
wholly owed to Khrushchev.
The magic that made the
great difference between
cheers and yells of hatred was
not Eisenhower's magic. The
magic was in fact the discip
line of the South American
Communist parties, which
were ordered to act "in the
spirit of Camp David" be
cause Khrushchev was then
still hoping to get his way
about Berlin at the summit
conference.
The realistic policy-makers
at the State Department in ef
fect recognized these facts, as
soon as the explosion at the
summit caused a change in
the Kremlin's orders to the
Japanese Communists. This
was the reason why a Japan
ese dis-invitation was first in
vited by Ambassador Mac
Arthur more than a fortnight
ago. The final dis-invitation
is the Kremlin's triumph.
That cannot be concealed by
any amount of bysantine
twaddle about the defeat in
Japan being balanced by the
success in Manila,
PURTHERMORE, this Amer-
lean defeat in Japan is a
far greater triumph for the
Kremlin than almost anyone
in this country has dared to
admit. In Asia, more than in
any other part of the world,
people judge the direction of
the bandwagon of history by
rather simple indicators of
power and prestige. The
Kremlin's proof that it can
force our major Asian ally to
dis-invite the President of the
United States will reverberate
through every Asian country
for. months and years to come,
It will do untold damage to
American interests. It is a
true catastrophe, directly
traceable to the original wish
ful decision to make a journey
which could only succeed by
Khrushchev's courtesy.
Finally, no prudent person
can ignore the contempt for
this country which the world
Communist leadership is now
displaying. The Peking gov
ernment specifically stated
that it was scheduling an ex
tra - heavy bombardment of
Quemoy during the P r e s i
dent's Taiwan visit, in order
to underline ils "contempt
and scorn" for him. The or
ders given the Japanese Com
munists fits the same pattern.
So does the much more dis
turbing plan for an exchange
of visits between Khrushchev
and Cuba's Fidel Castro. .
Seven years ago, the mas
ters of the Kremlin were
showing all sorts of other un
pleasant feelings' about this
country but not contempt. But
seven years ago, the period of
flaccid, comfortable American
neglect of the world balance
of power was only just begin
ning. The strong, remember,
are never held in contempt.
(c) 1960, New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
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