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. MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. Try and Stop Me -By BENNETT CERF- i omcc I nar (author of The Swan) a pair of freo first-row seats Tm leaving." "You can't do that," protested his Wife. "The producer gave you those seats because he's your friend. He'd be Insulted if you left now." At the end of the sec end act, Molnar went to the box office and bought I two tickets'. "Now that Tve bought my own seats," he told his wife, 1 hope you'll let me end this torture and go home to my Bed." Sammy Davis reports that Samuel Goldwyn was so good to Wm during the shooting of the film version of "Porgy and Bess " that he gave S.G. a wrist watch, suitably inscribed. A week later Sammy ran through a dance routine he hoped to do in the picture. When he concluded, he asked, "How was it J" Mr. Goldwyn looked at his new watch. "Too long," he said. I960, by Bennett Cert. Dlrtrltratei by King- Feature! Syndicate Today & Tomorrow By Walter llppmann THE ONCOMING MR. K. Waiting for Mr. K. to make his slow but relentless passage to this continent is rather like waiting on the XT a coast for arr'va' ' England the E Hur ricane Donna, There was no In or. I vance what to SAe&.-ji look for ex cept that there wmilH h a Li?nm!Li very big wind which would not do anybody much good. You put up the shutters and prepare to have 11 the lights go out. Nevertheless, Mr. K. is, for tunately, not a hurricane. It is not necessary, or -really becoming, just to batten down and let him blow past. He is coming with a political pur pose, and in general terms the purpose is reasonably evident. He is coming to demonstrate the great increase in the pow er of the Soviet Union inside the United Nations, and to make some use of that in crease. ' The increase is due, on the one hand, to the admission to membership of so many new governments formed on the territories of the former Brit ish, French, Dutch, and Bel gian empires. These new Asian and African nations have a strong bias against Eu ropeans and North Americans and a very considerable at traction towards the Soviet Union. The increase of the Soviet power is due also to what is happening in Cuba and in the Congo. In Cuba the SovieUUn . ion has extended its political influence into this hemisphere and close up to the United States. In the Congo, the So viet Union is engaged in a very serious and dangerous operation, which appears de signed to push the United Na tions aside or to control it and to open up the Congo to direct Soviet intervention. , IT IS significant surely that while Mr. K. is at sea pro ceeding to the United Nations in New York, Mr. Zorin has made a frontal attack not so much on the United States, an experience which we are used to, but on the Secretary General, Mr. Hammarskjold, and on the conduct of the U.N. mission in the Congo. Does this attack mean that Mr. K.'s purpose is to exer cise his new power to nullify what the U.N. is now trying to do in the Congo, and to gain control of the U.N. op eration? It certainly looks that way. For while the Soviet govern ment approved the original mandate under which Mr. Hammarskjold is acting, more recently, and particularly since Mr. K.'s announcement that he was coming to New York, the Soviet government has become an increasingly se vere critic of the U.N. opera tion. Increasingly it has en couraged Lumumba to be ir reconcilable and Increasingly, therefore, it has made much more difficult any kind of peaceable settlement among the Congolese themselves. IF ALL this is as bad as It looks, It will mean that Mr. K. is not In favor of neutral izing the Congo and Its neigh bors from the cold war, sup porting the U. N. as the nat ural mediator between the new African states and the rest of the world. If this Is his purpose, he may well be over-reaching himself. For the new African and Asian states the only sensible and workable policy Is to make no entangling alli ances with either side in the cold war, and to get help from both sides. The U.N. It self, Jnd the related interna tional institutions such is the World Bank, are the only ex isting organizations which can make work for the new states a policy of neutrality in the cold war and of economic and technical cooperation with all the powers. There is here firm ground on which we can stand in ap pealing to the enlightened self-interest of the new Afri can and Asian states. For them the alternative is not only an entangling and stran- gling dependence on one side in the cold war, but also the closing of the door to the re sources of the Western world. TO MR. KHRUSHCHEV we sn v "The immediate question is not disarmament whirh as everyone knows, cannot real ly begin until there is a poli tical detente. Tho question is whether we ran agree to support the U.N. in Keeping uie Congo and its neighbors out of the cold war." To the new states we can say: We can live without 4h U.N. But you cannot live with out the U.N. So unite to pre serve it as the safeguard of your indeDendence and vntir neutrality, and as the agent mrougn wnicn you can draw unon the Bconnmin nnr? tar.h nical resources of the whole world. Copyright 1960, New York Herald Tribune Inc. Washington Report By William S. Whit In the Days News By FRANK JENKINS Space age stuff: Another caosiile lannchoH from an American Discoverer satellite has been recovered. It came down in the Pnnlfir ocean about 1,000 miles from wnere It was exDected tn lanrf and so couldn't be caught in tne air by waiting planes. It droDDed Into the spa npar Christmas island. Its winking beacon light was spotted by a couole of scout nlanes that ra dioed word of its landing and men circled over it to keep it in view while a Coast Guard amphibian plane sped from Hawaii to pick it up. TyTEAN WHILE A rumor sweeps' the world that Russia has been successful in PUTTING A MAN INTO SPACE. The rumor hit Wall SI rppt Apparently it hit with an im pact ime mat ol Hurricane Donna the other day. A finan cial wire dispatch reDorts that stock prices went tumbling on Droaa iront, with steels, some chemicals, the autos, coppers and some specials thrown for losses ranging to two points or more. THE financial dispatch goes on to sav: "However, there was a si multaneous PICK-UP in some of the defense-oriented shares and other issues which would benefit from a STEP-UP In this nation'.? astronaut and space programs. The stock of one of the makers of rocket fuels rose well over a point on the rumor." Hmmmmmmm. The chasers of the quick buck are a strange tribe, aren't they? iND- Let's add here . It's a weird world we're liv ing in. Wouldn t it be wonderful to get back to a SANE world again? CASTRO AND POLITICS Washington - Both parties are grappling. quietly but fiercely, in what has thus far been large ly an under ground strug gle, over what both now know may be come an im portant "sleep e r" in the p r e s i dential n a m pi a icrn W w'hT. ' Castro's Cuba. The openly pro-Soviet re gime which Fidel Castro has raised up in Cuba is undoubt edly already becoming an is sue of consequence. The only question now left-and now being discussed in anxious privacy by both sets ol partisans-is just how much of an issue it will have become by election day and which candidate will be helped or hurt. And Castro's decision to come to New York personally to head his delegation to the United Nations general assem bly late this month has served further to complicate and com pound an already extremely delicate political question. INDEED, the politicians are beginning to suggest that this unwelcome visit by Nikita Khrushchev's dreary little stooge of the Caribbean may set up domestic political cur rents and cross-currents quite as nasty and tricky as those to be loosed by the Soviet dictator himself. The absolutely basic, "gut" campaign problem the Demo crats had from the start was this: How could the Kennedy Johnson ticket effectively compete with the Republican ticket of Nixon and Lodge on the one grand and abso lutely "gut" issue of them all -the leadership of this coun try in the cold war? The top Republican, Rich ard M. Nixon, was able to say-and has most insistently been repeating-that his eight years as vice president in the Eisenhower administ ration gave him an inner knowledge and insight which added up to "experience." THERE was, moreover - and there remains-the fact that his running mate, Henry Cabot Lodge, had eight years of such experience as our ambassador to the U.N. The Democratic presidential contender, Sen. John F. Ken nedy, for his part set off in the campaign with wide and generalized and mainly intel lectual criticisms of Republi can handling of foreign poli cy. These, whatever their in trinsic merit or lack of it, did not seem to be cutting too deeply into public con sciousness. But, a little while ago, Ken nedy's tough and able run ning mate as the Democratic vice presidential candidate, otii. ijyuuun uuiiiiaun, ucgdu . l I Ik. lit!... I and to hammer at what has happened in Cuba. The re sponse from audiences at first rather surprised and then de lighted the Democratic man agers. Now, Kennedy himself is picking up the theme and, j at the moment, this is about 1 where the position stands: The Democrats believe they have got hold of something- J the charge that a Republican ' administration permitted a j pro-Communist bridgehead to rise within 90 miles of the! American coastline - which ' well might hit the Republicans with violent impact in No vember. I I THE Republicans reject the; theory that the thing could at ,the very worst have all that horsepower. All the same, they are worried. The Demo crats are overstating; but -to some degree they have un doubtedly "got hold of some thing." The Republicans are understating their true con cern, vhich though by no means one of terror is also no trifling fear. In the end, however, Castro himself may well determine which party gains and which loses. 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