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Medford and Jackson County
Hlitory from thi file ol Thl
Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40
and 50 vein age.
10 YEARS AGO
Sept. 20, 1950 (Wtdneidty)
There are now some 11,484
students enrolled in Jackson
county's 25 public ind two
private schools.
Republicans now outnum
ber - Democrats in Jackion
county by a total of 13,909 to
12,134, according to the coun-
ty clerk,
20 YEARS AGO
Sect. 20. 1940 (Friday)
The public has been asked
by Mcdford's National De
fense committee to take part
in a scndolf of local soldiers
who are going to Ft. Lewis
tomorrow. ''
From Arthur Perry'l "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
deer hunting heason opened
today. The first hunters re
turned around noon, with no
luck, outside of getting back.'
30 YEARS AGO
Sect. 20. 1930 (Saturday).
v'The Owen Oregon mill
Ji e r e plans to operate one
shift througnout tne winter,
V The state labor convention
&11I be held here next month
'Chief of police says Juvenile
delinquency has become a ser-
ious problem here
- j .
40 YEARS AGO
Bepl. 20, 1920 (Monday)
More signatures are need.
ed on petitions seeking trans
fer of the county courthouse
from Jacksonville to Med
ford.
Local police started round'
Jng up motorists today who
have not yet obtained tneir
1920 license plates.
SO YEARS AOO
Sept. 20. 1910 (Tuesday)
Jackson county Is approxi
mately $130,000 in debt this
year despite a state statute
which limits county debt to
15.000.
A knifing here yesterday
reportedly grew out of an
argument over who won a SO
cent poker pot. One man was
seriously wounded.
What's Your I.Q.7
Nine et lea correct It MM'taU
wan oi eioht It etftllentl Hvl w
III It toed.
1. Wai the prohibition
amendment (18th) repealed In
1933, 1934, or 1935?
2. Name the patron saint of
Ireland.
3. A motorist drives his au
tomobile 40,000 milts, equally
tiring all five tires; how many
miles has each tire traveled?
4. Are the remains of Abra
ham Lincoln burled In the
Lincoln Memorial In Wash
ington, D. C?
5. What color is the antithe
sis of black?
6. In which Stale is tin Erie
Canal?- :
7., Are ther a total of 32,
64, 'or 98 squares on s checker
board? 8. in which country was the
famous Maginot defense line
built before W. W. U?
9, 'Bogala it the capital of
which South American country?'-
i
10. Name the New York
Ji(ald reporter who greeted
a Scottish missionary In deep
Africa with the words, "Dr.
Livingstone, I presume?"
Answers, 1, 1933. 1. It. Pat
rick. 3. 32.000 miles. 4. No,
In Springfield. 111. I. White.
8. New York. 7. 14. I. franca.
. Colombia. 10. Henry M.
'Stanley.
National Health Plan
The doctors of America (and we personally
know of only one exception) are violently against
any form of national (government) health in
surance. They are against the principle of administer
ing a health service for the elderly through the
existing mechanism of Social Security.
Their stated reason for this is that it is an
opening door to "socialized medicine." ,
And this they can't abide.
The alternatives they suggest are expansion
oi tne existing weltare medical services with
state and federal participation, plus more wide
spread voluntary health insurance.
e e
f)UR position (and that of what appears to be
to be an overwhelming majority of non-doc-
turs, ii puna, qutmiunnaii es ana leuers-io-con-gressmen
are any criteria) is that the best way
of financing medical care for the elderly is
inrougn tne social security mechanism.
This would provide for nre-naid health in.
surance, utilize an agency which is already in
ousiness and set up for the job, and avoid the
pauper-chanty connotations of welfare health
services.
The differences in opinion appear to be ir
reconcilable. And it is a rare doctor, indeed, who
will dare to open his mouth to support govern
ment-sponsored health programs, even if he
tmnKs that approach is proper.
e e
SE KNOW of one, however. He isn't an Amer-
v ipan ' Vul'o a Pon-arlluri TTia Vir,vi n ficlrta o,-rt
substantial.
Dr. Harry Paikin, M.D., is a G.P. in Hamil
ton, Ontario, where he is a member of the board
of education and the board of health, former
chairman of both. He is president of the Ontario
Urban and Kural School Trustees' association,
and a member of the American Academy of
Dermatology and byphilology.
He thus qualifies as an experienced M.D., as
well as a man who knows his way around m gov
ernment. In the Aug. 27 issue of Maclean's Magazine
he is the author of an article entitled "A Doctor's
Case for State Medicine." It is prefaced by this
statement:
"The medical profession's bitter fight against
E repaid government medical plans is a losing
attle for a wrong cause, an angry doctor con
tends. State medicine has to come, he says, for
everyone's sake including the doctors'."
DECAUSE this is a live issue, not to say a hot
one, in the United States today, we quote
rather extensively from his article :
". . . It (a government operated prepaid medical
plan) wilt be the best thing that ever happened to the
doctors themselves especially if trey hove the wit to
join enthusiastically In its plannlug.
"Doctor! who spent their time and money fruit
lessly to tight (against it) seem to believe they're stand
ing up for their rights. In a sense, they are. They're
standing up for:
"The right to spend much of their time acting as
unpaid investigators for private medical-insurance com-
panics, by answering endless questions that probe the
patient's ability to work keeping for this purpose
mounds of otherwise useless records.
" The right to work 60 or 70 hours a week while
most people work 40, and to enjoy vacations without
pay. -' '
" The right to pursue uninsured defaulting pa
... tienti through the frustration and embarrassment of
the collection agency and the small claims court.
" The right to be asleep on their feet and only half.
' efficient at day's end, largely from doing work that
nurses and technicians could do.
" The right of young' doctors who lack connec
nectlons to starve before building up a practice.
" And the traditional inalienable right to feel
' that all this somehow makes them dedicated, although
what they're dedicated TO Is questionable.
"In short, under the system they dismiss as social
ized medicine, among the lives the doctors save will
be their own , , .
"Myoplcally, they persist In seeing medicine as a
business, where you sell so much healing skill for so
much recompense, instead of as a public service to
' which every citizen has a right, like education and
police protection ...
. "Some specialists In England are actually earning
more today than they ever did without socialized
medicine. But will even the average . . . practitioner
find himself less secure financially under a pre-paid
medical plan? Look at him today. He doesn't have the
. low-cost insurance and pension benefits available to
, nearly any factory hand; he has no minimum work
" week; no guarantee the patient will pay him promptly,
or at all, and no Job security . . .
"In addition to what a government-operated plan
will guarantee patients, it must contain guarantees for
doctors, in other words, It's time the doctors stopped
fighting socialized medicine and started demanding
' that It be brought along quickly, and with them In
mind.
"Of course, doctors will protest that they LIKE
their current working conditions, that they love filling
out all those repetitive forms, that they delight In
losing 80 cents on a $5 house-call fee because a private
insurance carrier is lo top-heavy with clerical coit
"Education and health, freely available to all, are
the two pillars that will support . . . the ancient
Ideal of healthy minds and healthy bodies. We've
built two-thirds of the educational pillar free com
pulsory schools and free secondary schools . . ,
"Thli would make It easier to build the second
pillar of universal health, on which we've made hesi
tant beginnings with our medical welfare plans, our
hospital Insurance, our free tuberculosis x-Rays and
our free Salk shots. A young doctor assured of
security, who hasn't had to endure grinding penury
as student and intern for eight or nine years, will
surely be more likely to remember one of the high
concepts of his profession; NON M AGISTER SED
- MINISTER Be not master but tha lervant of humanity."
Dennis the Menace
I feor
Gee wwz iVe hao VGTAetzs4$r n3ht y
Question of Red China's Joining U.N.
Remains; Balance Shifts in Memebrship
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
For 10 years, largely due to
the efforts of the United
States, Red China has been
banned from
member ship
in the United
Nations.
But from
this day on,
the United
States may be
fighting a
rear- guard
and losing ac
phil NEWso.M tion. Ironical
ly, the new or under-develop
ed, nations which have the
most to fear from aggressive
Communism probably will e
the ones to open Red China's
way into the world organiza
tion.
Last year, with the help of
European, Latin American
and some Asian states, the
United States successfully
staved off for the ninth time
Red China's membership bid
This year, Cuba has broken, tions from the scourge oi
the solid Latin American
front and 14 new African na.
tions are now scheduled for
UN membership.
Most of the latter can be
listed in the neutralist bloc
and all of them have been
assiduously wooed by the
Reds.
Their membership could
bring about a decisive change
in the voting which last year
was 44-29 against Red China
Arguments Still Good
Neither in the United
States nor among its allies is
there unanimity for the U.S.
stand. But the arguments
against Red China remain as
valid now as they ever were.
The United Nations charter
adopted in 1945 in San Fran
cisco begins with a brave
statement of determination
"to save succeeding genera-
war.
It provided membership
for all "peace-loving states
which accept the obligations"
of the charter and which "are
capable and willing to carry
out these obligations.
It also provides that any
member which consistently
violates these obligations may
h xnelled.
In arguing its case last
year, the United States cnarg-
ed that the reiping regime
had massacred "thousands"
of Tibetans and had "kept it
self in power by bloody purg
es and by the uouiaation oi
some 18 million Chinese in
nine years."
It also accused Red unina
of promoting six foreign or
civil wars-Korea, Tibet, Indo
China, the Philippines, Mala
ya and Laos.
The argument asserted that
to admit such a country to tht
UN would "make a mockery
of our charter and rob it of
all . . . moral authority."
Those arguments, valid a
year ago, still are valid, with
the added emphasis that once
more Red Chinese supported
Communist guerillas are at
tempting to take over Laos.
About the most effective
argument used by those who
favor Red China's member,
ship la that it is a force in
being, controlling tha lives of
600 million people, and that
no world organization can
hope to function effectively
and ignore it.
The question is not so
much whether the UN can
properly function without Red
China. It is rather, can it
function with Red China and
still pretend to adhere ts its
own charter?
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contrary is otten me case.
Why Wait?
To the Editor: I went to
see the first two Medford
High school football games,
was pleased with the out-
come of both games. There
was practically SRO at both
Now is the time to build
another grandstand at the
field. It has been suggested
before that the old stand
should be removed and re
placed. I'd suggest the new
stand be at least 120 yards
long, extending from the end
of each end zone and at least
as high as the present hew
stand.
The first cry we will hear
is that it will cost too much
Wait for lower prices, or just
wait. Some of us have spent
our entire lives wailing, but
for what? Let's roll up our
sleeves and get the job done,
Another suggestion on the
same subject. Let us (Med
lorcmes) put away our
masks" and turn in our
shooting irons" to the local
marshal" and have the Med-
ford-Ashland . rivalry con
fined only to athletic con
tests, and then just among the
participant!. Let's invite SOC
to have all their home games
at Medford High field. Let's
set up a FAIR rent for the
stadium use. either percent
age or flat, and invite them
to help pay for this project.
The same could of course be
extended to Crater, which Is
scheduled to play Grants Pass
there this year.
Shall we get started on this
project. Or shall be wait
another 10 years?
Robert L. Brantley
Route 3, Box 59-B
Medford.
ALL this, of course, smacks of a doctrine which
doctors will find subversive or seditious, if not
actually treasonable.
But there is some sense u u.
And. note. Dr. Paiken is talking about Can-
ha U talUfna About n total
OU(l IIWV WlC VefcJ v nv
health plan, not the very limited one proposed
lor the elderly in tnis country.
Mavbe someday the United States will begin
to catch up with Canada, Britain, Germany, Den
mark, Norway and Sweden in exercising its re
sponsibilities for the health of its citizens. E.A.
Didn't Do Any Good
To the Editor: It was evt
dently your intention to stir
up the 111 feelings for the vet
eran at White City, against
your fair city of Medford.
This was evident by your re
cent editorial against the vet
eran. Unprovoked editorial at
that. H is my belief that you
have succeeded well and that
you have done neither your
self, nor your advertisers,
any good.
Malomute Slim
(Edwin C. Gearhart Sr.)
White City, Ore.
Gintlemen Candidates
To the Editor: Mr. F, J.
Clifford's letter under the
caption of "What is 'Fair'?"
generates more heat than It
does facta or logic. The best
that he is able to say for can
didate Nixon is that ha is a
"gentleman."
Not knowing what Mr.
Clifford's definition of a gen
tleman is, we cannot argue
that point. By the same tok
en we Infer that he implies
that Candidate Kennedy is
not a gentleman, nor fair. We
are in no position to argue
that either.
If Mr. Clifford wants to
say name calling Is fair or
logic he may. '
What we would like to
know is: What point does
he wish to ejtablish? Is 't
that his conception of a gen
tlcman Is better presidential
material than that of some
one else?
This writer will concede
that both Mr. Nixon and Mr.
Kennedy are gentlemen. Both
are honorable men. Both are
patriotic men. Both arc reli
gious men. Both are opportu
nistic men. Both are politi
cians. Both want to be presi
dent. Both are in this to win.
As for getting hot and both
ered about tactics pursued or
to be followed by the two
candidates Is a matter of
choice with them. This is
America. We live under a
Capitalist economic system
and a welfare social system.
That Is . a "class" social
system.
Both Mr. Nixon and Mr.
Kennedy have relative views
on our economic and social
systems. Mr. Nixon chooses
to adhere to the term conser
vative, which implies that he
favors the political ideas
the upper strata of our social
system. Mr. Kennedy is
member of that upper strata
and he chooses to dub him
self a liberal, which implies
that he is willing to throw
few crumbs to the lower stra
ta of our society; especially
those who are about to die.
As far as ridiculing and
castigating our political lead
ers that have gone before
from Grover Cleveland to
our president at this time
well, all of us have our con
victions, and they are de
termined by our knowledge,
and economic and social
circumstances. Therefore it is
the conviction of this writer
that more serious thought
and less emotional heat will
better solve our critical so
cial problems, both at home
and abroad.
,The Democrats, including
Mr. Kennedy, realize that we
have fallen into second place
in the family of nations, and
want to do something about
it. As to what, no one is quite
clear: at least they don t say
But the Republicans and
Southern Democrats are
hopeless. We will vote Ken
nedy.
Walter Reese
Galice rd.
Merlin, Ore.
Facts Compatible
To the Editor: In light of
Senator Kennedy s most rec
ent statements in regard to
his belief, complete separation
of Church and State, one
would think that this so-called
religious issue would be si
lenced once and for all.
However, it appears that
this will not be the case. All
reasonable questions which
the American voter had the
right to ask in regard to the
Democratic candidate's stand
on this issue have been un
equivocally answered. There
fore, I suggest that any furth
er discussion, is nothing less
than a calculated attempt by
some people in this country
to discredit the . Catholic
Church itself. ' '
I for one would like to go
to the polls in November with
clear and objective mind,
However; it Is becoming in
creastngly difficult to main-
tain any degree of objectivity
in the face of these attacks on
my religion.
Granted, the intelligent
American who has taken the
trouble to investigate will not
be affected ' by this type of
bigotry. Yet there are those
fair minded people among us,
who, having seen a statement
or article in print, believe it
to be absolute truth. . .
The resultant suspicion and
istrust can only lead to
further disunity at a time
when all of must be ready to
stand behind our next Presi
dent, whether he is Mr. Nixon
or Senator Kennedy, Protest
ant or Catholic, Republican or
Democrat.
I am an American; I am
also a Catholic two facts of
which I ' am equally proud
and which I find are com
pletely compatible.
Mona Austin
(Mrs. Alex J. Austin)
Route 4, Box 369-B
Medford.
Teddy. HST or Aba
To the Editor: It ts with a
good deal of shame that I
write these lines. In the M.T.
of Friday we see a woman
from our embassy In Cuba be
ing held by Castro. Never in
our history have we paid
tribaXe to an arrogant dicta
tor, such as this.
Our president of the United
States fiddles with his golf
clubs, our vice president and
i
his wife receive the spit of
mobs in Latin America, our
president is only allowed in
a few countries to hold aloft
his arms and acknowledge the
cheers of people we have giv
en lots of money to.
President Eisenhower's ad
ministration will go down in
history as slightly above the
one of Warren Harding, cniei-
ly because there wasn t so
much corruption, but not be
cause there wasn t any.
Oh, for a Teddy Roosevelt
or a Harry Truman, tney
were not afraid to step on
the voters' toes. If one of these
men were in office, we would
be able to hold up our heads,
According to a piece in tne
paper, Mr. Nixon has had his
eyebrows plucked to enhance
his aDDeal to the women vot
ers. Do you want him or his
ilk? As a veteran of World
Wars I and II. as an Episcopa
lian, raised, confirmed, and
married in an Episcopalian
church, not a Catholic, I can
not think of "Honest Abe" of
about 100 years ago, and of
"Tricky Dick" of today with
out remorse.
Frank D. Casey
Horse Creek, Calif.
Impeach Herterl
To the Editor: Secretary oi
State Christian Hcrter's be
trayal of South Korea is vivid
ly described in the June,
1960 issue oi "American opin
ion," Page 6, as follows:
"During the past 15 years
our Government has played a
leading part in all the decep
tive procedures for handing
over one nation after another
to the Communist tyranny.
But NEVER, even in the worst
days of Dean Acheson and his
good friend Alger Hiss, has
it done anything to equal in
ncfariousness the deliberate
betrayal of Syngman Rhee
and his South Koreans; im
posing on South Korea, by
force and by pressures of our
Government, the rule of a
small, noisy, dirty, vicious,
Communist-led minority."
So much for our State De
partment's callous and consci
enceless amorality toward
South Korea-after more than
50,000 of our boys died there
to keep It free.
Now-that our State Depart
ment favors destroying U.S.
Sovereignty over our Canal
Zone in Panama is proven by
letter to Christian Herter.
printed In the Aug. 1, 1960,
John Birch Society News Bul
letin, in which Congressman
Flood tells Mr. Herter, "I am I
Candidates Can Rest Easy, as
Mr. K Says Both Are 'Lackeys'
irrri in
mm
By LYLE C. WILSON
Washington - (UPI) - Nikita
Khrushchev has a word for
Vice President Richard M,
Nixon and
MiSSl Sen. John F.
word is "lack
ey,
He has call
ed them "lack
eys who make
a pair.
"We have
no c h o i c e,"
ar wav v u .. a.i....
i.. i. c. union r ii i u .iitiicv
told an amused audience last
month at a Hungarian exhi
bition in Moscow. He meant
that Kennedy was about as
bad as Nixon so far as tne
Kremlin was concerned.
Both candidates, therefore,
may relax a bit from anxiety
lest the visiting Russian jolt
the presidential campaign oy
expressing a choice between
them. They probably will not
relax, however, because K.nru-
shchev is unpredictable. He
might reverse himself on the
candidates. That possibility
could keep the two young men
awake at nights. Neither could
afford to be loved by Khrushchev.
That may have been in the
mind of Paul M. Butler last
June when he told a Milwau
kee audience that he had spot
ted Khrushchev's candidate
for president of the United
States. Butler then was chair
man of the Democratic Na
tional Committee.
Butler said Mr. K. wanted
they will neither campaign
nor vote for him unless Chris
tian Herter is impeached.
L. C. Powell,
316 S.E. Eighth st.,
Grants Pass, Ore.
Elephant Language
To the Editor: 1 have some
bad news for the lady who
is a good Democrat and who
plans on voting for Dr. Durno.
am a good Democrat too
and I'm for Porter, so my
vote will nullify hers. I'm
glad, though, she wrote the
letter, as by showing it to
friends four Republicans have
decided to support Porter. If
Ole leapin Lena doesn t
blow a fuse or run outa gas,
11 get a lot more converts.
The doctor has been quite
lavish in his criticism of Mr.
Porter s interest in foreign af
fairs, and in so doing he is,
in a round-about way, ad
mitting that Mr. Porter's clear
cut evaluation has placed him
far ahead of the administra
tion in pin-pointing coming
hotspots, where an ounce of
Teddy's extinguisher would
put the fire out before
it burst out of control. The
administration, including the
writing you to give notice , vaunted CIA, in its blindfold-
that should a formal display , ed, evasive approach, using
of the Panama flag over the
Canal Zone be made with the
knowledge of your depart
ment, members of the House
will press for your impeach
ment, '
On Aug. 16, 1960, in Miami,
former Ambassador to Peru
nd Brazil. William D. Paw-
ley, labelled Castro as a Com
munist enemy, and the worst
threat to confront the U.S. in
SO years; while maintaining
that Trujillo was a true friend
of the U.S.
So our State Department's
brutal severing of diplomatic
relations with our staunch
antl-Commu.nist ally, Trujillo,
and his Dominican Republic,
while merely giving Castro
itentle "wrist - slapping."
should leave no doubt In the
mind of any American on
which side of the fence Mr.
Christian Herter stands.
Is there any way In which
the American people can stop
this man from completely sell
ing America and alt our anti-
Communist allies down the
river? I'll tell the world there
is!
We can join the (nation
wide) effort of the John Birch
Society and the multiplied
thousands of people who are
writing from all corners of
this nation to Vice President
Nixon, and telling him that
t
money, soft soap and diplo
matic garble, only made mat
ters worse.
I'm surprised that the doc
tor hasn't figured a way to
blame Mr. Porter for the
'warm' reception Nixon re
ceived on his South Ameri
can tour. That will probably
come later.
Mr. Porter Is for the Fo-rand-Morse
bill giving medi
cal benefits to retirees. The
doctor is against it, saying
that such a 'compulsory' tax
is unAmerican. Just wonder
what he calls the taxes we
now pay. Probably a free
hearted, generous expression
of gratitude to the adminis
tration for its sincere efforts
to Improve our living stand
ards.
I suggest the doctor forget
me rosy picture he saw when
sitting atop Jumbo, come
down to earth, and scratch
out some grass root senti
ments. I don't understand
Elephant language, but from
the patient, docile expression,
It's plain that Jumbo was say
ing, "Folks, I'm not here will
ingly, I'd like to pack my
trunk and go back to the big
tent where I can sail under
true colors!"
Claude M. Hall.
' 2860 Hartley lane,
' Granta Paw, Or. l
Nixon. The Russian believed,
according to Butler, that Nix
on would be the easiest for
the Communists to handle. At
that time Butler generally
was regarded as an active ad
vocate of Kennedy's nomina
tion by the Democrats.
The chairman said it was
Khrushchev's strategy to say
that he disliked Nixon on tha
assumption that Americana
would react by voting for tha
vice president. Khrushchev
would be capable of that, no
doubt, but there was little sup
porting evidence for Butler.
About the time Butler was
talking in Wisconsin, the
Communist newspaper, the
Worker was discussing va
rious potential presidential
nominees. The paper especial
ly denounced Kennedy and
Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller as
supporters of "the bankrupt
Eisenhower - Dulles, Truman-
Acheson policies, the cold war
policy, the policy of war prep
arations.
In another column, an ar
ticle by Clarence A. Hatha
way, chairman of tha Com
munist party of New York,
accused several presidential
prospects of offering simple
minded solutions to foreign
and defense problems. Hatha
way's simple-minded states
men Included Rockefeller,
Kennedy, NixOn, Sen. Lyndon
B. Johnson.
There was no kind word in
the Worker for any of these
statesmen, all being indicted
as wrong-headed war-mongers.
Khrushchev has said
nothing to qualify the Impres
sion that Nixon and Kennedy
are lumped with the others as
unfit and undesirable. Tha
Worker was not wholly so
negative in that issue, how
ever, in its approach to the
presidential election.
The Worker believed that
it would be best to nominate
Adlai E. Stevenson.
Matter of Fact By Joieph Allot)
ft irM
iter
ANOTHER RISK AHEAD
Washington - Our eminent
uninvited euest, Nikita S,
Khrushchev, most probably
has not just
one, but three
i m p o r t a nt
meet ings on
his immediate
schedule. Aft
er making his
usual con
structive con
tributions to
the Interna-
joskp-b alsop "onai zoo at
the U. N., he may well go to
Cuba for a cozy week end
with Fidel Castro. And in Oc
tober, he is expected to meet
with Mao Tse-tung in North
Korea.
Among these dates which
the demonologists think Khru
shchev has on his calendar,
the one that will make the
lease immediate noise, the
meeting with Mao will surely
be the most significant if it
takes place.
The point Is that the rela
tions between the Soviet Un
ion and Communist China are
now so tense that there is a
clear possibility of an open
break between the two giant
powers of the Communist
bloc. The obscure evidence for
this view, gathered from in
telligence sources and from
the Communist press, has al
ready been summarized in a
previous report in this space.
m 9 m
T IS enough to' say, here,
that the evidence pointing
to a Soviet-Chinese break is
far stronger today than all
the warning evidence that wai
available before the Soviet-
Yugoslav break. Although
Khrushchev will no doubt bel
low for admission of Commu
nist China to the United Na
tions, this will be a ritual ges
ture. The reality will still be
the possibility of a break.
in his quarrel with the
Chinese, moreover. Khrush
chev has no free options. The
Kremlin cannot back down in
this quarrel, without compro
mising Moscow'i claim to be
me new Home of Commn.
nlsm. It ii Mao Tse-tung who
nag io ueciae wnether to back
down or to accept the break.
And as yet there it no evi
dence at all that Mao Tse
tung ii getting readv to hack
down.
In these circumstance th
point of Issue in the quarrel
has great potential Import
ance. Superficially, It is doc
trinal. The Chinese have call
ed the Soviets "blasphemous"
for asserting that the holy
Lenin believed in the possi
bility of peaceful coexistence
with the capitalist powers
The Soviets have called th
Chinese "blasphemoui" for
laying that th holy Lenin be
lieved in the Inevitability of
war with th capitalist now-
era, at a necessary prevlaw to
the world triumph of th Com
munist cause.
DUT thli luperficial, doctrln
" 1 dispute undoubtedly
conceali a far more crucial
dispute about a concrete issue.
As one dispute must also re
flect the other, the concrete
issue is all but certain to ba
Chinese insistence upon a war
like adventure which the So
viets regard at altogether too
risky. If Mao Tse-tung finally
accepts a brak on this issue,
it must mean, in turn, that ha
is prepared to launch his da
Sired adventure without as
surance of Soviet support.
Such is the logic of the
Slno - Soviet quarrel. Other
points are involved, but th
war-vs.-peace conflict is fair
ly central. If a break comes,
therefore, it will knock into
a cocked hat one of the abso
lutely basic and most com
forting assumptions of th
western policy makers - the
assumption that the Soviets
can always be counted on to
retain a power of veto over
Chinese adventure involving
any military risk.
The collapse of that long
standing assumption is an
ugly thing to contemplate. Yet !
a Chinese challenge to the
Soviet power of veto is about
the only way to make sense
out of this Sino-Soviet quar
rel. There is nothing else that
could drive Khrushchev to
consider a break with Mao,
as he is obviously doing, un
less Khrushchev believes that
internal strains in China ara
so great that the Chinese re
gime itself is in danger from
within. The two factors may
inter-act, in truth, but their
internal strains would natural
ly produce a desperate Chi
nes hankering for external
military success.
ANE qutition remain!:
v Where on earth can the
Chinese hope to gain a nation
ally unifying military succesa
without full Soviet support?
There is, unhappily, a possi
ble answer. Ther ii tha ex
posed position on the offshor
islands of the Formosa Strait,
that th Soviets authorized
the Chines to make a careful
ly limited assault two years
ago.
That assault failed, nartly
because of American action.
but mainly because of tha
iheer military incompetence
of the Chinese effort. In par
tlcular, the Chinese Commu
nist artillery, which ought to
nave interdicted all access to
the offshore islands, instead
altogether failed to establish
an effecUve blockade. Sine
that time, little has been don
to strengthen the offshor is
lands. But since that time.
according to the best Inform
ed estimates, everything has
been done to strengthen th
Chinese Communist artillery
preparation.
For these
ilbllity of a Sino-Sviet break,
which ought only to rais th
hopei of th Wit, ii also cam-'
tag coniidarabl Weitern ap
prehension. (e) 1M0. New Yatk HarlU
A umB,Ia.
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