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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40
and 50 yean ago. .
10 YEARS AGO
Oct. 5, 1950 (Thursday)
The new bridge at Rogue
River will be dedicated to
morrow but a name for the
bridge remains in doubt.
The Medford Central Labor
council last night gave its full
support to the 1950 Jackson
County Community Chest
drive, and urged union mem
bers to cooperate in the new
payroll deduction plan of con
tributions to the chest.
.
20 YEARS AGO
Oct. 5, 1940 (Saturday)
Thirty -nine Rogue River
High school freshmen, the
largest class in years, were
initiated last night to the
tune of resounding whacks
from paddles.
From' Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pol" column: . "The
medical profession reports the
common cold is more so than
usual."
30 YEARS AGO
Oct. 5, 1930 (Sunday) .'
'Medford High school was
defeated by Marshfleld last
night, 27 to 7.
A lone bandit held up the
Farmers and Fruitgrowers
bank here yesterday and took
$50, but was captured several
hours later in a local hotel.
40 YEARS AGO
Oct. 5, 1920 (Tuesday)
Bardwell Fruit company
made the largest sale of val
ley pears in history on the
New York market recently.
Sen. McNary Is paying a
visit to the city and valley
this week.
50 YEARS AGO
Oct. 5, 1910 (Wednesday)
City fathers are in a di
lemma over how to dispose of
the increasing stock of liquor
Jn the city hall that has re
sulted from police confisca
tion of liquor from hoboes
and drunks,
The city council elected last
night to enforce stricter health
measures in the city especial
ly as regards the handling of
food.
What's Your 10.?
Nine or fen correct It superior:
sevsn or eight Is excellent; five er
six is good.
1. Three dots and a dash in
the Morse code indicate what
letter of the alphabet?
2. Jerry Cruncher Is a
character In which of Charles
Dickens' novels?
3. When does the 24th hour
of the dav begin?.
4. When two members of a
legislative body "pair" their
votes, do they have their
votes recorded on the same
side of the issue or on op
posite sides?
5. Who wrote the "Blue
Danube" waltz?
6. "Baldw I n," "Jonathan"
and "Mcintosh" are commerc
ial varieties of which fruit?
7. Molherj Day is cele
brated the first, second, or
third Sunday in May?
8. Is baseball a popular
game in Japan?
9. What word means the
opposite of "windward"?
10. Belmont Park race
track is In N u County?
Answers: 1, "V." 2. "A
Tale of Two Cities." 3. 11
p.m. 4. Opposing sides, S.
Johann Strauss. 6. Apple.
7. Second. 8. Yes. 1. Lee
ward. 10. Nassau.
We re for
Some newspapers are professing shock at the
"line" being taken by Vice President Richard
M. Nixon in his election campaign to the effect
that it is somehow unpatriotic for his opponent
w point, out, any aeiiciencies in me America oi
today.
Is, in fact, Senator
lor tne (Jommunist propaganda mill as Mr.
Nixon alleges:
Or can we agree with
he says:
"I say it is wrong
American to keep silent
not satisried with what
tne iuture.
AS MENTIONED, some .papers are "shocked"
fVl of Mlvni. -tirrtll 13 liVnQ f nlir nrA riimit nv,A
iiiAuii nuuiui uviiwti atui v aiivi uvci aiiKA
over again, impute that
saying noi enougn nas
economic growth, in conservation and develop'
ment of natural resources, in care of the sick and
aged, in providing a decent education for Amer
icans.
Well, we're , not shocked. We really rather
expected it.
For it fits perfectly
"Old Nixon" (who was
suppjaiitea ay me new
1 L - Jt 1 J.1 lixr
paigns of 1948, 1950, 1952 and 1956.
WICE President Richard Nixon has a discon
certing way of being
or issues.
Take nuclear testing,
of, for instance :
In 1956 he said Adlai
about Communism for favoring a ban on nuclear
testing.. Then, when President Eisenhower agreed
to the test ban some time
tor it.
Or take Indo-China :
At the time the French were making their
last stand at Dienbienphu, Nixon advocated arm
ed U.S. intervention ; then, when that crisis had
blown over, boasted that the Administration kept
us out of that war.
LIE DOESN'T not QUITE call his opponents
communists. (In the cases were they actually
WERE called communists during his campaigns,
someone else did the calling for him.) - .
But he comes close enough to it so no one can
miss' the point. Harry Truman was charged with
"toleration and defense of Communists in high
places." Truman and Stevenson were "traitors to
the high principles" of the Democratic party.
And now he is employing the same tactic on
Senator Kennedy, who,
giving aid and comfort
won t go along with the
for the best in this best of all possible worlds.
.
1X7E DON'T think it will work.
We think that Senator Kennedy's case is
too trood: that he is showing, day by day, and
by concrete examples, that
passed when America
from its eight-year nap.
He declares, and we
time during which American prestige has fallen
to a new international low; during which de
mands of a growing population have been ig
nored or postopned; during which the number
of elderly people has tremendously increased
along with their needs for dignity ana assistance ;
durinsr which the problem of farm supports and
surpluses has overwhelmed both Congress and
Administration ...
Durintr a time, in short, when America crept
when it should have run ;
should have been vibrantly
CENATOR Kennedy is challenging America;
asking its people to live up to their proud
destiny and their magnificent potential.
. Mr. Nixon is soothing America, telling us
we're doing "almost well enough" now, and that
the little added effort won't strain anyone.
And he's trying to shut off debate on the real
and important issues of the campaign by declaring
with a self-righteous smirk that it's aiding the
communists for us to diagnose and prescribe for
our own illnesses!
The Mail Tribune supports Kennedy, and
will do so in the strongest possible terms, be
lieving that Richard Milhous Nixon is not a fit
person to sit in the White House of the United
States of America. E.A. ' .
Memo From Lincoln
I am not a Know-Nothing; that is certain.
How could I be? H,ow can anyone who abhors the
oppression of Negroes be in favor of degrading
classes of white people?
Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to
be pretty rapid. As a Nation we began by declar
ing that "all men are created equal." We now
practically read it "all men ar created equal,
except Negroes." When the Know-Nothings get
control, it will read "all men are created equal,
except Negroes and foreigners and Catholics."
When it comes o this, I shall prefer emigrat
ing to some countr "where they make no pretense
of loving liberty to Russia, for instance, where
despotism can be taken pure, and without the
base alloy of hypocrisy. (Abraham Lincoln, let
ter to Joshua F. Speed, Aug. 24, 1855.)
Kennedy
Kennedy "supplying grist
Senator Kennedy when
and dangerous for any
about our future if he is
is being done to preserve
Kennedy is disloyal for
Deen aone in aeiense, in
with the tactics of the
supposed to have been
VTJ ll il
mxon oi me cam
on all sides of a variety
and the banning there
Stevenson was "naive"
later, himself came out
he alleges, is in effect
to the enemy because he
happy thesis that all s
the time has long since
should have awakened
" "
agree, that it has been a
when it dozed when it
awake.
Dennis
the
Let me. know when we get to tbxas. -
Communications
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paper; in fact the contrary is
Catholicism and The Stale
To the Editor: One of the
writers in last. Thursday's
Mail Tribune gave the mean
ing of Catholic as universal,
but she failed to define the
difference in Catholic and
Roman Catholic. There is a
difference.
Catholic or Holy Catholic
is universal, the Christian
Church as a whole. Protest
ants accept the Bible and
God's Holy Word as the au
thority of their faith. They
believe in private interpreta
tion. The Roman Catholic
puts the authority of the Pope
and the Church above the au
thority of the Word of God,
with headquarters in Rome.
They believe their church is
the only true church.
Protestants believe in. sep-
eration of Church and State.
Roman Catholics believe the
Pope has temporal as well as
spiritual authority. Senator
Kennedy is a Roman Catholic,
and that is his privilege, for
we are still living in a free
America. He is bound by oath
to be faithful to his church,
but hasn't the right to force
it on others. According to the
Vatican, one cannot be faith
ful to his church, and hold a
high government position
where many decisions have to
be made, without each being
approved by the Roman pow
er. Which will it be?
Our forefathers came to
America for the purpose o
the freedom of worship, and
I believe we want to keep it
that way. They do not be
lieve their one church is the
only true church but have
the liberty and freedom to
worship God in any church
they choose to attend, pe it
Quaker, Baptist or Methodist,
etc.
Vice President Nixon still
has that privilege of worship
ing God wherever he wishes.
The writer said "You cannot
serve God and Mammon."
How true. You cannot serve
God and someone who places
himself equal to God, at the
same time.
Senator Kennedy and his
brother keep bringing the re
ligious issue before the peo
ple, yet if anyone else even
mentions it they call it bigo
try. Let us think on these
things.
Mis. Ernest Santo,
204 Lozier Lane,
Medford.
Editor's note: In this con
nection, we find the words
of the Rev. Harry Emerson
Fosdick, the internationally
known and respected Baptist
minister, of interest. In a re
cent letter to the New York
Times, he had this to say:
T wish in comment oartlcu-
larly upon that part of Sena
tor Kennedy's statement be
fore the Greater Houston
Ministerial Assoc iation on
Sept. 12 in which he discussed
the Importance of religious
liberty for all: . Protestant,
Catholic and Jew.
I ouote him: ". . . while this
year it may be a Catholic
against whom the finger ot
suspicion is pointed, in other
yKirs It has been, and may
some day be again, a Jew, or
a Quuker, or a Unitarian, or
a Baptist . . . Today 1 may be
the victim-but tomorrow It
aaKy be you-until the whole
S?ric ot-nur harmonious so
ciety ispped at a time of
grajt national peril.
V seems to me that these
words cannot he too hcavilv
underscored. The history of
religious ireedom ana rignis
in m,r nntinn hm Heart mnrrprl
time and again by religious
persecution sucn as senator
Kennedy has warned could
happen tomorrow.
Menace
often the case.
The Baptists were the first
to petition for religious free
dom before the Virginia
House of Burgesses, Roger
Williams fled Massachusetts
Colony and established Provi
dence Plantation because he
could not endure the oppres
sive religious strictures of his
brethren. A Presbyterian,
Samuel Davies, influenced
Jefferson, Madison and others
to secure religious liberty.
Article VI of the Constitu
tion explicity rules out a re
ligious test for public office,
and this is as it should be. To
require a religious test-even
indirectly-is repugnant to the
ideals of democracy, just as is
any limitation on political
rights, on grounds of race,
color or creed.
The right to be a Quaker,
or an Episcopalian, or a Meth
odist and to be fairly consid
ered for President is the right
which applies equally to a
Catholic. It is the same right
which every American shares
and to deny that right to one
is to weaken its strength for
another.
To quote Senator Kennedy
again, a basic principle in our
democracy is the "belief in
an America that is officially
neither Catholic, Protestant
nor Jewish - where no public
official either requests or ac
cepts instructions on public
policy from the Pope, the Na
tional Council of Churches,
or any other ecclesiastical
source - where no religious
body seeks to impose its will
directly or indirectly upon
the general populace or the
public acts of its officials-and
where religious liberty is so
indivisible that an act against
one church is treated as an
act against all."
At any rate-and I am sure
that millions of Americans
will agree-whatever candi
date I vote for, the "religious
issue" will have no influence
in my decision.
Harry Emerson Fosdick,
Minister Emeritus,
The Riverside Church,
New York City
Skid Road
To the Editor: We enjoyed
the letter of F. J. Clifford
very much. Not because he
gave this writer honorable
mention, but because he stir
red up a nostalgia for bygone
days. He revived the romance
of the "skid road" that has
been corrupted into "skid
row" as a figure of speech. We
are ' in sympathy with Mr.
Clifford.
From a literary standpoint
we resent the use of skid row
for skid road, regardless of
how pat the expression. Skid
road came first and it should
remain so for the sake of tra
dition. Certainly the gutter
snipes will call it skid row.
but the hardy sons of toil that
carved the west out of the
wilderness know that spot
where Greek meets Greek as
the skid road, and Mr. Clif
ford has shed some light on
the subject.
The skid road is a classic ex
pression along with the cov
ered wagon. We opine it is as
western as the Barbary Coast.
And as realistic as gyppo."
To elaborate on Mr. Clifford's
theme, we agree that when it
became necessary to leave the
bays and rivers to acquire logs
for the lumber mills, it was
essential to convey logs by
ox-team. Roads were built up
gulches and gullies to the tall
timber. Logs were cut at
least one foot in diameter and
ten or twelve feet long, and
they were placed ten feet
apart at right angles with the
road. These logs were called
skids and were buried in the
ground with about two fifths
exposed above ground. Oxen
hauled logs 32-feet long and
over on this road. Loggers on
Talk of Russia-Red China Split
As 'Just Talk' At Present Anyway
I By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
The West should regard
with considerable skepticism
the talk of a deepening rift
between the
Soviet Union
and R e d
China.
D i s agree
ments, yes.
But disagree
m e n t s fre
quently occur
within any
family with
out any final
So, with the USSR and
JafU.
A
PHIL NEWSOM
break.
Wilson Sees Dick Warming Up
Campaign
By LYLE C. WILSON
Washington - I1IP1I - If there
Is to be a "new Nixon" in this
presidential campaign, the un
veiling may
b e expected
in a b o u t a
fortnight.
Tues day,
Oct. 18 would
be an appro
priate date.
That would be
precisely
t h ree weeks
i.vi. c wilioo Deiore elec
tion day. Oct. 18 would be
appropriate because Vice
President Richard M. "Nixon
believes that the three weeks
i m m e diately preceding an
election are the weeks that
count the most.
their way to and from work
traveled on this skid road. The
cook house and bunkhouses
were at the water's edge. The
loggers got in the habit of
lifting their left foot every
other step higher than usual.
That was to clear the skid and
not stumble. When they walk
ed on the streets in the city
they continued this walking
pattern. As they congregated,
it was in the worker's domain
of the business part of cities,
composed of grog shops, pawn
shops, cheap hotels and lodg
ing houses, Chinese restau
rants and waffle joints, shod
dy clothing stores and flop
houses, gambling dens and
soul savers, along with the
flotsam and jetsam of a
predatory society, such as
drunks, dope fiends, pick
pockets and beggars.
Here we' find the rag tag
and bobtail of free enterprise,
the business and human fail
ures and the ne'er do wells.
The loggers called it the "skid
road." "the loggers hangout,"
but the social scientists call it
the "skid row." That is be
cause we find there the vic
tims of greased skids - the
great exploited, beggars of
life.
Walter Reece
Galice rd.
Merlin, Ore.
Craiy Law
To the Editor: I agree with
"E.A." in the Oct. 3 Tribune
on "What's the Score?" There
is confusion about what's
going to be on the ballot about
dog control.
What sense is there in hav
ing "For dogs running at
large" twice? To my way of
thinking once is enough. Oth
erwise put it this way:
"For dogs to be confined;
"For dogs running at large."
Seems to me someone in the
courthouse that handles the
printing of ballots could think
of some way better than what
they have.
It has got to be a mess as
the law at present is not en
forced because it can t be done
unless there is an army to do
so.
I have lived here in Med
ford 14 years and there are
all kinds of dogs running at
large at present.
Mine is confined to com
ply with the crazy law that
was passed in May.
H. W. Steelman
107 Lozier Lane
Medford
I
P.S. I am outside of the
city of Medford.
Anti-Porter
To the Editor: In his recent
endorsement of Congress
man Charles O. porter, "E.A."
of the Mail Tribune lavishly
praised Porter's boldness and
fresh approach to foreign af
fairs. Porter's approach is bold,
true, but also lacking in good
judgment and common sense.
After watching the firing
squads ie) action at the begin
ning of Castro's blood bath in
Cuba, Mr. Porter declared:
"Many important voices have
been raised ' in the United
States to protest the trials as
drum-head courts-martial, and
the executions as a blood bath.
These procedures are' far from
ideal, but how significant are
these shortcomings? (N. Y.
Times, July 7, 1958).
Does Mr. Porter really feel
that hundrcdO'f people shot
down without trial are not
significant?
And from a Porter speech
which was published in the
Conaw-ssional Record for Jan.
26, 1339; "Persons critical of
Red China, the disagreements
do not necessarily umean an
impending split between the
world's two greatest commu
nist powers.
It is noteworthy that most
of the "news" regarding the
Chinese and Russian differ
ences has come through Com
munist "leaks."
To this, then, has been add
ed so-called evidence drawn
from Red China's silence on
Nikita Khrushchev's visit to
the United Nations, and on its
notable lack of support for
his plan for world disarma
ment in four years.
In Last 3
Franklin D. Roosevelt was
another politician who be
lieved elections best could be
won with a late start and a
fast and furious finish. That
is Nixon's campaign theory,
emphatically so.
Therefore, it would be logi
cal for the drama critics of
the current political play to
await the last act and the
final curtain. Much of the
special political corres p o n -dence
that gushes out of this
city by telegraph and airwave
i s variously unsympathetic
with the Republican party
and with Republican candi
dates. Swayed by Charm
That has been true for a
great many years, firmly so
since Franklin D. Roosevelt
began exposing the news men
and women of Washington to
his extraordinary charm. The
old timers had been accustom
ed to Calvin Coolidge's news
conference rigidity and then
to Herbert Hoover's chill dis
comfort when faced by the
press.
The press corps and the
columnists were rooting for
FDR almost 100 per cent in
the 1932 campaign. They liked
his banter and Informality
and a lot of them, too, liked
that short paragraph at the
end of the 1932 Democratic
platform which promised pro
hibition's repeal. So, when,
FDR took office on March 4,
1933. the political writers and
commentators were prepared
to like him, and they did.
For a great many diverse
reasons the pundits also grew
to like FDR's political party,
its breathless, free - swinging
performance and the over-all
handling of a great domestic
crisis in the affairs of the
United States.
Nixon Criticism .
This political affection or
alignment has remained rath
er strong over the years. It
probably has contributed in
some degree to those oc
casions when it could be said
that Nixon was suffering from
a very bad press. Nixon is
under a tattoo of criticism
now on charges of campaign
ing with a substantialiy set
the trials and executions do
not realize the magnitude and
high morality of the revolu
tion." Does Mr. Porter really feel
that mob justice and banditry
are highly moral?
From another speech by
Mr. Porter in the House on
May 18, 1959, reported in the
Congressional Record:
"Castro's Cuba is getting
better every day," and "Cuba
going ed? No, but in the
other direction. Go look
again."
Is this an authority on in
ternational affairs, a student
of world events a judge of
people and government?
Do we want this man as a
representative for the Fourth
District of Oregon?
Betty C. Sexton
108 Florence
. Medford
Lost Cavern
To the Editor: One of the
strangest stories ever told to
me by a well known pros
pector and miner of Jackson
and Josephine counties some
40 years ago, was about one
of his many exploits in the
early nineties.
On one hazardous trip,
with pack op his back, he
hiked into the then wild Trin
ity Alps of California. His
whereabouts, if he told me
at that time, I do not recall.
But he did some exploring,
he explained, on a well beaten
wild animal trail he was fol
lowing in virgin rough ter
rain. He suddenly came to
the entrance of a cavern that
was black as pitch. He enter
ed a way with a lighted
candle and he heard a roar
ing stream of water running
and could see there were fish
in the subterranean river.
My prospector-miner friend
did not talk about the episode
in later years. We often had
been together and tramped
the hills, but the incident was
never brought up again. I
often wonder if the secret
cavern was ever discovered
againHiince then.
Bert Kissinger,
520 Boardman it.,
Medford. '
There also was Russia's
marked lack of enthusiasm
for China's border quarrel
with India.
Idaolrjuieal SdHi?
Special emphasis has been
nlaced on the ideological
quarrel between Khrushchev
and Red China party leaner
Mao Tze-Tune.
UPI correspondent Henry
Shapiro, a close observer it
the Moscow scene for zo
years, sees little of substance
in the Khrushchev-Mao Tze
Tung quarrel.
Both, he points out, are
dedicated communists who
Weeks
speech which is more general
than specific and more emo
tional than either.
An unfriendly editor i a 1
writer with a solid punch in
his words recently mentioned
Nixon's "penchant for seem
ing to narrow the gap be
tween his own and Demo
cratic views." Others, un
friendly too, are urging the
vice president to come out
slugging for the Rockefeller
party line. He could have his
penchant and slug too.
From the; conser v a t i v e
cheering section there are, of
course, cheers. Also, there
are some yelps of dismay.
Conservatives, too, want the
vice president to come out
plugging. More, they want
him to come out slugging with
an issue which will tingle
their spines and start them to
marching in the aisles. Peace
in our time has not done that.
No farm program will. Maybe
it could be accomplished with
the issues of spending, taxes
and inflation.
In the Day's News
By FRANK
President Eisenhower re
jected a neutralist proposal
put forth last week . for an
immediate summit conference
between himself and Mr.
Kroosh on the subject of dis
armament. In turning down the propos
al, he says in effect that
whenever it appears that the
Soviet Union is prepared to
return to the path of peace
ful negotiation with some
prospect of fruitful results he
will be prepared "to meet
and negotiate with a repre
sentative of the Soviet gov
ernment and with the heads
of 1 OTHER governments as
their interests are involved.
He thus holds the door open
for a return to summit di
plomacy "if Premier Khrush
chev will take steps to pave
the way for USEFUL nego
tiations." - .
1R. Kroosh puts it more
" flatly. He says:
"Some people say Khrush
chev and Ike should be locked
in a room and kept there un
til they come to an agreement
on disarmament. But this is
naive. We may sit there in
definitely. BUT IF NO DE
SIRE TO COME TO AN
AGREEMENT IS EVINCED
BY THE PRESIDENT, noth
ing will come of it."
So that's that.
WORD on the five neu
tralists who put the re
quest for the summit propos
al. They are: Nehru of India,
Sukarno of Indonesia, Nasser
of the Arab Republic, Tito of
Yugoslavia and Nkrumah of
Ghana.
Nehru is a sincere neutral
ist. He wants to STAY OUT
of the ruckus-as who doesn't!
At first, he seemed to lean
toward Communism, but he
Try and Stop Me
: By BENNETT CERF
T MET JOE E. LEWIS, the impetuous night club star, in
- Miami Beach one evening and asked him, "How are you
doing at the track this season?" "Great." enthused Lewis.
"I made $8,000 at Aque
duct, $14 grand at Sara
toga, and $9,000 at Hia
leah." "Of course," he
added after a moment of
reflection, "that doesn't
include my losses."
Owner of a vast timber
tract sent out a crew of
fifty husky men with three
women to do their cooking,
and told the camp boss,
"Don't send me lengthy re
ports. A couple of key fig
ures eRch week will keep
me aDreast or tnings."; '
The camp boss' first report, a fortnight later, read simply, "Six!
percent of your men ha.ve married a hundred percent of your
women. j
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Shelley Berman tells of an Indian faWrt wife who appeared
in the bedroom one momlng with a hammer and a pail of nallsT
"Get up," ahe ordered the fakir. 'This is the day for chaneins;
our beds."
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might disagree oy, methods
but never on he final objeo- f
tive.
It might well be that there
is a personal rivalry between
the two for prestige within
the party.
ne uaart, relatively siaDia i;
after a little more than 40 i
years, disagrees with Red
China's haste because it be
lieves that time is on its side.
Therefore, it could sympa
thize with Red China's de
signs on Indian territory but
disagree with the rough-shod
methods.
It could agree " with Red
China's demands on Formosa
but heartily disagree with
any precipitate action which
might unleash a war.
. But for the world to be
lieve that deep differences
separate .the two, simply
works to the advantage of
both Red China and the
USSR, carrying as it does the
possibility that it will lull
the West into a false sense ol
security. ;
Future Problems
In the future not yet fore
seeable, it may well be that
important differences will
arise. One cause might be
China's explosive population
problem. Another might arise
from the proven fact that
there can be no such thing
as co-equal dictators.
The lands to the south of
China are far richer than
Russia's Siberian wastes to
the north, and can support a
far greater population than
they now do.
But for the moment. Khru
shchev needs a friendly
China at his back. And Chi
na needs Russian industrial
know-how. In addition, there
are far greater worlds still to
be conquered by Communism
than either could gain by
turning on each other.
JENKINS
got a rude shock when Com
munist China wiped out little
Tibet and began to make
rough gestures toward India,
Sukarno is a Communist.
Nasser is an opportunist who
is looking for a break that
might be good for Nasser.
Tito is a Communist, but he
wants to be top dog in his
kennel. He resents being
down-rated by Kroosh. Nkru
mah of Ghana (one of the
new African nations) seems
ambitious to join the ranks
of Communist stooges.
We incline to lean cour
teously toward the neutrals
because we probably have
some hopes of Nehru, who in
clines to lean more toward
the West as the brutal despo
tism of Communism becomes
more and more clearly appar
ent to him. Hence (probably)
Ike's careful handling of the
neutralist proposal for a Russian-American
summit ses
sion on disarmament.
TN conclusion, a question:
How important are SUM
MITS to the future of the
free world?
One wonders. There is
Yalta in the background of
the comparatively recent past.
Yalta was a summit meet
ing. Present at Yalta were
President Franklin D. Roose
velt of the United States;
Prime Minister Winston
Churchill of Great Britain:
and Premier Josef Stalin of
the Soviet Union. The agree
ments reached there included
policies and plans for the oc
cupation of Germany, includ
ing the West Berlin situation,
which is the root of so much
trouble NOW. Yalta set the
stage for the cold war that is
plaguing us now.
Why risk another Yalta?