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History tro.n the files of The
Mall Tribune 10. 20, 30 40
and 50 vea's ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Tn. 19. igsi (Friday)
Mild winter weather, plus
the military services, is main
taining unemployment In
Jackson county at less than
1,500 persons, an unusually
low level, according to the lo
cal employment agency.
The senate confirmed the
appointment of Frank J. Van
Dyke of Medford to the board
of higher education Thursday.
20 YEARS AGO
Jan. 12, 1941 (Sunday)
Robert S. Farrcll Jr., a 34-year-old
Multnomah county
representative, defeated Rep
William M. McAllister of Med
ford, 33 to 27, in last night's
Houbo caucus for speaker of
that body.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudee Pot" column: "Who
remembers when the favorite
Sunday trick around here,
was ' driving out to Eagle
Point to get dinner, and their
names In the 'Eaglets.'?"
30 YEARS AGO
Jan. 12, 1931 (Sunday)
Mrs. J. W. Lindsay of this
city has reported that a rose
is blooming on a bush In her
yard.
Architects have completed
the final plans for the new
high school.
40 YEARS AOO
Jan. 12, 1921 (Wednesday)
Four bootleggers were ar
rested in Medford yesterday;
one was selling the stuff from
a cylinder fastened inside his
clothing.
A bill to reorganize the
state fish and game commis
sion has passed the legislative
committee.
SO YEARS AGO
Jan. 12, 1910 (Thursday)
The recent snowstorm in
the valley has downed tele
phone lines in both the city
and the surrounding area, but
emergency telephone repair
men are repairing them ns
fnst as they can.
City police picked up a man
who was lying on a downtown
street last night and lodged
him in Jail, assuming he was
drunk. This morning, how
ever, it was learned that the
man had been beaten and rob
bed and was not drunk at
nil.
Y!ir 1 0.?
Nina ot tan cornel li superior:
sevan oi eight It aicallanti 'Ive ai
ill is aood.
1. Who was Booker T.
Washington?
2. Who was taken to heaven
in a fiery chariot?
Complete the following, "A
word to the wise ."
4. The characteristic o f
suckling the young Is common
to which kinds of crcHtures?
3, In what country did the
buttle of St. Lo occur In
World War II?
8. Which President of the
U. S. hud a wife of the Roman
Catholic faith, prior to the
e 1 e c 1 1 o n of President-elect
Kennedy?
7. Name the capital of Penn
sylvania. 8. Was Jack London an
English or an American au
thor? 0. Name the English Prime
Minister.
10. Which city of South
America has the largest popu
lation? Answers: oL Nolad Negro
educator. 2. Ellaio3. '. . . Is
sufficient." 4. Tha mammalia.
5. Franca. 8, John Tylar. 7.
Harrliburg. 8. American, 9.
Harold Macmlllan. 10, Butnot
Aires, Argentina.
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513
"Getting Through "
Over the years, newspapermen have a pretty
good chance to watch young people in the process
of growing up. As parents, and as reporters who
chronicle the doings of students, Boy and Girl
Scouts, 4H-ers, other youth groups, scholarship
winners, athletes, and all the others, they get to
see a lot of the positive, constructive activities in
which young people engage.
Also, as reporters, they get a look at the seamy
side the "delinquent activities of boys and
girls.
And any reporter knows that the good out
weighs the bad, by about 95 to 5.
IN OBSERVING that 5 per cent which does gfet1
out of line, it is often found that they are in
two categories :
1. Youngsters who, because of environmental
factors, simply do not get the training, the dis
cipline, the moral fiber, the self-control, to meas
ure up to society's standards of behavior.
2. Young people with adequate backgrounds,
but who, through some lack, some twist, some
warping of the soul or defect of character, or by
deliberate orneriness, make themselves problems
to parents, friends, society at large and themselves.
IT WAS the latter type that the editor of the
Coos Bay World was addressing the other day,
when he wrote an editorial motivated by some
young people (presumably) who had shot and
killed a number of snow geese placed in a local
park some years ago by
The editorial said: '
"It would bo a bit silly for us to scold you here.
"Perhaps you now realize how cruel and stupid you
were.
"If you have not had such second thoughts by now,
here's a warning for you and your parents: You may
be the victim of a dangerous disease: a terrible men
tal condition which leads you to destroy things, in
cluding the lives of defenseless animals. This can
lead to tragedy for you and those who love you. It
is such a disease that leads to the destruction of hu
man spirits-and human life ilself-by other men.
"The same disease is present in the minds of those
who break up a Christmas nativity display, steal the
lights, destroy the Scout cabin. This is defiance of au
thority and the desire to 'hurt' someone by destroying
their property. It's just not quite as shocking as the
slaughter of ducks and geese.
"Who are you hurting? Yourselves.
"These acts are not just signs of youthful high
spirits. They are the first step on the road to tragedy.
But it's not too late to turn around."
e
THE real difficulty
worst headaches is not
young people who are
how to get through to them.
There is a period in adolescence when the
natural rebellions of youth make it almost im
possible to communicate;
turned to all admonitions;
unbelief meets warnings of
If, once, you can "get
gone wrong; it you can
battle is halt won. The
attempt a good one to
But when he persists
course which inenvitably
shrugs off advice and
t r i -.-.,,. i
iasnionea, or siuiiy men irouDie is going 10
ensue. E.A.
Our County
These columns have
of county government over the past several years.
So we have no kick coming when the county
court "shoots back," as they did yesterday (see
story on Page B-7 today).
We just wish they'd read the editorial in ques
tion before shooting back, however, for the com
plaints, in large part, were about things they
thought we said, rather than what we did say.
We'll see what happens when fishing season
opens at Howard Prairie lake.
RE THAT as it may, and since the matter has
" been brought up, let us say we once hoped
that with three pleasant, intelligent, reasonable
men on the court, it could be made into an effec
tive agency of government.
No longer. We now feel that the hope for
progress, responsiveness, intelligent planning for
the future, and a realistic view of the needs and
demands of Jackson county residents lies in a
complete overhaul of the county government.
The county court, collectively, is a failure. For
this we are inclined to blame the system more
than the men, although they have compounded
the administrative horror of multi-headed govern
ment by inattention, loth argy, bickering, fear
fullness of change, lack of aggressive leadership,
and a marked tendency to delay doing anything
until pushed into it, either by overwhelming pub
lice pressure, or by afew small pressure groups.
THE court lacks vision. It lacks energy. It lacks
foresight. It lacks the capacity for leadership
so necessary if things are going to get done.
It seems to be operating on the theory that
this is a sleepy little county off in the boondocks
not a growing, vital, surging community of
some 73,000 people, many of whom need more
than delays, buck-passing and excuses in place
of 4vigoroi and responsive and far-sighted, well-thought-out
planning for the future.
Judging by comments from a variety of
sources, we re not the
either. E.A. ,
the U. 6. wilclnre service.
the one which causes
so much how to treat
on the wrong track, but
when a deaf ear is
when a stony look of
consequences to come.
through" to a youngster
reason with him, the
World s editorial is one
"get through."
in blindly following a
will lead to trouble, and
counsel as square, old-
i 1. 1 ? a
"Government '
been increasingly critical
only ows that think so,
BOX HAVE I GOT A BIS VAY IN FRONT O' MB '.
I'M gohhh em xxs cAf3V'izssc&'
... Communications ...
Letters to lh Editor must
certain circumstances tha uia
Tha Mail Tribune reserves lh
condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not
printed in this column do not
contrary is often the case.
Support and Faith
To the Editor: The other
day as I was talking to a high
school student whom I know,
the conversation got around
lo politics, when I referred
to the election that they had
In their school which elected
Nixon and Lodge. I casually
asked how he thought the new
president would be, and his
reply was that he probably
wouldn't be very good, be
cause his position differed
from that of President Eisen
hower regarding the Laos sit
uation. When I asked why
he had such an opinion of
a man that isn't even inaugu
rated yet, he replied that It
was what his teacher had told
them in class the other day.
This, to me, is alarming,
when one takes into account
that we live in a democracy
based on the two party sys
tem, that a person tries to
ply his own philosophy on
our young minds going to
school, that will be the lead
ers of our society in the fu
ture. After all, Mr. Kennedy
was elected by the people, by
both the electoral and popu
lar votes, no matter how slim
the margin, and will be our
next president of the United
States. To say, therefore, that
he is a poor president, or
even imply such, before he
is even in office, is in my
opinion poor judgment, espe
cially for a teacher who
should be Impartial at least
while teaching his students
the fundamentals of democ
racy. The students later in
life will choose or adopt his
or her own political philoso
phy, according to circum
stance or conditions.
It also seems that we arc
finding out that we are faced
with a lot more serious condi
tions than we were led to
believe before the election by
the opposition. It is unjust
that a man who isn't even in
office be subjected to criticism
by some people when he is
faced with overwhelming
problems which he is trying
to correct and do his best.
It is also too bad that Mr.
Kennedy will have all of these
problems thrust upon him,
that have built up over tne
past few years, when he takes
office.
There fore, regardless of
which party we belong to, we
need as Americans to give
this administration our full
hearted support and faith, be
cause never before In history
has our groat country faced
such troublesome times.
E. L. Nelson
Box 43,
Klamath River, Calif.
Tree Lift
To the Editor: A great big
"Thanks" lo the wonderful
nimnln of Medford for their
response lo the eighth annual
Moose Christmas Tree Lift.
You, the people of Medford,
proved what most of us were
aunt nf Hint von want to
KEF.P SACRED HEART
HOSPITAL OPEN. Your gen
erosity made our lift the most
successful of its history.
In addition to thanking
those who gave, I am wonder
inn If nm nnnnlp who Had
already taken down their
trees, would like to give. Let s
not slop now. Send your con
tribution lo the Sacred Heart
hospital - now.
Donald W. Carlon
Governor
Medford Moose Lodge
Flood
To the Editor: The day of
the big flood In Plncerville, I
didn't climb into the attic
with my arms loaded with
piVs and pans, step on the lath,
fnll through the plaster, roll
down the stairway and fall
i;0-suf?- down In a pile of po
tatoes in a Super-Miirkct yust
to answer the telephone. The
telouhone wuzn'l downstairs,
it . upstairs. 1 passed It on
bear tha nam and address of
of a pen nam or initial for publication is permissible.
right to adit all letters with a view to clarification and
necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the
the way down. I went up into
the attic to try to stop some of
the leaks in the roof. I didn't
stop the leaks In the roof,
but Aye sure stopped der
sqveaks in der shoes.
Von dey told me that Trout
Lake dam vent busted, Aye
left der shoes in der potatoes
und run like hell for der hills.
Everett Acklin,
Ashland, Ore.
Inform the People
To the Editor: Although
many people do not realize it,
we are, and have for many
years been, engaged in a
strange but nevertheless dead
ly war in which the survival
of our republic and the civili
zation of the world are at
stake. This was not our choos
ing but we cannot escape it.
Over one hundred years ago
Karl Marx wrote the commu
nist manifesto which is the
heart of the communist creed.
"Communists every where
scorn to hide their views and
aims. They openly declare that
their purposes can only be
achieved by the forcible over
throw of the whole extant so
cial order. Let the ruling
classes tremble at the prospect
of a communist revolution.
Proletarians have nothing to
lose but their chains, they
have a world to win. Proleta
rians of the world unite."
Very little headway In car
rying out this plan was made
until 1017, when a small
group of communists under
Lenin and Trotsky seized con
trol of Russia. Since then com
munism with the backing of
red Russia has spread until
over 40 per cent of the world's
population is under commu
nist rule, and the remaining
countries have been Infiltrated
by the communists.
The weapons used by our
enemy are many and varied
but probably the most success
ful is the conquest of the
minds of our youth. They pro
duce a state of mind among
many of our students where
they are ready to defend com
munist activities and Infiltra
tion and are bitter toward tho
agencies In our country that
are exposing it. We face tho
almost unbelievable situation
where treason Is popular and
patriotism is belittled and
villlfied.
The fact that the vast ma
jority of those giving aid and
comfort to the enemy are un
witting dupes makes not the
slightest difference as to the
results.
We have spent vast sums of
money for defense but have
neglected one of our most im
portant defenses.
Inform all our people of the
communist plans and methods
of conquest, which only work
when we are unaware of what
Is happening until it Is too
late.
Lyle Hartzcll
Box 35
Florence, Ore,
Sr.
Foreign Aid
To the Editor: I would like
to call attention to an editorial
in the M.T. of Jim. 6 by E. A.
This editorial is in reply lo
an editorial by a writer in
another paper. The title Is. "It
Docs Not Work." The topic is
foreign aid.
He has written a good edi
torial, and if that is enough
we would stop here, but to the
layman there seems to be
something lacking, and that is
WHAT is the shooting about?
The topic hinges on a conflict
between the Haves and the
Have Not peoples and nations
throughout tho world. The
Haves wish to retain what
they' have and acquire more,
and the Have Nots are not
happy with that setup.
Thereby hangs the bone of
contention between "East"
and "West." Tho East or Com
munist powers are determined
to have Iheir way about how
the world is mnn-infd, andlhe
Matter offacf yj..k$
YET ANOTHER PROBLEM
Cambridge, Mass.-You might
suppose that President-elect
Kennedy's existing'collection
of grave prob
lems would
content him.
Most men
would be sat-
isfled, if not
frighteped in
to fits, by the
early prospect
of having to
deal with
Laos, Cuba,
Aliop
the Congo, the gold drain, and
other such weighty matters.
But Kennedy, it appears, is
different.
, At any rate, by his own
whim and act, he has now
created a new problem of ex
treme gravity. Furthermore,
this problem of protocol creat
ed by Kennedy's decision to
remain an active member of
Harvard's Board of Over
seers is in the toughest cate
gory. It is the kind of prob
lem you just have to live with,
however difficult this may be.
because only time is likely to
provide a solution.
The point is that whenever
Kennedy goes to an Overseers
the writer, although under
exceed 400 words. Tha letters
West or Capitalist powers are
honor bound to retain the
status quo, or things as they
are. I may over simplify the
matter but space counts,
There is no right or wrong
in the affair, it is a matter
of desires. Ethics and morals
have little consequence in the
affair of nations because
Might is Right and the victor
takes the spoils and writes
history.
But as a rule an old horse
or an old car is at a disadvan
tage in a race. And the ship
that sails with the tide of time
and the winds of destiny will
make better time than the
ship or ships that are bucking
the tide and tacking against
the breeze.
But to say that foreign
aid "Does Not Work" is not
telling the whole truth. The
question is: Docs it work good
enough to have a lasting effect
in the affairs of nations and
the march of change and pro
gress? In the long haul, does
our foreign aid help or hinder
the Communists? Foreign- aid
In China was a great help to
the Red Chinese. While for
eign aid does work for some
one, the question arises: Are
we Included in the deal? Does
it work for us as a nation?
Does it help our Capitalist
system in this country? Does
the flight of capital from the
U. S. to foreign lands help
this country? Does aid to in
dustry in Japan, England,
France, West Germany and
all points cast build payrolls
here at home? Foreign aid
may work, but does it work
for us?
It is that thought that dis
turbs the American taxpayer.
Does not our foreign aid
boomerang and damage us
at home? Dan Smoot tells us
that foreign aid is a Com
munist gimmick. Everett Ack
lin seems to have much the
same idea.
Walter Recce
Galice rd.
Merlin, Ore.
Don't Delay
To the Editor: Despite the
fact that a cigarette tax was
voted down, the state wants to
put one on. So write your pro
tests to the legislators right
away before they do. Thirty
cents a carton is too much.
Don't delay, folks.
B. M. Harper
Route 3
Medford
Appreciated Editorial
To the Editor: Without
doubt, your editorial of Jan
8 All Sorts of Tragedy is
one of the finest articles ever
written, at such a time on such
a delicate subject. I hope
your readers appreciated it.
From the first it was my
desire to write, but I knew so
little of the true circum-
stances. I felt I could not write
intelligently. "The man suc
cumbed to unnatural desires."
Don't we all? Not on this
same sin, but there are many
other sins or unnatural de
sires. "Affected the innocent
families." How true, and how
sorrowful we all, as neighbors,
should be. Only by the grace
of God, it might have been
our family. It would seem to
me the judge acted very wise
ly. I see no place for criti
cism. And your summation is
excellent. I am clipping the
whole article, It contains much
valuable admonition which we
all need in these trying times
"Let him that thinketh he
standcth take heed lest he
fall" (1 Cor. 10:12).
If we will study God's holy
law, the ten commandments,
the base of all our laws, we
will find many places that we
can succumb to unnatural de
sires, and no doubt many
places that e have succumb
ed in the past. All sin is un
natural to a child of God. All
sin must he repented nf, firm-
rl Ws
wa . turn s
Ml
meeting after Inauguration
day, there are going to be,
not Just one, nor even just
two, but three living, breath
ing, ranking Presidents all
toeether in the same hand
some old room in Harvard's
University Hall. And the Pres
idency of the Board of Over
seers and the Presidency of
Harvard, having endured for
more than three centuries, are
both decidedly senior to the
Presidency of the United
States.
N ALL such cases, as every
one knows, seniority is al-
way a weighty consideration.
In - the Harvard case, local
custom also has to be con
sidered. Its nature is indicated
by the story of the friend who
asked for an appointment wun
Abbott Lawrence Lowell, in
the forgotten era when Lowell
ruled Cambridge as President
of Harvard and William How
art Taft reigned, but did not
exactly rule, as President of
the United States.
"I'm terribly sorry, sir,
Lowell's secretary sadly told
his friend, "President Lowell
has gone to Washington today
to call on Mr. Taft."
One can argue, too, that
President Devereux Josephs
of the Board of Overseers has
a claim to rank equally with
President Nathan Pusey of
Harvard. This is underlined
whenever the Fellows of Har
vard, who elect the President
of Harvard, seek the permis
sion of the Overseers before
taking this fateful step. The
Fellow deputed for the task,
having been admitted to the
Overseers' presence and hav
ing bowed formally to the
company, then addresses the
President of the Board of
Overseers as follows:
"Mr.. President, the Fellows
of Harvard request permission
to proceed to the election of
a President of Harvard."
Tn
MAKE matters worse,
proper Boston and proper
Cambridge have always been
very title-conscious, and Wash
ington has lately become title-
conscious. The Excellency
of the Governor of the Com
monwealth of Massachusetts is
by law established, although
this Excellence is sometimes
less discernible in practice.
And the members of Harvard's
Board of Overseers are always
"honorable and reverend," al
though a couple of centuries
have passed since all Over
seers were either reverend
clergy or honorable members
of the Great and General
Court of the Bay Colony.
Washington has not yet tak
en to bandying "excellencies"
about, but no doubt the time
will come soon. Certainly the
"honorable" has been gaining
on us in a frightful way in
these last decades. This was
not always so. Even within
the span of this reporter's
memory, there was a time
when due respect was paid to
the resounding defeat of John
Adams's titles-of-honor bill in
the first Congress.
Republican simplicity used
to be the note. Twenty-five
years ago, even members of
the Cabinet were still "Mis
ter." Some Congressmen al
ready liked to be described
as "honorable," at least on
envelopes, but they were
thought to be behaving - well,
like Congressmen.
riiODAY, on contrast, every---
body with the smallest of
fice has become "honorable."
American diplomats, once
very fearful of undue claims
to grandeur, are regularly ad
dressed, nowadays, as "Am
bassador Brown," "Ambassa
dor Jones," or "Ambassador
Robinson," as the case may
be. And there is only one sur
viving house in all of Wash
ington where Senators con
tinue to be plain "Mister" at
the dinner table, as they al
ways were for this Republic's
first century and more of life.
If this trend continues, Ad
ams's titles-of-honor bill will
perhaps be revived. If so, Har
vard's problem will be solved.
On Monday, to be sure, the
Droblem was rather weakly
ducked. When President Pu
sey greeted President - elect
Kennedy, each merely said to
the other. "Glad to sec you.
or used another feeble for
mula of the same sort.
But the problem cannot be
ducked indefinitely; and if
the Adams bill is successfully
revived. Harvard s Overseers
meetincs will be simpler af
fairs. There will be only two
Presidents, plus one "Supreme
Mightiness'' - which was the
title Adams proposed for the
junior, While House-occupying
member of the present
trio.
(c) 1961 New York Herald
Tribuna Inc.
fessed and overcome, "for the
wages of sin is death" (Rom.
8:23.).
In closing your editorial you
say: "And sorriest of all that
we live in a still-imperfect so
ciety where such tragedies can
still happen." To this I would
like to say Amen. And may
the Lord bless yoUcand your
paper, you arc doing a good
work. Such editorials arc in
valu:le to your readers.
F. E. BcviWly
634B Crater Lake ave.
Medford i
'Colons' Realise
Thev Are Now Alone
By PHIL NEWSOM .
UP Foreign News Analyst
Algiers - (UPD - Slowly, but
surely, it Is being borne in
upon Algeria's rebellious "col
ons" that now
they stand
alone.
The week
end referen
dum giving
P r e s 1 d cnt
Charles de
Gaulle a free
hand to guide
A 1 g e r i a to-
Newsom wara eveniuai
independence provided one
proof. The French army here
provided the final crushing
proof.
In mainland France, the ma
jority of Frenchmen served
notice on Algeria's European
settlers that they were tired
of the enormous cost of the
Algerian war and wanted it
settled on whatever terms De
Gaulle arranged.
Soldier Was Key
Here in Algeria it was the
French soldier who for more
than six years had fought to
keep Algeria French - who
now reduced the angry set
tlers to seething but helpless
...
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter
QUIET DIPLOMACY
There have been, as every
one knows, some feelers from
Moscow looking towards a re-
sump tion of
diplomatic in
tercourse. For
all practical
purposes there
has been none
since last May.
Mr. Khru
shchev ap
pears to want
it to be thought
here that the
Lippmann
break after the U-2 affair was
a personal quarrel with Presi
dent Eisenhower; this quarrel
would automatically be laid
aside with the inauguration
of Mr. Kennedy.
The U-2 quarrel can be
laid aside. But it does not
follow that President Eisen
hower's venture in personal
dinlomacy can be resumed.
The question now is not
how soon a personal meeting
at the summit can be brought
about. The fiasco last year,
which ended in Paris but did
not begin there, has taught us
a lesson. If the kind of under
standing which the world so
badly needs is to become pos
sible, it cannot be had with
out far deeper study and
preparation than have as yet
been given to the problem.
We know now that had Eisen
hower and Khrushchev met
at the summit in May, they
would have been grossly un
prepared to go beyond gen
eraiities. THIS labor of study and
preparation makes it nec
essary to resort to quiet di
plomacy and to slay away
from spectacular actions. Thus
last week Mr. Kennedy de
nied the report that he was
planning to send a special
envoy, presumably Mr. Aver
ell Harrimann, to Moscow to
talk with Mr. Khrushchev.
Obviously, he is quite aware
that this would have messed
up everything. It would have
confirmed Mr. Khrushchev in
his predilection for abnormal
diplomatic procedure and in
a most spectacular way it
would have downgraded our
Ambassador in Moscow.
What the Kennedy admin
istration needs if it is to have
time for study and prepara
tion Is to upgrade the
American ambassador in Mos
cow and the Soviet Ambassa
dor in Washington. It is neces
sary to resume the diplomatic
intercourse which was sus
pended last May. But it is
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF
FORMER PRESIDENT Harry Truman likes to tell of the
day, a year or so afler he left the White House, that ht
went calling on a friend in New York and inadvertently
rang the wrong door bell.
The man who answered
accepted his apology gra
ciously enough, then did
a double take, and ex
claimed, "Say, did any
body ever tell you you're
the spitting Image of that
oldblankety blank Harry
Truman?"
t
A Carthage, Tex., candi
date for constabls diatrib
uted campaign circulara
listing his qualifications ill
this comparatively modest
fashion: "Vote for Turk
Charmless the bank rcter cati'et crsutaale i tha U.43Ju
and the ftghtin'est, pound 'or goiaast, '. ar dry, (Fraswat yeagUyt
105 pounds)."
They had to fir fine eld llghthoi:fc ktafctr th ar. yr
He kent dousing tha lftit to watch TV.
fury as he stood guard at tt
voting booths to insure an or
derly first step in De Gaulle's
plan for an Algerian Algeria.
The violence Is not over in
Algeria. There will be other
clashes between European and
Moslem as Algeria, under the
guidance of De Gaulle, grad
ually loosens its ties with
France and the settlers fight
their desperate rear-guard ac
tion to maintain things as they
are.
Climax in December
Perhaps the election day
quiet was not only because of
the French troops. - In retro
spect, it seems likely now that
a climax was reached in De
cember. Rioting European youths
poured into the streets then in
protest against De Gaulle's
referendum call, and Moslems
poured out of the Casbah to
meet them.
With' grim impartiality,
tough French paratroops and
others of the armed forces
broke up the demonstrations
and for the settlers the causa
was lost.
The first hurdle is past and
as one young French adminis
trator said; "Now we can get
to work."
Lippmann
undesirable and impossible lo
go back to Eisenhower's sum
mitry. It follows that the two coun
tries must cultivate the habit
of talking to each other
through their Embassies.
These can, of course, be sup
plemented by unofficial meet
ings of experts like the ones
held recently at Dartmouth
and in Moscow.
THE great task of quiet di
plomacy is to work out
ways and means of keeping
the critical questions - Laos,
The Congo, Algeria, Cuba -from
reaching the point of
irreparable decision. In these
critical places we are particu
larly involved in Laos and in
Cuba, and in both places our
immediate objective must be
to avoid a sudden showdown.
It sounds brave and dashing
to say that we must take the
lead and act decisively to solve
the problems of Laos and of
Cuba. But the fact is that
these problems are, in the
present state of the world,
insoluble.
There is no conceivable
way in which Laos, which has
two Communist states on its
frontiers, which is a country
of trackless jungles, can be
made finally secure against
infiltration and guerrilla fight
ing. We cannot seal off Laos
from the Communist states
which it touches. And there
is no conceivable way in
which we can deal with Cas
tro except lo contain him
gradually with the growing
collaboration of the other
American states. We cannot
exorcise the revolutionary
spirit of Fidelism.
1)Y OPEN diplomacy, which
" only too often means loud
mouthed diplomacy, we can
do little to assuage, indeed
much lo exacerbate these
crises. For then one side or
the other has to back down
if there is to be any accom
modation. But in quiet diplo
macy, there is no loss of face
if a country backs away from
an extreme position which
has proved lo be untenable.
For this reason, quiet diplo
macy Is for the time being
the hope of the world.
Copyright 1961, New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
MORE OPEN
London -(UPD- A news and
cigarette stand undergoing re
modeling, posted this sign on
Its front door: "More open
than usual."
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