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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and SO years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Feb. 23, 1951 (Friday) '
The proposed new west
side fire station site has re
ceived the approval of the
Oregon Insurance Rating bu
reau, according to Mayor Dia
mond Flynn.
Old Glory hung upside
down atop the Medford city
hall for three hours this
morning before a passerby
notified city officials that
something was amiss.
20 YEARS AGO
Feb. 23, 1941 (Sunday)
.Tnnni and King -company
of Hayward, Calif., submitted
h nnnarent low bid' of $3.45
per ton for 18,680 tons of pav
ino materials to be used in
the WPA paving project at
the Medford airport.
RVnrn Arthur Peny's "Ye
cmnrfBo Pot" column: "II
nnno ihn saber-rattling direc-
! tor of Italy, made a speech
yesterday, in which nothing
was ratuea dui inniaon. ,
30 YEARS AGO
Feb. 23, 1931 (Monday) ,
Winter pears are now at
their top price in New York
i with Rogue valley fruit brlng
: lng $3.30 a box;
Attorneys for the convicted
t killer of an Ashland city
i policoman, now in death row
at the state penitentiary, are
planning an appeal,
40 YEARS AGO -.
Feb. 23, 1921 (Wednesday)
Roseburg High, school
clinched the southern Oregon
basketball title with a 28 to
1 1 win over Medford last
night.
The local chamber of com
merce is toying with the
: idea of having an all-inclusive
charity drive Instead of
a dozen separate ones.
SO YEARS AGO
Feb. 23, 1811 (Thursday)
: Mnrifnrd residents are wlr-
ing Gov. Oswald Wost asking
him . to veto a bill . which
would reopen the Rogue river
to commercial lisning.
A rnmnlete set of weather
forecasting instruments are
due here soon.
Your I Q.?
Nina or tan correct il tuparlar
tovan 01 alght II aacallanti '!
liX ll CjOOOi
1. During World War II
what was the principal mill
tary use for silk and nylon?
2. May private individuals
acquire title to land in the
Panama Canal Zone?
3. Is the insignia of rank of
a Brigadier General in the
''. Army a gold eagle, silver star
or silver leaf?
4. In what State is Mt. Hood
located?
5. Does the sun revolve
around the earth?
6. Does the moon revolve
around the earth? .
7. What Is the name of the
highest military decoration
awarded by the United States?
8. Who are more closely re
: lnted by blood; mother and
daughter, or two sisters?
9. Of which European coun
try is Lisbon the Capital?
; 10. What is a merganser?
Answerst 1. Manufacture of
parachutes. 2. No. 3. Silver
star. 4. Oregon. 5. No, 8. Yts.
: 7. Congressional Medal of
Honor. 8. Two sisters. 9. Portu
gal. 10, A duck.
FEBRUARY 23, 1961
Motels Booming
Life changes.
: One of the more noticeable changes in Med
ford in recent months
growth, in numbers, size and appearance, of
motels. ; '
" A new one, it seems, is announced and under
construction every time
they re bigger, slicker,
One wonders idly, sometimes, whether or not
the, motels are "overbuilding" in this area or
whether there is enough
.
XE HAVE been informed that there is. Not
TT only that, but we
enough business here for
And this fits in1 with
Journal's comprehensive
issue, which described in
wnich are being seen in the development of the
motel industry nationwide.
As in Medford, there are more of them, they're
bigger, more luxurious,
are more popular than ever.
.
THE key to this, the
l'nm'ooc rcr nan Vnr tfOTnlinnf tvion cnl norvi aw
and the like.
. The businessmen like
ence, for the fact that records and files in their
automobiles are readily
of ubiquitous tip-seeking
ness and cleanliness and
that special rates and favors are being extended
to attract the commercial
Motels are also developing convention facili
ties, and making a big
form of trade.
THE "Journal" reports
cent of motels' volume
ness travelers (a figure borne out by reports from
local motels), as compared to less than 30 per
cent a decade ago. ' -
Thus, the tourist, the
necessary to keep motels going, but is merely the
"cream" on the milk during the summer, while
businessmen enable motels to operate at better
than break-even capacity the year around.
Motels, therefore, knowing a good thing when
they see it, often give special rates to their regular
customers, and will go out of their way to insure
they get accommodations even when the motel
in question is full in some cases to the extent
or. paying the difference
rooms. ' '
HTHE newest motels have cafeterias or coffee
a Vi rra cmnmvn iv.it rrnl a am'TTii7r.. ivaol-P ino
barber 'shops, variety
courses.
And most of them have lounges or bars, partly
for the extra income they provide, but mostly be
cause many travelers demand it. ; .
The hotels, faced with this aggressive compe
tition, are not far behind.
One architect told the Journal, "Motels are
becoming: hotels, and hotels are becoming mo
tels." Better parking, less
service, more convenience, are the note. . '
Too. manv DeoDle still Drefer the downtown
locations which most hotels favor and a few
motels are moving into "downtown" as a result.
. .
A LL of these trends, reported nationally in the
""Journal," are readily visible in the immedi
ate area; The Medford
associated motel adjacent to it, and the Mark
Antony hotel in Ashland
trend.
This is all to the good
omy.
And it is good to learn from such authoritative
sources that there is no indication that those mo
tels and hotels which are keeping pace with public
demand are in any immediate danger of over
crowding the field. E.A.
Different
Speaking of hotels, motels and the serving of
liquor, they are a live topic in Oregon today.
The number of liquor outlets has historically
in Oregon been tied to population. But with the
increased number of tourists, doesn't it seem un
reasonable that such a ratio should be applied to
accommodations which almost entirely serve a
transient public?. -
Perhaps the legislature and liquor control
commission should consider a different basis for
judging the granting of licenses to establishments
which derive more than 65 or 70 per cent of their
business from non-residents of the area.
Oftentimes such a facility could mean the
difference between success or failure for an enter
prise, and arbitrarily to grant one and deny
another, on the basis of an irrelevant population
figure, hardly seems fair. E.A.
Maybe They Have a Point
" In Great Britain, there is a tradition that no
member of the Royal Family shall be gainfully
employed. It presumably detracts from the dig
nity of the throne.
Silly custom, we'd always sort of thought.
Why shouldn't a man work?
And yet, in some cases there may be some
thing to it.
Anyway, we get sort of an uneasy feeling
when we see the brother-in-law of the President
of the United States making a silly fool of him
self on television. E.A.
and years has been the
we turn around. And
and more attractive.
business for them all.
are told there would be
even more motels.
one of the Wall Street
survey pieces in a recent
detail the many changes
offer more services, and
WSJ points out, is their
them for their conveni
accessible, for the lack
bellboys, for their new
luxury, and for the fact
trade.
play for this lucrative
that more than 65 per
now comes from busi
vacationer, is no longer
tor more expensive
shops, even a few golf
formality, more self-
hotel soon will have an
is following the same
for our growing econ
Basis
Dennis the
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' DlDNT YOU TELL DAD IF X3U HAD "yOUR WAV mP-B
WOULDN'T BE NMMNGffy KIDS IN THIS WRIV?
...Communications ...
Letters lo the Editor must bear the name and address of Hie writer, although .un"er
certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible.
The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and
condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The le"f"
printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper: in fact the
contrary is often the case. '
Floating Freeway
To the Editor: To the poet
on the boat:
Do they float?
Bet your boat!
Lake Washington Floating
bridge does just that on Lake
Washington for a distance of
over a mile from Seattle to
Mercer Island. It WAS a toll
bridge, and so busy that it
paid for itself many years
ahead of schedule. Then they
started to plan its twin. '
A paddle, Sir,
To skedaddle 'fer'?
Sympathetically, '
Ruth Anderson .
204 Sunrise
Medford
Thanks for Aid
To the Editor: I wish to ex
press my appreciation to em
ployees of the Groceteria Su
per Market, especially Mr.'
Melvln Hall, who were so
helpful . last week when my
son got hurt in our car. Also
a big thanks to the man who
watched my little girl at the
time. - ' ',
1 A person who thinks no
one' will do anything unless
it will benefit himself should
have seen how concerned
everyone was. You'd think it
would be enough . that we
were taken to a hospital, then
to a doctor's office. But no.
Several hours later they call
ed to see how he was feeling
and to be sure he'd not been
seriously hurt. To begin with,
the accident was certainly no
fault of theirs.- -
You can be assured we will
not forget this.
. Mrs. Rod Anderson
36 South Columbus av.
Medford
Great Artist
To the Editor: Mrs. A. S.,
don't forget the meat in your
super market was once a cow
with beautiful brown eyes,
fussy sheep, or a cute little
calf, etc., if you want to look
at it that way and so- '
While hunting and fishing I
do see
The beauty God put here for
me,
The trees that stand so tall
The Greatest Castles of them
all.
The mountains are so high
They seem to touch the sky
The rivers and the streams
They carry all my dreams.
With His brush and color
scheme
This Great Artist used as his
theme
The arising sun-and sun-set
too.
Hjj' put them here for me and
.' you
Arid this greatest sport of all
Yoa'll not find In a grocery
store.
Mrs. Irma Henderson
720 Dakota avc.
Medford
Legislators' Pay
To the Editor: I enjoyed the
Oregonian s editorial of Feb
20 censuring us miserly voters
for refusing to raise the leg
islators' pay, and I think we
would be ahead if some of
them would pack their bags
and go home in disgust. Dur
ing my better than 60 years
as a native born webfoot I
have known many Doliticians
good, bad and indifferent, and
1 can't recall any one of them
being kidnaped and forced
to represent us in Salem
remember one chap, In the
early Thirties, who promised
among other benefits, two full
dinner pails for everyone and
two cars in every garage. He
was elected and his first bill
called for placing bells on
all cats so they couldn't catch
birds.
Not too long ago one of
these shining lights intro
duced a bill that would have
put 75 per cent of us oldsters
off the highways for all time.
Another would have forced
those with a few hens to buy
a license in order to sell an
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE.
Menace
occasional dozen eggs to a
neighbor. There's a bill in the
hopper now that if we need
an extra electrical outlet, or
if a water pipe breaks, we
must keep hands off, drive to
town, buy a permit and hire
a certified electrician or
plumber at $5 to $6 per hour
plus mileage, regardless of
our qualifications to do the
job. '
being a firm believer in
the old rule, "Actions speak
plainer than words," I suggest
these chaps do ; something
worthwhile first and then
seek a raise. Of course the
measly million or two needed
to equal the California sal
aries would be chicken feed,
being that money grows on
the bushes. Then, too, we
might get some of the luxuries
the California wage earner
enjoys, state , sales tax, city
sales tax, and so on. We may,
in The Oregonian's exalted
opinion, be miserly but one
thing for sure, we aren't com
pletely dumb. '
Claude M. Hall C
2860 Hartley lane
Grants Pass, Ore.
Initiative and Action
To the Editor: I was notic
ing the similarity between
Robert Howard's recent let
ter and the one I just read by
Hans F. Sennholz, Ph.D., of
Grove City college in Penn
sylvania. Dr. Sennholz Says,
The Socialists use good psy
chology when they depict
themselves as champions of
political 'initiative' and 'ac
tion.' They know that both at
tributes still demand the re
spect and admiration of de
cent people. Therefore, in the
name of action and progress
these self-styled activists de
nounce the friends of free
dom and individual enterprise
for their 'negative' attitudes
and 'do nothing' policies.
'Don't you want to do any
thing?' -is a common retort
that aims at stymying all ob
jections. "These arguments are whol
ly falacious. Their premises
must be rejected and their
conclusions corrected. In real
ity the call for action is a
manifestation of individual
lethargy and inertness. It is
tantamount to a call for gov
ernment action rather than
individual initiative."
He concludes by saying
"In his personal life the
growth apostle probably is
spending next month's income
on consumption, relying main
ly on charge accounts and in
stallment loans. He, himself
does not save the capital that
is needed for economic
growth. His call for initiative
and action is merely a call for
government expenditures fi
nanced with the people's mon
ey or through inflation.
"This is why the quest for
'Initiative' and 'action' must
be seen as a quest for govern
ment action. When seen, in
proper perspective the ques
tion, 'Don't you want to do
anything?' actually means
'Don't you want the govern
ment to spend the people's
money on foreign aid, hous
ing, education, economic
growth, etc.?' It means in
many cases 'Don't you want
socialism?
"This analysis clearly re
veals why the friend of free
dom and individual enter
prise is often denounced for
being 'merely negative.' The
terms 'positive' and 'negative'
are relative to given points
of orientation. Whoever op
poses socialism and all its en
croachments on individual
Initiative and action is 'nega
tive in the eyes of socialists
But he is unswervingly 'posi
tive' when freedom is the
criterian of orientation, be
cause freedom is his positive
concern. His life is filled with
initiative and action."
I thoroughly enjoy Mr,
Howard's point of view and
Administration Quietly Makes
Abrupt About-Face on Laos
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
United States policy to
ward the little Southeast Asia
kingdom of .. Laos has un-
ja d e r g o ne an
V.I abrupt change
ol course..
From aii
i out support of
t he rightist
Loatian gov
ernment which since
last Novem
ber has been
1 1
Dili 1111K me
Red-supported forces of. the
Loatin Pathet Lao, this week
it suddenly endorsed a pro
posal for a neutral Laos whose
government, by tacit under
standing, would include Com
munist representatives.
By making the switch, the
Kennedy administration turn
ed its back on the course
which had been followed by
President Eisenhower and his
secretary of state, Christian
Herter. and endorsed the view
which had been all along by
the fine way in which he
states it.
Dorian F. Woods
Star Route, Box 191
Prospect, Ore.
TV Auction
To the Editor: After read
ing in the Medford Mail Trib
une Monday night the results
of the Crater Lions TV auc
tion, a question has arisen in
my mind that I believe a lot
of other people are also, won
dering about.
If I remember correctly, all
the items and also the TV
time were donated by local
merchants and by KBES-TV,
and yet on KBES-TV Dave
Alten stated that after ex
penses, Sacred Heart hospital
would receive approximately
$4,500. The total grossed from
the auction was over $5,500.
If everything was donated,
just what accounts for over
$1,000 in so-called expenses?
Kind of makes you won
der, doesn't it? -James
L. Roberts
424 Manzanita st.
Central Pbint, Ore.
0 - :
Editor's note: We do not
have the exact figures, but
have been informed that the
"expenses" included several
hundred dollars for the spec
ial telephone set-up for the
auction, other incidental ex
penses, and the balance a
percentage of the gross re
ceipts, which is reserved for
advance financing of similar
fund-raising events in the fu
ture. 1
'n the ray's News
By FRANK JENKINS
There's a faintly hopeful
note in the cold war news.
At United Nations (in New
York) Russia started Monday
off with a resolution calling
for an end to the UN opera
ion in the Congo within a
month and for the DISMISS
AL of UN Secretary General
Dag Hammarskjold - whom
Russia despises.
The resolution was offered
in the 11-nation Security1
Council. It LOST by a vote of
8 to 1, with two members ab
staining and only Russia vot
ing for it.
THEN -Immediately
afterward -The
three ASIAN-AFRICAN
members of the Security
Council (Ceylon, Liberia and
the United Arab Republic) of
fered a' resolution authorising
the UN to USE FORCE, if
necessary, to prevent civil
war in Africa.
It was APPROVED, by a
vote of 9-0, with the Soviet
Union and France abstaining
from voting. Now comes the
interesting part of it. Russia
DIDN'T VETO IT. Soviet
Deputy Foreign Minister Zo
rin explained that he didn't
use the veto because the
Asian-African countries had
said that in the present cir
cumstances USE OF FORCE
by United Nations offers the
only chance of remedying the
situation in the Congo.
rpHAT is to say:
- These nations in Asia and
Africa upon whom Russia has
been relying in the pinches
seem to have come to the con
clusion that the best thing for
them is to KEEP THE RUS
SIAN BEAR OUT OF THE
CONGO.
That, if true, is important
-as indicating that these Asian
ana Atrican countries are
GETTING SCARED OF RUS
SIA.
IN SALINAS, the Monterey
county board of supervisors
listened to a proposal to use
2.000 acres of California's
coastal mountains for an Afri
can game preserve, stocked
with 3,000 animals, ranging
from elephants to boa con
strictors - including, presum-
Great Britain and France,
No announcement accom
panied the U.S. about-face.
Neutrals Favored
It simply came with United
states endorsement of a pro
posal by Laotian King Savang
Vathana for a neutral Laos
protected against outside in
tervention by a watch-dog
commission of three neutral
nations - Cambodia, Malaya
and Burma.
While the civil war has
gone on intermittently since
the Geneva conference of
1954, the current crisis dates
from Aug. 9, 1960, when an
army coup led by Capt. Kong
Le toppled a pro-Western
government headed by Prince
Souvanna Phouma.
American action was im
mediate and unfriendly.
It opposed Souvanna Pho-
Matter of Fact
By Stewart Alsop
RUSK AND McNAMARA
Washington - Aside from
that remarkable fellow, the
President himself, the ,two
most interesting public fig
ures in Kennedy's Washing
ton are Secretary of State
Dean Rusk and Secretary of
Defense Robert McNamara.
Theirs are the two most im
portant jobs in the country,
after the President's. But what
makes them especially inter
esting is the unique and rath
er unenviable situation in
which each man finds himself.
Rusk, of course, has to deal
with all sorts of vulture-like
foreign chickens which have
suddenly begun coming home
to roost. But his own position
in the Kennedy administration
hierarchy is also a curious and
difficult one.- j-' i.,-;;. r ,
Among his supposed sub
ordinates, there are -no less
than four men - U. N. Ambas
sador Adlai Stevenson, Under
Secretary Chester Bowles, As
sistant Secretary G. Mennen
Williams, Roving Ambassador
Averell Harriman - who once
had Presidential ambitions.
The first three, at least, would
very much like to- be Secre
tary of State. All three have a
considerable political follow
ing, whereas Rusk has no po
litical base at all.
IN THIS situation, unless
Washington has suddenly
and miraculously reformed its'
inner nature, Rusk can only
remain master in his own
house if he develops the kind
of special relationship with
the President which" Dean
Acheson, for example, had
with Harry S. Truman. Before
he became Secretary, Rusk
and Kennedy had hardly laid
eyes on each other. Moreover,
there are now on the White
House staff, close to Kennedy
personally as well as physi
cally, two very brilliant men
who are primarily concerned
with foreign policy - George
Bundy and his assistant, Walt
Rostow.
Rostow was originally fa
vored by Kennedy to head the
State Department's powerful
policy planning staff, but he
was vetoed by Rusk in favor
of Rusk's old friend, George
McGhee. Both Bundy and
Rostow have about ten ideas
on foreign policy a minute,
some of them very good, and
both are now among the Pres
ident's favorite idea men. It
is dangerous to the Secretary
of State to have idea men
close to the President, who
are not also subject to the au
thority of the Secretary of
State. ' ,
To judge from the past, in
short, Rusk is going to need
agility as well as his undoubt
ed ability in order to remain
master in his own foreign pol
icy house. As for Secretary
McNamara, the problems he
faces are less hierarchical.
They are either bizarre and
unprecedented, or old and in
soluble. Nothing in his bril
liant business career has ap
parently fitted McNamara to
deal with either category.
.
IN THE old and insoluble
category is the ancient is
sue of "roles and missions'
for the three services. This
hoary subject came up at one
of McNamara s first briefings,
and after listening for a
while, McNamara asked why
the issue had not been settled
long ago. At the Ford Motor
Co., he said, the thing would
have been settled one way or
another in a few days at most.
Uneasy glances were ex-
ably, lions and tigers and
such.
The project was proposed
by Jean Pierre Hellet, of New
York, president of the Ameri
can Society to Protect and
Conserve African Wild Life
The board members listened
with interest and attention -and,
apparently, with healthy
skepticism. At any rate, at the
conclusion of the presentation,
the chairman thanked the pro
moter of the idea, said it was
nice to see there is so much
interest in saving animals, but
added that "it seems to me the
real need in Africa is to PRO
TECT THE PEOPLE."
THANKS, Mr. Chairman.
1 A little common sense
now and then is refreshing,
uma's negotiations to bring
the Pathet Lao into his gov
ernment. It openly supported
strongman Gen. Phoumi Nosa-
vans opposition to commu
nist participation in the Sou
vanna Phouma government.
Critical Allies
When 'Prince Boun Oum,
with Phoumi Nasavan's help,
proclaimed himself head of
a new government, he quick-
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter
GERMANY, LAOS. THE
CONGO
The negotiations with West
Germany, which have been
under way since November,
took a promis
ing turn last
week during
the visit of
the foreign
minister, Dr.
von Brentano.
Assuming that
the general
agree ments
reached are
LlDpmann translated into
specific measures, the nego
tiations are a success.
The reason for the success
is not that the Adenauer gov
ernment has been willing to
do for the Kennedy adminis
tration what it had refused to
do for the Eisenhower admin
istration. The reason is that
the American case has been
restudied, revised, and re
formulated. This was done by a panel of
experts chosen by the Presi
dent to study the problem of
the balance of payments. The
chairman of this panel, or
task force as it is called, was
Mr. George Ball, the Under
Secretary of State for Econ
omic Affairs.
rfHE basic ' difference be-
A tween the Eisenhower-
Anderson approach and the
new Kennedy-Ball approach
is in the analysis of the prob
lem.. The Eisenhower-Ander
son view was that we were
spending too much abroad on
international defense and de
velopment. We asked our al
lies and particularly Ger
many, to spend more in order
that we might spend less.
This approach was morally
unacceptable to the Germans
in that it called upon them to
pay for the American troops
who are now in tfermany. It
was humiliating for the
United States in that it put
us in the position of asking
the Germans to help us.
changed around the briefing
room. The problem helped to
drive James Forrestal to his
grave, and it has never really
been solved in the years since.
The reason is that deciding on
roles and missions means de
ciding in advance the kind of
war you are going to' fight,
and since no earthly being can
make that prediction the prob
lem is inherently insoluble.
Another problem in the old
and insoluble category is the
galloping bureaucratization of
the services, which enormous
ly increases the cost of de
fense and reduces its quality.
To cite one example, the Red
Army gets better than three
times as many divisions out
of the same number of men
as the American Army, ac
cording to the American Ar
my's own estimates. This prob
lem too has long defied solu
tion. Yet it must be grappled
with somehow, if the Kenne-dy-McNamara
defense policies
are to have a chance of suc
cess. - ,
TN THE bizarre and unprece
dented category, consider
the possible meanings of the
huge, missile-bearing satellite
which the Soviets inconven
iently launched shortly after
Secretary McNamara had hap
pily suggested that the missile
gap was a myth. This newest
Soviet marvel may mean that
Soviets can now produce piggy-back
satellites carrying un
interceptible satellite-to-earth
missiles. It could also mean
that they have missiles with
such enormous thrust that
they can aim them "the long
way round," thus by-passing
the vastly expensive DEW
line and all our other north
ern defenses.
In short, the newest Soviet
ichievement, which most of us
have happily dismissed from
our minds, may demand a
complete rethinking of nu
clear defense planning. While
grappling with such eerie mat
ters, McNamara must find
ways' to ingratiate himself
with Congress and the press
which is a vital part of his
job, as it is of Rusk's. Rusk
must surely feel an occasional
nostalgia for the cloistered
halls of the Rockefeller Foun
dation, and McNamara for the
executive suite at Ford, where
the problems of production
and design are neither bizarre
nor insoluble.
But no doubt the rest of us
are lucky that such able men
are crazy 'enough to risk their
reputations and their diges
tions in Washington,
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Tribune Inc.
ly won U.S. recognition and
military aid.
Strongly critical of the U.S.
action were both Britain and
France who saw in it a return
to the late John Foster Dul
les' pronouncement that "neu
tralism is immoral" and who
believed it served only to
drive Souvanna Phouma into
Communist arms.
Strategically, Loas protects
the flank of Thailand and
South Vietnam. But its slow
and sleepy people are not of
the tough stuff to make strong
allies, and it appears now the
best the U.S. can hope for is
a compromise.
lippmann
The Kennedy-Ball view is
not that we should spend less
on international defense and
development but that Ger
many and other surplus coun
tries should spend more. If
they do that, and if certain
other measures are taken -such
as coordinating interest
rates and making our exports
more competitive - our defi
cit and the German surplus
will both be reduced, and in
ternational transactions will
tend to come into equilibri
um. . ,
T AST week the Bonn gov--'ernment
accepted the ad
ministration's analysis of the
problem and agreed to begin
a program of loans and grants
for foreign aid in the order
of perhaps a billion dollars a
year. This German decision
will be good for the countries
that receive the German aid.
It will be good for the United
States, in that West Germany,
by investing or spending a
billion dollars more abroad,
will, cease to suck up so many
of the dollars which we spend
abroad. It will be good for
West Germany. For it will be
a demonstration that the
Bonn government is a respon
sible member of the Western
community, and not merely -and
no longer a favorite and
rather spoiled client of the
United States. This will pro
duce a healthier, a more self
respecting, and a more dur
able basis for German-American
relations.
The German affair is the
first of the several hot issues
which the administration has
been able to deal with. The
manner in which it has been
done augurs well. The nego
tiations were conducted quiet
ly and firmly because the ad
ministration had developed a
new basis of policy and was
not bogged down in the stere
otypes of the old one. No
small part of the credit for
this belongs to Mr. Ball, who
is both experienced and ex
pert, not always the same
thing, in the political econo
my of Western Europe.
The temper of the negotia
tions was characteristic of
the President in that the
whole business was under
stood and desensationalized.
In the end, as in all success
ful diplomacy, there were no
winners and no losers but
there is advantage for every
one. :
TT is too soon to say whether
xin Laos and the Congo any
comparable diplomatic suc
cess can be achieved. There,
we are dealing not with Ad
enauer but with Khrushchev.
There is civil war and there
are atrocities which arouse
not only the primitive feel
ings of primitive people but
also the primitive feelings of
civilized men. There, we have
in a certain measure !o-t our
freedom of action, having
been unwisely and too deeply'
engaged with clients and
puppets.
However, provided that Mr.
Khrushchev had understood
what President Kennedy
means about unilateral inter
vention, a modus - vivendi
should be possible in Laos. It
may not be altogether im
possible in the Congo. The
declaration of neutrality just
made by the King of Laos is
a good sign. It indicates that
we have been using our in
fluence in Laos more wisely
than formerly. On the road
that the King has opened, a
stabilization could be arrived
at. Perhaps it will be arrived
at if the Soviets take a cold
view of the relative import
ance of Laos and if our policy
remains as it has now become,
pragmatic and sophisticated.-
TN the Congo no "solution"
is now conceivable in the
sense that a unified, tranquil,
"free" state can be set up.
What is not impossible is that
the United Nations will find
enough support among the
Afro-Asian and the Latin
American states, and among
the great powers of the West,
to contain the inevitable dis
order, to keep military inter
vention, by the Soviet Union,
the United Arab Republic,
and Belgium to a minimum.
This is the purpose of
American policy. It should
not be frustrated by those
who want to engage the
United States and its allies
in a military intervention
which, once it were started,
no one would know how to
end.
(Copyright 1961 New York
Herald Tribune, Inc.)
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