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Medford snd Jackson County
History from the. files of The
Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
. 10 YEARS AGO
' Former Jackson county
r agent Robert O. Fowier ap-
pointed to new state fair board
' hv r.nv nmifflna MeKflV."
?'. , Bill Roberta and Dale Coo
per are awarded Eagle scout
badges at court oi honor. ,
30 YEARS AGO 'i I
it m tin j
Medford's National Defense
committee to hold brief cere
mony for five youths leaving
for selective service training,
Robert Archer, Virgil O. Bry-
PhuM. A Mn..k all Vlll.
on M. Rhoten and Oliver
.Hickman. i i
T... A.tti.iii Din' "Va
Smudge Pot" column: "The
neighbors' chickens hsve start
ed scratching up the kitchen
gardens In the residential
areas, and blaming It on tha
robins,". ;
80 YEARS AOO . ; '
April S, 1831 (Monday)
'Nineteen people killed -in
auto : accidents on Facijic
coast over weeK ena.
spring looiDaii arm oegins
at Medford High school.
40 YEARS AOO ' V :'- v :
April 1, 1821 (Wednesday)
No material damage to
pears reported from heavy
frost last night.
; Crater lake snow depth
now measures 11 feet; rain
fall shows drop for year,
SO YEARS AGO
April 6, 1911 (Thursday)
Assurances given on com
pletion of Oregon Trunk and
Pacific and Eastern railroads
from Medford to Klamath
Palls.
C. C. Chapman, manager of
y..ii...j i . . . . .
and manager of Oregon De
velopment league, congratu
latea Medford on prosperity,
Whsl't Yesr I.Q.?
Nine or ran correal h luaetler)
even or eight It excellent; five er
an it food.
1. A notch made In a tree
remains the same height from
the ground regardless of later
upward growth; true or false?
2. Charles Oates Dawes
was Vice President under
which U.S. Presldentf
3. Anything that destroys
or masks . offensive odors is
called a d-r-?
4. In which city was Abra
, ham Lincoln assassinated? 1
5. Which country is called
the "Land of the midnight
sun"f
6. If unmarried, the bride's
attendant is called a maid of
honor; what is she called If
the Is married?
. 7. What noted institution
In Washington, D.C. was
founded by the bequest of
au Englishman?
0. Did W.W.II begin In
; 1933, 1U39 or 1940?
9. The monotype machine
.cast one letter at a time; true
or .alse? ; ,
' 10. in grammar the word
which denotes any object
spoken of, whether animate
or inanimate, is called what?
Answer! 1. True. S. Calvin
Coolidge. 3. Deodorant. 4.
Washington, D.C. S. Norway.
Matron of Honor. 7. Smith
sonian Institution. I. Septem
ber, 1939. (. True. 10. Noun.
IKE TO END VISIT
alm Springs, Calif. - IUPD -Former
President Elsenhower
and his wife, Mamie, will end
their lengthy vacation in the
desert April 14 and return to
their farm at Gettysburg, Pa.,
a spokesman said today, '
THURSDAY, APRIL 18B1
A Book Review-JI
' (Continued from yesterday.)
The Blue Book of the John Birch Society, by
Robert Welch. .
Havine built up the communist conspiracy to
a point where it would scare the wits out of any
one fully believing him, having linked Amer
ican leadership for the past 28 years to outright,
deliberate, pre-mediated treason; after having
advocated stooping to Communist techniques to
preserve a free America, no matter who gets hurt
in the process, Welch declares "Our only possible
chance is dynamic personal leadership.
And he proceeds to describe the Puhrer prin
ciple (discredited, we had thought, since Hitler's
death in 1945), and then, after many a modest
disclaimer, oirers Himself m the role.
In one analogy, but
doesn't apply to his objectives, Welch says:
- "What Is not only needed, but Is absolutely Impera
tive, is for some hardbolled, dictatorial, and dynamlo
' boss to come along , . ." ,
i--' i . . : e e
1IELCH disclaims political ambitions. Leave
that to the' politicians.' Even Barry Gold-
water won't do. Despite
lor uoldwater, he s still
; , soes anybody in tms room think there is
' any slightest chance of Barry Goldwater supplying
1 the dynamic overall leadership needed to save this
country , . .?"
- Politics, which has
government for the united States for nearly 200
yesrs, isn't good enough.,' Welch shows his con
tempt for politicians in describing Richard Nixon :
He is one of the ablest, shrewdest, most disin
genuous, and slipperiest politicians that ever showed
- up on the American scene."
.;, ..' e ' . .- '
A ND, Nelson Rockefeller "is definitely com.
mitted to trying to make the United States a
part or a one-world socialist government
No politics won't do. What is needed?
". . . Only dynamic personal leadership offers
any chance for us to save either our material or our
spiritual Inheritance ... I Intend to offer that leader
. ship to all who are willing to help me." -
The next section of
devoted to Welch's recurring theme of "Less
government and more responsibility.", . ,
He explains neither in detail, but makes clear
his belief that government is inherently evil.
though necessary; and big government inevitably
willfead to collectivism (which he never defines)
and ultimately to Communism. ' ;
The form of government isn't particularly
important, but the size is. Sheer size in govern
ment; leads, almost inevitably, to war, Welch
declares. (This is one of the few times in the
book he evidences nervousness about nuclear war.
Mostly it is just a bugaboo used by the commun
ist to scare Americans
selves in their own defense.) a
QECTION seven, one of
M fVia hnnlr la nnHHorl
' ' vttv vuwu) iw vsivtvtvu
Better World . It
back to his theme of morality, integrity and pur
pose through true religion, quotes more poetry,
and winds up with a statement of his own per
sonal religious beliefs which never quite come
through, somehow, to one used to thinking large
ly In terms of the Sermon
We deride no man's
so, which makes his own
disturbing.
. ror me ministers inemseives lone-tmra oi tne
Protestants) "are not true believers In the Divine
Names or the Divine History and Divine Teachings to
which they give Hp service, as they go through con
ventlonal motions on Sunday '. . ." '
e e
THE final section gets down to organization.
'PUata .Tr.ii T)ttAVi Qnrsiafir ia mr rrm'niY fr a
1 ll Willi eWU VA1 fcJ WVAVlyJT AO SUA1 "IT
"anv ephemeral organization of loose ties and
uncertain loyalties. It is my fervent hope that the
John Birch Society will last for-hundreds of
years" (shades of the "Thousand-Year Reich II"),
and exert an increasing
Eoral good and the spiritual ennoblement of man
ind throughout those centuries ... I want no
other title than that of its
The Society is to be monolithic:
"A republican form of government or of organU'ft',
tlon has many attractions and advantages, under,-caj&?
tain favorable conditions. But under less hapy, clx
cumstances It lends Itself too readily to itiMtsftlft,
distortion and disruption. And democracy, rf jrsjir.ae,
In government or organization, as the GieSsk-3 and -Romans
both found out, and as I believe every man
in this room clearly recognizes democracy is merely
a deceptive phrase, a weapon of demagoguery, and
perennial fraud."
This is the man who would save America!
THE rest, mostly, concerns details how Welch
will run things through the Home Chapter, of
how there will be no boggling at orders, of how
Coordinators will handles details, with Chapter
Leaders collecting dues ($24 per year for men,
$12 for women) and passing the word:
"Aciuauy, we are going to. cut inrougn tne rea tape
and parliamentary briar patches and road blocks of
confused purpose with direct authority at every turn
. . . Those members who cease to feel the necessary
degree of loyalty can either resign or will be put out
before they build up any splintering following of their
own within the Society. As I have said, we mean
business every step of the way ..."
Is the Society a revolution? Or a religion?
"Neither, and both," replies Welch. ? " v
THERE is more much more.
It may be argued that quotations have been
taken out of context. They have. But a 'review
can offer only a pale shadow of the book itself,
and cannot include all the flowery rationaliza
tions and philosophizing and jnoralizings.
only a reading of the book will do it. we
commend it to any who
copy, to see the volume
seriously, give the communists the greatest aid
and comfort they have
American ideals and American institutions, and
in dividing, scaring, and confusing the once-fearless
citizens of the United States. E.A.
making no claim that it
his liking and admiration
only a politician, and;
been the machinery of
this remarkable book is
into bankrupting them
the most fascinating in
"Anrl Main Tn Ttnllri A
AJhrnavii Ai a v vuivi li.
starts., with poetry, goes
oh the Mount.
religion. But Welch does
"confessional" the more
influence for the tern-
Founder . , ,"
can beg or borrow a
which could, if taken
ever had m subverting
Dennis the Menace
WHATfe SOTERRISlg 'BOUr&ifl'TO BED VMV f
Communicatioiis
Letters to the Editor mult bear the nama and address of the writer,
although under certain circumstances the use, of a pen name or Inllal
for publication la permissible. The Mall Tribune reserves the right to
dlt all letters with a vlaw to clarification and condensaton. Letters
submitted for publication must not exceed 400 - words .The letters
printed In his column do not necessarily represent the views of the
paper; In fact tha contrary Is often the case. .
County Pay Raises
To the Editor: I read With
much Interest an article in the
M.T. on how Mr. Ray Schu
macher, our assessor, had to
defend his office against Mr.
Wendt. Also have read in the
paper over some length of
time how Mr. Wendt is against
a small raise in pay for the
county road department.
One year ago, the M.T. car
ried a front page article which
read something like this:
"County Commissioners to get
thousand dollar raise in pay."
Also one county road depat
mnt man would receive ; a
raise. ' Also I watched these
proceedings, and as every one
knows,. Mr. Wendt received
his raise in pay. Now would
you like to know what hap
penedi to the shop man? He
was fired. He dared , to
walk up to our commissioner
and say when are we boys
going to receive our raise.
Yes, this is true, and no, the
road department employee
did not receive . that prom
ised raise at that time. Mr.
Wendt did. You wonder if this
man and his family had a nice
Christmas? Or food on his ta
ble? He had every right to
ask for a raise, since the court
had promised him one. I don't
see Mr. Wendt crying "take
back part of my thousand."
Oh, no, and he was very much
against this raise in pay for
shop and county road men
last time also. He wants to
cut expenses, but "don't start
with me."
People working for the road
department aren't transients,
but are nice people, paying
taxes here and trying to send
their children to school and
church and live decntly. Now
to Mr. Taylor, "thanks." You
are a live-and-let-llve person,
though I hear! we shouldn't
vote for you, that you would
not play fair. Glad I didn't
listen and voted for you any
way. The information herein
isn't rumors flying around. I
hate to end this on a sour
note. The man that was fired
got a better job, more money.
Joyce Shange,
Shady Cove, Ore.
Diversions
To the Editor: Reading
from that great light of the
Christian ., world, .Rev. John
Wesley, a sermon entitled,
"The More Excellent Way,"
and based on 1st Corinthians
12:31, "Covet earnestly the
best gifts; and yet slvw I unto
you a more excellent way",
he speaks of the necessity of
relaxation and of diversions
for Christians.
On the latter he mentions
those diversions which are
Innocent, and may1 properly
be used by Christians. He
makes it plain, however, that
some diversions that may be
popular may not be innocent
or harmless. His purpose in
calling these to attention is to
show that only those, those
which are harmless and inno
cent, may be properly In
dulged by a Christian while
he remains a Christian. How
faithful were those old God
called and God-empowered
preachers of the past to warn
their flocks of pitfalls that
lay directly along their way!
After saying that he could
not and keep a clear con
science go to theaters, which
he called, "the sink of all pro
fa nonesi and debauchery," to
watch tragedies, he says (di
rect quote from his sermon):
"Balls or assemblies, which,
though more reputable, than
masquerades, yet must be al
lowed by all impartial per
sons to have exactly the same
tendency. So undoubtedly
have all public dancings. And
the same tendency they must
havd unless the same caution
obtained among modern
Christians vhich was ob
served among the ancient
heathens. With them men and
women never danced to
gether, but always In separate
rooms. This was always ob
served In ancient Greece, and
for ' several ages at Rome,
where a -woman dancing in
company with men would
have at once been set down
as a prostitute. Of playing at
cards, I say the same as of
seeing plays. I could not do It
with a clear conscience." '
If respectable heathens
forebade the mingling of the
sexes in dancing because of
the imminent danger in
volved, are our modern edu
cators, who Insist on the
commingling of the sexes as
they teach dancing In our day
schools, as respectable and
cautious as were the heathens?
You answer. And what about
the professing Christians of
our day who do not exercise
the care of those heathens?
Could it be that those hea
thens might stand a better
chance at the Judgment than
enlightened Christians who
dance as the heathens would
not do? Think It over, and
then decide. '
H. R. Bulman
Route 4, Box 316A,
' Medford.
Mountain Lion Tale
To the Editor: One of the
most awesome and pathetic
tales ever told to me was
about a lurking mountain lion
stalking a young three-C man
on a forest road over the Sis
kiyou 'summit on a moonlit
night. .
Around 1934 and '35 a CCC
camp was established on one
branch of Cottonwood creek.
On week ends trucks were
used to carry some of the boys
to valley towns when each
one's turn came. It so hap
pened this young man missed
his transportation back to
camp one week. end. He then
determined to ride a bus to
the top of the Siskiyou sum
mit and walk the rest of the
long winding road. After hik
ing some long distance he
heard sounds of footsteps back
of him. He turned to look,
sure enough there was a big
cat following him. When he
ran, the cat rah too. Getting
somewhat out of breath, he
would stop for a short rest,
and the big cat would stop
until the young man would
start out hiking again. He con
tinued the trip, walking until
dawn began to break. That
was when his wild unwelcome
trail molester turned off the
well beaten paths to roam the
mountain haunts.
The mountain lion is a noc
turnal prowler and has a hab
it of curiosity.'
Bert Kissinger,
. 520 Boardman st.,'
Medford.
Try and Stop Me
' By BENNETT CERF
ONE BRIGHT SPRING morning; a commuter announced
to his wife at breakfast, "It's too nice a day to go to
the office."
"Good," said the wife,
"but don't think you're
going to play golf. There
are a lot of tilings that
need doing around the
house."
"Golf was the furthest
thing from my mind,"
protested the husband,'
fingering a piece of toast.
"Now would you mind
passing me the putter?"
: A summer stock com
pany graduate got his first
job on Broadway: a small
part of a melodrama. His
first line followed the firing of a shot He waa required to express
surprise and say, "Waa that a cannon I heard ?"
He rehearsed perfectly, but was undone by opening night jit
ters. The gun was fired. The actor jumped two feet and ex
claimed, "What the bett wa thatt"
.
It's easy, Insists Morey Amaterdam, to single out the kid In a
crowd who halls from Texas. He's the one toting the pearl
handled slingshot.
0 1K1, by Bennett Carl SlatrOrated by Xias Features Syndicate)
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. ORE
U.S. Quietly Intervening To Assist in
Settlement of Franco-Algerian
: By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
"France says to the Alger
ians: Algeria is yours. Let us
talk together. AU she asks
is that before
J entereing the
i 1 room you
4
leave your
knives out
side" - Presi
dent Charles
de Gaulle at
Brest, France,
Sept. 17, 1960.
Unhappily,
this week the
MewsoBS
knives in Algeria still were
claiming lives, and peace
talks between de Gaulle and
the Algerian, rebels were in
danger of stalling before they
ever really started.
Into this situation, the Unit
e'" States stepped directly and
openly for the first time.
Even before it took office,
the Kennedy , administration
had let it be known, that it
considered settlement of the
Algerian conflict as of para
mount importance not only
for France and the Algerians
but for the future, of the
whole of Africa as well.
. In addition to at least two
reported contacts between the
U.S. embassy in Paris and
the French government on the
subject, it was disclosed that
the U.S. ambassador to Tu
nisia, Walter M. Walsley Jr.,
also had met with representa
tives of the rebel Algerian
Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsep
THE WEAXENED
ALLIANCE
Vientiane, Laos-It is becom
ing clearer and clearer that
the Key West meeting be
tween P r e s !
dent Kennedy
and Prime
Minister Mac-
mlllan was
probably the
most signifi
cant episode
In the Laos cri
sis to date. Its
curious char-
aisod acter gives
added interest to the new
Kennedy-Macmlllan meeting.
It may seem odd to be re
porting on Key West from
Vientiane. But the details of
what ' passed there are only
just seeping out here,' after
having been officially given
to British correspondents at
the close of the SEATO meet
ing in Bangkok. Presumably
the' purpose of this special
briefing was to explain the
abrupt realignment of British
policy with American policy,
after months of Foreign Office
stimulation of angry British
criticisms of American actions
in Laos. - '. '
' The British realignment was
explained on the ground that
the facts of international life
were forcibly brought home
to us at Key West." The Presi
dent was described as inti
mating to the Prime Minister
that the Laos crisis was a
double "test'-a test of the U.S.
by the Kremlin and a test
of ' the value of the Anglo
American alliance by the U.S.
As a result, It was stated, the
British government was "re
luctantly, with deepest de
spondency" but unavoidably,
going along with President
Kennedy's decision to send
troops to Laos if the Soviets
refused to negotiate a truly
neutral settlement.
THIS fairly astonishing offi
cial gloss on the new phase
of British policy rather clear
ly Implies how far the unity
of the Western alliance had
decayed during the Elsenhow
er years. The decay was no
where more apparent than
here in Laos.
This open disunity of the
Western allies was one of the
causes for the failure of the
Eisenhower policy of gluing
together a reliable antl-Com-munlst
Laos government,
which has now been abandon
ed by President Kennedy in
favor of pressure for a truly
vutteR, please
provisional government.
In these "exchanges of
views" it was the United
States' intention to help get
the Algerian peace talks on
the rails and keep them there.
For the United States gov
ernment it was a switch from
a previous policy of handsoff.
But for President Kennedy
it simply was a reaffirmation
of a stand he took as a sena
In the Day's News
By FRANK
As this is written, Gover
nor Hatfield is debating with
himself whether to sign or
to veto the bill that would
reduce taxes on big trucks by
a million dollars a year. Both
houses of the Oregon legisla
ture have passed it.
The governor, at his Mon
day press conference, said that
in reaching his decision he
would balance against each
other consideration of tax
equity for trucks and the need
for money to build highways.
THE bill the governor Is
studying proposes changes
in Oregon's weight-tax law.
This law imposes a tax on
freight trucks based on their
WEIGHT and the number of
miles traveled. The big truck
people contend that the taxes
it levies on them are out of
proportion to the wear and
neutral Lao government.
Laos is a small place, riven
by personal and family rival
ries. Foreigners are conspicu
ous. Any American policy was
bound to be difficult to exe
cute, If It was handicapped
by the open, freely expressed
disapproval of the British
here, along with the open dis
approval and the active, hos
tile underground opposition
of the French.
This was the situation In
Laos throughout the last Eis
enhower .years. But it must
be added .that an even more
important cause of the failure
of the Eisenhower policy was
the fairly complacent Ameri
can reliance on the mere
ghost of "massive retaliation"
to constrain an active, Im
placable enemy.
DESPITE British disapproval
and French sabotage, the
American policy here twice
almost succeeded. In the sum
mer of 1959 and again last
summer, a fairly stable, strict
ly non-Communist regime
seemed to be getting the situa
tion under control. On both
occasions, however, the rath
er narrow balance was upset
by massive incursions across
the border from Communist
North Vietnam.
In 1959, the incursions were
brought to an end by Nikita
S. Khrushchev, In order to
prevent cancellation of his
Camp David meeting with
President Eisenhower. Last
summer, the incursions were
preceded by the coup d'etat
of Captain Kon Le. But even
this unfortunate event was not
decisive. The decisive factor
was-and still Is-the .subse
quent, very massive input of
war materials and men from
North Vietnam. Even today,
the Lao government could
cope with the purely Lao Com
munist forces If these stood
alone.
In other words, the ghost of
"massive retaliation" was re
lied upon to. isolate Laos, and
It failed to do so. Here, once
again, the British and French
positions counted for a good
deal. Their opposition not
only handicapped the execu
tion of the American policy
here before the incursions;
their clamor and coat-tail pull
ing iuo enfeebled and con
fused the American reaction
to the Communist incursions
when these took place.
......
SUCH Is the melancholy rec
ord which President Ken
nedy and Prime Minister Mac
mlllan must now review to
gether. Preparations for this
review were obviously made
in Vientiane over the week
end. High officials of the
British, French, and Austral
ian Foreijn Offices came here,
after the SEATO meeting, to
work non-stop with their re
spective Embassies and with
one another.
Whether an Anglo-French po
sition was worked out, cannot
be said. But a British position
was certainly worked out for
the Prime Minister's use in
Washington. And it is also
pretty certain that this was a
fairly soft position.
Meanwhile the failure of
the Eisenhower policy has
driest; President Kennedy to
adopt a substitute policy that
will be every bit as difficult
to execute. Achievement of
a truly neutral Laos is an
Inconceivably delicate task
and perhaps an absolutely im
possible task. This kind of
result can never be achieved
if there is the smallest show
of Western softness. Hence
further shoring of the weak
ened Western alliance would
seem to be In order.
Copyright 1961, New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
tor in July 1957. Then, intro
ducing a resolution calling on
the administration to support
"an International effort to de
rive for Algeria the basis for
an orderly achievement of In
dependence," ne saia:
"Algeria is no longer a
problem for the French alone,
nor will It ever be again."
The suggestion was received
coolly.
JENKINS
tear of their vehicles on Ore
gon's highways. The bill that
is before the governor for ap
proval or veto includes
changes in the schedules that
would lighten the burden on
the heavy trucks-allegedly by
about a million dollars a year.
WHAT are the facts?
" The nub of the situation
seems to be that the facts
are hot well enough estab
lished to warrant a final de
cision on the principles in
volved in Oregon's weight-tax
law. But they should be estab
lished soon. In Illinois an ex
haustive series of tests has
been under way for a long
time. These tests are sponsor
ed by the American Associa
tion of Highway Officials and
other groups. Their purpose
is to come up with answers
to the questions concerning
wear and tear of heavy ve
hicles on the highways. :
The State of Oregon has
contributed $150,000 to help
defray the costs of this $27
million testing project. Masses
of data have been compiled
in the course of the tests, and
these data are now being
analyzed. Preliminary reports
are expected within a few
months. When these reports
are available, we. will know
more about the problem than
we know now.
THE point is that the bill that
has been approved by both
houses of the Oregon legisla
ture is PREMATURE. It
would have been much better
to wait for the facts that will
be provided by these exhaus
tive tests, which were design
ed to GET AT the facts.
But that would have meant
waiting for another two years,
as it is improbable that evalua
tion of these Illinois tests will
be completed in time for con
sideration by the current ses
sion of the legislature.
The big truck people, who
contend that they are being
unfairly taxed under' Oregon's
present law, are naturally anx
ious to get out from under
what they say is an unfair
tax load.
"1ASUAL snap judgment
leads one to think that
after all these years Oregon's
highway system should be ap
proaching completion.
That sounds reasonable, but
it isn't true. The need for
highway money grows con
stantly. More and more ve
hicles are using our highways.
Congestion is a growing prob
lem. ; '
Also there " is a growing
need for better, SAFER high
ways. As our highways be
come more congested, the haz
ards of driving increase. Con
sider for a moment the grow
ing number of HEAD-ON col
lisions. Hardly a day passes
when there isn't a head-on
collision somewhere within
the range of our interest.
Head-on collisions are death
dealers.
HOW shall we prevent them?
DIVIDED highways
seem to be about the only
answer. Divided highways are
expensive. But LIVES are
valuable-especially if the life
that is lost is yours or mine.
If divided highways are to
be provided, it is going to
take more money. So we must
face the fact that as the years
pass we are going to need
more and more highway
money.
It seems reasonable that the
USERS of the highways
should provide the bulk of the
money that will be needed
to keep our highways up to
date.
Redstone Rocket
On Launching Pad
Cape Canaveral, Fla.-flJPD-'
The modified Redstone rocket
expected to be used by the
United States to send an as
tronaut into space was placed
on a launching pad Wednes
day for several weeks of tests.
If the preflight checks go
according to- schedule, the
slender missile will be launch
ed next month with a U.S.
astronaut in a space capsule
on its nose.
The shot will be "sub-orbital,"
aimed at sending the
astronaut about 115 miles up
and 290 miles over the At
lantic Ocean from the U.S.
Missile Test Center. The Red
stone was selected for the shot
because of its longtime relia
bility in military tests.
Late this year or in early
1962. the United States will
attempt to send an astronaut
into orbit aboard an Atlas in
tercontinental ballistic mis
sile.
Dispute
But In the interim tha
French Fourth Republic tell,
de Gaulle came to power and
began the slow, painful pro
cess first of convincing the
French people that the Alger
lans slowly but inevitably
were moving toward inde
pendence, and then of finding
a basis upon which to negoti
ate a peace.
In the end it seems likely
that agreement will be reach
ed. But pressing the Kennedy
administration to Intervene
now, even at the risk of
French annoyance, was the
knowledge that each passing
day only pushed the rebels
that much closer to the wait
ing arms of the Communists.
Drummond
Reports
Reacoe Drummond; nports on
the Washington' scene in the ab
sence of Walter Llppmann.
CRIPPLING THE U.N.
United Nations, N.Y. - The
United Nations is today at its
most critical juncture - and
Moscow is throwing rocks on
the track.
The UN must either move
ahead to prove that It can ba
an effective means to secure
the stability and independ
ence of the new nations. Or it
Is going to grind to an im
potent stop "when it is most
needed.
The crucial test is In the
Congo. There under the most
adverse circumstances - a
combination of disunity with
in the UN and disunity in tha
Congo - the United Nations'
ability to shelter the birth of
a hew nation is being tried
under fire.
If it can succeed in the Con
go against such despairing
odds, the UN will gain such
strength and prestige as will
enable it to do more of the
same In other trouble spots.
Will the UN succeed? Not if
the Soviet Union can prevent
it, and it Is throwing up every
possible road block.
.
r? Is no accident that at the
moment when the United
Nations is beginning to dem
onstrate its greatest useful
ness, Premier Khrushchev Is
stepping up his fight to de
rail the UN's driving engine,
the office of Secretory Gen
eral Dag Hammarskjold.
What Moscow wants to do
is to render the Secretariat
immobile and unable to shield
the fragile, new nations from
the winds of the cold war.
Mr: Khrushchev is not atr
tacking the role of Secretary
General Hammarskjold be
cause the UN is at the point
of failure in the Congo. He is
attacking the Secretary Gen
eral because the UN, is, to
Moscow, showing dangerous
signs of succeeding in tha
Congo.
Mr. K. wants to insure the
UN's failure in the Congo and
by making the office of the
Secretary General Impotent
be certain that the UN is not
free to help other nations.
WHEN the charter was draft
ed in San Francisco the
Soviets felt they v had nothing
to fear from the power of the
Secretary General. The So
viets had a veto over the Se
curity Council. The General
Assembly was to be only a de
bating society, a world town
meeting of the air.
The "science of Marxism,"
which is supposed to enable
the Communists to predict his
tory, somehow failed them at
the UN. When Lumumba was
Premier, the Soviets joined
the other powers at the Se
curity Council in voting unani
mously for the UN to help In
the Congo. Then when Lu
mumba was removed and the
General Assembly, seated
Kasavubu, there was no way
Moscow could veto the direc
tive to Hammarskjold to carry
on the UN Congo mission.
Even, the General Assembly
has successfully asserted the
power to act when the'Securr
lty Council is deadlocked. :
THUS the Kremlin has found
its Security Council veto
insufficient to Immobilize the
UN. The Soviets concluded
that the only means of making
the UN adequately impotent
la to get a veto over the func
tioning of the Secretariat.
This is the purpose of the
clamorous Soviet demand that
the office of Secretary Gen
eral be dissolved and that the
Secretariat be put in charre
of a committee of three (a
Russian, a Westerner, and a
neutral), each of whom would
have to agree before the Sec
retariat could carry out any
directive given to it by the
Security Council or the Gen
eral Assembly. '
Evidently Mr. Khrushchev
is afraid the United Nations
will succeed in sheltering the
new nations from outside in
terference and Is determined
to immobilize the UN before
it !s too late. If the new Afro
Asian nations truly measure
what he is up to, they can be
rlpHctvA in nrpvpntlng it.
(c) 1961 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.