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Khrushchev Has No Doubt That Small Nations Will Be In Communist Orbit ! Editor"! note: Following Is the second of three dispatches by Wal ter Llpproann, New York Herald Tribune syndicated columnist whose articles regularly appear In the Mail Tribune. Lippmann recently had an interview with Soviet Pre mier Nikita Khrushchev. J:By WALTER LiPPMASN i In this article I shall put together those parts of the jSalk which dealt with the revolutionary mov ements among small nations. Khru shchev spoke specifically of Jhree of them - Laos, Cuba, and Iran. But for him these three are merely examples of Jvhat he regards as a world wide and historic revolution ary movement - akin to the change from feudalism to fcapitalism-whieh is surely flestined to bring the old co lonial countries into the Com munist orbit. I could detect fio doubt or reservation in his mind that this will surely hap pen, that there is no alterna tive, that while he will help this manifest destiny and jjvhile we will oppose it, the jdestiny would be realized, no matter what either of us did. 5 Speaking of Iran, which he did without my raising the subject, he said that Iran had a very weak Communistparty but that nevertheless .the mis ery of the masses and the cor ruption of the government was surely producing a revo Jution. "You will assert," he said, "that the Shah has been overthrown by the Commu nists, and we shall be. very glad to have it thought in the world that ail the progressive people in Iran recognize that we are the leaders of the progress of mankind." To Us Propaganda Judging by the genera! tenor of what he said about ran, it would be fair to con clude that he is not contem plating -military intervention Snd occupation - "Iran is a poor country which is of no use to the Soviet Union"-but that he will do all he can by propaganda and indirect inter vention to bring down the Shah. ; In his mind, Iran is the most immediate example of jthe inevitable movement of history in which he believes So completely. He would not admit that we can divert this historic movement by cham pioning liberal democratic Reforms. Nothing that any of us can say can change his mind, which is that of a true believer, except a demonstra tion in some country that we jean promote deep democratic reiorms. s His attitude towards Cuba js based on this same, dogma. ' If you care about surveys and statistics and that sort of thing, you probably should ! know that more people in the West drink their coffee black than in any other ' area. Which is not so surprising, maybe. But more drink it biack in restaurants than they do at home. Which ought to prove a point or two about restaurant ' coffee, the cream and sugar being handy and free and all. When the cupful is on ; its own like that nothing to dilute or divert the flavor it has to be good coffee, ! Which is what we've been saying about restaurant coffee for years; what we've ; been saying about Boyd's, anyway. Which, in the Northwest, is the same thing. Four thousand restaurants prove it they serve a million cups of Boyd's every day. Pk We think it's great if your husband takes you out to dinner ) But dont wait you an get Boyd's at the store, too , OH, GO AHEAD AND Castro's revolution is inevita ble and pre-determined. It was not made by the Soviet Union but by the history of Cuba, and the Soviet Union is involved because Castro ap pealed for . economic help when the United States tried to strangle the revolution with an embargo. He said flatly, but not ii thought with much passion,! that we were preparing a landing in Cuba, a landing not with American troops but with Cubans armed and sup ported by the United States. He said that if this happened, the Soviet Union would op pose" the United States. I hope I was not misled in understanding him to mean that he would oppose us by propaganda and diplomacy, and that he did not have in mind military intervention. I would in fact go a bit fur ther, based not on what he said but on the general tone of his remarks, that in his book it is normal for a great power to undermine an un friendly government' within its own sphere of interest. He has been doing this himself in Laos and Iran and his feel ing about the American sup port of subversion in Cuba is altogether different m quality from his feeling about the encouragement of resistance in the satellite states of Eu rope. Khrushchev thinks much more like Richelieu and Metternich than like Wood- row Wilson.1 Overall Impression l had an overall impres sion that his primary interest Dr. Thompson Director Of 00A Dr. William J. Thompson, Medf ord, was named the only appointive member of the Oregon Optometric Associa tion's board of directors, ef fective July 1, by delegates to the OOA's annual convention in Salem last week end. Dr. Thompson was elevated to board status by virtue of his six-year tenure as chair man of the professional or ganization's public informa tion committee, and as its di rector of professional services. Delegates at the convention resolved that Dr. Thompson, and his eventual successors in the posts, be appointed by the OOA's president to board membership; normally, board members are elected during the annual conventions.' ' ; USE CREAM AND SUGAR is not in the cold war about; the smalt and underdevelop-i ed countries. The support of; of the revolutionary move ment among these countries is if or him an interesting, hopeful, agreeable opportuni ty, but it is not a vital inter est in the sense that he would go to war about it. He is quite sure that he will win this cold war without military force because he is on the side of history, and because he has the military power to deter us from a serious military inter vention. His primary concern is with the strong countries, especially with the United States, Germany, and China, I could not ask him direct Questions about China, But Appling Seen in Move To Become GOP Shining Star Beaverton - (BPS r- An Ore gon Democratic party official implied Monday that Secre tary of State Howell Appling's differences with Gov. Mark Hatfield over government re organization mark "the begin ning of an Appling campaign to replace Hatfield as the Re publican party's star attrac tion." -', Blaine Whipple, Democratic executive secretary, told the Washington County Public Affairs forum that govern ment reorganization "will not be realized" in the 1881 leg islature, Whipple blamed Re publicans, even though the state's number one Republi can - Hatfield - recommended the plan. Hope Said Los: Whipple said "any hope' for reorganization this year was lost last week when the Senate defeated Hatfield's five-bill package to create a state natural resources de partment. Whipple said "some Salem observers" see a "smoldering feud in the making between the conservative Appling ana the more liberal Hatfield, They also note the effective and continuing lobbying job Appling is doing with GOP legislators , . Appling has said he and Hatfield differ sharply on only one point of reorgani zation - the State Board of Control. Appling favors its retention and , Hatfield pro posed doing away with it. MEDFOBD MAIL TBIBONE, MEDFOBD, OSESOS there is no doubt that in his calculations of world power, China is a major factor. I felt that he thought of China as a problem of the future, and that may be one of the rea sons why for him the immedi ate and passionate questions have to do with Germany and disarmament. In my nest article, I shall deal with what he had to say about Germany, which he discussed" at some length. For the present I should add a few miscellaneous im pressions. During our walk after lunch, Mikoyan being with us then, I tried to find out what they thought of President Kennedy's purpose to bring the American econ omy not only out of the cur rent recession but out of its chronic sluggishness. For quite evidently, much of his buoyant confidence m the hss-; torie destiny of the Soviet Un-j ion is based on the undoubted j material progress of Soviet j industry - as compared with ! our slow rate of growth. Cannot Succeed I had put the question to I Mikoyan, assuming that he was the economic expert, but he deferred at once to Khru shchev; To Khrushchev it was certain that President Ken nedy cannot succeed In ac celerating American economic growth. He had, he told me, explained that to Mrs. Roose velt when he was m New York during the American election. Why can't President Kennedy succeed? Because, he said, of "Rockefeller," and then added; "DuPoiu." They will not let him. This was, it appears, one of those remarks that cannot be doubted by any sane man. Hone of this, however, was said with any personal animus against President Kennedy. Rather it was said as one might speak of the seasons and the tides and about mor tality, about natural events which man does not control. While. he has no confidence in the New Frontier, he has obvious respect for the Presi dent personally, though he confessed he could hardly un derstand how any man who had not been in a big gov ernment for a long time could suddenly become the head of it. Moreover, as I shall report in talking about the German question, it is clear, I think, that he looks forward to another round of international negotiations be fore he precipitates . a crisis over Berlin. Copyright 1961, Saw York Herald Tribune Inc. IT 'WON'T HURT BOYD'S A BIT Whooping Cranes Head for Canada Washington - P - The world's last known flock of whooping cranes is on the: wing, heading for summer : nesting grounds in northern Canada. The Interior Department's Fish and Wildlife Service has reported that an aerial census revealed only three erases In adult plumage, remained on Matagorda Island, near the Arkansas Jfatkmai Wildlife Refuge in Texas. None was on Aransas, During the win ter 36 cranes were counted at Aransas and Matagorda. Six of them were youngsters. The department said the whooping crane population sow is at record high since systematic counts of the big, ungainly birds began in 1838, when they were near extinction. HAPCO'S LOW LIST PRICE..... $30 TRADE-IN FOR YOUR OLD RADIO Regardless of Age, Six or Condition YES! YOU PAY ONLY... Wolnaf fitsUh optional for $10. thr mod it ovoiiaisi with AM-FM rodis . , , is mahogany for $22?,95, waistfl for $23a, isa $30 trode-is for yor eitf radio. 115 E. Main in Medford snd IIS . Main in Ashland Lack of Courtesy Great Obstacle The greatest obstacle to asi orderly flow of traffic over streets and highways is the lack of simple courtesy on the sari of otherwise good driv ers, according to Medford Po lice Chief Charles P, Champ Ua. Chassplirt called courtesy the key to traffic safety. 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