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4 A FRIDAY. MAY 12, 1M1 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORO, OREGON Everyone la Southern Oregon B..rf. Tha Mall Tv4hnnn Publiihed Dally exceptSaturday by MEDFORO PWOTmO CO. 83 North Fir 8t Ph. SP3-dll " ROBERT VV. RUHL, Editor ffTRB GREY. Advertlslnf Manager GIRA1.D T. LATHAM. Bus. Mir. tRIC W ALLEN JR.. Mnl Editor EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPM AN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT, Sporta Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Womin'l Editor PALE ERICKBON. ClrculaUon Mfr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Aet of " . March S. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES . By Mall In Advance. Copy 10c Dally and Sunday 1 year 113 00 ; Dally and Sunday 4 mos. S.OO t-Daily and Sunday 3 mos. ' 4.25 Sunday Only One year $00 By Carrier In Advance Medford .Ashland. Central Point Eagle -Point. Jacksonville, Gold Hill Thoenlx, Shady Cove. Rogue Rlv .mr Talent ana on motor routes : Daily end Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily ana sunaey x mo. ifu 'Carrier and Dealers copy We t All Terms casn in Aqvance "Etflelal Paper of City of Medford" Official Paper of Jackson County : United Press International ' FuU Leased Wire ' Q.P.1. Telephoto Newsplctures , jszMBT.n OP AUDIT BUREAU . ur UBWLftiiuna u.plltln Rnraen,.tiva WEST HOLIDAY CO., INC. Ot i fires In New York, Chlcsgo, De troit. San Francisco. Loe Angeles, V Seattle. Portland. St Louis, At ' lanta, Vancouver, B C. NIWSrAMI . PUsUISHf (S ASSOCIATION NATION At fOITOtlAl Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from th filets of The Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 yean ago. Legislative Coverage The 51st session of the Oregon legislature at Viz days the second-longest in history came to a close ("thank heaven) Wednesday nierht. It will be the subject of discussion and argu ment for at least a year and a half, much of it tinged with political overtones. Any final assess ment must await more complete study. But there is one thing about the session. We believe it was the best-reported of any session ever held in Oregon. And we take our hats off to the United Press International reporters, in particular, whose hard work and intelligent re porting did much to put the session in focus. ' DEPORTING a legislature (and we speak from experience) is a difficult, demanding job. it isn t a matter or just sitting at a desk watch ing the house or senate in action although that is part or it. Much of the important work is performed in the many committees of both houses, and there is some of it which is done outside the legislative halls altogether. In the past 122 days, nearly 1,500 bills were introduced, with slightly less than half that num ber reaching final passage. bach of these had to be scanned by the re porters, its importance evaluated, and its progress recorded during each of the many steps it takes lor it to become Jaw. Dennis the Menace 10 YEARS AGO :The crash of cloud-seeding airplane at Camp White yes terday. In which a Mediora man was seriously Injured, today was attributed to car buretor icing. A national labor relations board trial examiner held Frl ; day that several Medford la bor unions are guilty of un fair labor practices. 20 YEARS AQO The war department today announced the selection of nine, new Army camp- sites, Including Medford; the one here will have about 75,000 acres and will accomodate up to 35,000 men. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The rumor situation Is not as tense as last week, when had. man shown up with a claw-ham mer and a mouthful of shingle nails, there would have been building boom with Gold Hill having 60,000 population In 80 days.'.' .. , 30 YEARS AGO Mar 12. 131 (Tuesday) The Diamond lake road has been opened tor spring and summer auto travel. The Medford Lions club has prepared a brief supporting Medford as the location for a proposed new veterans hospital. 40 YEARS AQO Ma 12. 1(21 (Thursday) The state tire marshal has recommended that Central Point have a fire chief and organize IU own tire depart men.. Ual colthtn will be col lected here soon for war suf ferers in the far east. 50 YEARS AGO M 12. 1811 (Friday) Local plasterers have formed a union and affiliated with the AFL. The driver of a four-horse stage from Grants Pass to Crescent City was killed when the team bolted on Hayes nm. IN ADDITION to reporting these objective facts 1 concerning each bill of more than minor note, the reporters also are expected to explain the eitect and the importance of each, otten the po litical implications and background facts, and in many instances the wrangling and argumentation which accompany each 6tet). , Because of all these complications, involving not only the 90 members of the legislature, but also oyher state officials, lobbyists, special inter est groups and so on, the job of reporting a legis lative session is an around-the-clock, seven-day-a-week job. M The Capitol press corps this year performed ably. It. includes full time reporters from the three Portland dailies, the two Salem dailies, both wire services, and occasional visits from reporters from other Oregon newspapers and radio and television stations. SOME of these are sharply competitive (the A P oni TT"PT "frt inafanta lionriilif of iit '. sA t UUVI UH) U1 lUOUMltvC AlfiJjJilJ DU1YC lyV outdo each other), and some of them. work coop eratively almost a necessity if all the impor tant happenings are to be covered. But we would like ; to extend an especial "Jhanks, and Well Done" to Douglas, jGripp, Salem uri manager, and his colleague, A. H. Pearson, for the job they did for the Mail Trib une and its readers this year. (The initials in the name A. H. Pearson, inci dentally, obscure the fact that "A" is for Ann. and she has red hair.) They have been thorough, thoughtful, respon sive to reauests and suertrestions. and have con tributed greatly to public understanding of the complex legislative process. E.A. International Patriotism IB Progress in Iran Is Evident, But Too Slow to Satisfy Many; Unrest Growing By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst In ancient Tehran, shiny, new automobiles have taken the place of the donkey and the camel. 15 'Ate. WitsoN said i axix swy miKm face turns red' On the out skirts of the city, univer sity buildings and showy villas rise from what had been wasteland. Since World War II, the United States has poured more than $800 million Into Iran. Under the leadership of 41-year-old Shah Mohammed Riza Pehlevi, 60 per cent of the country's oil riches annually are earmark ed for a vast program of edu cation and modernization de signed to bring Iran across a gap of more than 1,000 years. But last week, Iran's sec ond government in less than a year fell. Iran, with an annual income Commun ications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and addrtis of the writer, although under certain circumstances in use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible, The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit aU letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the contrary is otten the case. rast'tYexr I.Q.1 NM at im terra kj seeerlet! seven er ete It eatslleeH tin er all k im. tion "TIonTHmTlon" Hon - 1. Do you associate the title Rajah with Iran, India, Burma or Indo-ClnsT J. In Roman mythology, Bacchus was the god of wine; true or false? S. Six states comprise New England; name them. 4. Was John Singleton Cop ley an early American paint r, statesman, or general? 5. Are Hibernians Scots men, Spaniards, or Irishmen? t. In which profession Is a Instrument known as the odolite most used? 7. On which large river Is th Chines city of Chung king? S. What Is the present nam of the former Danish West Indies? . The painter most famous for his paintings of ballet dancers was Murlllo, or De fas? 10. Does the island of Cor sica belong to Spain, Franc, or Italy? Anawero 1, India. I. True, t. Mala, New' Hampshire. Varment, Massachusetts, RlMd Island ana Connect,, nl 4. Painter. I. Irishmen. I. lurveriaf. 7, Yangta. t. Aawiem Virgin Ulaaafc. I. 10. ft "International patriotism" was the phrase used recently by Frederick H. Boland of Ireland, president of the United Nations General Assem bly, in assessing the needs of this nuclear age. It has a nice ring to it, that phrase. And we like it, too, because it so neatly fits one of our favorite concepts, that of a "larger loyalty." We think of it this way: We have strong feeling's of affection for Med ford. But that does not diminish our feeling for Jackson county. Our fondness for Jackson coun ty does not diminish our love for Oregon. And our loyalty to Oregon does not one whit lessen our love and loyalty to the United States. OES, then, loyalty and love need to end at a pnnnf tnr'o Kni'Hsai ontr mnra than it- nnala A end at the city limits, or county line, or state Boundary T , Are not our hearts and minds large enough to have a loyalty to a political entity larger than a nation, or a concept as large as mankind itself? Boland was quoted while speaking at Eugene not long ago. And he also said: "In thinking of the age In which we live, short sighted patriotism and narrow calculations of national interest are anything but sound guides In framing ' foreign policy. We need something more in the present - world predicament. We need wider vision, a broad ened sense of community, a new intellectual horizon, the dawn of truly International patriotism, In keeping , with the common destiny and the common jeopardy of mankind in this nuclear age." DOLAND'S remarks are oddly reminiscent of those of wise old Ben Franklin who, speak ing in a different context, told us: "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately. He was speaking of the dangers inherent in small, brave country which had iust cut itself adrift from the motherland. But is his warning not just as cogent today, in a world torn and divided a score of ways by ancient hates and fears and jealousies; and threatened with missile-bom nuclear devasta tion? In such a world, is not "international patrio tism" a good thing to hope for, and encourage? A t A Last Word To the Editor: We join with Mr. Stafford in the sincere hope that the turmoil that has enguiied Gold Hill win soon be buried. We, the people who defeated the filtration bond measure are also de sirous of a bigger and better city; that Is not why the measure was so soundly de feated. We felt the cost of the fil tration plant, based on engi neering reports, was beyond the means of a very small town of barely 600. We also knew we would have chlori nated water; the filtration plant would only take out foreign material and $120,000 plus Interest is a lot of money for a big strainer. The figures and facts used by the group opposing the measure were not rumors; nor were they distorted. Mrs. Stewart Is capable reporter and used only figures pre sented by Engineer Archie Rice, figures obtained from the Portland office of a na tional bank and those given at the public hearing. Surely these facts should be con sidered reliable. We also took into consider ation articles appearing in na tionally known news maga zines, for example: The Sept. 26, 1060 issue of Time maga zine, pages 66 and 68, "En vironment vs. Man," covering Air, Water and Food Pollu tion. Quoted is the opinion given by a state engineer to St. Louis County, Missouri, residents, "We have just about exnaustea an tne water puri fication methods known at this time." Also quoted are other national health authorities. Also there are household filters obtainable, and were available for demonstration at the recent Sportsfair. Last, there are two schools inside the corporate city lim its. Would our new Patrick school have been built If the water was considered to be so unsafe? We wish to thank the Trib une for giving us space for this and other letters and now let us inter the Issue. -. Mrs. Nancy Jennings 1135 Fourth av., Gold Hill, Ore. DST fe Ik V To the Editor Talk about a crazy mixed up state. Broth er, we sure have it here in Oregon. Part of the state on Day light Saving Time and the other part on Standard Time. I guess we voters may just as well not vote on a bill It seems that the people have voted D.S.T. down several times, but to no good, regard less of what you vote against, they Just go ahead and dis regard the bill and put it into effect anyway. The same with the sales tax, it was voted down several times, but now they are going to put in a substitute bill and then after a while put the sales tax In full swing. So why vote at all? It people want to get up an hour earlier, let them set their clocks up, as I am sure they will get to their work or any kind of business they are in on time either way they do it. We may as well do away with our watches and clocks and just get up, go to work when the mood strikes us. Now about Nixon, why don't he take his loss, as a good loser and quit running down the Kennedy adminis tration? The Democrats have done more In the hundred or more days, than the Republi can party tried to do in eight years. I see where they re stored Ik back to a full gen eral. Let's look at the figures. H get $25,000 pension (what for I can't figure, as he sure left the country in mess), $50,000 for his private business. All told that amounts to $75,000, just $25,000 less than the President's pay. Why go to all the trouble to be a President for more than four years? Pretty neat, I'll say. Think of the veterans that get less than $100, and I am quite sure they were in a lot of tougher places than Ike ever was. 'I don't see him decorated with bravery or battle wound medals. The veterans of all wars, especially the World War I veterans that get a pension that is hardly enough to live on, why not give these boys a living wage and cut down on some of these high retired people and foolish spending? B. F. Smith 136 South Holly st. Medford. The Reason - To the Editor: For all the people in the Eagle Point area concerned with the pro posed Medco logging road, they should try driving the Butte Falls road sometime. I'm sure they would find the answer they want. The danger of meeting numerous logging trucks on the mountain road they have to travel is quite evident. Try it sometime and you will see, as I did last week, the reason for a private logging road in question. Perry Wood 3333 Dark Hollow rd. ' '- Medford. I therefore recommend that the present proposal be aban doned and, (1) any new pro posals be designed to exclude all farmers, ranchers, retire ment . people, and mobile homes 100 per cent; (2) Such entries as section 9 be ad hered from intirely; (3) Place addendum in penalties section providing the county subject to delay damage of $100 per day if property is not inspect ed within 3 days after being notified; (4) Rewrite section 12 of appeals, leaving out dic tations to the .court as to how decisions shall be made. Winfield W. Reynolds, Box 437, Ramsey Canyon rd., Gold Hill, Ore. of nearly $150 million from oil alone, was broke and in trouble. It meant . potential trouble for the west. Iran Is the keystone of CENTO, the Central Treaty Organization which is the suc cessor to the Baghdad Pact. Should CENTO fall, with It would go a vital link-in the chain of - pro-Western alli ances which stretch across Europe and Asia from the Philippines to, the British Isles. For ' the Soviet Union the way would be open to fulfill a dream going back to the czars, a clear path to the Persian Gulf through . Iran and Iraq. -Trouble was nothing new for the pro-Western shah. In his 20 years on the pea cock throne of Persia he has been shot once, deposed once and seen his country occupied by foreign powers, Unhappily, the shah's own purity of purpose, his deter mination to reshape Iran into a modern land, not always has been matched by his as sociates. In a land once 85 per cent illiterate, schools are being built and students, once num bering less than half a mil lion, now number nearly a million and a half. Bulldozers, clear the way for giant dams and waterways to reclaim the desert.- Iran is to have its own steel mill. Harbors will be deepened. In land reform, the shah leads the way by giving away his own lands But opposed to him are the large land owners who stub bornly retain vast absentee holdings. In the urban centers unrest, mounts over rising Try and Stop Mo By BENNETT CERF SOMEBODY ONCE REMARKED to Benjamin Franklin that the Constitution of the U.S. was a booby trap. "Where is all the happiness it is supposed to guarantee for us?" jeered the cynic. . - . . , - ' "Look at the bickering, the injustice, the pov erty." . Franklin smiled toler antly and replied, "All that the Constitution of the United States guar antees, my friend, is the pursuit of happiness. You ' have to catch up with it . yourself." A Texas lady whose hus band just had (truck it rich had a mansion built that atageered even jaded Dal- - lasites. "How many bathrooms did you say your new reeidenca had?" prompted Bookseller Bliss Allbrigut. The lady answered loftily, "1 can seat fourteen." One man in San Antonio is In real trouble. He explained to the judge, "I keep remembering the Alamo but forgetting the alimony." . .. ....... 0 1961, by Bennett Cert Distributed by King Features Byadlwt . costs and because progress la slow, - . ' In the streets, students riot in the manner of Turkey and South Korea. . Washington Reoorl By William S. Whit (e) United Feature Syndicate Building Cod To the Editor: The Jackson County Planning Commission has expressed their theory of a building code considered necessary to control building trend in the county. The prepared document is an insult to our freedom. They have been informed emphati cally of its injustice and am biguous nature, yet they con tinue trying to cram it down our throats. The only thing left for us to do is for every village, settlement in the county to organize a super visory committee to guard each sector from such dic tatorial power grab attempts, and if the commission cannot hereafter come up with sen sible constructive ideas, plan ning which will safeguard the interests, freedom of our peo ple in the problems of pres ent, future, then perhaps nec essary steps can be taken to relieve them of their respon sibilities, which appear to be beyond their comprehension. The anticipated expansion of business, industry, sub-di visions require certain con trols, planning, but why put the noose around the farmer, ranchers neck to do so? Most farmers, ranchers devote their entire time, money to the de velopment, maintenance of their barns, feed sheds, etc., any expenditures on the house they live in Is considered a luxury, but would be forced to place siding on their houses or be subject to a $1,000 fine. Supposing hard luck fam ily was so notified; and due to circumstances was finan cially unable to comply. With the present proposal In power according to sections 0-A-1, 12 the court would be obligated to overlook any human Inter est involved in an appeal be cause the proposed code dic tates to the court the decision rendered regarding the appeal be limited to an Interpreta tion of the code only. Retirement people, semi- transient families living In mobile homes in anticipation of someday acquiring ade quate housing would be forced to place concrete foundations under their trailers plus other expanses. Rehabilitate a Salmon? To the Editor: I have before me a copy of the Oregon Jour nal, in which I find a small article on Page 2, near the left hand corner, near the bot tom of the page. I HOPE all fishermen see and read It. The headline - "House OK's Bill For salmon Aid." This bill was originally for $1,000,000 for Salmon reha bilitation, and that would have been little enough. How ever, our generous (on some things, such as salary raises, etc.,) house of representatives saw fit to cut the original re quest for $1,000,000 to $120, 000. Quite a cut, eh!? In this connection, how do' you reha bilitate a salmon, when we cannot rehabilitate our citi zens for billions of dollars? Get these salmon over your fish ladders at the high dams and they will rehabilitate themselves. (Rehabilitate a salmon - Ha! Ha! Oh! Me.) . s Malemute Slim White City, Ore In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS For considerably more than a century Madame Tussaud's Exhibition Of waxwork fig ures up at the edge of Regent Park in London has been a must for tourists. It is a real must. If you miss it, you'll regret it. - fPO get there, of. course, you - take a cab.. At least until you have been here long enough to master the relative ly simple London bus system, you take a cab to wherever you want to go. The cabbies are friends in need, for they can tell you just about any think you want to know. In addition, taxicab fares are unbelievably inexpensive. A ten shilling note, which is worth $1.40 in American money, will take you almost anywhere you want to go, and your average fare is apt to be around five shillings, which Is 70 cents. Prices for nearly everything else are about the same as in the U.S.A., but taxis are a real bargain. Strictly Personal yOUR taxi drops you at the door of the Exhibition building. You pay your ad mission fee, which is sixpence, or aoout seven cents, at window called the Pay Box. A REAL person , takes your money. You know he is real, because he moves and gives you your change. From there on, you are never certain who is flesh and blood and who is wax. At a counter near the door a young woman is standing, She is pointing at some ob jects under the glass top, and you assume she is inviting you 10 ouy something. Over near the door leading out of the lobby there is a police man. He gives you a feeling of security, for the London bobby is a responsible person, one who inspires trust and confidence. By Sidney J. Harris (o General Features Corp. Harris GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN OTHERWISE One dreadful thing that this era of self advertisement, publicity and shameless trum- p e 1 1 n g has done is to make every- one suspect everyo n e else's motives. We are pre pared to think the worst, to impute the lowest mo tives, to at tribute most speech and action to some self-serving purpose Obviously, this is as lopsided an approach as the Polly- annaish view of people In the last century. I raise the point because of a letter I received this morn ing, from a reader who men tions my frequent references to lecture engagements In the column. "Is tills your way," he Inquires scornfully, "of letting groups know that you are available for speaking?" e Actualy, I mention the lec tures from time to time be cause they comprise an Im portant segment of my pro fessional life, and because the questions raised at these func tions often work themselves Into columns. In point of fact, I already have too many lec tures, and my problem is re fusing them tactfully rather than seeking them out. This reader, however, like so many people today, has been conditioned to look for base motives and to suspect some commercial purpose in the most innocent of state ments. That w ltv in an increaa- ingly cynical age, no one can deny. Youngsters begin to look with a jaundiced eye up on television ads from the time they can toddle-or from the time their parents can didly point out to them that the only essential difference among breakfast foods is in the package and the prem iums, not in the . products themselves. e e This cynicism Is fed by the whole vast network of enter tainment and promotion in the modern world; by the out rageously b 1 at a n t back- scratching that goes on imo"; celebrities when talkink to one another In front of the public. "Just loved your last book." Thank you, just loved your last show." "What is your next engagement?" "What's the name of your forthcoming book?" "You were great. really great." "Tell us about your new, terrific record al bum." "And you're opening at the Persian Room next week are you?" There Is no honesty, no rec titude, no real evaluation, not even genuine appreciation, in these cheap Interchanges' of compliments. It is all unpaid advertising, brandished with complete contempt for the public's Intelligence. It is, in fact, an unacknowledged con spiracy to dupe everybody who does not belong to the inner world. I don't blame the reader one bit for assuming my lec ture references belong to the same loathesome category. His suspicion is the price all of us have to pay for the commer cial Insincerity of modern communication. VOU enter the first exhibit room. It is the Hall of Historic Ministers, including William Pitt, the great Prime Minister who was basically friendly to the cause of our colonial ancestors during the Revolutionary War. And Gladstone and Disraeli, the Great Antagonists. And , . , Sir Winston Churchill. All of them are in the costumes of their day. As you enter the room, you have the feeling that this must be a quite special day, with a large number of dis tinguished persons present, for there is a CROWD all around the edges of the room. The" - It breaks on you suddenly these are WAX FIG URES. The realization comes with a shock of surprise. All the way through - and you will spend several fascinated hours there - this illusion of reality will haunt you. Over and over, as you approach different groups, you will have the sensation that you mustn't stare - because, since these people have had the courtesy to come there so that you may have a good look at them, you must return their courtesy with similar courtesy on your part. When you com ment, on their faces, on their bearing, on their clothing, you find yourself doing so in whispers, so thev won't over- hear. PERSONAL CHIEP Washington-President Ken. nedy is understood to be con sidering the advisability of appointing a personal chief of staff to serve as his intimate a d viser on mili tary problems of the highest magnitude -the peace-or-war kind of White problems. He has no Intention in any case of discarding or down grading the present joint chiefs of staff system. He is pondering some what wist fully, however, some means by which as commander in chief he might obtain, at the last hour of any crisis, the direct, flat, yes-or-no recom mendation of one single offi cer whose whole duty and responsibility would b to ward the White House. One of the President's dif ficulties in the recent anti Castro invasion of Cuba was not the lack of advice but rather the diffused nature of that advice. Bigness is a necessary vice in the present military estab. lishment. Indeed, the very word "Pentagon" has come to , be a synonym for a sprawl ing vastness, for the endless exchange of papers and plans through many hands. ANOTHER vice - necessary or not -i lies In the fact that every member of the joint chief of staff feels some responsibility not solely for national security in the larg est sense but also for the proper growth and due pros pering of his own service, whether this be army, navy or air. One frequent consequence of these divided interests is a tendency to treat a military problem in its fragmented parts - from the army view, from the navy view, from the air view. And so there is also a tendency to come up at the end with what amounts to a committee naner. Cnmmit- tee papers by their very na ture involve compromise and so may well settle for some common denominator which lacks the hard, clear quality of a command advice given by one high voice. Should such and such a thing be done or not done, from the military point of view? Committee advice may reply with maybes and yes buts. Equally, too, it tends to avoid any precise placing of responsibility on any one adviser to the President. SO all the various schemes . for "unification" of the armed forces ever since the second World War have pro duced quite as much blurring of responsibility as of "unity." Congress has long since turn ed down the idea of having a single, supreme military chief of staff over the Pentagon. This is not an issue with the President. There is, however, no legal bar whatever to the selection by the President of some offi cer to act as his personal chief of staff. President Franklin D. Roosevelt took: that course, choosing Fleet Admiral William Leahy. Mr. Kennedy has this ex ample in mind in his own present search for a means to have advice ready at hand from an officer with no fur ther glory to seek in his own career, no further stars to earn and no further commit ment - emotional or actual -to any one service. KNOW this sounds un reasonable. Like straining to make a point. But It Isn't The illusion of reality, the Il lusion of living, breathing EXISTENCE on th. cart of these wax figures, is nothing short of amazing. It Is what has caused Madame Tussaud's Exhibition to remain for con siderably more than a century one of the MUSTS of sight seeing in all of Xurop. k TITOREOVER, the great turn "- in military policy being1 made by this administration-. to give greater emphasis to the capacity to fight limited and conventional warfare - will make the President's need for this kind of advice ever more piognant. When the country's fundamental mill tary policy rested on a single concept - "massive retalia tion" through the atomla weapon - there was little need for decisions of the hard, mid dling kind, as for example the decision to give indirect sup port to the Cuban patriots. On the whole, we seemed, in ef feet, committed to go to war with everything we had - that is. world war - or to go to no kind of war at all. The whole basis of the pres ent administration's policy la wholly different. The assump tion is that the "big" weapon will be unleashed only In de fense from the "big" weapon of the Soviet Union, but that our ability and will to defend free areas with action short of nuclear war will be meas urably and frankly increased. -J i
