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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
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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.
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"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.
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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.
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