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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON THURSDAY. MAY 18. 1961 Monroe Sweetland Denies Allegations Made in Material .; Hillsboro, Ore. WPD State . Sen. Monroe Sweetland Wednesday denied from the witness stand allegations made against him in material , circulated last fall for which ..a Portland woman is on trial for political libel. ,-. Sweetland, 51, said he '.fought against .Communism c while a member of the Social ist party during his youth. , He said he never has been a . Communist. The Milwaukie publisher i and legislative education leader was on the stand for 1 1 about five hours as a state , witness in the libel trial of Mrs. Audrey Henry. She is ..charged with helping pass out . anti-Sweetland literature last October while Sweetland was , Democratic candidate for sec- retary of state. ; Others Indicted ' Five other persons have been indicted on similar "charges in Multnomah county. Sweetland was questioned during the afternoon by Larry Landgraver, attorney for Mrs. ' Henry. ' Sweetland labeled as "total ly false" a story indicating he had been disinherited by his father, the late Dr. George J. Sweetland, one-time ath " letic director of Willamette university. He introduced cop ' les of his father's probated ' will showing he and his sister ' shared about equally in the estate. . . He said the Oregon Com monwealth Federation, which he served as executive secre ' tary, was never dominated by 'Communists. Sweetland said it "was an effective anti-Communist or ganization and was one of the principal reasons the Commu nist party never got a foot hold in Oregon as it did in other states." ' Replying to a charge- he was jailed in New York for "pasting subversive literature on a bank building," he said he was arrested during the ,, "Roosevelt bank holiday" when he pasted a sticker on a bank that said,. "Vote Social ist to Keep the Banks Open." Not Committee Member ' "That's certainly not sub ' versive," he said. He was le- leased -without being fined, he added. Sweetland said he had worked for the New York State Socialist party as an or ganizer seeking candidates. But he said "I was not a mem ber of the revolutionary pol icy committee." The trial was in its fourth day today. Pink Elephant Skis on Willamette Portland - (UPD - A pink ele phant water skied on the Wil lametteriver here Wednes day. It was a real elephant. The 3,000-pound elephant, Bimbo Jr., a member of a touring circus, was pulled along on a narrow wooden platform by a high-powered launch before several hundred Portlanders between the Mor rison and Hawthorne bridges. The stunt was to publicize the Shrine circus which opened Wednesday night. . Bimbo was spray painted pink.. About half the paint washed off during the ride. Spring Concert at Howard Is Friday The annual spring concert for Howard school will be held at 8 p.m. Friday, May 19," in the school gymnasium. Groups participating will in clude the third grade chorus, string orchestra, department chorus and the school band. Admission will be free. The Howard Girls League will sell cake, coffee and milk after the program. Special tours of the science fair will be conducted by fourth grade ushers from 7 to 7:50 p.m. in the multi-purpose room. . . Parents and friends are invited. Young Logger Killed In Loading Accident Newport, Ore.-OIPD-A young logger died Wednesday a few hours after he was crushed while reloading logs near Kernville. ' " . Police said Charles Wright, 21, son of the Taft postmaster, slipped and was crushed be neath a logging truck. Differential for West Shipbuilding Said Unjustified Washington - (UPD - An East Coast shipbuilder- declared Wednesday that there was "absolutely no Justification" for a six per cent differential favoring Pacific Coast ship yards in bidding on vessels subsidized by the government. William E. Blewett Jr., president of the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry dock Co., Newport News, Va., appeared before the House Merchant Marine Committee on behalf of a proposal to eliminate the differential. 'Actual Errors' Charged Blewett lashed out at an analysis of evidence previous ly presented to the committee prepared at the committee's request by the General Ac counting Office. He said the GAO's report dealt with "com pletely irrelevant issues" and contained "actual errors." "It does not seem worthy of consideration," Blewett said of the GAO report at one point. "They attempted by re viewing actual purchase cost data in the individual ship yards, to support their theory that the West Coast has some disadvantage," Blewett said. Blewett insisted that there was no difference in cost be tween the East and West coasts and said such a study should be made on the basis of bids. Today & Tomorrow By Walter lippmann (e) New York Herald Tribune Syndicate Cohgregaf ionalisf s Elect Moderator Hood River (UPD Dr. J. Vi cent Crane, minister of the Forest Grove Congregational Church, Wednesday was elect ed moderator of the Congre gational Churches of Oregon for the coming year. John F. Kramer Jr., lawyer who attends Cedar Hills Con gregational Church near Port land, was elected assistant moderator. The Rev. Fred R. Morrow of The Dalles was named new conference preacher. The 230 ministers and lay men voted to increase the amount giver) - to missions from $62,000 to $98,000 a year. FRAGMENTS OF AN EMPIRE With the Secretary of State at Geneva worrying about the internal politics of Laos and with the Vice President do ing a whirl wind tour of S o utheast Asia, It may be useful t o try if we can to see the American i n volvement in its historic al perspective. South Vietnam lippmann Laos and are two fragments - the other two being Communist Nortn Vietnam and neutralist Cam bodia - of what used to be the French colonial empire of Indo-China. Japan overran this empire after the collapse of France in 1940, and al though the empire was re stored to France after the Japanese surrender in 1945, the defeat of a western by an Asian power had, as the event proved, fatally destroyed the prestige of France. During the Japanese occu pation the Communist - Na tionalist Viet-Minh gathered force, and if it had not been opposed from outside Viet nam, would have controlled the country. A French Ex peditionary Corps fought the Viet-Minh from 1945 to 1954, until the costly war was end ed by the Geneva agreement of 1954. , BY 1953, in the first year of President Eisenhower's ad ministration, it had become plain that the French were losing the Indo-Chinese war. At the turn of the year Secre tary Dulles realized that French power was doomed, and that only intervention by the United States could pre vent the whole of Indo-China from falling into the hands of the Communists, backed by Red China. It was at this crit ical juncture that Mr, Dulles proclaimed the c e 1 e brated doctrine of "massive retali ation." The immediate and primary purpose of his speech was not, as has often been said, to save money, to balance the budget, to get "a bigger bang for a buck." The purpose of Mr. Dulles's speech was to protect m N THURSDAY-FRIDAY - SATURDAY Dim to the fact thai then hai been so much enthu siasm and response from the people off Medfford on our Grand Opening Sale, we are taking this opportunity of rerunning most of the major items that were most wanted and called for on' our 3-day grand opening as a reminder that "you can paint now and pay later." Benjamin Moore makes no "price" merchan dise. 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For while the Soviet Union had broken our nuclear monopoly in 1949, in 1954 It was just about to master the hydrogen bomb and it had no missile force comparable with the bombers of the American Strategic Air Force. The United States was then the paramount military power in the world, and where It chose to exert its power, its word was law. OUT in the years immedlate- ly after 1954, the Soviet Union began to acquire mis siles and nuclear weapons in sufficient quantity to change the world balance of power, achieving nuclear parity in place of U.S. supremacy. This was the new situation which caused Churchill and Eden to persuade Eisenhower that an attempt must be made "at the summit" to negotiate a truce in the cold war. No truce was achieved. But the fact that by 1959, or there abouts, the United States was no longer supreme, under mined the Dulles doctrine of defending Indo - China by threat of massive retaliations. By 1961 Mr. Kennedy was confronted with the fact that the Eisenhower Dulles de fense of Indo-China was no longer available. For five or six years they had been able to defend Indo-China without using American troops be cause of our nuclear su premacy. The problem for Kennedy now is how the fragments of Indo-China could be defend' ed without the nuclear threat and without engaging our troops in another Korean war. WHERE are some among us -- who think that Laos and Vietnam could be defended by the THREAT .of opening an American front for another Korean war. They think that Mr. Khrushchev can be, in timidated. They are mistaken. Eisen hower and Dulles were in a position to use that threat of nuclear weapons because they had a monopoly of nuclear weapons. But Kennedy and Rusk cannot threaten to fight a land war because the Chi nese and the Soviets are over whelmingly superior to any land forces we could engage. Our threat to fight another Korean war would be a bluff which would immediately be called. If we were to send a brigade of Marines into South Vietnam, the Chinese would have no trouble at all in send ing two brigades into North Vietnam. What then can Mr. Kennedy do? Since he cannot defend the old Indo-China by massive retaliation or by committing land forces, he must do what he has been trying to do in Laos since he took office. He must do what the British and the French and the Indians want him to do. He must try to induce the Soviet Union and Red China to settle for a "neutralization," that is to say, an agreement by the great powers not to fight the cold war by proxy inside Laos. Almost certainly it will not be a satisfying arrangement. But does anyone know of a better alternative? WE SHOULD, I feel, look upon all this with a cer tain philosophy. As a result of the defeat of both France and Japan In Indo-China we became, without in the least wishing It, the heirs, or let us say, the receivers, of the col lapsed and broken Indo-Chinese empire. Since the end of the World War, especially since 1954, we have, without enjoying any of the benefits of empire, experienced all its costs, risks, and frustrations. We now have to face the problem which the British have faced in their empire, the French in theirs. It is the problem of adjusting one'i pride to a recognition that protectorates must go, and theh of providing for the In dependence of the colonial peoples over whom they are no longer the protectors. The British and French empires are being liquidated, and the constituent nations are being helped to find their place In the great replacements of em pire, the British Common wealth and the French Com munity and the United Na tions. In the Western hem!- nha th tt.nlnrmpnt fnr empire Is the Organization of American States. This process of liquidation and replacement is one that any administration - it hap pens to be the Kennedy ad ministration - would now have to be engaged In. The Administration should engage itself candidly, boldly, and constructively, rising above the present small preoccupa tions of Mr. Rusk and Mr. Johnson, to a proposal for a regional system of independ ence and security and neutral ity for the old colonial lands of South Asia. This would be a very good subject for the President to talk about with Mr: Khrushchev. San Francisco's noted Union Square is constructed on land given to the city by its first postmaster, John W. Geary, who was later a general in the Union Army. Red China Said Forced To Depend More on Russia A ; 5 Washington-fllPD-Red China is In serious economic trouble, according to information re ceived in Washington. American officials said to day that the Peiping regime was being forced by successive crop failures into greater de pendence on Russia. There are some indications that Moscow is making sure that its Far East partner ac knowledge this dependence and all that it means to Sino Soviet relations. Red Chinese Leader Mao Tze-tung's "great leap for ward" industrialization drive, already slowed by earlier dif ficulties, will stall unless So viet Premier Nikita Khru shchev comes to the rescue, officials here believe. Not Yet Concluded Negotiations on this year's Soviet aid agreement were recessed in Peiping in March, resumed in Moscow in April and still have not been con cluded. Possibly because of this de lay, the annual spring an nouncement of Communist China's production achieve ments for the previous year Visitation Day Set At Jewett School Central Point - Visitation day for youngsters who will enter Jewett Elementary school as first graders next fall will be held Friday, May 19, at 1 p.m. Miss Elizabeth McGalliard, Jackson county school nurse, will speak to parents and chil dren in the cafetonum at 1 o'clock. 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