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Carrie) and Dealera copy 10c All Terms Cash In Advance "Offlctar Paper of Clty'of Medfnrd" Official Paper ofJacksoti County United P-osa International full Leased Wire O.P.I. Tcjephoto Newsplctures "MEMP.FR OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS ArfvefTlsIn Rerwitttve: NELSON ROBERTS It ASSOCI iTrs rmlfea In New York. Chi cago. Detroit, San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle. Portland, uenver NEWS FA PER PUBUSHERS ASSOCIATION NATION At EDITORIAl riiiTir-iail'lllI Flighlo'Time Medlord and Jackson County Hiilory from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO April 23, 1952 (Wednesday) Jackson county's budget for the next fiscal year was ten tatively agreed to last night by members of the committee and county court. Approximately 100 south ern Oregon high school stu dents are expected to visit Southern Oregon college to morrow during the annual in spection program, according to Dr. John A. Schulz, chair mun of the activity. 20 YEARS AGO April 23. 1942 (Thursday) Yrcka gardener finds can containing $1,000 in gold and currency while spading "vic tory" garden in back yard. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Kmudiic Pot" column: "This is 'Know Your Neighbor' week. Willi rationing coming up you might want to borrow a cup of sugar from mm. 30 YEARS AGO April 23, 1932 (Saturday) Instillation of Jail equip ment and elevator under way as new Jackson county court house nl Main st. and Oakdale ave. ncars completion. 1 Number of marriages In Jackson county decreased 6.5 per cent to 570 In 19111, coun ty clerk reveals. Divorces riown 10.5 per cent during year. 40 YEARS AGO April 23. 1922 (Sunday) Fifteen cases of smallpox reported in Thompson Creek area as epidemic feared. Former viceprcsident of de funct Jacksonville bank tried on charge of making false report to bank examiners. SO YEARS AGO April 23. 1912 (Monday) William Howard Tad de clares Theodore Roosevelt "seeks a dictatorship." be lieves it would be impossible to dislodge him from White House if elected president. Southern Pacific announces it will name new station near ttock Point "Rosey" in nonor oi A. S. Iloscnbaum, general manager of the Medford di vision. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight it etccllent; five or sis is good. 1. What is the body of wa Irr lying brtwiv.i Great Bri tain and Eire? 2. Which musician was known as the March King? 3. Animals that live on a meat diet are known as car nivores, herbivores, or omni-vuro.--? 4. Do the leaves of the clo ver told up at night? 5. Are the Falkland Islands in lhe South Pacific or South Atlantic? 6. niuchor, Mule, Moccasin Alio nioguc arc hji i.vprs m what' 7, Which Is the only slate whose name bears the name ol its founder? 8. All fleas require blood of birds or animals in order lo reproduce; true or false? 0 The White Sands proving grounds arc located in Ari zona. New Mexico, or Colo rado? 111. Is the word scarves or trails the correct plural form of SCHrf? Answers: 1. Ir'sh Sea. 2. John Philip Sousa. 3, Carni vores. 4. Yes. 5. South Atlan tic. 6. Chocs. 7, Pennsylvania. 8. True. 9. New Mexico, 10. tills ward la, MONDAY. APRIL 23. 1962 It Isn't From the current uproar, at least every now and then, one might suppose that federal aid to education is a strikingly new idea. The reverse is true. It goes back to federal government. It stitution by four years. In 1785 the Congress adopted an ordinance for disposing of govern ment land "in the Western terrtory" and set aside one section in each township for the en dowment of schools. And when Ohio was admit ted to the union in 1802, Congress began desig nating land for school support at the time of admission of each new state. The first federal institution of higher educa tion was, of course, the Military Academy at West Point, established in 1802. The first Morrill Act in 1862 initiated a policy of aid to states for agricultural and industrial education through land grants for colleges, lhe second Morrill Act, in 1890, made federal money available for college instruction in specified subjects. IN 1919 Washington adopted a policy of federal surplus property disposal to educational insti tutions. In 1920 it established the Reserve Offi cers Training Corps in colleges and universities in almost every corner of the land. In 1937, under the National Cancer Institute Act, it began to grant public health service fellowships. In the field of higher education, there has been a great increase in federal-aid programs ever since World War II. The G.I. Bill of Rights (1944) enabled hun dreds of thousands of veterans to attend the colletre of their choice, public or private. In 1946 the government established what is essentially a full federal scholarship program in one special field the "regular" Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps. In that same year the Atomic Energy Act initiated fellowship awards by the A.E.C! In 1950 the college housing loan program betran (it totaled $1.4 billion in its first ten years alone), in 1952 new fellowship programs for the National Science Foundation, in 1958 the Na tional Defense Education Act established new federal policies on education at all levels. IN THE magical name of "defense," some l,3fi0 colleges and universities (we have 1,934 in all) and some 150,000 students participate in this program; there are 2,500 three-year tellow ships for graduate students planning college teaching careers; there are 4b language and area centers to improve instruction in languages not commonlv taught; there are 532 foreign fellow ships in modern-language study available to qual ified candidates. And "defense" contracts in research at the .university level account for a large proportion of the annual budget of dozens of institutions. All these things cost money from $1.5 to $2 billion a year, by estimate of the U. S. Office of Education. The great mass of our educators, not to mention others, sav that it is not enough, not enough even for defense irger purpose of the national interest as a whole. There are many reasons to support this view, not the least of which is our unending population explosion (meaning a college-demand jump up to 70 per cent by 1 !M,), as does President Ken nedy and apparently a considerable majority of the Congress. But let s not hear any more about it all being "new." It goes right straight back to 1785. Louisville Courier-Journal. Tax The nation's taxpayers who filed their annual returns on or before .Monday, April eontrib uted more than mere money. They also contrib uted an enormous volume of labor. The preparation of the returns to say nothing of the reeord searching and soul searching that goes with it, must be one of the most massive clerical operations conducted in the economy. The value of the man hours involved, including those of tax advisors and accountants, probably runs into the hundreds of millions of dollars. The paid efforts of the accountants and advisors of course enter into the gross national product and so contribute to economic growth and to the fu ture tax base. Those taxpayers who operate by the do-it-yourself system must consider themselves fortu nate that they are not yet required to include the value of their labor in their taxable income. DUT when the work and done with, it tive side. Taxes, as the quotation from Oliver Wendell Holmes on the front page of the instruc tions tells us, are what we pay for civilized so ciety. And if the price is high and the value rm,jv,,, nol awaV at least has made some progress toward easing the mechanics. Iiy splitting form 1 it 1 0 into two parts, some 1 1 million taxpayers have been relieved of a futile search among types of income they do not have. The technical language of the instructions has been brought lo the verge of comprehensi bility. "Adjusted gross income," long a source of bewilderment to the unadjusted layman, has yielded to "total income." These technical improvements are worth not ing. The taxpayer will be grateful for them, so lone as he can hope that the simplifying overhaul of the entire tax .-tincture which so often has been promised will finally get under wav. "New the very infancy of the even antedates the Con of the Confederation purposes, much less the Date and the grumbling is over is good to look at the posi certain, Commissioner Caplin Dennis the 1 HIM WU WAHTHP HIM TO Drummond Reports (Walter Lippmjn is in Europe. Roicoe Drummond reports from Washington in his absence.) (c) 1962 New York Herald Tribune Inc. FINANCING ELECTIONS Washington How much money do you think was spent by all candidates run ning for public office in the United Slates in 1360 $40 million. $8 million, $100 mil lion? No, the total expendi ture, as computed by the bi partisan President's Commis sion on Campaign Costs, is be tween $165 and $175 million. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS At Geneva the other day, the United Status offered a proposal to cut the world's armaments almost two-thirds within six years and to re place national armies with a United Nations peace force in about a decade. The American plan was pre sented to the 17-nation dis- iirm.'imcnl conference as a draft treaty "for general and complete disarmament in a peaceful world.'' In it. the U.S. look a considerable po litical risk by agreeing to ac cept Russia's word on the amount of arms and troops the Soviets woulu have in service at the start of disarm ament. American officials said the draft was an elaboration of 1 he disarmament program the United States offered to the United Nations last Septem ber 25. QUESTION: Will complete world dis armament ever come about? I" ET'S put it this way: When tigers are born with out fangs and claw s. the world may have reached a point where complete disarm ament is feasible. Hut not, one fears, until then. Still There is this hope for PARTIAL disarmament: Han NUCLEAR warfare. That might be possible. Poi son gas was used in World iWar 1. It hasn't been used since. What has been done! once can olton be done again. i HHOM Accra, capital of the African Republic tu Ghana: President Kwame Nkru Imah has fired Industries Min lister Kroho Edusei. who rc jccnlly came under fire when his wife purchased a gold plated bed in London for j which she paid SR. 400. 'rMlE purchase of the gold j 1 plated bed wasn't too pop I ular among Ghana's newly ' eutranchised citizenry. News I reports told us at the time jlltat following disclosure of ! its acquisition by the wife of la member of the Ghana prcsi ' dent's cabinet thousands of Ghana women m arched j around the government uild I ings in Accra carrying ban , ners inscribed "Send back the ;bed!" j 'I'lte bed. incidentally, was lhe centerpiece of lhe bed ; manufacturers' display at the llntish Fnrnilu. S h o w in London this year. After the show, il was displayed in : Selfriilge's w indow. Selfriilg e s is the hit; department store on Oxford Street. It was foun ded several decades ai:o by Harry Sclfpdce, an Ameri can, and introduced the Am erican department store idea -to Londoners. The till. ma minister's lady, strolling atong Oxford street, saw It, It'll "madly m lo e w i t h it ' according to lhe Hews di-p.ttches at l'ie time 'and Knight it Tr ihle start- . ed at home when the news got out. l'l'I.I.. tilings like that hap pen w he;i c o u n t r les whese people are not ready lor democracy hecnie deiuoc- Mi; MEDFORD MAIL Menace CCWE HCWE MRS.MlTCHElX, BuT The costs to the two par ties for the Presidential and Vice Presidential elections amounted to $20 million. Both parties went into debt as us ual. The dismaying fact is the scale at which campaign costs arc mounting. National cam paign costs in 1960 rose more than 50 per cent over 1956. If this trend keeps up, the cost in 1964 would be $30 million, in 1968, $45 million. Talk about inflationary price spiral. For political campaigns, it .is a veritable whirling dervish. T IKE the weather, it is easy lo talk about th unpleas antness o f campaign costs, but difficult to do something about it. Th,e President's com mission proposes to do some thing. It offers some very sen sible suggestions which Mr. Kennedy said he would put before Congress in the form of legislation. The worst defect of pres ent methods of campaign fi nancing is that too few con tributors provide most of the money. This tends to under mine public confidence in the way campaigns are financed which itself serves to dry up mass contributing and to put political candidates in the debt of big contributors. The thing which impresses me most about the approach of the President's commission, headed by Dr. Alexander Heard, dean of the Graduate School of the University of North Carolina and a recog nized authority on political fi nance, is that it did not throw up its hands in horror at the magnitude of the problem and then run for cover by offering the easy, no think remedy of "let the government do it" charge it to Uncle Sam, who is always the other fellow. Instead the commission sees it as desirable and attainable to increase vastly the number of contributors to national campaigns. This would take the financing of both parties largely out of the hands of wealthy industrialists and wealthy labor unions. . rrilE principal steps pro posed are: I Tax incentives for small contributors, such as permit ting up to $1,000 contribu tions n year tax deductions. 2- Encouraging civic groups labor unions, and large cor porations lo encage in "vol untary bi-partisan political activities" - helping to raise funds, promoting registration, getting out the vote, and pro viding platforms, so that both sides could more casilv get their views before all the voters. Reasonable costs for all of these activities would be tax-deductible. 3 Take off the meaningless ceiling on campaign expendi tures, which practically forces party managers to perjure themselves, strengthen and j enforce the laws on report- iug contributions and spend ing. I Prohibit niu'tisan cam- pnign contributions of all kinds under all guises by cor porations and labor unions. There should be "no distinc tion between corporat ions and unions w ith respect to polit- : l",,r1-- and me police ical contributions and expen-i'" " "llr 'ob Charac diturcs" I think il is lair toj,,'r ,s ai home, and only sav that in the past the law. al llonu'- Let u keep the dirty as administered, has been I ,"oks m" nf children's lough on corporations, as it I ,Kmd- "y all means, if we snould be. and soft on union... Wi,m " b"' ''' "" not im as it shouldn't be. iavime for a moment that the 4 KKW years at:o the Gallup Poll conducted a survev which showed that litrrallv illup millions of Americans ha e never been asked for a c.i'.n- p.iu:n contribution by either parly, and tli.it a larse ni.t - lenty would be willing to re- i .pond under t!ic niiht ap - preach ' On t;ood approach might TRIBUNE. MEDFORO. OREGON Foreign News: Britain Into Common Market; Trouble in Czechoslovakia By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Naws Editor Notes from the foreign new cables: The Big Plunge British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan has order ed full speed ahead in nego t i a t ions for Great Brit ain's entry in to the Euro pean Common Market, and the final step now is expect ed to be tak en by the end of the year. It would add Britain's 52 million population to the 170 million people al ready in the Common Market in France, West Germany, Italy, Luxenmbourg, Belgium and the Netherlands, and mark the end of Britain's his toric policy of alloofness from the continent. . There still are many ob stacles to overcome since mem bership in the Common Mar ket requires some form of political as well as economic Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris fci General Features Corp. VALUES AREN'T FICKLE VARIABLES In any discussion about "pornographic" literature, the people who would censor it always make a last-ditch de fense of their position b y , bringing up u u i i-iiiia- - granted that : adults should be able t o choose their Hams own reading ma'crial freely," they say, "would you allow your child ret, to be exposed to such trash?' I am quite honosetly puz zled by their attitude. They seem lo have such a low and nasty opinion of children, and little fi)ith in lhe training and character of their offspring. During my youth, all my schoolmates and myself were exposed to the most porno graphic kinds of card and pic tures and illustrated jokes. We weren't amused, we were not shocked and we weren't corrupted: we were simply bored by the graphic dirtiness after the initial curiosity wore off. Children who arc at all af fected by that kind of thing are already the victims of a poor upbringing at home. If sex is portrayed as something dirty, cruel, contemptible, un natural or shamefully fur tive, then the children will respond to such attitudes by taking a pathological interest in the subject, pornography or not. Of course, if any commu nity wants to "protect'' its children from smut, it has a perfect right to do so but it should not be surprised if the results are negligible. Children reared in an atmos phere of love and trust and decent values are not "corrup ted" by dirty books oi pic tures and the others are going to wander into the ways of depravity no matter how vigilantly we may guard against il. By the time a child is 6 or 7 years old. his basic atti tudes have already been shap ed If these attitudes are not healthy and productive ones. jhe is going to look for other oti'letg in sex. violence, lying, stealing or truancy. No police power o r censorship power can be a substitute for the moral function of the par ent and the family. The parent-: who are so an gry and worried about porn ography falling into the hands of their children are really expressing deep doubts or fears of their rwn effective ness as parents. They feel they have failed in some way, and hope that some out side diseiplin.- will lake up the slack for them. Wo cannot ask the M-hnoU 1 . .. j t. . ... ic ensn i.imasies or an un- ""Pry or iinstahie child can hi- i ll. lien nv nnrnnn. . or prost-ccuting peddlers of' ; ynul1 be to put mass scale campaign : fund raising nt the hands of a distinguished bi partisan : body headed by t lie- two most liecrnt cx-Prcsiricnts of the ' t'-S. 1., : unity. But the Britten are sure these difficulties can be over come, providing French Pres ident Charles de Gaulle docs not throw up an unexpected rordblock. De Gaulle may fear that British membership might interfere with his own plans for French leadership of the Common Market. Czechoslovak Troubles Look for new severe meas ures by the Cze.hoslovakian government to meet growing reports of a lack of discipline among Czechoslovak workers. The Czech trade union paper, Prace. has criticized workers for failure to observe the ob ligatory six-day work week and those who demand free Matter of Fact a j (o New York Herald MAD HATTER'S TEA PARTY Vientiane, Laos - The best way to understand the present stage of American policy in this distracted little country is to remem ber the worst moment of the Mad Hatter's tea party in "Alice." This, beyond doubt, was the mo ment when the Mad Hat Alsnp ter rather crossly tried to stuff the dormouse into the teapot. The role of the Mad Hatter is being played, with consid erable panache, by the Assist ant Secretary of State for the East, Gov. Avcrell Ha'rriman. The dormouse in this peculiar charade is the Laotian anti Communist leader. Gen. Phoumi Nosavan. And as in "Alice," the dormouse has re fused to be stuffed - at least as yet. It is not all so comic, how ever. Consider, for example, Governor Herriman's last de scent on Laos, which was in tended to stuff the dormouse into the teapot by main force. AT a meeting with all the leaders of the present anti - Communist government, Governor Harriman's last de ed the salubrious character of the teapot in question. This is a neutral coalition govern ment which the Governor de sires to form, with the "neu tralist," Prince Souvanna Phouma, at its head, with Lao tian Communists included In the cabinet, and with the anti Communists also included -but only and above all after the anti-Communists have sur rendered their vital control of both the army and the police. After expatiating on the teapot, Governor Harriman gave a preliminary shove. The economic subsidy of S3 mil lion a month, which the United Slates has long paid lo Laos, was suspended some time ago as a pressure move. This has already caused infla tion here. But other pressure moves were easily possible, the Governor reminded the Laotian cabinet, thus hinting at future suspension of mili tary aid as well. Governor Harriman then looked at the Laotian leaders one by one: pointed a stern forefinger at each of them in turn; and told them that he wished them to know they would be "responsible for the destruction of their country" if they refused to do his bid ding. There was a brief si lence, and Gen. Plioumi then replied: "You know. Governor Har riman, we in Laos have many years' experience of colonial rule. But we were never spoken to in quite that fashion in the colonial times." IT CAN be seen, then, that rather passionate feelings have by now been generated on both sides. Yet the Ameri can policy here most urgently needs cool, dispassionate re examination. The existing policy was somewhat hastily adopted at the low ebb of the Kennedy administration, just after the Try and PI By BENNETT CERF- A YOUNG WRITER who hit t i- surprise best-seller, and a the property to Hollywood, now ne was contemplat ing a trip to Las Vegas. "I've invented a system fcr beating the roulette wheel," he announced, "that I believe is infal lible." Director Anatol Litvak, no stranger to the gaming aD!cs himself, cooled off the young writer s entnu- I siasm somewhat by re- minding him. "Las Vegas welcomes all gamblers with open arms when they blow into town. But for gamblers u-i!) a sys tem, my boy they scad an airplane! Saturdays. Low morale among workers is estimated to have cost the state $11 million so far this year. Crystal Ball For those who like a quick chance to test the accuracy of predictions, her? is what the Western diplomats in Moscow expect of this week's meeting of the Supreme Soviet. A foregone conclusion is Nikita Khrushchev's confirmation as premier. Then will come a foreign policy speech in which the premier will launch a bit ter attack against United States nuclear tests. How ever, Khrushchev is expected to approach the situation in Berlin with caution. The re- Joseph Alsop Tribune Syndicate Cuban debacle. The aim was to secure a strictly neutral Laos, with no North Viet namese Communist troops on Laotian soil, and with the North Vietnamese blocked from using Laos as a transit route for its attack on South Vietnam. At Geneva last spring, with his customary industry and ability. Governor Harriman negotiated an agreement with the Soviets which on paper, at least, promised the desired neutral Laos. All the require ments for strict Laotian neu trality were to be met, as soon as a coalition, all-party government could be installed with Prince Souvanna Phou ma at its head. The Chinese and North Vietnamese dele gates at Geneva gave their as sent; and the Soviet delegate made important personal com mitments to Governor Harri man. At this stage, last summer, the agreement that Governor Harriman had negotiated looked like the best American bet in Laos, even though it was obviously a long shot bet. Any contraption basically de pending on Communist good faitli must always be a long shot bet. But its real flaw was its dependence on stuffing the dormouse into the teapot. Prince Boun Oum, the Prime Minister, and Gen. Phoumi, the real leader of the anti - Communist government, never felt enthusiasm for the coalition teapot. But they would have entered, nonethe less, if the price of the coali tion had not been their sur rendering control of the po lice and the army. Such a sur render, they understandably considered, was tantamount to cutting their own throats with a blunt knife. 17OR just this reason, despite month after month of maneuvering and mounting pressure, the dormouse has obstinately refused to be stuffed. Meanwhile, the pas sage of time and changing cir cumstances have transformed what used to be a reasonable long shot bet into a totally in defensible gamble. A Chinese Communist gen eral, thinly disguised as a consul-general, has turned up in the northern province of Phong Saly, at the head of a division of Chinese troops rather better disguised as road builders. The Communist North Vietnamese have been pushing in troops, until they now have between 12.000 and 14.000 soldiers in Laos, of which half are in regular army battalions. The transit routes to South Vietnam, which were supposed to be abandoned, have been persist ently used and improved. For these and many other reasons, if the Laotian anti Communists are now driven, by main force, into the coali tion that has been so eagerly promoted, it will be equiva lent to handing Laos to the North Vietnamese with a red ribbon prettily tied around il. No doubt this can be done, by withdrawing U. S. military aid for instance, which Gov ernor Harriman apparently told the British Ambassador here that he intended to rec ommend. But it is certainly I time to stop and think again. Stop Me the jackpot this year with a subsequent six-figure sate of allowed at a cocktail party as T' I call of Soviet East German Commander Ivan K on lev. who gave the East Germans moral support In the erection of the Berlin wall, and the U.S.-Soviet talks In Washing, tion, have given continuing support to speculation that Khrushchev would like a peaceful solution of the Ber lin problem. The Western ob servers foresee no major shakeup in the Soviet Coun cil of Ministers. Washington Report By William S. White c United Feature ' Syndicate "SUCH FOLLY" Washington The shoddy moralizing of the world's neu tral powers has now stirred ' j"W?S" ' S American pa cifists and half - pacifists to a last hyp nosis of hope less hope. En couraged b y the cruel hoax of a "compro mise" propos ed by-ihe neu- Whita tralists, which would in fact mean no kind of enforced ban, these earnest Americans have set out upon one more campaign to force the United States to abandon its plans to resume nuclear testing and so to take at long la.- some regard for its ca pacity to survive on this plan et. Not all the long story of neutralist hypocrisy can show a more cynical fraud than this alleged "compromise" of fered at Geneva by the eight "nonaligned" countries sitting between West and East in disarmament discussions. EVDR the eight have put for ward a brazen phony which make3 a mockery of three years of patient West ern efforts to reach a genu ine agreement with the Rus sians for an enforceable end to testing. Their "compromise" would sell out to the very nation which long ago broke a gen tlemen's agreement with us on testing, the Soviet Union. For what it says is that there should be inspection of possi ble test violatio but with out international control posts actually to test ' such viola tions and without any on-the-spot Inspection of Soviet blasts, unless the Soviets' should "invite" it. This appalling r u L h i sh amounts to saying this: where, as murder is h ireafter lo bo against the law, there is to be no adequate police force to prevent it and no method even for investigating it after it happens unless the mur derer should "invite" the de tectives in. "THAT, theoretically, respon sible nations could offer so fraudulent a "compromise" should astonirh no one who is aware of the actual standards of ethics and candor of the self-nominated "moral lead ers" of our era, the neutralists. Nor is there any surprise whatever in the make-up of this particular g.oup of eight "moral leaders." Inevitably, there is the India of the saint ed Nehru, fresh from its na ker1 aggression upon th- tiny Portuguese colony of Goa. There is the pro-Soviet Uni ted Arab Republic, which re cently won a great victory bv having t h e United Nations condemn Israel for the crime of "retaliating" against persis tent assaults from Syria. There are Latin-American neutralists like Brazil and Mexico, which have long been unable to see too much evil in Castro-Communist Cuba but have most lively memor ies of every single fault of the United States of the last century and a half. AND, there is, of course, Sweden, now grown rich and fat by happily selling marked-op weapons to both sides, while itself remaining righteously "neutral." through two bloody world wars. And so on. Put what, even in this kind of world, is difficult to under stand is that Americans of th- greatest decency are still subject to influence from sources such as these. There is the "National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy." It urges upon President Kenndy this "important compromise proposal" from t' neutralist p wers. And there are groups taking ads in the papers ap pealing to the president to call off all nuclear testing, no matter what the Russians might do, and so assert "mor al leadership." No one can question their right thus to act. This corres pondent does not for a mo ment question their motives, either. But what is to be said for such folly, in the face of a record overflowing with So viet double-dealing and of neutralist double-talking? I
