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4 A "-Everyone In Southern OrtSon ReadajriwaiJJMbujw" FubTished Dally eftept Saturday bj MEDFOKD PRINTING CO 33 North nrStPhSP2:6Ul " ROBERT W RUHU Editor HKRB GREY Advertlsins Manager ESVT. r, -r I &THAM Bus Msr. vSicvl AIXEN JR. Mni Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIIMA!( Telet Ediwr OLIVE STARCHER Women'a Mltoi DALE EKlUtWJWl""""" rrtn.nnriint Newmaoer fcitered as aecond claas matter el Medford. Oregon unuer iwi , March 3. IB97 ailuurmpTlON RATES By Mall - In Advance Copy ,0c Dally and Sunday 1 year lldoO Dally and Sunday moa sou Dallv and Sunday 3 tnoi J.aa Sunday Only One year f i io Bk Carrier In Advance Medlord A.hland I'entral Point HI Pnlnt Jacksonville Cold HIM Phoenix Shaay Cove oue R.v - K.i.t nn mnlAr routes. Daily and Sunday I vear 1800 ratlv and Sunday 1 mo VoO rrri.i and Dealera conv tor All Terma Caah In Advance "Official Paper of CUT of Medforo Official PaperofJacknni County """ttnlted P-eaa International Full Leaied Wire DPI Telepnolo Newaplcturea "TSempfr or AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Xdvartlnlne Representative- NVXsON ROBERTS i ASSOC-Vt-s-c nirir.M in New York. Chi rin Detroit. San Tranelaco. Lol Aneelea Seattle. Portland. Denver NEWIPAMI PU1LISH1IS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL Flight o' lime Medlord and Jackson County History from the tiles of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. ' 10 YEARS AGO May 18,. 1952 (Sunday) Jackson county's budget tor the fiscal year 1952-53 will be completed and ready (or signing a week from Mon day, County Judge J. B. Cole man has announced. North and south train serv ice between Grants Pass ana Dunsmuir, Calif., was "dis continued permanently" for the second time last week, according to Southern Pacific railroad officials. 20 YEARS AGO May 18. 1942 (Monday) Jackson county's eight Jap anese residents ordered to evacuate this aroa by June 1 From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The primary election was held with a minimum of voters par ticipating. There is a report lhere will be another election In' November." 30 YEARS AGO May 18, 1932 (Wednosday) Two workmen hurt as scaf fold falU during construction of new courthouse at Main St. and Oakdale avc. Friends gather at Medford home of Judge Will G. Steel, "father of Crater Lake Na tional park," on 30lh anni versary of park's founding. 40 YEARS AGO May 18, 1922 (Thursday) Postal authorities announce start of daily star mall route carrier service between Med ford and Klamath Falls. Jackson county court calls for bids on construction of road between Butte Falls and Derby. SO YEARS AGO May 18, 1912 (Friday) Twelve gallons of dirt yields gold valued at $1,000 at Victor mine on Galice creek. Plans under way to muster In new Medford National Guard company with cere monies at the NatHtorium building. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or sli Is good. 1. What is a dryed? 2. Did Robert Fulton' s steamboat, Clermont, have nronellors. side "middles or a paddle wheel at the stern? ! 3. Does Greenland lie east! or west of Iceland? ! 4. which contains the law! Torllh;SUSthc Ta',mid or ,,,c T when a Naval vessel is laid up in reserve, is. it said to bo in deep freeze, or in moth halls R Nunm tlir niH 'l rharactcr who used as a wrap - on ihr jawbone nf an ass. irJn Man TttZZn" 8. would a slide rule most likely be used by a plumber, carpenter or civil engineer? 9. Wwho was tl fleet-footed god of the Greeks who wore winged sandals? 10. What American animal has a pouch like a kangaroo Answers: 1. Wood nymph. 2. Side paddle wheels. 3. We-.t. The Torah. S. In mothballs. 8. Samson. 7. Lou Gehrig. 8. Civil engineer. 9. Mercury. 10. Opossum. FRIDAY. lvfe-VY II. 1162 Advice on Voting There are two bits of time-honored elector. advice with which we are all familiar. Th first is, "When in doubt, vote no." The second is, "Vote as you please but vote" We take exception to both of them, either in whole or in part. In place of the fii-st, we would substitute: "When in doubt, don't vote." Many .excellent measures have gone down to defeat simply be cause not enough voters had informed themselves and cast a "no" vote as a result. If you honestly don t know, let those who fN the second point, we'll go along to the extent that we believe it is the duty of every voter to go to the polls if he or she has decided opin ions, preferably based on a study of the candi dates and measures. But for a totally uninterested and uninformed voter to cast a ballot is not only a waste of time; it is also a denial of one democratic theory, that an informed electorate should govern itself. We urge all to vote if they consider themselves to be both interested and informed, on all mat ters. Otherwise, they might just as well stay home, or skip those candidates and measures they don't know, or don't care, about. E.A. The Medical Care Debate Practically everyone should be readily available to all particularly the elderly under circumstances surrounded by dignity and tree choice for the patients. The argument is how to go about obtaining it. Elsewhere on this page is a well-written, closely-reasoned and forcefully-stated letter from a highly respected and well-liked Medford physi cian. In it, he argues against the concept of med ical care for the aged being linked to the Social Security mechanism. i llE not only respect his opinions; we are he has taken the trouble to set them so vigorously. , Still, we do not agree with his conclusions. - We find ourselves more in agreement with the statement of a group of leading physicians from all parts of the nation, contained in a recent letter addressed to President Kennedy. It said : ! We Join in this statement to reassert the social and public responsibility which has long characterized the motivation and dedication of the medical profession in America. Through modern scientific achievements much has been done to prolong the life potential of the population. Con currently, medical care has become more costly. Old age is a period of need for Increased medical care and it ..is most frequently accompanied by diminishing resources to; pay for such care. Today, all but a relative few still live under the constant fear that an unpredictable medical disaster may strike and destroy the financial security of their later years. We believe the social security system is the most practical and sound method of financing health benefits for the great majority of the aged. As a group of physicians, representing general prac titioners, scientists, health administrators, educators, and specialists in many fields, and including members of both political parties, we welcome the opportunity to meet on this occasion and convey to the American people our be lief that with such a method of financing health benefits for the aged, the physicians of America would be better able to maintain their commitment to provide high quality medical care and excellence of standards while preserving independence of professional judgment, and that the aged will be better able to enjoy with dignity the best of modern medical care. rR. HIBBS makes one valid point, which we have stated repeatedly in this space before namely, that the King-Anderson Social Security approach does not go far enough ; that even if it were passed, there are still many among the eld erly who would not be Also, King-Anderson part-payment of hospital and nursing home bills, and not to payment of physicians' fees away from hospitals. These two deficiencies make the King-Anderson bill less than ideal, but they do not invalidate it as a badly-needed step in the right direction. QUITE recently a man we know became ill and had to go to a hospital for a series of three operations. He is retired, in his 70s. Both he and his wife worked practically all their lives until their re tirement. They had raised two children, made modest investments, and had a tidy savings ac cumulated, which, together with pensions and social security payments, was enough to keep them in modest but comfortable circumstances. The surgical costs were considerable, but the couple could have handled them without too much difficulty. They had hospital insurance, which helped. But hospital costs mounted to tpii i e 1 r : "'Uie uiitii .pivu L'i u;i,v tui a iuiij; jcnuti ui lime. Despite savings, pensions, social security, and insurance, how long could any family stand this s' t of expense? 13 it sain e, canned.! MO, THE King-Anderson approach is not per Testament I feet, but it is so far and away better than 1 ally program HOW ill existence, 01' CVPll ill sight, that it (k'sci ves immediate enactment. c only about (50 per cent of those now over (o years of age are eligible for Social Se curity, the total will be !'0 to Do per cent in years to come. And, coupled with the Kerr-Mills act (now in effect in 18 states including Oregon) for non welfare cases who still cannot afford massive medical costs, and with the welfare medical pro grams, it will give us a start at obtaining what we all agree is terribly needed medical ca reef or the elderly under circumstances surrounded by dignity and free choice for the patients. E.A. do know decide. e of the basic tenets of agrees that medical care glad forth served would be confined to Dennis the Menace ' 'Which AR'sr tovls, Ates.vVasoN?- Today & Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann tel Neve York Herald Tribune Syndicate GAULLIST REBELLION AGAINST U. S. NUCLEAR MONOPOLY Editor's Nota; This is in first in a series of three articles on Mr. Lippmann's rtcant European trip. A month ago I went to Western Europe in order to have a look at the grand proj- e c t of the Western Alliance the Common Mar ket, enlarged by the admis sion of Great Britain and joined with us in a wide free- trading area. I set out Lippmann with a strong conviction that the project was desirable, in deed necessary, that It was in the manifest destiny of the Western world. I still think this. But I con fess that my enthusiasm was stronger than my knowledge of what are the dominant forces in the new Europe as it has come to be recently. I had not realized that the grand project was compli cated by the nuclear stale mate, by the success of the Common Market, by the lack of any known and clear suc cession in France and Ger many, and by our own fading economic pre-eminence. The road ahead will be a rough one, and if the hopes of the Western Alliance are to be realized, it will not be this summer, and it will not be soon. The grand project is caught up in a crisis of power and leadership within the Western Alliance. We have a right to believe that with pa tience, lucidity, and resolu tion the crisis will eventually be overcome. For it is true, I think, that throughout Europe there is a deep and ardent determination to conquer the obstacles, If necessary by out living them. WHEN I went abroad I had braced myself for heavy doses of briefing on what is surely a dull exercise for a journalist, namely the com mercial problems of the Com mon Market, of Britain and the Commonwealth, and of the European neutrals. I soon learned that Important as the commercial issues are, the critical issue within the alli ance comes from a rebellion against the American monop oly of nuclear power. There are, as I shall be writ ing next, exceedingly difficult economic issues between Great Britain and the Euro pean community. But in the eyes of General dc Gaulle, who leads the rebellion, the unacceptable fact about Great Britain Is its "special rela tion" with the United States. That special relation does not mean merely that the "Anglo Saxons," as General de Gaulle calls Britain and America, speak English and quickly call each other by their first names. Specifically, the unac ceptable special relation is that Britain has access to our nuclear monopoly while France is denied access. M. Raymond Aron. for example, writing in The Figaro, says it is hard to see why it is safe for nuclear knowledge to cross the Atlantic to England and not to cross the English Chan nel to France. For General de Gaulle this special relation In nuclear af fairs would make Britain an agent of the United States within the European commu nity. Not only would Britain have an especially strong po sition, but it would have knowledge which prevented it from speaking freely within the community. There would be questions which could not be discussed fully and frankly in the community because Britain would have special knowledge which she could MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON not convey to. her fellow mem bers. So it would be a wonder Indeed if for this reason alone General de Gaulle did not seek a way to prevent Britain from entering the European community. He should not have too much difficulty in doing this inasmuch as the British are very much divided among themselves about whether they want to "join" Europe. a I DID my best to understand exactly the -nature of the French rebellion against our nuclear monopoly. I do not doubt that pride, prestige, status, and all that sort of thing are involved in it. But they do not fully explain it. What I am about to report is my own personal conclusion, although it is based on some first hand inquiries. In all of Western Europe, and particularly in France which is the most articulate in this field, there is a convic tion which does not exist equally in this country, that the balance of nuclear power as against the Soviet Union is an accomplished fact. Quite generally, the Europeans be lieve that the East-West politi cal stalemate which results from the nuclear deadlock is not soon going to be broken, and that therefore while there will be no nuclear war, and no small conventional wars about Berlin and Germany, nothing constructive and large can be negotiated either. Where we differ from the continentals is not that we ex pect great things to be nego tiated. It is that they treat the nuclear stalemate as an accom plished fact, while we are continually concerned with how much it costs in sweat and worry to accomplish it and to keep it accomplished. Thus, for example, General de Gaulle and Dr. Adenauer take a "harder" line about Berlin than we do. This is not because they are more ready than we are to go to war about Berlin. It is because they look on war, given the nuclear stalemate, as inconceivable. We do not regard it as incon ceivable. Thus we mobilized when Berlin was divided by the wall. The French and Germans did not. It is rubbish therefore, to write about this kind of thing as if it were an argument between the legon dary old heroes and the soft young men. Seen from Waslv ington. where the button would have to be pressed, it is not so altogether certain that the nuclear stalemate Is an unequivocally accomplish ed fact. THE rebellion against the American monopoly is tak ing place within the context of the American capacity to prevent a nuclear war. The so called Independent nuclear force is often talked about as if It were a conceivable alter native to the American capa city. It is not in any sense an alternative. General dc Gaulle says that by the end of 1963 France will have a "force de frappc." that is to say a nu clear striking force, capable of killing 20 million people. That is something, in the way of force, but it is no match for, and is no independent de fense against, the Soviet Union. The question is: What is it? I think I am right in saying that the French striking force is to be a French national force. When would it be used? When France Is attacked. What would constitute an at tack on France? A blockade of Berlin? No. France would be attacked when her real frontier, which is the Rhine River, is violated. Would the apuclear weapon be used if the violation of the Rhine W(4our bifger hopes. Guerrilla Tactics in Basis for By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Newi Analyst Mao ff se-tung, Red China's leader and chief strategist, once wrote: "When the situation is se r i o u s the g u e r ri 1- las must move with the fluid ity of water and the ease of blowing wind. Their tactics must deceive, tempt and confuse Kewsom the enemy. They must lead the enemy to believe that they will attack him from the east and north, and they must then strike him from the west and south." These tactics, outlined by Mao in 1937, may very well be the ones being followed by COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication Is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all 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 oaper: in fact the contrary is often the case. Lost Strike To the Editor: One of the long lost gold pocket strikes that has eluded all searchers for nearly three-fourths of a century lies hidden from re discovery in the upper reaches of Patrick's creek in north ern Del Norte county, Califor nia, according to a very few of the old early day prospec tors that lived in that isolated area. The discovery was made in that day when wild Indians were roaming the fringes of an oncoming civilization. A lone prospector had showed samples of gold to others be fore he dissappeared mysteri ously one day. The theory among the miners was that he had met with foul play. Many years afterward a group of financial men having heard the ill fated story, set out from Portland to look for the once fabulous strike. Having come to northern California they employed an Indian guide that was thought to be familiar with all of the sur rounding territory. As the story goes, the group was led along strange trails deep in the hills. Finally the guide asked the group to take a five minute rest while he made some ob servations. After taking leave of absence, he failed to come back to the weary group of fortune hunters. So that ended their fond hopes and they made their way back to safety. Bert Kissinger 520 Boardman st. Medford done with conventional weap ons? Yes. But would not France be demolished if it made the first nuclear strike? No, for Russia would be de terred by the United States. In what sense, then, we may ask ourselves, would the "force de frappc" be an inde pendent deterrent? From in quiries I made previously, as well as this year, I take the answer to be twofold. First, if France has the capability of killing 20 million Russians, it might have the power to re sist becoming involved in a nuclear war which broke out, say in Asia, beyond the limits of French national interests. And second, if France can make the first nuclear strike, one which compelled the Unit ed States to join her, the ulti mate decision of nuclear war or peace is no longer in Wash ington. a rpHE independent French na - tional striking force is the current substitute for the sta tioning of American troops on the frontier of the cold war. They were put there ten years or more ago to act as the "plate glass window" or the "trip wire" in case the Rus sians marched to the West. If those American troops were attacked, there would be no debate in Washington as there was in the two World Wars about going to war in Europe. Tlie "force dc frappe" is a de vice to encage the United States so that the initiative in nuclear startccy would be mainly in continental Europe. I hope no one will regard this as the exposure of a wicked plot. It is not a wicked plot. But it is power politics as played by the masters of the game and we must not be Pharisaical about it. We do not have a divine right to have in our own hands, rather than in European hands, the ulti mate decisions. But it is in our interest to hold on to the ulti mate decision, if we can, and we must not be beguiled and bemused by any sentimental adulation of venerable states men who arc not moved by sentimentality. In other words, we shall have to play , the game j d resourceful j enough to pro.ict our ulti- mate interest and to promote Political Maneuvering Also the Communists in Southeast Asia today. This would suggest that the Red Chinese and Communist North Viet Nam axis regards Thailand, Laos and South Viet Nam a a single theater of action. Political boundaries become meaningless from a military point of view in an area of jungle and mountain. Thus, as the United States steps up its aid to South Viet Nam and the Communists are threatened with a military set back there, they are able to shift their emphasis rapidly to northern Laos, creating a con sequent threat to Thailand. Western observers around the perimeter of Red China say the lightning capture of Nam Tha by Communist Pathet Lao forces is a pres tige victory for Peiping over Moscow. I Against King-Anderson To the Editor: To have or not to have socialized medi cine in this country comes to a decision in Congress in the next two weeks. President Kennedy devised a bill called the King-Anderson which will offer government medicine for the aged, those over 65 years. It covers all who have social security whether they need it or not, and also whether they want it or not. It will be government medi cine, the most expensive of all where you receive 40 cents for every dollar you send to Washington. Which one of your neighbors do you think should pay your bill? By defi nition from Webster's dic tionary, medical care tied to social security is socialized medicine. This is a political bill started at the top, now trying to get some grass roots support. President Kennedy is speak ing at a TV spectacular and political pow-wow on May 20, in New York's Madison Square Garden to win sup port for the King-Anderson Bill. Is an emotional rally with bands, entertainers and a Hollywood pitch the proper way to.' solve a serious health problem for many years to come? And, our president to be upstaged by Mitch Miller, Ray Bolger, Bert Parks and company! This is a bad bill, a political colossus and an end to the free practice of medicine. This bill gives the Secretary of Health, Education and Wel fare the power to approve hospitals and control doctor's practice in these hospitals. Senator Kerr said, "Once the device of adding free medical care is attached to social se curity,' there can be no end to future additions. In short, once this measure is adopted, the end of private medical care is a matter of time." The tragedy of this bill is that those most needy are left out. Social Security cov ers only 60 per cent of the citizens over 65, and the ma jority of the needy don't have social security. There is a small group who can't afford private insurance, who do not qualify for pensions, welfare, Kerr-Mills (M.A.A.) benefits, and who are not veterans or retired military personnel. This group must be discover ed and helped by reason of their need, and not exclude them because they are not recipients of social security. Obviously, this bill does not distinguish between the rich and the poor. ine is.ing-naerson BUI is bad for my patients and for all of us as taxpayers, but par ticularly to the young worker who will be taxed all of his life for socialized medical care, to be received after he is fi.-f years old. This bill will convert the business of health into a i tionalizcd product. This prob lem is a temporary one and should not be shackled onto future generations. The need of this bill is clearly lessen ing by reason of increased fi nancial, economic security of the older citizens. In my esti mation, participation in a gov ernment sponsored program of health care should be vol untary and the benefits should be provided to the individual in accordance with his needs. Ralph E. Hibbs, M.D. 10.10 West Main st. Medford Ser-saw To the Editor Political Seesaw Riding The Some of us se And some of us saw: Some of us "Gee" And some of us "Haw Some of us fume And some of us fiddle, : And there arc you. sir, Right in the Middle! Mrs. Margarcte Roseborough filO Oakdale Drive Medford Southeast The Red Chinese oppose Moscow's peaceful coexistence policy and have no liking for any understanding between Russia and the United States, especially if it concerns what they call a "national libera tion movement." Their basic contention has been that "the victory goes to those who fight the imperial ists, not to those who negoti ate with them." They will use the capture of Nam Tha as proof of the valid ity of their position. Washington Report By William (cl United Feature Syndicate SLAP AT NEHRU Washington - Congress may shortly administer an unex ampled and richly earned re buke to Prime Mini ster Ja waharlal Neh ru's neutralist India by a mandatory cut in the large f o r e i gn aid given to India by the Presi dent. If it does Wbii- so - a n d in quiry on Capitol Hill indicates the odds to be no less than Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris (c Field Enterprises Inc. ART FILMS ARTY For years, I have suffered in cowardly silence, afraid that if I spoke up, I might lose my hon orary m e m bership card in t h e Intel lectuals' and Avant Garde Marching So ciety. What disturbed me was my nega tive reaction to so many that were highly praised by the leaders of the I.A.G.M.S. In most cases, these motion.picturcs seem trite and pretentious, poorly photographed and laboriously directed. But I refrained from saying so, questioning instead my own judgment and taste in such cinematographic mat ters. Now, finally, a 100 - per cent blown-in-the - bottle in tellectual, Dwight Macdonald, has confessed in his film column in "Esquire" maga zine that he, loo, is bored and irritated by the great ma jority of art films. He says: "I am in favor of high ideals, but why are they so seldom entertaining in art films? I am also in favor of Truth and Realism, but why are they here always depress ing? Above all, why are most art films poor?" It may be true that most Hollywood movies are un speakably shallow and ju venile, but at least they have technical proficiency and. above all, they do not pretend to be profound or cosmic or metaphysical. The art film, with rare ex ceptions, is a pseudo intel lectual exercise in symbolism for its own sake, and is just as one-sided and distorted in its bleak view of life as the grinningly moronic product of the commercial studios. As Macdonald effectively points out, there is art -film cliche as well as Hollywood cliche. Each genre has its own set of formulas, its own kind of patterning, its own pre dictable scenes, conflicts and resolutions. In rebelling against the conventional, the art-film too often becomes anti-conventional for no pur pose except to show how "free" it is. Like Macdonald. I am im mensely tired of the "obliga tory opening sequence of the man walking endlessly through a depressing land scape, the obligatory rape murder scene, the obligatory chase through tangled woods, the obligatory locations -ruined house, desolate beach." Such films are "arty" rath er than artistic, and have no more genuine vitality or validity to them than an old Jack Oakie college comedy or a Belly Crable musical in horrible full color. Indeed. I i would say that the ratio of j good art films to bad ones is probably lower than the ratio i of good Hollywood films to bad ones. It is a fiealthy and hearten ing sign that so lofty an in tellectual as Macdonald has ! finally spoken out against the pretentiousness of the art film. In avant-garde circles, as in a monarchy, it is considered high treason to point out that the Emperor is wearing no clothes. Harris 'art films" Asia The Asian Communist par ties have shown great1 atten tion to significant anniver saries. For six months the Com munists had been threatening Nam Tha and it therefore may be significant that they chosa last week for their attack. May 6 was the eighth anni versary of the decisive on slaught at Dien Bien Phu. In the literature of Vietnamese Communists, the victory over the French there marked tha high point of their military history. S. White 50-50 that it will-Congress will have, if somewhat harsh ly, freed American foreign aid policy from a self-mada prison. The prison has been this: Having once granted assist ance to a neutralist country which is especially critical of us, we have always shied away from reducing it. The fear has been that it would be said we were using the pro gram as a stick to enforce "conformism." a a 1WUS, neutralist nations.'of which India is a prime ex ample, have often seemed io fare better with us the mora constantly complaining of lis they have been. Our real allies for years have spoken bitterly of this truism, which unde niably puts some premium on international irresponsibility. Against all this background, the Senate Foreign Relations committee has voted 8 to! 7 to direct the President n strike $200 million from $77 million in aid earmarked for Nehru. This counterattack on tha world's most smug politician, Nehru, was led by a liberal pro-foreign aid Democrat, Sen. Stuart Symington of Missouj-i, who only two years ago was Democratic. presidential aspir ant. His amendment will have the force of law if the Scrrato and then the House adopt "41, as it now looks they well may. Though it seems not to have been too widely noticed y$t, the Symington rebellion may be historic in the end. It will embarrass President Kenne dy. Though privately he gojts about as tired of Nehru's sejf righteous finger-pointing da nearly everybody else heft, the President still doesn't want to have to take this pub lic slap at India. '. T'HE issue is complicated, and it does not pay to 6a too dogmatic about it. Un doubtedly, a thrust of this kind would outrage the Vi dians, worry and annoy all tfte other neutrals, and give the Russians a chance to howl-a bit louder about "American imperialism." : . This will be the administra tion's position. And it will add that Nehru has, after all, kept the world's largest country, apart from Red China, out of the Communist embrace.- The administration will find, however, that the Sen ate will not be deeply wor ried about whatever Nehru may think. Its best argument will be merely that no mattjer how one sees Nehru, a re quirement on the President to cut his aid would amount to senatorial interference w(th the President's right to con duct foreign policy. ' This columnist, for one, would not support the Syming ton rider if he believed it to be a genuine trespass on con stitutional presidential pow ers. But to say simply that Nehru can have some but not all is surely not the same ja". saying he must have nothing at all. One is degree; the other is principle. ' . . . : I'HE lime had to come when -- this country decided orice and for all whether it has! a right to make its own deci sions on how much aid it will extend to others. : Risky? Yes. All the sarfie, we ought to tell Nehru and all the world's little Nehrau that if our exercise of a per fectly valid right of national sovereignty is to be marie the excuse by them to run 6!t to the Communists, then they must simply go ahead and rijn. We have been much tro afraid of the Nehrus-in tlit.e administration and in Uie Eisenhower administra t i o'n, too. J GETS SPACEc6nTRACT Washingion - HTP - The ha tional fpace agency Thursday selected Lockheed Missile aiid Space Co. to build a flight test version of what is ex pected to be the world's first nuclear rocXet. The rocket.! to be tested in 1966-67 as an up per stage of the advanced Saturn, may go on space duiy in 1969. Development of the flight test version by Lock- ; heed is expected to cost $180 I million. t
