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Hlslory from the files of Tha
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and SO years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
May 21, 1952 (Wednesday)
Funds requested by the De
partment of the Army Irom
Federal Budget Bureau ior
the rehabilitation of Camp
White have been reduced by
161,700.
Jackson county's budget for
1952-53 will total $2,270,
573.02, an increase of $503,
115.14 over the current fiscal
year, according to the figures
released today by County
Judge J. B. Coleman.
20 YEARS AGO
May 21, 1942 (Thuridey)
Graduation exercises sched
uled at Medford senior high
school; class includes 98 girls
and 06 boys.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Re
ports from rural regions say
hailstones as big as goose eggs
fell last week. Several goose
eggs as big as hailstones also
are reported along with a few
hailstones as big as hail
stones." 30 YEARS AGO
May 21, 1932 (Saturday)
Jackson county casts 1,903
votes for Franklin D. Roose
velt for Democratic nominee
for president in primary elec
tions; Alfred E. Smith gets
only 22 votes.
Family of three injured in
automobile accident when pet
turtle in car frightens little
boy sitting next to driver.
40 YEARS AGO
May 21. 1922 (Sunday)
More than 1.000 chickens
killed in ranch fire near Med
ford: damages estimated at
SI. 500.
Full paKe advertisement for
"The Sheik," movina picture
starring Rudolph Valentino
and Agnes Ayres. appears in
The Mall Tribune.
50 YEARS AGO
May 21. 1912 (Monday)
Chester A. Arthur post,
Grand Army of the Republic,
and Spanish American war
veterans discuss plans for
large Memorial day program.
Local resident escapes from
holdup man on Jacksonville
Central Point rd. when his
team become frightened and
runs away.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct It superior,
seven or eight is excellent; rive ot
sii Is good.
1. Would it have been possi
ble for Napoleon Bonaparte
and George Washington to
have visited each other?
2. Who won the battle of
Bunker Hill, the Americans
or British?
3. Which arm of the Famous
statue. Venus de Milo, is who!
ly missing?
4. When daylight saving
time is changed back into
standard time, are the clocks
retarded or advanced one
hour?
5. In what war did Jeb
Stuart gain his fame is a
cavalry leader?
8. What was the Clermont?
7. What does the Latin
phrase post mortem mean?
8. Where did the owl and
pussy cat go?
9. Name tile most used let
ter in the English alphabet.
10. Correct the following:
"She purchased three pair of
gloves.''
Aniweri: 1. Yt. 2. British.
3. Left. 4. Relardtd. 5. War
Between the States. I. Ful
ton's steimboat. 7. After
death. . To sea. (. The letter
"a". 10. ". . three pairs , ."
MONDAY. MAY 21, 19S2
10
Those Who CARE
A subject for endless and fascinating specul
ation but one never to be solved; no, not by
the most probing psychologist or the most dedi
cated motivational research is what makes a
voter cast his ballot the way he does.
This goes for non-voters, too, for staying away
from the polls is an indirect and negative way
of voting by letting the other guy decide.
Vastly more complex eventhan the varied
motivations of the individual voter is the mysteri
ous and unknowable way in which the electorate,
collectively, makes up its mind.
FOR instance : .
r Time after time the legislature has besought
the electorate for bigger salaries for its mem
bers. They've made an excellent case, too. But
only once in recent memory have the voters re
sponded affirmatively and that time with a
measly $600 per year.
Then, all of a sudden, a measure which will
permit the legislators to set thoir own salaries
passes by a substantial margin.
Have the long years of persuasion, education
and argument finally gotten through? Do the
people see the logic of paying legislators enough
so that they won't have to go into the hole to
serve the people?
Or could it be the wording on the ballot
setting out that legislators' salaries shall be set
"in the same manner as other officials"? Could
enough voters to count have said to themselves:
"Why those so-and-sos ; why should they get
special treatment?"
fR on Home Rule:
The people of Jackson county in 1958 over
whelmingly approved the principle of home rule.
So why did the charter go down to defeat?
Because each of the many "no" voters ob
jected to some specific feature of the chartnr?
Because they didn't understand it? Because they
felt really felt that a vote for a sheriff or sur
veyor is more important than a vote for a com
missioner?
Or, perhaps, was it
fused and perhaps even a bit fearful as a result
of the charges and counter charges in the cam
paign! We 11 never really
PERHAPS it may be because of the kind of ad
lrAiua toafitM irm'na i r a Kim of ( artA 1 1 n o 1 rrrx
ed) note which arrived
"Don't be too depressed about failure of annexa
tion, removal of six per cent limitation, or Home Rule
to pass. It's simply that every now and then that the
common man Is Inclined to let the manipulators know
where the ultimate power under a system such as
ours still rests."
It was signed Vox Populi.
Well, maybe so, maybe so.
We are not a bit depressed about the failure
of annexation (although
that it would have been
people involved, but that they should decide.)
MOR were we depressed that the "removal of
the six ner cent limitation" failed to Dass. In
the first place, the vote
moval of the six per cent limitation, which shows
the level of understanding of our unnamed cor
respondent. Secondly, the measure was not sig
nificantly important; it was sort of a "house
keeping measure. And thirdly, the most im
portant, and best, part of it will be voted on
again in the fall, when, perhaps, it can be ex
plained more simply, and
complicating additional
Nor, really, were we
of Home Rule. We expected it. (We had not,
frankly, expected a three
it, but we were not hopetul of its passage.)
There were adequate reasons for its failure,
and a more popular measure will, we feel certain,
pass ultimately, although
or more ot eiiort to get it done.
A LSO, after watching Oregon elections closely
for nearly two decades, we know as well as
any "where the ultimate power under a system
such as ours still rests."
It rests with the minority of individuals who
are willing to exercise their franchise with the
voters, not the unnamed "manipulators."
This is not synonymous with "the people."
There are some 74,000 people in Jackson county.
Of these only about half are registered voters.
Of these, only about 55 per cent bothered to vote.
This is minority rule.
But it is minority rule by choice. It is not
"vox populi" the voice of the people. It is the
voice of those who are interested, who CARE,
about democracy.
MO, IT has been a long time since we have al
lowed ourselves the luxury of intense emo-
. I ? 1 . . , . ,! 1
nonai mvoivcmeni wun specuic measures ana
candidates.
We have, to be sure, supported some and op
posed others with fervor and belief. But if noth
ing else, we have learned that one cannot let
either a political defeat or a political victory be
come so all-important that it blots out the fact
that in this nation it is the people who CARE
who make the decisions.
Win a few ; lose a few. We were pleased about
the outcome of some of last Friday's races; disap
pointed in others.
The important thing is that thedecisions were
made by those who CARE, and in the long run
we can't yo too far wrong if we place our po
litical destinies in the hands of people who CAKE.
They eiay be wrong today, or tomorrow, but in
the long run, the riuht choices will be made.
Otherwise, the American experiment is going
sour. Anfi this we cannot believe. E.A.
because they were con
know.
Sunday. It said:
we felt, and still do,
a good thing for the
was NOT on the re
voted on without the
clauses.
depressed by the failure
- to - one margin against
it may take ten years
Dennis the
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A Tribute
To the Editor; There is a
void in my life these days be
cause a woman has died. Ac
tually, I should be rejoicing,
because there is no doubt
whatever in my mind that she
is now in the presence of God
Almighty and she must be
very happy. But being a mor
tal, and one not NEARLY so
willing to give myself to the
total dedication of God and
all His Children, as she was,
I reserve the right, at least
for a while, to miss her.
It was my great fortune to
discover, first hand, what Sis
ter Miriam Theresa of the
Holy Names of Jesus and
Mary meant, not only to the
women and children of Ore
gon, but to all the women
and children of the United
States. In 1959, Sen. Wayne
Morse said, "The work of Sis
ter Miriam Theresa was the
foundation ultimately for the
development of a Federal Fair
Labor Standards Act . . . One
of the most wonderful women
in my State is Sister Miriam
Theresa, who recognizes that
it is human values that count
and great spiritual teachings
are symbolized by dedication
to human values."
Sen. Paul Douglas of Illi
nois once said, in connection
with rulings on the Minimum
Wage Commission, that "The
whole country is indebted to
this noble woman."
It isn't necessary for me to
slate any more extensively
what this woman meant to
the women and children of
Oregon in the first place
it would be contrary to the
vows she took as a "late voca
tion" to the Holy Names Or
der, and in the soend place,
any newspnper in our fair
state could find reason for
eulogizing her without half a
prompting If a bit of investi
gation were done.
But I should like, if it were
only possible, to shout .from
the housetops, what this one
woman has meant to me as an
individual.
There was the time when
I appeared for a sociology
field trip and she gently re.
minded me that a "lady never
goes into town without being
properly gloved and hatted."
I still appear without gloves
and In a veil, but I have an
indescribably inner glow
when my daughters go out
the door looking every inch
the lady in gloves and hat.
I'm sure she sees them; 1
know she approves.
Another time she called me
aside after class and asked
me why I should have found
reason to cry during the per
iod. And when I replied that
I had cried because she expect
ed more of my generation
than HER generation had
learned to give, she replied,
"Marjorle, you are the first
who has had the nerve to say
that." For the rest of the year
she adjusted her program to
fit our more modern abilities,
and at the same time she saw
it it personally that I
spent no loss than one hour
in the fresh air and sunshine,
in dark glasses, to build up
my failing health.
Still another time when I
knew she was deep in the
study of advance Greek, she
took my first-born upon her
knee and then threw the child
into peals of laughter by mak
ing up the most nonsensical
verses, while bouncing the
baby upon her foot, to "Trot,
Trot to Boston. ' She was wise
and wondrous one moment
but so simple and Christ-like
the next: and it was my good
fortune to learn that fact.
Every day of my life I shall
remember what she helped
to Impress upon me Never
forget that you are first of all
a lady: never cease until death
to enrich your mind wi('i new
learning; and always remem
MEDFORD MAIL
Menace
CHANCff
the case.
ber that there Is nothing more
important in the world than
the very least of the human
beings God has created.
The world would be a bet
ter place if only more had
known or If more would prac
tice Sister Miriam Theresa's
way of life.
Marjorie M. Hochstatter
024 Jasper St.
Medford.
Thanks Voters
To the Editor: And all those
fine people who voted for me:
I wish to take this oppor-
tunity to thank all of you
fine folks who felt that I was
the man of the hour and voted
for me. It wasn't all. a loss. I
got experience I would not
have had any other way, I
met people I would not have
met any other way and per
haps these have done some
good.
I do not deny I am rather
a boisterous individual. I al
ways like to have a little fun
in every situation, if possible.
There are some who regard
me as a "Hell Raiser." There
are some who have a "slight
ly" lower or higher opinion
(take your choice).
If vision permitted I'd be
very likely to be Involved in
more active types of fighting
but am forced to confine my
battles to words. (If you take
one side, I'll take the other).
The day I filed as candidate I
stopped in the sheriff's office
and was asked why I filed. I
said "I just like a good bat
tle." The other feller said
"You'll sure find it, in the
county court."
Actually, I can be just as
serious as any of the other
candidates and while I may
have to spend considerable
time in studying such things
as leases, purchase contracts,
etc., etc., I could probably
make just as intelligent deci
sions as any of the others.
One thing I would have
TRIED to do is to talk the
Editor into allowing me to do
a weekly column on the activ
ities of the county court. Per
haps I'd have been shot for
my pains but I'd have tried
to keep the people informed
as to what the court was do
ing, was considering doing,
or was going to do. Maybe
the successful candidate will
make an effort in this direc
tion. Let's try to talk him into
this.
Allow me to repeat, thank
you, friends, for your efforts
in my support,
Floyd R. McCabe
Mt. Pitt Star Rt.
Butte Falls, Ore.
For Bill
To the Editor: This is to
William V. Deatherage:
Dear Bill: Many thanks for
your effort and hard work on
behalf of the Democratic
party and to the people of
Jackson county in justifying
their stand.
The predicted sad day for
the Democratic Central Com
mittee has become a bright
and happy one for the pre
cinct men and women, who
will now begin working for
the Democraitc victory which
will be ours in November.
"Man so often feels that he
is right.
While so often he is so
awfully wrong."
Thanks again. Bill, and I
know that all Democrats
thank you.
Carl W. Timmons
1368 Tolman Creek rd.
Ashland, Ore.
Buddy Poppies
To the Editor: "The proud
and symbolic product of the
unsteady hands of our hospi
talized and disabled veter
ans." was the wav Command
er A. C. Hazelrigg of VFW
Post No 3423 described the
Buddy Poppy which his or
ganization will put on sale in
Ashland May 25 and 26. "The
sal here, will be just j one
of many Thousand sales being
TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON
Foreign News: Guerrilla Step-Up Seen;
German Military Change; Jouhaud Mercy
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
Notes from the foreign
news cables:
Red Guerrillas
Military source., in South
east Asia expect the Commu
nists to step up their guerrilla
warfare activ
ities in South
Viet Nam and
northern Thai
land as the
rainy season
draws near.
Uources in
Saigon point
out that, tra
ditionally, the
C o m m u nist
Viet Cong guerrillas use the
last few days of good weath-
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
(c Field Enterprises Inc.
UNIVAC NOT ENOUGH
An official of the General
Electric Co. recently told a
convention group, that within
the next decade the "house
of tomorrow"
will have
family -size
computers to
prog r a m
meals, so that
they are ro
tated equally,
with each
member of
the family
Hiru getting nis
favorites and avoiding his
aversions.
What we would have to
feed into our home computer
would be a mass of variables,
including peanut butter,
raspberry preserves, raw on
ions, chocolate bars, spaghetti
and a hundred other items -
all arranged so that Barbie
can have the French toast
when Michael has pancakes
and David has crisp bacon and
. . . But the mind is staggered
at this complexity.
I have often gazed wistfully
at pictures of pioneer familien
sitting around the kitchen
table, all eating communally
from a large pot. This sort of
thing has disappeared along
with the bison and the button-
shoe; nowadays, in our teem
ing prosperity, family meals
tend to be as diversified as a
restaurant menu - except in
those increasingly rare cases
in which the parents have
kept a firm hold on the dietet
ic reins.
If one of the children won't
eat anything with nuts, and
another is resistant to fat on
meat, and still another prefers
bread sopping with gravy, it
requires both the wisdom of a
Solomon plus the mathemati
cal precision of a computing
machine to arrange meals that
satisfy everyone without out
raging the delicate sensibili
ties of any of the children.
Europeans say jeeringly
that American is the only
great civilization run by its
children, and while this is
excessively cruel, there is a
glimmer of truth in the
charge. Anyone who has
watched children peremptori
ly ordering food in a restau
rant cannot but cringe at their
bland assumption of despot
ism. In desperation, most par
ents settle for hamburgers,
French fries and soft drinks -which
is what most American
children seem to live on.
What our parents used to call
"a nice green vegetable" has
been programmed right out of
the children's diet, by their
own fiat.
As for that "electronic ac
counting system for bills" in
the household, the thought
brings a tear to these watery
old eyes. If there is one thing
a wife will resist to the
death, it is an impeccable and
implacable system of account
ing for all the money spent.
She will find a way to jam
that machine - possibly by
feeding into it some of the
peanut butter and limp bacon
strips left over from this
morning's programmed break
fast. held throughout the nation
during this month of May,"
Commander Hazelrigg said.
I In the hospital wards and
j the hobby rooms of Veteran
Administration homes and
hospitals all over the country
men in pajamas and b a t h
robes have been busy for
many months now making the
artificial memorial flowers
symbolic of those who gave so
much during time of war.
They are hoping and praying
that all Americans will wear
the symbolic flower of re
membrance when Buddy Pop
pies are placed on sale May
23 and 2.
Many of these men are
working with partially para-
: lyzed or deformed hands,
I some in wheel chjirs and oth
I ers yet in bed. Won't you
please buv a poppv?
E. T. Moodv
233 Fifth St.
' Ashland, Ore.
er before the rains set in to
seize new territory in Viet
Nam.
Since military operations
thereafter are hampered by
the rains, the Reds use the
intervening time to strengthen
their control in the new areas
and to indoctrinate farmers
Washington Report
By William S. Whit
lc) United Feature
Syndicate
SHADOW
Washington This colum
nist senses the shadow of a
new public mood of isolation-
t& ism but one
" i , .,.,.
q Daieo inis
lime on per
sistent allied
refusal to deal
sensibly with
America and
not on any na
tional provin
cialism - now
hanging dis-
wm tantly over
the United States.
It would be irresponsible to
overstate this, for it is as yet
no more than the shadow, and
certainly not yet the sub
stance, or peril. But it would
be a terrible mistake for our
foreign friends not to believe
that this latent danger truly
exists.
Obviously, no substantial
group here wants to return
to fortress America; to go it
alone. But what is happening
is that two of our major allies,
West Germany and France,
are themselves forcing us in
significant instances to go it
alone wherever there are
real risks to be taken in be
half of the free world.
NOTWITHSTANDING a 1 1
disclaimers, Chan cellor
Adenauer of Germany and
President Charles de Gaulle
of France are persistently
making it harder and harder
for the United States to func
tion as the responsible leader
of that free world.
This is the most disturbing
fact of our days. It is no less
real because de Gaulle and
Adenauer are men of honor
and determination in the cold
war. It is not altered by the
possibility even the prob
ability, if one prefers that
in an academic sense these
old gentlemen may be sound
er in their highly reserved
approach to negotiations with
the Russians than is President
Kennedy. For the ultimate re
ality of all is that it is not
they but rather Mr. Kennedy,
representing the United
States, who holds the true
power within the West and
.Southeast Asia?
Thus, the more they harass
us the more difficult they
make it for us to function as
what we must be the agent
of all the West in every true
approach to the Soviet prob
lem. Nobody suggests that
Western policy should bemon
olithically in control of the
United States. But these allies
have surely had ample oppor
tunity a dozen times ex
ploited to make public all
their dissents with the leader
of the alliance.
rjiHIS being so, why this:
-- Why does General de
Gaulle hold yet another press
conference to say yet again
what he had said over and
over about his greater wisdom
in these cold war matters
on the very day that the Unit
ed States is being forced to
go it all alone in sending
troops into Southeast Asia to
stem a Communist menace to
all the West?
Why, in the same circum
stances, is it necessary for
Adenauer to proclaim his
deeply hurt feelings about
some sharp little message sent
by us to Bonn to protest pub
lic leaks in Germany of cold
war information given in the
highest confidence to Germa
ny? Why must Adenauer and
de Gaulle dream aloud of a
new Europe in which Germa
ny and France are to be the
super states? Aren't these
wonderful visions of Franco
German "grandeur" a little
too premature and costly
right now to the desperately
needed unity of the West? Do
de Gaulle and Adenauer want
people here to begin to ask
where French and German
troops are in the crisis in
Southeast Asia?
rpHESE are not pretty qucs-
- lions.
But the moment they be
gin to be asked widely In this
country as they will be
unless these prima donnas in
Bonn and Paris get back on
the Allied team and at least
reserve their gripes for pri
vate sessions with the Ameri
can captain at that moment
the shadow of a new Ameri
can isolationism may become
a thing of substance.
The President himself will
never take that course of his
own choice. But it is not in
conceivable that the Ameri
can public will take it for
him. What de Gaulle and Ad -
enaucr must grasp is that ir.
is not a man named Kennedy
they are harassing; It the
United States of America.
and villagers with the Com
munist line.
Nuclear Change
Look for the West Germans
quietly to drop their demands
that the Bundeswehr be arm
ed with nuclear weapons and
switch to a concentration on
strengthening their conven
tional defenses. Well-informed
sources in Bonn say Defense
Minister Franz Josef Strauss
already has begun what
amounts to a re-education
course. This will de-emphasize
the need for nuclear wea
pons by the Weot German
armed forces, a position in
line with that suggested by
the Kennedy administration.
The betting in Paris is thai
former Gen. Edmond Jou
haud will escape execution
as a result of ex-Gen. Raoul
Today Cr Tomorrow
By Walter Lippmann.
lc New York Herald Tribune Syndicate
GAULLIST EUROPE
At his press conference last
Tuesday General de Gaulle
made it quite clear that in his
mind Eu
rope" should
be organized
and led by a
Franco - Ger
man combina
tion. The Gen
eral does not
regard Britain
which he des
cribes as an
"island," as
Lippmann
genuinely European, and he
thinks of the United States,
though its presence is still ne
cessary for defense, as destin
ed eventually to withdraw
from Europe and in the near
future to exercise a receding
influence in European affairs.
The true Europe is to be led
by the Franco-Germans and
not by the Anglo-Saxons. It
is to make itself sufficiently
powerful to come to terms
with the Soviet Union and
thus to have "Europe" extend
from the Atlantic to the Urals.
This is a formidable con
ception of policy. For the core
of it, the Franco-German com
bination, has real substance.
In spite of their many wars,
there is an historical connect
ion between France and the
western part of Germany
which goes back to the Ro
man Empire. Economically,
the two countries are com
plementary and in the Com
mon Market they are creating
an economy which is so rich
and so dynamic that already
it has a bargaining power in
the world which, as we shall
see in the prr posed tariff ne
gotiations, is superior to that
of Britain and the Common
wealth and at least equal to
that of the United estates.
There are also deep but
mixed bonds of memory and
of emotions which unite the
two peoples in the belief that
war, which for both of them
was a tragedy and a humilia
tion, must never again come
between them. There is, too,
the belief that while separate
ly they are only medium-sized
powers, combined they will
be the core ot a new great
world power. In that connect
ion we must remind ourselv
es that although Germany is
solemnly pledged by treaty
not to make nuclear weapons
the European nuclear striking
force, which General de
Gaulle wants so much, could
be created much more quick
ly by Franco-German cooper
ation.
VET there is another side
- to the picture. The Franco
German combination today is
an alliance between General
de Gaulle and Dr. Adenauer.
To say that is enough to warn
us not to regard the Gaullist
conception of Europe as an
accomplished fact. Thus in
both France and in West Ger
many there is a monarch but
there is no crown prince. The
two old kings have not pre
pared and cannot control the
future, and so in our own cal
culations of policy we can
not treat as the shape of the
Europe to come what the old
kings now say about it.
I shall not attempt here to
say, because I do not know
what will happen in France
when General de Gaulle de
parts. The basic institutions of
France are still all there, and
France is in fact, as one
Frenchman put it to me, a lib.
eral state ruled by a self-determining
king. We have a
right to believe that the
French administration and lo
cal government veill go on In
spite of the corruption and
disloyalty which are so wide
siead. But General de Gaulle
has dismantled representative
government in France, replac
ing it with his own personal
rule nourished by popular
plebiscite Since France Is not
an hereditary monarchy, those
1 who are cooferned with such
things are saying not very
loudly at present that they
do not see how representative ship and adamant in their sfp
government is to be restored i port of the Atlantic Alliance.
Salan, his one-time boss in
the terrorist secret army or
gjinization, taking full blame
for all its excesses. A decis
ion by President Charles da
Gaulle on Jouhaud's clemency
appeal is expected soon after
Salan's trial ends.
Paratroopers
The Dutch government is
reported extremely bi 1 1 e r
about the U.S. attitude in its
struggle with Indonesia over
the future of West New Guin
ea. The Dutch have been ex
pecting more U.". and other
NATO backing than they have
received thus far. They ara
gravely concerned that if In
donesian paratroop landings
continue on New Guinea, they
will lead to full-scale fighting
in the area. This, in turn,
they fear, possibly would set
off a larger-sized conflict.
and a stable succession to Gen
eral de Gaulle arranged.
Nevertheless, we must not
make too much of the politi
cal instability of France. It is
a completed and territorially
satisfied nation. It has a high
ly educated population and its
economy is flourishing.
1UT the instability of Ger--
many has profounder con
sequences. The retirement of
Dr. Adenauer cannot be far
off. Under his iron leadership
the West Germans have fol
lowed his foreign policy, but
it is most improbable that
there is any successor to Ade
nauer whom the parties and
the factions will follow in tha
same way. The Franco-German
combination, which is
the keystone of General do
Gaulle's policy, will no doubt
remain. But I find it hard to
think from what I have learn
ed in Berlin and Bonn that the
existing policy will be follow
ed with the same discipline.
the same inflexibility, and the
same dogmatism.
I say this because I am per
suaded that West Germany,
which is defeated, divided
from the rest of Germany, and
is still haunted by the mem
ories of Nazism, has not yet
achieved the kind of sover
eignty, the kind of self-confidence
and s e 1 f-assurance,
which enable it to make its
own national policy. West
Germany has made a brilliant
economic recovery. But in
world politics it is not as yet
a prinicpal power. It is the ob
ject of the diplomacy of tha
other powers, and its inner
life is pushed and pulled from
the outside. All of Germany
is the object of the great con
flict between the Soviet Union
and the Atlantic Alliance.
West Germany itself is tha
object of the conflict within
the Atlantic Alliance as to
whom shall lead the West in
world affairs.
Dr. Adenauer is much
aware that these conflicting
external pressures work with
in Germany and because of
them he is insecure and feels
that the least risk is to ba
inflexible and to stand pat.
The "hard line," which is too
much General de Gaulle's spe
cialty these days, is designed
primarily to keep the Ger
mans from straying away
from the Franco-German com
bination, to keep them from
working with the Americans
and the British to find an ac
comodation about Berlin, or
even, as is always a possibil
ity for the Germans, or going
along with Dr. Kroll towards
a larger Russo-German deal.
UfE cannot pretend, and we
" should not try to pretend,
that we believe in or would
welcome a Franco-German
"Europe." We shall not be
alone In refusing to applaud
it and in promoting a wider
community. Opposed to the
exclusive and restrictive Eu
rope of General de Gaulle and
Dr. Adenauer, there is a lib
eral party within the whole
area of the Common Market.
Its leaders are Jean Monnet
himself, M. Spakk, the For
eign Minister of Belgium, Dr.
Hallstein, Chairman of the
Commission of the European
Economic Community, and, I
should say. the leading spirits
of the presfent Italian coali
tion. In Germany there belong
to this party men like Erhard,
who may be D, Adenauer's
successor, the leading big Ger
man industrialists, the Free
Democrats on the right and
the Social Democrats on tha
left.
Some of them want a more
highly federated Europe than
they are likely to get. It is
to them that Genarel
aulle was rferftng when he
spoke of "Utopian construct
ion' A federated Europe may
weff be a Utopian Idea, but
what matters practically is
that the men and groups t
have flamed are all of therj)
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