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4 A ItoFORDi'KrTBIBUHl "E'ervone In Southern Oregon fteads The Mail Tribune" F'llthe'd Dally except Saturday by W MEDFOBD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir Ji, Pha-em ' SOBEHT W. RUHL, Editor tsttI GREY, Advertising Manager rtiitLD T LATHAM. Bui. Mgr. 4i ALLEN. JR.. Mng. Editor till . ADAMS. Citv Editor ill CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor IiCAl JEWETT. SporU Editor JUTE STAHCHER. Women'! Editor ML slJCKSONCIrculatlon Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Bnasre at aecond class matter at Mcatord. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Hv Mail In Advance. Copy 10c Dally and Sunday 1 year U 00 Dally and Sunday 6 moa. a 00 Daily and Sunday 3 moa. 4 25 Sundnv Only One year M 20 By Carrier In Advance Mfdford, Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold mil. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er. Talent and on motor routca Daily and Sunday 1 year 18 00 Dallv and Sunday I mo. 1.S0 Carrier and Dealers Copy 10c All Terrnicah lnAdvanc "Olflrlal Paper of City of Medford Olltrial PaperoMackson County United'Preii International Full Leased Wire U.P.I Telephoto Newspicturea "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU" OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Renrfsentatlve: NELSON ROBERTS & ASSOCT ATES, Olficci in Ntw York, Chi cago Detroit. San Franclico. Los Angeles Seattle. Portland, Denver. NEWSPAPfg SLISHEtt ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ascQtin Flight o' Time Medlord and Jackson County History from the files ot The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and SO years ago. 10 YEARS AGO May 25, 1952 (Sunday) Waller Nunley, who receiv ed the Republican nomination for Jackson county district at torney In the primary election May 10, also received the Democra tic nomination through write-in voles, the of ficial canvass has revealed. A 15-acre fire In the Neil creek area, about five miles south of Ashland, was report ed to be under control this morning. 20 YCARS AGO May 25, 1942 (Monday) Jackson county Sheriff Syd I. Brown starts organization of group I o r special guard duty "in connection with the war effort." From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Sav ants arc trying to determine why the sky is blue scientifi cally. One wouldn't know, but the way the world is act ing, one can't blame the sky." 30 YEARS AGO May 25, 1932 (Wednesday) Civil war veterans to march in Memorial day parade here Include William Colvig, Frank Mcndoz, J. C. Wood, Augus tus A. Tyles and L. P. Hub bard. 40 YEARS AGO May 25, 1922 (Thursday) More than '200 students re ceived diplomas In county wide commencement cxe -cisos in Ashland Chautauqua I uild ing. Memorial (lug raising c -re-monies at Sacred Heart hos pital will include talk by Hob. S. Deuel and prayer 'id by Col. W. II. Paine, American Legion chaplain. SO YEARS AGO May 25. 1912 (Friday) Loral anglers plan to test new law closing Rogue river to commercial fishing. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct ti tuperior; seven or eight it excellent; five or til is good. 1. Footballs are covered wiUi pigskin: true or false? 2. Of which Scandinavian rountry was Hans Christian .',!on' .:w1ilcr of !lll-a, IHIMYC. 3. To whom Is the quota tion, "Go West Young Man, Go West," attributed? 4. What is the only metallic clement that stays liquid at ordinary temperature? 5. Which of these has no seacoast: Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador. Peru? 6. Docs the House of Rep resentatives hold its sessions in the south or north wing of the U. S. Capitol? 7. Is the Soulh Pole in the Arctic or Antarctic region? 8. Which of these is nut a type of furniture: Chippcn dale, Sheraton, Wcdgewood? '. The lemon is botanlcally berry; true or false? 10, In what war did the U.S.A. become a world naval power? Antwtrtt 1. False. 2. Den mark. 3. Horace Greeley. 4. Mercury. S. Bolivia. 6. South wing. 7. Antarctic. 8. Wedgt wood. 9. True, 10. Spanish American war. FRIDAY. MAY 25. 1962 Curiosity Our city hall'and courthouse reporters had trouble collecting: news yesterday morning. Wher ever they went, peojiie radios, listening to the drama of bcott Carpenter s orbit, his blacked-out descent and landing, the suspense of the search for him, and finally the happy message that he was alive. As was the case when John Glenn made the first three-orbit flight for the U.S., the whole populace listened and hoped and prayed. Every one was tied up with the This is a good and COME DAY, however, the outcome will not be as lucky. Some day, one of the brave men who are pioneering space is going to die in the attempt. And it may be that cause of their identification with the astronauts, will then have a feeling of revulsion against the whole space exploration program. Already there are some who are critical of the effort, at least in part because of its cost in money. When it begins to cost in human lives, too, the outcry will be heightened. TPHIS should not deter us, however, from tinuing the effort. There is a cost to e turning the eliort. thing that is worth while. And the exploration of space is the next frontier for adventurous men, who will, it seems, do almost anything to satisfy their curiosity. Curiosity, accompanied by the means to satis fy it, has always seemed characteristics which set other creatures of the earth. Certainly it is curi osity, as much as any other single thing, which has brought us to today's level of civilization. Whether this is good or bad depends on your point of view. E.A. Counting the Ballots The outcome of last week's primary election races, when broadcast and printed, were labeled "unofficial." It won't be until the elections department completes its own canvass of the ballots that the results become "official," is done hurriedly, and by newspapers and radio and 1 V stations as a public news service. Always, in the period, of time between the first unofficial count, and the time the official canvass results are announced, the tabulators wonder how well their count will stand up. THE Oregon Journal points out why: "The chances for human error in the present system are high. Every vote in every precinct is read aloud and tallied by hand. When the return forms (become available) they arc turned over to the newspapers' crews. Again the figures are read aloud, written down by hand, and added on a battery of hand-operated calculating machines. "Anywhere along this chain a misunderstood or misread figure, or a slip of a machine operator's finger, can add or take away votes from a candidate." The Journal could have added that the elec tion-night job is clone in results are known as soon as possible. HTHE whole thing is archaic and unsatisfactory. Oregon is one of a minority of states which has no voting machines whatsoever machines which keep a running total of the vote in each race, and can provide tne complete results tne minute the polls close. From time to time machine-voting has been proposed in Oregon, but the expense of such equipment has withheld it from use so far. What has attracted attention and interest is a system of electronic counting machines, which would process the ballots far faster and more ac curately than is now possible by human counting boards, Such a system might and suspense of the long count on election night, but we would cheerfully sacrifice that for a quick and accurate tallev which would allow us to know the outcome of elections within minutes, rather than hours. E. A. Clean We have received a to "start a clean-up, tear-down, or whatever-it takes campaign for Medford,'' so that this conv nnmity will present a clean, uncluttered and at' tractive face to visitors and residents alike Over the years, manv . 1,11 ui'imi nu ueit' 1 1 itere, wun varying uegrces m success. The "Make Medford Beautiful" project of last year accomplished quite a bit along these lines. But such organized campaigns can go only so far. They cannot force offending businessmen or residents to improve the appearance of their own establishments or their own homes. IT'S a free country, and his premises cluttered lus privilege. However, public o jf enough pressure is generated, if enough people ,. ... '. . . . . u mi i ma in i'iihi'm, iiiusi Mien eye-sores win oe improved. Our correspondent is specific in mentioning some of the places along Riverside avenue, in particular, which Hie no credit to cither the com munity itself, nor to their proprietors. 0 If they could be persuaded to present a more pleasant face to the world, we'd all benefit. E. A. and Space were huddled around fate of the astronaut. honest human reaction many people, simply be ' con lhere is a cost to every to us to be one ot the mankind aside from the for the first night count tabulators employed by a great rush, so that the lessen the excitement - Up splendid letter urging us such campaigns have '.1 1 f if a man wants to leave and unprettificd that's - .... .i . u,.ii..i. i.-. l? tuns ii .ee, ami Deflfli the Let me HClP-ik. MR Wilson! I'm in to num niomtGWJtfc Woman Presents Arguments Against Tax Withholding By LYLE C. WILSON Washington - "JPH - Mrs. F. A. Stockley of Springfield, Mass., makes a strong argu- mcnt that P r e s I d ent Kennedy's w i t hholding proposal on interest and dividends would be un fair to her LAJS nd, there- fore, should not be enact ed. Mrs. Stockley contends that the President wants to con fiscate some of her money in the name of tax collection. The administration contends this is a wrong interpretation. Mrs. Stockley's objection is to the withholding of interest paid on savings and loan ac counts. On May 16, she wrote to me about that, as follows: "Tonight I have read with interest your column in our Springfield (Mass.) Daily News relative to the withhold ing tax. "Would it be possible for you to bring out in a column, soon, one of my objections to the bill? I am building in sav ings and loan association ac counts to pay my estate tax at my death. Will I not be great ly cheated by this flat 20 per cent withholding? Fetls Chtattd The interest in the sav ings and loan accounts is com pounded quarterly. When this 20 per cent is set aside, each time, it will surely cheat the depositors from earning com pounded Interest on that de ducted amount for the remain der of the 12 month period. Twenty per cent of the interest on the amounts which I have accumulated really amounts to a great deal. I never take this interest - just leave it each year. I just can not afford to lose thai' much each year. "Eventually the govern ment will get all of it. I al ways have paid taxes on this Interest and on my dividends, both federal and state taxes which, in Massachusetts, is quite large. There must be many others in this same un fortunate position. "Why isn't this point ever discussed? It is certainly con fiscation of our private funds. I shall greatly appreciate any attention that you may be able to bring to this prob lem. Thanks." Well, Mrs. Stockley. this is the best 1 can do. Some mil lions of citizens will have the opportunity to read your let ter. The two men here in Washington best situated to relieve you of this potential confiscation of your funds also will have an opportunity to read it but I cannot assure you that both will do so. One of these men is Presi dent Kennedy. I do not know that he reads my stuff and rather doubt it although he said recently thai he was read ing more and enjoying it less. The other man is Sen. Harry F. Byrd (D-Va). Sen. Byrd will read your letter. I can promise you that. That is inv portant to you and to all per sons with your problem be- cause the senator Is chairman of the finance committee of the U.S. Senate. Byrd To Oppoit Bill The finance committee has Hint comoleted hearings on jihe Pridfnt. , , d shortlv will vote whether to ",c ,'u'c OI Situation " '"' "i . "v -i ". - r.rnmmenrt tn thr Senate that likt t""'. " "at can the little ,agc has touched off a scandal are here, and the alternative i : na nr that It h re ected 1nd of Formosa do? ! that is rocking the country, to living together-in some un it pass or tnai u oe rcjecira. , j , ... ..,v,ii. I. nrlv The chairman informed the airman iniormed tne last week that he Senate "i;!" " "'" ing provisions on the sub - stantial grounds that they were complex to the point of being unworkable and. morc-jof over, thai LU abjcvUs of MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON Menace the fastest finger- fainter 100 per cent tax collection could be achieved by simpler, more effective means. The chairman is a gentle- spoken man. He did not blunt ly accuse tne President - as the President accused the American Medical Association - of deliberately misleading the citizens. More gently, Byrd implied merely that the President does- not under stand his own tax bill. in the Day's News iy FRANK JENKINS From Hong Kong: A dangerously explosive sit uation is building up in this British Crown Colony's refu gee - infiltrated border area. New waves of refugees seek ing to flee from hunger-ridden Red China were reported n route this morning to the guarded border that divides Hong Kong from communism. Border police say tempers are growing short on all sides. The new refugees who at first submitted docilely to arrest and deportation are growing more truculent. Hong Kong's thousands of Chinese residents crammed into squalid quarters are increasingly abusive of officials. Police and troops are showing the strain of almost continuous duty in the crisis that is now three weeks old. A British police officer was assaulted by an angry Chinese crowd that tried to stop truck convoys returning captured refugees to the Red Chinese border. Angry villagers near the border threw stones and refuse at three other convoys and threatened to beat up a police guard accompanying another convoy. ALL THIS in a little 20-mile-square area that in the last year or so since hunger began to stalk abroad in Red China has accepted and made a place for and FOUND Food for a million or so starving Chinese refugees from com munism! Hard to believe? Well, starvation knows no law. WHAT ta do about it? Nationalist China - the remnant of Old China that now finds a home on the is land of Formosa, has offered to find a home and food for these starving refugees from Communist China. But- Take a look on your may at Formosa. It is a relative speck of land in a wide ocean. Its area is only 13.890 square miles. It is about the size of the state of Maryland. The area of Oregon, which is not a large state as really large states go. is 96.981 square miles, nearly seven times the area of Formosa. Formosa's population in 1958. when the last census was taken, was more than ten million. Ore gon's present population is about a million and three quarters. , qHE OFFER to take and feed . A refugees from Communist China is a sicn that National- i China s heart is in the right P'l''- B" Communist China s (population is somewhere in !l,c neighborhood of threc- quarters ot a bil.mu. ' nearly one fourth of the world , population . .. . it r q M W a s h i n slon this y R o M W a s h i n gton this 1 m0rning comes the report that "high sources indicate ,n,l prcident Kennedy be- ,cvcs ,, u s nnls, rt)Crt j strong leadership in the plight these Chinese refugees - 1 mi. tlUwuMi uiut it oa a Communism, AftfkYsttfcoe Mfctional iom Threat in By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Ntwa Analyst "A powder keg may exist in the impoverished northeast of Brazil but the wick is in Rio de Ja neiro . " The above quota tion is from Gov. C a r 1 os La Cerda of Guana bara State, whose political be liefs make Nawtom him both a beacon and something of a paradox in a nation where LSI. Washington Report By William (o United feature Syndicate A CLEAR CHOICE Washington - The old-fashioned scandals set off by a very modern kind of Bible thumping big operator in the farm subsidy program, Bil Iie Sol Estes, are pleasuring a gossip mind ed public no end. Every body is talk ing about his monitary fa- wmi vors to poli ticians - of whom the most elevated to emerge to date is Texas Democratic Senator Ralph Yarborough. But no body seems to be talking about the plain duty of Amer ican people to grow up and face up to the basic problem of which "The Estes Case" is only a small, unpleasant sym bol. The disclosure that Estes contributed $1,700 to the of fice expenses of a Senator who assisted him in his con tacts with the government, Yarborough, offers tempta tions. a IiHERE is the temptation - among some to exult a little that the first important politician to be caught up has been the special hero of one of the most finger-pointing groups in all the land. These are the reformist and profes sional liberals, Texas brand, whose massive self-righteous ness exceeds even that of their counterparts in Californ ia and New York. Then there is the tempta tion to recall aloud how im placably bitter these same people were toward a con servative Republican, Rich ard Nixon, when in 1952 it came out that he, too, had been the beneficiary of an of fice fund contributed by busi nessmen. One would have thought then that lynching was hardly bad enough for Nixon. Now, one hears no shrill calls from the reform ers for the blood of their lib eral friend, Yarborough. And yet the circumstances are quite similar. Estes gave Yarborough money to help pay the legitimate expenses of his office. Nixon's friends did the same for him. STILL, fair is fair, even though the built-in double standard of the professional liberal reformists was never more clearly illustrated than here. It simply looks that Yar borough had the bad luck to accept lawful assistance from a man, Estes, who now turns out to have motives more complicated than those sim of his oath of duty. Not all by giving support to a para gon of a senator. And this leads to the whole point. It requires hundreds of thousands of dollars to run a hard-contested campaign for major office in any big state. This, in return, requires con tributions. Is it better to ac cept such contributions as an aspirant to office than it is in office-assuming in each case that the politician concerned is a man of integrity? What is permissible in the springtime of a man's search for office can hardly be impermissible once he has reached the Autumn of that office. Obviously, the nub is this: what counts is not the con tributions he accepts, or from whom, but what effect these may have upon his discharge of his oath of duty-through a senators are rich though a surprising number, oddly most of them Democrats, ac tually are. Moreover, "contri- , we musi noi wmt the problem off as insoluble. W hat can we do? Here's a thought: Our warehouses contain an abundance of food. Its abun - dance is so vast that what to ...;.!. ; I. - . . . I ih- nii. mi'iii-n. I ihe countless milli, i iitg Chinese, it woi ould be BET TEH USED than if c keep it slashed away in warehouses I where its presence tetjpts get - rich-quick adventurers to take advantage of the situation to i u-ia a quick buck. O Brozif; Lcado pticnttflic . poverty abets growing com mit n i s m and communism works hand in hand with anti Yankee nationalism. LaCerda, ij-hose state capi tal is Rio, is a former news paper editor who is one of Brazil's strongest supporters of President Kennedy's Al liance for Progress program. He also believes that U. S. aid should have "strings at tached." "Let us not pretend," he says, "that economic help has nothing to do with establish ing a free responsible commu nity in Latin America. No one has the right to finance poli- S. White butions" come in many ways, notably in well-paid lectures arranged by friendly groups for favored senators. ... v TT cannot truly be said of any senator, except in some instances for those hold ing private fortunes, that he is teetotally beholden to no one for financial help in any form. Presumably we do not wish as a nation to close the sen- tor's doors to all save the rich. If that is so, the alternatives are clear. We go on with the presant system of contributions -which to most senators from big states are absolutely nec essary for the proper conduct of the office as well as for reaching it-on the assump tion that by and large you can trust elected men not to steal the spoons. Or we outlaw it all and go into the untried and tricky field of direct public subsi dies, both for campaigning and for properly operating the office. Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris lc Field Enterprise Inc. LIFE'S PREDICAMENT "Almost everything hap pens to you if you live long enough." This is what a wise old man of my aquainl ance told me many years ago, when I came to him with some problem that was bothering me at the iiaru time. 11 is a simple sentence I have never forgotten. And it is remark able how comforting that thought can be in times of stress or crisis. The only way to avoid trouble is to avoid living. A m e r i cans, particularly, (because we have been so favored by geography and history) tend to think of life as a series of problems and so lutions. But less fortunate peoples, in other parts of the world, know better. Life is NOT a series of problems and solutions-it is a predicament. ... There, art torn problems that have no solutions. Thera are soma questions that have no answers. Thera art somt situations that must simply bt lived through, and cannot bt worked out. It is this kind of ac ctpttnet, ot stoicism, that stems to bt lacking in our ebullient American nature. We cannot bring ourselves to belitvt that lift is a pre dicament, and not a group of ntat equations that can 10 I ye satisfactorily. This it as trut in our na tional outlook as it is in our ptrsonal vitwpoints. Part of our rtsiitanct, and rtsentment. and frus tration about the prtitnt world situation springs from this attitudt. Wt simp ly cannot btlitvt that tht continuing crisis In interna tional affairs cannot bt tolvtd or rtsolvtd by turn ing th right key. or taking tht right posturt. or bting more aggrtisivt or bting more conciliatory. Yet all the realistic evi- dence points to the fact that we are going through a long period in which there are no satisfactory solutions. The Russians cannot be wished laway. or frightened away, or talked away, or even lougni , nPA Hat-a an4 u' h..",' i;n,o'r This is what we find so jin - platatablc: that we are no longer the sole masters of ! our own destiny, that we are ! caught up in a web of history. and we cannot act with the ikduu. and boldness wt Oo cies that do not prevent com munism from Votvirej from within." In Brazil, the United States needs such supporters as La Cerda. In the poverty-stricken northeast it has Instituted both a crash and a long-range program to bring aid to 20 million inhabitants and to prevent a social explosion in the Castro style. The rains finally came to the parched northeastern plains last week, making pos sible a late harvest of beans and corn which may, joined with emergency U. S. food shipments, help relieve wide spread hardship and starva tion. In northeastern Brazil, aside from perennial drought, the problem is one of land tenure practically unchanged since colonial days, where a few own vast plantations and the majority starve under an income of less than $100 per year. Try and -By BENNETT CERF- "npHEY TELL ME Dartmouth is z great college," grumbled , 1 the lather of a student t that noted institution, "but my son's handwriting seems to get worse nd worse up there. Here's a letter that just arrived from him this morning, for instance. I can't even make out how much he wants me to send him!"- A geography teacher hud jutt been explaining to her charges the differences be tween the frigid, temper ate and torrid zones. At the conclusion of her talk, she asked young Andrew what sort of zona he lived in. Andrew answered, Brooklyn, 18." Fellow who claims he was there quotes Christopher Cofamhn at a banquet honoring him for discovering the New World. Columbus, claiming he had not expected to be called on for a speech, smiled at Queen. Isabella, and began, "A funny thing r happened to me on my way to India. ' O 1K3, t7 Bennett Cert Distributed by XhS restarts SysOestti ; Mental Terror Felt By Russians During Stalin Era Revealed Moscow lUPll The mental terror felt by the Soviet peo ple during the 1937-38 purges by Josef Stalin was revealed in the current issue of the Russian literary monthly New World. Soviet writer Ilya Ehren burg, in the latest installment of his memoirs published in the magazine, said, "Nobody was confident about tomor row." "Life was strange at that time. I can hardly describe it within several pages." Whenever the name of someone who had suddenly Communications Lettera to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under cer tain circumstances the use ot a Cen name ot initial (or Dublica on is Dermlsslble. The Mail Tribune reserves the rifht to edit all lettera with an eye to claritication and condensation Letters submitted (or publica Uoo must not exceed 400 words Back Our Ltadtrt To the Editor: Many limes I have thought of writing to the editor. After reading Mr. Prichard's letter, I decided to. I spent 18 months in the serv ice in the Second World War, not 33 years either as an of ficer. I always figured if I didn't like what I was doing I could quit. No, Mr. Prichard, I don't believe the general was a communist. The Reds wouldn't have him, or you either for that matter. Are you an American? Can't you leave? If you are an American act like one please! Living in this country, no matter what her faults, I say we should give our leaders our backing, either with constructive criti- cism or our prayers, i i 33 years is a long time to hate yourself. A Free American Citizen Harry C. Caton White City, Ore. j have long been accustomed , to. Control of atomic fission ffave us unoreeedented nower -but it also made us the slaves ! cu lc D writing oiaun on of its consequences. j tw0 occasions for permission The world Is now balanced ,0 tr,veI broad. precariously on the edge ofj When permission was re a precipice. Survival calls for! fused the first time, he writes, delicacy, for the ability to ; his wife asked him: "Do you sustain the tension without! want to complain to Stalin fight or flight. We have no about Stalin?" answers, because new ques- "I grimly answered 'yes'." tions have been propounded ' he continued. "I understand it 1 by our scientific break - throughs. I he ultimate test of our maturity may consist in syir willingness to accept the 1 predicament, and to treat it i with tact, not with cov.i.4ice bravado. But Brazil problems art) as varied as the nation's size. In the transport unions es pecially, the Communists art) strong. There is anti-Yankee na tionalism, evidenced in tht) National Chamber of Depu ties by a bill placing prohibi tive controls on foreign in vestment and by such actions as the seizure of International Telephone and Telegraph's $9 million subsidiary in Rla Grande do Sul State by Gov. Leonel Brizola. LaCerda is of another stripe. He believes that with prop er effort, communism will be repudiated not only In Bra zil but throughout the world. He says: "If the world is able ta keep peace for some time longer, and certain prerequi sites are maintained, instead of communism winning out inevitably ... we will see communism beaten inside Russia." Stop Me disappeared was mentioned,, people's bafflement posed it self in the question: "Why him?" Ehrenburg said. Wift Ntrvous He recalled his return ta Moscow in 1938 after living abroad for years. His wife was in a state of continual nervousness and agitation. "Yesterday a man could de. liver a speech or publish an article in Pravda," she told him at the time, "and today fear for his life." "Many of my friends had bags packed with two sets of warm clothes on hand," he said. , "Some people I knew tried to live solitary lives and met only their close friends and relatives. Suspicious fears were disrupting human rela tionships and the writer Isaac M. Babel would say a man now talks frankly only with his wife during the night with the blankets over their ears." For these "years of arbi trariness" Ehrenburg blamed secret police chief N. I. Yez hov primarily. He writes: "Yezhov was shelling the squares and didn't spare the shells. I say Yezhov because at that time I think he was the cause of it. ". . . Crimes were ascribed to people who did not commit them ... and I asked myself why and what for and nobody could answer me who under stood nothing. ". . . Not only myself, but many others thought this evil was emanating from the little man who was called Stallnsky Norkom (Yezhov), because we saw people who never joined any opposition being arrested who were loyal supporters of Stalin or honest non-party specialists." r..,, Ml. T,.mkii. Et"t M,n T"mb""9 Ehrenburg described Stalin himself as "a legendary semi god, and every man was trem bling, repeating his name and believed he was the only man who could save the state from invasion and disintegration." He described how he tempt- 1 was silly to do so, and the most , probable outcome w as that I ! would be arrested." Instead, he received the nef ssary document?. "Why it i happened I don't Ttnow." hs i concluded. o o CO O o GI3 o 0
