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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 yean ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Aug. 26, 19S2 (Tueiday)
Miss B. J. Larsen chosen as
administrator of Community
hospital; she succeeds Miss
Ruth Nelson.
All' union barber shops in
Medford and valley towns will
close Mondays beginning Sept.
1.
20 YEARS AGO
Aug. 28 1942 (Wednesday)
Two 12-year-old girls from
Wagner creek are killed when
the car in which they are rid
ing overturns in an Irrigation
ditch.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "A fair
Is underway in Multnomah
county with no reports of
rain, and pictures of the
events reveal no sea ot um
brellas."
00 YEARS AGO
Aug. 26. 1932 (Friday)
George Putnam, editor of
the Salem Capitol Journal and
Tribune, visits Medford to fish
with E. E. Kelly.
Mrs. F. .1. Clifford and
daughter, Olive, of Medford,
arrive in Pendleton on horse
back to attend roundup; trip
was taken to enable Miss Clif
ford to regain her health.
40 YEARS AGO
Aug. 26, 1922 (Saturday)
Horse bolts, runs off with
express wagon; reminiscent of
"good old days" before the
monopolization of automobile
traffic.
First carload of Medford
Bnrtletl pears sells In New
York for $3.2S a box.
50 YEARS AGO
Aug. 26, 1912 (Monday)
Craler lake rangers report
they are continuing the search
for B. B. Bakowski who disap-
peared near the lake more
than a year ago.
A motor street car company j
operating four busses is pro- i
nosed for Medford; J. A. Wcs-j
terlund organizes a company
capitalized at $20,000.
What's Your I.Q.7
Nine or ten correct It superior!
even or eight it ovcellent; live of
tit It good.
1. How many arms has an
octopus?
2. One of Ihe Central
Republic does not border on
the Caribbean sea; name it
3. The moon his four
phases; name them.
4 For what purpose was
the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
France originally built?
.V From where did Ihe
Moors emigrate into Spain'.'
6. What are the three slates
of mailer-1
7 Does' hair on the human i
body grow from the ends, or j
from Ihe roots?
A. In Greek mythology,
who was the husband of
Penelope?
9. Does Hallcy s Cornel re- -
apper about every 6,V .V or
years?
10. In what state is Triipol
Dome?
Answers: 1. t ight. 2. El Sal
vador. 3. New, first quarter.
Full, latl quarter. 4. Tourist
attraction. S. From North
Africa. 6. Liquid, solid, gat.
7. From the rooti. I. Ulyttet.
f. 75. 10. Wyoming.
yp" ASSOCIATION
NATIONAL E0ITORIAI
SUNDAY. Auoua 1' 2t. Ib2
On Blight
Two things have the
Medford running scared
The competition
success of the Medtord
All the talk of blight in the downtown bus
iness district.
Both, we submit, need not necessarily be any
cause for alarm, but the cries of distress from the
downtown area seem to get louder and more
plaintive as each day goes by.
REPRESENTATIVES of the downtown mer
chants have unhesitatingly and unblushing
ly described the extent of their woes to the city
council on a number of occasions.
The most recent instance occurred at the last
council meeting on Aug. 16 when Attorney Ed
ward Branchfield, representing a group of down
town landlords, appeared before the council to
oppose passage of the city's revised fire code.
He shied away from the vital aspect of public
safety, and concerned himself with warning the
council that the merchants and landlords simply
couldn't afford to install sprinkler systems in the
basements of their buildings.
A rather bald suggestion was made that if the
council forced the installatioa now, it was just
possible that some business would be forced to
close their doors.
By the time Branchfield had finished with
his pleaiby the time he had described the rows
of vacaijt offices and the buildings standing
vacant or being torn down, an uninformed listen
er might have supposed that Medford was a ghost
town instead of the fourth largest city in the state.
one which has averaged a four per cent annual
population growth over the last several years.
IT WAS just too much for Mayor John W.
Snider, who usually refrains from entering
into matters appearing before the council.
He flatly accused Branchfield of overstaVng
the case, saying that Medford had "a great down
town area," and that while it was probably under
going a "period of transition," the real situation
was not nearly so bad as it was frequently de
scribed. County Assessor Thad Hatton, who happened
to be in the audience, backed up Snider. He said
the downtown district was currently being reas
sessed and that while they did have some prob
lems, he thought the merchants were actually in
pretty good shape.
J-ie ought to know.
MO ONE would deny that the shopping center
A" has pulled some business away from the
downtown core (although it has also been said
said that it has attracted new shoppers to Med
ford to the ultimate benefit of the whole area).
That several other stores and firms are due to
open their doors in the center soon, indicates
that the attraction for customers there is likely to
increase rather than diminish.
The Medford Shopping center is now an eco
nomic fact of life in this area, and the downtown
merchants had better learn to live with it.
Our very economic system is based upon free
enterprise and open competition in the market
place. Rather than becoming frightened, the
downtown merchants should imaginatively begin
looking for ways to attract some customers them
selves. The consumer market in this area is more
than ample to support both the shopping center
and the downtown district, but if one or the
other loses out in the competition, it will have only
itself to blame.
XKTVt HAVE frequently heard the opinion of-
fercd that the reason for the decline of busi
ness in the downtown area is that there isn't ade
quate customer parking.
And all too often we have heard the sugges
tion from downtown merchants that the city
should assume part or all of the responsibility
for providing more parking facilities in the busi
ness district.
This reallv makes no more sense today than
jf tlp (PVpopcrS of the shopping center had asked
. . , ' , . l.:' i7,i
Lilt t i iy in p.i I'M nr. ji.it iitt; ii'ir.
How odd it is that the staunchest believers in
the doctrine of laissex, faire traditionally the
businessman should so quickly demand gov
ernment assistance or intervention whenever the
competition gets a little fierce.
7E AREN'T convinced
the lack of parking
lem in the core area anvwav.
We grant it's more
chascs at the shopping center because of thei.on ,,, arncr(lt. ,ocl ,.e.
ready availability of parking spaces. forms and show rays of eco-
linl mwinln li.'nil t,i ulimi ulioin tho lnwl Ivir. i rromic hope if it is going to
gains arc available, ami we would personally
hunt for a parking space for a half hour if we
knew we could make a substantial savings on a
purchase, or get exactly what we wanted, after
we had found a place for our car.
Let the downtown merchant institute some
major reforms and he'll end up doing more busi-
HCSS than ll
drcamcd possible :
Let him train his personnel to be courteous
and efficient; let him adopt modern methods of
merchandising; let him offer genuine sales ami
forget gimmicks like Blossom Rucks; let him
effect some remodeling of his store to make it
attractive and pleasant to shop in; and, finally,
let him cooperate closely with other "'merchants
in the flountov, n area
the whole district.
to
Then, and only then, will he win his share
of the consumer's dollar, and only then will the
real or imagined bliuht in downtown Medford
come to an end, (l.H.n.
& Fright
merchants in downtown
these days:
caused by the increasing
shopping center, and
for that matter, that
is the
root of the prob
convenient to make pur
improve and hCVItifV
1 J
"It Wat Amu.ing To See Those Liberal Try To
Hang Things Up With A Filibuster"
Drummond Reports
(Walter Lippmann it en vacation. Roscoe Drummond reoorti from
Washington In hit absence.) (c)
CASTRO'S TARNISHED
IMAGE
Rio de Janeiro - Castro is
becoming a tarnished image
throughout Latin America.
It is pleasant to be able to
report that "Fldelismo" is vis
ibly losing its appeal nearly
everywhere. His name is no
longer the once inspiring ral
lying cry to stir revolution in
the hemisphere.
Except for the Communists,
who are a vocal, well-financed,
powerful minority,
few people in the other Latin
American countries want for
themselves what Castro is im
posing on Cuba.
Not that Castro isn't still
trying to export his "Fidelis-
ta" revolution. He is. Under
the compulsion of the expan
sioni.st Marxian ideology, he
is still seeking to infiltrate
neighboring nations and to
spread subversion not only
against tne traditional oli
gar chic governments but
against the progressive gov
ernments of the moderate left
He still has some following in
nearly every country.
His appeal is to the nation
alist sentiment of Latin Amer
icans and to the pride they vi
cariously feel in seeing the
national personality of a small
nation asserted against a pow
erful Yankee neighbor.
BUT .Firielismo finds its lus
tre waning. Its appeal is
being steadily sapped as the
true picture of what is hap
pening to the Cuban peopie
is becoming better known.
The rest of the hemisphere
is now seeing more clearly
that Castro promised a mir
acle and created a mess, prom
ised freedom and brought tyr
anny, proclaimed Cuban inde
pendence and turned his coun
try over to the Soviets.
If Castro were succeeding,
if he were really Improving
the lot of all Cuban people
even with great regimenta
tion, he would be a galvanic
force for revolution in many
parls of this continent be
cause the stuff of which revo
lution is made massive In
flation, terrible poverty, and
social Injustice Is widely at
hand. The tinder is dry.
But Castroism is not going
to be the spark which sets it
off. The spark of Castroism
has nearly gone out as far as
the rest of Latin America Is
concerned.
IT IS ii
1 if thci
ncrcasingly clear that
uprisings because of mass dis
content and frustration and
this can't be ruled out they
will come not from Ihe suc
cess of Cnslro but from the
failure of the Alliance for
Progress. The Alliance, though
yet untested by performance,
is a positive factor helping to
erode the Castro myth.
But the Alliance cannot sur
vive on promises of things to
come. It must begin to deliver
j on its promises soon if it is
going to enlist the faith of the
i great majority of Latin Amcr-
avert political explosion
which can go in any direction
or in all directions - none of
thrm good.
The decline of Castro as an
appealing figure and symbolic
rallying point doesn't mean
Communist are giving up in
l.alin America. Not at all. It
simply means thai Commu
nist leaders are having to
work harder than ever and to
lay hold of other slogans Cas
tro is no longer much use lo
them
'IMIE principal target of Com-
immists in Latin America
today is Ihe Alliance for Prog
ress. In Chile they are begin-
ran 11 Alliance against.
and this is apparently going
to be one of the Communists'
main slogans.
The fact lhal the Commu
nists are focusing their major
attack on the Alliance shows
how important they consider i
1962 New York Herald Tribune Inc.
Its destruction and, converse
ly, how crucial it is to all of
us South Americans and
North Americana to press
forward with this economic
war against poverty and stag
nation as if it were war itself.
Either the Western hemis
phere is going to achieve an
accelerated economic growth
by democratic means and
that is the heart and purpose
of the Alliance or mass
frustration will demand that
it be attempted by any other
method whatsoever. Under
such circumstances commu
nism would have tremendous
appeal. In the end it would be
the most likely alternative.
This is why there is no ac
ceptable alternative to mak
ing the Alliance for Progress
a vitel and going concern.
In fhe Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
President De Gaulle of
France, returning to his sum
mer headquarters outside Par
is after presiding over a cabi
net meeting which decided on
sharp new measures to deal
with the mounting wave of
terrorism that is worrying the
trench government, is am
bushed by a group of would
be assassins who spray his en
tourage with machine gun
bullets.
He was accompanied by his
wife and his son-in-law. Their
closed car was hit ten times,
one of the bullets piercing a
window two inches from De
Gaulle's head, and another
shattering a window next to
Mme. De Gaulle.
French Minister of Interior
Roger Frey told newsmen la
ter that 71-ycar-old De Gaulle
remained "as proud, Olym
pian and imperturbable as
ever, despite this second at
tempt on his life within a
year.
DE GAuLle is a strange
hnralii- ir I..J
. . . ... . , u wc unu inuic
like him on our side of the
fence, we'd probably have
more success in handling the
Russian problem. The com
mies know they can't bluff De
Gaulle.
They aren't sure about us
yet.
lROM Washington:
The Kennedy administra
tion is reported considering an
LCONOMY order that would
call on government deoart-
mcnts to CUT SPENDING bv
up to 3 per cent in the current
fiscal year.
If carried out, the move
would help pave the way for
President Kennedy's planned
lfl(i3 Income lax cut, counter
act Republican criticism of
spending as a campaign issue
and perhaps stimulate busi
ness confidence in the admin
istration. No White House decision on
such an overall economy
move has been made, congres
sional "sources" tell the re
porters. But, they add, the i
idea is under discussion. j
fOMMENT?
Let s leave it to Senator
Byrd, who says in an inter
view: "An econninv order would
be a FINE MOVE hut I'll
believe it when I see it "
1 NCIDENTAL Information:
According to the Federal
Bureau of Prisons, the num
ber of prisoners in federal.
state and local prisons reach-j
ed a record of -au..ij at the
end of 1!)B1.
This, the Bureau of Prisons
reports, was a 3.5 per cent In
crease over 19611
1 1 M MMMMMM "
Considering th
g the fact that
the I'.S. population is barging
up toward 200 million, thai
doesn't seem to be a very
large number
If everybody w in prison
who ought to be, maybe Ihe
number would be larger.
MLDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON
Matter of Fact by
iei New YorK Herald Ttibun Syndic t
By WARREN ROGERS, JR.
(Joseph Alsop ii on vaca
tion. His column is being
written by other newt
papermen meanwhile.)
TWENTIETH CENTURY
COMES TO DR. SALAZAR
Lisbon- Portuguese hearts
yearn for the days of old,
when Vasco da Gama and Fer
dinand Magellan carried the
Portuguese flag to the far
corners of the world. But Por
tuguese heads know the past
is dead and the present and
future very much alive. And
so, slowly and reluctantly,
with a shiver of foreboding
like a bather dunking a tense
toe in a mountain stream,
Portugal is edging into the
twentieth century.
When Premier Antonio de
Oliveira Salazar took over the
government on April 27, 1928,
one day short of his 39th birth
day, all was chaos. From the
revolutionary founding of the
republic in 1910 until then,
there had been 40 cabinets
and 22 coups d'etat, and only
one president, Dr. Antonio
Almeida, ever had served out
his full four-year term. Infla
tion was rampant. The econo
my was an utter wreck,
TR. SALAZAR left his mus--'
ty classroom at the Uni
versity of Coimbra, second
oldest in Europe, where he
taught economics, to become
finance minister. He attached
one condition: absolute
power. His demand was met.
In a year, he balanced the
budget. In two years, he cut
the government payroll in
half. In three, ha raised taxes
and paid off all of the public
debt. In four, he unquestion
ably had absolute power, and
he has had it ever since.
Dr. Salazar's philosophy is
simple: work hard, live aus
terely, pray devoutly, never
borrow or accept favors, and
save 10 per cent of all you
earn. A bachelor, a near-re
cluse, a puritanical and almost
ascetic Roman Catholic, he
practices what he preaches.
and he has imposed It on Por
tugal and all its possessions
for 34 years.
But now the Portugal that
Dr. Salzar has built, with the
aid of an elite of clever and
most resourceful compatriots
whom he. personally hand-
picked, is being threatened by
pressures outside the realm of
his absolute power. These
pressures, in the United Na
tions and elsewhere, threaten
Portugal with the loss of An
gola and Mozambique, her ma
jor overseas "provinces."
OMALL wonder that Dr. Sala-
p zar has sworn to fight lo
the last drop to keep the col
onies: with them, Portugal
boasts a territory of 805,506
square miles, a population ot
22,419,666. and a balanced
budget, International stature,
and a protected market for
goods which would find few
buyers anywhere else. With
out them, Portugal would be
reduced to 34.230 square
miles, a population of 8,980,
000, a monstrous trade deficit,
a tenth-rate slatus, and a de
pression which would make
its current per capita income
of $245 a year, the lowest in
Western Europe, seem high.
Nevertheless, a visit to love
ly Lisbon for talks with the
Salazar elite and the common
folk, for walks among the
Moorish tinged architecture,
for the Portuguese bullfight
Latin Youth Leaders
By ERIC SEVAREID
Aspen. Colorado There
are more serene ways to vary
a vacation than by sitting at a
round table
for three days
listening to a
description of
America,
American
fore'.gn policy
and the Amor -
can character,
as delivered
by American
f f i c i a 1
r e q u e s t from the quick
tongues and impassioned
minds of foreign students.
It was maddening, moving,
at times illuminating, and
just possibly useful in terms
of practical suggestions for
improving the A m e r i c a n i
"image." a word that sickens
with age and usage
The brooding Iranian was
positive that American agents
were responsible for the
practice of the Shah's police
in recoving the ears and
longues of the Shah's politi
cal enemies, positive that
American financial aid !o the
regime maintained his people
in Ihe grip of tyrannv.
The w hite Siu.'h African '
with t h e horn-r i m m e d.
Bloomshury manner of total
certainly was sure il was Ihe
moral duty of America th stoo
buying South American gold
in order to facilitate the fall
of that regime and the end
of apartheid The consequence
lo America's precarious gold
reserve was a minor Item
The birdlike Malayan hoy
who kept a copy of "A Nation
rim
LgaartatiLait awya
Sevaretd
Joseph Alwp
In which the bull is taunted
but not killed, for miraculous
ly fluffy omlets and depress
ingly anguished "Fado" songs
in the little cafe-all these re
inforce past impressions and
project a new one.
PORTUGAL it still proud
poor. A man with one suit
and one pair of shoes keeps
them looking fresh, and you
would not know he wore them
every day. A tourist may sleep
between monogrammed sheets
at the Ritz and gambol on the
beach and at the casion at
nearby Estoril; along with the
Batistas and Don Juans. But
quite large children play nak
ed in the narrow streets of
the slums of old Lisbon, to
save their meager wardrobe
for Sunday - go-to-meeting
events. Yet, it is all changing,
because, after all these years,
Dr. Salazar is willing to take
a chance on a change.
The Angola uprising, which
Dr. Salazar insists was outside-generated
and involved
less than one per cent of the
Angolese, has cost him heavi
ly. In a year of sending troops
to quell the revolt, his re
serves of gold and foreign ex
change dropped by about $100
million. Painfully, he broke
a rule about never borrowing.
Edging into the twentieth
century, he accepted loans
from several sources. This out
side help-which he had dis
dained even to the point of
refusing an offer of rent from
the United States for use of
the critically needed Azores
base-built up his reserves
again. As of July 1, they stood
at $670 million.
fpHE biggest loan, $67 mil
lion to be repaid in 25
years, .came from America's
Export-Import bank. It will
help build the largest bridge
in Europe across the Tejo river
at Lisbon.. Another, $20 mil
lion due in five years to nine
American banks, is for general
economic development. West
Germany advanced $37.5 mil
lion, repayable in 20 years, for
airport development and for
an irrigation project in arid
Alentejo province. The World
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF
AT A DINNER in honor of outstanding figures in the
sports world, Heavyweight Champion Floyd Patterson
told of a fifth-rate preliminary fighter who had been taking
a fearful beating from a
superior boxer. After the
third round he pleaded
with his manager, "How
can I stand up against
this guy?" "Breathe on
him," advised the man
ager. "Maybe he'll catch
your cold!"
Peter Sellers, British
movie star, felt that he
could afford a butler this
year but the man he hired
had a drawback. "The poor
fellow," says Sellers, "could
only see straight ahead. He
couldn't see sideways at all. Result: lie kept bumping intc
things. I'd call out, There's a wall over there.' He'd answer,
You don't have to tell me. I know.' Then there would be a
crash and we were out another set of china dishes."
Sellers Is a great friend of Alec Guinness, and in fact, has en
acted with distinction several roles that Guinness tinned down.
When Guinness was knighted, Sellers celebrated a little too
heartily and turned up at the theatre where he was making a
personal appearance in a lather interesting monition. He walked
unsteadily to the front of the stage and told the audience cheer
fully, "I'm sloshed." They loved It!
of Sheep" atop his docu
ments, assured us that virtu
ally all Asian intellectuals
regard America as a war
mongering. money-1 u s 1 1 n g.
decadent society, though he
added graciously that a visit
here revealed a somewhat
different picture.
The jovial Chilean with
bolh heart and gall bladder
1 on his sleeve had no doubt
i that American private invest
ment was a prime cause of
i his country's political peril
and was frustrated because
I Latin studenst love theory,
while visiting Americans like
Adlal, Stevenson annoyingly
insist on talking about facts
and practical programs.
So it went. All were lead
ers, all, when intellectually
frisked, turned
socialists which
out to be
almost
inevitable today In the pre-
carious countries and which !
did not at all bother t lie
American leaders and off i
cials at the table, rather to
the surprise of the visitors.
Some Americans present
thought listening was all we
should do: it would be the
way lo
please the visitors,
the turbulence In
relieve
their breasts and demonstrate j
our large mindedness. But
others opposed an exercise in
group therapy at such a cost
in air travel tickets. Surely,
the young men could use a
few elementary facts of life,
policy and history. Rebuttal
erupted from the American
seats.
These brave, earnest, gen-
erally admirable young men
- all future leaders of their
Washington Report
By William
(ei llnllea Tenure Syndicate
DIVIDING BERLIN
Washington - The Russians'
power plays over Berlin are
having a new kind of success,
more ominous
in a way than
their succ ess
of a year ago
in erecting the
gaunt and in
famous wall.
For that wall,
at worst,
merely sealed
an already
long existing
division of the city between
Fast and West. But Soviet
maneuvers now are, to art un
deniably alarming extent, di
viding West Berlin itself from
the Western allies.
This is the true heart of
danger in the new Benin
crisis. The recent helplessness
of Western forces in wesi
Berlin - specifically our own
- to come to the aid of an
East Berlin refugee youth left
dying on the east side of the
wall has hit all the West a
very hard blow. West Ber
liners now not only taunt the
Soviets across the wall. They
also taunt -and denounce the
United States and the allies
for their incapacity to move
in such a situation as .this.
Bank is considering, and prob
ably will grant, a $25 million
loan for hyerro-eiectric power.
A school lunch program, using
surplus American food, is a
huge success. Ford and Gener
al Motors are on the verge of
making solid investments
here.
Dr. Salazar's philosophy
now is to accept change, but
slowly. He is willing to make
major adjustments in the
economy and the way of life,
but he insists that they must
be of the sort which can be
sustained. His pride-indeed,
the Portuguese pride-will not
allow him to grab at help be
cause it is there, or to tack
with each blow of the winds
of change howling throughout
the world these days.
The Portuguese will pull
themselves up. But they can
not be pushed.
3
trail
Misunderstand U.S.
countrics were told, 'because
they had lo be told, these
things among others.
Most of them overestimated
Communism as a persuasive
doctrine and underestimated
it as a short-term conspiracy
aimed at presidential palace,
radio station and army bar
racks, after which the local
argument would be over.
None of them comprehend
ed the policy necessities of
America's world-wide respon
sibilities, each demanding an
American foreign policy
fashioned exclusively in the
light of his own country's
needs. All wanted us to op
pose right wing dictatorships,
all wanted support for left
wing dictatorships, however
destructive of human
liberties.
None seemed conspicuously
aware that they might have !
no free nation to represent lo- I
day had it not been for Amcr-'
lean and British policy to-
ward Spain in the last con- j
tury. had it not been for the !
oceans of American and Euro-j
pean blood shed in the recent j
struggles against German, j
Italian. Japanese, and now
Red Chinese and Russian im-'
perialism
None openly recognized. !
whatever his inner thoughts, j
that Western peoples had to !
suffer and die over and over j
again, from Magna Carta
through the American Civil
War and beyond, in order to
win and preserve democratic
liberties, and that history
would probably demsnd the
same experience of them;
S. Whit
WESTERN plans to
send
ambulances into East Ber
lin hereafter in such instances
are well-meant, but the ugly
fact is that they are largely
meaningless. What will the
ambulances do when and if
they get there, on Communist
East Berlin soil?
The hard, central reality is
that Western allied rights in
Berlin have been eroding
away year after year under
three successive American
administrations - Truman's,
Eisenhower's and Kennedy's.
If one seeks to fix the "blame-1
here, he has a big and bi
partisan field in which to
search. Such an exercise, in
nv case, is only academic.
What is done is done. We face
a present condition of fact,
not a hunt for scapegoats from
the past.
And the condition of fact
is this: what the United States
really has to offer in this new
crisis is a bleak but necessary
cautionary thing. It is a re
quest, even a demand, which
we are privately making to
the West Berlin authorities
that thev accept the unalter
able truth that the West can
not really do anything beyond
the western side of the wall.
BERLINERS themselves,
must cease their useless
and harmful clamor against
us, for it only puts water on
the Soviet wheel. It gives the
Russians an arguing point that
"provocations ' and disor
ders" in West Berlin are be
coming intolerable and thai
something must be done to
establish "order" - Russian
style. Once they establish this
cynical fiction, they will find
excuse after excuse to turn
the screw tighter and tighter.
Already thev are doing this bv
diplomatic thrusts Intended to
force the West closer and
closer to recognizing their
puppet so - called "govern
ment" of East Germany.
West Berliners. in a word,
must avoid anything resembl
ing riotous demonstra 1 1 o n s
against us, or even against the
Russians. For these are pre
cisely what the Russians most
want.
Moreover, since the time,
for total candor in this whole
wretched affair has now ar
rived, certain great truths
must be recognized. One of
these is that when responsible
governments confront 1 r r e
sponsible governments like
the Soviet Union, the resoon-,
sible side inevitably must
cither adopt an unworthy and
galling meekness, this side of
surrendering anv vital fnte
est. or prenare to enqage the
irresponsib'es in war.
a
ANOTHER great I ruth Is
that while the West will
in fact fisht for such vital
Interests, it will not and can
not risk a war over the mur
der of one German refugee,
or even 20. If and when the
great clash does come in nil
its horror, it must come upon
a far wider olane and for far
more compelling reasons.
The Germans must under
stand that while we will stand
good to the end for their free
dom as a nation, we siinoW
cannot guarantee Individual
lives in that witch's pot of
lost opportunities, mistaken
judgments and past weakness
es based on fatally wrong
assessments of Russian inten
tions of which Berlin Is th
dreadful symbol today.
that neither liberty nor safety
can be granted by other?.
Several seemed to expect
from us a formula for
instant-mix economic matur
ity, complete with all fringe
benefits, avoiding long years
of toil and self-denial and
savings.
Most were looking for a
neatly packaged American
ideology, unaware that Amer
ica lives by no ideology but
by an unwritten series of hu
man values which cannot b
imported on request.
All held American Informa
tion agencies, press, TV and
movies, responsible for dis
torted images of this country
among their own people, and
it had occurred to none that
their own journalist, broad
casters and movie makers
held a more immediate re.
sponsibility.
Well, we Americans Ir.-.meH
a few things about them:
they, please God, learned a
little about us and world
realities. At the end some
u se f u I sounding, practical
suggestions were made,
But it was clear that if the
best minds among foreign
youth. Ihe future leaders of
their countries, cannot ex-
plain the truth of America to
their own masses, no "people
to people" emissaries from
here, tramping through rife
paddies and sugar fields, are
going to measurably influ-
ence the common people
everywhere whom we seek to
reach.
(Distributed 1962. by The
Hall Syndicate. Inc.)
(All Rights Reterred)