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4 WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 3, 1962 7Evcrvonelir SoutherrTbroson Rends TheMilTribune;; Fuhlishcd 'Daily "except Saturrluy by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir Jt.. Ph.J72-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GRF.Y Advertising Manager GERALO T LATHAM. Bui. Mgr. ERIC W ALLEN JR , Mm. Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CH1PMAN. Teleg Kltor RICHARD JEWETT. Sport. Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women s Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr ' An Independent Newspaper Entered ns second clans matter at Medford. Oreeon. under Act ol Mnrch 3. 1B1I7 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bv Mall In Advance. .,. Daily and Sunday 1 year B OO Dallv and Sunday 6 moi. 10 On Dallv and Sunday 3 moi. 5.00 Sunday Only One year 3.00 Sinule Copy (Mailed! 20c Bv Carriet And Motor Route. Dallv and Sunday 1 year Sl 00 Dallv and Sunday 1 mo. 1X1 Sunday Only 1 mo. .we Carrier and Vendors- Copy 10c Official IMP" of City of Medford official 1'aper of Jackson County ' United Press "International Full Leased Wire U P 1 Telephoto Newsplcturei "MEMHEROF AUDIT BUREAU Ul V-P Itl-UUrt l luna Arlvortifiina Henrp.spntatlve: A Nl" SON ROBERTS ASSOCI ATES Offices In New York. Chi cago Detroit. San Francisco. Los Anocles. Seattle, r o r 1 1 Denver. i n d. aO NEWSPAPER 10K V.. DLI5H EK3 SOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASfcuTlflN 'I ii Flight o' Time Mcdlcrd and Jackson County History from the f'le Th Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. Oct. 3i 1952 (Friday) A 17-yeur-nld driver ram med a city police car about 8:30 p.m. in a wild chase through Mudford streets; the youth was finally caught and led off to city jail in hand cuffs. The 15th polio case in Jack son county for 1952 has been reported to the county health office. 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 3, 1942 (Saturday) Two Camp White soldiers killed in automobile crash on Table Hock rd. From Arthur Perry's "Yc Smudge Pot" column: "The weather was such yesterday that electric fans were turned on which is a new record for October." 30 YFARS AGO Oct. 3. 1932 (Monday) Medford city attorney auth orized lo start negotiations for opening of Fourth street across railroad tracks. Southern Oregon residents aroused against bill which would convert Southern Ore gon Normal school into Junior college. 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 3, 1922 (Tuesday) Jackson County Farm Bureau and Chamber of Com merce Corn show scheduled to start in Medford. Oct. 21. Deer hunters find skeleton of man missing four years in vicinity of Oregon caves. SO YEAP.S AGO Oct. 3. 1912 (Thursday) Court trial starts to deter mine validity of city of Ash bud's wiitrr rights on Ander son creek. Crater National forest of ficials report "virtually no loss"' resulted from 5(1 forest fires during 1912 fire season. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct Is superior; seven or eight it excellent; five el six is good. 1. Whirl, U.S. President solved the shortest length of time? 2. Was the South Pole first reached by Capt. James Cook. Roald Amundsen, or Adm. Richard E, livid? 3. Is the largest U.S. rail road ceiiler now in Chicago, Omaha, I.ns Angeles or St. 1 .on is? 4. From which direction did Scott's "young Lochinvar" come to woo his bride? 5. Can sea water be made potable by distillation? H. Was John ".anymore married, one, two, three, four, or five times? 7. For what was Diogenes searching with a lantern? 8. Which country in the past was often referred to as the nation of storekeepers? 0. Were t h e Ishmaelites. who sold Joseph into Egypt, Syrians, Egyptians, or Arab ians? 10. W h i c h Government agency controls the Issuance of radio licenses in the U.S.? Answers: 1. William Henry Harrison. 2, Roald Amundsen. 3. Chicago. III. 4. West. 5. Yei. 6. Four. 7. An honest man. 8. England. S. Arabians. 10. Fed eral Communications Com mission. Red China and the Bomb Sooner or later somebody has trot to be right, For more than two years now observers with varying degrees of sophistication have been pick ing out one Red Chinese demonstration or holi day after another as a detonation of the nation As far back as March, 1960, Indian sources supposed to have a wide acquaintance in Red China were predicating a test during the week the National People's Congress met. Experts on Chinese affairs in Washington, London, and Tokyo promptly discounted the re ports. More significantly, perhaps, the chairman of the Soviet Atomic Energy Utilization Board airily dismissed the "fairy tale." 1V40RE recently the ChiComs were supposed to be preparing to set off an atomic explosion to herald the opening of the People's Political Consultative Conference March 5. On that oc casion the East was content to remain inscrutable. Recently a nameless U. S. Disarmament Agency official predicted that China would join the nuclear club "within a matter of months." He later described the remark as careless. Reports from Hong Kong set the test for the Red regime's 13th anniversary Oct. 1, where upon U.S. officials said that they would be "ab solutely amazed" if these proved true. THE reasons for their possible amazement are. not entirely clear. The National Planning as sociation, in a policy statement and technical re port issued as long ago as January, I960, included Red China as one of 11 nations capable of mak ing nuclear weapons in the relatively near future. The Soviet Union is known to have helped build Communist China's first nuclear reactor and cyclotron. But whether Russia extended any weapons aid at ail is a matter of honest debate. Certainly if there was any, it must have been withdrawn by now. China enjoys heavy deposits of thorium and uranium. Nevertheless, producing plutonium is no simple task. The principle of the pure fission bomb is now widely understood. Scientists can readily obtain all needed basic data except for details of detona tion design and isotope separation. The N.P.A. estimated almost three years ago that a would be nuclear power would have to spend about $100 million to produce its first bomb, and devote five years to the task, AinLIJAM q ,'osLer he.lfi 0f ule Disarmament " Agency, in testimony recently released told Congress that Red China would have the bomb within a year to three years. The Washington "Post" in an editorial on the "nuclear numbers game" on Aug. 2i) noted: "In Moscow the whis pered word is three years and in Poland 15 (months?). Mr. Nehru says IS months to six years." It depends on whore you get your intelligence. If our Central Intelligence Agency has any time for a certain popular comic strip, it should know that the first Chinese atomic device already has been dismantled by an American special forces unit in a mine shaft in the steaming jungles of Indo-China. To be serious, the atom bomb in the hands of Red China, whatever it might do for its pres tige in Asia, is not immediately the militarily awesome thing it might seem. The weapon is virtually useless without a delivery system, and as France is finding out right now, those tire not easily come by and they are excruciatingly expensive. E.R.R. Freedom for Uganda Tribal loyalties in Uganda, tin. British pro tectorate which will attain full independence on 1 A . IX . I I I . i ucMiay, uci. are as Keenly noncii as any in East Africa. To the credit of the British and' na tive leaders, full independence within the Com monwealth after only seven months of internal self-government promises to come peacefully. Prospects for a viable economy likewise' are brighter than most in Africa: Ueaiula is the Commonwealth's chief cotton grower and exports twice as much coffee as neighboring Kenya and j Tanganyika together. Outside assistance will be! necessary, of course, and American aid to the tune of several millions of dollars largely for, secondary education projects started last year. I JGANPA is divided into four provinces: Bu ganda, and the Eastern, Western and North-) ern Provinces. Buganda is a kingdom which will enjoy a special "federal status" in relation to. the central government. The Kabaka (King) of Buganda is assisted by a Kukiko ( Parliament) ! including elected and appointed members and native chiefs, and a cabinet. The districts of Bunyoro, Ankole and Toro (all in the Western Province) als.i have heredi-' tary rulers aided by Kukikos ami cabinets. The rulers of these districts will have a special status when Uganda becomes independent. IN ADDITION there are six so-called "lost cotin-! ties" tribal areas that were placed under! the control of Buganda by the British in 1!HH) as' a reward for IUiganda's loyalty to the colonial j government. They, too, will have a somewhat1 different status. Working out all these arrangements was an exercise in diplomacy akin to negotiating a So viet - United States disarmament agreement. British officials have their fingers crossed that the settlement will hold. The federal system in Uganda does seem to offer the best hope of re conciling tribal lovalties and customs with na- Itional loyalties and aspirations. E.R.R. likely occasion for the s first atomic device. "it's Your Move, I Believe" Communications Letters lo ihe Editor must bear the name and address o! the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen na.ue or initial for publication is permissible The Mail Tribune reserves the tight 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 paper; in tact the contrary is often the case. Fluorides in Action To the Editor: In Vancou ver, B.C., three-year-old Chris topher Tonner's heart stopped as he was coming out of anes thesia following an hour-long dental session. In describing the reason for the child's visit to the den tist, Mr. Tonncr revealed "he's had liquid fluorine every day of his life-so has his brother Gregory, seven months old. The cavities started three weeks ago and spread like wildfire. He just had to have his teeth done. In the hour-long sitting nine cavities were filled and two teeth extracted. The grief -stricken father told the press later that he himself always had feared an esthetic, so he had the child cheeked by the family doctor. The report showed him phys ically fit. (Herald of Health, May, 1002). The city of Cocur d' Alone (Idaho) had to pay a thumping damage settlement to Jack Shaver , maintenance em ployee of its water department It was Mr. Shaver s ottieuu duty to handle the fluorides dumped in the city's water. His illness which has incapac itated him from further work was diagnosed as toxic hepa titis (liver trouble) due to flu oride poisoning. Slate school board tests in Ncwburgh and Kingston, N. Y., proved that fluorides cause 50 per cent more tooth trouble in children who drink fluoridated water than in those who don't. Ncwburgh's health department has figures to show that fluoridation there has caused a 50 per cent increase in heart troubles and disorders of the soft tissue organs. (Capsule News, 2 2:1 195!).) A Miami, Fla., water heater company which wishes name withheld to protect the com pany from slander and boy cott says: "We have replaced five thousand water healers in Dade county since 1951 (after four ynrs of fluoridation) be cause the tanks were leaking. The four years before 1951 that we were in business we replaced Hill tanks." The steel companies say that lite steel is the same as before 1951. Therefore, there must be a water condition in Ihis area which is causing the tanks to leak. Seven Miami manufacturers of electric water heaters have none out of business due to the fact that their tanks were leaking under warranty. Also, many out of town water healer manutactureis have discontinued shipping healers into this area because so many of their tanks were lc.ikini! under their warranty. ii ill ,i "After many delays, we linally begin our 5-week special course to deline the nature of students with conditional assent,' of course MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON (National Fluoridation News, January 1950.) A vote for fluoridation is a vote for plumber bills and doctor bills, too. Mrs. Alice I. Black, 812 Newtown si., Medford. Set of Ideas To the Editor: There seems to be a strange set of ideas coming from Washington, that a fervid belief in America as the greatest nation in the world is old-fashioned; that earning your own way and in sisting that others do the same is "stuffy"; that mounting debt is no dishonor; that thrift is out-of-date and that "No Win" against your enemies is clever. In a speech on Aug. 28 Ken nedy declared our Constitu tion to be outmoded, useless. The fact that the Monroe Doc trine is being violated, that we now have a Soviet arsenal on our door step means noth ing. Kennedy says the Soviets are now contained in spite of the fact that they are taking over the world bit by bit and by infiltration and other in sidious means are softening up the gullible in our midst so that when Khrushchev is ready he will take over Ihe United States while our am bassadors are .still sitting around conference tables mak ing concession after conces-sion-and while the tax money of hard working men and women is being sent to coun tries which have no intention of coining to our assistance. There is one thing all of us can do-Votc-and be sure we vote for a candidate who will uphold the Constitution - the document that made us great. Mrs. Louise Holm, 2084 Kenilworth ave., Medford. An Open Letter To the Editor: An open let ter to the President of the United States Dear Mr. President: We would like to ask you to resign from the Presiden cy of Ihe United States of America. That is the least you can do for America. Carroll and Ella Powell, Box 621, Central Point, Ore. From "Newsweek" To the Editor: I was pleased to see that our own Fourth district has national promi nence. In "Newsweek" (101 62) there was a report on the congressional race. It said: "The Democrats figure to pick up a real vacated by . . . Durno. Democrat Robert B. Duncan, 41. Medford lawyer and slate house speaker, is fighting Republican Carl Fish er, a Eugene radio-station ex ecutive . . . Duncan is the mm communism for high school .1" Arms Build-Up in Middle East Fails To Improve Relations Among States By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst Through successive Wash ington administrations, it has been U.S. policy to discou- rage any arms built-up in the Middle East. I? J1 That p. f f r. R?fJ however, 4 not previ Vi', J full-scale policy, did prevent a war rv between frv-jj Egypt in 1956, Ncwiom 1 n f 1 u e need a heavy flood of Soviet wea pons into the United Arab Re public, Syria and Iraq. Smaller amounts also have gone to Yemen. It was with this in mind that the United States re versed its long-standing policy and agreed to supply Israel with short-range supersonic Hawk defensive missiles and favorite, but a light vote could kill his chances." Imagine being defeated not by votes, but a lack of them! Don't let your failure to vole beat the man of your choice for congress. Be sure and let your preference for Bob Duncan be transferred into votes. Joan Redden, 518 Barnes ave., Medford Why Delay? To the Editor: The govern ment and I are agreed that in the event of a nuclear war this area - southwestern Ore gon - would be among the safest in the United States. Such a calamity - nuclear warfare - would find those hospitals still standing unable to provide the services that would be needed by over whelming numbers of people. It follows naturally that the number of disabled veterans would be noticeably increased, whereas hospital facili ties, proportionately, would be wholly inadequate. Out here at While City are enough vacant buildings to house upwards of 300 bed pa tients, with space to 'spare for storing supplies and equip ment, for management and supervision. Why delay getting ready? David Frisch P.O. Box 292 White City, Ore. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS From Washington: The senate passed a bill to impose higher mail charges, including a penny rise on let ters and air mail, and to give pay raises to about 1.6 million federal employees. Additional revenue from the higher postal rates included in the bill passed by the senate is estimated at S603 million a year. The estimated cost of the pay raises included in the bill is $1,049,000,000 BILLION a year. The resulting DEFICIT (as suming that the bill is adopted without change by the house o f representatives and is signed by the President) would amount to $448 million, or approximately half a bil lion dollars. QUESTION? How would this resulting half-billion doilar deficit be handled? Presumably, it would be ad ded to the SU00 billion deficit ! Eisenhower appointed 13 trus that is already on our national tecs from the public for the cuff. It could be argued rather National Cultural Center a convincingly that since we al-few years ag0j were a ready owe 300 billion dollars busillcssmcn bankers diplo. another half billion dollars mats aml societv ,cadcrs could hard y hurt tis much. ,Tncre were no wrj j If you already owe SilOO, an other HALF DOLLAR isn't go ing to matter much. 1UT THAT way, it doe-m't closed club to the detri sound too unreasonable, jincnt of all, in the long run. But wait a minute. To most of us. an artist is Here's another dispatch thai important only if he has came over the wires from achieved the dubious distinc- Washington a few days agn: 'IMIE ASSETS used in farm 1 production reached a total value of $162 S BILLION on January 1 of this year, accord ing to the balance sheet of i agriculture. This was an in crease of $6 8 billion over the I value of farm assets the pre- I vious year. Huher per acre , million higher than a year be 1 prices of farm real estate were fore. i chiefly responsible for the tn 1 crease. I More than three-fourths of the farm investment w:s in land and service buildings ! which totaled $12:17 billion. ! Dwellings were cxciuoVd. I Nun-real esta'e aets consist ed of livestock. $16. ;t billion; ; machinery and motor ve hicles, $15 9 bill and other 1 assets including inventory : value of (cixi crops held for subsequent use on farms and woin.im iriuu,i nrcuca toi'ii u-m-1 04 i t-K Cfc.iNl,ora meet production. $6 6 billion i I The non-teal estate assets ' to train Israeli crews in their use. The decision involved ob vious risks. U.S. relations with the U.A.R. hit a low in 1955-56 when the United States withdrew its promise of financial support for Egypt's Aswan Dam and op posed Egypt's seizure of the Suez Canal. They have im proved only gradually since. On the other hand was a fear that, with arms superior ity on the Arab side, either the Arabs might be tempted to at tack Israel or the Israeli might start a "preventive" war to reduce the imbalance. The Hawk is a 17-foot solid fuel missile that can hit a tar- Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris lc- Field Enterprises Inc. BAD COMMUNICATIONS A labor dispute is generally regarded as an "economic" is sue as a matter of dollars and - cents, of WMHItS pensions and fringe benefits hut- this u 4, 4 only where la . bor disputes. A end. It is not .jwhere they , ' begin. They i begin, almost invar iably, turns with bad com munications. They begin in the area of the psychological, and then degenerate into bit ter economic wrangles much like a divorce, which ends in court with a fight over money, when money was not the real issue at all, to begin with. During the recent battle, for instance, between t h e players in the Chicago Sym phony Orchestra and the Or chestral association, I could not accept the statement that it was a "bread-and-butter" dispute involving the financial facts. Certainly, there were monetary issues involved; but they would not have loomed so large if there had not al ready been a breakdown in communication. This is true of dock workers or truck drivers; it is even truer of artists. The men who play in symphony orchestras are highly train ed specialists; they expect to be, and should be, treated with dignity and respect. As professionals with extraor dinary talents, they are in no way inferior to the trus tees, the governing board, or the donors. Yet, living in a commer cial culture as we do, they are customarily considered as "the boys in the band." While great honor is given to prominent conductors and notable soloists, the ev eryday musician is looked upon as a hired hand of lit tle individual consequence. It is this general attitude hat breeds resentment on hs part and that erupts it to "labor trouble." Moreover, the dominant businessman mentality of our time considers the art ist as little more than a "child" naive, irrespon sible, unworldly. Ironically enough, the very fact that the serious artist is willing to make economic sacrifices for his art downgrades him in the eyes o the more "practical." If he is so good, why isn't he making more? It was symptomatic of this attitude that when President ers or musicians on the list The management and opera tion of cultural institutions in this country is verv much a tion of being a "celebrity," which puis a commercial val ue on a cultural product, and c.ebases the whole nature of ; the artistic pursuit. A con-! ciiiclor is worth $50,000 a year, but a piccolo player scarcely j rates a locker of his own. j totaled $38. 8 billion, only $800 ; IT ALL sums up like Ihis: 1 If we HAD to pa; off our j national debt 1 And if. in an effort to do so ' we sold off all the farm as-i seis. including land, buildings, livestock, machinery, etc., at their INVENTORY' value on, January 1 of this year what I e would get for the whole kit and kaboodlc of the acricul-! tural assets of the United State? of America would pay little hotter than half, of our nafeonal deb!. get at 38,000 feet, and there. fore would provide protection against President Nasser's MIG fighters and jet bombers. Nasser's build-up of Soviet arms on the easy payment plan began in 1055 Soviet arms for Egyptian cotton. In that same year the Is raelis requested similar U.S. aid but that and subsequent requests were refused on the grounds that the United States was "not convinced" such aid would remedy the situation. In 1956, in an attack con current with the Suez crisis, Israeli forces swept into the Negev and destroyed heavy concentrations of Egyptian armor. Those weapons now have been replaced. The U.A.R. today Is said to possess 100 to 200 MIG fighters, tanks, submarines and a full line of destructive Today & Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann (el New York Herald Tribune Syndicate BACKFIRING MISCHIEF Although our attention is fixed on Mississippi and al though it is a long way to Yugosl a v 1 a and Poland, this Tuesday is a critical day in the cold war in E a s tern Eu rope. The trade bill, on the whole so e x c ellent, is being report Lippmann ed out of conference of the House and Senate, and in its present form it contains a provision, inserted by the House against the will of the Senate, which would damage severely United States policy in Eastern Europe. This policy was initialed by Truman and Acheson, elabor ated by Eisenhower and Dulles, and carried on by Kennedy and Rusk. It offers material advantages to Com munist countries which try to achieve national independence from the domination of the Soviet Union. The trade bill as it now stands would wreck this policy. On a crucial point the House has prevailed over the Senate. fFHE difference between the two versions turns on what is known as the "most-favor-ed-nation"-for short the MFN - clause in trade agreements. MFN means that if a govern ment grants tariff privileges to another, it must do the same for countries with which it has treaties containing the most - favored - nation clause. Thus, insofar as this country has lowered its tariffs under the Reciprocal Trade Act, it has granted to all nations with which it has MFN agree ments the same concessions. Moreover, if the President acts under the trade bill to negotiate lower tariffs with tl.? Common Market, we must grant the same' lower duties lo any other country with which we have an MFN agreement. With Yugoslavia since it was created after World War I. our trade relations have been governed by the 1891 Treaty of Friendship. Com merce, and Navigation with the old kingdom of Serbia. It contains an MFN clause. As an act of policy we have, since December, 1960, grant ed this treatment to Poland, with which there is no treaty. NOW in the trade bill as it passed the Senate, the MFN treatment would be de nied to any "country or area dominated or controlled by the foreign government or foreign organization control-! ling the world Communist ' movement." This is identical I with existing law. For some 1 13 years under three Presi dents the official American judgment has been that, al though Yugoslavia is ruled by Communists, in a very con siderable degree Yugoslavia is an independent national state and in critical matters is not ruled by Moscow. About Po land, our feeling has been that It is struggling rather effectively to achieve increas- j ing national independence. ! Thus under the Senate ver sion Yugoslavia and Poland would continue to be eligible for MFN tariff treatment. But in the House version, which prevailed in the confer ence, the test is not national j independence but ideological belief. Thus MFN treatment must be denied to "any coun try or area dominated or con trolled by Communism." If this test prevails in the final bill, the President will have to deny MFN t-ealment "as soon as practicable" to Po land and to YuKosiavia. IVHAT will be the practical " effect' The economic im pact will be much greater on Yugoslavia - w hich does 70 ( per cent of its foreign trade with the Western countries -than on Poland which does 1 is power, including recently re ceived TU16 jet bombers. It is the most heavily armed na tion in the Middle East. Syria also has Soviet MIGJ and army weapons. Iraq has both MIG 15s and 17s and is awaiting delivery of MIG-21s. She also has a full supply of other Soviet weapons. Ail have been obtained on long-term credits or by bar ter agreements. Israel has depended primar ily on France for her aerial weapons, although she also has obtained British Centur ion tanks and British de stroyers. Both sides have been permitted from time to time to purchase U. S. small arms, and the United States, has of fered to help the U.A.R. with atmospheric rockets. Meantime, r e I a t i o n s be tween Israel and the Arab states have not improved. only about 40 per cent of its trade with the West. The act of slamming the door in their faces will be demoralizing to the younger generation every where in Eastern Europe who look increasingly towards tha West. The symbolic impor tance probably outweighs the material effect. Because Yugoslavia has re ceived MFN treatment for so long a time, it has built up a foreign trade dependent on the tariff benefits, which give it a great advantage as against its Communist neighbors and parity with its competitors in the non-Communist world. If the trade bill prevails as it now stands, tho tariff duties on about 90 per cent of tha goods imported into the Unit ed States from Yugoslavia will be raised to the level of the Sinoot - Hawlcy Tariff of 1930. They are between two and three times higher than the rales which now prevail. Yugoslavia will then face tho same U. S. tariff as docs the Soviet Union, Hungary, Ul bricht's East Germany, and Stalinist Czechoslovakia. AS FOR Poland, the ma tcrial effect will be less catastrophic. Taking the 1961 figures, out of a total of $41.2 million worth of United States imports from Poland, there will be no increase on about 80 per cent. This is mainly be cause so large a part of tha imports are canned meat on which we have made no tariff concessions to any country. For the rest, Poland has en joyed MFN treatment only since December, 1960, and has not had time to develop mucli trade accordingly. rjiHE fad that Yugoslavia has -1 such a preponderant rela tionship with the non - Com munist world has had enor mous bearing on the cold war ' in Southern and Eastern Eu I rope. Ideologically, the Yugo slav officials arc Communists, i But they are Yugoslav Com I munists and not Muscovite ; Communists. So on matters jlhat do not affect Yugoslav national interests they gen erally follow the Soviet line. I But when Ihcir national in j leresls are involved, they act independently. ! Thus, Yugoslavia is nol member of the Warsaw mili tary pact. What is more, be cause we have had the good sense to equip the Yugoslav Air Force, the United States and not the Soviet Union is Ihe supplier of the snare narts j and replacements. It is asinine to call Ihis assistance to Com mtinism. We have in fact ; achieved the same kind of ; penetration of t Ho Commu nist world as Moscow has done in our world in Cuba, j Hioush Tito is ideologically aligned as.tinst us. strategical ly and in the ultimate polili cal sense he is. aligned with ; us. When he broke with Mos cow in 1948. he closed his ; frontier to the Communist 'guerrillas who were waging civil war in Greece. He madf a satisfactory settlement with ; Italy in Trieste. And he work ed out cood arrangements with his neighbor Austria. In j that part of Europe of which ! Yugoslavia is the keystone, the impr-rial expansion of tho Soviet Union is not onlv con tained, but is in fact 'rolled back. run Senate understood (hi, j A The House, which did not understand it. has sabotaged a hiqhlv successful national nolicy. If the mischief cannot be undone, this country will in a fit of imbecility have wounded itself. It will have thrown away one of our most effective weapons in the cold war and it will have adopted a weapon which is desisnd to backfire. For ve shall be saying in the Yugoslavs and the Poles and to others who may have yearnings for free dom that they have no future with t'oe Wesl and that they had better come to lerms with Moscow,
