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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,