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ilEDKOKD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDKOKD. OREGON THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8. 1962 UPI Reporter Gives Views Of Dutch on Cuban Blockade (Editor's note Whtn the President of tha Unhid Stales lervaa a virtual ulti matum on tha raa world'i rroit powarful loa and speaks oi tha dangar of a nuclaar holocaust, it it not only Americana who gather 'round lhair radios or tele vision sets, or dash out to buy the latest editions of their newspapers. Or worry what it all means - and what it will lead to. Around the world our friends and allies, do the same - and with the same mixture of dread and determination. Hera is how President Ken nedy's blockade pronounce ment was received in The Netherlands, a land of 11. 500,000 people living in an area roughly one-third the sixe of Virginia - and a NATO ally which will fight at our side in any East-West war.) By PAUL KLEIN United Press International Special Correspondent Amsterdam lUPli In hi! of- fice, Dutch radio program : ming chief Gerhard Hoek had ' just confirmed the news that at midnight Central European time President Kennedy was to address the American peo ple on a matter of great urg ency. All the news wires had chattered with word of the great activity in Washington. It was obvious that whatever it was the President had to say was to be of tremendous importance not only to Amer ica, but to all the free world. There was even talk that the United States was to in vade Cuba. And, thought Hoek, that would properly put Christmas Gilts For Employees Said Picking Up New York -(UPK- The inten sive - and sometimes chal lenged - practice of buying Christmas gifts for business employees and customers is in full swing well in advance of the ordinary consumers' shop ping, trade magazines report. Next year, under the new tax law, deduction for a bus iness gift will be limited to $25 a person a year. The Counselor, trade magazine of the specialty advertising in dustry, said that a number of business gift buyers already have accepted the restriction as if it were law for 1962. Cheaper Gifts Booming Result has been that $100 and S200 gift buying has dropped, but gifts costing less than S25 are enjoying a boom, with activity in the $5, $7, $10 and $15 price ranges, Counselor reports. Average expenditure is about $7 per person-but the number of per sons on business gift lists is at an all time high, 42 persons per company compared to 35 a year ago. Purchasing magazine, how ever, notes that a number of major corporations have hard and fast rules against their employees accepting gifts Ifrom suppliers, and they also liave rules against any of their employees giving business gifts. Standard Letter In these companies, there often exists a standard letter, more or less tactful, sent by purchasing executives or oth ers to vendors telling them of company policy. Naturally these letters must be sent early, before the Christmas lists are made up, although in the companies reviewed by Purchasing, the "no-gift" rule holds the year around. Other trade magazines find that buying of business gifts may reach an all-time high this year. Many firms with the new tax law in mind, are re ported to be turning to gift selection booklets, which con tain a number of gifts in the same price range and allow the recipient to choose. Incentive Merchandis i n g masazine's annual survey said that total wholesale purchases of business gifts will reach an all-time high this year of $319 million. the fat in the fire: this was something the Dutch people had the right to hear, and immediately. Hoek, a 58-year-old former newspaperman, got busy on the telephone. Normally the Dutch Radio network went off the air at midnight. Not tonight, thought Hock. He spoke to the government com munications people. Yes, he could stay on the air. Soon he was talking long distance to the British Broadcasting Cor poration (BBC) in London. Could we have a tap on its transatlantic radio cable for the Kennedy speech? It was arranged. Studio technicians were alerted. Announcements of the special transmission were prepared and broadcast to the nation. And just in case some thing went wrong with the BBC link-up. Hoek got an okay for Dutch Radio's own shortwave receiving station to stand by for a pickup of the Kennedy address. Dutch Shared When the President began to speak, millions of Dutch listeners shared the grim news with their American allies. "Reception was excellent," Hoek recalls. "We did not in terrupt Kennedy for any translation while he was speaking. Three-quarters of the Dutch people understand English. Immediately after the President finished speak ing we provided a summary in Dutch, followed by a com mentary from our New York correspondent, Floris Cante. By 12:45 ' a.m. the special transmission was finished." In his boarding house room, 28 -year -old Simon Deckers flicked off his radio and went to bed wondering what the next day would bring. As a newspaper reporter, one thing Deckers knew. It would be a busy day. "For myself," he said later, "I felt Kennedy had decided on the right thing. The U.S. would not be made to allow that rocket base to stay on their door step." Elly De Gauw, housewife, 33 years old, didn't hear the news until the next morning, over the radio while prepar ing breakfast. "I was fright ened," she said. "I thought maybe Kennedy went too far. The Americans had to do something, I think. But was that the way?" When she went shopping that morning, Elly De Gauw bought a number of extra food items. "You know," she said, "things in cans that can be stored. Maybe we will need it." Johannes De Heer, 45, learned wthe news when he bought a newspaper on the way to his mechanic's job. "A very serious thing," he told fellow workers, and they agreed. "But I guess Kennedy knows what he is doing. Any way, we've got to be with him - all the way." On television that evening Dr. Lou De Jong, director of the Dutch National Institute for War Documentation and a noted commentator on for eign affairs, discussed the Kennedy move. "President j Kennedy," he said, "has taken the risk of war. In my opin-1 ion, he did so rightly. As early i as Sept. 13th the . President j drew - in words only - a : clear line for the Russians on j Cuba . . . the Russians have j exceeded that line. Now Ken- nedy has drawn the line with j the United States Navy and Air Force. It is to be hoped the Russians will realize they went too far." ! The night before it wasn't t only broadcaster Gerard Hoek . who had been busy. In the ! offices of Het Vrije Volk (The Free People). Holland's larg est newspaper. Foreign Edi tor Piet Van Den Ende, stared at a full page of copy he had prepared for the first edition. It told of the buildup of ten sion in Washington, and the speculation on what portend ed. Now that President Ken nedy was to speak at mid night, this obviously would be outdated before it could reach the newsstands. "I didn't know what the President was going to say or what the United Slates was planning to do," said the 29-year-old editor. "But the ru mors made it plain it would be something big." Ven Den Ende's problem was solved when the paper's had finished talking. 'Thank goodness,' we said to each other, 'It is only a blockade, not war.' Second thoughts came later ... we knew that such a blockade, too, could bring disaster." In all Holland's newspaper offices Tuesday was a busy day. Most newspapers prepar ed special editions. Three p.m. - the time the Kennedy proc lamation said the blockade would begin - became a new crisis hour. Expected Clash "In our office," Van Den Den Ende commented, "there Ende said, "editors and rc was quite honestly a feeling porters alike crowded around of relief when the President ' the teletype machines. Some news agency ticker began to pump out, urgently, a "liold for release" advance report on the Kennedy speech 20 minutes before the President was to start speaking. "It was a narrow squeak," Van Den Ende remembers. "As fast as I could I wrote my first summary of the speech - and got under the deadline. By 1:15 a.m. the first copies of Hct Vrije Volk were on the newsstands at Amsterdam's main railway station with the story. "Here in the office," Van of us expected word at any moment of an armed clash in the Caribbean. Many wonder ed if the day would bring the first shots of World War HI." In Parliament that after noon, Prime Minister Jan De Quay refused to answer ques tions regarding the United States action, lie had not. he said, yet received the official text of the Kennedy procla mation. The independent newspa per Het Parool commented in its editorial columns that the Prime Minister might have listened tu the radio for what the President said. It was proof, editorialized Hct Pa rool, of the government's in competence at perhaps the most critical moment World War II. Het Parool, which came into being during that last war as an underground newspaper in occupied Holland, was not reluctant about slating its own position. "In their hour of resolute ness," the newspaper said, "the U.S. President and the U.S. people are more encour aging then discouraging " Felt the Same Most Dutch newspapers (ell much the same. De Volk skranl, Roman Catholic daily newspaper, said: "The latest developments in the Carib bean had brought on an in tolerable situation for the United States and ourselves. It is necessary to range our selves on the side of the Unit- since ; ed Stales." No newspaper, no radio or television commentator, asked "What has Cuba to do with us?" There were some minor ami-American demonstrations in Amsterdam and at The Hague. Most observers agreed they were almost entirely C o m m u n ist-spunsored and they involved not more than 100 or so demonstrators, large ly young people. Worry? Yes. Anxiety? Yes. But Hollanders did not panic. "Food hoarding has not begun so far as we can tell," said Albert lleijn. a supermarket executive. "There was, per haps, a small increase in the purchase of durable food stuffs. But nothing approach ing panic buying." Perhaps as good an illus tration as any of the take-it-in-stride reaction of the Dutch people in this new period of potential peril was given by Leo Pain, 57-year-old editor of the newspaper Het parool where he has worked sinca 1945. "I am in charge of the let ters to the editor page," ho said. "This is a fairly reliable barometer of what people ar worrying most about. In th first week after America began its Cuban blockade only ten per cent of the mail dealt with the crisis. Most people were writing about the sama thing they had been writing to us about the week before- the rabies epidemic in Hol land and what to do about it." Parks' Personnel Is Suitably Named Austin. Tex. - CTII - The personnel directory of the Texas State Parks board lists some names that sound very much like what someone would find in a park or camp site. There are a Bone. Burr and Glass in the directory. Al though deer hunting in pro hibited in state parks, the directory also includes a Buck and a Hunt. 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