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."
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much like what someone
would find in a park or camp
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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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