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Flight o' Time
Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Nov. 16, 1852 (Sunday)
The largest lax payment in
Jackson county for the com
ing year will be made by Cali
fornia Oregon Power com
pany, Sheriff Howard Gault
has reported.
A complete survey of Jack
son county's needs for a juv
enile detention home will be
made by the National Parole
and Probation association, if
and when the funds become
available.
20 YEARS AGO
Nov. 16, 1942 (Monday)
Curfew law passed by Med
ford city council goes into ef
fect; unlawful for persons un
der 18 years of ago to be on
street or public places after
10:110 p.m.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
Applogale custom of coining
to town when it rains was ob
served by many residents of
the region today.
30 YEARS AGO
Nov. 16, 1932 (Wednesday)
Repeal of state prohibition
law clarified by cily Attorney
Frank Farrell, who states that
there is no city ordinance to
prohibit drinking intoxicating
liquor at home.
Medford cily council gives
tentative approval to budget
of $171,664 for coming fiscal
year.
40 YEARS AGO
Nov. 16. 1922 (Thursday)
Medford city council awards
contract for construction of
new 2,000.000 gallon reser
voir. From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Ore
gon has eight people to the
scpiare mile, and seven of
them are standing on the cor
ners, weather permitting."
50 YEARS AGO
Nov. 16. 1912 (Saturday)
T. E. Danicld, Elks lodge of
ficial for Medford area, leaves
for Oregon City to lay corner
stone of new Elks lodge build
ing there.
Two men held by city pn
lice here as suspects in rob
bery from a saloon in Hilt,
Calif.
What's Your I.Q.?
Mine or ten correct Is superior;
even or eight li excellent; ftvt or
lix is good.
1. Correct the following
sentence: "linn being elected '
chairman was a smart move."
2. Which former U. S Pres
ident is associated with the
term "New Dear"
3. In which of Shakespeare's
llas is Portia the heroine?
4. In musical composition,
what does adagio mean?
5. Does the United Nations
nave t ;ia of us own.'
B of what
- '
mvthntoL'ieal :
king is it said that everything
lie touched turned lo gold?
7. The Diamond Cup, Presi
dent's Cup, and Gold Cup arc
flijsi ii'i.-tliid u-ilh vi'lint amirl'1
r Name ihe firsi permaneni
English settlement in Amer-!
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iJCnSV PUBLISHERS
. Bourbon whiskey is dij(be. "I".10 P"n-"l'P.v JugUive who woul.l rather
tilled from what grain? i take Ins chances hy shooting than face arrest.
in. Name (he four stales of Soiliet illlCS, tot), perfectly honest citii'.CllS Call
wni!hcSeueroC nmwi i hm'mo ov frightened when stopped by
a uniformed officer, and frightened people can
? FrT'nn bein9i terribly silly things.
7. franklin D. Rooievell. 3. ,, ..' , . ; ' ' , , ,. . ,
"The Merchant of Venice." 4. tile Kll't that Slll'll tragedies do Hot happen
Very .low. s. Y. 6. King , mol o of ten than tliev do is a tribute to the skill,
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io. Ohio, ideho, New Mexico, work long hours on behalf of the public s peace,
Colorado ' order and safety. E. A.
NOVEMBER IB. 19E2
Medford s Opportunity
We await with interest and anticipation the
reports which will be made by the Chamber of
Commerce group now touring cities in Oalitornia
to get ideas for the revitalization and beautifica
tion of Medford's core area.
Much progress has been made in Medford
the street tree program, new store fronts and in
teriors, the use of permanent and attractive side
walk awnings, provision of more parking space.
But more needs to be done, a fact which is fin
ally beginning to sink in
merchants and landlords.
It has long been a
beauty and convenience
luxuries they are necessities for civic survival.
rN FEB. 3, 1958 almost five years ago
we discussed this matter in this space. The
comments are even more pertinent today than
they were then. We quote, in part:
"Shopping centers . . .are posing an increasing
threat to that original 'shopping center' known as
'downtown.' In some cities, downtown has suf
fered severely from the new, convenient centers,
with ample parking spaces, which have grown up
to serve the increasingly suburbanized popula
tion. " 'Downtown,' which usually was laid out in
the days of railroads and horse and buggies, has
a couple of strikes against it these days of grow
ing traffic congestion. The worst is the lack of
parking space. But, also, the crowded streets force
pedestrians to go to a corner and wait for a traf
fic signal before they can cross the street.
"In addition, the noise, confusion and even
smell of automobile traffic do not furnish the
most restful and attractive environment for the
shopper ...
"MOTABLE experiments in city improvement
' have been made in a number of communi
ties . . .
"In Medford, there would be little point in
trying anything of the kind (a mall type shopping
area downtown) as long as the highway runs
through the middle of the city on Central and
Riverside avenues. But the day is not far off
when the freeway will be completed through
town, relieving much of the congestion on those
two streets. Come that day and it might pay the
city and its merchants to think in terms of making
'downtown' a more attractive and convenient
place than it now is.
"... This is no time to sit on our hands,
hoping wistfully that 'something will turn up' to
alter the trend which is blighting downtown areas
lrom coast to coast . . .
"And it is blindness
to believe that it is none
has a stake in the health
if for no other reason than that it pays a lion's
share or tne taxes which,
Citizen would have to pay.
AMPLE parking, shopper convenience, and
"beauty these are the three keys to any area,
whether shopping center or city core, which is de
pendent on consumer trade.
We predict that the Chamber exoui) will re
turn with some yeasty ideas about what can and
should be done in Medford. Whether they can
sell these ideas to their
tors remains to be seen.
But something is goinp- to have to be done,
and done soon, if the Medford core area is to re
main prosperous and healthy. It will take leader
ship ot considerable stature. Most oi all it will
take cooperation, hard work, imagination, and
money. It will not be done overnight.
AS WE view it, Medford has before it a great
opportunity.
, If it strives to achieve space, beauty, con
venience and utility; if it encourages the orderly
development of a new civic center in the west
park area; if, in short, it takes full advantage of
the means which have proven themselves time
and time again, and does not put the almighty
dollar above livability and charm, then it will be
on its way.
If it fails in this, the entire community will
suffer. E. A.
Hazards of the Job
Most of us tend to take too casually the splen
did service rendered the public bv the members
0f .j10 OrCROli State Police.
it.., II. V :i i t
upturn,), ii untiif in us oiiiy mil some inci
dent such as the shocking murder of a young
officer in Central Oregon last week causes
us to remember.
MM. 1... ... .i ... i i.i
ini'sc men Know penecuy well inai iney arc
in a hazardous occupation." They may go for
months or years without
coin i at in e on traffic control,' or the rather routine
i...? .i ...
I I 1 1 I OC l-ll ii ..ii
v,l,w ' mow mull uif
vestigation.
BIT'P lit. -in i .i . , i 'tight.-, and mcit chunks 't I .
Ul LAt.ll one knows that something of the , c..ni.tiit...u with the-! Nl)W th(. Bruph ,
the same nature could happen, each time they eiHi-justnics-iii.'-mc.ins moth. ; (luin t expect ou to sit
stop a car for a traffic violation, or nu'i'clv for in
spedion. There's always
with many downtown
pet theory of ours that
in a city are more than
for the 'average citizen'
of his concern. He, too,
of the downtown area
otherwise, Mr. Average
colleagues and competi
anv such incident, con-
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lin n ... ... ..in,.,,...
in
llliumil 111 I I num.
the chance that it could
MEDFORD
"Wow! Is Sure Doesn't
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contrary iB often the case.
Victory
To the Editor: President
Kennedy's "heroic" removal
of Russia's missiles from Cuba
is being dramatically broad
casted and headlined through
out the world as a great U.S.
cold war victory. Bui just
how much of a victory is it?
And how much of a hero is
our President to the millions
of people who now realize
that General Edwin A. Walk
er was liquidated by the
White House for urging our
Government to do what he
(Kennedy) has finally very
tardily done himself? And
how heroic is he to the peo
ple of the South? He called
out the troops, but he did not
invade Cuba. He invaded
Mississippi.
Also, can't help wondering
how much of a hero our Presi
dent is to the Cuban Freedom
Fighters. There would have
been no missile bases in Cuba
in the first place if he had
given this brave little band
of men the promised air cover
(of their own air force of
Cuban pilots) and the B26
bombers provided for in the
pre-invasion plans. But at the
last mintilc Kennedy forbade
the bombers to take off. And
twice more, during the criti
cal hours of battle, he refused
air cover for these men. So
the betrayed, invading pa
triots' valliaut attempt to re
gain their homeland failed,
and they were shot like fish
in a barrel on the beach at
the Bay of Pigs.
How docs our President
stack up with all the Ameri
cans who fell for his vote
getting, political, grandstand
play over Cuba and voted his
New Frontier Congressmen
and Senators into office for
him, now that he has prom
ised Khrushchev that Cuba
will never be invaded, or any
armed force ever used against
Castro? Can they understand,
now, that it was Kennedy,
and not Khrushchev, who has i
retreated.' Ann mat me per-j
petuation of tins Communist j
cancer i.i Ihe Western Hemis
phere has been guaranteed?
Doesn't this promise mean
that we will shout any pa
triotic Cuban exile who now
tries to re-invade and re-capture
his homeland?
Isn't lliis ttip s.-inie crislv !
formula with which we do-1
stroyed China, when we as- j
stired Moscow that we would I
not inviide Hod China, nor let
Cliianij Kai-.-hek lo so. cither? i
Aren't the ai'piMsirs in I'""' lire season.
Washington citar.intceini; im- The rapid increase in pop
in ti ii 1 1 - to Castro ami his illation in Ill's area has coin
Soviet satellite, making it a j pounded the fiii problem,
perfect set up for a i 'dueling ' .More effort in this' field is a
base inr Soviet submarines constant need. The detailed
and a sanctuary for So id , reporting of fire news to the
and lied Chinese agents, a 1 public is a very important part
base from which they can I of prevention. Your news and
ubverl all of South America
at will? Brother' What a vie-
lory fur America'
Frank Koch.
412 South Fust st ,
Central Point. Ore.
Wh"( lh'YJ".
l'n the Fditor, Mr. Name
on Kile, and Miss l A Strat
um 1 licit' i a i mht .i ami
a u ri'iig w.iy to do cer liiing.
Would i'ti dct!nv sides'
light.-, and urc.it chunks of
- m1""'"-- v i
mil Hill ot Ivistms. K.iin iMseu
on Christian principles, arc
your birthright and your must
precious uiuet ll.uice.
Miuuhl be protected
1 '! c y
t all
costs. For when they are l.nal-
iv mine, there will be r.o tree
dent lelt in America ter any
1.11-e, wliile oi black, elltiw
or brew n
America
Mam peuple
si ill cannot see bcwnM their
nescs Tl ie v cani'ul st e that
uur teilclal i,iicni!iii-!tl. out
ecii waiting lor a Supreme
Court decision, used brute I
MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD,
Taste Like Tomato Juice"
onirriy nscations . . .
force instead of legal, Consti
tutional methods, to put Ne
gro James Meredith in the
University of Mississippi. They
cannot see that this is a battle
over slates' rights far more
than it is over the rights of
Negroes, that those using the
Negro for a pawn care noth
ing for his rights. They cannot
see that for the first time our
liberal President has stepped
jarringly and unpleasantly out
of character and used the
same tactics dictators use to
keep the masses under subjec
tion. Nor can they see that
their own freedom is as stake.
And they cannot face the
fact there is a conspiracy
afoot to destroy the South by
n unholy mixing of the while
and black races in defiance
of God's will, a conspiracy
that the Communist party, the
NAACP, and the United Na
tions all seem to be mixed up
in; with, reportedly, large
sums of money being poured
into the program by the big
lax free foundations. As far
back as 1 f) 1 2 the blue print
for the South's destruction
was written by the Commu
nist, Israel Cohen as follows:
"We must realize that our
party's most powerful weapon
is racial tension. By pounding
the consciousness of the dark
races that for centuries they
have been oppressed by the
whites, we can mould them to
the program of the Commu
nist party. In America we will
aim for a subtle victory. While
inflaming the Negro minority
against the whiles, we will
endeavor to instill in the
whites a guilt complex for
their exploitation of the Ne
groes. We will aid the Negroes
to rise in prominence in every
walk of life, in the professions
and the world of sports and
entertainment. With this pres
tige the Negroes will be able
to intermarry with the whites
and boitin a process which will
cicijVPr America to our cause.
Thls js what lhe poopc o(
(he Smltl, foar not jllst lne
enrollment of one Negro in
one school.
1.. C. Powell
316 S. E. Eighth st.
Giants Pass. Ore.
Fire Reporting
' o tne r.uttor: I would like
"o this opportunity to
express our appreciation to
V"u and your staff for your
'Hrts m fire protection tins
feature stories have done an
outstanding job in this field.
Again, we thank you.
Curtis Nesheim
District Warden
State Department
of Forestry
Medford
Accessories
To the Editor: Someone
aked me: "Did the Brush
Motor Company have acccs- back from Korea. Also I am j must write to Walter Nur
series"" That's wot their cars I curious what type ot heritage blad. The new Representative
wu? made from, assembled ac-! you expect to leave your pos-: from the Fourth District will
people
nect nu to sit on a
not spark plug on top of tlicj
cnsinc im(i dnvc. i-.,- .i,.,!,.
extra charge, they would send
you brand new pair of in-
siihitct a.bestiw nanls For a
slli:lil eli .i ens! tbev wunl.l
,m j,H, ,(n umbrella to keep
the occasional showers in the
mountains olf the spark plug
1 eu'aliin t get Ihe car into the
lulls, so 1 used the umbrella
as a parehute for jumping olf
the bam roof into the horse
trough or the clothes line,
l:ie Pirusli people hail an-
thi i- gadget, they called it a
untight. I needed one, 1 might I
OREGON
East German Money
Easing Future Threat to Berlin
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Newt Analyst
Even in these days of mas
sive government expenditures,
$900 million must be regard
ed as a fairlv
f,'l.Wui1"'J sizeable sum.
CjVT AV I H is the fig
ure involved
in mrwtltr im.
t'i'j publicized ne
gotiations cur
rently going
o n between
of the
West and East
German governments. The
mere notice that such negotia
tions exist may come as a
surprise to those who believe
that an impenetrable vacuum
exists between these two re-
minders that World War II
left a divided world.
But more than that is a
suggestion that hard econom
ics may help toward solution
of a problem- that continues
to defy diplomats.
The problem is the.conlinu-
accidentally get the car start
ed after dark. When I got it,
it wuz made of brass and wuz
worth more than the car. I
hung it on the front gate and
made a tail light out of the
barn lantern. I could use it
for a taillight or put it on
top the gas tank and milk the
cow after dark or before day
light. The Brush Company had a
lot more extras and they wuz
so reasonable. They had shin
guards, wrist bands, splints,
crutches, first aid kits and
iodine. They furnished a pair
of roller skates for free. They
knew the spark plug would
be missing most of the time
and you need transportation. I
got more miles on roller
skates than anybody ever got
on a Brush. I've been to the
top of the Siskiyous with
roller skates, but I never wuz
to the summit in a Brush. I
never got much of a start on
my first million miles in a
Brush. I done better with bur
ros in Colorado. Burros kin
run faster than Brushes.
Everett Aeklin,
Ashland, Ore,
ReMorse
To the Editor: Attached
hereto you will find a copy of
a letter I have mailed to Sena
tor Wayne Morse. I know you
will not like the letter as it is
a far cry from a letter of con
gratulations, but since it could
not possibly take any votes
from one of your star players
maybe you would print it in
the letters to the editor col
umn. 1 can asure you that I
won't ask for this privilege
again for a long time. This
then is the other side of the
story.
Thanking you for allowing
us to hear both sides of a
story.
Laurence E. Cuffel,
592 Oregon Terrace,
Medford.
O
Dear Senator Morse: This
letter will be as brief as I can
make it. Congratulations upon
your having hood-winked the
people again. This is written
so as to express dismay at
your re-election to the post of
U. S. Senator from Oregon.
This is an outstanding exam
ple of people not examining
the record of an incumbent.
This means then that either
people do not take tha time
to find out the facts or they
just don't care.
The reasons are many why
I have taken this stand but I
will attempt to enumerate a
few. I would like lo know why
you have voted consistently
against the free nations of the
world such as free China. It
seems that any nation thai
wants lo operate its ow n gov
ernment is voted against by
you. It has been stated that
Morse is for the people. We
would like to know what peo
ple. Your softness on Com
munism and better red than
dead attitude in dealing with
these gangster governments is
much in evidence. I wonder
how you will explain to your
grandchildren how you insult
ed the great General Douglas
i MacArthur when he came
terity. At the present rate
! there won't be any heritage to
oass on. s e coulct almost near
yon shout with glee when in-
izen Edwin Walker was taken
prisoner without his basic;
Constitutional Rights beini!
i recognized Some of the Citl-
ens of Oregon think that the
"Tiger of the Senate
hottld
be the one who is gucn the
' examination.
Mr. Morse, ou have con-
fused the real meaning ut eer-
tain words and phrases that
have a completely riitterent
meaning as follows, national
honor ' csealat ion"; principle -
'expediency, national sover-
cignty- One Worldism; Coldj
ing one of a free West Berlin
The Western Allies have
agreed there can be no com
promise on three fundament
als: continued Western pres
ence in West Berlin (meaning
the Allied garrisons), freedom
of Western access to the city,
and conditions to insure the
future freedom and peace of
West Berlin.
The first two are based on
rights of conquest and agree
ments concluded between the
Western belligerents and the
Soviet Union six months be
fore the war in Europe ended.
The third is perhaps the
most difficult because it is
the least clearly defined.
Original Allied agreements
in London and Potsdam look-
j ed toward an eventually re
united Germany and a single
peace treaty, and therefore
did not forsee the need nearlv
20 years later of guaranteed
access to Berlin.
But that such a situation ex
ists is a fact and is aggrevated
by continuing Soviet threats
to sign a separate peace trea
ty, and thus place control of
Berlin access in the hands of
the Communist East Germans.
This is where current ne
gotiations between the two
German zones come in.
The impoverished East Ger
man zone is desperately in
need of money and has asked
the West Germans fpr nearly
S900 million in long term
credits.
y
By Sydney J. Harris
(c Field Enterprises Inc.
Glancing through a maga
zine the other day, I stopped
at an advertisement for Japan
Air Lines, in
fTi&?W,"J viting Ameri
5' '' cans to fly to
i urieni w i i n
"perfect lios
'i pilality in the
1 tradition of
, J Japan." The
. ad won! on lo
snpak- nf "I hp
- p r, ehantment
Harris Japan,"
"the classic Japanese man
ner," "the calm beauty of Ja
pan," the delicacy, the cour
tesy, the charm of the Japan
ese culture.
All too true, as any visitor
can testify. And when I
thought back to less than 20
years, and wondered if those
could be (he same people we
were fighting those "apes,"
those "inhuman monsters,"
those "grinning little devils,"
those "yellow fiends."
Now they are our allies
and our friends, as they
should be; and so are the
Germans, and so are the
Italians. And I wondered
about another ad. 20 years
hence, if the world should
survive and rebuild after an
atomic catastrophe.
I could see the four-color
splash for Samovar Air
Lines. The charming Rus
sian stewardess serving tea
to the American passengers.
The (completely truthful
statements about Russian
warmth. Russian hospital
ity, Russian service in the
classic Muscovite tradition.
For there is no doubt that
those of us are who are left
if any are after the next
holocaust will do the same
as we have always done:
will make friends and al
lies out of our former ene
mies, will suddenly perceive
their virtues and their tal
ents, will admit them s
full-fledged members of the
human race, will even help
rebuild their economy and
restore their civilization.
' I it cannot be killed any more
The truly terrible thing ' than Fascism was killed the
about the war spirit, about the last tune. An idea can kill it
fcar and hate and hysteria it J self off, but il cannot be nntr
gener.itcs. is that it forces us dered; this is the fatal mistake
lo think and talk and feel in ! in all ideological warfare. All
terms of abstractions those that can be murdered are their
"Communists'' this time, those children, and ours.
fascists last time.
But those we are fighting
and killing are people men,
women and children not
War Victory -"strategic sur
render"; and Fiscal Responsi
bility with Tax and Spend. If
the Conservatives in Oregon
want representation in the
United States Congress we
, undoubtedly be a rubber
stamp for lite Administration.
, II one ikes a ruhher itmmi
tor a Representative (.is some
people evidence) then all is'
well. Also sonic of us when!
travellind out of Stale are nl. i
1 must embarrassed to yrtmtt ho. i
! im; a eui:'en if the h.-:ini ilttl
State ul Oregon.
Lastly. Mr. Morse would
you do mc the iwnx lavor of
remm ing my name from u:ir
mailing list a- I am attempting
to remoe all trash fiom my
mail In this regard ou can
assist mc Thank you for mis
uiiie
Wi ittiu in roMOHM
Laurence E. Cuffel.
Needs May Help in
The East German regime,
according to the Institute of
Economic Research in West
Berlin, owes the Soviet Union
S675 million payable in hard
cash.
Events have shown that the
Soviets will advance credits,
loans or other aid to further
their ideological ambitions,
but they also want to be repaid.
Washington Report
By William
(ci United Feature Syndicate
END TO NEUTRALISM
Washington-Alike for the
soft dreamers in foreign pol
icy and for the hard cynics
cloaked in a sDurious sclf-
nghteottsness. these are the
rVW'T days of a bit-
ber. In Presi
d e n t Ken
nedy's decis
ion to act at
last against
sf$ tnc Soviet
military lodg
ment in Cas
tro Cuba, the
White tlrst set llle
dreamers, lost such operative
influence as they had held in
the conduct of American
policy.
Gone before the winds of
reality is their curious phil
osophy. This was that Soviet
military penetration of this
hemisphere could be handled,
first, by pretending it did not
exist and later by arguing
that even if it did exist the
only way was to try to wish
the rocket emplacements out
of Cuba by appeals to Cuba,
to Nikita Khrushchev or to
"world opinion."
k ND now, something more
than Indian border posi
tions is falling before the
Chinese communist invasion
of India. Falling, too, is a
policy of a coldly cynical al
leged Indian "neutralism" as
between east and west which
was never in fact neutral at
all. Instead, it was a means
of gelling the maximum out
of both sides for India while
endlessly proclaiming a "non
alignment'" which in nearly
every showdown was partial
lo the Soviet Union and Com
munist China.
For years in this way Prime
Minister Nehru had run a
cozy shop of unexampled na
tional selfishness, all the
while proclaiming himself a
sort of secular saint of the
modern world and cannily
foxing old ladies of both
sexes into prostrating them
selves before his phony
shrine as "the world's leading
statesman for peace."
Even his brutal invasion
some lime ago of the tiny
Portuguese colony of Goa did
not suffice to unfrock him in
the minds of his western ido
lators. Nor had his earlier,
and still persisting, refusal to
enter any sort of fair negotia
tions with neighboring Pakis
tan over the disputed prov
ince of Kashmir.
4 TIRELESS advocate of
"self - determination of
peoples" - wherever other
large nations' ambitions were
political, geographic or econ
omic abstractions. They are, in
Ihe main, as decent and fear
ful and confused as we are.
And they regard us as abstrac
tions as much as we do them.
It is only after the conflict
that enemies emerge as peo
ple much like us. hoping Ihe
same things for their children,
full of t lie same anxieties ;md
prayers and puzzlements. It is
not abstractions we kill, but
people.
Communism is an idea, and
"Come on we're
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Bonn, supported by lis al
lies, is reported making a con
dition of any new credits as
surance that there will be no
change in Berlin access
routes. This means that thcra
shall be no attempt by the
Communist East to set up a
visa system which in effect
would mean recognition ot
an independent East Ger
many. S. White
concerned-he refused even to
consider granting the loans
a vote to determine their own,
future, as so long he has re
fused such a vote to the peo
ple of Kashmir.
But what Kashmir could
not do and even Goa could
not do, though his action here
was a naked act of aggres
sion by the large against tha
small, the Chinese communist
invasion of his own country
has now done. For this thrust
into his own homeland, by a
pwer whose evil candor hi
its lust for territory is not
matched even by that of tha
Soviet Union, has accomp
lished much.
II has exposed to all tha
world the intellectual trick
ery and moral squalor of a
"neutralism" which was
never neutral and of a voice
crying "peace" to the world
but concerned instead strict
ly and solely with Indian self
interest. OUT, more importantly, tha
exposure is occurring
within India, too. The Indian
people are beginning to learn
where this kind of "nonalign
ment" has taken them, and
what it has done to their na
tional safety.
Already, Nehru lias had to
axe his chief associate in tha
old game of high hypocrisy,
Krishna Menon. Already,
Nehru has had to say, in pub
lic, that he, too, now wonders
about his past altitudes. Al
ready Nehru, the man who
could never, never be ques
tioned, is being questioned
at home as well as abroad.
Indeed, but for the tragic
victims among Indian soldiery
of Nehru's ill-prepared mili
tary forces, it might be said
that the Chinese communists
have done the world a favor.
As of course all rational men
must hope, they will never
conquer India, nor would the
West permit it. But they have
shown to all the world tha
bankruptcy of Nehru's kind
of "neutralism."
Clay Sees Few
Months of Quiet
Bonn, Germany (UPI! Gen.
Lucius D. Clay predicted to
day there would be "a few
months of relative quiet" in
the world situation as a result
of the Cuban crisis.
Clay, President Kennedy's
special adviser on Berlin,
came here for a four-day series
of talks on the Soviet threat
to Berlin and other problems
facing the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization.
He said he believes the Rus
sians "need time to figure out
their next course of action"
and doubts they will move
against Berlin even after tha
lull.
"There is so little they can
do in Berlin that would not
lead to a military conflict, a
direct challenge," Clay said.
Clay said he did not think
recent harassment of U. S.
Military convoys to Berlin
had any significance.
HOOVER RECOVERING
Washington -!TI- FBI Di
rector J. Edgar Hoover is re
cuperating at George Wash
ington University hospital
from what was described ai
"corrective surgery." The 67-year-old
FBI chief entered
the hospital last Monday.
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