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P. 1 Telephoto Newsplcturea "MEMBER OF AUDIT" BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Reprenentatlve: NELSON ROBERTS & ASSOCI ATES Offices In New York, Chl raso Detroit. San Francisco, Los Angelea. Seattle, Portland. Denver, NATIONAL EDITORIAL' NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of Tha Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Nov. 21, 1952 (Thursday) Medford Mayor Diamond Flynn has called upon other Oregon mayors to proclaim Nov. 29 as "Douglas McKay Day." With the bloodmobile unit's visit to Medford changed to every three months, the quota for this week's coming visit is 700 pints, Red Cross officials have announced. 20 YEARS AGO Nov. 21, 1942 (Friday) Medford Postmaster Frank DcSouza announces mail de liveries in residential areas will be cut to one a day. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Now they have run out of buck wheat for pancakes. '1' h i s shortage of something that was never in the product is one of the meanest tricks per pctrated by the war." 30 YEARS AGO Nov. 21. 1932 (Sunday) Slate Policeman Joseph Fol- som narrowly escapes death near Gold Hill when man opens fire on him at close range; gunman believed mem ber of gang of thieve respon sible for series of Rogue val ley burglaries. Ephriiim Stevens, 90, Civil war veteran and resident of Rogue River for 42 years, dies at home. 40 YEARS AGO Nov. 21, 1922 (Monday) Name of "New Town'' sug gested for building develop, mcnt in North Phoenix area. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The road to Jacksonville is the only road that has never been threatened with paving. Not even good Intentions are wast ed on it." 50 YEARS AGO Nov. 21. 1912 (Wednesday) Story in the Mail Tribune slates: "The city dads Friday night recognized the women of Medford, granted t ho fran chise al the recent cily elec tion, by the appointment of Mrs. A. R. Schuster to the city registration board." Dr. F. C. Page applies to city council for permission In construct a theater and Dr. J. L. Helms asks permission to construct two story building to take place of old Nash Liv ery stable on Front st. What's Your I.Q.7 Nina or ten cortcct tl superior; stven or eight is excellent; five ef tii is good. 1. Which State is partly div ided by Chesapeake bay.' 2. In what country is the cily of Hanoi'.' 3. In which year did the U.S. Congress meet in Wash ington. D C, for the first Hint? 4. When you order a dinner in a restaurant, item by ilem. are you ordering "table d' hotc" or "a la carle"? 5. Whal color of shirts were worn by Hitler s original fol lowers? fi. Name the capital of Ark ansas. 7. A coolest in which two teams try to spell words cor rectly is called a spelling - ? R. In which Kuropean ci'.y is the Champs F.lysccs? 0. Spain is bounded on the west by Portugal and what ocean'.' 10. "The Flying Dutchman'' opera was composed by whom? Answers: 1. Maryland. 2. North Viet-Nam. 3. 1800. 4. "A la carle." 5. Brown. 6. Little Rock. 7. Bee. 8. Paris, France. 9. Atlantic, 10. Richard Wagner. NOVEMBER 11. 1S82 Mr. Madden Replies (Editor'g note: When we Marvin Madden In a Sunday Medford postmastcrship, we him. We are glad to give him rebuttal. It follows.) To the Editor: Thank you for making this space available to me to reply to your editorial of Sundav. Nov. 18. 1962. , Your editorial concerning the appointment of a postmaster for Medford along with your per sonal attack upon me is a clear example of what I call ' dirty politics. I have never sought and do not now seek the postmaster position. I have not applied to the screening committee which was appointed to screen such applicants. A number of persons have suggested my name for the position. When ques tioned, I have answered honestly, indicating that as a family man I would be interested if it were offered because of the financial security accom panying such an advancement. Similarly, I might ask if a recently elected circuit judge were 01 fered an advancement to a life time Federal iudereshin. would vou criticize his acceptance? However, the position has not been offered to me and we are enrraired in a matter of specula tion the subject is academic. I daresay some of your readers must be puzzled as to the cause of your impatient attack. But, your position was calculable for it fol lowed a pattern beginning witn an editorial criticism in 1958 because of my refusal to make an unqualified endorsement of the Home Kule Amendment" which was on the ballot that year. Ynn onnosed mv candidacy for clerk in 19o8. You opposed my candidacy for clerk in 1962. We were opposed on the issue of the "Home Rule Charter" in the 1962 primary. You are now opposed to me as postmaster. What would you have? I gather that you would like me to remain in my present position in order that you may oppose me in 1966. I must admit, that should I leave local politics, I would have nostalgic memories of our inevitable op position. From events that have passed, I can extract only one cause for your position that is the Home Rule issue. I know of your association with certain members of the Democratic party who were advocates of the Home Rule Charter. I suspect revenge is the precipitant and I urge you to deny that you have conferred witn these peo ple concerning me and the postmastership prior to writing your editorial. Too, I think you should make your recommendation for postmaster at this time. This would further clear the air. It is my understanding that an appointee for postmaster will encounter many "tests." The prime test should be should remain foremost desires. When I filed for county clerk, I intended to oualifv if elected and I still intend to serve the people of this county as JN REPLY, we say only 1. Mr. Madden has been an excellent county clerk and a fine public cumbency. He s also a nice guy. 2. Our'lack of support tor his reelection was based on reasons we considered sufficient. 3. Mr. Madden has not denied that he would accept the postmastcrship if offered, in contradic tion to 1ns declaration of candidacy which pledged him to accept the office if elected, and to the verdict of 16,627 who reelected him to his 4. Mr. Madden, as an in the charter election of appointment, as distinct ty officers including county clerk, as a denial of the voters' right to select their own officers. If ho were to resign as clerk, his successor would be appointed by the county court. L. A. Cruel and Unusual "Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments In flicted." Amendment VIII, Constitution of the United Slates. Do 20 strokes of the well laid on" constitute ishniont"? This is still a live issue in Delaware, where a indue meted out this sentence to a 19-year-old parole violator. The hitter's attorneys claim they will fight this all the way to the supreme court, if necessary, and one of them declared, "The whole idea is barbaric and inhuman. The judge, on the other hand, criticized "bleeding hearts and nice Nellies" for deploring the flogging sentence, and said, "For some rea son, a iot of people want to strangle anything to do with the administration of criminal justice. jHTl IE judge's comments about the administration I of justice are familiar. I They're precisely the same sort of reaction 1 heard in England a couple of centuries ago when I it was actually proposed that the death sentence I be abolished in the case of children convicted of stealing a loaf of bread. I Though the Good Hook says "spare the rod land spoil the child," ami though we suspect that 'most youngsters are better off if their parents do J not hesitate to resort to a spanking in certain leases, neither seems related to deliberate, official j torture which is exactly what a flogging is. I In this case we prefer a bleeding heart to dc I liberate sadism. E. A. criticized County Clerk editorial for seeking the hoped for a reply from comparable space for his qualifications and this regardless of personal their clerk. U. M. Madden Jackson County Clerk , this: servant during his in Jackson County voters present position. opponent to Home Kule last spring, opposed the from election, of coun lash "on the bare back "cruel and unusual pun MEDFORD I MARKET tfiM&i&jMi 12, a AmS Times "Why shouldn't I shout whan asking aboul the price? The advertiser on TV shouted at me when he told me lo buy the productl" ... Communications ... Letters to the Editor mull bear lhe nam. and addres. of lh. writer, although under certain circumitancea tha use of a pen na.ue or initial for publication permissible The Mail Tribune reserve, the right lo edit all letter, with a view to clarification and condensation. Letter, submitted for publication mu.l not exceed 400 word.. The letter, printed in lhi. column do not necessarily repra.ent lha views ol the paper; in fact lhe contrary i. often the case. Begin Doing To the Editor: All is not well in the nation's class rooms, and this fact is known by educators and parents alike. In spite of this, special ists in education warn that schools "need to be made better" due to the knowledge explosion now taking place. There seems a chasm between what we require in education and what we are receiving, and this chasm must be closed, now. Every parent has "his com plaint: bad reading grades, Inability to spell, too much homework, physical discom fort resulting from "physical fitness" programs, the high cost of public education to private persons, a seeming tendency toward regimenta tion in schools, and more. Teacher complaints match these and add others. I propose a Council for Ef fective Education composed of everyone who wishes to have children obtain the kind of education necessary to sur vival and contentment in the changing world of today and the unknown world of tomor row. Such council will study all phases of education, inter viewing students for interest- levels and suggestions, seek ing out duplications which are costly in teacher-time and student-e (fort, determining public opinion as to what should be taught and what must be dropped (for today's student cannot learn every thing there is to know, nor does he need to). Just credit given to the teaching profession, still, the greater American public known as parents and stu dents must derive certain sat isfactions from the education al system. Less than this is the experience of people In nations from which we do not wish to make pattern. Educa tion must remain in the hands of the public which must care, and must decide what is to be taught, and how, and when - at what level. I volunteer my home as a first meeting place, and would like a nucleus of such Council for Effective Education to meet as soon as possible. If you have complaints, sugges tions, or other such interest, write or call me and let us be gin what we can, now. while we yet may. Phone 772-4513. Mrs. Virginia Card R50 Palm st. Medford UNICEF Thanks To the Editor: We want to thank all those who contrib uted their time to make the UNICEF Halloween Program a success. The help given by SI. Mary's School, twelve Med ford Sunday Schools, one Gold Hill Sunday School, the Neighborhood Mothers of Medford and Central Toint and the Y.M.C.A., was in valuable. Congratulations are due to the Young People of four Ashland Churches. They did exceptionally well this year on their UNICEF Project and. also, the Methodist Youth Fel lowship of Talent, whose members participate enthu siastically each year Our thanks to Jorgensen and Snider Dairies for fur nishing the I'NICFF collec tion cartons, the First Nation- j al Rank of Portland for t heir help each year and KM ED, i KHES-TV and the Mail Trib une for their valuable pub- , licity. We are proud of the chil- j dren who Trick or Treated 1 for UNICEF. and grateful lor I jthe generosity of the citir.cn who put coins in their UNI ! C'FF cartons. I We appreciate the gifts j from the Student Body Funds ; of each Medford Elementary 1 school especially since it gave each Medford child a 'part in helping the sick and MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, I IHQJIvfl WW n-;m.v; hungry children of the world. Mrs. Reese Braley, Chairman Mrs. Marrs Gibbons UNICEF Halloween Program Medford Chapter of OUNA True Dom Scene To the Editor: The attempts of members Oakes and Gillan to give M-T readers a picture of the moral climate of our White City Domiciliary are so pathetic I will become the Voice of the Veteran for the moment. Mr. Oakes does not know the Dom and Jim Gil Ian, after lauding his personal publicity prowess, lacked the reportorial courage to really write anything, even when part of the picture. Our new Director, C. T. Jackson, evidently of the mod em belief that alcoholism is a disease, is now garbing our wayward comrades in pa jamas and bathrobes for puni tive periods of 30 or 60 days for intemperance. Since Co lumbus Day some 40 members have thus become "patients" in our very own open clinic where they are almost con tinuously under community observation. Thus, our alco holics are now "marked men" and it may well be that Di rector Jackson's adventure in punitive psychology will suc ceed where our chaplaincies and A.A. were of no avail. For, despite the camaraderie always extant in Veteran cir cles, our "patients" find the steady scrutiny most embar rassing. Member Oakes' contention that 75 per cent of the vets here are alcoholics is asinine. They WERE alcoholics, hard drinking men whose tippling, in one way or another, brought them into this mod ern version of the Old Sol diers Home. The great ma jority of our 1,000 members learned their lesson - mostly the hard way - and 80 per cent of our comrades are now quiet, orderly, well-mannered men - your respectable neigh bors. Thev do not drink to excess, seldom frequent the pubs of Medford or Eagle Point and never disturb the day in any way. There has been a most pleasing change in the alco holic atmosphere of the Domi ciliary the past year: al the present rate of reform it will be as staid as a seminary in another year. Even now there's but a handful occa sionally disturbing the calm of our pleasant pastoral re tirement In this comfortable home that our gracious gov ernment has alloted us for the evenings of our oftimes too colorful lives. And kindly sign my full name and address to tins cap sule conclusion. William Thomas Cuddy, V.A. Domiciliary, White City, Ore. Greedy Game Commission To the Editor: Once again the less well-heeled citizen of Oregon is about to be kicked the teeth. Our arrogant wasteful and ineflicient Fish and Game Commission would like to raise the cost of li censes and permits a few hundred per cent. These charges of waste and inefficiency are well-founded. Consider the plentiful deer herds of a few years ago and what they are today. Even a game commission man should game commission man should know that does are herds, but just this fall a hunter with enough cash could get as many as four deer. Here the game commis sion, to garner more dollars for itself, helps the greedy game hog at the expense of thousands of hunters. Consider the Hart Mountain archery area ten years ago as many as 1.400 h.intcrs en joyed the sport with a plenti ful supply of deer. A few OREGON Dark Clouds Appeari Between France, Alg By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst It is not surprising that the first dark clouds are appear ing over the so-called Evlan accords which led to Algerian independence and established thp nnttern of "P- future rela tions between Algeria and F r a n c e. Al gerian Pre mier Ahmed Ben Bella tele graphed his punch in Ha vana in mid- Newjom October when he endorsed Fidel Castro's de mand that the United States give up its base at Guantan amo. Ben Bella also now is say ing that the Evian accords would be revised to meet the "realities of Algeria." There is little doubt that among these "realities" are years ago our greedy game commission decided there was an over-supply of deer so they sold hundreds of permits to allow rifles in the area each fall. Today the deer herds have been cut so drastically that less than one tenth of the archers formerly hunting the area will bother to go there now. But the cattle herds have tripled and there are miles of new fences in the refuge. Fishing has also seen its share of tragic waste of our license money. Thousands and thousands of dollars have been wasted in poisoning and plant ing lakes only to discover a few years later that a "mis take" was made in the type of fish planted. A few years ago a petition containing many signers was sent to the Fish and Game Commission requesting an open public meeting in this area between the Commission and interested sportsmen, such as was held some dozen years ago. This was flatly refused for various vague reasons. Possibly an initiative peti tion should be secured to make Fish and Game Com mission officials elected. Then these misfits could be easily removed from office - another very good reason for retaining our right to elect government officials. M. J. Olsen Route 4, Box 325 Medford Burned Up To the Editor: When I heard the "open secret" at the Demo cratic Central Committee meeting last Thursday night, that Mr. Marvin Madden was an active candidate for Med ford postmaster, I felt humili ated, deceived, and just plain burned up. To think that I had gone out in my precinct and worked for a man who feels no responsibility or gratitude to all the people who went to the polls and overwhelmingly selected and elected him to his office. Now we all betrayed by his desire for another office. -Why-? For mure money of course. So we, and our parly, are being sold down the river for Just plain dollars and cents, notwithstanding his ex cellent record in office. Most of us grassroot folks set a lot of store by, and take personal pride in, the men we elect to office, and we don't take lightly to having these attributes tossed out the win dow. Mr. Madden may not realize it now, and he may learn it too late, that once he loses the faith and confidence of his constituents, it is gone . . , but gone. Nothing is more ephemeral than public esteem and affection, and neither he nor the guy who is hustling him for this job can ever get it back. I don't believe our Demo cratic Central Committee will exploit our last smidgen of intrinsic patronage by recom mending a man for postmast er, who, by the very fact he has not denied his aspirations, has already refuted his moral obligations to the people of tins county. I wonder if Mr. Madden has ever heard the fable of the dog, and the bone, and the reflection in the water. Mrs. Max Wimmer 1115 West Second it. Medford Paradoxism To the Editor: The vegetarians think that meat. Is something people should n't eat; While others say that leaves and oats. Are food (or hungry billy goals Rut, I m fortunate, because I feel. That either one's just half-a-nieal George Distill 156 Vashtl Wav Medford the provisions by which France retained for 15 years her air and naval base at Mers-el-Kcbir on the Algerian coast and for five years her rocket and nuclear testing in stallations in the Sahara. France regards Mers-el-Ke-bir as essential to her Medi terranean defenses and her nuclear test sites at Colomb Bechar and Reggane In south west Algeria as essential to her development as a nuclear power. Ben Bella has declared he regards these test sites as a problem for which it is es sential "that a solution be found." The French are not opposed to reopening discussions on some of the Evian agree ments, but they look with a very cold eye on any change in the military status. Further, they have some complaints on their own which are contributing to the growing strain between the two governments. Approximately three-quarters of the one million French who lived in Algeria and were the foundation of the Algerian economy now are residing in France. Ben Bella has appealed for their return but has at the same time, the French feel, permitted con tinued harassment of Euro- Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris (c Field Enterprises Inc. NO "SECRETS" One of the new books that arrived on my desk this week as a "review copy" sent by the publish ers, is "Gary Player's Golf Secret s." I haven't look ed at the book, since I don't play golf, but I'd iike to review the title-and Hams others like it. If there is one thing I know about a "secret" in skill, it is that it cannot be imparted verbally. No actor can tell a novice how lo act, no writer can tell a tyro how to write, and no golf champion can tell an amateur how to hit the ball. Not long ago I was looking through a book by Marshall Miles called " How To Win at Duplicate Bridge." It is a good book, on its own terms, but its real title should be "How Marshall Miles Wins at Duplicate Bridge." I could read it every morning and night for seven years, and I would still lose at the tourn ament table - more elegantly, perhaps, but just as consis tently. John Crawford has writ ten a book called "How To Be A Consistent Winner at the Most Popular Card Games." Sam Fry Jr. is the author of a new book, "How to Win at Bridge With Any Partner," and a doien other "How To" bridge books are always on the market. What, is wrong with all such book. i. their implicit assumption that a particu lar talent, or skill, or knack can be transmitted from one head lo another and this is absolutely impossible. In the performing arts, for instance, a good coach or teacher can help a stu dent with technique in sing ing or acting or flue-playing; but not through a book, not through a set of rules on paper, not through a list of "lips" or "secrets" or theoretical problems. ... The only useful book on bridge I have read is S. J. Simon's "Why You Lose at Bridge." Not "How To." but "Why." Simon knew that he couldn t teach anyone how to become a good player, but he could point out why duffers like myself keep going down i in the same dumb wa The most an Instructor of such skilLs can do is to show pupils how and why they go wrong; they cannot be shown how to do it right--for doing it right is a matter of instinct, of a certain combination of qualities that are joined in just the right proportion. My chess game, for in stance. Ims not improved a particle since lhe age of 16. although I have read many books and absorbed a great deal of chess strategy in all that time. I have eliminated a few gross stupidities, but never have I achieved a glim mer of brilliance at the chess board. In a book. Capablanca imparted his "secrets " to me a dor.en ears ago- and they remain secrets as far as my own 'pathetic game is concerned. nq Over Agreements eria; Problems Many peans and has shown undue haste in nationalizing French properties. ' Ben Bella has announced that Algeria will be a non aligned Socialist state and this month he began giving some indication of his plans. He said the state would take over and put into opera tion 500 factories left idle by their fleeing European own ers and operators, take over large estates, and set up its Drummond Reports (Walter lippmann is in Europe. Roscoe Drummond reports from Washington in his absence.) (c) 1962 New York Herald Tribune Inc. MOSCOW'S DISRUPTED TIMETABLE Berlin - The most signifi cant consequence of Moscow's forced recoil from Cuba is now evident in Berlin. There is no need to wait longer to describe it. It is visible already. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS From New Delhi: The- Chinese communists have broken through the main Indian defense line at the eastern end of the Himalayas, captured Walong and launch ed attacks, on two other key points of the battle line, a spokesman for the Indian de fense ministry says as this is written. The spokesman added that the Chinese, after capturing Walong, near the Burma bor der, have driven another doz en miles down the Luhit riv er, toward the Plain of Assam. (The Plain of Assam is India's richest agricultural area. In dia's richest oil fields are also in the Plain of Assam.) QUESTION: Do you reckon India's Mr. Nehru thinks as much of the communists now as he has seemed to think of them over the years of the recent past? Or is he perhaps learning (the hard way) some of the basic facts of life? IN MOSCOW, the Soviet Un ion defends its withdrawal from Cuba, which has been criticised by China, and ac cuses China of "siding with the imperialists." Hmmmmmm. When thieves fall out. hon est man come into their own. So Let's hope that Communist Russia and Communist China keep on telling each other off in highly uncomplimentary language. GETTING closer home. Sat urday was the deadline date for filing expenses incur red by Oregon candidates dur ing the campaign preceding the recent election. Some of the figures are in teresting. A Salem dispatch, for example, reports that the most expensive campaign in Oregon's November 6 election was the one which resulted in the re-election of Senator Wayne Morse to the U.S. Sen ate. The dispatch adds that the final filings show that the Morse-for-Senator committee spent a total of $146,181. Next in line, the Salem dis patch reports, was the Unan-der-for-S e n a t o r committee, which spent $132,322 in the unsuccessful bid of Republi can Sig Unandcr to unseat Morse. The Morse committee, the filings show, ran nearly $5. 000 into the red. The Unandcr committee came through the campaign with $455 left over. One might point out that an interesting partisan conclusion can be drawn from these fig ures. The conclusion is this: Republicans tend to be more careful with money than Democrats. SOME more interesting fig ures: A U.S. Senator's salarv is $22,500 a year. A U.S. Sena ator's term is for six years. A U.S. Senator s total salary tor the six years of his term amounts to $135,000. Which is to say: Senator Morse was willini lo spend $11,181 more TO GET ELECTED than the TO TAL amount of his salarv for 1 the six years of his term. Mr. j Unandcr was a little more cautious. He spent in his cam ' paign for election $2,678 LESS I than the total of his salary for I the six years if he had been ' elected. But, it must be added, he ; didn t get elected IT S ALL, of course, perfect 1 ly honest and aboveboard. The law permits expenditures of this magnitude. The amounts were properly re ported. Still-- One finds it hard to escape the feeling that when candi dates are willing to spend to get elected more than the to tal of the salaries they will re. cei e during the entire term of their incumbency. IF elected, something is cock-eyed in our system. own marketing organization for citrus fruits and olives. Ben Bella indeed faces for midable problems. Shuttered apartment windows and store fronts in Algiers testify to the creeping poverty overtaking the city. In a national popu lation of 10 million, two mil lion are unemployed. Until the end of this year, Algeria will be living on tha French budget. - After that, she is on her own. What is visible - and it is a tremendous dividend - is that the strong U. S. action in Cuba is disrupting the timetable lor Khrushchev's carefully plan ned course against the West in Berlin. The events which the Krem lin have in motion are now badly out of gear. Thev were timed a nunnr. one here realizes, to take plata right in the wake of the Amci ican elections. REMEMBER that it was Khrushchev himself who "promised" that the issue of what next in Berlin would ba held in abeyance until tha American people had gone to the polls. But that was B. C. -Before Cuba. It is now into the third week after the elections and the scheduled Soviet move on Berlin is not in sight. The only new factor in Mos cow's stalled timetable is lha decisive U. S. stand which forced Mr. K. to remove his offensive weapons from Ilia Western hemisphere. Now the clock on the man tle of the Kremlin's cold war strategy is stopped - at least for a time. The time can be valuable lo the West - if well used. In the wake of the retreat from Cuba and the dismay it has caused in Soviet planning, it is important to keep two things in mind. FIRST, when Khrushchev announced that he would take no step against Berlin until after the U. S. election, this was no open act of bene ficent generosity. It was a sly act of cunning designed to give the Soviets lime to get their missile bases and mis siles in place in Cuba. It U now proved that all this bland talk about not wanting to trouble the American peoplu and the Kennedy administra tion while they were in tha middle of a political campaign was deception. The implica tion that it would not be quito nice to distract our attention from the election was only a coverup to distract our atten tion from the buildup of of fensive arms in Cuba. Senator Keating, and then President Kennedy, disclosed what was happening. Tha scheme did not work, but it was not from lack of trying. We can't afford to forget it. SECONDLY, we need to free ourselves from the belief that in putting missiles and bombs into the Western hemi sphere, Khrushchev was de parting from his policy of "peaceful coexistence." Cuba was no departure from the Soviet version of "peaceful coexistence." It was an appli cation of it. The Kremlin has frequently combined military threats and military action with tactics of propaganda, subversion, and terror - as in Greece, Turkey, Iran, Hungary, Berlin, and elsewhere-in waging the cold war. Building the launching sitel and planting the missiles in Cuba did not do violence to the Soviet concept of peaceful coexistence. These were addi tional instruments of the cold war intended to thrust Soviet power into the heart of tha free world and to advanca Soviet domination by every means short of self-destruction. VOW that it has backfired, A' the Soviets are making a tactical retreat under the bar rage of "look what we ha e done to promote world peace!'' This is not an embarrassment to the practiced Communist. He carefully calculates the risk and. when he sees he has miscalculated the liber of re sistance, he follows the Com munist book on tactical re treat. But everyone here in Ber lin, in til is focal eye of lha cold war, is convinced that iho Kremlin docs not want in tho near future another showdown with the United States. Tha timetable for the next move on Berlin, which was due n take place as soon as the mis sile bases in Cuba were opera tive, is now badly awry. It will take some new planning and new calculation before the Soviets are ready. We are now in a position to use this time to good advan tage and I will discuss lha possibilities in another column,
